The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

TINE never sits heavily upon US but
when it is badly employed.
ACCORDING to the AtlGs -" The Woman
QuestiOn-Is he rich?"
a VERY unpopular officer for indolent
ladies-General hOusework.
If you would not have affection to
visit you twice listen at once to what it
teaches.
BARNUM wants to exhibit, as curiosity,
the man who perused all the recent annual
official documents.
THE last words Of Helen Western, "this
is becoming serious" were uttered few
moments before she died.
BONNER says that so long as Dexter re-
mains the first horse in the country, there
is not money enough in Wall street to buy
him.
An ardent antiquary wants to know
where you can find any modern buildings
which have lasted as long as the ancient
ones.
RABBITS are 50 numerous in Australia
that they are killed as vermin. One farm
er calculates that it viii cost him &c.
600 to expel tiem from his grounds.
THE other day gentleman while pass
ing on the sidewalk, on Franklin street,
Cleveland, had his les- arm grabbed and
severely bitten by a vicious horse hitched
to a post.
4 YOUNG lady who saw a steam fire.
engine in Boston for the first time, inno-
Gently inquired why they boiled the water
before they threw it on the fire.
a TORoNTO paper says the members of
the Legislature wish to go home for the
holidays. and kindly adds: at is a pity
the holidays don't last all year"
Two mutes were married in lansing
burgh, n Y. few days since. The bride
was quite pretty. The service was read
and the questions TO the parties were writ
ten on slips ofpaper.
TRUMAN SMITH, of Connecticut, has pro-
posed new way to pay off the public
debt. Put a tax on words" he says
land the New York Court of Appeals
viii pay it in less than four years"
a GENT out West was invited TO take
game at poker, but he refused, saying:
No, thankee; l played poker all one
summer and had to wear nankeen pants
all next winter; have no taste for that
amusement since"
A SOUTHERN lady resident in New
York, wAo is to become a bride shortly,
under linen, etc, worth several hundred
dolars-the gift and workmanship of
Nam Betsey," former slave Of the
family.
THE same old lady who recently in
quired how they turned the oil into
"tbem ere iron things stickin down from
the plasterin'" (the gas-pipes), drew up
to an iron safe the other day and remark
ell that she "never did like them awful
cold air tight stoves"
A MAN of Ardover, Maine, hitched his
horse to a board fence, and fed him with
hay IN big box. There was crack in
one Of the boards large enough for his
cow to lick her tongue through at the hay
The horse bit her tongue off SO that he
had to xiii her.
MARY, do you say your prayers morn
ing and evening?" "No, Miss, | don't"
"Why, Mary are you not afraid to go to
sleep in the dark without asking God to
take care of you and watch over you until
the mOrningy" mo, Miss, I amt afraid,
cause sleep in the middle"
In New York, few days ago, q lunatic
jumped on locomotive engine at the
Hudson River Railroad depot, put on full
steam and dashed up town at full speed.
Many narrow escapes were made before
the madman was overhauled, and man
snd his wife were seriously injured.
MAJ. CHAPMAN, Sheriff of Cumberland
county, Kentucky. had tax bill against
a man who refused to pay and seemed to
have no available property TO answer the
claim until one day he found the delin-
quent with his set OF false teeth out for
the cleansing process, and seized upon the
t AaIi mt ic linn
it.
IT is said Frank Reno alone knew of
the place where was deposited 100000,
the proceeds of one of his many robberies.
His sister visited him some days before he
was murdered and tried to induce him to
tell where this hoard was concealed, but
he refused, telling her that if ne could not
live 10 enjoy it no one else should. The
secret died with him.
A LATE Judge, whose personal appear
ance was as unprepossesslng as his legal
knowledge was profound and his intellect
keen, interrupted female witness
Humbugged you'll my geod woman,
what do you mean by thatg" said he,
sternly. "Well, my lord" replied the
woman, "I don't know how to explain
exactly; but if a girl called your lord
ship handsome man, now she would be
humbugging you"
A FEW nights ago, a watchman in
Columbus, O., discovered a lady in her
night ht-clothes crouching behind fence
She explained that she had been walking
in her sleep; had wakened suddenly, ana
was so bewildered that she could not tell
which direction TO go to reach home The
officer asked her to name some locality
near her residence, which she did He
walked toward the place named, she fol-
lowed at some distance. AS tbeysreached
a well known grocery establishment, she
said, "I know my way now, sir, thank
you, and good night" and ran quickly up
a cross street to her home. 1t seems she
had travelled some distance in her sleep.
and before waking had arrived in part
of the city entirely strange to her.