Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04
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STREET cars in Japan.
Iowa has $4,000 Spiritualists.
KING KoFFEE has 1888 wives.
ENGLAND has 8, 423, 6S1 maids.
QUEEN EMMA weighs 300 pounds.
ENGLAND is building twenty-seven
war vessels.
Iowa boasts of dozen of newspapers
conducted by lady editors.
DENVER, Col, did business to the
amount of $15, 900, 900 last year.
INDIA rubber trees have been found
on the st. Johns river In Florida.
IT took three months balloting to
elect Charles Sumner Senator the first
time.
L., comparatively short time Texas
will be the most important producer OF
white winter wheat In the Union.
Two MILLIONS and quarter of people
have emigrated from Ireland to America
during the last twenty-five years.
FIVE hundred millions of dollars and
three millions of men are the cost and
force of Europe's standing armies.
EDWIN BOOTH is said to have made
from So, 900 to 5000 week ever since
the year began, and all by his acting.
1T takes domesticated fly a two
billionth part of second to wink, while
an industrious mosquito can do it in
one-tenth that time.
LAST year four of the twenty cities
margining the great lakes shipped 1872
1862, 1896 bushels of grain, and Montreal
more than 100000.
THE business failures in the United
States for 1872 were 4,069; total labili-
ties, $121 ,056, 900. For 1874, 5,1S3 !;
total liabilities, S22S, 499, ZOO.
A NEW YORK firm have in their store
piece of lace five yards long, worth
81 200 yard, which man could crowd
into his watch fob or pocketbook.
A CINCINNATI professor has demon
strated that man feels just as satisfied
after lunching on raw turnip alone as
if he had Toasted at kings table.
THE press law of Japan prohibits
newspapers from discussing the laws,
attacking the Government, or publish
ing any articles of an evil tendency.
The penalties vary from the chain-gang
to being burned alive.
A PORTION, consisting of 10, 900 copies,
of recent issue of the Dundee Aduer-
tiser was printed on paper manufact-
ured from reeds grown on the banks of
the Tay. The paper is said to closely
resemble that made from jute. As far
as the experiment has been tried, it is
said to be satisfactory.
SIR HENRY THOMSON, the great advo-
cate of cremation, is to take a pleasure
tour through the United States. Gre
nation innovations will be in order.
All cities visited are to furnish, from
among the number now so anxious to
organize societies, two or three persons
that are willing to demonstrate the prac-
tical utility OF the cheap funeral process
by meekly permitting their bodies to
be reduced to ashes.
The Canadian inland revenue report
gives us some interesting figures about
the amount of intoxicating liquors con-
sumed by our neighbors on the other
side of the linz In appears that the
quantity of gallons of proof spirits
manufactured during 1873 was 5,547,
SIT, and though the quantity entered
for use was 90,5 gallons less than
during 1872, still it amounted to 4, $780,
027, or considerably more than gallon
of proof spirits for every man, woman
and child in the Dominion.
HERE is a hint to railway officers
The conductor of cars in Constantinople
gives to every passenger prize ticket,
bearing a number, which is recorded on
the company's books. A drawing takes
place monthly, the company having
provided certain number of prizes.
The hope of drawing prize makes the
passenger anxious to send in his ticket,
and if the returns of the conductor are
not equal to the number of returned
tickets, his dishonesty is easily detected,
and he is at once discharged.
THE United States Postofice Depart
ment announces that articles of agree
ment providing for an exchange of
postal cards between this country and
Switzerland have been concluded, and
are now in effect. The postage on
postal cards sent from the United States
and addressed to Switzerland has beer
fixed at cents each, prepayment to BIZ
made by afixing thereto an ordinary
cent. United States postage-stamp il
addition to the stamp printed or i'm
pressed on the card.
An individual aged about 80 years
whose name it is not worth while Il