Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-23
ALI Sorts.

ALI Sorts.
THE first successful trial of reaper
took place in 1888.
WKBsrER's Dictionary contains over
fifty thousand words.
A RAINFALL of 81 inches in an hour
has been known in India.
An Iowa girl lately carried 40
pound hog down into cellar.
FAMILY physicians are carefully not
ing the promising state of the green-ap-
pie crop.
IT was George Herbert who said q
handful of good life is worth a bushel of
learning.
Two-rHIRDs OF the cotton raised at
the South is said to be the product of
white labor.
VII. F. LEE and r. E. Lee, sons of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, are now farming
successfully in Virginia.
ONLY think of little State like Della
ware selling seven million quarts of
strawberries in three weeks.
AFTER reaching 200 feet underground
in a mine the temperature increases in
heat one degree every 100 feet.
THE cornerstone of the Confederate
monument was recently laid by the
Masonic fraternity, in Savannah.
GEN. SHERMAN has opened his career
in st. Louis auspiciously by renting
pew in st. Johns Catholic church.
YALE College students study one hour
per day, pull boat three, box two and
talk about Athletic matters the rest of
the twenty-four.
THE apparent motion of the earth is
from the rising to the setting sun, while
her real motion is from the setting sun
toward the rising.
GERMANY has sold her needle-guns to
China, not because she has no more
need of them, but she has found another
kind which can kill twice as many
Frenchmen.
A BERLIN correspondent remarks that
the Emperor William no longer rides on
horseback, but has to review his troops
from his carriage. He is now in his
seventy-eight year.
A NEW process of sweating" or in
hating the currency in vogue. The
notes are slit lengthwise, in such way
that out of six bills seven are con-
structed, slightly narrower than the gen.
uine.
WHILE some colored people were be-
ing baptized recently In the river at
Nashville one became unmanageable,
and seizing the minister, who was
small man, threw him over her head,
almost drowning him.
CANADA comes forward with girl of
fifteen who recently act fer her dinner
two pounds of beefsteak, one large loaf
of bread with half a pound of butter, a
small measure of potatoes, and withal
three pints of baked beans.
In 1873 there were shipped from New
York, %, 557. 295 bushels of grain in
sailing vessels, and Is, 202, 423 bushels
by steamers. The number of vessels
which carried grain exclusively were 72S
sailing crafts and twenty-seven steam
ers. Two-thirds in bulk and one-third
In bags is considered the best and
safest method of shipping grain to Eu-
rope.
THE records of hydrophobia kept by
the French Ministry of Agriculture
show that of 800 persons bitten by mad
animals during the five years 1898, SO
were bitten in spring, IA in summer, GA
in Autumn, and Is in winter. This
seems to confirm the opinion now gen.
orally entertained that damp, wet
weather has an unfavorable effect upon
the disorder.
A FROG was found ten feet below the
surface of the ground, few days since
at Sodus, n. Y, which is supposed to
be over 1000 years old. Its age was
probably learned after the manner of
ascertaining the population of Chicago
or st. Louis. Notwithstanding its age,
it hoped off just as it had been in the
habit of doing in We olden times.
THE Charlotte On. CO. Observer says
"John Smith, whose postoffice is Hick-
DRY Grove, York county, s. c., was in
Charlotte yesterday, and tells remark
able story. Before the war he owned
40 negroes, and up to this day these
negroes are living with and working for
him, not one having left after the sur
render. They express themselves as
satisfied, and say tney don't want to live
anywhere else.
One of the Athol (Mass.) school
MAINS, says the local paper, adopts a
novel mode of punishment. Offenders
of either sex and all ages are compelled
to lie down fat on the ticor, face down
ward, with arms stretched out at right
angles 10 the body. The victims are
not allowed to glance sideways, even fol
a moment, and "nosing >" the foo,
forms their only occupation. And this
school is one of the best managed in the
whole town, it adds.