Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-28

lONC Win ldlI hdlnt RlIl, anu, ihbb
month, quietly married her. Our Bos-
ton girl WIS wild when she heard of il
few days ago, but, with an eye to bust
ness, she went to Hartford, had papers
served on the insurance company to Sc
cure the payment of the 50, 900 policy,
and has now brought suit for $15, 900.
All Sorts.
WHITE horses are now used exclusive
ly in Paris at funerals OF children or
young unmarried people.
a SPECIAL bureau is to be established
at Paris where wine may be analysed at
the desire of any person who doubts the
honesty of his wine merchant.
III is reasserted that Ole Bulls trouble
is only an aggravated case of mother-in-
law-that he is painfully Ole Bull dozed,
in fact.-H Louis Republican.
CALIFORNIA has more insane people
than any two Western States. The cause
is doubtless the greater business excite
ment than in the older-settled States.
WIEN st. John New Brunswick)
little boys get drowned while skating,
the daily papers of the city produce
a map showing the scene of the dis
aster.
Lucy HOOPER reports that the boo
bies in French colleges strip and paint
all newcomers, except American and En-
! glish Freshmen, of whose muscles they
have wholesome fear.
THE death is announced of Miss
Lydia Priscilla Sellon, whose name is
well know, "a that of the founder of sis
terhoods in the English Church. 1t is
now about thirty years since she under
took the work.
THE head of Napoleon I'LL, by Meis-
sonier, in the gallery OF the Luxembourg,
has been defaced by some vandal, who
seized n moment while the gallery was
deserted to crafty his spite against
person 10y cruel wrong to art.
AGAIN at Christmas do we weave,
The holly round the Christmas hearth,
The silent SHOWS possess the earth
Ana calmly falls the Christmas eve.
K.se, happy morn, rise, holy morn,
Draw forth cheerful day from night;
o Father touch the east and light
The light that shone when Hope was born.
A TERRIBLE etymologist has discovered
that the name Howard is merely a cor
ruption of Hogward, in other words,
Swineherd. 1t is enough to make "tho
blood of all the Towards the house
of Englaud's Premier Duke run cold.
THE youth of the victims of the
Brooklyn fire is one of the most notable
| features. Those who were burned were
mostly in the gallery, where children
are generally in the majority. The
Graphic says that the average age of
! lao oh Ill
of Z and two men over so were among
the number.
THE question of the hour in San Fran
cisco is: Will tapioca explodel A
sample bought at a corner grocery in
that city had decided tendency to "go
off !" when brought near the stove, and
it was sent to a powder-mill to be an
alyzed. 1t is supposed to be a com
pound of nitrate of potash, with sugar
and flour or starch. The grocer will
be prosecuted.
A TEXAS desperate named Lyme died
short time ago from the eye Is of
morphine, which he began TO take in
1864, as an anodyne while suffering from
the effects of wound. He gradually
increased the doses until he was able to
consume an enormous quantity without
immediate injury. But in the course of
time he became deaf and paraly tic, and
his skin became very dark, almost black.
! CHRISTMAS THEN AND NOW.
! A little. carlet stocking
1 Harging from q chair,
/ little cradle rocking,
Baby sleeping there.
/ mother kneeling. praying
For q Savior's care.
Can no siver lining,
i Only golden hair.
1 A stocking In the drawer,
Cradle down below,
A little marble tablet
Hidden by the snow.
mother looking inward,
On this Christmas morn,
| Can the silver lining,
Feels that Christ was born
THE Christmas dinner of modern DAYS
Is, as most of our readers know, a gather
ing together Of generations, an assem-
bling of Israel by its tribes. Contrast
with this modern Christmas dinner-as
well as with the high festival of yore-
the dreary picture of a Christmas day
aud dinner under the stern prescriptions
of the Pusitans-as given In his iary,
by Pepys, the chatty Secretary to the
Admiralty, "1G6S, Christmas day. To
dinner" thus he writes, "alone with
my wife. who, poor wretch sat I'M
dressed all day until 10 at night, alter
ing and lacing of noble petticoat !;
while i, by her. making the boy read to
me, the Life of Julius Caesar and 'Des
Carries Book of Music"
Or all times IN the year the Christ
mas-tide is that at which hearts and
purs s-strings should open widest in
thoughts and deeds of charity. Those
should give who never gave before, and
those who are charitable always should
ct this season give the more. Some of
our overflow of happiness should not
fail TO reach the poor and miserable,
whom Santa Claus, an aristocratic fell
low, is otherwise apt to slight. "To
give IA more blessed than TO receive, I"
especially when with so little so much
happiness may be brought about. The
most of those best able to give, who are
not apt TO be personally acquainted
with misery and the proper ways
Tor its relief, will do well to distribute
their bounty through the regularly Or
eanized channels, which reach al
classes.