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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10

says: "Now, my child, going to rray
beside mamma ?"
Jud stood up, tall and straight, and
says: No, mamma, I'll pray by my
keeper"
Where is your keeper" says NAM
ma.
Turning his blue eyes upward, the
boy pointed his finger toward Heaven,
and kneeling beside his bed, he prayed
that God would keep him, and, if dying
before he awoke, that God would take
him home.
The mother sat thinking for long
time after the boy had fallen asleep.
She wondered if, as the years past, her
boy would cling to God as his keeper.
She knew that if the child, who now,
above all others, called God his dearest,
best-beloved friend, still prayed as he
grew older; still loved the Sabbath
school still esteemed the family altar
as the days sweetest duty, he would
escape the snares set for young feet, and
be able to call God his keeper still.
With such a keeper no wicked oath
would deprave lis appetite-brains,
body and soul would grow as God in
tended them to grow, active, free and
pure.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
Irish Wit,

A Jealous divine in this city unfor-
t1nately encountered, last Sunday, de-
tachment of Harris brigade Of "pick-it"
guards, busily at work on the streets,
and sternly accosted the bullet-headed
representative of the Green Isle nearest
him with
What are you doing this for ?"
"Three dollars a day, sur promptly
responded Pat.
g You might be better employed on a
day like this"
"Thrue for you, sur an I'd be glad
of a job that nd pay betther."
"Ah, my friend" said the shepherd ;
you should raise. your eyes to higher
things to day
g Is it raisin' me eyes I'd be wild the
pick in me fist !? Begorra, 1 thried that
yesterday, and druv me pick through
Tim Donovan's big toe, there. He tux
me lick wild shovel, and there wor as
fine fight as ye'd see this side of Con-
naught in foive minutes" "But," per-
sisted the good man, do you not ever
feel prompted to do better? do you not
ever feel an inward spirit"
Esprit? In me inwards? Divil a
dhrop this day, and the mouth of me as
dIry as ime-kiln.
"Ah no, my friend, tits that spirit
which destroys"
"Shure I know it, it desthroys thirst,
and if yer afther tippin' US the price OF
couple O. glasses" said Pat, with sly
twinkle, "to drink yer 'anner's health,
why"
No, my health is well enough but
can you not be persuaded to give up
work for this day q
"Shure it's as aisy as a cat drinkin
crane for your amer to make me do that
yerself. y
Indeed, then let my powers of per-
suasion-"
"Oh, bother yer powers of persuasion!
If yen put three dollars in the fist OF
me, sure Eli drap me pick to-day intire-
ly, and here's Tim Grady, the black
guard, been waitin' as substitoot half
the mornin', and will take me place."
The good man didn't exactly see it in
this light but the boss of the gang, OBJ
serving that Pats pick was idle, sent
some sulphurous explosives in that di-
rection, which put it in such lively mo-
ton that his questioner was compelled
to withdraw outside them and the circle
of splashes and ice splinters that imme-
diately surrounded the scene of opera
tions.-BOStOn Bulletin.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
Lindeman on Gregarine in Chignons

The British Medical Journal pub
fishes an abstract of an article by DIR.
Lindeman upon the parasite bodies (Gre-
garinido) found in the false hair and
chignons usually worn by ladies. These
grow at the extremities of the hair, and
form little Jumps visible to the naked
eye. Each of these Jumps represents
colony of about fifty prosperms, which
are originally spherical, but become flat
tened and discoid by reciprocal pressure.
Under the influence of heat and mois-
ture these swell, and the granular con-
tents are converted into little spheres,
and then into pseudonavicell@, which
are little corpuscles having persistent
external membrane, and inclosing one or
two nuclei. These become free, and
float in the air and penetrate into the
interior of the human organism, reach
ing the circulatory apparatus, and ac-
cording to the doctor, producing various
maladies, not the least of which are
affections of the heart, Brights disease,
and pulmonary complaints. DR.. Linde-
man remarks, with the exactness of the
mathematician, that in ballroom con-
tanning fifty ladies forty-fve millions of
navicellse are set free, and he urges the
propriety of abolishing false hair on this
account.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
Counting New Greenbacks.

