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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
The Human Ear.

Let me describe what is probably the
most frequent way in which the ear is
impaired that is, by the attempt to
clean it. It ought to be understood that
the passage of the ear does not require
cleaning by us. Nature undertakes that
task, and in the healthy state fultills it
perfectly. Her means for cleaning the
ear is the wax, Perhaps the reader has
never wondered what becomes of the
ear-wax. I will tell him. It dries up
into thin, fine scales, and these peel off,
n by one, from the surface of the
passage, and fall out i1nperceptibly,
leaving behind them a perfectly clean,
smooth surface. In health the passage
of the ear is very dirty but, if we at
tempt to clean it, we infallibly make it
so. Hereby a strange lack of justice,
as it would seem, which, however, has
no doubt a deep justice at the bottom
the best people, those who love clean
illness, suffer most, and good and careful
nurses do a mischief negligent ones
avoid. Washing the ear out with soap
and water is bad it keeps the "a moist
when it ought to become dry and scaly,
Increases its quantity unduly, and makes
il absorb the dust with which the air
always abounds. But the most hurtful
thing is introducing the corner of the
towel, screwed up, and twisting it
round. This does more harm to the
ears than all the other mistakes together.
It drives down the wax upon the mem
brane, much more than it gets it out.
Let any one who doubts this make a
tube like the passage, especially with
IL o,,--,1n rrl,ol - -@41cocrnn . lot him
put a thin membrane at n end, smear
the surface with a substance like the cal
wax, and then try to get it out so by a
towel. But this plan does much more
mischief than merely pressing down the
wax. 1t irritates the passages, and
makes it cast off small flakes of skin,
which dry up and become extremely
hard, and these are also hardly pressed
down upon the membrane. Often it is
not only deafness that ensues, but pain
and Inflammation, and then matter is
formed which the hard mass prevents
from escaping, and the membrane be-
comes diseased and worse may follow.
Washing should extend only to the
outer surface, as far as the finger cal
reach. It is a bad practice, also, to put
cotton wool soaked In laudanum o.
chloroform into the ear for the relief O.
toothache. When a child's ear becomes
painful, as it often does, everything
should be done to soothe it, and al
strong, irritating applications should b'
avoided. Pieces of hot fig or onion
, should not be put in, but warm fannel
| should be applied, with poppy fomenta
ton, if the pain does not o subside.
It should be remembered that con
, stantly covering up the ear is adapted t.
iniure it. On the whole, men, in whom
5 the ear is habitually exposed, suffer j
/ anything less from ear-disease thai
. women, in whom it is often covered
Popular Science NOnthlN.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Etinnette OF Solicitations.

One would scarcely suppose it posi-
BILE that any difference of opinions could
exist in reference to the etiquette of
bowling and yet there are some who
think it a breach of politeness if one
neglects to bow, although meeting half
q dozen times on the promenade or in
driving. Custom has made it necessary
to bow only the first time in passing;
after that exchange of salutations, it is
very properly not expected. The differ
ence between a courteous and a familiar
bow should be remembered by gentle
men who wish to make a favorable i'm
preston. A lady dislikes to receive,
from a man with whom she has but a
slight acquaintance, a bow, accompanied
by a broad smile, as though he were on
the most familiar terms with her. It is
far better to err on the other side, and
give one of those stiff, ungracious bows,
which some men indulge in. Those
gentlemen who smile with their eyes in
stead of their mouths give the most
charming bows. AS for men who bow
ch%armingly at one time, and with excess
sive hauteur at others, according as they
feel III a good or a bad humor, they need
never be surprised if the person thus
treated should cease speaking altogeth-
er nor can any man who does not lift,
or at least touch, his hat in speaking to
a lady, expect that she will continue
her salutations.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Learn to Swim.

