The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-07-31
Yours, etc., as -
CHAs. L. MURRAY.


The Italians have a proyerb hat,
while one devil may tempt. the toiler.
thousand Digs the drone.
The only way to escape the control
OF low desires is to rise above them
in the love OF better things. N
A Hoosier inventor has devised q
method OF transformin, wheat straw
into wood, and hard wood lumber at
that.
Two negro boys had-a butting
match In Greenville, N. O., the ofher
day, and one of them butted the
other into eternity. os fes gls
The quarries Of Dix island, Maine,
have furnished granite for the Uni
ted Stated. within a few years. 20 the
amount Of s., ,l64 600. sast ssf heio
Life is but a span. Marriage is a
double team. Youth welded to old
age is tardem. A cross old bach
elor is single aud all sulky.
The debt OF Paris exceeds $J6. .000,-
600. the debt OF New York Is nearly
three times as much: yet New York..
in comparison with Paris, has MOTH
ing to show for the money.
Property is the product Of labor.
1t must be hewed out OF the forest,
plowed out II the field. blasted out of
the mine. pounded out OF the anvil.
wrought out in tho factory and fur
mace.
Until recently the ~Idaho Desert"
near Boise CRY, was supposed to be
nniphabitable. Two years ago W. B..
Norris cut canal aeross it. a d. irri-
eating twenty thousand acres of land
now has crops that promise an abun-
dant harvest. .,
1t appears the frost does not surely.
kill The yellow fever. aud now the
doctors at the last session OF the.
American Medical Association, say
that the typhoid fever is propagated
not only by water and milk, which is
often largely diluted with water. but
also by icei sns1t
Farmers at Wichita, Kan, are
hauling buff 40 bones into town every
day. There has Just opened In
Wichita good market. The bones
are gail er,d in Harper and Barber
counties. where they lie In countless
hunters. and are hauled from fifty to.
a hundred miles. EeI
Ex Senator Ramsey, proposed for
secretary of war. is a large, fresh.
breezy old hero that one takes to on
sight. His family consists OF HE wife
and daughter, and he owns large es-
tates In the city OF st. Paul and viciu-
ity. Ramsey county. in which ST.
Paul is situated, is named after him.
Hanlan, the oarsman. says it is his
opinion that the best physical per-
formance can only be secured by
those who abstain from liquors and
tobacco. His plan is to avoid both.
to eat moderately, to take regular
an moderate exercise. ayoid violent
exeriion and maintain a cheerful
frame OF mind.
The Southern States received Ia.
contributions OF money during the
epidemic OF last year 81 5S4. .703. The
city OF Memphis received s409.4l25A
Forty States aud Territories
contributed to the fund. Beside this,
large quantities OF luxuri and COM
forts were forwarded by individuals
not counted in the general fund.
The big African elephant which
died at the Philadelphia Zoo last
week was xii ed by ischievious
children. In her stomach was found
lot of pebbles. fish bones and stieks.
which il is believed were put In paper
bags and thrown down the animal's
throat on the Fourth OF July, when a
very large crowd visited the garden.
We learn that Jim Woodward,-
"Jayhaw..e er'-coirespondent OF the
Cincinnati Enquirer has sued Win
ters, Of the Peru Sentinel. for libel.
estimating the damage TO his charac-
ter by an article published in the
Sentinel, at $4,000. He must think
that Winters is capable OF doing more
harm with his pen than most people
give him credit for.
Rev. John Rankin, Presbyterian
minister In Ohio. now 81 years OF age,
states that in Tennessee, where he
was born and educated, many minis
ters were then abolitionlsts, and that
a series of anii-slavery letters which
he wrote to his brother and after
wards published in book form, was
the means of convei ting VIM. Lloyd
Garrison 70 abolitionism.
A new variety OF sweet potato il
being cultivated Ia Kern County, the
extreme southeastern corner OF Cali.
fornia. They call it Ocean Queen.
Picked specimens weigh from fifteen
to eighteen and twenty two pounds.
The yield Is so great that they arc
fed to hogs, which thrive amazingly
and make extra pork. Recent ;esis
suggest that they will make better
/ nj che apor sugar ;han bets.