The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-01-02
Items of Interest.

ICES $500 a week from the Harpers
for his cartoons.
A press telegram from Berlin says
the Socialist law is being enforced
with renewed severity. Seventeen
publications have been prohibited in
Leipsic alone.
The Charlotte, N. c., Observer says
thar, owing to the lack OF AN efficient
school system, the younger genera
tion OF North Caiolinians are grow
ing up in ignorance.
Representative Alexander II. Ste-
phen's body servanp Harry" by his
own thrift and industry, has become
wealthy, and Is said to be a richer
man than his master.
The st. Paul Press learns that If
teen thousand Russian Mennonites
will leave Russia his winter, large
portion Of whom will settle In Mime
sota, Iowa and Dakota.
1t is g. timated that the board OF
health law in Illinois has driven more
than twelve hundred qudcks out Of
that Slate. No doubt many OF them
have crossed the line iuto Indiana
An Army Aid Society was formed
in Washington the 23i. The object
is to form a society which, by its ac-
cumulaiion of funds from fees shall
insure its members a certain amount
OF money Ia case OF death.
A woman at Lawrence, Mass. has
just given birth TO her tw, nty second
child, willie her two married daugh
ters have contributed baby a year
to the population of the state during
the seven aud three years OF their re-
speclive welded life.
The real reason why there are no
regular sailings from America ports to
South America is that the trade at
the outset cannot be profitable, and
that ii must be contracted al disad-
vantage against the competition OF
existing and established lines.
The school boy in Japan requires a
good deal OF pluck. Iu the govern
ment elementary schools. as now
constituted. boy is required 10 learn
about 1000 chaI acters, and. man
laying any claims 10 scholarship
must know from 5000 to 10000.
The German Chancellor took ad-
vantage OF the attempts to assassi
nate the Emperor. to secure the pas
sage OF repressive and reaclionary
laws which give to the crown auto
cratic power over persons aud prop
erty such as IL has hot possessed foi
nearly a century.
r The suit against the government
brought by the heirs OF Stephen A
Douglas for certain cotton captur, q
by the United States Government in
Mississippi during the~sar and sold
as abandoned property, was settled
finally in the Court OF Claims Thurs
day by judgment in favor Of claim.
auts.
II has transpired that the two men
who were burned alive a few day.
since in. n.Nebraska were innocent par
ties who had incurred the disploasurs
OF some cattle-thieving renegades
who perpetrated the horrible out
rage. Forty thousand dollars Is Of
fered by the Governor OF Nebraska
for the arrest OF the fiends.
Bret Harte got but $40 each. IL l,
said. for his "Outcasts OF Poker Flat.
~Luck Of Roaring Camp" sMiggles,
and the other extraordinary storiei
he wrote fore the Overland MonthlI
while he was its editor. The publish
ers Of Scritner's. 1t is reported, pais
him S. 900 for Gabriel Conroy," L
be published in their magazine alone
Though the prices of farm produces
are so low, the country Is prosperous
and plenty of all the good thing, o
life abound. A bushel OF wheat will
buy as much OF the merchants wares
as ever il would, apl there is no lacl
ofanything. in the far West. 10 Col
orado, and on the Pacific, -times ar,
flush" and business OF all legitimat,
kinds prosperous.
Information was received a few
days ago by the superintendent o
the lunauic asylum on Wards Island
near New York, that one OF the Ia
mates had received bequest OF 81
600 In cash from u deceased brother
When the lunatic was informed o
the fact he declared he would hav,
nothing whatever To do with il be
cause money WAS the cause OF all thu
misery in thu world,
During the current year the city o
Providence has provided labor az IF
ty cents a day for all citizens in neet
Of employment and able 10 work, an,
has also furnished food and lodgin,
for t,amps and other non resident
applying for the same and willing {,
recompense the city by cboppins
wood. 1t was expected that the ex
pertinent would cause a marked In
crease OF expenses, but the figures
already show small saving. and tn
number OF tramps has already &c
creased; in fact, the tramp who viii