Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-02-18

receives.
Mrs. PARrINeToN.--Don't put too much
difidence in lovers words, my dear
niece. He may tell you that you have lips
like strawberries and cream; cheeks like a
carnation, and eyes like an arserisk; but
such things oftener come from terder
head ttan tender heart. / like to go to
weddings, though; the good lady added.
like to hear young people promise to love,
humsr, and nourish each other; but it's
solemn thing when the minister comes into
the chancery with his surplice on, and goes
through the ceremony of making them man
and wife. 1t ought to be husband and
wife. for it isn't every husband who turns
out to be man. l declare l never shall
forget when Paul put the nuplial ring on
my finger, aud said: with my goods I
thee endow." He used to keep a drapers
shop then, and thought he was going to
give me the whole there was in it. ] was
young and simple, and didn't kLow, till
afterwards, that it only meant one cotton
dress a year!
An editor out West says if "lime is
money" he is willing to exchange little
of his for the "hard"
Mr.. Douglas began his early life in Yer
mont IS cabinet maker. He is now em.
ploying his latter days as a cabinet breaker
in Washington.
To ascertain whether woman is pas
sionate or not take muddy dog into the
parlor.
Necessity has no law, but an uncommon
number of lawyers.
II am thy fathers spirit" as the bottle
said to the boy, when he found it hid in
the wood-pile, and wondered what it
was.
The most fashionable marriages, at the
present time, are those which are we'd
ded with gold-love is secondary arli.
Gle.
There is a family in Ohio, so lazy thatit
takes two of them to sneeze--one TO throw
the head back and the other to make the
noise.
If you would have an idea of the ocean
in storm, jus, imagine ten thousand hills
and four Thousand mountains, all drunk,
chasing one another over newly -ploughed
ground. with cayerns in it for them to step
into now and then.
"John, can you tell me the difference be.
tween the attraction of gravitation and al
traction of eohesion?" Eyes sir; attrac-
tion of gravitation pulls a drunken man to
the ground, and the attraction of cohesion
prevents his getting up again.
A fat Irishman, in time of revival.
joined the church, but was found SHINING
grievously not long afterwards. Didn't
you join the Methodists?' inquired pious-
ly-disposed person. 'Faix, al I did,
jined for six months. end behaved so we'll
they let me out with three
A modern tourist calls the Niagara riv-
cr the pride of rivers" That pride GER.
tainly has a tremendous fall.
EEIn childhood be modest. in youth
temperate. in manhood just, and in old sge
prudent.
Curious FAcrs.--f the harvest of enc
year would fail, nearly the whole human
race would perish.
Forty-fve pounds Of salt are contained
in one hundred pounds of water from the
Dead Sea-
Air may be SO rarifed by heat as to oc-
cupy five or six hundred tiu;e the space it
did before.
Water, when converted into steam. In
creases in bulk one thousand three hund-
red.
There are nearly three thousand muscles
in the common grasshopper. s
Gold, by hammering, may be rendered
so thin that two hundred and eighty two
leaves must te placed upon each
other TO produce the thickness of ono
inch
A pound Of beef loses one fourth bv
boiling, and an ounce more BY roasting.
An lrishman, near Boston, becoming
somewhat alarmed, at the severity of the
thunder and lightning, foil upon his knees
and exclaimed % Lord. forgive US and
stop this
re- There are in the United States about
seventeen thousand lawyers. eighteen thou
sand clergymen. and twelve thousand ply
'icians. exclusive of eight thousand
luacks.