The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


LAWYERS insure their lives i'll the Wash
ingt6n OF New York.
MAXIM for the lazy: No farmer can
plow field by turning it over in his
mind.
EUROPE reports poor hop crop this
season, owing to unfavOrablc weather and
insect raids.
Grandpa, did you know that the United
states has been in the habit of encour-
aging and acknowledging tories ," "What
kind OF tories" "Territories -
The New Haven Lerer sounds this note
OF warning: beware, young man The
pearl powder now used by her is poison I,
One touch of those eager lips to that
enameied cheek may result in death most
horriblel Bewarrrre"
FULFILLING THE LAW
Let each one strive with all his might
To DC a decent man.
Ard love his brother as himself
pom the golden plan:
Aiid if his igbbor chance to be
A pretty female woman.
Why love her all the more-yOu see
That only acting human.
\ MINISTER was walking out one day,
and passed two little boys, one of whom.
made a bow. As he turned his back he
heard the following amusing conversation:
"Why, John, didn't you know that was
Parson VI -" Yes, of csurse did 4"
We'll, why did you not make "a bow to
him - Why. my mother don't belong
to his church,
RI. Rev. Bishop POTTER, OF PENN
sYLVAXIA.-IIIs OPINION Life Assur-
ance may be employed advantageously
fJr the benefit of families and individuals
of ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY, as well for
those i'm afilucnce as for those in moderate
circumstances All may, by the exertion
of a little fprcthought and small outlay.
protect their families from want"-Insure
in he Washington Life.
JISKs explainsthe signilicatiOn of nine
weddings:
\ wooden wedding Varying blockhead
\ golden wedding Marrying for money.
\ crystal wedding Marrying "A glass eve
A Tin wedding Marrying a mknaid
A paper wedding VARYING an editor
y silver weddin-, Marrying an old maid of sixty
An iron wedding Wary inc n blacksmith.
4 plain wedding Marrying Il carpenter
bras- wedding Marrying an impudent man.
A LUNATIC's LOVE SoNG-The follow
ing song was written by an inmate of the
Lunatic Asylum ut Utica, n. Y.
Gayly the tiger cat timed his guitar
Serenadng the magpe with feathers and tar;
sweetly he sneezed at her, sourly he sighed
= Lady-birtl, lad, bird wilt he my bride.''
She for the elephant IDLY had pinned,
Ate but an OK and then vowed she hadn't dined;
Carried mp photograph close to her heart
Wrapped up in HOLSTERS, bank notes and plum tart.
AT midnight the rivals met in the whale
And fought by the light CT the grasshoppers tail,
The elephant stood on his trunk To take breath,
And the tiger cat costly lIu9ged him To- death.
And then like a Cabbagc-stak boldly he wrote:
= Come love, and tread on the tail of my coat;
See thy own crocodile vhistling for thee
H. "A r. no
THE following are a few of the many
singuarly directed letters which pass
through the New York post-Office, and
which betray ignorance and culpabc care
lessness: "Mistcr Makarti, care of Mister
Muldoon, forninst the Protestant Church,
New York" "Miss Marian Elsh Plunket,
Pigun hill postoflis, neer the river Arkan-
sar" flames Prince. Esq, California. y
Henry G. Everzer, treasurer OF the Ex-
celsior baseball club. Illinois" VI. Gull
laume Favie, Rue de Fremont, Vile de
Cassillanas. DIES Etats Unis, Nord Ameri-
que Bill Clements, at Cross roads,
BurbOn Kounti, Kintuky." Heinrich
Won Schappcn sitmil arpensil" Secre-
tary ofthe Insurance Company, Philadel-
phia. To the Hon. Rev Mr.. Nasty,
care of Mr. Bascom, at the Corners, Ken
lucky" Charles Kanncrschmidtz-
the boarding house on Carroll ST., Rich
mond >" {" Mikul Kelly, hodsman, Sinsiati :"
Mr. Edgar Smith " (nO city or State
eivenl. ITO the member of Congress
from Ohio"