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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
A Classical Revival.

Curious to relate, from the conclu-
sion of several surgeons in the German
army, TIT detriment to health and even
death itself have resulted from the
practice of wearing leather shoes in wet
weather, some of the scientific societies
of the Continent have recommended the
manufacture of wooden shoes for SOL
diers, outdoor laborers, and others who
are obliged to be abroad without regard
to the elements. An experienced work
man from France was short time
since called to Germany to superintend
the manufacture of wooden shoes on an
extensive scale in the latter country.
These are represented as being light
and easy to wear, and are provided with
small cushion within the upper side,
to obviate any pressure on that part Of
the foot; they are also said to be OF
neat and pleasing appearance, black.
ened or vanished are made large
enough TO accommodate comfortable
stockings, and are furnished with leath
er straps.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
Something About the Hotel Business of
New York.


The Fifth Avenue, including stores,
rents for 5000, OOO The lessees pay
taxes, assessments and repairs-a total
of about $250,000 The average annual
profits of this house since its opening
have been about S250,00O. Twenty five
years ago the ground was offered on a
ninetynine years lease at $500 per an
mum. The lots on which this building
stands could have been bought in 1853
for $1,000 per lot. 1t accommodates
$50.
The Windsor is leased for ten years
at $125, 900 per annum, including the
whole building, which cost over 81, OO0,-
600. The land it occupies is valued at
$500, 900. This is the last great hotel
opened to the public. 1t is superb and
complete in all its appointments, and
already enjoys worldwide reputation.
1t is to-day the finest hotel in New York,
and Nine. Christine Nilsson, who makes
it her homo, and whose experience in
both hemispheres is very extensive, says,
It's the finest hotel in the world" II
accommodates 525.
The Gilsey rents for 1856, ZOO, includ-
ing stores. 1t is an admirably conducted
house on the European plan. 1t accom-
modates 200.
The st. Nicholas rental is S95, 900,
without stores. One year this house
Melted 100000 profits. 1t accommo-
dates 600.
The Metropolitan rental is S1O5, 900,
which includes several stores. 1t &C.
commodities 325.
The Hoffman rental is S74, ZOO. II
accommodates 225.
The Brunswick is kept upon the Eu.
ropean plan. The rental is SS5, 900. II
accommodates 225.
The st. James has recently passed
into the hands of Senator Jones, Of
Nevada, who is fitting it up, regardless
of cost, for one of his klnsmen, Mr.
Jones, Of the Hoffman House. It &C
commodities 225.
The Brevoort, Clarendon, Everett an6
Albemsrle are all very successful. The
proprietors, commencing in some cases
with little or no means, are now al
wealthy.
The Grand Central comes under the
head of second-class hotels its rental il
about $4,000, without stores.
The Astor rental is $4,000, without
stores. 1t accommodates 1926. Its res
taurant and bars gross receipts average
$500 daily.
There are large number of smaller
hotels in New York, we'll managed anC
generally doing well, such as the St
Cloud, Sturtevant, Coleman, etc.
Brooklyn, with its 400, 900 inhabit
ants, does not boast of single hotel
depending upon New York to supply
this demand.
Jersey City has one hotel, Taylor's
The bar receipts of this house ar,
larger than those of any other in tn,
country.
The entire hotel accommodation fo
guests in New York is about 6,000.-
NctO York World.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
The Country HOsS Jockey.

