The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-07-23
NUMBER IL.

Horace Greeley, IN recent lecture,
spoke OF the r. Y Sun as a true, inde-
pendent, and honest journal, full of enter
prise and new-, worthy of the confidence
ofupright men of all parties, aud deserving
of the most extended circulation every
where"
In England a newspaper has at length
discovered the line dividing distinction
from a difference: 1t says that ga little
difference frequently makes many enemies
while little distinction attracts hosts of
friends to the person on whom it is con-
ferred."
An orator, perspiring freely, in a
husky voice said In short, ladies and
gentlemen, can only say that | wish
lad window in nay bosom that you might
see the emotions of my heart" The news
papers printed the speech, leaving out
OF window.
"A cotempotary who seems to have
had the experience, perpctrates the follow
ing conumdrum
"What is the difference between edito-
rial and matrimonial experience In the
former the devil cries for copy in the
latter the copy cries like the devil"
The editor of the Religious Telescope
objects to the singing by choirs of church
es while taking up collection. He says:
We have sometimes seen brothers SO
absorbed in the singing during the collect
ion that, with their closed eyes, they could
not see the b baskct as it passed"
An exchange says that hen has
capacity Of laying six hundred eggs and
no more. As most Of these are laid during
the first four-ycars of her life, it is thought
TO be economy to cut off her head when
she Is four years old and sell her to
boarding house keeper for spring chick.
en-.
An old picture represents king sit
ting in state, with a label, "I govern all'
"a bishop with legend, pray for ALL
soldier with motto, q [ fight for all
and O. farmer drawing forth reluctantly a
purse, with the inscription, Il pay for al"
The number of la wyers in lie United
States is reported at 81 ,9S9 (; and their az
cregate annual earnings at 63 1913, ,00O,au
average for each of $4,000. Of these
2,6S2 are residents of New York City,
Cos Of Philadelphia, and GAS of Boston.
Other American cities have smaller num-
bers.
An editor once said to young man
about to wed the scissors and paste:
"My young friend, you are about to
become, | learn an editor. Permit an old
man TO give this advice. If you desire
success in that capacity you should IN
each paper publish one column for sens
ibe man and two for fool"
1t is amusing at times to observe the
stores of the merchants who don't adyer-
,ise to see the anxious proprieto.s looking
into the streets and see the people go by,
wondering why they don't come in, while
the stores of their neighbors who do ad-
yertise are thronged with customers.
Some people will learn by observation, 9TH
ers will not.
J -Girardin said recently: \ newspa-
per man should always watch those who
. attack him with unnecessary bitterness /;
he should keep file of their papers and
r books, and, when they least think of it,
I treat IL en- to extracts from their former
writing. If he pursues this course for
some time without finching, few hounds
i'll dare to bark and snap at his heels"
E "A Spanish paper, entitled La Reeo-
luton, is now secretly printed in Paris and
! smuggled by tens of thousands beyond
the Spanish frontier. Under its heading
it bears the following words I" This paper
is destined to revolutionize the brave
Spanish army. to dethrone the royal cour-
tcsan, to drive the clerical vermin from
the country, and to establish liberty
throughout the Iberiau peninsula"
"A telegram recently made Gen. Now
err, who is bachelor, the father Of a
young lady of l6, and it has since been
L announced that two daughters of Gen.
Hood are pupils of a fashionable boarding
4 school In New York. As the gallant but
E misguided general was married less than a
: month ago, the statement respecting him
: must be considered as anticipatory of
y what the future will bring forth.
"A country editor is an individual who
u reads newspapers, writes articles on any
subject, sets type, reads proof, works press
J. folds aud mails papers, prints jobs, runs
l, errands, saws wood, works in the garden,