Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-07
Current Paragraphs.
AUTUMN hues-Cutting fire. wood.

AUTUMN hues-Cutting fire-wood.
THE new Congress contains four cler-
gymen.
IT is claimed that the Chesapeake
Bay has oysters enough to feed three
worlds.
FIVE thousand men are now en-
ployed on the Centennial buildings and
grounds.
Rev. DIR. CHAPLIN says of the Lincoln
statue, none needed it less, none de-
served it more.
THERE is ne money in the Alabama
Treasury of any kind to pay the men,
bers of the General Assembly.
THE hundredth anniversary of Daniel
O'Connell's birth is to be made ma
tional festival in Ireland next August.
The Canadian veterans who fought
against the United States in 1912 are
to be pensioned by the Dominion gov
eminent.
CHIcAao's Sunday Lecture Society is
now firmly established. First-c.as
lectures are given, the admission fee be-
ing ten cents.
SCIENTIFIC observations of the transit
required less than five hours but scien.
| tiGc observations on the transit will bore
us for year or two.
"ScURvY MIKE" and Dreadful
Tom" are the candidates for Mayor of
| ~ L.. oh
on the anti-grasshopper ticket.
PROF. JUDD, who attempted to walk
| 500 miles in New York in six days and
half, failed miserably on the fifth
day, after having accomplished 1863
miles.
A NEVADA woman recently knocked
down seven men, one after the other.
with the help of her fist alone. The
men were trying 70 enter her house for
the purpose of robbery.
In the last i've years no less than
forty-three life insurance companies In
the United States gave up the ghost.
There was very little life or insurance
to be found in the concerns.
A FRENcHMAN has opened restaurant
in Thompson street, New York, where
he gives a piece of bread, plate Of
vegetable soup, and a plate of vegeta-
bles to order for five cents.
By order of the German Crown
Princess the female clerks and tele-
graphers employed by the German gov
eminent were directed to set aside all
extravagances in dress and toilets.
Miss WHrrNEY's statue of Samuel
Adams, to be placed IN the gallery at
Washington, has been completed at
Boston in plaster, and will be shipped
to Rome to be copied in marble.
THERE is happy couple in the First
Ward of Syracuse, n. Y. They have
thirteen children, the eldest of whom
is ten years OLD. Six pairs of twins
are among the number, and the thirteen
are girls.
The Norwich Comm Bulletin men
tions as q remarkable fact, in regard to
the late Admiral Lanman, that, during
all his long life and active service, he
never smoked cigar or made use of
tobacco in any form. It is said, also,
tuat Nc newer NOttO III us llIc, LUZ de-
tended political meeting of any sort.
A WIDOW about 35 years of age. with
her daughter, aged about Is years,
make a comfortable living by lamp
lighting and extinguishing in st. Louis.
They have the public gas lamps on half
a dozen streets to attend to, and they
handle the ladders as though they were
experts.
"THE most expensive dressed man
ever saw" writes Captain in the
British navy, "was an African chief on
the Gold Coast. His wives had
anointed him with palm oil, and then
powdered him from head to foot with
gold dust. You never saw in your life
a man got up 80 utterly regardless OF
expense"
RING, ring, o yuIe-bells, ring!
While Christian tongues glad anthems sing,
Let myrtle on the chancel Irvine,
And holly CLEAN mid box and pine;
Let every heart with fervor pray,
Upon this glorious natal-dayi
In Bethlehem il born 4 Son,
Emmanuel, the holy One