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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
A Racing AnecdOte.

The Syracuse Courier is responsible
for the following anecdote, relating to a
well-known citizen We came across
an item in the history of one of our ris-
ing young men, which we hasten to en-
balm and put on record. The story we
heard yesterday relates to a former
crier of the courts in this county, who is
celebrated for his forensic abilities. 1t
so happened that during term of
County Court there were to be three
days races, which the presiding Judge
was very anxious to attend. He accord
ingly, or the forenoon of the day previ-
Gus, when the hour of adjournment ar
rived, directed our friend to adjourn the
court. The crier turned to the Judge
and asked to what time he would adj
journ. The Judge whispered to adjourn
till after the races, supposing the crier
would take the hint and fix the date be-.
yond that on which the races would ter.
inmate but instead, he announced it in
this way: Hear vel hear ye! This
court will stand adjourned so that the
Judge can attend the races - The eff
feet on the Judge can be imagined when
we state that he threw book at the
crier, hitting him singing blow on the
back of the neck. Thereafter he was
very definite in fixing the time to which
the crier should adjourn.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
Winter Care of Horses.

Considerable is written nowadays
about false economy In various ways
My observation leads to the conclusion
that one important item is almost en-
tirely overlooked, and that thousands of
dollars are lost each year by the careless
wintering of farm horses. For instance,
Farmer A owns fine span of horses !;
he is not much of horseman, but in
the summer he works them, and keeps
man who takes good care of them.
In the fall, after work is over, the horses
are put into the stable and fed all the
hay they will eat (be it good or bad) /;
are left perhaps week or two at time,
with little or no exercise, and, when
they are driven, are let go at the top of
their speed. Fast driving, with stom-
achs full of undigested hay, is the very
worst of treatment. The result is that,
in year or two, the horses have the
heaves badly, are spoiled for market,
and are unable to do the usual amount
of the service ON the road and this
alone causes loss each year so long as
the team is used.
This could in some degree be avoided
by building shed with yard for exer-
else, and by feeding food of sufficient
strength to keep the muscles in full
strength. Some say that wintering
horses in the field on hay alone will
cause falling away of muscles and
strength difficult to regain. No doubt,
being chilled by standing in cold barn
is injurious to horses.-Cor. Country
Gentleman.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
Tools for the Farm.

A correspondent of the Farmers
Union writes There is no better way
for farmer to invest few dollars than
by buying few tools for the farm.
Much time and expense can be saved by
repairing broken farming tools yourself,
instead of carrying them to carpenter
and paying high price for a job which
perhaps you could have done as well if
not better yourself, and at cost of less
than one-quarter the price paid for the
work. There are many days of leisure
in the early part of the winter that you
can devote to the overhauling and re-
pairing of the farming tools to be used
early in the spring, and have them in
prime order when the hurry of spring
work begins. Supposing you have a
broken rake handle !; instead of throw
ing it away, lay the head by, or if you
have an old handle, put that into the
good head, and you have a whole rake
that will last You as long as a new one
costing thirty cents. If you break a
pitchfork handle, don't buy whole new
fork the next time you go to town, but
buy handle and put the old tine into
it, and you have as good a fork as can
be bought, and for less than half the
cost of q new one.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
Germany's ReOrganized Army.

A handbook recently published at
Leipsic gives the first complete resume
that has appeared of the newly reor-
ganized army of the German Empire.
The most important increase in this of
late appears, of course, in the cavalry,
which can now put twelve complete di-
visions into the field in place of the six
employed during the late war, and indie
pendent of the regiments attached to
the divisions of infantry. Including
Bavaria there are eighteen army corps
in the Empire of which seventeen THAT
of Elsass-Lorraine is presumably the
exception) have every component ele-
ment perfectly complete. Each corps
has, of course, its divisions, and the
most striking change in the method of
organization as compared with that in
use in 1870 IS the far greater indepen-
dence given to each division, this body
being no longer regarded as only fight
ing but marching unit, with its equip
age and other special service complete.
There is still, however, a special reserve
of artillery, and engineers belonging to
the corps headquarters. The number
of combatants in the field army is given
at SIS, 900 bayonets, 6S, 900 sabers, 2, OSO
guns, and $1,000 engineers; but the
ration lists of the army, including train
and nOn-cOmbatants, amount to S47, 900
men, with $50, 900 horses. These figures
are, of course, entirely independent of
all the troops of the reserve.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01

