The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE best penance we can do for envy
ing another's merit is to endeavOr to sur
pass it.
1T is discovered that the Sage lands in
Nevada, where the Digger Indians lived
on worms and rabbits, are excellent for
wheat.
"WHAT have you to remark. sir, about
my oratOry?" once asked vain public
speaker of John Randolph. Nothing
sir: it is not remarkable" quietly replied
the merciless wit.
No LESS than fourteen railway locOmo-
tives have exploded within tbs past seven
months in the United States, killing
twenty nine persons outright, and severely
wounding much larger number.
IT is unlawful for the soldiers stationed
at Sitka to purchase liquor. They send
the Russian children to the stores to pur-
chase liquor for them, and from this
practice the children are said to have
become habitual drunkards
THE two Astor Library buildings cost
$290,000, and the $1,000 volumes they
contain cost 1925 900. The revenue of
the library from invested funds is $15, 800
year. This pays its expenses and leaves
little or nothing for new books. Hence
IL 10 fCi1 pun III CuAAN ittNA1btlNs
Mr. JOE SAMUEL, Huntsville, Mo-,
/ dry goods clerk, while in state of SOM
nambulism, walked out of secoHd-story
window, fell ten feet, striking his face on
barrel and receiving a fearful cash. and,
next morning was standing by the wall
asleep. the fall and injuries having failed
to awaken him.
A LADY in Pittsfeld, Mass, recently
caught large sized American eagle in a
very remarkable manner. Seeing hawk,
as she supposed, fighting sturdy old hen
in the yard, she ran up and seized it by
the neck. The eagle made no serious
resistance to the capture, being astonished,
apparently, into submission.
Mrs. BETsEY DODGE widow lady of
seventy-three years of age, on Block
Island, has during the past year woven,
in an old fashioned hand-loom, four hun
dred yards of cotton and wool-clOth, and
eight hundred and ninety-one yards car
peting, making in all 1921 yards, beside
doing all the work for her family.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAC, a Partisan editor,
has been branded aS n liar more than five
hundred times; has been spit upon in the
street seven times and suffered four tweaks
OF the nose and four public hOrsewhip-
pings. He has fought nearly hundred
duels, for which offence he has been sew
eral times imprisoned, and now has six
teen challenges outstanding
WHEN Ferdinand III. of Naples ("Bom-
ba") first heard of railroads, he gave it as
his opinion that they were an invention
of the devil, and declared that none of
them should ever be constructed in his
States. His confessor had To demonstrate
in the most urgent manner with him in
order to obtain his consent to the build
ing OF the first railroad in Naples
AT recent convention of working
women in Boston, it was stated that the
majority Of the girls employed to operate
on heavy sewing machines in shops, ''last''
only from one aud a half to two years,
although few stand the labor little
longer time. "Their backs give out, their
spines give way. 1t is that ugly motion
of the foot that spOils the spine"
DURING last year there were in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain AZ, 652,-
600 acres under cultivation, of which IL,
$50 600 were devoted to cereals; 500 600
to vegetables; $1,000 to clover and ro-
tation grasses; and 90, 1874 900 to perma-
nent pasturage. England alone possessed
3,179,000 cattle and 81 $3.50, 900 sheep. In
every 100 acres in England, AZ are pasture
in Wales, So; in Scotland, 90; and in Ire
land, "a.
THE cause of ladies' teeth decaying at
so much an earlier a stage of life than the
other sex, has been usually attributed to
the friction produced by the constant
action of the tongue. 1t has, however,
been suggested, with more gallantry and
perhaps with equal truth, that it is owing
to the Sweetness Of their Iips-as it is well
established by popular belief that speet
things spoil the teeth.
THE old Manhattan well of New York
whose whereabouts had been forgotten
Tor many years, was recently rediscovered
Into that well the body of murdered
girl was thrown by her lover, about
seventy years ago. The man was defend
ed by Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
and Edward p. Livingston, and was &C.
: quilted, though there was an almost uni.
versal belief that he was guilty.
LOST wealth may be restored by indus
try; the wreck of health regained by TEN.
perance; forgotten knowledge restored by
study aliensted friendship smoothed into
forgetfulness even forfeited reputation
won by penltence and virtue; but who
ever again looked upon his vanished hours
recalled his sighted years, stamped them
with wisdom, or effaced from heavens rec
ord the fearful blot of wasted time!