Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-03-07
SCRAPS.

YORK since January lst.
All the New York morning papers
sail close to the wind, financially.
One acre in fifty thousand in Flori-
da land is said to be good for some
thing.
OF last years 14S suicides in New
York. but 10 departed this life by
water.
The French scientific expedition
around the world leaves .Marseilles
about the middle Of next June.
Only six persons have ever been
cremated in this country, and one of
them was a child who was burned by
its father.
Oakley Hall having failed in his
lecturing venture has opened law
office in New York again. and will de-
vote himself mainly to criminal prac-
tice.
The seedless orange of Brazil is the
best in the world. 1t cannot be |
shipped on account of the thinness of |
its skin, and will not grow anywhere
in the United States.
Adirondack Murray does not write |
his sermons, but dictates them to a
lady amanuensis. She Celebrates
them on a typewriter, and Murray
breaches from the printed pages. 1t
is handy.
A fool at New York challenges,
through the newspapers, other fools
to cigar smoking match for $500 to
$1,000 side. He says he has smoked
100 cigars in 90 minutes and can beat
that.
An exquisite bracelet displayed by
Broadway CNew York; jeweler, and
designed for bride, is of brilliant
fire opal and pink pearls. The jew
els are so arranged as to spell the
brides given name.
E A heavy rain storm has occurred at
Payta. in the rainless region on the
Peruvian coast. It is an unprece-
dented thing, and has filled the in
habitants of the place, who never
saw anything OF the kind before, with
CONSERVATION.
A three year old youngster saw a
drunken man "tacking" through the
street. Mother" said he, did God
make that MANI" "Yes MY child"
The little boy reflected a moment,
and then exclaimed: II wouldn't
have dore it,"
An official of the Boston board of
health who has been called to exam
inc nearly two hundred houses in
that city in which diphtheria oc-
CURED, reports that in every instance
he has discovered arrangement of
the waste pipes either above or below
the surface before they entered the
sewer.
A Massachusetts law provides for
the imprisonment of persons taking
part in masked balls in that state,
and no such entertainment has been
given in Boston for six years. A
strong effort is making to repeal the
law, but without much prospect OF
success.
When an estate is sold in Ireland
tho Jrish hnorJ of ,v1rI~c :, o,.,.ou-
cred to advance a certain sum to
help a person who has been tenant
on the estate to purchase his farm,
the money being first charge on the
land sold. Lately, when an estate
was sold in Tyrone, fve-sixt of it
were brought by former tenants.
To the late Gideon Welles was due
the credit of establishing the policy
relating to "contrabands, which was
afterward adopted In every depart
ment OF Mr.. Lincoln's administration. ,
While the army was returning es-
capped slaves, the secretary OF the
navy took the ground that all loyal
men. black or white, who escaped
from the confederacy and came into
our lines, were entitled to our pro-
lection aud might be employed in our
service.
Colorado is now producing in every
"a hours $4,000, in silver, $4,000, 10
gold, and 81 300 in other metals;
or $4,000 daily, equal to ss,9s5,OOO !
yearly. The ores from the gold
mine in Colorado yield an average of
Sl2 per ton, the average cost OF
mining, milling and transportation OF
the ores is So, a ton. The average
yield of ores from the silver mines is
about S145 per ton, the average cost
of mining and milling is $40 per ton,
being an aggregate net profit of over
SO cent. on the total yield from this
state.
There Is celebrated professor in
Germany whose works on biblical
science are authorities. who is singu-
larry ignorant OF all aft airs save his /,
studies. He was lately paid a large I
sum OF money by his publisher, on ac-
count of copyright funds. The
amount was more than he could use G
for present demands. what on
earth can l do with all this money!
he asked, in real distress. "Why," I
replied the publisher. you can put h
it out at interest" After thinking a
moment, in evidently greater anxiety, A