For red hot speshiality yu hav got
to hunt kreashun cluss to find an equal
to the country boss jockey.
He IL most alwuss man ov plezant
temperament and urbane manners, vain
ov hiz opinyuns, often ov more fancy
than judgment, and quick to decide.
He haz but little real afeckshun for
boss, and only luvs him for the cheat
that liz in him.
He liz alwuss reddy to trade for emmy.
thing, from yerling colt to the cavelry
boss that Gen. Washington rode at the
battle ov Brandywine.
He never knows when he gifts cheated,
and invariably behaves the last nag he
| got IL the best one he ever owned.
He IL not bothered with emmy con-
silence when it Gums to a trade, and
would lay out travelling preacher in
a swop just az quick az he would hiz
own brother, and do it without emmy
malice, but just for the honor ov the
profession.
He allwuss fully behaves he kan look
rite thru boss from top to toe, but
thare IL no one gifts cheated oftener, OF
wuss, than he duz.
Hiz cunning disarms him, and often
when he thinks he IL fairly trading biz
opponent klean out ov boss, the Other
fellow IL not only trading him out ov 9
boss, but harness into the bargain.
Thare amt village in America ov
200 voters but what haz its perennial
boss jockey, who kan be found at emmy
time at the village inn, reddy to " ode
or ever" for a whisky teddy, or swop 6
spawned peter for a wind broken, crib
biting rantee.
| 1 never knu one ov this fraternity tC
git ritch, and never knu one yet but
what fully behaved there waz more
mummy in it than in emmy Legitimate
bizzness.
l don't kno viii it IL that a man kar
swop COWS and be pious, or kan trade
oxen and be a good deakon, or ever
negoshiate dogs and be looked upon az
virteuous, but when he takes up the
hoss swop enterprise, if he kant cheat
he amt happy.
never hav seen q boss jockey yet
who waz honest from principle; Ia,
known them, once in a while, to be
honest from policy.
The man who IL simply honest from
policy needs more watching than hive
ov bees who are Citing reddy to swarm
Josh Billings.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
The Strength of Metals,

The experiments of scientists have
demonstrated the following facts re-
speeding the strength of certain mate
rials: Gold may be hammered so that
it is only one three hundred and sixty
thousandth of an inch thick. An iron
bar would support its own weight if
stretched out to length of 81 miles.
A bar of steel was once made which
would support its own weight if ex-
tended to length of 131 miles. Bunk
er Hill Monument might be built more
than mile in height without crushing
the stones at its base. When bars of
iron are stretched until they break,
those which are the strongest increase
in length less than the weaker ones.
A piece of wood having the breadth
and thick ness of three inches, and the
length of four feet, if supported at its
ends, would be bent one millionth of an
inch by weight of three pounds placed
in the center, and weight of one-tenth
of an ounce would bend it one seven
millionth of an inch.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
TRANSMISSION of Lambs Blood.

There are some interesting expert.
ments in progress now in this city in
the TRANSMISSION of lambs blood into
human blood, particularly in cases oil
chronic anemia. DR.. Settle, under di.
rection of DR.. Dawson. has made sew.
eral trials at the Good Samaritan Hos.
pital. He has also made use of the ex.
pedient outside. In one instance he
transferred eight ounces of blood from
living lamb to q man. The connec.
ton is made between the lambs neck
and the patients arm, and the blood OF
the lamb passed through short tubes
glass in the lamb and silver Ii the pa
tient-connected by a rubber tube.
Shortly alter the blood reaches the pa
tieut-say thirty minutes-it manifests
its presence in the circulation by caus.
ing severe chill. Then, as the new
blood acts upon the nerve centers in
tie brain and spine, there comes a
fever. 1t is nearly three centuries since
this was first practiced in Europe. In
this country it was never practiced
until this year. and quite recently thi:
Commercial.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

SOME days ago a desperate young
man aged five years, in Worcester,
Mass. darby solicited temporary
loan of six cents from his pa. and soon
afterwards disappeared from home. At
about the same hour an imprudent
young girl, aged also five years, of the
same city, took advantage of her mas
temporary absence to don her best DIRE IS,
pack the remainder of her attainable
wardrobe in carpet-bag, and likewise
leave the domestic hearth. The desper-
ate young man and the imprudent young
girl met at the cars and got upon the
train, for it was an elopement but
when the heartless conductor came
around for the tickets the lovers six
cents exasperated him to unmanly fury,
and the two agonized clippers were put
off the cars to make their way igno-
miniously back to home and parental
chastisement.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

THE annual report of the Chief of
Police of London shows some interest
ing statistics of that immense city. 1t
requires 1883 policemen to protect
property, life and morals. There were
73, S57 arrests made last year For as
saults, etc, 9,639; burglary, 32S; lar
ceny (serious offenses), 49S; petty lar.
ceny by servants, 1, 1879; beggars, 2, 1853;
receivers of stolen goods, 2l9; prosti-
tutes, 1856. Dogs apprehended. TO-
$50. There were 2,5l3 persons injured
in the streets, 125 were killed. Five
hundred and seventy three fires occurred
within the year. Eleven thousand and
seventy-seven public vehicles were
licensed, IA, 1876 articles were taken to
the lost property Office by honest cab
drivers. There are 800 temperance cab
drivers in London. Eight new police
stations have been opened. One hun
dred and fifty-four new streets and
squares were built, covering 26 miles
and 800 yards. Seven thousand six
hundred and eighty-nine houses were
erected, and 500 houses of ill-fame sup
pressed. There has been great de-
crease in crime and immortality, which
the report attributes to the Intoxicating
Liquors Licensing act.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
DEATH OR MARRIAGE.