Years of experience have made coun-
ters who have been longest employed
marvelously expert and almost infallible,
their fingers passing from one note to
another with the celebrity and regularity
of some wonderful machine. The lady
who sits nearest to the chief of the room,
and who has come to be considered
sort of assistant to him, having some
times performed his duties during his alb
sence, has been engaged in the division
ever since its organization in 1862, and
probably has no rival in accuracy and
dexterity in counting. On many occa-
sions she has counted fifty thousand
notes in one day. AS the nominal hours
of labor are from nine to three o'clock,
and as at least half an hour must be de-
Quoted from this for necessary interrupt
tions and for lunch, the time occupied in
counting these fifty thousand notes was
five and half hours. This is at the
rate of nine thousand and ninety notes
every hour, one hundred and fifty every
minute, and two and half every second !
The lady informs us that it is no unusual
feat for her to "pick up" bundle con-
tanning four thosand legal-tender notes
in twenty minutes We doubt whether
this can be excelled. If any gentleman
thinks it can, let him try the experiment
of simply tapping his finger on table
at the above rate, and we predict that at
the end of half en- hours trial he will
change his mind. There are other ladies
who are almost as rapid and accurate
They are sometimes called upon, with
others equally skillful from the redemp-
ton division (Which we shall visit pres
entity, to visit other cities, when the
Treasury offices in those places are to be
examined, and to assist in counting the
Government funds there.
Through this division and under these
shillful fingers has passed every note,
whether legal-tender or fractional, which
has been issued by the United States
since the beginning of the rebellion
every note which we have ever handled
or seen,-as well as all the gold-notes,
and many millions of imperfect bonds
and notes which were never put in circu-
lation. The total value of the money
which had been counted in this division
previously to the first day of July, 1872,
was, according to the Treasurer's last
annual report, nearly two thousand nine
hundred million dollars, more than two
hundred and twenty-three millions OF
which consisted of postal and fractional
currency. just now, the counters find
full employment in counting new legal.
tender and fractional notes. An HON.
Among the Greenbacks," Scribner's.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
water on frozen eggs, it will beat as well
as before being frozen.

water on frozen eggs, it will beat as well
as before being frozen.
CHINA PE.-Make crust short roll
out this, and put it in deep pie plate.
Put in layer of sugar and spice, SO
on until full !; put on the top layer of
sugar, spices, and little Jumps of butter.
No top crust. Bake from three-auarters
of an hour to an hour.
SODA DoUGHNUTs. -Two quarts -four,
four teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar,
two teaspoonfuls of soda, one teaspoon
tui OF salt, two cups sugar, one tea
spoonful OF mace, one tablespoon melted
butter mix with cold milk.
Do Nor ScAnD PouLrRY.- prac-
tice of scalding poultry before plucking
1t has very properly been vetoed by mar
ket dealers. Fowls may be plucked
with equal facility, and with better effect
in preserving the flesh, Immediately
after death and before they have had
time to cool.
SUPERIOR Corn BREAD.-Scald one
quart of. milk, make it the consistency
of thick Cruel with corn meal, then add
four eggs beaten very light, one teaspoon
of salt. Bake in hot oven and serve
as soon as baked
FRIED BREAD.-A good dish for break
fast Three eggs well beaten, one pint
sweet milk. Salt, dip slices of bread in
the milk and bread, lay one slice upon
another, let them stand ten minutes,
and fry brown in hot lard.
SAUCE FOR SPONGE CAKE PUDDING
Two eggs well beaten, one-half cup bnt-
ter, one cup sugar mix thoroughly,
then pour in wine-glass of boiling
wine, stirring while pouring in.
ScRAPPLEs. Take hogs liver, lights,
heart, tongue and the head, except the
/ jowls and ofal pieces, both lean and fat
from other parts of the animal boi
them thoroughly in small quantity Of
water chop all pretty fine, after taking
out the liquor season as for sausage
then return to the pot, thickening the
whole with one-half buckwheat mea
and one-half corn meal, so that it vii
be about the consistency of Indian mea
cake let it boil gently half an hour
then pour in pans to cool slice it, ant
fry in its own fat. It is far better thar
what is commonly called oliver pud
ding"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
RUMoRs are still thickening of con-

RUMoRs are still thickening of con-
soldation of all the minor telegraph
companies into one, of sufficient magni-
tude to rival the Western Union. The
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company,
whose lines extend from New York to
San Francisco, along the Central Pacific
railroad route, have bought up the stock
of the Franklin Telegraph Company,
whose lines extend from New York to
Washington, with. a view to the consoli-
dation of the two companies. At Wash
ington, the lines of the consolidated
company connect with those of the
Southern Atlantic Company, which have
already been extended to Montgomery,
Ala, and are being rapidly pushed for
ward to New Orleans. Other companies
in opposition to the Western Union are
also expected to join the new combina-
ton.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The Two Girls.