THE New York Tribune tells the fol
lowing good story of Prof. Smell, who
has been Professor of Mathematics at
Amherst for many years, and who, be-
fore the war, had, It is said, only the
small salary of eight hundred dollars a
year. After the war wealth began to
roll in upon Amherst College. This man
gave fifty thousand dollars, that man
another fifty thousand dollars, and so
till the Golfers were filed to OVERLOOKING.
Then the college trustees concluded to
raise the salaries of the professors, and
from eight hundred dollars they put it
up to twenty-five hundred dollars per
annum. Smell was sitting in his study
when his wife came in to announce the
good news. He was pouring over a
well-thumbed mathematical treatise.
"Ebenezer !" said she, "what do you
think? They've done it p "Done it?'
said he, done what who?" "Why,
the trusteesl They've raised your sal
airy to twenty hundred dollars q
year 2" "Snell's face became radiant.
"Thank God, Elmira !" said he, "now
we can have Goldfish"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01

from his European tour, and learning of
this deposit made haste to claim it for
himself, making drafto the university
for the money The managers refused
to acknowledge the old mendicant's
right to the funds, and thus the matter
came into the courts. The daughter,
who during the old mans absence had
married one of her countrymen, who was
probably well aware of her invaluable
qualities as helpmeet, proved that
Cadamatari, when the first came to st.
Louis had no means of livelihood ex-
cept the proceeds of her begging. The
case was decided In favorof the daughter.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
He Went to the Wrong Lodge.

A Richmond (Va.) paper tells a story
of a very sagacious dog and very fool
ish man, and the man owns the dog.
He is a married man, and the other
evening told his young wife that he was
going to the "lodge." The wife
anxiously looked for the return of her
husband until the small hours of the
morning, and finally there was a scratch
ing at the door. She opened it. The
dog was there and something more. He
had in his mouth bloody handkerchief
and a round piece of ivory about the
size of a silver dollar. She did not
know anything about the ivory, but the
bloody handkerchief suggested to her a
terrible story. She put on her bonnet
and followed the dog. He piloted her
to the lodge, which was in an upper
chamber of high building, and there
on the floor in one corner was her hus-
band, with badly swollen eye and a
bleeding nose and useless legs. He
could not walk home, but there was a
reason for that, which disappeared in q
few hours. That young man wants to
dispose of a very faithful, well-meaning
dog. He also wants to find the man
who hit him on the nose in the gam
bling-house.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
immensely of London.

Looking at London geographically,
it is difficult to convey an accurate con-
ception of the space it covers indeed,
it is hard to describe in any respect, for
it is the elephant among cities. On the
clearest day, from the highest point of
observation, the whole city cannot he
seen, but beyond the range of vision are
long streets and thousands of houses.
Taking Charing Gross as center, the
suburbs cannot be reached in any direc-
tion in less than eight or ten miles, and
in some not in twice that distance. The
Thames runs twenty-five miles through
the city. If London were put down in
Cook county, it would reach along the
shore OF the lake from Evanston to the
Calumet, and spread far out beyond the
Desplaines river, On this space is con-
centrated a population equaling that of
the States of Illinois and Wisconsin,
or, according to the census of 1873, that
of the cities of New York, Brooklyn,
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Gin
cinnati, st. Louis, New Orleans, and
Chicago, all combined. But, immense
as is the population of London, it has
not ceased to grow. On the contrary,
it never added so many people to its
numbers as during the last decade. The
Board of Public Works report that
149, 800 buildings were erected between
1861 and 1871. The addition was but
little less than the whole population of
New YOrk.-LOnd0n Letter to Chicago
Tribune
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01

