The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS FTEMSo

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| ERIEeATIoN-Jim Fisk watering the
stock.
STEADY WoRK-Walking on the tigh!
rope.
THE man who works with will The
Probate Judge.
| MEATS are high, but COWS low-when
they are hungry.
THE "hottest of the fight" is always
where the coolest courage prevails.
In 1774 New York employed sixteen
persons as watchmen and lamplighters.
| TEIEvEs don't have a very quiet life Of
| it, Notwithstanding they take things SO
easy.
NEW YORK has about $50 miles of pipe
for the reception and distribution of Gre,
| ton water.
A NAN should think little Of the evil
that is said of him, unless he thinks much
of hin who saysit.
THE wise men are considering the gues-
ton, show it feels to be under fire." The
verdict will probably be that it feels hot.
| OVER 100000 small trees, mostly noun
! tain cottOnwOods, have been set out at
Denver, Col, within the past three years.
| REV. w. II. MILBURN, the blind preach
er, has declined an offer of Sc COO in gold
3 year to take charge of church in San
Francisco.
A RECENT New York wedding was dis.
tinguished by the gift to the bride Of a
100000 diamond necklace and $4,000
worth OF silyerware.
| A CORRESPONDENT Of the Erie (Pa.)
| Dispatch says that the income of J. s.
McGray, of Petroleum Center, from his
"old homestead" is $5 minute, night
and day.
| MANY ladies who do not like to have
their ears pierced wear small gold wire
behind the ear, which clasps it in front,
| and holds the ear ring.
PUNCH Las the following: A Capital
Answer-Self-made man examining a
low. what's tic capital Of 'Olland? ?" Boy
An Ii, Sir"
TIE tallest tree yet measured is an Aus
tralian, OF the myrtle family, and of the
genus Eaclyptus 1t is $50 feet long or high,
but in diameter inferior to the larger Cal
ifornisns.
THE State of Maine has lake to each
twenty square miles of territory, and one
square mile of lake to each fourteen and
three-tenths square miles of territory.
THE Rev. James Patterson, of blessed
memory, who died in the autumn OF 1857,
on one occasion said: " Brethren, if the
Lord will only keep me humble, | will
trust you to keep me poor"
SOME men seem to delight in wanton
destruction. an exchange says that two
lot. lx- rnov m III he
streets in a neighbOring city; and on the
same day several persons were observed
in the very act Of pulling up the river.
A BRAKEMAN on a coal train on the
New Jersey Railroad has fallen heir to
$4,000 worth of property, which is in
Virginia, and was confiscated during the
war, but has since been returned TO the
heirs
SMITH (who had forgetfully left his
peck ct book on the piano, the night before)
-"Have you found anything this morning,
Angelina?" ooh, yes, dear, thsnks-and
I've ordered a new piano stool, some lace
curtains, and-such love of q bonnet
ILLINOIS is the leading State in the
money-order system, and New York the
second. Illinois has sent during the past
year over three millions of dollars through
the Money Order Bureau Of the POstoffice
Department, while the amount transmit
ted throughout the country reaches the
sum of $34,054,1S4.
TIE Independent Order of Dad Eel
| lows has IN ade considerable progress DUR
| ing the past year. The membership has
increased to a total of 299,QS3, gain of
29,475. It's revenue for the year amount
| ed to S2,7l4,2SS, an increase of nearly
| $500 600, while the amount expended for
| purposes of relief reached total of
| 1850 900.
| THE business of the money order
bureau during the past fiscal year is one
third larger than that of the preceding
year. Over one million six hundred
| thousand dollars have been issued, trans
| feIIing 34,054 1874, for which $225, 235
was paid in tees. The cost to the pur-
chaser was therefore seventenths of one
1 per cent, while the cost to the govern
ment was only half that.
| A GENTLEMAN in Albany has a drinking
cup which was presented to the Archduke
| Macmillan by the city of Nuremburg,
and which was made in the year 1927.
The cup stands 10 inches high, is covered
with bas-reliefs Of grace and beauty, all
having allegorical meaning, and has q
cover on which originally stood the figure
of knight in solid gold.
| THE Davenport Gazette says that James
| Thompson, OF that place, owns twenty
nine $50 acre farms in Iowa. He has them
allrented, receiving al average of one third
of the yield and $3.50 per acre. Mr..
Thompson's share OF the crop will be, it
is estimated, 10000 bushels of barley, y
coo bushels of wheat, and 10000 bushels
of corn, footing up, at present prices,
about $1,000
| THE registrar. general places the area
of London at n, 997 acres, which exceeds
the area of Philadelphia by less than g..
| 900 acres. Paris has only $500 acres,
| Vienna TIPS acres, and Berlin 9, 253 acres
birmingham is In excess of the average
of Paris, having 1902 acres. Birming-
ham must be healthy, for its rate of mox
tality is 16 per 1,0O0--the lowest oil
all cities; the highest is Leeds-24 in
1000.
On the receipt of the news of the sur
render of Louis Napoleon and his army
to- the Germans, after the battle of Sedan
James Saxton, Sr, editor Of the Cantor
CO., depository, published the announce
ment In parallel columns with that of the
surrender OF the first Napoleon after
Waterloo, taken from the files OF his owl
paper of August, 1915, fifty-five years ago
He was editor then. as now. Vti.
A PATENT medicine veuder in a country
village was dilat,ng 10 crowd upon the
wonderful efficiency OF his iron bitters
Why" said he. "Steye Jenkins haC