- JANE AND ELIZA.
There were two little girls, neither handsome nor
Ones name was Eliza, the other was Jane;
They were both Of one height, as have heard peo-
And both Of one age, 1 believe, to day
It was thought by most people, who slightly had
seen them,
There was not pin to be chosen between them;
But no one for long in this notion persisted,
SO great distinction there really existed.
While fretting and Tuning, while sulky teasing
And therefore in company artfully tried,
Not to break her bad habits, but only to hide.
SO when she went out, with much labor and pain,
She contrived to look alqsost pleasing as Jane;
But I'm sure you'd have laughed, to have known all
the WHILE
How her mouth would oft ache while she forced it
to smile.
But in spite of her care, it would sometimes be-
fall
Tint some cross event happened to ruin it all,
And because might chance that her share was the
Her temper broke Isose, and her dimples dis
persed.
But Jane who had nothing she wanted to hide,
Had none of the and fatigue of conceaiing,
But her face always showed what her bosom was
feeling.
The smiles that upon her sweet countenance were,
At home abroad, they were constantly there;
And Eliza worked nard, but could never obtain
The affection that freely was given to Jane.
ELIZA AND JANE.
Cheer up, my young friends, have better news
now,
Eliza has driven the scowl from her brow,
And finding she paid to get nothing so dearly,
Determined at last to be good-natured really.
Twas a great deal of trouble at first confess,
Her temper would rise, and twas hard to repress;
But being girl of some sense and discerning,
She would be stopped by the trouble OF turning
Ten times in day she'd her work to begin,
When the passion fretfuness begged to come IN !;
But determined to see their vile faces no more,
She sent them of packing and boted the door.
Sometimes she would kneel in her chamber, and
pray
That God in his mercy would take them away;
And God who is pleased with penitent's cry,
Bowed down in compassion, and helped her to try.
The smiles that beam on her countenance fair,
At home abroad, they are constantly there
And Eliza no longer Is forced to complain,
That she is not beloved like her play-fellow Jane.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
An Experiment that Failed.

[ am not sure whether [ did right or
wrong. / am sure that / meant right.
1t was on this wise. Believing implicitly
that the bending of little human twigs
should be accomplished during the early
stages of their growth, concluded to
commence on We've. My intention was
to give her lesson in irmness. Ac-
cordingly box with chestnuts, and
placed it within her reach, saying.
Now, We've, dear, you must not touch
them without my permission.
Well, den, dess I'll not, was the
reply, while the brown eyed three-year-
cid gazed wistfully toward the sweet
temptation. gave her six or eight.
IS In my dear little potit, flank 'eoi '
went to my work, and labored with
all the cheerfulness of an inventor who
is pretty sure his machine is success.
During the afternoon it occurred to
my mind that those eight nuts were
lasting a remarkable time. Assuming
my blandest tone for the occasion,
asked
We've, have you eaten all your
chestnuts %
"No, l fink not"
Come here, darling. Where do you
get so many p
"Oh, I diets EN- out O. my potit."
"We1, but here are more than I gave
you at first" said, as I examined the
dainty receptacle. go We've have you
been disobeying me, and getting more
out of the box?'
" 'spects p'r'aps I have"
But are you sure? '
" Yes. rs pity sure.
go, dear We've" I cried, with the
feelings of one who discovers his inten-
ton to be a failure, ''this makes poor
mamma feel so sad I do not like to
punish you, but what must I do?
must have my little girl to obey
me. Oh what shall I do ?"
The small sinner looked reflective.
Well, mamma" she presently said,
in solemn tones, 81 dess 90 had better
pray.
Believing her suggestion wise one,
embodying about all the wisdom of the
entire affair, / acted upon it. Return.
ing to my occupation after our session
had adjourned, the first thing that
caught my attention was scrap of old
newspaper, containing this sentence
He who through intention or neglect
throws before another temptation, is, il
he be overcome, equally guilty"
! put away the box of chestnuts, an6
am waiting further Light. -Nationa
Baptist.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
SaYe the Fuel.