unpleasant duty imposed upon him by
his Government. The Virginius was in
the most filthy condition. She was
leaking considerably, and the Spanish
Captain stated that he had kept the
pumps going continually since herlar-
rival in order to keep the water down.
Barring the filth, the condition of the
vessel was much better than expected
The Virginius steamed about 200
yards, all going well, when the engines
suddenly refused to do duty, and it be-
came necessary for the Dispatch to take
her in tow. The two vessels went out
of the barber briskly, the Spanish flag
being displayed by the fort as they
passed. In an hour we were at sea.
The Virginius was soon again under
steam. The Dispatch ceased to tow
her, and the two vessels steamed to-
gether toward Tortugas.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01

During the damp and cold season the
legs should be encased In vesy thick knit
wooden drawers, the feet in thick wooden
stockings (Which must be changed every
day., and the shoe soles must be as
broad as the feet when fully spread, so
that the blood shall have free passage.
If the feet are squeezed in the least, the
circulation is checked, and GOODNESS is
inevitable. This free circulation can
not be secured by loose upper with a
narrow sole. If when the foot stands
naked on a sheet of paper it measures
three and half inches, the sole must
measure three and a. half.
will suppose you have done all this
faithfully, and yet your feet and legs are
cold. Now add more wooden, or, if you
are to travel much in the cars, or in a
sleigh, procure a pair of chamois-skin
or wash-leather drawers, which / have
found to be most satisfactory.
have known a number of ladies af-
fiicted with hot and aching head, and
other evidence of congestion about the
upper parts, who were completely re-
ieved by pair of channels drawers
and broad-sCied shoes. Three ladies in
every four suffer from some congestion
in the upper part of the body. 1t is
felt in a fullness of the head, in sore
throat, in palpitation of the heart, torpid
liver, and in many other ways. It is
well known that hot foot-bath will re-
ieve, for the time being, any and all
these difficulties. This bath draws the
blood into the legs and feet, relieving
the congestion above. What the hot
foot bath does for an hour, the broad
shoes, with thick wooden stockings, and
a pair of flannel drawers, with pair of
wash-leather drawers added, will do per-
manently; of course / am speaking of
cold weather. No one hesitates to null
tiply the clothing about the trunk. Why
hesitate to increase the clothing about
the legs? As a prevention of many
common affections about the chest,
throat and head, including nasal catarrh,
/ know nothing so effective as the dress
of the lower extremities which / am ad-
vocating.
The bath is good thing, exercise is
a good thing, friction is a good thing,
but, after all, our main dependence in
this climate must ever be, during the
cold season, warm clothing. Already
we overdo this about our trunks, but
not one person in ten wears clothing
enough about the legs and feet.-Dio
Letcis an Toby.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
The Cost OF Fencing.

The Journal of the Farm has been at
the ;rouble to dig out the following
facts and figures from the United States
statistics in relation to this matter
Worm fence costs 95 cents, post and
rail S1.35, board fence S1.26, and stone
wall $2.34 per rod in Pennsylvania.
This estimate is made on a basis OF
boards at S16G per 1000, and rails at
$50. 26 per 1000. From the same source
we find the proportions of the different
kinds to be, worm 81, post and rail IL,
board IL, and stone wall 4 per cent.
The returns embrace 156, 377, 821 rods
of fence inclosing 16, 374, 641 acres, at q
cost OF S179, S34, 494, or an average OF
955 rods to each 100 acres, each rod con-
tanning an average of $1.15. The an
nual expense of repairs and interest on
cost are estimated at $198, 806, 182. The
Understanding national debt, the cost
of our fences and the value of our ma
tional live stock all amount to about the
same thing. Each dollars worth Of
stock requires one dollars worth OF
fence to keep it in order.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
Household Economy.

