Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-01
All Sorts.
CONNECTICUT can't sell all the clocks
she makes at present.

CONNECTICUT can't sell all the clocks
she makes at present.
KNOWLEDGE and timber shouldn't be
much used till they are seasoned.
In Brooklyn 256 church spires point
solemnly to the place of final judg
ment.
There has recently been an advance
of 20 per cent on railway fares in Ger
many.
SOME money. The railway system of
the United States represents a capital
of IS. 800, 100000.
SAVANNAH, in the matter of the cash
value of her exports, rates the fourth
city in this country.
1t is asserted that if the comet had
hit Chicago 1,106 divorces would have
been nipped in the bud.
THE best tailors in Paris are said to
be Englishmen, and the best milliners
in London are from Paris.
IT takes 373, 959 cars and Il, 939 loco
motive engines to run the railroads In
the United States and Canada.
THE furniture in Northumberland
House, London, which is being torn
down, was valued at S1,590,000.
In Missouri, after the first day of
January, 1876, every person, in order to
become voter, must be able to read
and write.
NEVER be angry with your neighbor
because his religious views differ from
yours, for all the branches of tree do
not lean the same way.
BAYARD TAYLOR and other distin-
guished persons were obliged, by Brit
ish red-tape, to register as regular sea-
men when they went on the Albion to
Iceland.
A BOY in Hudson, n. Y, while dig
cling for fish-worms, day or two ago,
unearthed his grandfather's jack knife,
which had lain in the ground over
eighty years.
SEVERAL bandits who were recently
captured in the mountains of Santa
Ana, Nicaragua. received 200 lashes
each, band of music being employed
to drown their cries.
A SUMMERvILLE, Oregon. astrono
mer announces for the benefit of those
that did not get a chance to see the
comet during its recent visit to the
earth, that it will appear again in
2157 A. d.
JAPAN has many mines now open and
being worked, in primitive way, but
much new machinery has been recently
ordered. A native report gives the
following as now being operated: Gold
mines, 50; silver, us; copper, 800
iron, 90; tin 6; lead, 81; plumbago,
8; coal. 412; kerosene oil, 49, sui.
phur, II; alum, 5.
RECENTLY published statistics show
that 100000 Germans, for the most
part natives of Prussia, have embarked
from Hamburg and Bremen during the
last five years. The whole country is
up in arms to put stop to this whole,
| sale exodus. Laborers, particularly
agricultural laborers are getting to be
too few to supply the demand. A dis
inclination of many of the young me-
of Germany to serve in the Germal
army has not q little to do with theil
leaving the country.
THERE are 5,671,00 smokers in
France, and their average consump
ton is IL lbs. OF. of tobacco each
yearly. Out of 10, 8 smoke pipes, {
cigars, and two cigarettes. The
total number of cigarettes consumed
is estimated at 2O4 milliards a year
or sos, 100000 per day, $4,000, 00C
per hour, $685. per minute, and
8, 1923 per second +; put end to end, they
would give length of 2,057, $3.50 kilo-
metres, or 1875, 916 miles, which is
about 514 times the circumference OF
the earth.
A YOUNG man, either crazy or wild,
was recently captured In Tennessee.
He is somewhere between twenty and
thirty years old. He has some hair on
his face. When seized he was much
exhausted, and was going through all
the maneuvers of tired dog, painting,
shaking his sides, and lolling or drop
ping out his tongue to its full length,
and letting it hang out. At times he
would go through the most remarkable
grimaces and distortions of face and
body. His captors succeeded in get
ting pair of pantaloons on him. He
talked a little. but in very uncouth
style.