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

A western editor calls sheet music |
' the cry of children in bed"
DR. j. C. Aver pays the largest in
come tax in LoHell-on s67 ,424.
The Church Union says that Grant
is not man for Christian to support.
An exchange 10 Maine says Hens
AID grapevines are propagatcd.by layers"
"A French paper, advertising for an
editor, promises double pay while in pris-
On.
Why should printer 90 hungry,
when he can always convert his work into
"pi?"
The Boston Post understands that the
Independent is to have a religious depart
ment.
The n ew York printers have con-
tributed to the Artemus Ward monument
the sum of 81 900.
-" We make men :" is the startling
heading of an advertisement of the rcctory
school at Saybrook, Conn.
In booksellers catalogue lately ap-
peared the following article: Memoirs
of Charles the First-with head cap ital-
ly executed"
Some wretch of an editor says that
another twist to the present mode Of doing
up ladies' hair would take them off their
| feet.
"A political editor threatened to give
bis coiempofary "piece of his mind"
d" Don't do it," was the reply, you have
none to spare"
There was a falling off Of ten millions
of bushels in the corn receipts at Chicago,
last year, as compared with those Of the
year pre- 5ious.
"None but the brave deserve the fair"
Our devil ct our elbow cruelty suggests
that none but the brave can live with
some Of them"
"A Scotch editor apologies for the
lack Of rhyme in his paper by saying.that
his marriage the week before took all the
poetry out of him.
The london Times beins an EDITORIAL:
Now that Italy has come by her own,
would she be so kind as to take back her
organ grinders ?"
A letter was received at White River
junction recently directed to "Mr. John
Sullivan, nine miles from Vermont. Care
of Mr.. Brooks ON farm."
Last year $4,000 letters, containing
an aggregate of $4,000 cash, were depos-
tied in the post Office Of Breat Britain,
without word or letter of address.
The newspapers have been asking
why prayer books have looking glasses on
the inside Of the cover A Toronto pa.
per says they arc aids to reflections.
Ono Of our exchanges praises an egg
which it says was laid on our table by
Rev. Mr.. Smith" Mr.. Smith seems to be
a layman as we'll as minister
One of the Pennsylvania papers recently
printed its whole issue on kind of wrap
ping paper, which was given to the pub
Usher by dealer to advertise his wares.
The following is one of the two ol
three lines lii the English language tina
read precisely the same backward as for
ward +" Snug & raw was | ere l saw wal
& guns
An Iowa editor told his readers b,
, had enlisted in the army of Iion-hat
joiucd the Baptist church. His politica
cotemporary thinks he had better call i
5 joining the navy
; The New York papers having warmly
recommended the Gettysburg Lottery
, holders of tickets are invited to send then
to the editors of those journals for redemp
! ton.
Eighty thousand copies of the Leip
sic Gartenlaube, ten thousand copies o
the Stuttgart Illustrated News, and fou
thousand copies of the Leipslo Illustrates
|, Gazette are sent to the United States.
---"Look out for the locomotive" has bee
erased from the warning posts along th'
Erie railroad, and " Fdci2e descensus are,
no" substituted Another substitute sug
gests itself, viz: " Prepare to meet tn.
God !"
-"Cora olanus" furnishes the ladies wit
this piece of advice: There are som
professions not advisable to marry into
Such as editors, for they never get ricl
or reporters, who are never home nights.
The following is the latest fashiona
BILE htelligen &C from the turf: Las
week we chronicled the birth of daughte