Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
ALI Sorts.
Boston has 1890 drinking places.


TEXAS has population of 1850, 900.
Iowa claims to have $4,000 Spiritual
lists.
THE debt of the District of Columbia
is $40, 900, 600.
ABOUT 1000 bills have gone over to
the next session of Congress.
On the 18th of October, 1882, the
cornerstone of the White House was
laid.
A WOMAN in Waynesburg, Penn, is
reading the Bible through for the forty
eighth time.
THE population of Sweden, at the end
1867 was 4, 1875, 900; in 1869, only 4, 49,
600; 1870, 4,I6S,000 and 1872, again
4, $50, 900.
This year in South Carolina the death
rate among the colored population has
been little more than twice as great as
among the whites.
OF the Harvard graduates, this year,
two were in the Rebel army and one in
the Union. The class is the largest
| C'Ci SiuuudtCu lIOIu IldI COlltSt.
LAST month eighty-four and half
per cent. of "Old Probabilities pre-
dictions were well verified, and the per-
centage continues to increase.
A TwENTY-THREE days substitute for
teamster In the war of 1912 is very in
dignant because he can't get pension,
and he is writing to the papers about it.
OF the L, 34S, O67 workers in metal in
Great Britain, 376, 7S3 are miners, 174,-
7O4 workers, ETC., on arms, 1888
workers and dealers in minerals and
metals, and 49, 42 machine and tool
makers.
THE religious statistics of Australia
now show 49,, 900 Episcopalians, $685.
537 Presbyterians, 213, 1876 Methodists,
40, 932 Independents, 3SS, 412 Baptists,
40, $50 other PrCtestants, and 436, 1876
Roman Catholics.
A Newark On. j. couple recently
performed delicate duty before being
married. They together visited a ceme-
terry and first decorated the grave of the
gentleman's former wife, and then that
of the lady's former husband.
A NAVY Department clerk took his
girl out riding recently, and because he
told her that he didn't need a dash
board, as her feet would answer every
purpose, she won't speak to him any
MORE Washington Chronicle.
Col. RICE, of the United States Army,
who invented the trowel.bayonet, has
/ Cd
other gentlemen, little appliance for
stacking arms, which has met with
much approval from military men.
One bayou in Texas, could furnish
| 0,000, 900 bushels of salt annually, at
cost of ten cents per bushel. It is not
more than eighteen inches deep. The
water is rapidly evaporated, and the
salt settles in great quantities in the
bottom.
BosToN CoRBETT, who shot Wilkes
Booth, is living in Camden, N. j., and
on weekdays follows the profession of
halter in Philadelphia. He breaches
every Sunday in the Independent
Methodist Church in Camden, where he
is very popular.
HARTFoRD's greatest wonder now is
Thomas cat that weighs @ pounds, is 38
inches long, or 26, barring the tail, and
stands Ii inches high at the hips and IA
at the shoulders. This beats the pre-
MUM cat at the recent English show,
which weighed only q pounds.
THE Centennial managers have wisely
concluded to cut their coat according 10
the cloth, and have fixed upon plans for
the exposition building which involve
cost of only 81, 200, 000-much less than
was contemplated before the refusal of
Congress to contribute from the public
Treasury.
THERE are 3S persons to a square mile
in the British Enpire ;260 in the United
Kingdom POI in India. and 141 in the
colonies. The Queen rules over 234,-
762, 593 souls !; her people dwell in A.
142, 651 houses the area of the land
they inhabit is not less than Z, 796, 446
square miles.
An English chemist, officially en-
ployed to detect adulteration, reported
forty faulty samples out of hundred
and seventy. Arrowroot was mixed
with starch, coffee with chicory, milk
with water, mustard with -four aud
turmeric, vinegar with sulphuric acid
and oil of vitriol.
THE Iowa State Agricultural Society
offers premium of 81, 900 for the best
ten acres of artificial timber, payable in
1881 also $500 for the best cultivated
farm. payable in 1875 $3.50 payable in
1879. for the best orchard of five acres
and 5000 for the best mile of hedge,
payable in 1877.
THERE is not room enough in the En-
glish Commons Chamber for all the
members. of the body. 654. The largest
number known to have assembled is
GAO, but of these, many did not enter
the House, but remained lying on sofas
in division Hobbies fast asleep, and loung-
ing in the smoke room or in the terrace
until summoned to a division.
Through Six Hundred Feet of Sewer
A young man named Thomas WEIGH
had rather novel experience in New
burg, N. Y, recently, an account of