Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-29
All Sorts.

ALI Sorts.
Boston pays her professional choirs
an aggregate OF $40, 900 year.
KANSAS has si,ty-one men who desire
to represent her In the United States
Senate.
SvENTY-E1eHT theaters have been
burned In the United States in seventy
five years. 81.
SOMETHING over seven hundred mill
ion postage stamps had their eyes put
out last year.
1T is said that there are more than a
hundred women studying law in the
United States.
IT is announced that Mr.. Bancroft,
our Minister Resident at Berlin, will
shortly resign.
A COUPLE were recently married at
Foxborough, n. H., after twenty-three
years engagement.
THE Changers of Los Angeles, Cal,
recently put in 40 acres of grain for
sick brother granger.
THE Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany claim 2,17S,00 acres of land in
Washington and Oregon, and 5,12O, 900
in Dakota.
A GEORGIA girl allowed 800 men to
kiss her at 10 cents head, and then
went, like a good girl, and gave the
money to the poor.
THE Royal Museum at Athens, Greece,
is soon to come into possession of a
manuscript of the New Testament said
to have been written in the year 480.
INVESTIGATION was recently made into
the representations of one hundred and
twenty London beggars, and all but
seventeen were found to be impostors.
A MIcHIGANDER has taken out patent
for pneumatic tube by which he pro-
poses to send grain from Chicago to the
coast In eleven hours, at a cost of fifteen
cents bushel.
INDIANAPOLIS claims third place in
the list of the packing cities of the
world, and says it has the largest pork
packing house In existence, 1914. 900 hogs
being slaughtered there last year.
THE flaming record of Andrew john
son Pales its Intellectual fire before the
incoming glory of Gov. Hartranft, of
Pennsylvania. He has just sent eighty
two veto messages to the Legislature.
THOSE who pretend to know say that
the summer of 1874 will be very un-
healthy, as open, warm, moist winters
like the present are invariably followed
by seasons characterized by the preva-
lence of fevers of low type.
IT is noteworthy that out of seventy
seven storm-warning signals displayed
at United States ports last month, sixty
two are known to have been actually
justified mfollowing. This gives
the gratifying percentage as S0.51.
PREMIER GLADSTONE has, it is said,
cautioned Mr.. Arch to beware of using
again such threatening language as he
uttered lately at Bradford, Eng, where
ne said that If Parliament were not care
full of the cause of the farm laborers he
would lead 500, 900 of them even to the
gates of st. Stephen.
ACCORDING to the customs of the In
dams of Washington Territory if a doc
tor or medicine man fails to cure q
patient he must pay for the latter's life
with blankets or blood. Henry Jack
son, half-breed doctor at Olympia, had
no blankets, and was publicly shot be-
cause his patient died.
THERE are seventy bald-headed men
IN Congress. No unprejudiced mind
can look down from the galleries upon
that Lake Superior of absent hair with
out a feeling of regret that the absence
is a thing with which the peculiar skill
of the aborigines had nothing to d.
Louisville Cou,-ser-Jou1nal.
NOVEMBER, 1873, was about the cold
est of the last half century. But there
is some consolation in the fact that mild
winters frequently follow cold Novem-
Der. In 1927 November was famous for
its GOODNESS, being the most severe
known for fifty years, but it ended with
a complete change, and the winter was
the mildest remembered for years.
Exchange.
THE United States have imported con-
siderably less iron and steel this year
from Great Britain than they did last
year. During the first nine months,
this country received from her only 401,
523 tons, valued at S34, 900, 900, being
349, SS2 tons less in quantity and S11,-
230, 900 In value than in the correspond
ing period of 1872. This change was
mainly owing to the expansion of the
american iron industry.