Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-07
ALI Sorts.
THE Pope will be 81 next month.


ARCTIC explorations by balloon is the
coming project.
FRUIT will be plentiful this fall all
over the Union.
PRINCE ARTHUR will soon be made
Duke of Dublin.
THE Danbury News man will lecture
next fall at $3.50 a night.
Two HUNDRED acres of land were re-
Gently sold in Florida at five cents an
acre.
In New Mexico there has been more
snow this winter than for twenty years
past.
In Utah a criminal condemned to
death may choose whether he will be
shot or hanged.
The little busy bees of the United
States produce annually $4,000, 600
worth of honey.
DIR. SCHMIDT, of the University of
Athens, after 81 years of labor, has
completed map of the moon.
IT has been discovered in New Jersey
that an excellent article of whisky can
be made of "saw-dust, tan and mo-
lasses."
THE ceremony of cremation was re-
Gently put in practice in England upon
the body of Lemontinia Smith, ia
nous gypsy oracle.
IT is probable that the principle of
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applied in various improved forms dur
ing the coming season.
THE census of France, just completed,
shows population of sc, 102, 921. OF
this number, 1865, 625 live in cities,
and ID, 495, $40 in the country.
ACCORDING to the State Secretary's
report, Ohio contains fifty-four liquor
distilleries and 479 breweries. the
products of which amount to S13, 263,-
S3S.
A BIG diamond is now on exhibition
in Boston. 1t is as large as hazelnut,
and is worth 600 tons of railway iron,
300 tons of sugar, or 5000 barrels OF
-four.
HEREAFTER no portrait is to be placed
upon any of the bonds, securities, notes,
fractional currency or postage of the
United States, while the originalof such
portraits is living.
IN1S72 there were 81, 1O4 miles of COM
plete railways in the United States, the
average cost of which is set down at $685.
/ 104 per mile. 1t is estimated that there
are now $4,000 miles of completed rail
ways.
THE number of industrial establish
ments in France is 100000, giving en-
ployment to 100000 hands, and en-
ploying steam power eqnal to 650.0
horses. The business done amounts to
80, 400, 100000.
| In one year, five ocean steamships,
the Atlantic, the City of Washington,
the Ismalia, the Vile du Havre, and the
Europe Qately), have been lost, togeth-
er with nearly 800 lives, and many mill
ions of property.
THE New York Tribune was not the
first paper of that name. The Chicago
Tribune was established as a weekly
Democratic organ April 4, 1910. Its
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on the 10th of April. 1871
Or the iron produced annually, En-
gland produces more than one half of
the whole amount, North America about
one fifth, France about one twelfth, and
Belgium one twenty-fourth these four
constituting the great iron producing
countries of the globe.
The bridge over the Kentucky river,
on the Southern railroad, will be the
highest on the continent 1t is 275 feet
above low water, and Las span ], 1886
feet. The towers, erected by John A.
Roebling, years ago, cost 800, 900, and
rise 395 feet above low water.
A PUPIL in the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Hartford, who saw the Essex
statesman on the train bearing Summers
remains, wrote out this description of
him: & saw Ben Butler in the draw
ing-roon ear, and his eye opens nice,
but his other eye somewhat cross
shuts"
TwENTY-FoUR years ago Senator Stew
art, of Nevada, who has just completed
the most magnificent house In Washing
ton, was singing hash in canvas res
taurant, and afterward drove pull
team regularly up the long and diff
cult hills between Grass Valley and
Marysyille.
! HERE is an estimate of the number of
acres of land in the extreme West, which
are actually yielding rich stores of gold
and silver. The Government owns the
property, but has never received a cent
for it California. 5000, 900; Oregon,
800, 200; Washington, 1000, 900
Idaho, 100000 Montana, 5000, 900
Colorado, 100000; New Mexico,
1,O0O,O 900; Arizona, 100000; Utah,
100000; Nevada, 100000. Total
16, 200, 900 acres.
TuFpF is nothing a woman is more