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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

both prisons, with salary Of $500 per year and pro-
viding for regulating OF mines and miners and en-
pioy1ng a Mine Inspector at a salary $500 per
year. This latter bill also provides for rhafts OF
engines and escape in each mine, and for proper
ventilation. 1t also prohibits the employment of
small children in mining.
FRIDAY, Feb. 12.-Sendte- Nearly the entire
day passed in consideration of bills on second
reading.
House-Bills passed: Giving County Commits
sioners discretion to refuse incorporation of towns
where injustice would be done by such incorpora-
ton Furnishing commission merchants for failure
TO account for consgnments: appropriating $500 to
the State horticultural Society fixing the number of
grand jurors at seven and requiring IL to find
dictmeDts; adding the President of Purdue Uni
yersity to the State Board of Education providing
that at least three of the board of directors of any
railroad company chartered under the laws of this
State shall be residents of the State; giving the
right of action against persons for damages from
nre caused by their neglect; and excepting railroad
and other mutual aid life insurance mpanies from
paying agents fees to the Auditor of state.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
Il TENS DECISION.

The Decatur (Texas) Advance Guard
is credited with this assertion: "The
case of the State of Texas against a
couple of youth for the theft of bushel
of onions, was tried in our District Court
last week. The proof was that the onions
when taken by the boys were growing in
the garden, and had not been detached
from the soil previous to the taking.
The State failed to show that at any time
after they had been detached they had
been out of the possession of the de-
PENDANTS. Hence it was held by the de-
PENDANTS, and the position sustained by
the court, that while growing they were
part of the realty and not a subject
of theft that the moment they
were detached they were in the
possession of the defendants, and
never were in the possession of the
owner from the time they become per-
sonal property until delivered to him by
the defendants. Hence they were ac-
quilted under this ruling, being simply
guilty of trespass ON real property"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
THE PRINTERS PROGRESS.

The Registrar of the Privy Council of
Great Britain, Mr.. Reeve, when examined
recently before the royal commission on
the administrative departments of the
courts of justice, explained the practice
which obtains in his Office of printing
matter that would otherwise be written.
He said:
al have a strong opinion that there
ought to be no manual copying in offices.
L have no writing clerks; 1 have nothing
written beyond very short letter. The
moment even a letter is at all long | have
it printed. am convinced that, on ac-
count of convenience, dispatch, economy,
and every other motive, all public bus
mess ought to be done by the printing
office. l think it is barbarous piece of
antiquity to have any public documents
written, with the exception of such as are
very short and inconsiderable. | think
there ought to be several copies of them;
and printing is the most economical way
of multiplying the copies. You send a
quantity of matter in very rough form
to the printer, and he produces it in an
eligible shape; it is paid for, and there
is no more expense. But if you have
clerks to do the work they are constantly
employed; there are periods when there
is great deal to do, and periods when
there is nothing to do, and there are
vacations, but the clerks must be paid all
the year round"
Mr.. Reeve says it would require sew
eral writing clerks to do copying i'll his
department. But the stationery-office
accounts show that the cost of printing
executed for his Office (the judicial COM
mittee) was only just over f1O0 last year,
including the cost of paper used. The
commissioners agree in the main with
Mr.. Reeves reasons, and think it likely
that in the departments of state generally
the adoption of a system of printing
documents or letters where more than six
copies are required might be attended
with economy, as well as advantage in
respect of speedy execution and accuracy.
London Times.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
D4yGEROTs WTFE.

Jacob Carlyle, of Arcola, ILL.,, pub
fishes card warning all persons from
harboring his wife, and declaring his
financial independence in regard to all
bills contracted by her. In the fullness
of his heart Jacob adds:
She has been 80 disagreeable that cannot
live with her She threw q candlestick into nv
mouth and cut it, and has repeatedly kicked me-
She threw the chairs out of doors, and took nv
AK with the intention of chopping them to
pieces, to prevent which I was compelled to
send the AK to the house of one of my neigh
bors. She threw butcher-knife at me, stick
ing it in the door, and declared that she wished
it had split my head open. She struck me on
the head with broom-handle, raising q tumor
thereon nearly as large as q hens egg. An at
tempt was made to poison me by putting arsenic
in my jug of whisky of which drank, and
which nearly killed me, and suspect that she
did it."
ALI of these offenses save the last
might have been overlooked, but
woman who would put arsenic into
mans whisky is not merely adisagreeable
but a dangerous character.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

