The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-08-18


allow her sweetheart, a young butcher, to
drive his cart through free. She never
tolled her love.
A SARATOGA tombstone bears this in
scription Emma, dau'r of Abraham
and Matilda Cox, and wife of Theodore
Schallehn, died August 10, 1868, aged 26
years, leaving five cbildren-married too
young, against her fathers will. Single
women take warning"
A GENTLEMAN in conversation with Dr.
johnson, having, to some of the usual ar
guments for drinking, added this, "You
know, sir, drinking drives away care, and
makes US forget whatever is disagreeable.
that reason?" "Yes, sir, if he sat next
you," replied DR.. Johnson.
AT Le Roy, Mimi, one hot day, switch
had been opened for the purpose Of letting
in freight train, and when it became
necessary to change the switch back to the
main track the rails had expanded so
much by the action of the suns rays that
it could not be done. Cold water was
poured upon several sections of the track,
cooling off the iron and allowing the
switch to be shut
A CLERGYMAN In Washington county,
Me-, driving along lonely road, overlook
eountryman on foot, whom he invited
to ride. After the crops had been dis
cussed, the clerical gentleman asked his
companion IF he was prepared to dieg !"
whereupon the countryman leaped from
the wagon and fled to a place of safety,
doubtless considering this question
synonymous with our money or your
life?"
MEDICAL statisticians of England and
France have discovered that laborers in
copper works almost always escape chol-
era and disrrhea, only one out of 1879
being attacked during the epidemic in
1866 in France, while among workers
in iron and steel one out of every 200 was
attacked, and Of those engaged in other
metals than copper and iron one out OF
| 1f8.
A ROCHESTER paper tells a romantic
story of young dressmaker who became
| infatuated with q young man without his
knowledge. To make herself worthy o.
| him she took to study, and, after severe
| course of French, italian, and piano, dur
ing which she worked at her occupation
and only slept three hours out of the
twenty four, the young man married
another girl. The blow was too much
for the young lady's reason, and she is
| now al inmate OF an insane asylum.
THE Dubuque Times says that George
| Ado, of that city, was the owner of a dog
that had actually saved four human be-
| ings from drowning, in consideration oi
which distinguished service " the Mayors
proclamation during the dog days, warn
| ing all ours, of high or low degree, to
wear muzzles on pain of instant death,
never applied to him, and he was granted
the freedom of the city," notwithst8nd-
ing which, he was shot by somebody who
could not resist the temptation to make
| fifty cents.
THE Keokuk Gate City says: "One of
| our well known grOccrs bought nice lot
| of honey and had it in his store for sale
He noticed all day Saturday that the bees
| were flying in and out rather lively, and
making free with his honey. He shoe
| fled them in a mild way with a brush
That was all. He left the honey there
| over Sunday. He went down Monday to
| find every drop Of that honey gone, and q
small swarm there trying to carry Oft the
wax. There is some beeswax for sale
cheap at that store"
A coLoRED man recently applied to q
prominent gentleman residing on Fifth
avenue, New York, for letter of recon-
dation, by means of which he hoped to
obtain situation. The man, being well
known to the gentleman In question, the
testimonial was readily given. 1t was
even more complimentary than ScipiO
himself had expected, and that worthy, on
recovering from his astonishment, ex
claimed; "Ssy, Mr.. -, won't you give
me something to do yourself on that rec
Ommendation
A FIFTH Avenue Hotel waiter was dis
charged the other day, and vented his
spite by advertising in the New York pa
pers for 500 Irishmen to 60 to France
application to be made at Room 6S, Fifth
Avenue Hotel Result, the halls and cor
ridoIs of the hotel were filled, by 1C
o'clock, with hundreds of applIcants-so
crOwding the guests and visitors of the
house, that there was necessity Of clear.
| ing the intruders out; and it was not un-
til they were put out, that the proprietors
knew to what circumstance they were in
debted for such visitation.
AN eccentric Partisan recently died
who had travelled all over the world and
spent fifty years to secure materials for a
work on humpbacks, which he left in
2,00C sheets, with numerous drawings and
curious observations. He discovered that
humpbacks are most numerous in the
temperate zone in Europe, and that the
bumps have some connection with the
formation of the country where they are
found, those in the Pyrenees showing the
angular, Jagged shape Of the mountains
while those on the sea coast have gentle
descent on one side.
AN old man, of very respectable appear
ance, has of late been swindling the store
keepers of New York city in move
manner. 1t is his custom to ask to be &C
commOdated with q S. bill for that amoun
in currency, as he wishes bill to send IL
letter to his son, who is at school in tn,
country. He has the letter already direct
ed and a stamp on It, In counting tn,
currency it is usually short ten cents. Th'
old man is very sorry, bat as he passe,
the store almost every day, he will hant
it in, which he never does, and thus make
ten, fifteen, or twenty five cents, as tn,
case may be, out of each stOrekeeper who
may be generous enough to give him tn,
| $5 bill.
At tea party in Washington, wher'
General Butler was guest, the hostess
glancing over the table, perceived hi
cup unfurnished with an important i'm
plement, of which he was supposed to ap
preciate the value. Why, General But
ler," she exclaimed, in little womanisl
fiutter of CONSERVATION, Haven't you
spoon ?" mo, indeed, madame !" quickl.
responded the General, springing from hi
seat with well acted earnestness
and slapping his pockets, one sfte
the other, "upon my word, mad
anne; if you don't believe me, mad
anne, you may search me" The ap
plause which greeted this spontaneou
sally "may be more easily imagined thar
described"
THE Gettysburg, Pa, Star tells the fol
lowing story "One day last week a littl
son of Daniel Musselman, near Fairfield
aged ahOut eight wears. was out pickin,