Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-07-05
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The silver question: @Can you
lend me quarter?"
A Patterson On. j. sign announces
slime beens."
A boquet az Georgia fair con-
tanned $50 varieties OF flowers.
Green county, n. Y, reports 444
eases ofmumps among its crop sta
tistics.
The true inwardness OF the little
innocent tack Is only developed when
a man accidentally sits down on one.
Sitting bull has new name since
he deserted our flag to join the Brit
ishers. He Is now Taurus Couchant.
The bears in the Philadelphia Zoo
logical Gardens hold just two bushels
OF peanuts apiece, and the average
boy finds himself half bushel In the
background.
A naturalist seems to have discov-
cred that crows, when in focks, have
regularly organized courts, in which
they sit around and try offe nders-
a sort OF a crow bar, so to speak.
All quiet on the Danube" Indeed
the Russians are so slow In moving
against the Turks that we are con-
strained to believe that General
Georgeovitch b. McClellanski has
command Of the army n the Danube
A little girl whose papa was re-
Gently under the influence OF Moody
and Sankey. wanted a second tart at
supper, and was refused il. Papa"
said she, abruptly. why do you sing
Feed me until I want no more'?",
She got the tart.
Jean Paul said Rachel was the only
woman he ever met who had any
humor. He would never have said it
II he could have seen Jersey
woman put a scuttle full OF coal in
the middle stair and sit up till her
husband came home from the lodge.
A stranger came into the office
Monday, and after forming our ac-
quaintance, invited US down-of
course we went. When we returned
our devil had penned the following:
Iwonder Il everIl git to be an editaire;
To smoke sugars, and ware good close, and
have folks at me stare;
To git my beer and whiskey free, and tickets
10 the shose,
And livery hire. and all such things: Cbut I
wouldent want such a red nosel
Two friends were passing church
one evening. when strong smell of
burning leather pervaded the air. Il
wonder IL that Is the odor OF sancti-
typ" said one. Il think 1t must be-"
was the quick reply. 4for it smells OF
sOles!"
That fond fathers and mothers may
know what were thought to be the
advantages OF being born on certain
days, we quote the following quaint
old specimen OF lip lore written many
long year ago:
Mondays child IL fair OF face,
Tuesdays child Is full of grace,
Wednesdays child is born to woe,
Thursdays child has far TO go;
Fridays child is loving and giving,
Saturdays child must work for its living,
But the child that Is born ON the Sabbath day
Is blitbe and bonnie, good and gay
Mrs. Sarah Wise. residing two miles
and a half south OF Newport, Is the
owner Of a calf that can get away
with forty or fifty chickens In a very
short space OF time. 1t will turn over
coops and swallow little chickens AS
fast as IL can rake them into Its mouth
with its tongue. -Ne,cport Hoosier
State.
There Is no man so Independent
and happy rs the farmer who can
lean against his well filed graneries,
and smile on hard times. and there is
no man so miserable as the farmer
when the plough handles kick him In
the stomach and double him up like
broken hearted lily.
@Evangeline" means good news
Er. Well. Evangeline may mean
well enough; but when she leans out
the front window and yells. "Come
right In here this minute" at the
very time when he has a dead sure
thing Of getting the other boys last
swhite alley" that's where she makes
the mistake.
A man who, from his youth up
ward. had been leading a most irreg-
ular life suddenly ended his bachelor
career by marrying a widow worth
$4,000. Don't imagine" said he to
one OF his friends. shat am simply
marrying for money. II she had only
twenty thousand pounds 1 should
have married her just the same"
A married lady abiding In CONVEX
sation to the l4Sth Psalm, observed
that while young men and maidens.
old men and children" were express
ly mentioned. not q word was said
about married women. An old clergy
man whom she Was addressing as
sured that they had not been omitted,
and that she would find them In
ciuded In the preceding verses, un-
dar thu daao.i.4i.=