Over a great portion of the woodland
old oaks, oak-tops, ETC., are lying, which,
to the farmers in general, are considered
worthless, but in them are cords of good
summer wood, if only worked up at the
proper time. The best way 70 manage
this is to haul them out of the woods
in winter on to some open field, and lay
them up from the ground few inches,
and when they are thoroughly dry the
following summer saw and split them
into firewood, and after being corded in
the fields few weeks pack in the wood
house. Any one who has not tried this
method of economizing IN timber will be
astonished at what immense quantity Of
good fuel may be obtained from material
commonly counted as worthless.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10

The grossest instance of humbug we
have met with for a long time is that of
an individual who advertises for sale a
Siberian hound which he calls GA L."
when every one possessing the ordinary
rudiments of an English education ought
TO know that the best is Z 9.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
What Shall We Propagate Root Cut
tings Int

Tan-bark, sawdust, clean sand, char
coal, finely pulverized anthracite, and
many other substances have been advised
as "best to strike cuttings in. y From
our own experience, and from our read
ings, we incline to think that there are
three best things First, a knowledge of
the plant life, i. e., common-sense OBJ
servation or study of its natural habits,
of climate, and the temperature which
causes it to make its first annual growth !;
second, knowledge to supply roots and
surface with just the warmth necessary,
as well as moisture assimilative third,
a constant daily remembrance that the
cutting growing is doing so in a soil and
temperature artifcially created to meet
its wants of nature, and that single
neglect of even few hours may give to
it check or arrangement of system that
no after care will restore. If these
three items of plant-growing from cut
tings, seeds, etc., are fully complied
with, then we think all the advised nos
trrms of prepared mixtures or distinct
materials are needless.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10

Mr.. R. G. Williams, of the Vermont
State Normal School, writes on the above
subject as follows in the United States
Agricultural Departments report
/ see some remarks in your monthly
report upon the benefit of watering
house plants with warm water. Last
winter we had about one hundred plants
in the house, and usually gave them
warm water, and very frequently water
that was much too warm for the hand !;
some water at or very near the boiling
point has been poured into saucers of
the pots and just on the sides. We
have about forty persons in the family,
from different parts of the country, and
their testimony is that they never saw SO
fine geraniums, heliotropes, fuchsias,
verbenas, passion-fowers, oleanders.
These plants show very marked improve
ment others have fourished finely
under the treatment All house-plants
are better for being watered with water
several degrees warmer than the atmos-
phere in which they are grown.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10

THE Legislature of Kentucky has en-
acted that married women may receive
directly from their employers the wages
or compensation for labor performed by
them, and that the money SO earned
shall be free from the debts and control
of their husbands.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10

A SUBSTITUTE for ivory and bone
veneers has recently been discovered,
made from goat and sleeps bones, the
feshings of deer skins, parchment par
ings, etc.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10
Little .Jud,

Little Jud's work was all done for the
day. He was ready for bed now, and
after the good night kisses, bis mamma
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-10

Domestic Recipes.
FROZEN EGas. -By turning boiling
, 1873-04-10
An OBSTINATE DRIVER.

Madison street, between Clark and state
streets, was the scene Of groat excitement at
about o'clock yesterday afternoon, the side
walks being througed with excited spectators.
As usual, the cause Of the excitement was col
lision between IN omnibus driver and tho en-
ployes Of tho West Side City Railroad Company.
James McManus, driver Of bus No. 90 Of the 2.
l. 2. line, from Halsted to Twenty-second street,
was obstinate. He had driven in ahead
-. OF the car, and came to stand
still thus effectually causing & stoppase
. Of traffic On Madison street. His obsti-
nacy when called upon to move out OF the way
was characteristic, and incurred the dlsp1easure
Of the car conductor. Observing tho difficulty,
James Carlin, spec;al policeman for the railroad
company, came to the rescue, and determined to
detain the obstinate person for an hour or so
until the regular police could be prevailed upon
to appear. Mc1laars, however, observing his
intention, found it incumbent on him to move,
and 1sahed bis horses unspariDgly. C4r1in, how
eyer. had hold on the horses, and as
McManus used his whip, tho special police
man WIS dragged through the mud. Hence
the excitement. Both were Iishmen, and Doth
we're very mad. Carlin held on pluokily until
McVickers Theatre was reached, when "regu-
lin wanted the regular to take McManus to the
Police Station, hut as two of the witnesses
begged him to postpone the case for week, he
contonted himself with taking his prisoners
name and number. While the public arc not
violently in sympathy With the Railroad Com
pany, and will encourage I'LL healthy competition
which can drive them to accommodate the poo
pie, they do not endorse surlineBs or obstinacY
On the part Of omnibus driVers-
, 1873-04-10
AN ELECTRIC FREAK.