The ancient clock IN Deacon Sher-
mer's old-fashioned kitchen was slowly
Ginning the hour of nine. It was no
smart toy, of the bronze or alabaster,
but tall, square, solid relic of the
last century, looking not unlike coffin
case set on end in the corner-a clock
that lasted through four generations,
and, judging from appearances, was
quite likely to last through several
more. Deacon Shermer cherished the
old heirloom with a sort of pride which
he himself would scarcely have con-
fessed TO.
There was great ruddy fire of chest
nut In the red brick fireplace and the
candles in the brightly polished brass
sticks were winking merrily from the
high wooden mantel, where they shared
the post of honor with sea-she1 and a
couple of vases, each containing a fresh
Usage from the hedge that skirted the
clover field behind the barn. At the
window curtains of gaudy chintz shut
out the tens of thousands of stars that
we're shining brightly on that autumnal
night, and on the coy rug of parti-
colored rags fat tortoise-shell cat was
not the only inhabitant of the farm
house kitchen.
Timothy" said Mary Shermer, de-
cidedly. if you don't behave yourself,
I'll"
What she would do Mary did not
say the sentence was terminated by q
laugh that set the dinples around her
mouth in motion, just as a beam of
June sunshine plays across cluster of
ripe cherries.
Mary Shermer was just seventeen
plump, rosy girl, with jet black hair.
brushed back from low forehead, and
perfectly -arched eyebrows, that gave q
bewitching expression of surprise to q
pair of melting hazel eyes. She was
rather dark; but the severest critic
would not have found fault with the
peach-Iike bloom upon her cheeks, and
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
His I" SMALLPOX

The New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal writes lone of our
railroads runs by the county buildings.
Prisoners, paupers, and the diseased
are transported often on the street cars
to save expense. This practice creates
great indignation. So far all protests
have been in vain. The other day the
conductor was collecting fares from a
crowded load. A foreign person, poorly
dressed, and with an eruptlve face,
handed up his money. In answer to
the question, Do you go through 2
which means do you go beyond the city
line, he said: Il have got de small pox
do Have you got the small pox p
said the astonished conductor. Yes,
have got de small pex do The pass
engers came to their feet; women
screamed, and the excitement was in
tense. Come, get out of this car you
can't ride here, said the official. The
unfortunate made for the front platform.
He was hustled out of the car and nearly
pitched headlong into the street. He
recovered himself, and started for the
front of the car. The driver took the
car-hook and threatened to brain him if
he got on. The poor fellow kept up
with the horses, shouting, IN go; give
me my small pox, give me my pox, give
me my pox, pointing to a small 2-foot
square chest standing on end behind
the driver. The mystery was explained.
phe honest German wanted to pay for
his small box on the car as well as his
own fare. The conductor apologized
and seat was offered to the man. But
he had had enough of thet company.
He refused all invitations to ride,
shouldered his small pox, and trudged
on foot to the Almshouse."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
How a Woman Was Deceived by Her
Husband.

