Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
FORTUNE telling is illegal in Russia.
WITHOUT decay there can be no
growth.
BosToN supports over 200 hand organ
lists.
TIE Canucks pay interest on a So
DOC, 900 debt.
CHAPLIN says events are only the shell
of ideas.
EDMUND YATES dictates; he never
writes.
KANSAS farmers are going to RAISING
cotton and tobacco.
The soil of Kansas is said to be full
OF fossilized elephants.
CoLoRED ~hod-carriers are employed in
Boston's burnt district in place of the
Irish laborers who struck on the LIST inst.
OUT OF 136persons not connected with
railways injured in Massachusetts last
year, ~ were hurt while walking on the
track.
Two people, in walking together, will
always avoid the path one will walk on
each side. 1t shows how unselfsh we are
as a people.
CINCINNATI made II, OBS, 829 gallons
OF whisky in 1872, which is a full bar
rel for each man, woman and child in
that thriving city.
You do not need to black your boots
IN Pittsburgh. You hang them out of
the window at night, and they are black
enough in the morning.
PROBABLY the most vicious American
ism is that constructed by an Illinois
paper, which says Edwin Booth Will
"tragetate" in a certain town.
The intelligent coroner of Buffalo is
sitting on a skull lately picked up in one
of the streets of that city. His finding
IN the case will probably be that it is a
numb-skull.
THE San Francisco Chronicle saws the
Chinese problem is working out its own
solution; that manufacturers are dis
charging their Mongolian operatives and
employing white men.
MANY of the Western Union operators
are practicing on the English or CONT
mental telegraphic alphabet, which it is
proposed eventually to substitute for
the Morse alphabet, now in use.
The object-glass of the new telescope
now being constructed at Cambridgeport
for the Washington Naval Observatory
will have a diameter of tw~enty-six and
one-half inches and will cost $27, 900.
A WRITER in a New York journal seri-
ously advocates a return, by ladies, to
the ancient Greek sandal, as being far
more comfortable, having a handsome
appearance, and less likely to injure the
foot.
An exchange illustrates the beauties
OF thep ostal-card system thus: Smith
to his landlady-"Any letters for me to-
day. Landlady-" Nothing but a few
postal-cards, but there is nothing of i'm
portance in them"
The Vanderbilt University, accord
ing to the Nashville Union, is to be the
name of the Methodist University soon
to be organized in Tennessee upon the
fund of $500, 600 donated by Commodore
Vanderbilt, of New York.
A YOUTH of eighteen and a maiden Of
fourteen eloped from a town in Chautau-
qua county, N. T., and were married
at midnight. They were driven to this
Objectionable expedient by the stern op-
position OF a venerable, heartless parent
aged thirty-fve years.
BRIGHAM You've denies that he intends
to permanently abandon Utah. Settle
ments will be made in Arizona, but the
Valley of the Deseret will still be occu-
pied by the SAINTS. In the meantime he
invites "an good citizens to come to
Utah, where property is less taxed and
better protected than elsewhere in the
United States"
A DINNER was given recently in Wash
lngton, at which Congressman repre-
senting six different States were present.
A toast nominating Speaker Blaine for
the Presidency, in 1876, was r~apturously
applauded and responded to by all the
congressman present in a manner which
showed that their sentiment united in
this direction. .
The total number of sewing-machines
manufactured in the United States ex-
ceeds $500, 900, with an addition of
$50, 900 in 1872. Of these machines.
$500, 900 were lock-stitch and 700. 600
loop-stich. Thevalueo of sewing-machines
exported from the United States during
the first eight months of 1872 was
Sl,407,5 $40. There are about fifty sewing
machine manufactures in the United
States, which consumed during the wear
1872 twenty thousand tons Of iron.