The Plymouth Republican., 1879-05-29

On the nrSt or January, 1879, the
Sisters Of Charity in the United States
had LOG establishments. ..
A man at Manchester. EngIand,
who is eighty years of age, is cutting
his second set of teeth.
Court plaster Is made OF thin silk.
fist dipped in dissolved isinglass and
dried, then dipped several times in
white of an egg and dried.
A skipping rope was placed among
tie flowers on Kittie Boylan's coffin-
In Clyde, Ohio. She had died from
jumping it 120 times without stop
ping.
The late Mrs. Sarah ]. Hale wrote
Mary Had a little Lamb" for the
of her children. 1t is
likely to remain as enduring as any
OF her Ell Jrts.
A Pauper in Gill, Mass got five
dollars from the poormaster ~to OBJ
tain the necessities of life" as he de-
clared. and used the money in taking
to himself wife.
The three tallest trees in the world
are believed to a seqaois near Stock
ton, Cal, which is 325 feet high, and
two eucalyptia in Victoria. Australia.
estimated to be 435 to 45O feet high
respectively.
In only ten States Legislatures ses.
sions are held annually. These are
New York, Maine. Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts. Mississippi. New Jersey.
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Wis.,
consin and Louisiana.
What is supposed to be the largest
tree in the Southern States Is q tulip
bearing poplar near Augusta. Ga, is
155 feet high and nine feet 10 dame
ter, its lowest branches being fifty
five feet from the ground.
The desire to return to the whip>
ping-post is SO strong in Kentucky
that in some counties candidates for
the Legislature ere compelled to
pledge themselves 20 sustain the
measure OF lose their chance Of elec-
IT, n.
A correspondent In Marlborough.
s. c.. describing the cyclone there.
cited. as remarkable occurance, that
"a sheep was found lying In
the road with every particle OF wool
taken from it as cleanly as a razor
could have done it."
Business prospects 10 the west ap-
pear to be usually good. Crops all
promise well and the acreage is
greater than heretofore: manufactur-
ing Interests are lively and unemploy-
ed laborers are growing scarce. Pol
Iiiicians and tranps still abound, but
unalloyed prosperity would be too
much to hope for.
As Robert Lincoln and Stephen A.
Douglas are both prac Icing law In
Chicago, and as both are taking an
active interest In the fortunes OF their
respective parties, its suggested that
the people OF Illinois may once again,
some time in the future. be called up
on to choose, at the polls. between
Lincoln and Douglas.
On the 3Oth OF April an inaugural
trip was made on the Tunis- -Algiers
railway, aod the Bay OF Tunis wasia-
vited to assist 10 the ceremony. BE
refused to DO so except upon the con-
dition that at the lunch, which was to
be given at the half way station, there
should be no wine on the table and
no women in the company.
The son or the murdered Judge
Chisholm. who isnow employed by the
state government OF Pennsy lyania,
says that he has been advised by
friends in Mississippi that it will not
be safe for him and his mother to re-
turn for the purpose OF trying to con-
yict the assassins OF their father aud
sister. but they have made up their
minds TO go aud take their risks.
DR.. Defaur, French physician, re-
rorts this interesting case: A COM
mon brown owl built Its nest beneath
the projecting roof OF farmhouse.
where it had a brood OF young. One
day the farmer. moved by curiosity,
drove away the old bird, took out the
young owls, and. after looking at
them, replaced them uninjured. In
the evening, as he was entering the
house with his servsut the latter sud-
denly heard the beating OF wings. and
felt the claws OF the owl on his chin,
aud before he could defend himself.
received blow from its beak Direct
ly underSthe eye. On the following
day an unsuccessful hunt for the bird
was Instituted, but in the dusk II ap-
peared again and attacked the farm
er himself, striking him directly In
the eye with its beak. DIR. Defaur
found wound OF the cornea and an
abundant hemorrhage. The sight OF
the eye was completely lost. and the
other eye was subsequently, threaten>
ed with sympathetic inflammation.
The Indiana Bison.
IL has long been a matter OF serious
doubt to close observers OF the great