Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-21
This and That.


The original inhabitants of the Euro
pean nations were the Celts, Goths, and
Sclavonians.
The annual cost Of keeping in order
the trees, strawberries and seats upon
the boulevards and in the public squares
and gardens of Paris is 100000. 1t is
estimated that the number of trees in
the avenues and boulevards of Paris
number 81 ,20l; those i'm the cemeteries
10, ,4OC, and those in the squares and
court yards of various buildings $500.
There are also 5000 seats for the accom-
mediation of hepublic.
Farmers daughters often marry rakes.
Exchange. Yes, and it harrows our
soul to know that the rakes sometimes
turn out to be threshers.-[ Yonkers Ga
zette. Why, oh, why did she allow the
rake to cultivator acquaintance?-
tHawkeye. We hope that every
daughter who niarries a rake may reap
er reward.5[New Haven Journal and
Courier. Alasl then, she'll find she's
spade too dear for-but hoe cares? No
mower of this. now.
Anderson, the New Haven murderer,
who is awaiting new trial, is very fond
of a little mouse which he caught in his
cell. When he holds string in his fin
gers, and in broken English asks his
little friend to mount like sailor, the
mouse lays hold Of the string and
climbs to his hand. The mouse also
sits on her hind legs on tea-cup, and.
crawling through bis moustache and on
his nose, makes a graceful bow and
jumps from head to hand.
The wicked strikers get a deal Of
preaching to on all hands. But moth
ing in particular is said about the vir-
tuous railway corporations, which
formed union and raised the price of
coal from sl.25 in 1873 to So in 1877. 1t
Is highly improper for workingmen to
combine together to secure fair wages,
but highly moral and praiseworthy for
railways to combine and double the
price Of one Of the great necessities of
modern life. In one case it is the cor
porations which are struck, in the other
case it is the people. But then it seems
to be thought perfectly legitimate and
virtuous to strike the people for. the
benefit Of corporation.
An Ohio correspondent of the Spring
field Union says that quails are relied
on in that state for the destruction of
potato bugs, and that where the birds
are plenty the fields are kept entirely
free from beetles, with no care on the
part of the farmers. The quails, in
quiet situations, visit the fields in large
fiocks, and, taking the rows systemati.
cally by course, clear up every hill, and
return the next day for more. The
Ohio Legislature passed a law two years
ago for the protection of quails, and
the result Is large increase in their
numbers, very welcome to the farmers
who regard them as one Of their most
valuable aids in the war against insects.
One Of the most remarkable pictures
OF the last exhibition Of paintings in
the Paris salon, was the portrait of M.
Alexander Dumas by Meissonier. The
dramatic author il represented sitting
with head inclined, and rejecting, or
rather musing. The painting Is pres
ent from the artist to the academician.
When terminated, Dumas held out his
hand to Meissonier and said: II have
not the pretension to offer you any
thing In return for this work. A por-
trait by you is without price; but can
declare that from this day the picture
will be left by my will to the Louvre,
which is its proper placei" The paint
er smiled, embraced Dumas, and simp.
ly said: 'Thank you very sincerelyl"
INC man viii ever prosper who has
the curse of a ruined woman upon him.
The murderer Of the body can be tried
and executed by the worlds laws, but
the murderer Of the soul is tried by
heavens laws, and the execution is sure
as divine justice Aunt Betsey said
this as she folded the white hands Of a
beautiful girl, snd put white flowers and
green leaves about the marble-cold fore
head. There was tiny babe beside the
girl-mother. The house was hushed
and there was mourning such as few
know. Half glad that the mother and
child were dead, the rest of the family
must perform the last sad Office of burial
and bear the family shame. A haunted
housel Aruined homel God the arch
itect and msn the spoiler. The curse is
there, and the destroyer cannot escape.
-W0man's Journal