The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
.Iss-Plenty of money.

his snuif-box with you.
WHEN is an original idea like a clock
When it strikes one.
No Notes are deducted from the policies
at maturity in the Washington.
WHEN person declares that his "brain
is on fire." Is it etiquette to blow 1t out.
"a CAT may look the pisture of in
nocence, but don't leave it alone with the
canary.
TOM THUMB has his life insured, and
many greater than he are insured In the
Washington.
A HlNDoo proverb says: "Strike not,
even with flower, a wife, though she
has thousand faults"
A BACHELOR, according to the latest
definition, is man who has lost the OPP
portunity of making woman miserable.
If we did but know how little some en-
Joy the great things they possess, there
would not be so much envy in the
| world.
81 am going to the post-office, Bob,
shall enquire for you?" "Well, yes, if
| you want to; but don't think you'll find
| me there"
IT is not necessary that postman
| should possess good voice, but it is a
most essential thing that he should have
a good delivery.
a CHICAGO paper says that among those
| for whom prayers were asked in the daily
| prayer meeting, was, "for a young man
in Boston, too far from God"
In The classic town of Waterville, on q
| garden fence facing the street, is posted
| the following "nOtice :" "Pleas don't
hich no Hoses Hear for it is sode."
DIoGENEs being asked, "the biting of
which beast is the most dangerous" an
swered, " f you mean wild beasts, It's the
slanderer's; if tame ones, the flatterers.
MAMMA" And now, pussy, you have
chatted CROUCH. Shut your eyes, hold
your tongue and 90 to sleep" " Pussy
"How can do three things at once, mann
MAJ"
HUNGRY DINER" Trouble you for
some more bread, landlord. l always eat
a good deal of bread with my meat"
Landlord" So see, sir And a good
deal of meat with your bread"
"BUB, is your sister at home ?" eyes,
but she won't see you to night" Why?'
because she said she was going to have
one more mess of onions if she never got
another beau"
A LITTLE boy, running, stubbed his toe
and fell on the pavement "Never mind,
my little fellow" said a by-stander you
won't feel the pain tomorrow" Then,
answered the little boy, 81 won't cry to-
morrow"
The man in possession is always the
man to respect. A deputy replied to an
other who was extolling NJ Olivier: "He
is marvellous in duty. and only enc man that
| know is his superior" (Which One?"
1.-THE one that will succeed NJ. Olivier"
was the neat reply.
ROBINSON met Smith as he was going
on board steamer ON the Mississippi,
and asked, (Which way, Smith-up or
down ?" That depends upon circum-
Stances" remarked the latter. IF get
berth over the boiler, l shall probably
go up; if in the cabin, down"
az FEEL" mOaned a diving cobbler,
"that Wax weaker every day, and that
am gradually approaching my end-only
a few more stitches, and awl will be over.
l. heaven there is rest for the sOle-earth
has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. "
Having said awl he wished, he calmly
breathed his last.
A YOUNG swell, joining his companions
one day, who were loafing on a corner,
] commenced picking his teeth, and said he
had just eaten a whole chicken for his
dinner. One of his companions, a wag-
s;sh fellow, responded, Il see you have
! Tor there is one OF the feathers" pointing
E to piece of mush which had fallen on
his coat.
JOE KING was sick in a boarding house
an1 made his mind up fOr some chicken
: broth. The order went down into the
] kitchen, and the broth came up weak, flat
I and insipid. The sick man was suDse-
G quently relating his disappointment to a
/ friend, who said, They just let chicken
wade through it." off they did," said
t Joe, family, lit had on stills" He re
I covered.
: PROFESSOR s., of Hartford, said The
j? other day that he felt uncomfortably stiff
: and sore-caught cold perhaps-and III
lay down on a lounge and requested hi
: friend w. TO knead and rub him after thu
movement cure style. W. gently beat hin
on the chest. "How hollow it sounds,
said X, who was looking on. THAT
nothing" said W. "wait till get to hi
head"
e & FEW years ago, little fellow wa
Y taken by his father to carpenter, to b
a bound apprentice to him, after the fashion
T OF those times. In settling the business
o the master, who was one of the stiff kind
IS observed: well, boy. l suppose you Cal
g cat most anything, can't you? | Away
!, make my boys live on what they don
g ike" a love everything but mince-pi
y and apple pie~ was the boys instant re
ply.
e Mr.. A, of F., was Joker. ii
u nee represented his town in the Legisla
! ire, ami on his way TO the capital stoppe,
70 dine at hotel. On putting on his Goa
o To start he had much difficulty in work
G ing into it. Some one remarked that tn
k tailor had given him tight tit ooh,
c said he, "the tailor did well enough, bu
d the last representative from our town aoa
o q Good 'deaL snGHer thin / am" 1t ap
1t pears that they had legislative coat il
y r, which esch representative filled il
/ turn. When A WAS nominated the
forgot bis rotundity of person.
THE strictly industrial classes c
= France number about 2,S99 in every 10
: coo inhabitants or 10,949,091 in the Who'll
y population. The number of men engag
l Ell in commerce is 1855; of womeT
q rs. 4S3. Out of a population of rathe
o more than 100000 people, about 10, 59S
00D are sgficultGrally inclined, and it i
K curious that more women than men b
II 1000 ape engaged in field labor. Com
e merCe in Paris supports about 1880
people, and banking societies. of VAR
1t Gus kinds, $4,000. Tire concierges," o
u ''porters," who attend 20 the general bus
i mess of the numerous lodging house:
8 number nearly 10000
a case of purpura occurred lately q
. Bloomfield, Pa. A little daughter of j
+" X. Shuler was taksn with bleeding at tn
= nose, and as H. continued for some time
- doctor was called in. Not apprehendin
> cause for alarm, he was about to assure tn
= mother that hemOrrhage would soon b
= stopped, when she called his attention T.
" dark red spots on the chest and limbs G
" the chile. lie at once saw that it was
= case of that rare disease known as puI
= pura, ard administered medicine promptly
- INT of no avail other than tn nartiaIlv sto