Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-15
Items Of Interest.

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English papers say this summer has
been the hottest experienced fol
eleven years.
The electric light is slowly being
improved and developed, so that il
promises to become capable OF uni
versal use.
The once famous Mormon temple
at Nauvoo, ILL.,, has utterly disap-
peared, not stone OF it remaining
on the site.
Twenty thousand cabin passengers
left New York for Europe this sum-
mer-the largest number during any
single season.
At the late Democratic Convention
at Austin, Texas, it is stated that OF
the 1,40O delegates there were 1000
who carried pistols.
Anna E. Dickinson says she has
long since recovered her health. Her
comedy and tragedy are both fin
ished, and she is now at work on a
lo-drama. She Is very busy.
Hydrophobia is not a disease Pc
culiar to or caused by hot weather
Give the dog plenty OF water and
wholesome food and he is no more
dangerous in summer than winter.
Frederick Weller, formerly OF Dun
kirk, New York, who has been clerk
in the United States Treasurer's Of
fee for thirteen years. has been made
assistant principal book-keeper in
the Treasury Department
The total expenses of Russia dur
ing the late war, including its issue
OF paper money and its outstanding
debts, were, up to the oath OF June
last, considering the depreciation OF
the rouble, about $592. 100000.
The largest Of the pyramids is 4Sl
feet high and 693 feet on the sides;
its base covers eleven acres. The
stones are above 80 feet in length
and the layers are 2O8; 100000 men
were employed in its erection.
A man was recently discovered in q
German village who had been chained
down to his bed for over fifty years
In 1926 he was dismissed from the
military as insane, since which time
he has been kept by his relatives In
the position recently found by the
district commissioners.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press has ad-
vices from the wheat regions of Min.
uesota which indicate that the har-
vest will not be as bountiful as was
hoped for. The yield will not. on an
average, probably exceed seventeen
bushels per acre. and it will not grade
above No. 2.
More tons OF iron and steel were
rolled in this country last year than
in that during which the panic fell
upon the country. Everybody isn't
out Of work after all. Moreover
millions OF acres more of wheat and
corn are being cultivated this year
than in 1873, so everybody can't be
starving.
New York city possesses two lepers
They occupy an apartment in Charity
Hospital. One is a New York man
and the other Cuban, and both con.
tracted their leprosy. in Cuba, where
it is quite common. The physicians
In the hospital claim that the disease
Is not contagious, and that it is incur.
able. The condition OF the patients ID
too terrible for description.
The most important geological dis.
covery OF the year has been made by
Prof. Snow, Of the Kansas University
scientific expedition about 800 miles
east of Denver. 1t consisted OF 9
giant reptile or saurian, so perfectly
preserved as to exhibit a portion ol
the hide. Previously geologists had
found hundreds OF specimens of these
saurians with the bones alone remain.
ing, so that this discovery of the
outer skin is new to science.
The French papers give the partic
ulars OF curious poisoning case. A
boy cracked a number OF peach
stones and eat the kernels. His par
ents found him writhing in agony
and death soon ensued. It is stated
that an ounce of the kernels of peach
stones contains about one grain o.
hydrocyanic acid, and that one grair
OF the poison will kill an adult person
and two-thirds OF grain a child
The girls and boys should be eau
toned against peach-stones.
The accident on the Panhandl,
railroad last Wednesday morning, a
Mingo Junction, Ohio, was caused b,
the recklessness Of the freight con
ductor, whose watch was twenty min
utes slow. He attempted to max,
the siding at Mingo instead of wait
ing at l1lexandria. he and his en-
gineer have disappeared. Fifteel
deaths were caused by the accident
and one or two others will occur
More than forty were wounded. Tn,
passengers on the sleepers were con
] siderably shaken up but not hurt.