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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24

agitation of the angel of the torch, who
appeared to behold fearful object. 1t
was third parsonage approaching.
This latter (Lambert Won MolD was
disguised as specter of darkness. As
he drew near, the light of the torch,
which CLEANED on him at intervals, gave
him q fearful appearance. He did not
appear greatly terrified, but, probably
from motives of prudence, he approach
ed In zigzaz line, as though he saw
something he did not expect-the sill
very robe of the angel glitteriIg in the
torchight, and Lambert could not ac-
count to himself for this singular cos
tune.
As the angel, whose trembling limbs
refused to support him, remained fixed
In his place, Lambert decided to make
flank movement, and accordingly he
passed around to the other end of the
tomb.
His disguise was frightful he was
muffied in an ox-hide, which was adorn-
ed with the long horns and ears his
face was blackened, and the lower part
OF 1t concealed by an immense red beard.
In his hand he carried one of those
wooden forks which are used to spread
new-mown hay. Wenceslas, who had
never lost sight of the demon, now sig
nalized himself by the greatest effort of
courage he had ever made in his life.
He suddenly advanced with the torch at
arms length before him, and the spectcr
recoiled. But the flame touched LAM
bert's great beard, and in an instant it
was in blaze. He quickly tore it off
and sprang on the angel, whose torch
fell and was extinguished.
They seized each other by the hair,
mutually astonished, perhaps, to find
each other palpable.
The corpse, who had seen all, and had
begun to question whether it was really
scene among the witches, now took
Wenceslas and Lambert for good and a
bad angel who were disputing possession
of him, and overcome by a terrible fear,
he suddenly sprang out of his tomb
with his winding sheet around him, and
took flight across the fields.
The two companions, seeing the dead
rush forth, were seized with the same
terror, and letting go of each other by
common consent, they fed as though
pursued by all the witches.
The three lovers returned to their re-
spective lodgings, utterly overcome by
what they had seen and passed through;
and the next day none of them were
able to leave their beds. To finish their
adventures, Gertrude sent word 20 them
that they must have very little esteem
for her, since, instead of fulfilling their
promises, they had run away in such a
ridiculous manner. And she married
Sigismond.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
The Nose-Its Beauty and Uses.

Although this prominent organ is a
leading feature, yet few of us care to
be led by it, except in the direction of
a good dinner. This need not prevent
us from pursuing it as a subject, show
ing wherein the Importance of the organ
is not duly estimated.
As feature of the face 1t, more than
any other, changes its character. al
though not so capable of expression as
the eyes and mouth. Its ideal beauty
varies with different races. The Afri-
cans of Sierra Leone prize the fiat nose,
and the Egyptian dotes on the verita-
bic, pure, and unadulterated pug. The
Tartar races, having very small noses,
consider them the very highest type of
beauty. The most beautiful woman in
all Tartary was considered so because
she had only two holes where the
nose ought to have been. There seems
to be no universal standard of nasal
beauty. The Romans adored the
aquiline, the Greek the straight line
the latter, coming nearest our ideal of
the beautiful, is accepted as the stand
ard in this latitude.
But there are other uses for the nose
beyond its element of beauty or the re-
verse. The sense of smell is popularity
supposed to be the only service it is
called upon to perform at least we
should Judge so from the number of
open mouths We meet sailing along the
streets.
One of the main objects of the nos
trlls is for respiratory purposes. There
Is very little doubt that air passing
through the nostrils is refined, purified,
and eliminated of all injurious gases,
injection and dust, before being per-
mitted access to the lungs. 1t is very
easy to see how habitual respiration
through the mouth is not only unnatu-
raj but productive of disease. More
especially at night we should accustom
ourselves to sleep with the mouth
closed. All the energies of the system
are then at rest, and its power of resist
ance at the lowest ebb. If the mouth
be open the enemy is allowed to enter,
and we may be sure he will fasten upon
the most delicate part of our organiza-
ton.
In recent lecture by Prof. Tyndall
he demonstrates fully the danger of
sleeping with the mouth open, prac-
tice unknown to the lower animals. He
says
eff 1 were to endeavor to bequeath
the most important motto which human
language can convey, it should be these
words
"SHUT-YOUR-MO
In transactions of life this might
have its beneficial results, as the most
friendly cautionary advice, or be re-
ceived as the grossest of insults but
where l would print and engrave tin
every nursery and on every bed-post in
the universe-its meaning would not
be mistaken, and, if obeyed. its impor-
lance would soon be realized"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
Hair Snakes.