ACCORDING to the London Times, the
preliminary trial trip of the swinging
saloon steamer Bessemer, designed to
obviate the cross-seas and accompanying
nausea of the English channel, has
more than given satisfaction, and justi-
fed the theories upon which she was
constructed. With low pressure of 19
pounds of steam, the engines making
only 20 revolutions a minute, against q
strong head wind, and In rough sea,
she accomplished 16 miles an hour. The
doubles-wheels worked in perfect har-
mony, the ship answered her helm, and
no defects were discovered. It is in
tended that the ordinary pressure under
which she shall travel shall be 80 pounds,
with 30 revolutions of the engines, and
run the speed d to an extraordinary
figure. We are not told how the swing
ing saloon acted, but presumably every
thing was satisfactory.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
CAUSES OF SUDDEN DElTH.


Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from diseases of the
heart do really arise from that cause. To
ascertain the real origin of sudden deaths
an experiment has been tried in Europe,
and reported to scientific congress at
Strasburg. Sixty-six cases of sudden
death were made the subject of thor
Ough post norton examination in
these cases only two were found who had
died from disease of the heart. Nine
out of sixty-six died from apoplexy,
while there were forty-six cases of con-
gestion of the lungs-that is, the lungs
were so full of blood they could not
work, not being room enough for suf-
ticient quantity of air to support life.
The causes that produce congestion of
the lungs are cold feet, light clothing,
costive bowels, sitting until chilled after
being warmed with labor or rapid walk,
going too suddenly from close room
into the open air, especially after speak
ing, and sudden, depressing news operat-
ing on the blood. These causes of sud-
den death being known, an evidence of
them may serve to lengthen many valna-
BILE lives which would otherwise be lost
under the verdict of heart complaint.
That disease is supposed to be inc,lrable
hence many may not take the pains they
would to avoid sudden death if they
knew it lay in their power.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
BRITISH MARINE DISASTERS.

The disasters to the British marine
during the past month have been un-
paralleled in number and severity. The
list is simply appalling. First came the
cable steamer La Plata, which went down,
involving loss of sixty lives. This was
quickly followed by the burning of the
immigrant ship Cospatrick, one of the
most terrible disasters ON record. Out
of $50 people on board, only three were
saved. During the present month six
British steamers have been lost: The
Cortes, in the Bay of Biscay; the Bride,
off the French coast; the Alice, from
Cardiff to Constantinople; the Berar, from
Odessa for Cardiff the Thornabia, from
Cardiff for Bombay; and the Mongol,
near Hong Kong; the six disasters in
volving loss of 121 lives, which, added
to the two previously mentioned, makes
the total of 628 lives lost within the past
few weeks In view of this fearful sac
rifice of human life in such short space
of time, Mr.. Plimsoll, the British men,
Der of Parliament, seems to be justified
in the charges he has made that the En-
glish marine companies have no souls,
and are knowingly sending out rotten
vessels which are entirely unseaworthy
and liable to 60 down at any moment.
THERE is nothing more hazardous
than to be bothering an irritable woman
xr,{l, fo,l;ol, r,,oo<,o,,o IN, xroob 1ax,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
PLEIS4NTRTEH.

