Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-19
All Sorts.

OHIO has 2, 100 miles more railroad
than Massachusetts.
PoTAToEs are worth more than wheat
in Kansas and Iowa.
THE ex-King of Naples, now at Paris,
lives in very humble way.
THE annual income of Trinity Church,
New York, is about $500, 900.
Do LEWIS says that high living is the
foundation of every cemetery.
WHIrrIER's head and eyes are out of
order, and he must quit work.
DIR. FRANKLIN proposed the turkey as
the national emblem of America.
QUEEN VICTORIA is gradually recover
ing from the grief of her widowhood.
tbs country has sown a terrible
amount of wild oats since its father
died.
For an English sixpence and hand
full of powder one can buy a wife in
Ashantee.
SHORTLY before his death, Chief JUS
tice Chase spoke of Mr.. Waite as the
ablest lawyer at the Ohio bar.
Mr.. GEORGE KNoRR has been marine
editor of the Philadelphia North Anaeri-
can for 60 years. He is now in his 81st
year.
A KENTUCKIAN has cured himself of
consumption of the lungs by the con-
sumption of a spoonful of kerosene
daily.
HAMMOND asked an African at st.
Louis if he had found the Lord.
"Golly," said Sambo, Sam de Lord
lost?"
THE execution of Evans, the other
day, was the eleventh in which New
Hampshire has INDUCED herself during
134 years.
A MEDICAL correspondent of an En-
glish journal says that rheumatism and
govt can be cured by the free use of
asparagus.
A NEGRO by the name of Montgomery
"a former slave belonging to Jefferson
Davis-is said to be the richest planter
In Mississippi.
THE Adams Express Company received
last year $3.50, 600 for carrying money
for the Government between New York
and Washington.
THs Governor of Maine recently sent
to the Legislature of that State the first
veto for fifteen years. Both houses
sustained the objection.
A WESTERN enthusiast exclaims: "Id
rather be doorkeeper in the hall of
the Changers than to shovel sugar in
the stores of the middlemen."
HoT alum water is a recent sugges-
ton as an insecticide. 1t will destroy
red and black ants, cockroaches, spiders,
chintz bugs, and all crawling pests.
A CLINTON COUNTY, Iowa, saloon
keeper has been ordered by the courts
to pay So, $50 to the wife of one of his
customer. He has decided to quit the
business without the aid of the women 8
prayers.
The total production of wool in this
country last year was ia, 000, 900 pounds,
against 100, 900, 900 for 1872, and 146,
600, 900 for 1871. The trade in foreign
wool showed decrease, the importa-
tons being AZ, 776, 1856 pounds, against
9S, 3O6, 5S1 for 1872.
A PENNSYLVANIA groomsman, after
wishing the bride many happy returns
of the day, presented her with broom,
on which was inscribed the following /:
This trifing gift accept of me,
Its use / would commend;
In sunshine use the brushy part,
In storms-the other end.
THE son of Sir Digby Neave, of En-
gland, heir to estates In England worth
800. 600 year, was lately murdered In
the Wet Mountain Valley, at Colorado.
Not long ago one of bis brothers was
killed by bear. another by tiger, and
another fell In the Indian mutiAy.
NEVER have / seen any traditional
type of nationality as strongly marked
on its own soil as is found in America.
There are more Greek heads in the
United States than in Greece. The
purest classical profile known to me is
that of a New England woman. Mix.
ture of races seems to produce the char
acteristics of all.-Kdte Field.
In. 1S4S the debts of the civilized
world amounted SO, 800, 900, 900. Now
they amount to s24, 600, 900, 900. En-
gland, France, the United States, Rus
STA, Austria, Italy, and Spain own up to
two-thirds. The remaining third is
shared by Turkey, Egypt, Portugal,
Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. England and
Denmark pay 81 per cent; France and
the United States o6. Greece is said
to pay 33 per cent, and Honduras 66.
THE peat beds near Morrison, ILL.,,
comprise 1000 acres. The peat ranges
from five to City feet in depth. Ar
rangements are now being made to turn
out two and half tons of pressed peat
an hour, worth So. so per ton. A ton of
it is said to be worth more than a ton
of coal. Extensive peat beds have also
been discovered in Southern Minnesota,
and large quantities will be taken out
the coming season.
Chief-Justices.
The following is list of the Chief