If anything was needed to convince
the public that children should be taught
to S i'm, it is furnished by the report of
the Royal Humane Society of Great
Britain, which gives the average number
of deaths from drowning in England
and Wales as 2,609 annually. In the
river Lea alone, 366 persons were
drowned last year-more than one a day.
Swimming is an art easily learned by
most persons, and when mastered it is a
pleasant and healthful pastime. A
course of practical lessons in swimming
would be of vastly more practical i'm
portance than those o given in
schools in music, drawing and other
things that are classed as accomplish
ments. Most boys take as kindly to
water as young ducks do, and it is of as
much advantage for them to learn to
swim. Girls, too, would learn to swim
if the practice was fashionable. 1t was
a sad comment on a lack of proper edu-
cation that no woman on the Atlantic
was saved, because no one on board
could swim. Had the steamer contained
South Sea Islanders, the chances are
that they would nearly all have reached
shore. In. the course of the life of
almost every person there is an occasion
to save ones own life or the life of an
other person by swimming.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Another Man n

Old Farmer Pettingill went into his
house one day and caught John, the
hired man, hugging Mrs. P.
The farmer said nothing, and went out
into the field.
After dinner he wanted John for
something, but John was not to be
found.
He went, at last, into Johns room,
where the latter was on his knees pack
ing his trunk.
whats the matter, John ?" said P.
60. nothing" replied John.
"What are you packing your trunk
for"
"T'm going away"
"Going away What are you going
away for :"
go, you know" answered John.
"No, I don't know" reioined P,
"come, give me the reason OF your sud-
den desire to go away"
well" meekly answered John, "you
know what you caught me doing this
forenoon !"
40, pshaw !" laughed Pettingin edo
not be so foolish. If you and me can't
hug the old woman enough, I'll hire
another man."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Scintillations by Heinrich Heine.

I have always thought far better of
those whom / hated than they deserved.
He that does not go as far as his
heart urges, and his mind directs, is a
coward. He who goes further than he
intended, is a slave.
In these times we fight for ideas,
and newspapers are our fortresses.
I am fully convinced that a bias
pheming Frenchman is a spectacle more
pleasing to the Lord than a praying En-
glishman.
Men at times lie. Women, like all
passive beings, can rarely invent but
they possess the art of SO perverting the
truth that the result effects far greater
harm than downright lying.
In art, form is everything; matter
nothing.
-Sentimentality is Materialism in
despair.
According to all indications, the
present age will appear in the annals OF
Art as the age of Music. Music is per.
haps the last word of Art.
Fools imagine that, in order to con.
quer the Capitol, they must first attack
the geese.
We are not the masters, but the
servants of "The Word"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Frightened Orators.

For the encouragement of all who fear
an audience, we reprint the following
from Hawthorne's "English Note
Book :"
Bulwer and a certain DR.. - were
talking together about public speaking,
and the Doctor said he feared he Should
never be a good speaker, he felt so badly
before he "got on his legs"
edo you feel your heart beat" said
Bulwer, "when you are goingto speak?"
eyes"
"Does your voice brighten you?"
eyes"
"Do all your ideas forsake you?"
eyes"
"Do you wish the floor to open and
swallow you?"
eyes"
why, then, you will make al
orator p
Hawthorne goes on to relate that Can
ming, on one occasion, just before speak
ing in the House, asked a friend sitting
near him to feel his pulse, which wal
throbbing intensely. 81 know I shall
make one of my best speeches." sale
the future Premier, because 1 am IL
such an awful funk I"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
The Atlantic.

The soundings which were made be-
tween ireland and Newfoundland before
laying the Atlantic cable have made the
bottom of the Atlantic almost as well
known as the surface of Europe and
America. It is covered with a fine mud,
the remains of microscopic insects, which
will one day doubtless harden into chalk.
1t is a prodigious plain. If the sea
were drained off you might drive a
wagon all the way from Valentia, on the
west coast of Ireland, to Trinity Bay in
Newfoundland, and except n sharp in
cline, about 200 miles from Valentia, L
am not quite sure that it would be neces-
sary to put the skid on, so gentle are
the ascents and descents upon that long
route. From Valentia the road would
be about 200 miles to the point at which
the bottom is now covered by seventeen
hundred fathoms of sea water. Then
would come the central plain, more than
1000 miles wide, the inequalities of the
surface of which would be hardly per-
ceptible. Beyond this the ascent OF
the American side commences, and
leads for about 200 miles to the Ameri-
can shore.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Danbury's Funny Man.
Correspondence Of the Boston Transcr