THE State for editors Pencil-vania.
EPITAPH on fop-"All's well that
ends swell"
IT is enough for one thing at a time
to happen, especially twins.
You hitch horse to the front of
cart, but dog is fastened to a Vaughn
tail
You are too pert entirely, Miss.
said teacher to pupil. "Your whole
demeanor is continuous misdemeanor.
SAYS the Danbury News to Jane
GIVE do not purchase that class of mat
ter by the column, but might at two
cents per pound"
A CHICAGO shirt dealer has given up
coaxing and bullying the public, and
despairingly announces on a placard,
Buy, or will bust
"WHAT did Judas do ?" asked De-
troit Sunday school teacher of her class
of boys. "He licked the British !''
promptly replied Johnny.
A NEw-ORLEANs newspaper offers the
following sentiment: "George Wash
ington-tirst in war, first in peace, and
last In getting monument"
In one of the schools in Lewiston, Me.
the other day, boy, whose parents
work in the mill, was asked the defini-
ton of holiday. 81 know" says he;
its the day when you can stay out
without asking the boss"
TEACHER Who was the first man 2"
Head Scholor-" Washington he was
the first in war, first in Teacher
"No, no Adam was the first man."
Head Scholar Oh, if you are talking
of foreigners, l spose he was"
"Now, GEORGE, you must divide the
cake honorably with your brother
Charles" "What is honorable, moth
err" sit means that you must give
him the largest piece" 60 Then, mother,
I'd rather Charlie should divide il"
SCHOOL INSPECTOR Ito urchin) >" Now,
Johnny, how many can you COUNT"
Johnny" One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten." Inspec-
tor" Good, Johnny go on" Johnny
(after moments thong =" Jack,
queen, king, ace"
HERE is an epitaph copied from the
tombstone of an Ohio woman
IN MEMORIAM.
Neuralgia worked on Mrs. Jones,
Till finally death laid her.
She was a worthy Methodist
And served a crusader
Her obseques will be at two,
With plenty of good carriages;
Death is the common lot of ALL
And comes as Oft marriages.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

Cats.
"Come, auntie, please put down your
work and tell me story"
.Wha. shall it be about, Bess :"
pussy" said the child, as she stroked
her only little kitten.
Well, then, once long ago there
lived In Italy a cat by the name of Nina
Her mistress was young girl who was
subject to commissions. Whenever Nina
saw an attack coming on she would run
to the girls mother and pull her dress
until she followed. At length the girl
died, and puss went to the funeral. She
tried to jump into the grave, but they
caught her just in time. After that she
pinned and pinned, until one cold day they
found her dead ON her mistress
green mound. There that is a true
story"
THAT was real nice, auntie do tell me
another"
I'm tell You one," said Uncle Jack,
Just then coming in.
GA fine gentleman, called Archbishop
OF laramie, had such passion for cats
that he always seated several with him at
his dinner table, and never excluded
them, even when he had company.
They were trained to sit quietly ON their
chairs until they were helped, and were
called by fanciful names. One day some
chaplains were dining with the Arch
bishop, and he requested one of the Wis
itors to serve the Lady Desdemona, as
he called her. The butler, OH hearing it,
called out, The Lady Des1emona will
prefer waiting for the roast Cats were
held In great veneration by the Egyp-
tians- The owner of cat mourned for
its death, and any one who killed cat,
even by accident, was liable to be shot.
In Damascus there was a hospital for
cats, which was always full"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
WINTER SONG.
From the German or Berger.

From the German or Berger.
winter came with chilling touch,
The poplar tree is bare,
No field has missed the robber clutch
That took its May-garb fair;
Each blossom, blue, and red and white,
The snow and ice have buried quite.
Yes, lovely flowers, your vanished grace
VIII ring no plant from me;
Fresh blooming in a bonnie face
Your beauty still see
The stsr-gemraed eyes are brighte blue,
Brow white, and lips of scarlet hue
1 care not if in vale and void
No bird-songs now hear,
For Mollie trills hundred fold
More sweet and silver-clear
Her breath is like the air of spring
When hyacinthine odors cling.
When ripe lips yield their fruit most rare,
All, then what perfect bliss.
No strawberries or cherries e'er
SO sweet as Mollie's kiss.
oh, May! why should / pine for thee?
The charms of spring are still for me.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
OUR JUVENILES.
little RQQ-TaQ

Little Rag- Tag.
curly, bright head, and perched upon it
Little Rag-tag of a brown sun-bonnet:
A pair Of old shoes, forever united,
Whose soles have holes, whose toes grin wide.
Come sun or come shade, come shine or come rain
To little Rag-tag it's ever the same;
With an air of the most supreme content,
She paddles and plays Till the day is spent.
Why people complain she never can see,
When God is good ever can be;
She talks to herself, and laughs, and sings
About the world and its beautiful things;
But, though he is good to all of the rest
She is very sure that he loves her best
oh, how much better this world would wag
IF we all had hearts like little Rag-tag.
-Christian Union.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
B1THING IND HE.fLTH.


