Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-17
All Sorts.

All Sorts.
GIRAFFEs are peculiarly liable to sore
throat.
GREAT BRITAIN proposes Minister Of
Education.
QUEEN ELIZABETH had fourteen hun
dred dresses.
THERE are 1876 Baptist churches on
the Pacific coast.
THE best Jump with pole on record
is 10 feet 10 IL inches.
MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, spends 800, 900
annually for flour barrels.
THE great State of Pennsylvania has
but one agricultural paper.
THE railways get about SO, 600, 900
years for transporting mail matter.
In Missouri, after 1876, every voter
must be able to read and write. The
date for Florida is 1880.
LONDON contrives to produce harmo-
ny out of an orchestra composed of
fifty-three women artists.
In Chicago a notorious vagabond has
been sentenced, it is said, to the COM
mon council for two years.
In the Canton of Unterwald, Switzer-
land, all smokers and snuff takers under
eighteen years of age are punished by
fine.
THERE is about to be bi-centennial
celebration Of the birth of DIR. Isaac
Watts, who was born at Southampton
in 1874.
CoLoRADo contains $4,000, ZOO acres
of land. The railroads have 2,000,00
acres. There are still 100000 open
to occupancy.
ANY one who is entirely out of iron
clads can now be accommodated by our
Government, which has five single-tur-
ret monitors for sale.
A New ORLEANS rat walks across
Magazine street every night upon
telegraph wire. Large crowds assemble
to witness the performance.
OUT of our total population of ten
years old and over, of %, 23S, 945, there
are reported as illiterate 5,657, IA. Of
these 1854, 256 are females.
WhEN the population of London was
million and half, the number of per-
sons annually arrested for offenses of
various kinds was $1,000; the number
now arrested, when the population has
risen to four millions, is only $4,000.
A LITTLE feiiow tumbled into the
fountain and managed to crawl out be-
fore any one reached him. Pale and
dripping, he was put to bed, and when
his mother requested the young man to
thank God for saving him, Young
America answered, 81 'spose God did
save me, but then I held on to the
gwass, too.
RELIABLE statistics show that there
are 80, 600, 900 head of neat cattle In the
United States, valued at 81, 600, 900, 900.
This is an average of $40 per head. By
careful breeding the value of our stock
in six or eight years could be raised to
$50 per head. This would add to the
real capital of the United States the
sum of 81, 900, 900, 900, nearly enough to
pay the national debt.
ACCORDING to the Yale Tot POurTt,
just issued, the number of instructors
connected with the university is 79,
against 70, last year, and the total num-
Der of students in all the departments
is $40, against 905 last year. The ac-
ademicai department has SIS last year
it had $40. The theological shows 103
against 90; the law school 4S against
IS medical school 81 against 20. The
graduate students of the university now
number GA against So; while the scien-
tiic school, in all classes, has 205
against IT'S.
M. HENRY recently exhibited to the
Biological Society of Paris photographs
of hands of the upper classes of the
Annamites, characterized by the long
finger-nails, esteemed as mark of gen.
tility. One of the photographs repre-
scented nails forty to fifty centimetres in
length (fifteen TO twenty inches) and
very curiously carved IN fantastic pat
terms, like some of the claws depicted
in ancient Examinations. Notwith-
standing their length theoe nails were
not hypertrophied-that is, not aug
mented in bulk from increase Of nutri-
ton.
A Good Suggestion.
A saving woman at the head of the