Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-30
All Sorts.

All Sorts.
CHINA has no merchant tailors, but
plenty of tailoresses.
PHILADELPHIA makes over 81, 900, 900
worth of paper annually.
AN Oregon paper studiously advises
young men to "go West"
In the Kentucky penitentiary there
are 675 convicts, half or whom are col
ored.
MANY Georgia planters will try the
effect of convict labor on their farms this
year.
ONE or two geranium-leaves, bruised,
bound upon a cut or abrasion, will heal
it at once.
They are hunting the wild boar in
Kentucky. Tame bores can be found
without hunting.
THERE are over 600 Indians in Phila-
delphia. All of them are attached to
tobacco establishments.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY becomes a
Major General and is to receive pen
/ oiOh Va Cf,cOO pei iuuuLu.
GEORGIA convicts are hired out to
planters at 81 per annum for five
years, which is cheaper than slave
| labor.
A CONTEMPORARY calls Congress "our
national windmill" That is hard on
the windmill-which is generally use
full machine.
RUSSIA has 1891 cotton factories of
all kinds, employing It's, 900 workmen,
and producing annually goods worth
162, 900, 900 roubles.
The local census of Richmond. Va,
shows its population to be 60, 705 or
about 5000 more than In 1870; 33, 492
being whites, 1928 colored.
THE Ne,Us, without the fear of hen
pecking, AYERS that the stairway to the
Danbury Lyceum is as dirty as the
children of female reformer.
A CINCINNATI professor has demon
strated that a man feels just as satisfied
after lunching on a raw turnip alone
as if he had feasted at kings table.
A NEW Ohio psalm:
Mount Vernon. Xenia Muskingum
| McConnellsve, and Cadiz,
Zach bids long farewell to rum,
And yells out, $50 it, ladies'"
WANTED-a national name. The term
American applies alike to Canadian,
Mexican, Brazilian, CHILEAN, Patagonian,
Indian, Cuban, or citizen of the United
States.
THERE were forty-fve gallons of writ
ing fluid used in Congress last session.
This was only writing fluid mind you
there were other kinds that were used,
of course.
THE great clock of the British House
of Parliament has been stopped for
cleaning, on account of having lost
second in one month. Nothing can
succeed that is done on tick.
The ex-Queen of Spain, says Kate
Field, is great, stout, ungainly fe-
male, who needs but dozen children
and washtub to be counterfeit pre-
sentiment of the typical Biddy.
A POPLAR tree 1S3 feet high was re-
Gently cut down in Shelby county, Ken
lucky. 1t was twenty feet in circum-
ference 1t is estimated that the whole
tree would have made 90, OUO shingles.
CHARLES SUMNER, in his youth,
achieved the arduous feat of swimming
across the boiling rapids below Niagara
Falls-a feat which few men have had
either the muscle or the nerve to per-
form.
In Sweden, out of $50, 900 children of
school age, only 9,131, or three per
cent, are uninstructed. OF the Z, $780,
900 voters in the United States, more
than 100000 cannot read the ballot
they cast.
OF the seventy-two United States
Senators, thirty-seven are accompanied
by their wives. One hundredand twen-
ty-nine of the two hundred and ninety
eight Representatives have their spouses
with them.
THE following table shows the volume
of the currency of the country at the
periods named:
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