Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-03-12
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ANN 1AO O1,OVO pOOpiO LII IslCn-
mond.
GUSHING is in harmony with the age.
He is IA.
A PRAYER costume is one of the latest
from Paris.
WHATEVER is, is right" If it isn't,
Wen make it so.
THE dentists are pulling through the
hard times remarkably well.
DIo LEWIS says that high living is the
foundation of every cemetery.
NEARLY every pound of butter usedin
Florida is shipped from Ohio.
THE cost of the London underground
railway was e., 900, 600 per mile.
ebay fever" is what Members of
Congress call the Granger rage.
THERE are 655 Good Templar lodges
in Wales, with 60,0 members.
A MAN at West Wheeling, Va, made
176 kegs of eight-penny nails in a week.
Harper's Magazine is offered 100
articles week. Less than ten are ac-
cepted.
SN-PENNY kilograms are to be intro
duced in England, and half-penny letter
postage.
THE Athens Glenn. Post thinks that
Andrew Johnson will be the next Con-
gresham from that district.
A FRENCH novelist has one of his
characters bored through with an auger
in the hands of an American.
In Naples barber will shave, cut
hair, comb, brush, black boots, and give
you a cigar and call it square for ten
cents.
ACCORDING to recent returns, the
total amount invested in English rail-
ways is g329, 090, 900, or about 81, &c.
600, 900.
ONLY one man has ever dared to
climb the spire of st. Paul's Church,
London, though EGO is offered to any
one who will repaint the ball.
NAPKINS, sir ! napkins - roared a
Green Bay landlord; "no, sir, we
haven't got any; but if you want to wipe
your nose III lend you my handker-
chief"
DURING the impending famine in In
dia the Government will be called upon
to supply half pound of grain per
day, for eight months, to $4,000, 900
people.
SAM FOSTER, of Washington county,
N. Y, threshed, by hand, ninety BUSH
els of oats in thirteen hours. Sam
should get out patent for himself i'm
mediately.
OK the occasion of the one hundredth
anniversary birthday of Mozart, recent
ly, it was proposed to decorate his
grave, but no one was able to point out
the final resting place of the immortal
composer.
OF the 2,059 convicts sentenced to the
Maine State Prison during its fifty
years of existence, there has been but
one clergyman, and, SO far as is known,
but one person who was member of a
Christian church.
The French Government has decided
that the Chinese Museum at Fontaine-
bleau and the collection of arms and
armor at Pierreford belonged to the
private estate of Napoleon Ill, and
must therefore be paid for by France.
Corn meal, heated and placed in
bags, is recommended as a substitute
for hot water bottles and such like APP
pliances, for restoring warmth to the
sick. 1t is said to weigh less, retain
heat longer, and does not chill when
cold.
THE enormous profits of street rail-
roads in some cities is shown by the re-
port of the Third Avenue railroad in
New York. Its receipts last year were
50, 40, 246; expenses, 81, pa, 1872, leav-
ing handsome dividend of 1926, 694 on
50, 900, 900 of stock.
In England, street railroads are COM
monty known as tramways. The word
tram" is said to be an abbreviation of
"Outram," the father of Sir James
Outram, renowned for his military ex-
ploits in India, having been the inventor
of trans and tramways.
THE question of regulating railway
rates AMI management by law is now
pending in The Legislatures of Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and
Kansas. The question is rapidly as
Stunning a national Importance and will
hardly be settled short of the highest
judicial decision.
THIRTY-sEvEN of the seventy-two Sen
ators in Washington are accompanied
by their wives, and nineteen have their
daughters with them. OF the 298
Representatives and Delegates, 1913
have their wives with them, and many
of the others are accompanied by
daghters and lady friends.
In an essay at the recent meeting of
the Iowa Horticultural Society at Iowa
City, on Necessity. of Forest Culture
in Iowa." DR.. Humphrey, of Illinois,
said Minnesota has three-tenths more,
Illinois twice, Indiana and Missouri
three times more timber than Iowa.
The coal-felds of Iowa embaace 2, 400
square miles, and exceed those of Penn
sylvania.
THERE are over fourteen and half
millions of children of the school age in
this country. We spend annually for
schools over S95, GOO, 900, which is equal
to one-third of one per cent. of the