Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-28
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ing "a ounces apiece.
JOHN Doc petitioned the Massachu-
sets Legislature to change his name,
and they made it John Kerr, and he was
happy.
An Ohio bridegroom showed his con-
tempt for paper currency by Smelling
out peck of beans as his fee to the
minister.
THERE were 1854 patents issued last
year and though many of them were
worthless, and many of minor value, the
aggregate benefit is incalculable.
The number of church edifces in this
country in 1870 was 1852, against 49,
061 in 1850, which is an increase of
about rs per cent. in twenty years.
THE oil regions have over 1890 pro-
ducing wells which gurgle forth about
"a, 900 barrels of oleaginousness daily.
OF this production Europe consumes
about 10000 barrels, and the rest of it
we absorb at home.
THE Chicago Tribune denies that the
hotel business is overdone in Chicago.
There are accommodations for only 107
more transient visitors than before the
fire, and none of the keepers complain
of deserted chambers.
In Chicago they give the inmates Of
the Poor-House only two meals per day,
consisting chiefly of tea and turnips.
Can any one imagine more effective
way of popularizing honest labor and
rendering pauperlsm odiOus
THERE are 430 oranges in Wisconsin,
with membership of 1880. They
have formed 10 local fire insurance COM
panies, which are in successful and
satisfactory operation-the rate of in
surance being from to mills ON the
dollar.
THE brains of people advanced in
years would be greatly strengthened by
habits of study. Old people should
have their lessons, their mental culture,
like children. 1t would be almost a
cure for the decay of the mind as age
advances.
DUN's Commercial Agency reports
that in 1870 we had 3, 551 failures among
our business men, involving SSS, 242, :
600; in 1871, 1915 failures worth $780,
252, 600 in 1872, 4,049 failures costing
S121, 056, 600; and in 1873, 5.l03 fail
ures at an expense of S22S, 499, 900.
THE following anecdote was told by a
preacher for fact A preacher was
praying, ..and in his prayer said, CT
pray the Lord to curtail the power of
the Devil" Just then an old darkey in
the congregation cried F.: Yes, amen
Bres God /! Cut him right smack,
smoove off.
THE Pathological Society of AIichi-
gan emphasizes what should be a
familiar fact-that in high ATTITUDES
snow protects vegetation from destruc-
ton by frost, serving nature literally as
an ermine cloak, without which the cold
must reach vital centers and deal ire
trievable destruction.
AN invention has been made and
patented to arrange all wagons, buggies,
carriages, ETC., in such a manner that,
by the pressure of the foot, the horses
can be unhitched from the carriage and
the wheels stopped. Every vehicle
drawn by animals ought to be con-
structed on this method.
AMONG the hosts of minute forms of
life inhaled into the lungs in the atmos-
phere we breathe are certain micro
scopical creatures which become the
living fish of our blood !; but as it takes
Is, ZOO, 900 of these to make the bulk of
grain we need not be much alarmed
at the piscatOrial visitation.
A SUPPOSED Prussian spy was recently
arrested in Lyons, drawing a plan of
the new Notifications. He said he was
native of Posen, travelling for health
and sketching interesting scenes as a
pastime. The French have had too
much of this sketching, and requested
the artist to draw his sled. which he
did, straightway.
THERE is nothing so tends to shorten
the lives of old people and injure their
health, as the practice of sitting up late,
particularly winter evenings. This is
especially the case where there is a
grown-up daughter in the family. We
publish this item at the earnest request
of several young men, who are directly
interested in this matter.
A MILLINER and hair-dresser in Texas
has hanging in her window the scalp of
a young Indian squaw, with long black
hair pendant. Anything to draw custom.
There is a man in Central, Col, who
matches this by keeping an Indian
chiefs scalp hung up where he can
pound it with q club whenever he feels
lily toward the race, which is about
three times day on an average.
THE greatest bell in the world, the
emperor William Bell" destined for
the Cologne Cathedral, has just been
finished. 1t weighs about $4,000
pounds, is Is feet high, and IA feet
wide. The first molding of the bell
proved failure, AID considerable diff
Guilty has yet to be overcome in trans
porting the immense mass from Frank
enthal, where it was cast, to the top OF
the tower of the Cologne Cathedral.
An AShantee Bull.
The most curious relic of the Asian.