Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-24
Current Paragraphs.

from France.
RUSSELL, of the London Times, is
now commander of the Austrian Order
of Franz Joseph.
SHARON, OF Nevada, who gave his
daughter a million for wedding gift,
has two very attractive unmarried sons.
TIE clergymen of Schenectady, n. Y,
are out In a card requesting that funer-
ais may not be held on Sunday.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas has a negro
theater. White men are not allowed to
attend, and it is rare that they want to.
SOME Ohio farmers who mixed several
kinds of wheat for seed, report an in
crease In the product of at least 25 per
cent.
THERE are now 2,02S national banks
IN this country, having an aggregate
circulation of 1851, 927, 246 in bank
notes.
BISHOP ALRMANY received wedding
fee of 5000 for performing the mar
rage ceremony of Miss Sharon at San
Francisco.
Co-cARRIAaE of the sexes is triumph
ant in England. The carriages sex
clusively for ladies" on the underground
railways in London are poorly patron
lied.
THE buffalo of our plains are emigrat-
ing at the rate of 1000, 600 per annum,
via the dead. shot line. And nothing is
being done to check this terrible loss of
the most kinSly of game.
By order of the German Crown Prin-
cess the female clerks and telegraphers
employed by the German government
were directed to set aside all extrava-
gances IN dress and toilets.
THR Titusville Herald rejoices that
petroleum is still the leading exporta-
ton from the United States. Its sales
In Europe amount tc S37, 900, 900 annu-
ally. The next greatest expectation is
that of lard, which brings about S20,-
OO0, 1000 annually.
THERE are seven girl students in the
Colby University, at Waterville, Me.
The males have protested against the
innovation, but the females behave so
well, and are so far above the aver
age of their classmates in scholarship,
that the prejudice against them is dying
out.
Quicker than the creased bolts of
heavens electric luminosity glide down
dew-wet Lombardy poplar" is the
Miners Journals description of the
way the broadsides of profanity came
from the lips of a well-dressed young
man who accidentally sat down IN the
Pottsville mud.
THE Duchess of Edinburgh was re-
Gently presented with splendid bound
copy of the Bible, in imperial quarto,
inclosed in a beautiful oaken casket
The volume was the gift of more than
eight thousand subscribers, maidens of
the United Kingdom, and was present
ed by deputation of fifteen ladies.
The Car of Russia, who is rumored
to be insane, is now in his fifty seven
year, having been born on the 29th of
April, 1918. He is known to be of
melanchoic temperament, and on
several previous occasions is reported to
have suffered from severe fits of mental
depression.
A CHARITY fair in Chicago was enliv-
ened by voting for The minister who
should receive a set of furniture offered
as prize by the managers. The con-
test was between the friends of Patton
and Swing, and toward the close there
were confusion, wraEgling and accusa-
tions of fraud. Patton won.
THERE are three cases upon the
docket of the Supreme Court of the
United States which involve the entire
Granger question In the Northwest
and which were brought to test the
constitutionality of the restrictive State
legislation against railroads. One of
these cases will probably be argued
in February. VIM. M. Evarts and E.
W. Stoughton Will represent the rail-
roads.
HENRY WARD BEECHKR preached
sermon on the Sunday amusement ques-
ton last Sunday evening. He takes
the ground that if the majority of the
people want operas and plays on Sum-
day, they should have an unbounded
right to have them; that the State
has no right to legislate in the matter,
further than to see that congregations
assembled for worship are not dis
turbed.
A WASHINGTON doctor says 81 have
known OF nundreos OF eases OF typhoid
fever being brought on by mental
trouble occasioned by an unfortunate
love affair. You take man of quiet
domestic tastes and let him once be-
come wrapped up in the society of q
loving woman. Then after this society
has become to him second nature, let
it be suddenly taken away from him
under circumstances that cloud his
mind with chagrin as well as sorrow,
and you have case of madness to
deal with beyond the power of ply
sicians. Medicines are of no avail to
them"