Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-02
ALI Sorts.

ALI Sorts.
GARRoTERs are still severely fogged
in England.
IMPORTANT coal discoveries in Alabama
are reported
SOMEWHAT jim Jamie" is how one
Maine editor describes brother Maine
lac.
"CRUsADE CORDIAL" is the name of a
summer drink just introduced.
HYDRoPHoBIA was never SO prevalent
as this year.
THERE are in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, four
daily morning and four evening papers.
AN Omaha printer named Robert
Shorrock has fallen heir to fortune of
100000.
THE mines of the Pacific States con-
tribute about $50, 1000 in gold and
silver every year.
SPELL murder backward and you have
its cause. Spell its cause in the same
manner, and you have its effect.
ENGLAND has been importing wooden
houses from Norway, cheaper than they
can be made in that country.
THE colored population of Kansas
City have " ResOlUed, That negro min
strel shows tend to degrade our race"
THE influence of imagination OH the
vital functions Las always been recog-
nized, and it was this recognition that
enabled the ancient physicians to be so
successful with charms, amulets, and in
carnations.
We have in the United States 10000
drug shops, and $4,000 physicians fur
nishing the supplies and prescribing the
doses; hence, in view of this fact, it
may be fair question for debating
society, whether there is more dyspep-
STA produced by drug medication than
by all other causes combined?
A WOMAN who recently died at Bangor,
Me-, was so anxious lest her body should
be dug up and dissected by the doctors,
that she left $50 to pay man for watch
ing her grave month after she was
buried.
THE Charleston Courier makes a sum-
mary of South Carolina officials under
indictment /: Governor, / county treas
urers, 3; sheriffs, 2; school commits
sioner, l |; trial justice, 1 county COM
missioners, "a.
OF stories about hens there is no end,
and to the talents of these delightful
birds no limits. The last celebrity of
the sort is a hen in Monroe County,
Honn Shn rplx- oo<o1aC
mice, but she eats them.
THE smallest circular saws in use are
those employed in the manufacture of
gold-pens, and are half-inch in diane
ter. 1t is said that some of the sarcop-
hagi of ancient Egypt bear the marks of
having been followed out with tools of
the crown or cylinder saw order.
AN exchange expects to see the day
when Congress will adjourn to visit
baseball match and there would be as
much propriety in it as there is In the
British Parliament's adjourning to go to
hawse race.
IT shows the magnitude of the paper
collar business that at the Lowell bleach
cry, last month, seven hundred and
thirty-nine miles of cotton cloth for the
manufacture of cloth-covered collars
were finished.
In Birmingham the number of steel
pens made weekly is about 9S, 900 gross,
or IA, 112, 900 separate pens. Thirty
years ago pens were sold wholesale at
five shillings per grose now pens as
good or better may be had for three
half pence per gross.
THE collection of Chinese coins in
the museum of the Paris mint consists
of nearly eight hundred specimens, some
of gold and silver. One of the pieces
dates from one thousand seven hundred
yeas before Jesus Christ. A fact wor-
thy of notice is that the Chinese observe
the decimal system in the division of
their money.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Smithsonian
Institution who has spent considerable
time in investigation of the subject, in
answer to a remark by Professor Henry,
that the immense water power at Nj
agara may, in the progress of practical
science, be applied to the purposes of
industry" states that by the "last
census there are 52,0l7 water-wheels
in operation in American manufacturing
establishments, giving a power of l.
$50, 416 horses, while Niagara Falls gives
a power of II, 363, O36 horses.
A MAGNIFICENT feather cloak was
wasted when King Lunalilo was buried.
They wrapped him in it, though it was
worth 100000; as if cheaper article
would not have served the distinguished
corpse as well a million of birds of
rare plumage were sacrificed to furnish
the material of which this gorgeous
garment was made, and it had been
handed down to Lunalilo through gener-
atoms of royal chieftains.
FRATERNITY is the most homogeneous
word in the French language, and every
time the fatal four sylables are written on
the walls of Paris, civil war follows. In
the great revolution fraternity" cost
2O2, 800 lives in 1S4S, 80, 563 in 1871,
57,627. The word is also expensive, as
IN Eohr,,o~v 1910 S00 harr;oo1oc