The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ADVICE to people who dye their hair
Keep it dark.
A WIT being requested "to say q good
tersr'
WHY is az ocuiist ike an extemporane-
Gus versifier? Because he can improve
eyes (improvise)
WHERE is money first mentioned in the
back to Noah.
scotch terrier which crossed the plains TO
the Pacific coast more than twenty years
ago.
THE complexion Of the "GiTl Of the
Period" is said by London Fun to differ
from railway season ticket in this, that
one Is, and the other is not transferable.
a STUDENT who was riding, being ieered
Tor wearing but one spur, said that if one
side OF his horse went on, it was not like
ly that the other would stay behind.
A BOLD and sdroit system Of robbery is
being practiced in Boston. Il consists of
cutting out piece of window pane by
means of q diamond, and removing the
same with what is termed a "sucker"
placed upon the piece cut cut.
III l<Nfst1 k1LU.l fONfifF SAYS.
Ben Davis, who was sentenced to the
Penltentiary this afternoon. was local
policeman of some note Eleven of the
iurymen wanted to send him TO the Legis-
lature, but finally compromised on two
years in the Penitentiarg."
THE New York Journal or Medicine
says that Dr.. n. Hickman, Demonstration
of Anatomy in the University of Pennsyl-
vania, has met with q case of complete
transposition OF the internal organs in the
dlssecting room of the University. The
apex OF the heart is on the right side; in
TACT, every organ occupies exactly the op-
poslte side from what is natural.
II Redding Ridge, Conn, it makes very
little difference how a man treats his enc
my. During one week recently O. man
horscwhipped another and was fined one
dollar; boy Intentionally discharged
pistol at one of his companions, and was
fined one dollar; and an agile youth pun
meled an associate, and was also fined one
dollar. " You pays YOU money and you
takes you choice"
A SMALL lad in Bath, Me, the other day
was cOasting down steep road which
crosses railroad, when freight train
came along He struggled hard to avoid
what seemed TO be certain death, but was
carried forward with an irresistible mo-
mentum, which seemed to threaten certain
death. While the bystandcrs held their
breath IN horror, expecting TO see him cut
to pieces, he shot across the track like an
arrow, between the wheels of one of the
cars, coming out safely on the lover side.
a CLERGYMAN recently related the fol-
lowing: Two young friends Of his were
boarding in Germany with a verv levOilt
/ Catholic lady, who always asked blessing
before each meal. One day she asked the
young men how the Americans asked
blessing One of them, remembering the
haste with which so many of his country
men attack their food, said, "The Ameri-
can blessing is, Pitch in" A few days
after, the good lady, thinking to please
her b0arders, reverently folded her hands
before breakfast and uttered the words,
Pitch in" which they of course did.
/ A CURIOUS incident occurred recently,
near the depot of the Knoxville & Ken
lucky Railroad, at Knoxville, Tenn. An
engine was proceeding along the track at
good speed, when the engineer suddenly
discovered man walking along the track.
The man did not appear to heed the
whistle of warning, and before the engine
could be reversed he was struck by the
cow-catcher and knocked about twelve to
fifteen feet in the air, alighting II the fall
upon the bumper beam in front of the en-
gine. Strange to say, the only injury he
received was a fracture ofone Ofthe small
bones of the left ankle. His mysterious
conduct was fully explained when ii was
discovered that he was deaf and dumb,
being one of the pupils of the school for
the deaf and dumb.