Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-26
Items of Interest.

Dealer
The public is not near as sleepy as
our Democratic contemporary thinks
Millions of people are reading the
debate Inter Ocean.
Hebron Leader: The devil WAS ere
mated at the Salvation Army tent, mon
day night. Many of his friends will he
sorry to learn of the fact because he
in dull times.
The Logonsport girls are never he
hind the times and know What is what.
y local paper of that city says: The
LogOnsport girl says she doesn't know
much about military tractics bat she
thinks the 'call to arms must be the
most interesting feature in the manual"
The Cincinnati Times Star has set
tied long disputed question. Some
one wrote to that paper asking, "When
is girl beautifully" and the paper re
spends by saying Eve know of only
one universal rule, namely: When You
love her
\ gentleman called at the Goshen
Times Office few days ago and said
when he was boy, some twenty five
years ago, he pilfered plug of tobacco
from II. J. Beyerle's drug store, that
his conscienc had accused him of late
and that he now called TO pay for il.
The penitent, who is wealthy and
highly respectable farmer, was freely
forgiven, and payment for the tobacco
was declined. Rochester Republican.
Here is how a nelghboring exchange
discriminates between libel as uttered
by a newspaper and the same words
uttered by lawyer. y lawyer in court
room may call man liar, scouudrel,yil
liam or a thief, and no man makes a com
plant when court adjourns. If news
paper prints such reflection on mans
character there is libel suit or dead
editor. This is probably owing To the
fact that people believe what an editor
says; what the lawyer says cuts no
figure.
From time to time efforts have been
made to have an exhibition OF areal col
lision between locomotives under the
Imposition that sufficient number of
persons would be interestedto pay the
fee necessary to justify the expense.
Such an exhibition is announced To
take place July -, on the line of the
Cleveland. Canton x Southern, at Can
ton, Ohio, at p. III. The locomotives
are to weigh 10 tons each, and will lie
started one mile apart and come together
at the rate OF 6Omles an hour, in amen
closure where the spectators are 10 pay
10 cents for the privilege of witnessing
the novel exhibition Exchange.
II. Franklin, the genial proprietor of
the New Franklin House is placing a
new watering trough in front of the
hotel for the benefit of friends and pa
irons 1t will be model of its kind
with an inlet and waste pipe thus in
surfing a constant supply of fresh, pure
water of which Mr.. Frank lin invites
the public to partake.
Professor Checkly,a Cincinnati doe
tor of medicine, is of the opinion that
the American people squander too
shorten their lives by a too liberal ap-
plication of soap and water to their eX-
terror surface. "Bathing and the use
of soap" says the learned doctor" is
40 per cent more injurious to the human
race than any other form OF stimulation
to which the people are addicted. Val
parais Messenger
An exchange asks the following in
regard to those who coz. 80 their
local papers with the large citS dailies.
DO the city dailies say anything in re
gard to your own county? Not word.
DO they contain notices of your school
meetings, church improvements and
hundreds of other local matters of in
terest which your home paper publishes
each week? Not an item. DO they
say word calculated to draw attention
to your county and aid in its progress
and enterprises? Not a line, And
there are men who take such contract
ed views of this matter that unless they
are getting as many square inches of
reading matter in their own as they do
In the city papers, they think they are
not getting the worth of their morey.
1t reminds lis of the man who took the
largest pair of boots in the box because
the price was the same as the pair much
smaller, which fitted him. Bourbon
Mirror.