CLEANING CANE SEATS. up the
chair bottom, and with hot water and a
sponge wash the cane-work so that it may
be thoroughly soaked. Should it be
dirty, use a little soap. Let it dry III
the air and it will be as dry and firm as
when new, provided the cane is not
broken.
To PREPARE WOODEN PAILs.-H a
pail receives three coats of common
copal varnish on the inside before being
used, it will never become water-soaked,
nor will it give any disagreeable flavor
to water that may be allowed to stand
in it for any length of time. Thus its
usefulness and durability are greatly in
creased. -HcorM and Home.
BUcKwHEAT CAKES If you want
buckwheat cakes at a moments warn
ing, mix in a large stone or earthen pot.
When you take out q,fGntup su6icit for
breakfast or supper, mix as much In an
other vessel as you take out, and pour
it into the large pot, stirring it well.
By observing this rule you will always
have nice, light cakes. The large pot
must be kept in the cellar.
RENovATING FEATHER BEDs.-Old
feather beds may be renovated by she
careful housewife in the following man.
ner Put them ON a clean grass-plat
during heavy shower /; let them be-
come thoroughly wetted turn them on
both sides. When quite dry, beat them
with rods; this will tighten the feath-
ers and make them more healthful to
sleep on. This process removes dust
and rejuvenates the feathers.
To Cook PoULTRY.-All kinds of
poultry and meat can be cooked quicker
by adding to the water in which they
are boiled little vinegar or a piece of
lemon. By the use of an acid there
will be a considerable saving of fuel, as
we'll as shortening of tirle. Its action
is beneficial on old, tough meats, rem
dering them tender and easy of diges-
ton. Tainted meats and fowls willlose
their bad taste and odor if cooked in
this way, and if not used too freely nc
taste of it will be acquired.
To CLEANSE CARPETS. tea
spoonful liquid ammonia in one gallon
warm water, will often restore the color
of carpets, even if produced by acid OF
alkali. If ceiling has been white.
washed and the carpet disiigured by
drops of the mixture, this will remove
it. Or, after the carpet is well beaten
and brushed, scour with ox-gall, which
will not only extract grease, but fresh
en- the colors; one pint of gall in
three gallons of warm water will do 8
large carpet. Table fioor-cloths may be
thus washed. The suds left from 9
wash where ammonia is used, even il
almost cold, cleanses these foor-cloths
we'll.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
Signs, Tokens and Warnings.

1 believe in signs, warnings and
tokens. 1 say this knowing that many
will criticise, but have had too many
demonstrations to allow me to doubt
that certain coming events cast their
shadows before.
If you drop your dish-cloth, it is a
sign that some one in the family is 60
ing to die. l have seen it tried. Ny
mother dropped her dish-cloth one
morning, and just seventeen years af-
ter, to an hour, my grandmother fell
dead
If you break looking glass, it is a
sign that you are going to move soon.
1 knew family once where the woman
broke looking-glass and said she de-
fed the sign, and that any one who be-
ieved in signs was lacking something
in the head. What followed? Why,
at midnight that very night her house
took fire the fremen came, and the un-
believing woman was hoated right out
into the alley.
If the tea-kettle sings, it is a sign of
some accident. There was Jones he
didn't believe it; said he'd lick the hide
right off of any of his children who en-
tertained any such belief. Now, mark
the result. Just eleven years, five
months and twenty-six days afterward
Jones fell down stairs, drove his thumbs
up, broke his knee, put his arm out of
joint, and injured his spine for life.
If you happen to set three lights in a
row, it is sign that present plans will
turn out as you hope for. / had an
uncle who set three lights in row, and
his plans turned out all right. He got
the horse, just as he had planned, and
was well out of the neighborhood, but
the sign couldn't do any more, and he
was overhauled by vigilance commit
tee and left hanging to tree to medi-
tate. He wasn't worth much, except as
a corpse, after he got through meditat-
ing.
If you see white horse, and don't
spit over your shoulder and make a
wish, it is another bad sign; you are
going to meet with great disappoint-
ment. A relative of mine used to pooh,
pooh such things; said he'd be busted
if he'd spit over his shoulder if he met
forty white horses. But he caught it.
He didn 't!get drawn on the Circuit Court
jury, as he planned, and was obliged to
60 to work and earn his bread or starve.
since then he has always spit over his
shoulder at the sight of white horse,
and he is always on the jury or gets big
wages for being a witness.
If load of hay tips over in front of
your house, it is good sign; it is a
token that friends are coming with pres
ents. I didn't use to believe it, until
on one occasion, just as hard winter
was setting in and wood was S12 per
cord, a load of hay was upset at my
gate, and three days afterward my
brother-in-law and family, uncle and
family, mother-in-law, two aunts and a
cousin arrived at my house to spend a
month, bringing me several presents,
among which were two pounds of dried
apples, recipe for making a new kind
of soft soap, pair of stockings for the
baby, and a bunch of herbs. After
these seventeen persons had been in
my house whole month, 1 was ready
to believe in almost any sign or any
thing.-M Quad.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
A Boat Steered by COrpse-A Mys-
terry of Lake Erie.

