Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-22
All Sorts.

All Sorts.
Two HUNDRED and fifty papers died
last year. Isl
TEN newspapers have been discon-
tinued in Iowa since the first of No
vember.
THE new edition of the Encyclopedias
Britannica, now in course of preparation,
will, it is said, cost the publishers
81 ,000, 900. ~ }l Il lt-t
THE cost of the London underground
railway for building and equipment was
f1, 600, 900 per mile, or ESQ, 600, 900 for
The entire work.
"HE was a good man." says an Iowa
paper of deceased citizen, "but then
he sometimes bet on the wrong horse,
the same as the rest of us"
THE London Times Estimates that
IA, OOO, 900 bushels of wheat will be re-
quired from this country to supply the
markets of Europe until the crop of
1874 is harvested.
GEN. G. p. STONE and Gen. w. w.
Loring, American officers in the service
of the Khedive of Egypt, have each been
advanced to the grade of Major General
in the Egyptian army.
SHR-BULDNa is becoming an i'm
important interest of the Pacific coast.
Twenty-Five sea-going vessels, with a
total capacity of 5000 tons, have been
built at Coos Bay, Oregon.
TREASURER SPINNER still keeps as a
relic the torn and blood stained play bill
with which Laura Keene attempted to
staunch the wound of President Lin
coin, in his box at Ford's theater, on the
night of the assassination.
THE late Prof. Agassiz was never in
jured by the bite of snake, or the
poison of any venomous reptile, herb or
| fower-a fact attributed to the courage
and impunity with which the naturalists
moved among them in their wild state.
FULL boards have long been regarded
as defense against bronchitis and sore
throat, and it is asserted that the sap
pers and miners of the French army,
who are noted for the size and beauty
of their boards enjoy special i'm
munity from affections of this nature.
j, A MILL has been recently started in
England in which -four is made by
crushing the grain by small trip-ham-
mers instead of grinding it. 1t is
claimed that a pounding mill, costing
81 900, will produce as much flour in the
same time as grinding mill worth
1000.
ALEXIS has besought his father not to
send him around the world again. The
stern old Gar consents on condition
that he will break with the girl of his
affection. She's beautiful, heightened,
amiable creature, but there appears to
be something the matter with her
"blood."
PRINCE BISMARCK, (Gatignani says)
desiring to have his own tongue adopt
ed as the common language of diplo-
macy, recently sent a note in German to
Prince Gortschakoff, who, much to the
German Chancellor's annoyance, re-
piled in Russian, language which he
does not understand.
THE late John Hopkins, of Baltimore,
was one of the prominent business men
Vi budt Guy, dnu LILO WCdAtA W 40 CooAAkAo-
ted at So, ZOO, 900. He is chiefly re-
membered, however, for his munifcence
toward the city. He had given 81, 0O0,-
600 to found a hospital, and 50, 900, 600
for university, and had presented the
city park.
AT a church fair device in Troy a
ragged colored man and woman entered
the crowded rooms and pleaded for
aims. They said they were starving,
and their plight touched the hearts and
wallets of the crowd After c necting a
good sum of money, the colored couple
wiped the burnt cork from their faces,
and two of the pillars of the church were
revealed.
THE Wisconsin Lumbeyman estimates
the grand total of the pine stumpage Of
Wisconsin at the enormous amount of
4O, QUO, 600, 900 feet. Pine grows in the
forests with wonderful rapidity, and, if
the above figures are not exaggerated,
there is likely to be as much pine cut in
the State forty years hence as during
any of the recent years. The supply is
practically inexhaustible.