The common belief is that these crea-
lures are a transformation of horse
hair that has remained for some time in
the water. "When a walking stick, "
says DR.. Slack, "becomes q snake, a
horse hair will become worm. As the
former miracle has not taken place since
the departure of the Israelites from
Egypt, it is safe to say that the latter
transformation has not recently been
made. A dry hair placed in water will
absorb the moisture, and from the un-
equal expansion of the exterior and in
terror layers will become contorted so,
too, would piece of two inch rope, yet
We have never heard of the latter hav-
ing been accused of possessing vitality.
The hair snake is living creature, en-
dowed with organs of locomotion and
respiration, and capable of propagating
its species. Scientifically it is known
as 'Gordius aquaticus, the generic name
being derived from the Gordian knot,
in allusion to the tangled appearance
often presented by multitude of these
animals. The specific name aquaticus
is not so appropriate, for they thrive
out of water" DIR. Slack had taken
Gordii six inches in length from the
body of a grasshopper. They have also
been found in the stomachs ofinsectivor-
Gus birds.-Turf, Field and Farm.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
Treatment Of Diphtheria.

A physician of high repute offers to
the public, through the columns of the
New York Tribune, some valuable sug-
gestiOns concerning the treatment of
this terrible malady. He says:
In every case of the disease of course
pure air, if possible, and good food,
procured. Any really good home made
soups, be they of beef, mutton, chicken,
are just as good, and often far better,
than beef tea and they may be changed
from one to the other as they pail upon
the patients taste. Good, undiluted
milk is quite as useful as soup of any
kind; and it may always be prevented
from turning sour, or making the pa
tient bilious or feverish, by the addition
of large pinch of soda to each teacup-
full of milk.
Beef tea, soup or milk should be taken
frequently, and in as large quantities as
the stomach will bear and digest with
out danger of causing disgust or nausea.
If stlmulants are required, and they
are generally wanted early and album
dainty, milk punch is the best but it
should always be made with the addition
of soda or lime water to the milk, for
the reasons above states.
If milk pinch becomes distasteful,
barley water, rice water, arrowroot, etc.,
may be used as bland vehicle for ad-
ministering stlmulants.
Then of all the remedies that long
experience lover thirty years. has proved
eminently reliable, chlorate of potash is
the best but it should be given in one
way only, and also thoroughly. 1t should
be given dry upon the tongue, pure, not
mixed with sugar, and not in solution.
By giving it in this way, it dissolves
slowly in the mouth, and gradually and
efficiently comes In contact with all the
diseased parts of the throat.
This treatment must be persisted in,
the chlorate of potash being given in
doses of two, three, five or more grains
every hour at first, until some decided
improvement commences, or for one,
two, three, or even more days, without
hesitation or faltering. Often no APP
parent improvement seems to take place
for one, two, or more days sometimes
not until nearly up to the fourth day.
But courage and perseverance will al
most certainly be rewarded with sue
cess certainly four or five times out of
six.
This treatment is considerate, but eff
fcient; the child never becomes afraid
of its physician or attendants and gen.
orally, with a little management, takes
or does all that is required of it, because
its handling is always gentle, or at least
not harsh or distressing.
If the debility be very great, muriate
tincture of iron may be required. If
the mouth be dry, glycerine may be put
into it frequently.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
The Pullman Car Abroad.

