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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Animated Creation Confined to a Very
Small Zone.

insignificant as is the spot we inhabit,
the zone of lfe-the area which not
only all that live ard breathe and move
inhabit, but in which all vegetation is
contalned-is still more limited. From
the submarine forest in the lowest
depths of the sea to the highest altitude
to which the condor scars. above the
perpetual snow, is but twelve miles-six
miles of air above us, six miles of water
beneath-everything that has vitality is
confined. If the salamander lives in the
central fire, the exception is SO small as
scarcely to be worth mentioning. The
air presses upon the earth with force
equal to thirty three feet of water and
upon every average human body with a
weight OF fifteen tons, which only does
not squash us fiat as pancakes because
the air surrounds us Oh all sides, in
Guiding our insides, and thereby the
weight is balanced. To most of us ma
ture IS one vast mirage, suggesting in
finite decisions; and even to the learned
many things still remain to be cleared
up by slow-moving science in future
ages. Who would imagine upon the
face OF the matter, for instance, that in
an alrless world not sound could ever
be heard? On the contrary, in still and
silent space, one would conceive that we
might hear pin drop from the moon.
Hawksby demonstrated the contrary of
this fact in memorable experiment be-
fore the Royal Society, $50 years ago.
He placed clock under the receiver of
an alr-pump, in such a way that the
striking of the clapper would continue
after the air had been exhausted while
the receiver was full of air the sound
was quite audible; when it was empty
all was silent. Again, when the air was
introduced, there was a feeble sound,
growing in intensity as the air grew
denser.
At the top of Mont Blanc the report of
a pistol is no louder than that of COM
mon cracker let off at the level of the
sea. ''Above two miles," says Mr..
Glaisher, who, as everybody knows, is
an aeronaut of considerable expert
ence, all noise ceases. I never en-
countered silence more complete and
solemn than in the heights of the at
mosphere- these chilling solitudes to
which no terrestrial sound reaches"
On the other hand, clouds absolutely ia
cllltate the transmission of sound.
Above great city, to a height of from
1000 to 1900 feet, there is always a
noise, immense, colossal and indie
scribable." The whistle of steam en-
CINE is heard at 10000 feet, the noise of
a train at $500, says NJ. Flammarion
but Mr.. Glaisher testified to having
heard this latter when %, 900 feet up in
the air the barking of dog and the
report of gun rise each to 5000 feet !;
the shouts of crowd of people, the
Growing of cock, the tolling of bell
to 5000 feet, and the shout of a human
being to $500 feet Chambers jour
| nal
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Snipe ON Toast.

A solourner in a large city, who is at
the mercy of restaurants where you are
treated with big bill of fare, and very
little food on your plate, thus hits it off {:
Snipe on toast would be almost too
hearty food to feed people on who had
been floating on a raft three weeks feed
ing on old boot-legs.
Says [ to the waiter, "Give me snipe
on toast. -
By-andby he came in and put down
some toast, and [ kept on reading about
what donkey Grant was, and what a
ridiculous set every one is who is run
ming for Office and 1 sat there for an
hour. Then 1 rang the gong. The
waiter entered, and says I, "Where in
thunder is my meat %
Says he, They've been on the table
an hour"
Says [, 81 didn't order plain toast 1
want a snipe on it,
Says he, "There is a snipe on it,
Then [ drew close up to the table.
and saw little black speck on the
toast.
Says I, You'll swear that's snipe?''
Says he, eyes,
Says I, "You'd make a good linen
buyer, you would"
Says he, cts a snipe on toast, any
how"
Says I, Chow did it get on %
Says he, "That snipe is all right.
It's full-sized one, too
Says, I'm glad of it. I'm glad you
told me that's full-sized snipe; for do
you know, young man, when I sat out
there reading saw black speck on
that toast, but took it for fly, and
I'm glad to be informed it's snipe-a
full-sized snipe. Now you can take that
snipe away and bring me a turkey on
toast. I want full-sized turkey, too. :"
| amt laundering after snipe since that
episode. I could have blown that snipe
through putty blower without hurting
the snipe or the putty-blower either.
Snipe on toast may be game, but it's a
mean game.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Spicy Specimens Of Slang and Sar.
caSm.