There is great deal snid now-e-days about
tanning the lightning, but from the antics played
by single flash on Saturday night, during the
absurd storm Of that date, one would suppose
that there was grcat deal of electricity un-
domesticated yet. 4 clearinghouse On the cor
ner OF Fftieth hnd State streets, opposite the
Rock Island Rai1road shops, J. Joslyn, pro-
priotor, was struck by lightning. The subtle
essence passed through the front chimney, COM
pletely demolishing it, and thence into . room
In which Mesars. Jones, Brooks, @. Rawlins, and
". Burt woro working at q chest Mr. Rawlins
hold kerosene lamp, which wes
dashed ont of his hand and broken
into fragments, while the lamp-chim-
new ! was carried five = feet and
was struck on the right hip, the electricity paas-
ing down his leg, lesving q mark the whole dis
lance and finding its way to tue floor through his
scorched toes. Through the floor it found its
way into the parlor, breaking the window, ana
wound up it's super-terranean e1istence by set
ting fire to: the store below. Fortunately one OF
the neighbors, Mr. ". RaWney, observed thls
last item of mischief, and gaze an alarm IN t.mo
to prevent serious damage. = $685. So
, 1873-04-10

| solves Of the first opportunity to demonstrate
the strength Of their organization at the ballot
box. OF III classes in society, the farmers ara
most interested in having an honest judiciary,
for If Court can be bought, it is certainly not
therefore, believe that they. will serioaa1y at-
tempt to degrade the bench BY endeavoring to
elect Judge pledged, even by implication, to
base the decision, Of the highest court in the
State on the resolutions OF popular conventions.
I have, indeed, already been assured by those
who have the opportunity Of knowing, that the
great body Of the farmers since the decision in
tho case above referred to has come to be undel-
Stood arc entirely convinced it ID just and right
, 1873-04-10
JUDGE LAWRENCE,
Members Of the Bar Invite lin to Become
a Candidate for Rc-election.
His Letter Accepting the Invitation.

Hon. Charles B. Laurence, CHIEF Justice of tie Supreme
Court Of Illinois: .
DEAR SIN In view Of tho fact that the term
Of your Office, as Justice Of tho Supreme Court
Of this State, will soon expire, we, members Of
the bar OF the Fifth Judicial District, take this
method Of communicating to you our apprecia-
ton Of your ability. learning, and integrity az
Judge, and respectfully request TINT you will
permit ua to present you as candidate for re-
election. "a.
, 1873-04-10

has been The aim Of this body to control all
elections, and hoist many Of its component
parts into Office was possible. Three years
Of yesterday, vas elected by q majority OF over
400, and, last year, the Rings candidate IVES
elected BY majority Of 271. So sanguine we're
the retainers that large sums OF money were
etaked on yesterdays result, which sums, in nc
with their owners. Ono hopeful individual
staked 2225 against $40, and-lost. L1nERAL.
, 1873-04-10
THE BATTLE CREEK ELECTION.

3: BATTLE CRzKK, Mich, April Z, 1873.
10 tie Editor Of 7he Chicago I5iduns:
6n: Yesterday, At our city election, Dr.. Ed
ward Cox, nominated on the " "People's Reform
Ticket " by the Liberal Republicans and Demo
Gratis, wsa elected Mayor by majority Of H.
This, il place which usually eivess Republican
There is here, ss elsewhere. Ring !" and it
, 1873-04-10

CHICAGO. BURLINGTON q QUINCY RAILROAD.
DsEots-Fbot qf Lake-t. Ediana-au., and ze<nta-st,
ard Canal and Stzeena-ss. Ticket Office in Brgs Housa
ard at 2spots