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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
HISTORY and GEOGR4PHY.

THE GREAT OASIS OF WESTERN EGYPT.
The Cologne Gazette announces that
the expedition of the Grand Duke of
Oldenburg to the Great Oasis of West
ern Egypt has been successful. He was
accompanied by Prof. Brugsch-Bey, DR..
Luttge, of Berlin, and several officers
who had served in the late Franco-Ger-
man war. After four-and-a-half days
march over the Libyan Desert, the ex-
petition reached the main station, Ell
Khargeh, where DR.. Brugsch made a
careful examination of the ruins belong
ing to the times of the Pharaohs and to
the later periods of the Roman occupa-
ton and as he is the first Psychologist
who has visited these interesting sites of
Nubian and Roman supremacy, the re-
suits of his investigations cannot fail to
throw new light on the question of the
ancient history of the country. DIR.
Brugsch was fortunate enough to collect
a large number of inscriptions, and he
has also, he believes, been able to prove
beyond question that the great Temple
of Hide belongs to the age Darius I. of
Persia, while the smaller Temple of Ma
durah is to be referred to Inc time of
Antoninus. 1t is understood that the
results of his highly interesting African
expedition will be published in the form of
a special work ON the return of the Grand
Duke to Germany.
THE MARCH OF EMPIRE.
Mr.. Daniel NJ. Tredwell, In paper on
Evidences of the Prehistoric Migra-
ton from America to Polynesia and East
ern Asia, read few days ago before
the Long Island Historical Society,
showed that in very early times vast
population was concentrated upon the
Pacific coast of America that, while
ignorant of the art of navigation, they
grew up to great and powerful nations,
and, finally bursting the barrier which
the ocean had imposed, they spread
themselves over Eastern Asia, Polynesia,
India, Persia, Egypt and Greece. Thus
the march of empire is shown to have
followed the sun from the earliest times,
and emigration to have In comparatively
modern times out completed circle
which may have been described before
over and over again.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
ORNITHOLOGY.
HISTORY OF THE DOMESTIC FOWL.

HISTORY OF THE DOMESTIC FOWL.
Among the conclusions, in contribu-
ton to the history of the domestic fowl
by Jeitteles, it is stated, that some species
of the genus gallus existed in Europe in
the Tertiary period, although none are
found wild there at present; and also,
that two varieties of species very near
to, if not identical with the lBankivo OF
domestic fowl, existed in Western Europe
in the older Post-tertiary, contemporane-
ously with the man of that period.
BIRDS ON srHEIR TRAVELS.
A correspondent Of Nature relates q
curios phase of bird life. While he was
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
OUR JUVENILES.

Dick aud the Ne,c Ba5y.
Aunt Ltcy's got brand new baby
The queerest little mite;
He makes one think of lobste. salad
He'd look much better white.
he hasn't got single tooth,
Or worth mentioning nose:
HIS heads as smooth As rubber baH-
He's nothing much but clothes.
He cannot talk or run about,
He dent know how to play;
Hell yell until his face is black
A dozen times day.
I'D rather have Iay setter pup
Than aunty's precious dear,
And 80 think would Uncle Dan;
But women are so queer.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
SOME NEW WONDERS.

Clever things in industry and inven-
ton are at times put on record. Thus,
cockchafers are now made use full to artists,
for a Frenchman has found that the in
sects, after feeding, yield few drops of
liquid which answers the purpose of
Indian ink. Different tints can be OBJ
tanned by feeding with different kinds of
leaves. Near Konigsberg there are turf
boys of large extent; clever expert
mentalist converts the turf into mill
board and paper. The paper is said to
resemble straw-paper in brittleness.
Clever manufacturers make and sell meat
-four, and recommend it as nutritious.
This -four is made from the beef used In
the manufacture of Liebig's Extract -
all the juices, all the goodness are
squeezed out, and then the worthless
beef is ground up for sale. The buyers
are, of course, cheated, for the meat
flour thus produced contains no nutri-
ment. 1t would be better to eat sawdust.
A Belgian boils beef bones in water for
some hours, with addition of rock-salt
and little alum, and thereby obtains a
size which can be used with advantage
In the preparation of cotton and silk
goods. Two Frenchwomen have proved
that sawdust and wheat-bran and old
rotten oak wood viii each yield gray
dye-one yellowish, the other blush
and others announce that skins can
be tanned by soaking them twenty-four
hours in a solution of chloride of zinc ;
and that the very best gelatine for photo
graphic purposes is that prepared with
addition of small quantity of chloride
of zinc.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29