Col. Thomas w. Knox, the journal
ist, who has been travelling in Europe
for year past, writes from Berlin, on
the 10th of August, as follows:
"For the last three weeks Ihave been
knocking around with Col. Gourand in
a Pullman car, which you are doubtless
aware was taken to the continent two or
three months ago. The car has been
from Liverpool by the way of London
and Ostend to Paris, Mont Gents Tun-
mel, Turin, Florence, Rome, Naples,
Bologna, Venice, Somnering Pass,
Vienna, and Berlin, and since coming
here it has made two trips to Potsdam
and one to Frankfort-on the Main. 1.
starts tonight for st. Petersburg, by
the way of Bromberg, Koenigsberg, and
Wilma, stopping couple of days at the
frontier to adapt the trucks to the Rus
sian gauge. When it reaches st.
Petersburg it will have travelled 1000
kilometers from Ostend. So far there
has not been the slightest accident, not
even a hot box. The car attracts as
much attention as a menagerie in a
country town, and has BEN visited by
thousands of people, including Grand
Dukes, Princes, railway officials, and
all sorts of 'swells generally. All
have expressed the greatest admiration,
and several contracts are under negotia-
ton in addition to those already con-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
A Wonderful Machine.

An Eastern paper says: "a wonder
ful piece of mechanism has recently
been produced by F. Schroeder, ar
Amsterdam ieweler. It is called the
Great Mechanical City and is twenty
feet long by fifteen wide. There are
houses. castles, churches and stores in
it, just as they appear in almost any
European city. People walk and ride
about. Horses and wagons and railway
cars pass through the streets. Boats
pass up and down the river, while some
are loading and others unloading at the
docks. Mills are in motion. A foun-
tain plays in the public park and band
of musicians fills the air with melody.
There are also forts with soldiers parad-
ing about them, blacksmith shops with
artisans at work in them and pleasure
gardens with people dancing in them.
Other scenesgo to make this awonderful
structure indeed"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24

1t seems probable that vegetable mat
ter may, under favorable conditions, be
converted into coal much more rapidly
than most chemical biologists are in the
habit of assuming. AT least, curious
instance of an approach toward such
conversion within the historic period,
has been brought before the German
Geological Society. In one of the old
mines of the Upper Hartz some of the
wood originally employed as sinbering
has become SO far altered as to assume
most of the characteristics of a new lg-
mite, or brown coal. 1t appears that
certain of the levels in the ancient work
ings of this mine are filled with refuse
matter, consisting chiefly of fragments
of clay-slate, more or less saturated with
mine water, and containing here and
there fragments of the old timbering.
This wood, when in the mine, is wet,
and of leathery consistence. but on
exposure to the air it rapidly hardens
to solid substance, having most, if not
all, the characteristics of true Ignite.
1t breaks with we'll marked conchoidal
fracture, and the parts which are most
altered present the black lustrous APP
pearance characteristic of the German
"pitch GOALS" At the same time,
chemical examination of the same wood
shows that it stands actually nearer to
true coal than do some of the younger
tertiary lgnites. This instance seems,
therefore, to prove that pine wood,
when placed under highly favorable
conditions, may be converted into gen.
uine Ignite within period which, from
what we know of the history of mining
in Hartz, cannot have extended beyond
four centuries.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24

The "GREAT CLOCK OF ETERNITY. /"
"A Washington lecturer says that the
earth's orbit has been widening out fol
20, 900 years past, and will continue to
do SO for 10000 years to come. 1t will
then begin to contract, and will con-
tinue to do so for $4,000 years. The
eccentricity of Mercury has been steadi-
ly increasing for the last 100, 900 years,
but has now nearly attained it's limit.
In about 5000 years it will begin to
diminish and will continue to do so for
more than 100, 900 years. The orbits of
the planets must go on oscillating in
this manner as long as the laws of ma
ture remain unchanged, forming what a
French writer has called "Great Clocks
of Eternity, which beat ages as ours
beat seconds"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24

Mrs. FANNY BALDWIN, a poor but
respectable woman of South Carolina.
walked recently from her home in
Oconee county to the residence of her
father, near Pendleton, distance of 81
miles, earring her baby, months old,
weighing 81 pounds, in her arms. She
left home at 6 o'clock in the morning,
and reached her fathers at 5 in the
afternoon, making an average of little
over three miles an hour for eleven con-
secutive hours, over a rough and noun
famous road, with the thermometer
standing at SO all the time. Mrs. Bald
win is 26 years old, and the mother of
four children.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24

