The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-11-17

any one asks you to. Tell them that your
brother came to his death by cards and
drinking"
If TINS BE THAT
If 'twixt mine eyes and the printed page
Thy pleading face Will come
II, all unbidden, thy weil-loyed name
My careless pen Will form;
If never a moment heart or brain
From the bondage sweet are free,
Yet prize priceless thing the chain
That binds them slaves to thee
If TO smooth with tenderer touch my hair
Because thou hast caressed it,
If to find my cheek grown wondrous fair
Because thy lips have pressed it
III 10 breathe thy name a. sink to rest
In prayer TO heaven above me,
That the great All Father will make thee best-
II utlS Ge t0ce-il 0ce thee!
Miss M, young heiress of consider
able personal attractions, CHANGED to be
seated at dinner-party next 10 a gentle
man remarkable in the fashionable circles
for the brilliancy Of his wit, and who had
long made one in the train OF her admirers.
The conversation turning on the uncer-
tainty of life, 81 mean to insure mine"
said the young lady, archly, : IN the Hope"
" in the hope of achat?" said her admirer;
"a san lie life is hardly worth insuring |
propose we should insure our lives to-
gether, and if you have no objection, |
In an Eastern city cabinet-maker en-
ployed two Germans as porters 10 deliver
his furniture. One morning he loaded his
cart with bureau, and gave directions
where to have it left. And by-thc-by,"
said he to one OF them handing him a
shilling, ON your way back get pint o
pease." They staid an unusual time, and
when at length they did return, ii was
soon ascertained that they had enormous
bricks" in their hats. why you Ger
man rascals," roared The angry boss, "you
are both drunk" "Yaw," said one of
them; you gift us ter shilling to buy a
pint apiece: we trinkt him and We arc pote
so trunk ash Ter teuyl,ens!
THE number of languages spoken is q,
994 The average OF human life is about
thirty .hIee years. One-quarter die before
the age of seven. Oh every one thousand
persons. ore rarely reaches the age of one
hundred years, and not more than one in
hundred will reach the age Of eighty
There are on the earth / 900. 900. 600 inhabit-
ants OF these about 333 $685. }3:5 333}3 die every
year, 81 ,324 die every day, 3,S05 every hour,
and sixty every minute. The married are
longer lived than the single. Tall men
live longer than the short ones.
Mr.. QUINTIN Dick, NJ. p, was once en-
tcrtaning a party to dinner when loud
knocking vas suddenly heard at the door,
and ere they could we'll conceive what it
meant, Mr.. DIS footman entered, ushering
in q rough looking son OF Neptune. Mr..
Dick rose, imagining that he came with
tidings from some friend in India. Jack
thea, with the coolest assurance in the
world stretched cut his hand, and asked,
is your name Ouintin Dick:' 1T is re-
piled Mr.. d., " at your service" Good,
I'm glad of it; give us your hand, my old
boy-for my name is Dick Quintin; and
by The mast we'll have dreR of grcg to-
gctherr rOarcd the tar. The effect on the
company may be easily imagined Mr..
Dicl, took ii in good humor, gave the man
half-a-crown, AID told the servant 10 take
him to the kitchen and give him plenty to
eat and drink
a LETTER from the Prussian army near
Metz relates the following little incidet:
"A little after the service | was sitting
with the Pavmastcr and another officer,
when a KNOCK ctIIIU ,IIO dooa, "nA tlntap
entered a great hulking fellow, from Dant-
zic, who sheepishly asked the Paymaster
to accommodate him with paper money
for his bullion. How much do you think
he had. Why, counting pfenniags and a
queer collection Of kreutzerS, he could
make up Just one thaler, and this huge re-
mittance The great, honest, manly fellow
wished to send to the frau away on the
shores of the Baltic 1t was only three
shillinos, but it was The last silver the man
had, and he will 90 without his gLsS OF
beer till next payday comes round. Fancy
an English soldier coming 10 his officer
with ha dful of half-pence for conversion
into paper money! But a German regi-
mcnt is one great brotherhood, and the
Paymaster pocketed the coppers and gave
the man the paper thaler with kindly
word and look"
THE New Orleans Picayune says: n
countrvman at the theatre, the other night,
as the escort of some ladies, retired at an
intermission and returned with a-pound or
two of peanuts wrapped in a paper, and
two huge bananas sticking from his pocket.
Just then, however, and before he had
time to take his seat, one of the actresses,
who had specially won his admiration,
come to the iootlight and warbled beau
tiful melody The full rich voice, exquisite
III intonatiOn, and breathing strains almost
divine, completed the conquest of the
countryman's heart, and unable to restrain
his delight he heavcd on the stage his
peanuts, bananas and pocket handker-
chief as a tribute to the fair enchantresS.
There was a momentary establishment visi-
BILE upon The faces on the stage, single in
slant of hesitation, which was removed by
the countryman's voice, full and clear,
Take EN- gal, by lingo, you're welcome.