Correspondence of the Boston Transcript
Danbury is a thriving manufacturing
town of about 5000 inhabitants, largely
given over to the appreciation of jokes
and the manufacture of hats. We be-
lieve it has been engaged in hat manu-
facture since-well. since it was de-
siroyed by the British in 1777.
Early evening found us creeping up a
dark stairway to the composing and
printing Office of the NeWs.
In one large room are the cases and
presses, and fenced off by itself in one
cerner is the XII plain deal-board sanc-
tum, in which we found the editor open
ing his mail.
Coming along in the cars to Danbury,
we had, in our idleness, wondered if any
of our fellow-travelers were the editor.
A gentleman carefully dressed and
adorned with spectacles was finally Sc
lected as the possible humorist. We
had made up our mind to a middle-aged
man in broadcloth and spectacles, and
| now we found a full-faced young man
dressed in coarse clothes, with scrupu-
lousy white linen and no necktie.
1t may interest our lady readers to
know that Mr.. Bailey is remarkably
fine looking he is even-featured, with
black flowing hair and clear dark com
plexion, and has an eye that shows that
like John Gilpin, she has a pleasant
wit"
In conversation we found him engag-
ing and overlooking with humor. A
stenographer could make a rich article
sitting by and talking with him. Man,
were the good things he said the even
ing we passed with him, and W
shall long remember u pleasant in
terview with this most genial genius,
who, with no advertisement save tina
afforded by a country newspaper witt
an original circulation Of a few hundre'
copies, has become n of the mos
quoted writer's in the country, and bid
fair, as a late critic says, "to take hi
place at the head of American humol
lists"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
A Misguided BOOk-Hgent.

A book-agent entered the open door of
a snug Pittsield cottage one day last
week, and nodding to a trim, bright
looking little woman who sat sewing by
the window, commenced volubly to des-
cant ON the merits of q great work which
he was for the first time giving mankind
an opportunity to purchase. 1t wa a
universal biography, cookbook, diction-
airy. family physician, shorthand in
stractor, and contained, besides, a de-
tailed history of every important event
that has TRANSFERRED in the world, from
the apple incident and Adams fall to
Credit Mobilier and the fall of Congress.
The work contained 5000 chapters, all
with running titles. The agent, after
talking on the general excellences of the
volume about five minutes, commenced
ton he headings of those chapters, and
as the woman did not say a word to in
terrupt him, he felt that he was making
a conquest, and he ratified away SO that
she shouldn't have a chance to say no.
It took him nearly half an hour, and as
he breathlessly went on, the sweat start
ed on his forehead, and he made convul
sive grasps at his collar, and when ht
finished he had hardly strength enough
left to put on a bewitching smile anl
hand her his ready pen wherewith to sub
scribe her name to the order book. Sh'
took the pen, but instead of putting he
autograph on his list, she lifted a scral
of paper from her work-box, and wrot
in plain letters, "Ime defe and dunn.
He said not a word, but the unutterabl
things that he looked, as he turned t
the door, would fill a library.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
A Greyhound's Tenacity of Life.