A great dim barn with the fragrant bay
Up 10 the beam with the winters hay
ana Is shrunken, siding wasp-nest gray.
mnere me cracks between run up and down.
Like me narrow lines in striped gown
ana let IN light of golden brown
!ney are bars OF bronze-they are silver snow
AS the sunshine falls OF sitting slow
1he white lakes drift on the wealth belJw
VI the clover blossoms faint with June
Ihat had heard all day his small bassoo1
AS the ground-bee played his hun-drum tune
An, what would you give to have again
Your pulse keep time with tie dancing rain.
"nen nasn.ng through q: the diamond pane
You saw the swallows rapier wings
AS they cut the air in ripples and rings
Anu laughed and talked like human things?
Mnen they drank each others health Won thoucht
Tor the creak OF the corks you surely caught
ana al day long at their cabins wrought
TIL the mud-walled homes with foreign look.
pictured street in an Aztec book
Began 10 show in each rafter'd nook?
Never again Alack and alasi
Like breath of life on the Iooking-glass.
Like eenser smoke the pictures pass.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
Money Iusk.

In shirt of check and tallowed hair
The fiddler sits in the bulrush chair
Like Moses basket stranded there
On the briAk of Father Nile.
He feels the fddles slender neck
Picks out the notes with thrum and check:
And times the tune with nod and beck,
And thinks il a weary while.
All ready, Now he gives the call,
Cries, E" Honor to the ladies ?" All
The Jolly tides of laughter fall
And ebb in happy smile.
: Begin Down comes the bow on every string
First couple join right hands and s'efn9 ="
As light rs any blue-bird's wing
String oncs and a half times round"
Whirls Mary Martin ali in blue
Calico gown and stockings new,
And tinted eyes that tell you true,
Dance all to the dancing sound.
She fits about big Moses Brown
Who holds her hands to keep her down
And thinks her hair . golden crown
And his heart turns over oncei
His cheek with Mary's breath Is vet;
1t gives q second somerset,
He means to win the maiden vet.
Alas, for the awkward Ounce.
Your stoga boot has crushed my toel'
"I'd rather dance with ons-leRged Joe,-
"You clumsy fellow," s'Pass bs'olc -
Aud the first pair dance apart.
Then a. Fovscard sar :" advance, retreat,
Like midges gay in sunbeam street
It's Money Musk by merry feet
And the Money Musk By hearth
Time quarters round your partner sri5ig!"
IS across the seti' The raifers ring,
The gir.s and boys have taken wing
And have brought their roses out!
,ris .sFsrsrard sir : y with rustic grace
All rsrsr far than" Srissg 70 place."
Than golden clouds Of old point-lace
They bring the dance about.
Then clasping hands al :" Right and feff!"
All swiftly weave the measure deft
Across the wool in loving weft
And the Money Musk is done.
oh dancers of the rustlinR husk,
Good night, sweet hearts, It's CROWN duss,
For the heavy march beguni
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
The Fails.

" Wei, Jack and Jim" said the farmer gray
" The -Four Is ont and Wen thrash to-day ~
hand Il on the granary floor,
And step Is on the threshing door
II Is not HE and it is not theirs
He went above by the Golden Stairs:
The boys are men and rhe nicknannes grown
lis James Esquire and Reverend John.
How they waltzed the portly sheaves about
AS they loosed their belts, and shook them out
In double rows on the threshIng floor
Clean as the deck of Seventy-four
And down the midst in a tawny braid
The sculptu-ed heads of the straw were laid:
III looked poor mans family bed
An, more than that, twas a carpet fair
Wherein the fails with their measured tread
should time the step of the answered prayer
Give us this day our. daily bread.n
Then the light haif-whirl and the hickory clash
With the full free swing of buckskin lash
And the trump-tramp-trump, when the bed i.
new.
In regular. dull, monot onous stroke.
And the elch-ciack-c.ick, on the floor of oak
when straw grows thin and the blows strike
through:
And the Erencb-clock tick TO the dancing feet
With the small tattoo of the driven sleet
When the bouncing kernels bright and brown
Leap lightly up IS the fails come down.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24

MONTANA is very short of women.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
The Tanning Mill.