THERE is strange silence in the local
columns of the Miner. Whether it
means silent contempt or supreme dis
gust, we are unable to determine. Some
say that it means death, but we do not
care. We would rather Gle than be out
ragged privately, publicly and repeatedly
without striking back. Our disposition
is as friendly and kindly as that of a
lamb, but when we are personally in
volved, we yield the belt to no one in
gentility, literature or blackguardism
without struggle. We have only de-
Tended thus far, and we are still able to
take care of ourselves, even to the bloody
end.-Central city (Col) Coach.
THE editor of the Courier seems to
imagine himself sort of Ishmaelite
with the brand of Cain on his brow, ex-
cluded rom society for his evil doings
and ill-repute, and seeking to revenge
himself by dragging some other mem
Der of the editorial fraternity down to
his own hated level Suppose we hap
pen to have bald head. glass eye, or
a three-cornered mouth, or hump
shoulder-or to be afflicted with some
mental or moral infirmity that no other
person possesses-does not the mere al
fusion to such fact in the discussion of
other topics stamp our opponent as a
blackguard IStusUille (Pa.) Press.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
A Writer'S Earnings.

L spoke of Timothee Trimm above
and as penny-a-liner. In point of
fact, and to be quite accurate, it was
live sous line he received but that is
a mere detail, and does not affect the
principle which furnishes the subject
matter OF this paragraph Up to very
recent period, many French journalists
have been paid by the line, and it will
be understood that writer's object was
to spread his ideas over as much space
as possible in other words, he studied
how not to condense. When man is
engaged here there is written contract.
and upon this contract each party has
an action at law, if needed. To illus
trate by striking example, as the tenn
perance lecturer saiu when he exhibited
his travelling companion in a state of
mebriety, Charles Noaier was engaged
to write novel as the feuilleton of
certain Journal. Nodier consented, and,
being then popular writer with the
public, he had the stipulation put into
the contract that each and every part of
a line was to count as full line. The
contract was signed, and, as ever, at
tested before notary public On
Saturday Nodier received his pay, but
was credited with two lines less than his
own count. Chow is that % he asked :;
you are two lines short" "Oh p said
the clerk, =" the proprietor does not pay
for the signature every week, which,
beng IN capitals, makes up your two
lines. Very good" replied Nodier,
9 for the future we will leave the sigma
ture out. AS it was Nodier's name the
journal wanted, and as his romance was
not of the slightest Importance without
1t, the two lines We're credited in the ac-
count. Alexandra Dumas, when he
published the Irois Mousquetaires as a
feuilleton, not only made every sentence
into paragraph, SO as to leave about
every other line nearly blank, but he
invented the dialouge, which runs half
down the page, with one or two words
on line, as When? Now. All! Yes j.!
At present? Yes. Good, at present,
ETC., each word counting as a line, and
being paid at a very high rate. Dumas
was writing for money. The director of
the journal, who knew how much these
words, Yes, "No," and "Ah! p cost
him every day, declared that he would
not pay for line unless it was at least
half full. every good, replied Dumas,
"but shall kill Grimaud." In fact,
as the readers of this novel will see. he
killed Grin1aud the next day-a charac-
ter who only spoke in monosyllables,
and who was invented for the purpose
Of running up the authors bills.-Paris
! Letter.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Remarkable PetrifactiOn.

George Poole, of Bridgeport, Conn,
in exhuming the remains of his grand
mother, Mrs. Abigail Poole, who was
buried in the old burying- ground on
Park avenue nineteen years ago, discov-
cred that the body had been petrifed
The flesh upon portion of the face,
and small spot upon the breast and a
portion of the arms, had decayed ere
petrifaction commenced, but the re-
mainder of the body looked as fresh as
upon the day of burial. The solid flesh
rang like metal when lightly struck. It
had become slightly discolored by the
earth, but upon scraping the limbs a
little the pure white was revealed, hard
and clear as polished ivory. A singular
thing in connection with this remark
able discovery is that the cords of the
neck were loose and pliable, and in rails
ing the body from the grave the head
hung over backward. The box and
coffin had gone entirely to decay, and
the grave was partly filed with water,
which had to be bailed out ere the body
was reached. Mrs. Poole was almost go
at the time of her death.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
A Judicial Decision against Tight
Shoes.

