The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE bump of destructiveness "a
railway collision.
THE new PRIME Minister of Greece was
formerly music teacher.
WHAT horn produces the most discor-
dant music? The drinking horn.
Why are medical men never wide
awake ? Because they are always dos
ing.
WHIcH is the wickedest portion of
America? Why, Sin-sin-naug to be
sure.
THE only protest against female suf-
frage made to the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture, came from women.
JUDGE DURELL, at New Orleans, has
fined the Clerk of the Court for filing
brief written on less than half sheet of
paper.
A MAN in New York is learning to ride
the velOcipede on the tight rope, and pro-
poses in that way to cross Niagara on his
machine next summer.
PUT t1o persons in vhe same bedroom,
one of whom has the toOthache, and the
other is in love, and it will be found that
the person with the toothache will go to
sleep first.
THE other evening, while the Chicago
express was nearing Pittsburgh at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, passenger
came aboard. He is doing well, consid-
ering the circumstances And so is his
mother.
JOHN G.. CLARK, Texan millionaire,
died recently, without leaving a will, and
his immense estate was sold for the benefit
of the State treasury, there being no
known heirs. Several parties are now at
tempting to prove that they are his heirs.
A YOUNG Englishman broke his horses
back while following the hounds recently,
and the animal fell upon him in such a
way that he could not extricate himself
Some days after he was found IN that po-
sition, insensible from hunger and almost
starved to death.
A SHARP grocer, when q customer, who
was buying gallon OF molasses, remarked
that good deal remained in the measure
after it was turned, explained the fact by
saying, "There was just about the same
quantity IN the measure before l drew
yours, sir"
CONSUL AMOS PERRY says that female
lawyers are found in Tunis, whose distinct
office is to manage the cases of women
plaintiffs and defendants coming before
the highest tribunal in the land, and also
to plead the cause Of condemned female
criminals who are subjected to unreason-
able sufferings in their cells.
CELESTIAL curiosity-seekers are prom
ised novelty next June, in the return
of Winecke's comet, which has been
whisking its tail through space for these
ever so-many hundred years. The advent
of this phenomenon will afford much gra-
LITIGATION to all taking the trouble to look
heavenward, at the time of its appear
ance.
A ST. ALBANs, VT, paper says that a
few days ago, while sleighing in the vi
cinity of Three Rivers, Canada, at point
where the telegraph wires cross the high
way, a travellers horse became entangled
in the wires in endeavoring to get over
them, and received injuries from which it
died next day. The wires were twenty
feet from the ground when the snow fell.
THE citizens Of Chicago are now
pluming themselves over the possession of
the finest photograph gallery in the coun-
try. Major Brand, the veteran artist, has
just converted one of the late fashionable
residences of that city, No. % Washing
ton street, into magnificent Temple of
Art" adorned within and without almost
beyond conception. Tesselated floors, fres-
coed walls, black walnut carvings, splen-
did pictures set in corresponding frames,
dazzle the visitor on every side. A single
flight of stairs leads to the reception and
operating rooms, marked contrast to the
wearisome nights of most establishments.
No modern hotel can outshine the sump'
tuous carpets and upholstery of these
parlors, where every convenience and lux
ury are to be found One of the most re-
markablo sights is the large number of
full size portraits which adorn the walls,
all taken by Brands Photographic process,
and colored by his artist so that they
appear like the most natural hand pic
lures. Brand says that war prices are
over, and has suited the action TO the
word, putting his figures down to the con
sternation of those in the same line.
Under the combined attractions of first
class pictures, in the most luxurious of
rooms, and at rates lower than those
charged for inferior pictures, Brands
Temple has made decided sensation, and
is throngod daily with numerous visitors
from city and country. This enterprise
is bold one, but has already proved o
success.