Hang up the fails by the big barn-door!
Bring out the mill of the one-boy power,
Nothing at all but breeze in box
Clumsy and red it rattles and rocks
Sleeves 10 be shaken and hopper to feed,
Chinaman's hat turned upside down
The grain slips through at hole in the crown
Out with the chat and in with the speed,
The crank clanks round with bows quick will.
The fan flies fast till ii fills the mill
With Its breezy vanes, as the whirled leaves fly
In an open book when the gust goes by,
And the jerky jar and the zig-zag Jolt
OF the shaken sieves and the iingling bolt
And the crate of cogs and the axles clank
And ne rowlock jog of the crazy crank
And the dusty rush Of the gusty chat
The worthless wreck of the harvests raft
And never a lull, the brisk breeze blows
From the troubled grain its tattered clothes,
Til tumbled and tossed il downward goes
The rIckety route by the rackety stair,
Clean as the sand that the simeon SHOWS,
And drifts at last in a bank so fair
You knOr you have found the Answered Prayer
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
The Old Barns Tenantry.


He has a tail ike scimetsr's edge;
A marshaI's plume on his Afghan neck,
An admiral's stride on his quarter deck.
he rules the roost and he walks the bay,
With a dreadful cold and Turkish way
Two brcadsides fires with his rapid wings
This sultan proud, Of lile of kings
One cultural laugh, fourIblasss of horn,
Five rusty syllabes rouse the morn,
The Saxon lambs in their wooden tabs
Are playing school with their ., b, abs;
A. e., I, o, All the cattle spell,
TIL they make the blarent yowels tell,
And half-iaugh whinny fills the stalls
When down the rack the clover falls
dove is Waiting around his mate
Two chevrons black on his wings Of slate.
And showing of with wooiDg note
The satin shine Of his golden throat.
1t is Ovid's :. Art of Love re-told
In binding fine Of blue and geld,
All the b1xom girls that helped the boys
The nobler Helens of humber Troys-
As they stripped the husks with rustlingfold
From eight-rowed corn yellow as gold,
BY the candle-light in pumpkin bowls,
And the CLEANS that showed fantastic holes
In the quaint old lanterns tattooed tin,
From the hermit glim set up within;
By the rarer light in girlish eyes
As dark as wells, or blue as skies.
/ hear the laugh when tie ear is red,
! see the blush with the forfeit paid,
The cedar cakes with the ancient twist
The cider cup that the girls have kissed,
And see the fiddler throughsthe dusk
As he twangs the ghost OF q Money Musk"
The boys aud girls in a double row
Wait face 20 face till the magic bow
Shall whip the tune from the violin.
And the merry pulse of The feet begin.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-24
IN THE BARN.

By BENJAMIN y. TAYLOR.
The Swallows.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-29

The MINES OF CoRNUcopIA.-A.' d.
Meacham, Of Cornucopia District, ar
rived here yesterday morning. He
speaks very encouragingly of the mines
in his district. He has great faith in
them and he comes here for the purpose
of making arrangements for mill. He
desires mill Of ten stamps, for which q
spring in the immediate vicinity OF the
mines will afford an ample supply of
water. Wood is about sixteen miles
distant and will cost about Sl3 per
cord. The principle mines in the
place are the Leopard, Black Dia-
mond, Chloride, Carrie, Morning
Star and Constitution. The Chloride,
Black Diamond. Leopard and Consti-
tuition companies are at present haul
ing ores to Winnemucca for reduc-
ton. The ores pay as follows at
the Winnemucca mill; Chloride, 5000
and over per ton; Black Diamond, $525;
Leopard, $317; and Constitution, $196.
There is now on the dumps Of the several
mines named about 1900 tons of ore,
with more than as much more in sight.
The Carrie company have as yet had no
ore reduced. Their assays run from $50
to 800, though they have OF late had
ore assaying over $500 per ton. The
population OF the town Of Cornucopia
Is about 1OO-75 of whom are voters.
There are lbut three women in the town.
One of these is Mrs. Carl York, who
formerly resided in this city. Mr..
Meacham is of the opinion that the pop
ulation of the place will be doubled or
trebled by the erection Of mill.-[virg.
Enterprise, 25th.