Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
CURRENT ITEMS.


ORTHoeRAMMAN1A" is what they are
calling the rage for spelling matches.
ALL the New York papers say matters
are In excellent train for good years
business.
In the number of universities and col
leges, Ohio is the first State, and New
York the next.
GEN. JOHN G. Fremont, has decided
to take up his permanent residence in
Virginia City, Nevada.
A LOUISIANA editor uses "I'' instead
of "we" In his editorials, with rather
curious effect.
A PROVIDENCE, r. L., firm has COM
pleted rifle for King Kalakaua, richly
mounted, and costing $40O.
BANCROFT is "A years of age. and is
now at work on the eleventh volume of
his history of the United States.
A COW with sublime effrontery en-
walked up stairs before they could stop
her.
AN investigating surgeon has ascer-
tanned that the application of white hot
iron to the human body is absolutely
painless.
THERE is an anti-profanity society in
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, which charges its
members five cents for every oath in
dulged in.
RUssIA's most fiery demand is for coal.
Her product does not exceed 100000
tons per annum, and this quantity is OBJ
tanned entirely from one source, which
is likely to become exhausted in very
few years.
PIERRE, the foolhardy individual who
has been trying for several years to get
drowned, break his neck, or something
OF that sort, is impatiently waiting for
summer, when he proposes to cross Nj
agara Falls ON stills.
A LARGE Chinese idol, weighing sew
eral hundred pounds, has been sent on
to Union College, New York, from China,
by one of the alumni. 1t has had an
idol existence of several hundred years
in the Celestial empire
King KALAKAUA and his suite stopped
at the Windsor Hotel, in New York,
eight days. Fourteen persons in all
were provided for, and the total charge
was Sc, 2S6.91, Or an average of $50 per
day for each guest. The city must pay it.
A LADY who has lived half century in
one house, in Harrodsburgh, KY, not
more than 200 yards from the main
street, which bisects the entire town,
crossed the street the other day for the
first time in thirty-seven years.
BROWN, the famous sexton of Grace
Church, New York, began life as a car
penter. He is now worth $500, 900, the
accumulation for the last twenty years of
his salary as sexton, and the fees given
him by attendants at the church.
How LONG will a locomotive last and
be serviceablel An engine on the Read
ing road has been on duty since 1857,
and has run in that time Ats, 733 miles,
or an average of nearly II, 900 miles per
year for twenty-eight years. Probably
there is very little of the original
engine remaining except the frame
and minor parts. Another engine,
made in London, England, in 1888, is
still doing duty.
! ARCHBISHOP MCCLosKEY, having been
raised to the dignity of Cardinal, it vii
be etiquette for him always to
appear In costume some portion
of which shall be scarlet. This regula-
ton Is said to have caused Cardinal
Manning, in England, some annoyance
until his countrymen became familiar
lied with his new ecclesiastical garb and
equipage, and Will probably produce the
same result in New York. 1t is sup
posed to symbolic the special readiness
of dignitaries of that class to shed their
blood for the good of the church. The
full dress of Cardinal is one of the
most gorgeous and striking costumes
worn by civilized men.