A correspondent of Land and Water
tells q curious anecdote illustrative of
the wonderful tenacity of life in the grey
hound. 1t also suggests that hanging is
not the speediest and most humane way
to dispatch q dog ga certain noble
man, now living, gave over a pensioned
greyhound to his coachman, with strict
orders to hang him in consequence of his
having bitten one of the children. This
sentence the Jehu performed immedi-
ately, to the best of his ability, from a
beam in the coach house. Six hours the
guilty styke suffered under the extreme
penalty and then, like other culprits,
was cut down His lordship, who, on
the contrary, was much 'cut up on re-
ceiving the news, told Jehu to bury him
decently. Jehu, not knowing of any
available cemetery, and intramural inter-
ment being contrary to law, wisely threw
the supposed corpse on to the dunghill
and covered him up, fully imagining that
he would be carted away. And SO two
months elapsed, neither master nor man
troubling themselves any further on the
subject, OF being any the wiser for what
had happened to the defunct old racer,
but their wonderment and surprise were
past all description when, one day visit
ing the Hampton meeting, they perceiy-
ed and recognized their dead 'un,' per-
forming in his best style in the Home
Park. The fact was, Jehu, who was a
good coachman, had no hands for hang
ing, and had forgotten to see, in going
through his Calcraft job, that the dogs
neck shouldbe broken, alwaysunderstood
to be a most essential part of the bust
ness. There is no doubt that, such not
being the case, the warmth of the buria
ground brought him to, and thus he LIVED
to be revenged on his former friends fol
the dirty trick attempted on him"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Frances New President.

Marshal MacATahon, who succeeds
Theirs as President of France, is of
Irish descent, and belongs to a family
who gave all they had to the cause of
the Stuarts. When this cause was hope
lessiy lost, they refused to give their
allegiance to the Government of King
William, and carried their proud name
and family traditions to France, where
their blood soon was merged with that
of the nobility. President MacMahon
is but a few years younger than EXPIRES
ident Theirs. He was born in 1908.
His career has been a military one from
the beginning till Saturday, when he as
sumed political duties for the first time.
He began service in 1880, in Algiers.
He was in the Crimea, and when Sebas-
topol was stormed he was chosen as the
fttest officer to attempt the works of
the Malakoff. How brilliantly he sue
ceeded every n knows. His part in
the victory of Magenta won him the
title of Duke of Magenta from Louis
Napoleon. In the Inflated war with
Prussia his star was less propitious, and
he was defeated at Woerth and Beau
mont. He was chief in command at
RCNN1hs OuU MdO ~ OllALpO 0O W ~
ceive a severe wound early in the day,
which saved him the modification of
surrendering. This humiliation de-
volved upon his successor, Gen. Wi1npf-
fen, who signed the articles of c~apitula-
ton. He was successful in the defense
of Paris against the Commune, and was
of great assistance to President Theirs
in the organization of the army. The
nearest approach to civil office to be
found in the record of President Mac
Mahon's life is his refusal to accept 6
nomination from the. Partisan Press
Union to represent Paris in the Nationa
Assembly. In his communication tt
the President of the National Assembly
accepting the Presidency, he promi4'
to discharge its duties with the help o
God and the army.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Making Leather.

A scarcity of oak bark, hemlock,
and some other trees which fur
nish tannin for making leather, is gen.
orally deplored. The discovery of tan
min in vast abundance where it was least
suspected is more than a compensation
for the diminution of the old material.
Some time since a patent was taken
out for tanning with a strong decoction
of leaves. But it would be just as ridic-
ulous to take out a patent for making
meal with two stones by machinery, or
frying doughnuts in an iron pan. Any
body may steep dead leaves without fear
of prosecution, and tan hides by thou
sands. All dry forest leaves yield tan
min by boiling. Oak and most of the
hard woods furnish the most profitable
leaves for curing leather. Make the
liquor strong and then sink the skins in
watts, and let them remain till they are
tanned. The soft leaves, when deprived
thus of their astringent qualities, make
an admirable fertilizing pulp for delicate
garden plants, or indeed wherever a rich
manure is required.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
The Great Bell of st. Paui's.

