The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1869-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

the public-Adver-tize.
DKNTIsT-One who finds work for his
own teeth by taking out those of other
people.
A SUFFERER advises persons going over
the Union Pacific Railroad to take their
cold victuals with them.
IT is proposed to get up a grand fair in
Cincinnati to exhibit the manufactures of
the Mississippi Valley.
On his deathbed distinguished humor-
list requested that no one be invited to his
funeral: Because" sighed the dying
wag, "it's civility can never repay"
A PORTLAND school-house caught fire
the other day, and as the boys watched it
one in another school said, enthusiastically
and honestly, to his companion, "Oh
Johny don't you wish it was our school
hOuse?"
A NEW BEDFORD Juror, who left his
horse tied to tree on going to court on a
recent Tuesday morning, suddenly recol-
lected the fact on the next Thursday after
noon, and hastily applied to the Court for
permission to go and look after his wei
fare.
SIR HENRY RowLINsoN, the distin-
guished arcb9olOgist, maintains that Baby
Ion is the site of the Garden of Eden and
that the Babylonion documents now ex-
tant give an exact geographical descrip-
tiOn of the scene of "man's first disobe-
dience"
HENRY WARD BEEcHER invites Bonner
to come out and take an interest in his
farm. He says he has thirty-six acres of
land, which is too much for himself alone
1--WE will carry it on jointly" he tells
Bonner; 81 will lay out and superintend
the work, and you shall pay the bills"
A FRENCH duellist coming home from
his last meeting gave two Napoleons to the
cOachman. Many thanks; it is a pleas
urc to drive you out !" Il beg your par
don, it is not for driving me out that
give you those two louis, it is for driving
me home again"
ONCE A WEEK reminds the world that
this is the centenary of the steam engine.
A patent was granted to Watt in April,
1869. 1t is also the centenary of Hum
boldt, Cuvier, the first Brunei, Yelling
ton, Soult and Ney, and the hundredth
year since patent was granted to the
spinning jenny.
DIR. TURNER, in one of the reports of
the Inebriate Asylum, speaks of three
inebriate parents, and were all three idiots.
Afterwards these parents reformed, and
lived temperately, several years, during
which period of temperance two more
children were born, and were active and
intelligent. Finally, the parents again
fell into inebriety, and had two more chill
dren, both idiots.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE farmer, who had
in uar riahi nafI
to hear her scOld for change, and was
advised that load of crotchety frewood
would make her very desirably cross.
He tried it. When the pile was gone he
asked if he should get such another sup
ply. "Ohl yes" said she, "for that
crooked wood you brought before does lie
around the pot so nicely"
A CLEVER old dame, who resides
short distance from New York city, was
recently astonished by her husband, who
have got a present for your "a present
for me-" says she "what is it?" "A
Ooth-brush," responded the old gent.
"What good will that do me-you know
I have not got tooth in my head" re-
torted his spouse. "Just the thing" re-
piled the venerable joker, "there amt
bristle in it
THE New Orleans PicaEune relates
this book auction scene: Gentlemen"
cried an auctioneer at book auction, last
evening, az offer you"-scanning the title
very closely" Shakspeare's works how
much to start them" "Who are they
by?" inquired wag in the crowd. "I'll
tell you in moment" was the reply, but
before he could refer, shout of laughter
from the bystanders convinced him of his
blunder.
A GERMAN chemist has discovered that
! if mOrphia, which is sometimes used effec-
tually to allay vomiting, be heated with
hydrO-chloric acid, it will become the
most powerful emetic known The effect
is produced by Introducing small quan-
tity under the skin, and sometimes by
spilling it on the skin, but the vomiting
soon subsidies, and leaves no nausea The
discoverer calls The new agent ememor-
phia.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Iele-
graph thinks nobody knows how to cook
coffee but the natives of Ceylon, and tells
us how they do it. He says: "They
take the quantity of coffee beans required,
roast them in an earthen chasty or saucer
shaped pot, pound them in pestle and
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stones then pass through a sieve COM
posed of coarse muslin; boiling water is
added, and the coffee is made"
A BANKRUPT merchant, returning home
one night, said 20 his noble wife: my
dear, am ruined everything we have is
in the hands Of the sheriff" After few
moments of sileIce, the wife looked calmly
into his face and said: "Will the
sheriff sell you" "Oh no." "Will the
sheriff sell me-" "Oh no" "Will he
sell our our chitlren?" "Oh, no." "Then
do not say that we have lost everything
All that is mos valuable remains to US
manhood, wonsnhood, and childhood.
We have lost hut the results of skill and
industry. Wecan make another fortune,
if our hearts and hands are left u.s." Can
we wonder that, encouraged by such a
noble wife, he is now on the road to for
tune?
A CURIOUS discovery has recently been
made at POmIeii. In house in course of
excavation an oven was found, closed with
an iron door, On opening which batch of
eighty-one loves, put in nearly eighteen
hundred year, ago, and now somewhat
overdone, wal discovered; and even the
large iron sh)vel with which they had
been neatly laid in rows The loaves were
but slightly verbaked by the lava heat.
having been protected by quantity of
ashes covering the door. There is no
bakers marls on the loaves; they are cir
cular, abou nine inches in diameter,
rather fiat, 8d indented (evidently with
the bakers ,lbow) in the center, and are
slightly raised at the sides, and divided by
eight lines 'adiating from the center into
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