Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-16
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b"Oht -tuICC years.
LIvINGsToNE's remains will repose In
Westminster Abbey.
TINS is the thirty-seventh year of the
reign of Queen Victoria.
SKIN diseases are now successfully
treated by electricity alone.
GENEVA, Switzerland, purposes hav-
ing an international exhibition next
year.
THE area of the British Empire is
about one-third of the surface of the
globe.
RocHEFoRT proposes when he gets
his pardon to come to America and start
a daily paper.
A PITTSBURGH woman says that 200
reporters souls can dance upon the
point of needle.
FILL glass tubes with fine dry sand,
close at both ends, and they will bend
easily after heating.
A HoBoKEN editor, being challenged
sent word in reply: "When 1 want to
die 1 can shoot myself.
The manufacture of wrapping paper
from rice straw is now successfully
carried on at new factory In Savannah.
GEORGE w. CHILDs claims to be the
richest editor In the country, and to
have money enough to back his asser-
ton.
A MAN was lately sentenced in Lon
don (Eng.) police court to six months
imprisonment for skinning two cats
alive.
THE Scientific american predicts that
the time will soon come when ice will
be manufactured in all our great cities
at 81 ton.
IT is estimated that the State of Mich
| igan now contains 80, 900, 900, 900 feet of
pine lumber, and that at the present
rate of taking it off it will last about 20
years.
THE gross receipts from the British
railways have increased from $40, 000.-
600 in 1853, to 1856, 600, 900 in 1872,
having more than doubled in fourteen
years.
EXPERIMENTS are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain
whether steel tubes can profitably re.
place those of copper and brass in loco.
motives.
A RAPID drying ink is made by tritu-
rating carmine with some solution OF
water-glass In a porcelain mortar and
diluting with water-glass solution until
it flows readily.
WHY California does not grow faster
Two men own nearly 3,000,0 900 acres Of
land in San Joaquin valley the traveller
may ride forty-fve miles in a line upor
it, and may follow fence around a sin
gle pasture for sixty-fve miles; while
one other man monopolizes 350,00l
acres.
THE New York Times predicts tina
within ten years Chicago will have
worse fire than two years ago. "Sht
is not careful enough with her fire lin
it's ana lumber piles"
THE French writer, Jules Verne, il
his last book, makes a railway train
on its way to California while TIVE
men fight a duel and this same train
when it is discovered that a railwa,
bridge has been carried away, merel,
backs few miles, and putting on full
head of steam, leaps the chasm.
IRON Notifications are to be used TO
the defense of German strongholds, tn
experiments made during the past ST
! years haying proved them to be almos
, impregnable. These defenses will con
sist mainly of drilled cast-iron gun
l stands and iron-clad revolving turrets
and, it is claimed, will make the lam
and sea Notifications of Germany supe
rior to those of any other State.
! WORTH, the man milliner of Piris, j
: native of Lincolnshire, England. Hi
father was a lawyer, but became re
duced, and his children had to shift TO
themselves. Charles Frederick WENT
Paris and learned to make dresses. 81
married one of the.young women of th
establishment, and together they hav
! gradually developed the most celebrate
l toilet mandatory in the world. The
employ 1000 work people.
a THE latest thing in dolls is youn
: lady of tinted wax, who, when woun
up and given high chair at the table
r reaches out her arms, seizes bit {
e bread, and slowly puts it in her mouth
o When she has done this certain nun
n Der of times it's necessary to open ht
t back, remove the food, and wind her u
e again. Would that human beings coul
, be relieved of indigestion in the SAN
y manner.
@ The Temperance Crusade.
o It is curious to notice the differel