WHIMSICAL CIRCUMSTANCE The fol-
lowing whimsical circumstance and pc
culiar coincid ence, it is said, actually
took place some time since. A boat
ascending the Ohio river was hailed by
another boat, when the following con-
versation ensued +" What boat is that r.
"The Cherrystone." "Whence came
you?" "From Redstone." "Where
are you bound tor" Limestone. -
"Who is your captain 2" "Thomas
Stone" "What are you loaded with 2"
=" Millstones." You are very hard
set altogether take care you don't go to
the bottom. Farewell"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29

A FARMER near Fairbault, Mimi, has
cut from six acres about $500 hoop
poles. The price has ranged from 80
cents to ST. 40 per hundred. At the low
est price they pay better than wheat.
But you can't cut 'em with reaper.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
TO cOxREsPOsDENrs.

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pusac<toc but svdsacs Of good faith on the p.
Of - writer Vtte only On side Il =. papsr Ne
paracoiasg earseo IN giving names snl dates 10 Aavs
the LETTERS and Asures plain and dises.<<
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
PHYSICS IND CHEMISTRY
DOES SUNSHINE PUT OUT FIRES?

DOES SUNSHINE PUT OUT FIRES?
A good deal of discussion has lately
taken place in this country over the old
question whether sunshine checks COM
bustion. 1t is an old notion that sun
shine lessons the intensity of fire, and
may even put it out, and the theory was
that the suns heat by expanding the air
caused diminished supply of oxygen to
the coal. This and all other explana-
tons are now condemned, and the fact
is denied. One writer says that if few
pieces of charcoal are ignited in a
chauffer, and placed in a sunny room
provided with closely-fitting shutters,
the fire will appear to die away in the
suns light. But if the shutters are
closed, the Goals will be seen to be in
full combustion. There is no phenome-
non at all, but only the appearance of
one, which is due not TO the suns heat,
but to the fact that its light, being
stronger than that of the Goals, over
comes and subdues it. The fact of COM
bustion Is so intimately connected with
glowing ignition in our minds, that
anything which lessons the glow appears
also to diminish the combustion
Cdssetps Magazine.
REPRODUCTION OF BURNT RECORDS.
NJ. Rathelot, an officer of the Paris
law courts, has succeeded, in an ingeni-
Gus manner, in transcribing number of
the registers which were burnt during
the Commune. These registers had re-
manned so long in the fire that each of
them seemed to have become an homo
geneous block, more like a slab of char
coal that anything else, and, when an at
tempt was made to detach leaf, it fell
away into powder. Many scientific men
had examined these unpromising black
blocks when NJ. Rathelot hit upon the
following method of operation In the
first place, he cut off the back of the
book so as to leave nothing but a mass
of leaves which the fire had caused to
adhere to each other. He then stepped
the book in water, and afterward exposed
it all wet as it was to the heat at the
mouth of calorifere. The water, as it
evaporated, raised the leaves one by
one, and they separated, but with ex-
traordinary precautions. Each sheet
was then deciphered, and the copy GER
titled by legal officer. In this way the
records of nearly 10000 official acts have
been saved. The appearance of the
pages were very curious; the writing
appeared of dull black, while the paper
was of lslstrous black, something like
velvet decorations on black satin
ground, SO that the entries were not
difficult to read.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
ASTRONOMY.
THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.

