Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-26
ALI Sorts.
JEFF. DAVIS has gone to Europe.

JEFF. DAVIS has gone to Europe.
ALL the brothers and sisters of Eng
and Chang were twins.
THISTLE TEA and poultice of thistle
leaves are said to be good for neuralgia.
THE coal-miners of Pennsylvania will
meet in convention at Harrisburg,
March "a.
WOMEN are now eligible to any Office
of school control or management in
Pennsylvania.
THREE men were frozen to death near
Petrolia, Pa, during the recent cold
snap in the East.
Mr.. GLENN, of Colusa county, Cal,
will put in 10000 acres of wheat on his
little farm this spring.
1T costs the people of the United
States from S400, 600, 600 to $500, OOO, 900
per annum for feet gear.
ADIsGUsTED Danburian wants to know
if a woman was designed to be the equal
of man, why it is she can't whistle.
THE statistics of Iowa show the i'm
portant fact that the greatest number of
thieves and murderers have blue eyes.
OLIVER KNG, the Oswego, n. Y, fire.
bug, has been convicted of carson in
the first degree" and sentenced to State
prison for life.
JAMES JACKSON, of Banks county, Ca,
died recently at the age of lis, leav ng
a widow aged ITO, and several children,
now unhappily orphaned.
THE st. Louis Cresus, the late James
Fl. Lucas, left $1,000, 000-this in adj
dition to $4,000, 900 which he gave his
sons during his lifetime.
THE Empress of Russia's present to
Queen Victoria, on the occasion of the
royal wedding, was portrait of the
latter lady's new daughter-in-law.
THE New York Produce Exchange
Weekly gives the total corn crop of the
United States for 1872 at LOO, 900, 900
bushels. and for 1873 at SIS, 100000
THE experiment recently tried in some
of the public schools of using news
paper for reading exercises instead of a
reading book is proving great success.
GEN. GRANT has purchased the ground
for his contemplated permanent resi-
dence in Washington, at the corner of
Vermont avenue, p and Thirteenth
streets.
THE debt of New York city is now
S106, 371 ,953-an increase of $1,000, 900
since the custer of the Tammany thief
ring. The expenses last year were
49,, OO0,0 900.
Mr.. NoRDHoFF, in his book, affirms
that attendance upon school is more
general in the Sandwich Islands than
anywhere else in the world. Attendance
is enforced by law.
BISHOP WHIPPLE made good point
az missionary meeting when he said
If man has grasped Christ with one
hand, he will be sure to extend the other
to his fellow man."
JOHN A. BoPPE, lager beer brewer
of Newark, N. j., having made an enor-
nous fortune out of the business, has
been converted, and is convinced that
lager beer-making is wrong"
BRET HARTE commands, it is said,
higher price for his work than any lit
erary man in this country. Scribne,'s
Monthly has paid him as high as 500
page, and, like sensible man, he would
take more. if he could get it.
A COMMITTEEMAN who called at a house
in Philadelphia to solicit subscription
to the centennial celebration fund, was
asked "Who's he? I've heard of st.
Peter and st. Patrick and st. Benedict,
and some of tho other saints, but / never
heard of st. Tennial beforer'
The whole number of persons en-
rolled in the public schools of Kansas
is returned at 121, 500, an increase of
more than Is, 900 over the previous year.
The present number of school-houses in
the State is 3,133, which are aggre-
gately valued at So, 40S, 956.
JUDGE GREER once set aside the un-
just verdict of jury against an un-
popular man, with this smark: "Enter
the verdict, Mr.. Clerk. Euter also set
aside by the court want it to be I'M
derstood that it takes thirteen men to
steal mans farm in this court.
GEN. S. B. MAxEY, the newly-elected
United States Senator from Texas, is a
native of Monroe county, Ky. He
served in Kentucky regiment in the
Mexican war, and subsequently removed
to Texas. Since the rebellion, in which
he took an active part, he has been prac-
ticing law.