Every American going to London
visits st. Paul's Cathedral as a matter
of course, and though each knows in
advance of some of its grandeur, nearly
all are astonished to find their precon-
ceived notions totally at fault. The
dome and the bells especially exceed in
size all that one has imagined in advance.
The dome alone weighs oyer six million
pounds, and the bell-towers are of cor
responding size. There are four bells
in all, three in the southern, and n in
the northern tower. Even the smallest
of these bells is altogether too large to
be turned in ringing and were sufficient
power for his purpose to be used, the
great towers, strong as they are, would
hardly stand the strain. The two
smaller bells in the clock-tower strike
the quarters, and above them hangs the
great bell, which strikes the hours. It
has a diameter of nine feet, and weighs
eleven thousand four hundred and
seventy-four pounds. Aside from its
great size and unequaled tone, it is a
subject of interest from the fact that it
is a bell having a history of its own. In
the old days before the Reformation, a
great bell, named Edward, in honor of
Edward the Confessor, used to toll the
hours from the clock-towers opposite
Westminster Hall Gate. During the
reign of William and Mary it became
necessary to remove the bell, and, in
passing under Temple Bar, it fell from
the carriage on which it was being
transported, and was broken. 1t was
placed under a shed in the cathedral
yard, where it remained until 1716, wher
it was r%ecast, with some additional
metal, and hung in the clock-tower o.
st. Pauls, where the tourist visits to
day. 1t is eve used except to strike
the hours, and to toll on the occasion o
the. death of members of the roya
family, the Bishop of London, the Deal
of st. Paurs, Or the Lord Mayor o
London.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12

will never be eradicated by time, and in
the end he will bless you. This was the
lesson taught me, and may God bless
my dear parents for such. Time will
not erase them from my memory. Those
moral lessons taught me by preeept and
example will never be obliterated from
the soul. The happy "reminiscences OF
my boyhood days bring back to my mind
those useful lessons OF virtue, temper
ance and morality which my parents en-
deavo1ed to instill into my little heart.
God has blessed them for it, and nine
out of ten children are now members OF
the church; the tenth, though not a
member of the church, is highly re-
spected, and has the influence Of the
people in whose midst he resides. May
he soon be also a member.
My parents notices were, "Impllclt
obedience, ""Come when you are called"
"Speak when you are spoken to, In
company be silent" Eat what is set
before you, asking no questions, such as
Ma, I want some of that pie in the side
board, or that pickle or preserves in the
SAFE" etc.
In conclusion, let me say to you, Oh,
remember you have in your keeping i'm
mortal souls, and the training you give
them will not only effect them here on
earth, but also in eternity. Train your
child for hat better land where he may
forever bask in the glorious sunshine OF
our Redeemer's countenance, where he
will not suffer disease, pain nor death,
but enjoy peace eternal but, alas il
you do not train him thus, there is g
probability of his going where all is
darkness, misery and eternal condemna:
tiOn
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
The MiStIetO,

The mistleto is a true parasite that
is, it does not merely live on trees, as
moss and lichens do, but sends its al
most invisible roots into the other plants
structure, and takes the sap of the other
tree to support the life of its own Like
parasites among human kind, they have
very little backbone" and easily crum-
BILE when dried for herbarium p~reserva-
ton. Who has not heard of the English
custom of kissing under the mistleto ?
Yet this plant, which enters SO largely
into English traditional history, has
never been met with in a wild state in
the vast quantities which the English
markets about Christmas time would
seem to indicate grows in England,
therefore much of it is brought in crates
from the forests of Germany. At the
present time it abounds mostly on cult
waited apple trees. Tradition tells us that
it grew chiefly on the oak, and that it
was held in great veneration on that &C
account by the Druids. The mistleto is
propagated by putting the seed in a slit
of the bark of the tree on which il
thrives.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-12
Immense Windmills.

Syracuse, n. Y, is engaged in a novel
manufacturing enterprise, one firm there
now constructing no less than seven
mommoth windmills as large as the
enemies Of Dor Quixote. The mills are
designed for crushing gold ore, and are
to be sent to the Island of Oruba, in the
Caribbean sea. The prevalence of trade
winds in that section and the high price
of fuel have induced the quartz-crushing
company to introduce windmills for ore
crushing purposes. An accurate idea OF
the size of these powerful agents may be
conceived from the following dimensions
The diameter of The wheel, which is Of
the "~rosette" pattern, is 36 feet long,
thus securing power equal to a 2O-horse
power engine. The weight of each mil
is about 5000 pounds, the cost of con
struction being about 81, 800 each.