Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-27
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THE ore richest in iron is the mag
netic or black oxide.
The Boston Globe wants Weston tc
walk against buzz-saw.
THE fat women are beginning to come,
in battalions, to Long Branch.
A NEVADA girl drowned herself be-
cause she was sprouting mustache.
The submarine cable between Con.
stantinople and Odessa has been laid.
A scHooLBoY defines flea, "FleG, flow,
fed-when you put your hand on it.
An iceberg two miles square and 400
feet high is reported east of the Grand
bank, with hosts of smaller ones.
A RATTLEsNAKE ten feet or more in
length and as thick as mans arm has
been seen near Frenchtown, Cal.
FIFTY dollars more has been sub
scribed to the Washington Monument,
and another stone will soon be laid.
A POLITE yoSng man at Cape May
lifted his hat to couple of young ladies
and spilled out a well-worn pack of
cards.
AN incorrigible jester says that the
ashes ofthe bogus Lord Gordon Will never
have any rest until the I've is thoroughly
extracted from them.
SINCE 1862 there have been built at
Bangor, Me-, fourteen ships, seven barks,
one barkentine, twenty-five briggs, and
forty -nine schooners.
FEMALE convicts are made to blast
and pound rocks in St Louis. The
rights of woman are being gradually
recognized everywhere.
THE drag rope now used in balloon
ascensions was the invention of Edgar
A. Poe's imagination in writing his
Balloon Hoax, years ago.
A SCHEME is on foot in Georgia, under
the supervision of the Governor, for
combining the various colleges in the
State into central university.
An Iowa Justice has tried to improve
business by offering to marry at the low
price of two shilings a couple; but in
spite of this, he complains that business
continues very bad.
An eccentric old Engishman, with a
very large amount of livestock to care
for, was troubled about names for his
cattle, and named twenty-four of his
COWS with the letters Of the alphabet.
II is proposed to prospect the bed of
the Upper Missouri for gold, the idea
being that if the Jefferson mines are
good and extensive. the bed of the Mis-
souri, viii prove better and more ex-
tensive.
OFF Atlantic City few days ago
Capt. Yates, of the yacht Emma, while
hauling in bluefish caught a shark
which swallowed the smaller prize. 1t
was man-eater, seven feet and half
In length.
SALT LAKE has been victimized by a
Snowman, who announced that he would
cause 'hunian body to appear and
disappear before the audience" He
appeared, got their money, and disap-
peared. He filed the programme.
BOSTON has dog which goes about
the street with his muzzle attached to
his tail, and blanket, the superscription
of which gives out that the dog law,
which requires the wearing of the orna-
ment does not designate the place of
wearing it.
SAN FRANCISCO fishermen capture their
fish by exploding under water a cart
ridge of giant powder, which is simply
nltrO-glycerine with an absorbent earthly
powder. AN exchange states that the
90 conclusion kills ali the fish within
radius of forty or fifty yards"
A Troy On. " boy, thirteen years
old, Lewis Smode1 by name, recently
saved one of his little sisters from
and few days later saved |
his two other little sisters. Referring
to the latter, he says 81 don't know |
how / did manage. They were almost |
gone when 1 reached them, and this
time had no help; but I had to get
them ashore, and / did just in time.
One of the least fattering tributes
ever paid to rising young artist has
been paid to Cincinnati dauber by a
Western critic "He possesses some
merits as an artist, but it is hard to say
wheter it lies in landscape or marine
painting you never can tell his cows
from ships, except when they have their
tails exalted, when the absence of spars
bstrays their character Even then
they may mistaken for schooners scud-
ding under bare poles"
In SwitzerlandtheG Government. which
controls the telegraph system, has in
PRODUCED an excellent plan of facilitat-
ing intercourse berween business men
at points distant from each other. 1t
permits parties at different stations to
carry on conversation, charging for
the service lot according to the number
Of words, but according to the time con-
sumed. Such a plan adopted in this
country would be of immense value, as
every one who has occasion to transact
buniness by wire knows how difficult it
IS to do SO In consequence of the rigid
and clumsy method of bust
ness of the telegraph companies.
81 Want to See Mother"
Night before last young lady resid-
ng in the city, who had been i'll for
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