The Marysville (Cal.) appeal is re-
sponsibie for the following "We
hear of case of cool headed and sys-
tematic deception which is reported to
have been perpetrated in this city a
short time ago, and which is too good to
be lost. A saving and prudent wife,
after much urging, induced her husband
to save part of his wages by depositing
$40 month with her. The arrange
ment promised to become grand finan-
cial success. Every month the faith
full husband handed over $40 to his
good wife, who carefully laid it away
in q safe place. Month after month
rolled on until the $40 pieces aggregat-
ing $1,000 had accumulated, when the
wife thought it would be wise to de.
post the same in the savings bank.
Accordingly one morning the lady I'M
earthed her pie of golden twenties and
walked down to the Marysville Savings
Bank. On entering the institution she
laid them upon the counter with much
satisfaction, congratulating herself upon
the fact that the interest on the de-
post would in few years amount to
quite sum, and one worth having in
case of misfortune and bad luck in life.
But then came the denounment. The
cashier readily discovered the peculiar
ity of the coin. The $50 pieces were
worthless limitations of the genuine
coin. The true fact in the case at once
flashed across the mind of the good
woman. Her husband had spent his wa
ges, and In order to fulfill his promise
and keep up his monthly deposits had
purchased q lot of imitation $40 pieces
known as "spiel markes." How the
matter was settled in the family, being
of domestic and private nature, we
have Dot been inquisitive enough to as
certain, and leave for all to imagine"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
A Walking Miracle.

Mr.. b. R. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-Though q stranger want 70 inform
you wh { vEGBTINE has dole for me-
Last ca istD as. Scrofula made its appearance
in my system-large Iu.n ng ulcers appearing on
me as follows: One on each o. my arms, one on my
thigh, which extended TO the sea one my
head, VIII h eat nto the skull bone one on my lett
leg, which became bad that tw. physicians
came to putate tn limb though. upon oonsuits-
too, concluded not to do So m Who'll body
30 fsll of scrofula they deemed advisable 10 cut
tn. sore, which was painful beyond eescript on,
and there was quart OF matter run from this one
sore. The physicians all gave me up to die, and
said they Guild d. no more for me. Both II my legs
we're drawn up to my seat, and IL was bought If
did get again would be a cripple for life.
VIII in this condition VEGFTIHE adver-
tired, and commenced taking 1T in March, and fol-
lowed on with 1t until had used l6 bot les, and
this morning am going TO pillow corn. we'll man.
All my townsmen saylt is miracle to see me
round walk ng and working
In conclusion will add when was enduring
such great suffering from that dreadful disease,
Scrofula, prayed he Lord above m 9
out tn world, but yEGETINE has estor to
me the blessings Of health, desire re than ever
to We, that may be OF some service TO my fellow
man, AND know of no better way to aid suffering
humanity than to incsose you tn 8 stasement Of m
case, with an earnest hope t at you will p sblIsh
it, and 1t will afford me pleasure to reply TO any
communication which1 may receive tn refrom-
am, sir, very respectfully, WILLIAN PAWN.
AVERY, Berrien Co., n ch., July 10, lS7A
VEGETINE is sold by all Druggists.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
Opportunity to Try an Organ Before
Purchasing.

Many person is half persuaded that
a Cabinet Organ would be a capital
thing for his family worth much more
than its cost. Yet they are not sure
that it would be permanently valued,
but fear that after a few months use
the family would tire of it, and so it
would prove a poor investment. The
Mason & Hsmlin Organ Co. now offer
their famous Cabinet Organs on terms
which will satisfy all such. They will
rent an organ with privilege of pur-
chase. The party hiring may try it as
long as he pleases, paying only the rent
for it while so doing. If he concludes
to purchase within year, all the rent
he has paid is allowed and deducted
from the price of the organ.
WREN people go out turkey shooting,
they should make themselves moder-
ately certain of the kind of game at
which they aim. Inconvenient conse-
quences are likely to follow mistakes,
as in the case of two men of Michigan,
Stoddart and Carver by name. After
separating, they made use of call to
attract the attention of the game. In
short time each hunter heard an answer
to his call, and each approached the
spot where the sound came from. Car
yer was the better hunter, for he KEEP
himself concealed, while at the same
time he observed dark object moving
in the bushes. He took deliberate ain
and fred. When he ran forward to Sc
cure the turkey, he found that his bull
let had perforated the head of his friend
Stoddart, who died in few minutes.
People who cannot distinguish human
beings from turkeys ought not to be
trusted with gun.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

ALEXANDRA DUMAS was invited to the
literary dinner recently given by the
Lord Mayor of London, and replied as
follows: My Lord, L thank you for
having thought OF me +; but you should
understand that cannot go to dine in
country which authorizes the litera-
ture of NJ. Vermersch and forbids
mine" Vermersch was one of the worst
of the literary Bohemians who wrote up
the Commune, and is now fugitive in
London.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