The several millions of tortured and
corn-affiicted people in this country
should read this paragraph and forever
after bear the name of Humphreys in
grateful recollection. Humphreys is a
Judge at the city of Washington, in the
District of Columbia. Before him came
as party plaintiff shoemaker and asked
judgment against man for whom he
had made a pair of shoes. Came also
the defendant and made answer that the
said shoes did not fit. As to the issue
which was joined on the averment of
the defendant, the shoes were the best
witnesses, and they were brought into
court and placed upon the feet of the
defendant. That they would go on is a
fact that would seem to have initiated
somewhat against the theory of the de-
tense; but the defendant swore that,
being on, the shoes made existence in
sufferable. Then it was that Humphreys
uttered the great principle that should
make his name immortal He said, in
substance, that tight shoes were tor
ture that no freeman should be required
to endure; that when shoemaker fails
to consult the comfort of his patron the
latter is under no obligations to pay for
the work. Judgment for the defendant.
And yet the President hesitates as to
who should be made Chief Justice.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
The Tight ROpe-A Little Toe Much
of If

The negro acrobats from Jamaica
went over the other day to Port Limon,
IN Costa Rica, to give some of their ex-
hlbltlOns for the amusement of the resi-
dents there. Of the said African aero
bats, one played the banjo while the
other did the tight-rope business. Their
exhibitions were brought to sad end
by the following tragic event: The
browning gymnastic effort was reserved
for the last night. And that was that
the celebrated Jamaica acrobat was to
astonish the audience by hanging him
self. The house was full, and expecta-
ton on tip-toe. Not that the niger
artist would actually hang himself, but
come so near to it as to create a sensa-
ton well worth the entry money When
all was ready and the banjo music at its
best, the other partner stood upon the
chair and put the loop of rope around
his neck and either stumbled or jumped
OF. The symptoms of real hanging
were so well initiated that the audience,
both black and white, applauded, and
the banjo player did his best to en-
courage his partner But things at last
began to look serious the eyes began
to protrude as well as the tongue, and
the high peaked Chinese hat locked
shaky on his head. The banjo man
being appealed to, said: "Oh, let him
alone, he understands his business" At
last, one of the engineers of the railroad
went up and looked closer into the face
OF the unfortunate representative of the
art of Jack Ketch. The face was
blacker than natural, the tongue was
purple and swollen, and the pulse had
stopped at the wrists. "H-n!" he ex-
claimed, the man is as dead as a door
nail. . The black women set up howl
OF grief, and the hard-hearted white
men laughed at the too successful feat
OF the dead nigger.-San francisco
Bulletin
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
AnecdOte Of King William.

The German Emperor, while visiting
a village, was welcomed by the school
children of the place. After making a
speech for them he took an orange from
a plate and asked: ''To what kingdom
does this belong?" "The vegetable
kingdom, sire" replied the girl The
Emperor took gold coin from his
pocket, and holding it up asked, sAnd
to what kingdom does it belong?' "To
the mineral kingdom, sire," replied the
little girl 'sAnd to what kingdom do 1
belong, then?'' asked the Emperor. The
little girl colored deeply, for she did not
like to say ssthe animal kingdom as he
thought she would, lest his majesty
should be offended, when bright
thought came, and she SAID with radiant
eyes, $40 Gods Kingdom, sire." The
Emperor was deeply moved. A tear
stood in his eye. He placed his hand
on the child's head and said, most de-
voutly, "God grant that I may be ac-
counted worthy of that kingdom.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Human Figures.

There are on the globe 1888, 900, 900
souls, of which $50, 900, 900 are Caucas-
ians 522, ZOO, 900 are Mongoiians $780,
900 900 are Philippians 176, 900, 900 are
Malayans; 100000 are Indo-Ameri-
cans. There are 8,642 languages spoken,
and 1000 religions. The yearly NOR
tality of the globe is ~, O43, 900 persons.
That is at the rate of lis, 200 per day,
4,oOO per hour, 80 per minute. Among
1000 persons, one arrives at the age Of
100. one in 500 attains the age of 80 !;
one In 100 to the age of 20. In 100
persons, 50 marry. In numbers, the
two sexes are very nearly equal in the
United States. Males, 10, 1873, sos; fe-
males, Is, 064, sos; but the distribution
is not even. The greatest excess of
males is found in Idaho-12, to
2,S15 females; Montana-16,7 III to
1924 Wyoming-7,219 to 1899; and
Nevada 80, 379 to 10, 112. Females are
in excess in Alabama 254 to 1885,
1873; District of Columbia so, sos to
81, 1872; Georgia sos, 154 to SIS, 955
Louisiana-364, $50 to 1862, 165 Maine
3d. 12 to 313, 103 Maryland-395,
$40 to 3S4,9S4; Massachusetts,
572 to 703,7 79; New Hampshire
$50 to 155, $40 New Jersey 456, 424 to
449, 672 New York;, 219, $50 to 2 1852,
229; and Pennsylvania, 1853, 452 to
1,759, 499. Virginia, Tennessee, both
Carolinas and Rhode Island show like
excess of female population. In Utah
there are more males than females.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

