The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

COUNTRY SHAREHoLDEEs-Plow
A ROARING TRADE Keeping a me-
nagerie.
WIEN is q wall like a fish? When it is
scaled.
BLOOD. they say, tells. But not so
often as tongues.
WHEN is a young lady ike part of a
word? When she is silly belle (sylla-
ble.)
CAN it be said that the man who makes
a business of raising pork for market gets
his living by his pen?
If brevity is the soul Of wit, what vast
amount of fun there is in the tail Of fash
ionable coat.
that during leap year the ladies Jump at
every offer Of marriage the name.
TMD bachelors are congratulating one
another upon the close of leap. year and
their escape from the peculiar danger
which threatened them.
MADAME DEMoREsT, the celebrated
New York Modiste, learned the millinery
business at Lansingburg. n. Y, where
she was only pain and pretty, Ellen
Curtiss.
IT turns out now, according z to a French
man lately writing on the subject, that
Napoleon lost Waterloo because he was
sleepy, and coffee would not keep him
awake during the most critical hours be-
fore and during the final struggle.
THIS advertisement recently appeared
in the New York papers: "The person
| in the possession of a stray Maltese cat,
with q white spot on its breast will re-
ceive the prayers of heart broken female,
and So also, by leaving the same at No.
81 Lexington avenue"
THE Russian student in Cornell Univer-
sity, noticing that boots were placed out
| side the doors of certain rooms at night
(the Professor's), placed his outside also,
but next morning, instead of beng well
polished, he found them filed with water.
PROF. MARsE SAYS: "I know a man
who, at the age of forty, entered the Law
renee Scientific School at Cam bridge. Mass,
| became boy again among the boys, re-
newed his youth of body and mind, and
probably made far more proficiency than
he would when twenty years younger"
WHEN Horace Greeley started the Nelo
Yorker in New York, years ago, he en-
deavored to create sensation by offering
prizes for the best poems and stories.
Lewis Gaylord Clark was chairman Of the
committee to decide these things, and
awarded the $50 to a Mr. Henry w. Long
fellow, professor in Bowdoin college, for
the poem.
NOTHING is more easy than to grow
rich. II is only TO trust nobody; to be-
friend none; to get everything and save
all we get; TO stint ourselves and every
body belonging to us; to be the friend of
no man, and have no man for our friend /;
to heap interest upon interest, cent upon
cent; to be mean, miserable and despised,
| for some twenty or thirty years-riches
will come as sure IS disease and disappoint-
ment
THE Coos On. H Republican says that
Richard p. Kent's mare recently getting
| loose in her stable, the door of which was
open, trotted out through the street to a
| blacksmith's shop, entering which she
| trotted up to the anvil block, at which a
man was at work, and held up her fore
foot. Examination showed that the nails
were loose, and they were properly fixed.
In Tifin, Ohio, few days since, man
visited an unoccupied mill and entered an
old boiler that had been taken out for re-
pairs. While pegging away at its sides
with hammer and chisel to obtain speci-
mems of lime scales, it rolled and fell on
its end, closing the entrance and imprison-
ing the specimen seeker. In this unex-
pected dungeon he remained six hours,
until his cries attracted the attention of
some passers by.
SEVERAL weeks since Cincinnati doc
tor was called TO attend sick young man
in boarding house. Apprehensive that
the youth would Gle, the doctor refused to
prescribe until the proprietor of the house
agreed to pay in case the patient died.
The youth re covered, and is now at work
but unable to pay. The doctor then de-
manded compensation of the proprietor,
who said he had become surety only IN
case death ensued, hence, as the man
lived, he was not responsible. The indig-
nant doctor sued the boarding house keep
er and lost the suit Next time he will be
more careful in his treatment OF such
cases.
WHEN a horse drops dead in the street,
il is the duty of the policeman on the beat
to examine the carcass. III he tnds lie ex-
tinct, he is required to report the-same TO
the roundsman as soon as he encounters
him. The roundsman, having convinced
himself of the truth of the statement, re-
ports to the Sergeant on duty when he re
turns to the station. The Sergeant on
duty enters the fact on the blotter. The
Captain copies it from the blotter and re
ports to the Superintendent The Superin-
tendent, through the Inspector, refers the
case TO the Board of Health. The Board
of Health, through their Secretary, com
municate the intelligence to the sanitary
Committee. The Sanitary Committee refer
the matter to the Bureau OF Vital STATISTICS.
The Bureau of Vital Statistics thereupon
issue instructions to 3 contractor, who
keeps windlass, two men and dead
horse truck, and the contractor thereupon
proceeds at his leisure to remove the body.
--.Nsss York Herald.