The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A-MEw-SING-A cat serenade.
ATURNING POINT-The bayOnet.

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ATURNING POINT-The bayOnet.
PRESSED FOR TIME-Egyptian mum
mics.
NOTES OF SUMNER TRAvEL-Green-
backs.
DEEP REvENGE-Throwing your rival
down the well.
THE crushing Thunderbolt" is the
name Of an Erie Canal boat.
THE SWEETEST OF STRAINS Trying to
lift a pretty girl on a horse.
SOME of the omnibus routes of London
arc fourteen miles long.
A Mr.. JONES, aged 1916 years, recently
eloped in Canada with q widow.
DESIRABLE STATE OF DEsTITUTIoN-
Having nothing to reproach ones self
with.
PUNunINELnu says thai after "A Turkish
bath 8 man can walk clean home.
A MAN who has tried it says that all the
short cuts 10 wealth are overcrowded.
WHEN is a lover justified in calling his
sweetheart "honey ?" When she is bee
loved.
"WHo will care for mother now 2" has
been translated into both French and
Prussian.
CRIMINAL-Why is q prisoners time
like an a~hominable joke? Because it's
past in durance.
A SCHENECTADY man kennels his black
and-tan in a cigar box and muZZles him
with a thirnble.
TIE Washington is IS good a company
SIS there is in existence Tor the policy
holder. p. Fl. MCGRAw, Senator.
CALIFORNIA is shipping much fruit
east, in cars with revolving fans in the
roof, driven by the motion.
A GRAVEYARD inscription in Kenne-
bunk, Me-, reads thus: "POOr Jol his
head is level now if 1t never was before"
Two men, father and son, have held the
office of Clerk Of Grayson county, KY,
ever since it was organized, in 1916.
ALL men need insurance that are Of
value 10 anybody. Insure in the Wash
ington Life Insurance Company, of New
York.
A STUDENT in the Michigan Agricul-
tural College has invented a gate latch
for which he has received ten thousand
dollars.
REvERDY JOHNSON is threatened with
blindness, aud has been to Boston in or
der to have an operation performed on
his eyes.
A NRw YORK policeman, while making
an arrest, recently, was assaulted by
three women, one of whom bit Off his
right ear.
A M%UD-TuRTLE captured near Bangor,
in 1887, the date stamped on hrs back,
and set free, has just been re captured.
Troy boasts of a woman sharp-shooter
who can hit the bulls eye of a target
every shot, at a distance of forty rods.
A SMALL miniature Photographic APP
paratus has been invented which gentle
men can carry around in their pockets,
and take the likenesses of their lady
friends at a moments warning.
AT Troy, New York, the other day, q
carpenter fell from the roof of a school
house, a distance OF sixty feet, and was
uninjured. He astonished the spectators
by getting up and walking away.
THE Commissioners of Pensions decides
that, when women clerks arc deputized to
perform the duties of Pension Agents,
their sex does not ~disqualify them from
administering the necessary oaths and aft
davits.
CREDIToR-"How often must l climb
three pair of stairs before i get the
amount of this little account? ?" Debtor
-"Do you think | am going to rent a
place on the first floor to accommodate
my creditors?"
YOU'VE GENTLEMAN-Awl Miss Caven.
dish, do you know they've had a juvenile
party before the ball2 Miss Cob,
fhpp I eIrnnoaa vonr mamma ic LETTING you
stop q little later this evening.
APPLR trees in O~rrinston, Me, which
were stripped by a serious tornado of q
few weeks ago, have again blossomcd and
commenced spring business anew. Locust
trees have also blOssomed.
A MOTHER at Schenectady, N. Y, was
alarmed, a few nights ago, by finding 4
large black cat sucking the breath of hel
child. The little one was quite feebl,
when it was awakened, and may not re
cover.
A HUSBAND and wife at Cincinnati wcr,
recently discovered in a beastly state o
intOxication, at their own home, will
three children lying close to them upol
pallets of straw, but so weak from Ion.
fasting as to be unable to move hand o
foot.
A female meeting her lat
husband IN the streets OF keOkuk, Iowa
the other day, dashed a bottle of acid il
his face, the bottle breaking, and the aci'
flying in every direction but she ba'
made amistake, and used carboiic acid III
stead of nitric acid.
Mr.. HIBBARD, of LacQnia, N. H., r.