The philosopher of the Logansport
Pharos issues this bulletin of good ad-
vice:
Don't invest all your money in lottery
tickets. Give some other man a chance
for prize.
Don't tell an editor how to run a
newspaper. Let the poor fool find it
out himself.
Don't loaf about the streets and de-
pend on the Lord for your "daily
bread" He isn't running bakery.
Don't discuss scientific questions with
a ightning-rod man. His arguments
are generally solid, and are always
pointed.
Don't spend all your time in watching
your neighbors. Every one should be
selfish enough to devote few hours to
his own business.
Don't imagine that the Lord will call
a 6rst-class preacher to a church paying
a second-class salary. He doesn't treat
his children SO shabbily.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Theirs.

One day during the Bourbon restora-
tlon, restless young man entered Paris,
with an essay on Vauvenargues lii his
pocket, and an exceedingly sharp tongue
III his head. His voice had a Provence
twang. He was incomparably vivacious,
witty, sarcastic, and free lance in
politics, with an inclination to be liberal,
since liberalism promised notoriety.
They used to hken his tongue to that of
a bell, from it's continual wagging when
Mons. Adolphe pulled the rope.
Jan. l 1880, appeared the National J;
and the little man from Marseilles, with
an odd sparkle in his eye, that now and
then flashed beyond the perpetual spec
tacles, with shrug of his diminutive
shoulders accepted his destiny. He had
already distinguished himself as an art
critic, besides having offered to fight
the whole company at the Theater Fran
Gals, which was no very great matter,
except from dramatic point of view.
he had published volume of pencil
ings among the Pyrenees, and had held
a position on the Constitutional as a
kind of pen-of-all-work, where his wit
had made him celebrity in epigram.
Further, he had brought out " History
OF the Revolution, which got him the
repute of Jacobin, who, foretold Talley-
rand, would grow up to be somebody.
He had just given up in despair of
ever being anybody-for the Martignac
Ministry was impervious to paper pellets
and had unwisely concluded to write
a general history of the world for which
he proposed to put girdle round the
earth with Capt. La Places scientific ex-
pedition, when Prince de Pohgnacs ac-
cession caused him to stay in Paris and
found newspaper. 1t bristled with
points, this National, for which Judges
imposed fines, and to which the people
| subscribed fast enough to cover the fines
tenfold; and, finally, rolling all his
sarcasm into one splendid diatribe, he
explained his position in that famous
article LIE Roi regne ct ne gouverne
pas which was long tocsin in the
cafes.
The Bourbons gave way at last. Theirs
was called to place under the Govern
ment, and vented his spleen on the Duke
of Wellington and the "Agamemnonate, ="
as he termed the iron old mans admin
istration in England He was for send
ing armies to free the Poles, Italians,
Belgians- any that needed freeing. But
foreign Cabinets disappearing, when he
became Prime Minister he laid aside his
solicitude for the oppressed and betook
himself to sober work, fortified Paris
and developed the military resources OF
France. The unpleasant Egyptian
episode of 1910 drew down upon him the
wrath of Lord Palmerston, and he
vacated.
From first to last he opposed Ma
poleon I'LL, and his vote against the wal
with Prussia brought visit from Paris
mob. But when the fortunes of France
ebbed ne showed himself generous
generous as he had before shown himself
brave; and when her destinies wavered
in the balance he took the helm and
brought her safely over one of the most
critical and menancing periods of hel
national existence.-NetOY York EUenia6
! Post.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