The TRANSIT OF VENUS.
An interesting note of the observations
of the transit of Venus in the Himalaya
mountains by j. H. n. Hennessy is
communicated to Nature In describing
the phenomena of the transit, the author
has occasion to speak of Venus as she
appeared across the suns limb, when
one portion of her own limb is seen
against the sun, and the other remains
against the sky. The former portion he
calls Venus's sun limb or Vn, the latter
Venus's sky limb, or Vk. Again he re-
quires to mention a ring of light around
Vk, which he indicates by Lk, the CORE
spending ring around Vn being under
stood by LIN. Another point is this
Any one who has watched, say, the suns
limb, especially at a low altitude and
with high power, must be aware of the
turmoil or ebullition which there APP
pears, very like as if the limb was being
boiled. He denotes this kind of turmoil
by boiling" The author did not de-
tect Venus's limb until after it had made
an indentation ON the suns limb. The
latter boiled sensibly, but by no means
violently. 1t appeared jagged, and as
if with minute spikes projecting in
wards, all of which were well defined in
the blush field. Watching vn, he found
it also boiling slightly, but in manner
somewhat different to the suns limb.
The appearance was that of boiling va
por coming round from the face of We
nus, turned toward the sun and overlap
pins Vn moreover, this boiling was not
restricted to the edge of Vn, but extend
ed two or three minutes beyond, thus
forming kind of boiling annulus, in
which there were minute sparkling
specks dancing and shifting about, APP
pearing and disappearing; the edge Vn
was seen through the boiling. Neither
pear-drop nor igament was seen either
at ingress or egress.
OCCASIONALLY there is a discovery
made at Pompeii that throws world of
light on the domestic habits of the peo-
pie of that town, and teaches us that,
with all our boosted modern civilization,
we are far behind them in some of the
very essentials of true domestic happi-
ness. For instance, what longing fills
the breast for return of those good old
days, when we read of the recent dis
covery of woman in the act of building
a fire in the kitchen stove, and her hus-
band in an adjoining room sleeping the
sleeD of the inst
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
METEOROLOGY
SUDDEN FALLS OF TEMPERATURE.

SUDDEN FALLS OF TEMPERATURE.
Prof. Loomis, after careful investiga
ton, concludes that these low tempera-
lures, which occur at irregular intervals
in every month, are owing to the descent
of cold air from the higher atmospheric
regions, instead of current of cold air
from the north, the usual mode of ac-
counting for them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
FORECAsTING THE WEATHER.

On the eleventh of January last tele-
gram was sent from Boston to France,
announcing that on the previous day a
great cyclone, with its center at that
time in Newfoundland, was moving
thence eastward across the Atlantic, and
in four or five days would probably
arrive in Europe, by way of Ireland.
The storm did, in fact, reach Ireland on
the fifteenth of January, and proceeded
eastward. This verifcation of weather
forecast is mentioned by M. II. larry, in
communication to the French Academy
of Sciences on the possibility of predict
ing the arrival of transatlantic storms in
Europe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
4GRICyLTURE.

DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY.
The advantages Of a diversified indus
try in agriculture are illustrated by facts
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10

In the examination of the case of the
Pacific disaster before the board compo-
sed of r. Fl. Waterinan,C. G. Bennis and
J. Hellman, no evidence has been ,aken
since wednesday last. The board is now
awaiting the arrival of other witnesses.
The evidence thus far taken has not
been made public; bnt it is stated that
the testimony is important; that it places
the disaster in different light, and if it
shonld be published as it is the officers
of the Oyph1us could read it and might
eonjure up story to contradict it.
The evidence is that OF Henry +. Jclley
The particular part is that relating to
the space of time between the collision
and the sinking of the Pacific. Jelley's
testimony before the Waterman inquiry
is to the effect that the time was very
brief As he ireshens his recollection,
he arrives at the conclusion that the
leugth of time the Pacific floated was
much shorter than he reported to the
Victoria and Puget Sound papers and
to the coroner's jury at Victoria. Tile
testimony of Gilbert, one of the sailors
of the Ol71Heus, is not particularly inn
portant, but it bears on the case. Il,
ten or twelve days other witnesses will
arrive.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10

Iowa will soon be independent ofoak
forests and iiemlock swamps, inasmuch
as new process of tanning leather by
using tanning plant, instead of bark, is
said to have been faIly tested and proved
successful. One ton of the plant will
tan 400 pounds of leather, which is said
to be more, than the same amount of
bark will do. Bark costs about S12
per ton, the plant not to exceed s5, the
latter producing the best quality OF
leather. The plant grows wild in that
State. A single track III the western
part contains over $4,000 acres, which
it is estimated, will produce three tons
to the acre. The process of tanning
is the same as with Lark, except that
the juice of the plant. produced by
staining, is used instead of the bark.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10

STRATAGEM.-ssW hats the matter,
my little mani" said gentleman as he
placed his hand lovingly upon the bare
head of very spnall boy seated on the
doorsteps of q Broad street house, yes
terday, crying bitterly. "Where's your
hat?"
Suppressing bis sobs he replied, "Bill
Granger's hog eat 1t up"
"What, did you drop it into tie
pen?''
''Yes, and when went to climb over
to get it, the hog made for my foot aud
bit off those two toes. Just see there,
think they'll bleed long? boo, hoo! boo,
hoop
"Oh no, guess not, it won't help
the matter any to cry, but don't you
want me to carry you home?''
''Oh no, sir! no STRIP exclaimed the
boy, jumping up aud wiping his tears
away with the torn sleeve of calico
jumper, s'Mother'd kill me- 1'll &C
down to the hospital and have my toes
done up, and then put on my shoes,
and mother won't know anything about
it, and know where there is an old
hat in an ash barrel down here l'lI
put that on ard tell her swapped, y
and the two started off i'll opposite
directions, the boy to carry ont his pla,
to deceive his mother, and the other
meditating upon the innocence OF child
hood.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10

