Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
IMAGINATION is fond of children and
cigars.
WAnwoRTH's brain weighed fifty
ounces.
AGAssIz thinks insects possibly have
certain intelligence.
The house in Murfreesboro, Tenn
in which President Polk was married is
now used as stable.
The working population of the United
States is estimated at Is, 900, 0O0-one-
third of the population.
THE estimated cost of Chicago's new
Grand Pacific Hotel was 81, 1000, 900.
The actual cost was 81, 200, S57. "a.
THERE are in Chicago's new hotel, the
Grand Pacific, fifty-nine flights of stairs,
thirty eight miles of wire, 500 windows,
and l, 070 doors.
PROF. AGAssIz says that educating
males and females together is Sin the
nature of things unnatural and inexpe-
dent" because there is Gas real dis
tinction of sex in the mind as in the
body of human beings"
New HAMPSHIRE is seriously begin
ming to think of amending its constitu-
ton by abolishing the clause which pro-
vides that none but Protestant Church
members shall be eligible to the Gov
ernor's chair or to the Legislature.
A FATHER in Massachusetts, who
grew impatient, the other evening, at
the prolonged stay of an ardent admire1
of his daughter. entered the room and
invited the young man to remain tc
breakfast. The young man declined the
invitation.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON denies, not
without something like indignation, the
report that Nannette S. Emerson (she
who claims to have written HBetsey
and Are Out" is his cousin, or in any
way related to the Emersons of Con
cord, Mass.
The great pneumatic tube of Brisbane
has failed. Even between the Capito
and Government Printing Office, a
Washington, it does not work satisfac
torily. Pneumatic expresses may il
time traverse the land in all directions
but the time is evidently not near a
hand.
AN astronomist who has counted then
and knows, says only about 5000 star
are visible to the naked eye in the clear
est night. An ordinary opera glass TO
inspecting calves and other animals
brings about 10000 into view, while tn
largest telescope in existence render
25, 900 visible.
POUNDS sterling were substituted TO
francs in the Geographic announcement
of the sum the Shah of Persia intend
to ego through in his summers trip
Instead of $25, 100000, it is only 81, 600,
600; so, in place Of being spendthrif
and profigate, it appears that the Shal
is parsimonious old miser.
IN speaking Of King Miranda, O
Central Africa, the Court Journal say
that a monarch who would take tn
trousers sent from missionary-inspire
, ladies of Aberdeen, split them in halves
fill them with sand, and make wa
club of of each leg, cannot be forgive
/ upon the ground of mere eccentricity.
IT has been shown by careful investi
i,
from the sun in one minute is sufficien
to raise the temperature of five and
, half cubic miles of water to one degre
J of centegrade-or an amount of hea
, equivalent to a force required to do til
work of two thousand steam engines {
/ one hundred horsepower each, workin
: continuously for four thousand years.
LIZZIE AND LYDIA TAYLOR five year
ago entered the office of the Chariot
l Republican as compositors. They al
. forwards went into the Battle Cree
Journal Office, and since that time the
have earned from IS to 500 per week
r From their earnings they have support
! ed their mother as housekeepers the
have lived well, bought piano, take
music lessons, gave 800 toward tn
building of the Baptist Church at Battl
Creek, and have saved $1,000. The
are unmarried.
f THE following story is told to illus
trate the strictness with which til
Cunard Steamship Line is managed
The captain of one of their New Yor
! ships having lately married, asked leav
5 to take his wife with him on one voyage
This was granted, but, on going to tax
: command when the ship was ready fo
: sea, he found one of his brother captain
! on board, from whom he learned that
e though the company had 10 objection
to his taking his wife to America, the
were not willing to trust him with til
ship, too.
Very Frenchy."