Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-15


made.
On Saturday of this week Messrs.
Michael Ryan and Silas Joseph take
possession of the boot and shoe house
of p. Stegman. Mr.. Ryan has been in
the auditors office for many years and
has a large circle of acquaintance,
while Mr.. Joseph, coming from West
township, is well known. They COM
menced invoicing on Thursday and will
open for business on Saturday.
n neighboring exchange tells the fol-
lowing story on farmer who went into
a drug store and for the first time saw
a photograph. lie was told to drop
nickel, in the slot and hear the music.
The farmer doubtingly dropped in
nickel, put the tube to his ear and after
waiting a second, started for the door
with the hasty exclamation: "Gosh all
fish hooks, Here comes brass band
and | left them mules unhitched."
We see by the Monticello Press that
they are contemplating putting in a
system of water works, and have had
Mr.. George c. Morgan, of Chicago, at
one of their public meetings to explain
his system of water works. Mr.. Nor
gan is thoroughly conversant in this
line of work, and if our Monticello
friends secure a system through Mr..
Morgan, they can rest assured they will
receive a first class system of water
works.
Messrs. Anderson & Hansen spent
two days of last week in the city of
Chicago, laying in stock of fine to-
baccos for their factory here. They
purchased some of the finest leaf tobac-
co that has ever been brought into this
portion of the state, which will be read
lily discovered by cigar smokers. They
will in short time have their brands of
cigars ready for the market, when the
merits of their goods can be fully
tested.
An exchange says that a single page
in single issue of the Century taken
for advertising costs $3.50, the Harpers
$3.50, other magazines 500 to $3.50. A
yearly advertisement of one column in
the Chicago Tribune costs S2S,550 for
the lowest and $4,000 for the highest
rate. The New York World costs
200 for the lowest and $4,000 for
the highest priced column. These fig
ures will probably astonish men who
spend from 80 to $40 year with pa
per for advertising space and seem to
think they are liberal advertisers.
\ bad piece of sidewalk on CAIRO
street, near O'Keefe's lumber yard, was
the cause of an accident Wednesday
evening, that was fortunately not seri-
Gus. Mrs. Jas. De Loney in company
with Mrs. Sieyers, of LaPorte, who is
visiting Mrs. W. T. Young, were on
their way to church when Mrs. Sievers
fell on the walk and was badly bruised,
although no bones were broken. 1t is a
piece of walk that has been brought
to the councils attention heretofore
and it is hoped they will fix the place
before serious damages to life and limb
result.
If a young woman wishes TO have
herself published as fascinating, beau
tiful and accomplished, let her pack
her best clothes in dirty towel, crawl
out of the back upstairs window some
dark, rainy night, and elope with the
man that feeds aud curries her fathers
horse It's big price to pay for COM
pliments; but it will bring them just as
certain as dirty barrel will beget mos
quitoes. In fact, we never knew a wo-
man to make very decided fool of
herself, in any way, without enhancing
her charms two or three hundred per
cent by the time it got into the papers.
The Springfield, ILL.,, Union tells a
story of the late G. w. Stearns. He was
defending young fellow for larceny,
the evidence against whom was only
circumstantial. Stearns urged that cir
cumstantial evidence ought never to
convict a man. "Why," said the counsel,
"when / was boy remember play
mate of mine who, while his parents were
absent, went to the pantry and nearly
devoured big custard pie before he
thought of the paternal strap. When he
did, ne looked around for some means
of hiding the traces of his guilt. He
saw the family cat in the corner, and
taking puss by neck he carefully
smeared her paws with the custard, took
the guilty cat out into the back yard
and shot her. AS the shotgun rang out,
the boy observed to me witha chuckle,
There goes one more victim of circum-
stantial evidence The jury disagreed.
1t is perhaps coincidence that both
Washington and Lincoln were born in
February. 1t is moreover lucky thing
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