On Sunday morning two farmers and
their families, who were driving to
Maiden to attend church, when about
eight miles below, or east of the town,
saw ships yawl on the lake heading
toward the beach and about half mile
away. They could plainly make out
man In the stern sheets steering the
boat with an oar, and although there
were no vessels in sight, the morning
Vas so pleasant and the sea so smooth
that it was supposed the man had put
out from shore to pick up something,
and but little attention was paid to the
yawl. Passing the same spot on their
return, the men found the yawl hard on
the beach, and the man sitting stiff and
motionless in her stern, lifeless, and
frozen as hard as rock. He sat bolt
upright on the seat, the oar out behind
and both hands ciasping the handle, and
it required hard work to wrench it from
his death-grip. There was about foot
OF water In The boat, but the craft did
not show rough usage. The mans legs
were almost covered with ice as far up
as his knees, and the spray had dashed
over his back and shoulders and frozen
there. There was no name on the boat.
and the person who brought the in
formation to Windsor could not say that
anything was found on the person of
the man to reveal his identity nor to
show how he had been cast adrift. He
must have been dead at least three days
or more. There was neither sail nor
mast to the boat, and nothing in it but
the one oar, showing that the poor fell
low had not intended long trip any
where, and that he must have been
blown off the shore. He had used his
Car to keep before the wind, and had
frozen to death ON his seat, where he
was So firmly held by the ice that it had
to be broken with a stone before he
could be pulled off-DetrOst Free Press.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
Mind Your Stops.

The omission of q comma has fire.
quently given a very awkward turn to q
sentence. We remember an epitaph
which suffered severely from such an
oversight. 1t ran pretty much as fol-
lows:
Erected to the memory of John
Phillips, accidentally shot as a mark of
affection by his brother"
A printer, meddling with the verdict
of Corener's jury, struck out a comma
after the word "apoplexy," making it
read thus:
Deceased came to his death by ex-
cessive drinking, producing apoplexy in
the minds of the jury"
A correspondent introduces piece OF
poetry to the editor of an American
newspaper in these words
"The following lines were written
fifty years ago by one who has for many
years slept in his grave merely for his
amusement. ~
A comma at "grave" would have rem
dered the sentence, at all events, COM
prehensible, though nothing would eff
face its absurd diction.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-01
The Tree Girdler.

The other day a lady halted in front
of garden ON State street, Portland,
and accosting a man at work ON some
trees with the remark, "What are you
doing to those trees p 81 am girdling
them, madam, with printers ink and
cotton, to prevent the canker worms
from ascending" replied the man.
How much does it cost ?" asked the
lady. "About twenty-five cents
apiece" said the man. "What's your
name?' was the lady's next question.
Hill, replied the man. "Well," said
the lady, 81 wish you would come and
girdle ours" The man gave an evasive
answer and the lady went home. On
telling the story to her husband, she
was astonished to see him burst out in
fits of laughter. "What on earth are
you laughing at?" said the lady.
"Why," said her husband, "your man
that you asked to girdle yonr trees was
Rev. DIR. Hill, late President of Harvard
College, one of the foremost mathe-
maticians living, and now pastor of the
First Parish Church"