An OLD GIRL.-Minerva Isadore
Manchester was pretty nearly all the
name belonging to woman with gray
hair, cracked voice and shuffiing gait,
who sided out at the tolling of the bell.
ssThis is case of drunkenness" re-
marked the Court as he hel6 up the
warrant.
sob, well, don't be too hard on Us
girls" she replied, giggling like par
rot, and trying to look attractive.
GLOW old are you?" quietly asked
His Honor.
sspll be twe.lty-seven next week 20
she replied promptly.
''Twenty y.seven-yes- You'll
never see fifty-five again.
ssCh, now, darling!'' she giggled,
pushing back her hair.
''Don't fool around this Court, Mrs.
Manchester, but tell how you plead to
this charge
81 was little tipsy, my love-" she
said, ''but am going to be steady after
this. Let me go this morning, old sweet
ness, aud you shall have slice of the
bridal cake.
s'I'll bridle you for ninety days, old
GIRL" replied the Court, "and if didn't
think you'd die of old age in that time
I'd make it six months. Go back and
sit down" n."-Detroit Free Press.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10
franklin ahd IEis SON.

James Parton, the biographer of
Jackson, Butler, Burr, ETC.. writes as
follows to the New Work Times:
Do knock on the head promptly that
story, published by you few days ago,
of Benjamin Franklin and his son over
heard quarreling together in bed by
Bishop White, OF Pennsylvania. The
story lntimates that DIR. Franklin and
his son, upon the breaking out of the
Revolutionary War, sdeeded to one
another" all their property in America,
with the understanding that the son
was to take the English side and the
father the American, and then, after the
war, each was to resume possession of
his own estate. There cannot be one
atom of trnth in this ridiculous tale
The son of DIR. Franklin never returned
to America after the Revolutionary
war. Father and son parted in New
Jersey in 1775, met at Southampton,
England. in 1885, when DR.. Franklin
was on his way home after his long
residence i'll France, and they never saw
one another again. Down to the time
of the last meeting William Franklin's
estate remained nominally his own,
though forfeited by his adherence to the
King. On that occasion, father. son
and grandson being together, William
Franklin, pensioner of the King of
England, made over to his son all the
rights be possessed to his estate in
America. Dr. Frank in mentions this
transaction in his diary for July, 1856:
ssRead over the writings of conveyance,
&c, OF my sons lands III New Jersey
and New York to my grandson" The
next day the deeds were signed, ard
the next the Doctor made over to his
son an old claim of his upon the English
Government for supplies furnished to
the Braddock expedition. On the day
following the parting dinner was eaten,
DIR. Franklin and grandson embarked
for Philadelphia, and the Tory son re-
turned to London, where he lived the
rest of his days.
A man less capable of the prudential
baseness attributed to him in the story
never existed than Dr. Franklin.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10
TASTELESS
MEDICINES.

A prominent New fork physician lately com
planned to DUNDAS DICK & co. about their
SANDALwGoD OIL CAPSULEs, stating that they
sometimes cured mifaculOusly, but that patti
ent of his had taken them without effect. On
being informed that several limitations wer,
sold, he inquired and found his patient had not
been taking DUNDAS DICK & cos.
What happened TO this physician may have
happened to Others, and DUNDAS DICK & co.
take this met hod of protecting physicians, drug
gists and themselves, and preventing OIL OF
SANDALwCOD from coming into disrcpufe.
PHYSICIANS who once prescribe the Capsules
viii continue TO do so, for they contain the pure
Oil in the best and cheapest form.
DUNnAS DICK 4 co. use more on OF SAN
DALwCoD than all the vholesale~and Retail
Druggists and Perfumers in the United States
pure OIL is sold cheaper in their Capsules than
In any other form:
OIL OF SANDALWOOD is fast supcrseding
every OF her remedy sixty capsules only being
required to insur safe and certain cure I'm six
or eight days. From no other medicine can this
DUNDAS DICK & cos SOFT CAPSULES
solve the problem, long considered by eminent
physicians, of how to avoid the nausea and dis
gust experienced in swallowing, which are well
known to dctfnct from, If not destroy, the good
effects of many valuable remedies.
Soft Capsules put up in tin-fOii and neat
boxes, thirty in each. and are the only Capsules
prescribed by physicians.
TRStelcss HHesahcEmes.- Castor OIL and many
and safely in DrHmaaRa Dick & Cos Soft Cap
SuAeS. No taste. NO smell.
ESs These were the only Capsules admitted
to the last Paris Exposition.
Send for circulars to b Wooster street, n. Y.
I'm sold as all Drug stores Here. 40
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10
The Gallac or Bunho.

