The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The COMING MAN-The juvenile.

HOW TO BUILD y HOUSE FOR NOTHING
u sc trccstone
CoAT-oF-ARMs FOR REPORTERS -
pump-handlc in motion.
THE census of 1870 will cost the Gov
ernment 81, 900
LONDON averages 1900 births and 1 200
deaths Il week.
How TO DEVELOP THE IMAGINATION
Get the delirium tremens.
NINE-TENTHs of the champagne drank
in America was originally cider
WORKING for dear life" is defined to be
making clothes for the baby"
CLEVELAND has fewer marriages than
any other city Of its size in the Union.
WHY are horses in cold weather like
meddlesOme gossps? Because they are
bearers of idle tails.
DURING 1869 there were sold by twelve
manufacturing companies in this country
32O, 500 sewing machines.
Mr.. David Holt, of Madison, Wis, is
the possessor of a Bible printed in 1908
three years before the appearance of the
King James version.
THE difference between a country" and
city" greenhom is, that one would like
to know everything, and the other thinks
he can tell him.
THE deepest excavation in the United
States is a copper mine near Lake Superior.
1t is thirteen hundred feet deep.
IT is claimed that the smallest voter in
the world is John McKibben, of Winter
set, Iowa, thirty-siX inches high, and
weighing thirty-six pounds.
FIFTY years ago the Universalist Society
of Providence bought six lots for $4,000,
and now they have just sold them for
S100,500.
MASSACHUSETTS, has 30S newspapers and
Illinois has 435, while the six New Eng
land States have altogether 449-but four
teen more than the State of Illinois.
4 WITNESS was called to the stand to
give his testimony Having taken his
place, he turned to the bar and earnestly
asked: (Which side am On:'
LADY YARMOUTH asked Garrick one
day why love was always represented as a
child He replied, Because love never
reaches the age of wisdom and expert
cnce."
AN old, dilapidatcd bank note is going
round with piece of yellow paper pasted
on the back Of it on which is written, in a
bold, free hand, go it Bill, I'll back
YOU"
a FRIEND having met Sheridan, asked
him how he was getting along. "Oh"
answered Sheridan, Il have turned over a
new leaf and now 30 on like clOck-work."
Yes" replied his friend, tick tick
tick,'
THE assets of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Of Chicago are securely invest
ed in bonds and mortgages, first liens upon
real estate, and in United States bonds and
securities, in accordance with the laws of
Illinois.
IT is said that smart woman has been
engaged, at Nashua, n H., for some time
past, in selling several hundred dollars
worth of molasses and water as IA valuable
chemical mixture for the removal of warts,
pimples, corns, and moles.
a MARRIAGE in high life was broken off
in Terre iIaute, Ind, the other day, simply
because the prospective bridegroom, in cX-
aiming the family Bible, found the would
be bride nine years older than the endorse
mcnt of her mother called for.
THE editor of paper in Nebraska who
Offered premium for the largest water
melon left at his office, has been supplying
the Omaha market with those vegetables
all summer, besides boarding his hands on
the fruit.
Ara Columbus Georgia. marble yard
there is a solid block of marble which is
To be dug out, a metallic coffin placed
therein, and the whole, after a corpse is
deposited within it, to be Theoretically seal
eel above ground. 1t has been ordered by
a gentleman in Barbour County, Alabama
WHEN circumstances rendered it inn
possible for him to attend the stated preach
ing of the Gospel, he made it sacred rule
to kill an Indian every Sabbath, is the in
scription affcctionately engraved upon the
tomb of IA Colorado deacon, by the be
reavcd members of the congregation.
THERE is an old lady in st. Joe, Mo.
who has kept house over twenty years
and who has had only one paper of pins
paper left. She has money in the bank
Economy is the road to wealth"
In drug store i'm Fort Wayne, Indiana
they have a book, printed in 1906, calico
the New London DispensatOry. 1t give.
the following ague cure: THE fat of tn,
crocodile is good, as are also the ashes o
the cuckoo Perhaps the best is a plaster
made out of spiders and bound to the
wrists.
Do you believe i'm the rod as an instru
mcnt of discipline?" asked mother of ;
school-teachcr in Nevada, to whom sh,
had taken her unruly son. No, madam.
"Oh, I'm SO glad! What do you substi
tute for it," THE revolver, madam.
Exit mother and mruly son.
a BRIEF market report: Pens, ink an,
paper are stationery; new milk is TN
/ changed; brogans are heavy, but dealer
generally are firm; wheat is grain bette
| than oats; wines and liquors general,
have a downward tendency; yeast cake
are rising.
THE Chinese of California have a bury
! ing-place in San Francisco where they z,
twice Il year to distribute food upon TIN
graves of their deceased friends, and throw
! pieces of charmed paper to the winds
/ with the view of exercising evil spirits
/ Nearly $500 Celestials recently partici
patcd in ceremony of this kind
A FARMER few days since purchase,
! i'm Bangor. Me, some barrels in which {,
preserve cider Upon rinsing them out Ia
| found in whisky barrel seventeen larg
plugs of tobacco all soaked in whisky
which had evidently been placed there f
improve the flavor and body of TIN
liquor.
MARK TWAIN has this advice for younl
men with literary aspirations: Writ
without pay until somebody offers pay
IL nobody offers pay within three years, tn
candidate may look upon this circum
stance with the most implicit confidenc
as the sign that saving wood is what h
was intended for"
THE Providence Press says that one @
the census cnumeators in that city pu
down in his list twins opposite the name
of two children, and against the first h
designated Providence rs the birthplace
The thick headed men i'm Washington sen
the list back To have the deficiency &c
counted for. What they wanted To kno,
was, where that other twin was born.