Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-14
ALI Sorts.

MILWAUKEE made 100000 cigars
last year.
A NEBRASKA farmer has whole town.
ship for plantation.
SOUTH CAROLINA has twenty-one de-
faulting county treasurers.
HARPER's MAGAZINE is offered 100 ar
ticles week. Less than ten are &C.
cepted.
DAKOTA has been doing sums.
and finds that she has only three
eighths of white man to an acre of
land.
DURING last year $1O,6O6,173 worth
of potatoes were imported into Great
Britain; the year before 1927, 300
worth.
THE poor boy living in Ohio, who
looked up so honestly in his grandma s
face just as her snuff-box spilled, says
he hates everything now since his eyes
have been opened to things.
THE lady who has been married eight
times, has eight living husbands, and
resides with none of them, and whose
daughter, aged % years, has had three
husbands-this lady is the ornament
of Douglas County, Oregon.
PHYSICIANS tell us that the habit of
running upstairs is apt to produce
heart disease. To avoid this therefore
you should never go up stairs in the
ordinary way. Lie down on your stom-
IN nd or xul 60
THE most thoroughly burned-out-of-
bouse-and-home man in the United
States is Charles Williams, of Portland,
Me. Seven times during the past year
has his residence been consumed. He
now proposes to build raft and live on
a pond.
The anvil for the thirty-tOn steam
hammer, to be erected at the Woolwich
Arsenal, England, will weigh 60 tons,
the anvil-block weighs 103 tons, and
took six months to cool. Altogether,
$50 tons of iron will be used in the
foundation work.
A MASSACHUSETTS farmer owns a
Kentucky bred mule that has within
the last thirty days kicked in seven
teen barn doors, unroofed a dozen
chicken-coops, and trampled the life
out of four favorite pigs. "Ben But
Ter " is his name.
CALIFORNIA will this year produce 49,
100000 gallons of wine, 100000
pounds of grapes for table use, and
$50, 900 pounds of raisins, besides the
brandy, of which there are no statis-
tics. Forty thousand acres are in vine
yards, and the area is constantly in
creasing.
THERE are 5000, 900, COO people on the
earth, and they speak 3,063 known Ian
guages. The average duration of life
is 80! years. One-fourth of those born.
die before they are at the age of seven
teen. Out of one hundred persons only
six reach the age of sixty. Out of five
hundred persons only one attains the
age of eighty.
THE "Gilded Age" which bears the
names of Mark Twain and Charles Dud-
ley Warner, is confidently asserted to be
gigantic practical joke. 1t is said
that, wishing to test the credulity of
the public, these two authors had the
book prepared by several obscure news
paper local reporters. The covenant
was solemnly made that the joke was to
be kept. a profound secret till 10000
copies of the work were sold.
THE New York World sums up =
&C. In all drunkard, cheaply fed and
clothed, with only education enough to
dig, is loss and cost to the society
which rears, educates, and destroys
him, that may be told as follows: The
original investment, $1,000; the loss of
labor for lifetime, So, 1916; the loss of
labor by early death, $40, 556; total,
S37, 56S if he becomes felon at thirty,
S37,932.
A YOUNG man who was married in De-
troit six months ago has Joined in the
discussion of the question of family
economy. His little contribution is far
from satisfactory. 81 do not" he
says, understand how it is. 1 used
to figure it out, as 1 sat with my arm
round her waist Saturday nights, and
all it would then cost to live would be
s2.95 week, and now I spend SIS, and
am hungry half the time"
A GENTLEMAN writes to a Boston
newspaper that he knows by personal
experience that an abIe-bodied man so
years old, and in active business, can
live on II cents day. In two weeks he
consumed milk, rs cents dry crackers,
30 cents eggs, II cents i; coffee, 10
cents; butter, cents; salt, cent
grand total, S1.14. Weight of Winni-
piseogee atthe beginning, AS! pounds ;
weight at the end of the IA days, 1861
net gain, one pound and half. Oc-
cupation, 10 hours day in the Office
and hours in the garden.