The estimates for grading on the Tex
as and Pacific railroad Tin Texas for the
month of March were over $500, 900.
The close of April showed nearly 800
miles of road completed and ready for
the iron. Three hundred miles in six
months is better showing than any
other railroad company has ever made
in any part of the world. The Company
pays for everything as the work pro-
crosses, and it stands to-day with acredit
second to none in this country.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

THE LATE EPIDEMIC IN ST. Louis. -
There were 1853 deaths in this city
during the past year from smallpox,
and the expense incurred by the Board
of Health on this account amounted to
$40, 284. Is. According to the records,
the death rate was one to every 262 In
habitants and one case to every 81. At
the Grand Avenue Hospital $3.50 patients
were treated, and there were 236 deaths,
or % per cent. of the total number
treated. The disease was most fatal
among the negroes.-&. Louis Times.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

A WRITER in Science Gossip gives an
account of the singular hardihood of the
rat. Having caught bat in my bed
boom, and being anxious to preserve it
without injury, I got some spirits of
wine and put it in glass for about two
hours, until I thought it was dead I
afterwards wrapped it up in handker-
chief and put it in box in drawer.
Being called away from home The next
day, and having remained away for three
weeks, when came back went to the
drawer, expecting to find the animal de-
cayed, when, on opening the handker-
chief, out flew the bat, as well as when
I first caught it." This phenomena need
to be explained
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
Golden Thought.

Nature will be reported. All things
are engaged in writing their history.
The planet, the pebble, goes attended
by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves
its track upon the mountain, the river
its channel in the soil, the animal it's
bones in the stratum, the fern and the
leaf its modest epitaph in the coal. The
falling drop makes its sepulcher in the
sand or stone; not foot steps in the
snow or along the ground, but prints in
characters more or less lasting map of
it's march every act of the man in
scribes itself in the memories of his fell
lows, and his own face. The air is full
of sounds-the sky of tokens the
ground is all memoranda and sigma
lures, and every object is covered
over with hints, which speak to the in
telligent
STEAM PLows IN EURoPE.-In a re-
port to Farmers Club in England the
manufacturers of the Fowler pillow say
We are making about 100 plows a year
for the English market, and about SO or
go for foreign countries. They are
principally of the double-engine class.
About two-thirds of those sold in En-
gland are let out on hire, and one-third
for private firms. Steam cultivation is
very much retarded in this country, be-
cause little or nothing is done to assist
it in the shape of roads, enlargement of
fields, etc., SO as to make the farms
more suitable for the use of steam
power. About 80 of our steam plows
are working in the district of Madge-
burg, Germany, in the cultivation of
beetroot for sugar. The best grown on
steam-plowed land shows gain of about
2 per cent. of sugar, and about 20 per
cent. gain in the weight per acre. This
has induced all the sugar cultivators to
employ steam. They usually work to
depth of from II to Is inches, but never
less than II inches.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

A KENTUCKY lady lately invested few
dollars in the purchase of feather bed.
She was wroth at finding shot-bag
among the feathers, but her anger
changed to rejoicing when she discov-
cred that the bag contained $470 in
greenbacks.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. While en-
gagged in working a sewing machine, on
Saturday, lady living on Orange street
had the needle run through and break
off in the small finger of her left hand.
The shock and pain caused her to faint
away, but upon recovering she resumed
work, and shortly afterward, while
gathering" the article she was sewing
under the needle, her attention was at
tracted by some one speaking to her,
when the needle pierced the finger next
to the one before injured and pinioned
it to the bed of the machine The eff
forts of those in the room failed to re-
lease the hand, and DIR. Peters was called
in. He succeeded in detaching some
portions of the machine and relieving
the unfortunate lady from her painful
position. -NeUork Register.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19
INCONSISTENCIES.

All communications for this paper should be accom-
panied by the of the author necessarily for
publication, but evidence OF good faith on the
part of the writer Write only side the paper
Be particularly careful in giving names and oates 10
have the letters AID figures plain and distinct.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

LADIES must be allowed to wear short
Slowed dresses if they wish, or the Con-
stitution of the United States must be
amended, for it expressly provides that
g the right to bear arms" must not be
interfered with.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-19

Our total loss in the Modoc campaign
from November, 1872, to May, 1873, has
been Il killed and 81 wounded. The
money loss is not yet estimated.