Michigan University, now of the Belle
we Medical College, New York, deliv-
cred a lecture on Saturday evening in
the Cooper Institute upon "The Skin
and the Use of the Bath" Dr. Crosby
commenced by giving series of stere-
opticon illustrations of the structure of
the skin, explaining the important func-
tons it performed in the general econo-
my OF the human system. The lecturer
said he thought it was Charles Lamb who
once said upon meeting man with very
dirty hands "My friend, if dirt were
trumps, what hands you would hold !"
However that might be, he regretted to
be obliged to open his lecture by re-
marking that man was dirty animal
He said the amount of fluid formed by
the sweat glands underneath the skin
was ordinarily about two pounds, or two
pints, in the day upon the whole body
when the person is comparatively at
rest. 1t exercise was taken to any great
extent much more of this secretion or
perspiration would be thrown off, When
the skin is viewed with a magnifying
glass of moderate power it Is seen that
minute particles of moisture ooze from
the pores which speedily evaporate.
The object of perspiration was to regu-
late the temperature of the body. 1t
was found, in connection with the circu-
lation of the blood, that there was proc
cess going on by which oxygen was be-
ing taken out of the blood by the ar
terial blood, and that carbonic
acid was being taken away by the
veins. The heat of the body was
constantly being formed. The
normal temperature of the blood was
about SO degrees, and were it not for the
process of perspiration, which cools the
system, we would get temperature that
would be inconsistent with life. The
temperature of the body could not be
carried 10 degrees above or below its
normal temperature without life ceasing
1t would then be seen that the limits of
temperature within which life can be
sustained lay within very narrow
range, and hence the Importance of
perspiratiOn by which the temperature
of the body was regulated. He then re-
ferred to the practice of bathing among
the ancients, and said the first act of
hospitality shown to visitor was to pre-
pare a bath, as mentioned in the case
of Ulysses and Telemachus whenever
they were Hospitality received in
their travels. In Greece the bath was
both a puolic and private institution. In
Athens the practice of bathing was joined
with that of the gymnasium, and Plato
recognized the necessity of bathing, so
much so that he made the bath one of
the institutions of the state. When the
explorations were made In Pompeii in
1924 the ruins of baths were found
similar to those that existed in Rome,
covering 10, 900 square feet. The Romans
were in the habit OF bathing seven
or eight times in the day. In modern
times the Turks had cultivated the use
of the bath more than any other nation.
Mohammed ordained that there should
be prayer five times day with additions,
and he was morally certain that we prayed
no more and bathed much less. In India
the bath had always been associated with
shampoOing.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
Little Johnny Con. positions.
THE SHEEP.

This animal is one of the seven won
-ders of the world, cause its hair is wool,
but not cotton wool. If there wasn't no
Sleeps their wouldn't be no wool, except
Jest a little ON the hedges, which the
birds makes nests of, and if there wasn't
no wool were would this cote ben So
You see we all ware second-ha close,
which We gifts from the sleeps.
The he sleeps is call rams, and the
little Sleeps is call lambs, and the she
Sleeps Is a you They Is all made of
board and close, but some folks likes
beefs better to eat. Wen sheep has
been sheered he don't look the same
My father had sheep witch was sheerd,
and when it was sheerd it was so ashamed
it blushtred, jest like my sister. 1t had
a little labm, and when the labm come
TO suck it run up with its eyes shut as
they always does, but when it got done,
and lookt wot it was about it KEEP back
in off and noddin' its he'd like sayin'
beg your pardin, it WIS my mistake and
that labm had to be brot up by hand.
Sleeps is very playfe wen they are
young, but not so much as kittens.
When the son shines worm in the spring
they turns out and has good time ON
the grass, like sirsuc, Bill says, but no
music and no ephelant. Once saw old
COW wich was watching labm witch
was a-goin it. Then the ole cow stuck
out her tale stiff, and give jump up,
and came down with her legs strate like
stills. Then the lamb stopt still and
lookt at her, and then it walked all the
way round her, a-lookin at her all over,
and then it went strate away in a other
feel out of the ole cow, and begun to 90
it agin.
My uncle Ned says the Skanny
navous had a god wich could hear the
wool a CROWN ON the back of the
Sleeps, but wot good did it do him if
he couldn't stop it! / s'spose he wasn't
real, live, sure enough god, but just
somebody Tide.
Rams is great buffers, and their horns
would be good shell for big snaIe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

