The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


DEAD LOCKS -ChignOps.
MOOSE PAPER-A marriage certificate
ToPsFIELD, Mass, has goose 80 years
Old
PkE HYsTERIC TIMEs-Before tight
lacing.
Doing A HEAVY BUSINESS The iron
dealers.
THE Aldermen to their dinncr-Gorge
us
NEW YORK has about - GOO Preach in
kabitants.
There are 1874 vessels in the United
States navy.
A girl who has lost her last beau may
as well hang up her fiddle.
THE average salary of the clergymen
in New Hampshire is $3.50.
TEAcuER-"T TIL at spells what9"
Bright !SchplGr-" Does its ] thought it
speit Mnti'
NEW ZEALAND has 10000 inhabitants,
and 8 public debt Of $l50.G00,000.
IT takes fourteen million gallons of wa
ter dag IT, supply Cincinnati.
THE MOrmons have invented machine
for the destruction of grasshoppers
THA st. Louis police poisoned very
nearly SIX thousand dogs the past sum-
mer.
TIE production of whisky in kentucky
this year Is only about iVe-eighths OF
what it was last year.
SPINNERs signature on the greenbacks,
translated into English, is SSSXXX07X2-
CSC.
A fUNsTER asks whether if Titian's wife
had been named Polly that fact would
have made her politician?
The youth who cried Excelsior" didn't
know that he was naming five out Of
every six saloons in the country.
THIS season has been one of the poor
est for cheese making known in Vermont
for thirty years, owing to the drought
Boy "Haye paper2" Man, "No,
SIR Boy, Cloud, to JIM: "Say, jim,
don't you pity those fellers as can't read 2"
A FARMER at West Eaton, N. Y, de
tected in the act of watering the milk
which he sold st q cheese factory, has
been fined $1t0.
METHUsALEH," the largest of q new
grove OF big trees recently explored in
TuOlumne County, Cal is eighty -four feet
in circumference at the roots.
A YOUNG man charged with being lazy
was asked if he took 1t from his father.
"I think not" was the reply; 4" father
got all the lazlness ne ever had"
THE census taker has found quite an in
telligent man in the Quincy, H., district,
who has been married five years, and did
Christian name.
A GOOD deal of the consultations offered
in the world is about as solacing as the
assurance Of the man to his wife when she
fell into the river "YOu'll lind ground at
the bottom, my dear"
WILLIE, a little five year old, was play
ing with honey bee when the angry bee
stung him. ooh, grandma" cried Willie,
II did not know bees had sphnters in
their feet"
WHEN is traveller from New York to
Liverpool ike John &. Whittier? When
he gets seasick and becomes contributor
to the AtlGntis. Friends of The family are
Invited TO attend.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has decided that the privilege which is
given to the widow 10 waive the pro-
visions Of the husbands will cannot be
exercised by an insane person or by her
guardian.
TIE population of London exceeds that
of Scotland, is four times that of New
York, and is larger than the combined
populations of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
st. Petersburg.
THE Boston Transcript says that ii
was once said of Boston money lender
that he kept the trunk containing his Sc
curities near the head of his bed, and lay
awake to hear them draw interest"
A BARRIsTEn, blind of one eye, plead
ing with his spectacles on, said, "Gentle
men, in my argument | shall use nothing
but what is necessary" Then" whis
pered wag, take one of the glasses out
OF your Spectacles."
A PHENOMENAL Sunday school scholar
aged fifteen, lately won prize in Tennes
see by committing to memory II, 50t
verses Of Scripture III two months, with
out interrupting his daily agriculture
labOrs.
THE following is verbatim copy of the
"remarks" accompanying the return OF 4
postmaster out West: here by certif,
that the four going A count is as near ritz
as no how To make it. LII there is emmy
Mistake it Is not dun on Purpose"
THE London Meas says: "During the
last eight years the odious practice O
painting the face has been steadily grow
ing, until, in the most conspicuous classes
of society, the practice has ceased To b,
the exception and has become the rule"
ONE HALF of the lame horses through
out the country, says an exchange, ar
made so on account of bad shOeing,s anC
the loss Of the labor of a horse makes VI
considerable item in the sum total OF th'
wealth of nation.
FULLY one half the inventive genius o
the world belongs To the United States
During 100 years France and England
have each granted about $4,000 patents
; but within the last 40 years the Unitet
States alone has granted more than 100,
600.
The GAINESVILLE, Wis, Gazette says tina
Ga young lady who had been rendered {
position in our city schools tor the comm,
term, wrote a note declining the appoint
, ment on the ground that she had received
, better offer. She was married last Tues
, day"
SOME idea of the magnitude of tn
, work Of taking the census may be game,
from the fact that from twelve To fittecl
hundred volumes of one thousand page
each will be required in which 10 ente
the names of the individuals returned b.
5 the Assistant Marshals.
5 THE average age of American clergy
} men, ut death, is found to be "a, which
r years more than the longevity of the mex
: most favored class, 10 years more than i
the other professions, and from IL To |
wears above that of mechanics, artisans
I miners, operatives, and the like.
: A. GENTLEMAN and wife at Portland
, Me, who recently arrived at the dignit
of "tin wedding" had the hall way c
> the house so stocked with tin pans, Kettles
and other ornaments, that it soon becam
. impossible for the servant To answer tn
q door bell without going through the bas'
ment
, iris sometimes curious to notice hoy