Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

CASTOR OIL Is an excellent thing to
soften leather.
TIE North Carolina Nutshell is
edited by "colonel"
TsAEr1EN, son of Prince Chun, has
been proclaimed Emperor of China.
FIVE hundred persons recently at
tended fox-hunt in Columbia county,
Penn.
The fishing industry of Massachusetts,
aggregates from twenty to twenty five
millions OF dollars yearly.
IN computing a mans age Cinnamon
always reckon as though he was year
old at the time of his birth.
THE total assets of eight life insurance
companies of Hartford figure up to with
III fraction of 800, 100000.
TRANSMISSION of money by post in
Russia is expressly forbidden, and the
money is liable to confscation.
Woodruff & CLAFLIN have again
thrown their banner to the breeze, and
set up as Broad street brokers.
In England and Wales there are up
ward of 500, 900 more females than males.
The widows number $4,000 and the
widowers 100000.
II the year 1921, CT of Sheffield
presented Queen Caroline, the wife of
George w., with a pocketknife which
contained 1921 blades.
II Is estimated that four out of every
SIX dollars wasted In this country in in
toxicants comes from those who depend
upon their daily toll for subsistence.
II is estimated by the Boston Tran
script that Daniel Webster, during his
public life, received over 81, 10000 in
gifts from his friends and admirers.
CHARLESTON, Vermont, rejoices in
female dentist, whose . crowning effort, y
the local paper says, was her pulling five
double teeth for man a few days ago.
March l, 1874, the New Haven papers
published list of 125 people in that city
who were over 40 years OF age. March
1, 1875, there were but I OF them living.
JOHN MUTUALLY and wife, of Cleve-
land, ought to be hung. They took their
little boy, aged five years, into a saloon
and amused themselves by making him
drunk.
DURING 1874 Paris spent 25,372, 600
francs in theaters, balls and concerts
Over $1,000, 900 worth OF board and tin
sci amusement for city almost without
schools
been taken from the wreck of the Pacific
Mail steamer Japan, all of which were
kept under water by money fastened
about them.
4 CORRESPONDENT of the New York
EreJaiag Post suggests that a substitute
for the bell-punch system would be to
let the cars to the conductor and the
driver for the day.
THE editor of the Savannah NelCs has
reasoned the thing out to its finest con-
clusion. He says /: Eve cannot pos
sibly return rejected manuscripts; in
deed, we won't undertake to return bor-
rowed money"
Broom corn was introduced into our
country by DR.. Franklin. While examin
ing corn whisk Gmported) he accident
ally found single seed, which he planted
IL his garden, and from which the corn
was propagated.
ANOTHER of those centennial centenari-
ans is Mrs. Hannah Hawly, of Roxbury,
Mass, who was born III 1774, and saw
Gen. Washington when she was IA years
old She viii figure at Philadelphia if
she lives I'LL next year.
IT is fact not generally known to stu
dents of the history of Massachusetts,
that as recently as 1850 woman was
burned at the stake at Charlestown, In
that Commonwealth, ION the northerly
side of the Cambridge road, about a
quarter of a mile above the peninsula. :"
The woman was colOred servant of
Capt John Goldman, and was burned for
poisoning her master.
THE .JOTREET OF NEEDTE