Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-09
ALI Sorts.

ALI Sorts.
MANY man with means is a mean
man.
To find how hollow the world is join
choir.
CURIOUS remark of little three-year.
old, down East "There's two things
l do 'splse-Sunday and dying"
STRICKEN down in the prime of life, -
is what Mississippi paper has to say
on the death of man of eighty.
READING new fairy stories to the con-
victs in the Massachusetts State prison
is the latest prison discipline agony.
Rain, as described by an Iowa news
paper ''The bottom dropped out of
the ethereal water-tank this morning.
MANY readers will be surprised to
learn, what sexagenarians can still re-
member, that the cooperative move
ment was far more fervid forty years
ago than it is now.
FROM one grain of muscle taken from
a diseased person In Flint, Mich, who
had died of trichina spiralis. 102 tri-
chime were taken, looking like snakes
under 2O0-power lens.
In New Hampshire there are sixty
four savings banks, having 92,7SS de-
positors. The aggregate amount of de-
posts is now S2S, $40, 376.73, being an
increase of 1868, S35. SIS the past year.
THE present Pope is the 257th Bishop
of Rome in succession, from st. Peter.
He is now in his SD year, in the 55th
of his priesthood, In the 47th of his
episcopate, and the 2Sth of his pontif-
cate.
Mr.. BEECHER has discovered a rene
dy for somnolency In church. 1t con-
sists of sitting down at home, in rock
] ing-cbair, about the time the
second bell rings, and taking out nap
there.
A DAVENPORT newspaper speaks of a
doctor in that city "looking with a
deep-meaning smile upon large lot of
| green cucumbers in the Market" On
his way home he was observed to whis-
per confidentially to several undertake
ers.
DAVID MARTIN, who took little boy,
loaded his pantaloons with brickbats,
and threw him into Cape Fear river,
punching him with pole until he was
drowned, is only II years old, and under
sentence of death in New Hanover coun-
ty, n. G.
THE editor of the New Albany CInd.
Ledger Indignantly says: "Of all
maudlin fools with which this world is
afflicted, deliver us from those who crit
icise the fact that man puts his food
into his mouth with his knife" How
is it about using fingers instead of 6
handkerchief We should really like
to have the gentleman's opinion.
IT seems that Mrs. Feenix, who in
duced the Russian Grand Duke to stea
his mothers diamonds, and who nov
has them in her possession in Paris, j.
quite safe from arrest, under the French
law, which rules that child cannot rol
his parents. The Grand Duke, there
fore, not having committed crime il
the eyes of the French law, his &C
complete is prinaa facie to be held in
nOcent.
A CHINESE shipbuilder conceived tn,
idea of constructing a vessel who's
paddle-wheels should be revolved wa
ter-wheel fashion, by water let down OF
them from above. The water was to b
pumped up into tanks by apparatus at
tached to the wheels. An expensive
craft was built at Canton upon thi
plan, and the inventor was really SUI
prised and panied when it wouldn't go
An insurance case was recentl
) tried in the Court of the Queens Bench
England, wherein payment was dis
puted of a policy upon the life of
woman, on the plea that the man t
, whom it was made payable had no in
surable interest in her life. The claim
, ant averred that the deceased was hi
| betrothed wife. and this fact being es
, tablished, the court held that tn
claimant had an insurable interest i
her life, and the policy must be paid.
To THOSE who expect to go to Franc
; some day, and shiver with dread at til
prospect of having to acquire tn
, French language, it may be pleasant
t know that only $50 words of any lar
e guage need be learned to enable th
learner to make himself understoo
, with tolerable freedom. 1t is also sal
that the agricultural laborers in Ell
D gland use a vocabulary containing onl
$50 words, and find this limited nun
f Der sufficiently ample for their dali
: wants.
The valley of the Rio Grande d.
g Norte, in New Mexico, recalls the feaf
ures of the Egyptian Nile. A larg
i population is entirely dependent upo
: the river. An annual rise of tie W;
e tiers carries muddy sediment superio
/ in fertilizing properties, as was prove
s by analysis, to that of the great Afrit
e an river. While the amount of phos
d phoric acid is nearly the same, til
/. amount of potash is considerably higl
er. Thousands of acres are lying i'd
along the valley of the stream, await
ing the enterprising farmer.-Scientif
american.
o IMPROVEMENT IN DIET.-It is said ths
i the working classes in Liverpool (pel
, | l,a,>o fbronnborf bo root of Epnlop