Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-12
Current Paragraphs.
NEW YORK has 1900 policemen.

HOoohN IrlsOn CONTAINS Il, l9S con
victs. -------------1'~~
HE average car horse endures fou
years.
ENGLAND has a surplus of 800. 0Ot
women.
FoREsTvnLE, Conn, turns out l .OOt
clocks daily.
HE school population of Kansas ha.
doubled in five years.
In 1873 the population of Austria. ex
elusive of Hungary, was 1870, 900.
In st. Peter, Mimi, is a pig only ST,
months old and weighing 27O pounds.
INSCRIPTION on fence in Hardwicb
Mo-: "Nobuddy hich bosses 2 this
fens."
A WONDERFUL chicken in Bowling
Green, Ky, has coat of red hair in.
stead of feathers.
THERE is musician in Cincinnati
who plays simultaneously Cor nearly sol
upon sixteen drums.
A SEVEN YEAR-oLD boy is awaiting
trial at New York for stabbing a play.
mate OF 10, who called him names.
The drought has been unprecedented
along the Rio Grande the past year Tn
many places it has not rained for over
year.
PATTI receives higher pay in London
than Nilsson; the former getting two
hundred guineas a night and the latter
two hundred pounds.
HE King of the Friendly Islands is
licensed Methodist preacher. and his
wife. Queen Charlotte, a class-leader of
the same denomination.
EACH thing lives according TO its
kind; the heart by love, the intellect
by truth, the higher nature of man by
intimate communion with God.
BENDIGo, formerly noted pugilist.
is now Methodist preacher, devoting
his time to the spiritual interests of the
lower classes of Great Britain.
THE "Army of the James," at its re-
cent reunion, refused to Join in the
movement to secure the re-opening of
the case OF Gen. Fitzjohn Porter.
CHICAGO has figured up her fruit
trade and finds that it amounts to a
daily total of about S62, 900, or over
81 600, 900 for the six months season.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH has introduced
at Cornell University one of Oxford's
genial customs, that of inviting the
senior class TO dine with him at the
close of his lectures.
A LITTLE girl in Paris who was play
ing with toy balloon drew in her
breath while initiating it, and the col
lapsed balloon went down her throat
and choked her to death.
THE explosive force O. the "fire
damp" which is the cause of so many
accidents in coal mines, has been calcn-
lated TO be equal to 146.6 atmospheres,
or more than 1000 pounds to the inch. |
ACCORDING to an official report, there |
were no less than 433, 295 cases of chol- |
era in Hungary last year. Of this |
number 237, us recovered, 49,, $40 died,
and the remainder were under treat |
ment. The deaths were therefore about |
II per cent.
THE statistical editor Of the Times.
Grand Island, Neb., says $4,000, OOO,-
200, 900, 600, 900, 600, coo, 600, 900, 600, OCO
at least, passed over here
There might have been
ew more or less, as we did not count
hem very closely.
A FRENCH writer declares that Tur-
1ey is In a much better financial con-
lition than France. The expenditures
re less per head than those of France.
he taxes 20 francs per head, against So
n France, and the debt liza francs per
apita, against $40 in France.
EVEN as the New York Tribune is to
onor its founder by a full-igured
olossal statue at the doorway of its
ew building, so the Louisville Journal '
S to honor the man who made it
amous with q statue of George d.
'rentice at the portals of its recon-
tructed domicile.
A MILK adulterer was lately arrested
4 Sheffield, Eng, and during his exam ]
lation admitted that he carried in his
art can of milk and can of water,
nd mixed the liquids according as cir :
instances favored the adulteration.
. chalk was found in the milk can, T
nd he was discharged with repri-
and.
A WONDERFUL clock has been in
snted by a German ieweler living in
orwich, Conn. The whole discern
lie mechanism is transparent dial
ate and pair of black walnut hands. 3
he latter turn loosely on pivot, and +
whirled in different directions will VI
readiust themselves to the
,act time.
Our English visitor, Mr.. Forster, 8
Ids himself surprised at the early R
art our democracy takes, as shown in B
e public schools. He can't yet COM . o
ehend it nor conceive it practicable p
at son of his could sit beside q son L
a coachman, and both graduate to-
ther through all the stages, from the "
imary school to the university. ~
AN interesting statement is made of b
g number of Protestant divinity e
1dents in old Prussia the past twenty H
ree-years. In 1851 there were GOA, G.
lich number had increased to ], 180 in
81. From this time forward the num- W
r has steadily diminished till If ia nou =