The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The big lnjin" OF America-Inge
nuity.
"CoURT"INa after Misunderstanding a
divorce.
A HUcKsTER in Reading recently sold
wooden imitation eggs.
A TEACHER in Lawrence Furnishes
scholars by putting a spoonful of cayenne
pepper in their mouths.
THE English Judges promptly rebuke
any journal of eminence which presumes
to offer an opinion on an unfinished law
suit.
AN officer of an English regiment in
Quebec, who insulted a young lady at the
skating rink the other night, was imme-
diately shot by the girls brother "a mere
lad) and fatally wounded.
VELoCIPEDEs, says the Shanghai Neacs
Letter, have ceased to be novelty in the
streets of that city, and even the untaught
Chinese ponies have become so used to
them that they are no longer frightened.
AN old lady who died in London, in
1894, bequeathed a considerable sum to
one church on condition that her coffin,
in the church vault, be busted on every
anniversary of her birth. The conditions
have been carefully observed.
Two LITTLE girlish book peddlers in
Philadelphia make neat living by So
Letting gentlemen to purchase a volume
GAS this is NY birthday, please" They
tried char able newspaper man once too
often in the same week.
DR. J.F. DYER's family, in Gloucester,
Mass, after a recent dinner of partridges,
were all taken i'll with dizziness, fainting
and other symptoms of narcotic poisoning.
1t is supposed the birds had eaten some
poisonous berries.
During the recent drawing for the mill
tary CONSUMPTION at Marseilles, young
| man drew lucky number, which caused
him such joyful emotion that on reaching
home he could not embrace his mother,
when he fell dead at her feet.
JUDY represents young lady, who has
been taken half a mile beyond her desti-
nation in an omnibus, as addressing the
conductor: dts really too bad l told
you, when first got in, where l wished
| to be set DOWN." COnductOr-"Well,
Miss, | let you OFT as soon as ever could
find it in my art to part with YOU"
A LITTLE four year old girl, who recent
| " visited Boston with her mother, wa:
| greatly disturbed by the difficulty she ex
perienced 10 perambulating Washington
street. Finally, in despair, she exclaimed
az do hope before l como to Boston
again that good many of these folks will
be dead, for they do knock my new hat
| round So"
THE French chemist, Tardieu, extracted
the cOloring matter from some imported
English red stockings, and introduced a
quantity thereof beneath the skin of dog
4 rho mol fxya
rabbit similarly treated died in eight hours
and a frog in four. NJ Tardieu advise:
the absolute prohibition of the importa
ton of red stockings.
AN American confidence man, pretend
ing to be the youngest son of Secretary
Seward, has victimized certain good people
of the Austrian capital to the tune o
several thousand forms The bogu!
Seward attempted to escape from Vienns
the moment his dupes got wind of his true
character, but he was pursued, and will bt
sent to penitentiary.
AT late fire in London, while the en-
gines were discharging their contents
against the front of house, an inscription
on it became nearly obliterated. "By my
sowl," exclaimed witty Irishman "this il
a queer time for a joke" "And who il
joking?" growled one of the fremen
"Why, don't you see, honey, how you art
playing upon words?" replied Pat.
THE military idea of honor has re
markable forcein Belgium. Two common
soldiers, recently under arrest, in the SAM
cell, played cards to pass away the time
One of them lost the few sous in his pos
session, then his clothes, and finally stakes
his life. He lost. Next morning he wa
found hanging to peg in the wall, hi
companion sleeping serenely on the pallet
THERE is very curious monument il
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, erecte,
by the late Henry Wise, az Englishman
over the grave of his wife. 1t is q tri
umphal arch representing the gate o
Heaven, ornamented with sea shells am
stained glass. A kneeling female figur
rests under the arch, with model shi]
and casket containing a bouquet of shells
a wedding handkerchief, ring and necktie
a small English flag and other curiou
relics. The whole is covered with can
vas canopy.
| A CONTEMPORARY recently said: "To cal
feature the medical profession has been
constant tradition among French wit
since Moliere and Boileau" 1t woul,
seem that the practice is not of Frencl
origin. There is passage in the Bible
which is not unlike some more noderl
hits at the doctors: "And Asa, in TIL
thirty and ninth year of his reign, wa
diseased in his feet, until his disease wa
exceeding great; yet in his disease h
sought not to the Lord, but to the physi
clans. And Asa slept with his fathers
q Chronicles, xvi, IL )-BOstOn Bulletin.