An communications for this paper should be accom-
panied By the name of the author not necessarily or
publication but evidence of good faith ON the par,
of the writer Write only side the paper. Be
particularly careful IN giving and dates to have
the letters and figures plain and distinct
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

An IRATE AcTREss.-A drunken man
attended the performance at the Theater
Comique, Pueblo, Colorado, and amused
himself by addressing insulting remarks
to one of the actresses. After the thing
had become monotonous to the audience,
and unbearable to the woman, she seized
a piece of board, and, bounding over the
foot lights, commenced belaboring the
fellow over the head, while the audience
cheered and urged her on. After pound
ing him to her hearts content, she leaped
back upon the stage, and the play went
on swimmingly.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18
Chin ney-Ssreeps.

T4enty or thirty years ago, it was a
common thing in New York to see mites
of boys following their masters in the
street, or issuing from the chimney-tops
with their peculiar wall. Some of them
were not more than ten years of age, and
they looked so wretched that when a
child was ill-behaved its mother or nurse
would threaten to give it to the chimney
sweeps.
In Germany and France, small boy
are still employed in cleaning chimneys.
In Great Britain law has been passed
forbidding the practice but less than
fifteen years ago the sweeping, or "climb
ing boys, were very numerous and ]
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

Charles Warren Stoddard writes from
Venice to the San Francisco Chronicle i:
"There is much that is gay in the
beautified old city. One is forever
vending his way unconsciously back to
the Piazza of st. Mark, where, on sum-
mer evenings and winter afternoons,
three times week, the band plays for
two hours and The people walk up and
down the great stone-foored court, with
the ever glorious basilica at the top of it,
while in front of the horid and grotesque
facade three tall 1agstaffs stand, with a
splendid display of bunting on Sundays
and feast days. 1t is not surprising that
the Venetians are well bred and of very
graceful address, for they are continually
brought in contact with the best of their
people, who gather at the hundred little
tables in front of the great cafe, the
Florian, to listen to the music or gossip
with their friends over chocolate or ices.
They seem never to be in haste here.
The gondolas swim up and down the
canals at an easy rate of speed the
pedestrians are sure to give up a chase
after they have surmounted the third
bridge. And as for time, it glides by
without break, and is perhaps the only
element that does seem little fast. No
wonder that the dream-life of Venice be-
gets repose. The Old East, the Orient,
lies just over the water from it. The
golden horses that prance over the
gallery of st. Marks have once
adorned the hippodrome and South
America. All commerce seems to find
its way through the wilderness of islands
to the marble gates of Venice, yet there
is very little shipping in port.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

THERE is nothing more hazardous
than to be bothering an irritable woman
with foolish questions on wash-day.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-18

Neuralgia worked on Mrs. Jones,
Till finally death laid her.
She was worthy Methodist
And served as a crusader.
Her obsequies will be at two,
With plenty Of good carriages;
Death is the common lot of all,
And comes as Oft as marriages.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-24
Terrible Accislent

Yesterday afternoon little Willie
Dudly, eight years of age, the sou of a
widow lady Of this city, while playing
near the depot OF the Central road,
met with an accident which will prob
ably prove fatal. When tho mixed
train was slowly nearing the depot, the
lad, totally unsuspicous of danger at
tempted to jump upon the platform OF
the passenger coach, but missing his
hold, he was precipitated under the
cars the wheels of which passed over
MS leg between the ankle and knee,
almost severing his limb in two. The
orllttle fellow shrleked aloud In his
agony and attracted tho attention of n
number Of persons by his cries some
ofwhom removed him to his mother,s
home. a physician was immediatelv
trmmoned, and In q short time DR.
Beaumont arrived and mt once pro.
ceeded to do all in his power to relieve
the intense suilerings OF the wounded
boy. We understood at a late hour last
night that he wys slukiug rapidly and
but feeble hopes were entertained Of