Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-01-11
All Sorts.

their unanimous regret that there wasn't
smaller coin.-LOndOn Society.
ALI Sorts.
THERE are 1922 newspapers and pc.
riodical publications in the German
empire.
THERE is a scarcity of small change at
Macon, Ca, and dealers are obliged to
pay premium of from to 3 per cent.
THERE is no equivalent for zone hoss"
in German, and the man who is trying
to translate "The One-hoss Shay" is
stumped.
A PHYSICIAN of Vincennes, Ind, rec
ommends whisky as an infallible anti
dote for lock- jaw, if gwen literally and
perseyeringly.
LOUISIANA guarantees to supply, this
year, one eighth of the sugar required
for consumption in the United States
200, 900 hogsheads.
THE London Times looks upon our
architects and builders as men who de-
sire to kill the greatest number Of people
in the shortest time.
THE farmers in Troup county, Geor-
gia, have sowed % per cent. more wheat
and 100 per cent. more fall oats than any
year since the war.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
oUoH. That is the longest word in
Eliot's Indian Bible. 1t means,
KneeliDg to him."
THE value of insured property in
London is put down at f540, 600, 900. OF
that burnt during the last five years
four fifths was uninsured.
A CHINAwoMAN of San Francisco gam
bled away $l,700 Of her husbands saw
ings, and, rather than face his indigna-
tic n, took poison and died.
A NUMBER of counties in Texas have
recently voted in favor of prohibition,
and many more will soon take vote un-
der the local-option law.
YEs, il you would be polite, you will
have to lift your hat to lady Just the
same, though old zero gets under and
makes skating rink of your glary and
hair skirted pate.
ONE Of the half-inch plate-glass win
dows in the top of the stone lighthouse
at Oswego was shattered in a recent gale
by piece OF ice cast up by the waves.
The lighthouse is sixty feet high.
The Edgar Thomson steel works, of
Pittsburgh, are having shear construct
ed that will weigh thirtyfive tons. 1t is
double acting; one end is to cut hot
steel ingots and the other to cut cold
steel rails.
THERE is this difference between a
lean and fat man when they slip down
on the icy sidewalk-the lean man
jumps right up, while the corpulent fell
low crawls along for way on his hands
and knees.
One Boston clergyman was SO fortu-
nate on Christmas day as to receive three
sets OF sleeve buttons, twenty six pairs
of slippers, tbirty-one elegantly bound
books, ard majolica and ceramic gems
sufficient to start museum.
SEVERAL cruel and unfee ling Cover
nors in the West continue to turn drove
on droves of poor convicts from their
warm quarters in the penitentiaries into
cold and heartless world, with the
thermometer ranging below zero and
the snow-drifts bowling around.
A LARGE Anglo Australian cattle
ealer is exporting stoats TO New Zea-
land with the view of abating the rabbit
nuisance which has caused inconceiva-
bic trouble both in Australia and New
Zealand. Never was there a greater
blunder than the importation of rabbits
there.
A CnINAMAN, who was recently ar
rested for burglary in San Francisco,
was found by the keeper of the prison
inhaling the gas from the burner, and
nearly exhausted. When he was taken
into the open air, he languidly opened
his eyes and said, "Me likee muchee
die.
ALL physicians in Texas under TIE
new law, are required to appear before
the County Board of Examiners, ap-
pointed by the District Court, and stand
an examination in chemistry, anatomy,
physiology and materia medica before
they Can have legal assistance in collect
ing their bIls.
The Washington police, with many
wry faces, have donned their new So
called London helmets. The objections
the officers have to them are, first, that
they are too cheap looking, and, second,
it is claimed that they are entirely unit
Tor police wear. OF course the gamins
tell them to ''shoot the helmet"
HE people of the Northwest mostly
lnterested-those in Northern Iowa.
Minnesota and Dakota Territory-are
raising their voices and noses against
the word "Huron, which Congress has
settled upon as the name for the pro-
posed new Territory in Northern Da-
kota. Congress says "Huron :" the
people say Pembina."
A NEGRO boy, IA years old. killed two
negro girls, aged and years, near
l. n Cane, Tfoup county, Ga, RI c,t tly.
Heshot the eldest WITH a gun, end
Knocked the youngest down vi b q stick
and cut her throat. He is in the l.,
Grange jail, and has confessed the crime.
He says the eldest girl cursed him, and
theyounges st tried to bite him.
LORD MIDDLETON, who has been huut-
ing part of Yorkshire, England, since
1913 at his own expense, says that il has
cost him "a, 900 year, and hc can't do
1t any longer without help. The sum is
exclusive of the expense of his own
horses. He has spent, altogether. over
tlO,0co on the hunt Most packs Of
hounds are now largely maintained by
subscription, although bearing the name
OF an individual.
The Minnesota State railway bonds,
issued In 1858, will become due and pay
able in about year. They amount to
s2 10000, which, with twenty years
interest at per cent, will make the
total principal and interest &5, 460. 900.
The Pc ople voted loan Of five millions,
aud If all the bonds bad bssn isupd; as
*as originally inten tho STATE would