THE Marquis of Ripon, whose access
sion to Roman Catholicism is the pres
ent sensation of Europe, was born in
1927, and has been successfully Under
Secretary of State for War, Secretary of
State for War, Secretary of State for
India, and President CT the Queens
Council. His rank as q statesman is
very high, and he has many titles Of
nobility besides that of the marquisate,
to which he was raised in 1871.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

LIGHT Corn BREAD.-Four quarts of
corn meal, half a teacupful of sugar,
one saucer of -four, with yeast, and
enough warm water to mix. Bake one
hour. Do not put it to bake till light.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

PROBABLY no one disease is the cause
Of so much bodily misery and unhappiness
(and the disease is almost universal among
tho American people, as dyspepsia. Its
causes are many and various. lying chiefly in
the habits of our people. The remedy is sim
pie aud effectual. Use DIR. Wishsrt's Great
American Dyspepsia Pills. They never fail
TO cure.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
ScrOfuIa.
SCROFULOUS HUMORS.

perfect health sfter iryiHR different physicians,
I asy ,ons :, vn & iof STrs ar not CO. 10
cured? VIII, is this medicine performing such
great cures9 1t works in the blood. in the ciruu-
IatiIg fluid. 1t Truly be cal the Great
Blood Purifier The great source Of sease crig-
mates N the blooa and no mes icinst at doss not
act airsctly upon 1t, to purify and renovate, has
any id claim upon publ attention. When the
blood becomes ltfelees and stagnant, either fr
chance OF weather or climate, want Of exerciss,
irregular diet, OF nom an, other caus tn VICE.
TINE will rsnew the blood, carry on the putrid
humors, cleanse the stom reGul the DO IL,
ana impart q tone Of vigor to the whole body. he
cohvlct,on ~, IN the puonc miho as wen as IN the
thu Vegetable Kingdom are more safe, more success
fu IN the disease, than min raj medicines.
vHeBrISB is composed Of roots, banks aud herbs.
1t is pleasaat T. take, and perfectly safe 10 give
infant. In Scrof"ls the vEGErINE has per-
formed wond erfui where any 9th RENEE
dies have failed, as will be by the f,IlowIng
unsolicited testimonial:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08

AMONG the fine aSts not lost the art of
children making holes in the tees ef boots
sDd shoes. Time taken, about ten days. Sill
YER TIPS are an excellent remedy, never
known to fail.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-09-05

EAST MAUoH OHUNK-Few people
who reside in East Mauch Chunk at
the present time, are aware that where
they now dwell in peace and comfort,
was, at one time, the abode of the red
man, and where the COW and pig now
promenade, there the deer and panther
fought in deadly combat, and instead of
the merry shout and laughter of little
children, came the fierce growl of the
prowling wolf or savage panther. The
first two houses in East Mauch Chunk,
If my memory serves me right, were
erected by Mr.. VIM. DeFrehn and Mrs.
McGeady, This was prior to the declar-
alton Of Independence, and of course
cannot be relied upon with certainty.
To these two individuals, we owe our
thanks and gratitude for so noble a
town. The question is asked has East
Mauch Chunk improved any since the
erection Of these two houses, and in
what manner? We certainly will admit
that it has increased in the number of
houses, and likewise in the popula ion,
but have we become civilized commu-
nifty? The people answer unanimously,
no, and to substantiate that answer, we
have ten beer saloons, an Indian tribe,
three churches, base ball club, thirty
six protectors of street corners, besides a
certain class who give chickens ten
dency to roost high. The ground, it is
said on which East Mauch Chunk is
built, could have, at any time, been
bought for $5 an acre. This is rather a
low fgure, considering how rapidly the
town has grown to wealth and knowl-
edge. If l only had been rich at that
time, 1 certainly would have made the
purchase, and to-day l might have been
an Astor OF Rothschild. East Mauch
Chunk can also boast of a Rose that
never bloomed, a Moon that never
shone, Sheridan that never went to
war, a Sour that never was sweet, a
Sick-fr that never tasted medicine,
Bauer, but not the left bower, an
Egyptian Mummey that never was EN-.
balmed, and combined with all these
curiosities, we have three dozen pretty
girls. Morning Herald, Sept. 1st