The San Francisco Chronicle thus
describes this recent cheat: The city
OF San Francisco is full OF bunko thieves
BunKo is new system OF robbery, de-
pending upon the cooperation of WELL
dressed, well-mannered vagabonds. who
make study of acquiring some knowl-
edge of the history Of strangers visiting
the town, scraping acquaintance with
them, showing them the sights of the
city, inveigling them into the dens OF
associates, where they are plundered by
some artful device of lottery or gambling
Tie system is so devised, and the plan
of rascality so carried out, that the vic
tim is made to appear the only criminal.
It is not dissimilar in its mode of execu-
ton to that so long practiced upon the
web footed greenhoIn or Oregon fiat,
who is seduced into some low bagnio or
deadfall, and there fi9eced by women,
the thieves trusting to his sense of shame
and modification to prevent him from
prosecuting. In bunko higher class of
game is hunted, aud the same reliance is
placed upon the fact that the tieeced
individual is usually ashamed to make
known his own disgrace. If he is dis
posed to inform the authorities, he is
Swallowed by some of the gang Of con-
federates, and, by the return OF part or
the whole of the money stolen. is induc-
ed to compromise the affair. These
bunko thieves have recently been driven
out of Chicago, where their exploits
made many all interesting story. Coun-
try clergymen are favorite victims,
and an ecclesiastical convention or synod
is looked upon as a harvest me for
these well-mannered banditti The
Bunko rogues have already made their
appearance in Portland. Beware of
them.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10

LITTLE children are sold and export
ed from Italy now under new dodge.
Instead of taking them away singly,
the spectators buy up whole family
at onces including father, mother, uncles
and aunts, and starts the lot for foreign
parts. The aw.can't gainsay the win
of father or mother, and SO the little
ones are smuggled out to tussIe with tie
world.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-12-10

MIR. MOODY UTILIzES a SWooN--A
man only q few feet from the speaker
tainted, ard his friends, affrighted, gath
cred about him, and hundreds of persons
sprang to their feet. ssY on arer cried
the speaker, almost tauntingly, 10 the
crowd, on are thrown into confusion
and routed by the tainting of man
by a trance that will resemble death
for few moments only! What if
that man had been struck dead-dead
with his sins upon him--dead without
repentance or confession? Theu you
might stand ghastly and terrified.
And how many of you if death should
come as suddenly as did that fainting
fit, could rejoice over the call ?'' The
bold move Of the speaker gave him the
control of the house. The swooned
man was carried out quietly. but all
eyes were riveted upon the preacher,
not upon the helpless burden. During
the evening six others tainted in less
conspicuous positions, and were borne
out without the least disturbance being
created-so quietly that only the police
record told the NUMBER
"A 0hAN tOflAOOWS" bS LbltI0 uldB
said that his name was Wilson Astor,
and that he had just retired from the
undertaking business in Cleveland.
"What did you undertake to co?''
asked his Honor.
"Why, sold coffins, buried folks,
and the like o. that.''
ssOh, yes, T see. Wei, what over
took your undertaking?'
ST failed, !" sighed the man.
And because you failed you come to
Detroit and got drunk?''
ssNo, sir; didn't get drunk at all,
but was overtaken by giddiness and fell
down."
aGiddinsss, eh? Did your lead
swim?''
eyes, SIR $,
tsAnd didr't the sidewalks seem to be
way up and way down?''
Eyes, sir"
Did you make any money out oi
your coffin business?" continued the
court, as he scratched his head.
"a littIe.''
"Well, leave five dollars with the
clerk here and you can go. don't
dispute that you were giddy; but
think that whisky caused it. -Detroi,
Free Press.