The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
FEMALE GATHERINGs-Lad ruff,

THE BEST PoIIcY-Thc Washington
Life Insurance Policy.
a GRoCERyAfAN in Texas has "Kncw
Sytler Fur Sail"
THE Music or THE UNION THE
Wedding March.
RICHMOND has n watch two hundred
years old, and it still keeps time
THE DEAREST SPOT ON EARTH
The store where they don't advertise.
WHAT is that which cannot he seen, bu
may be caught with little diflicultyg A
cold.
not been outside the house in forty years
WHY are policemen when wanted like
electricity? Because they are an incisiU,
force
MEDICAL QUERY-When a person de
clares that his BRAIN is on fire." is il
etiquette to blow it out?
ALBANY papers predict severe winter
this year, because the sheep that come to
the market there have unusually close and
heavy wool.
PROVIDE for your creditors, if you have
any; any way increase your estate by in
| surfing in the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, Of Chicago.
THE Pal Nal Gazette Uondon) re-
Gently stated that the Republicans of Penn
sylvania, America, had elected sixteen
members of Congress, and the Democrats
eighty
A GENTLEMAN of Toledo has expended
$1,000 in the building of fairy palace.
1t is twenty-five inches high, and rests
upon stone foundation three inches'abovc
the ground.
MRs DAVID CAIN, of San Francisco,
rallied off a $4,000 set of diamonds TO aid
the French cause, and her husband drew
the prize, though there were three thou
sand other ticket-holders.
THE Schenectady On. " Star says that
Mordecai Myers, of that city, voted at the
recent election, and cast his seventy-fifth
ballot. That is, he has never missed vo-
ting at the State election for seventy-five
years.
The Noso England Farmer says in 100
towns in New Hampshire the population
of the rural towns has decreased in the
last ten years-the inhabitants of the hill
and mountain farms gradually leaving
| them.
THE bell of the Episcopal Church in
| Michigan City, Ind, has quite record
1t was captured during the Mexican war
and brought to this country. It's fine tone
is supposed to be due to the presence of
silver in its composition.
J. j. MCELHONE, shorthand reporter
of the Washington Globe, can write with
both hands at the same time-thc left tax
ing notes and the right transcribing-an
he is said to be the only man in the world
who can do it.
THE Boston J0urnol Of Chemistry re-
Z N,-+e ~
DR.. Slaughter, DR.. Dye, DIR. Coffin, DIR.
list is lighted up by Dr. Life, Dr. Strength
ances DR.. Rumn on the liquor question.
Dr. Do LEWIS advances the idea that
the present method Of employing physi-
be paid a stipulated sum yearly, for taking
care of the family health, and a deduction
made for every case of sickness.
LONDON numbers among its population
class of habitual paupers, ranging from
10000 to 10000 OF these more than
1000 are Migrants. A return of the var
grants relieved on the 1st of January, 1860,
throughout England and Wales, gave a
total of 1889; in the metropolitan district,
$50. \ similar report for 1859 placed the
corresponding total at 1924 and 1882
A LITTLE girl had beautiful head of
hair, which hung i'll "clustering curls "
down on her neck. One hot summer day,
che went up stairs and cut all the curls Off
/ Coming down she met her mother, who
exclaimed, with surprise, Mary! what
have you been doing to your hair" To
which she responded that she had cut it
off and laid it away in her box, but that
| she intended to put it on again tomorrow,
as amt Nancy did,
| TIE LORD WILL PROVIDE
! In some way other the Lord will provide;
Ii may not be my way,
IL may not he thy way;
| And yet in His way
1.-The Lord will provide
|, AT some time or other the Lord will provide;
1t may not he my time,
| III may not be thy time;
! And yet in His time
| THE Lord will provide
THERE is an elegant brick house in
Portsmouth, N. H., which cost 100000.
1t is surrounded by an iron fence, but the
owner, who died some time since, never
! would make up his mind rs TO the design
of his gate. For several years the stone
posts have been hung with pieces of rope
holding an old ladder, and the widow, who
! desires to follow out her late husband )
wishes, renews the ladders as they get
broken, and keeps up the plan Of the de-
parted.
THE Oldest man in Mississippi is John
Owens, of Itawamba County He reached
III in October and never in his life has he
taken dose of calomel or blue mass, or
had to do with law suit He is native
of North Carolina, from which State he
went to Tennessee For the last forty
years he has resided in North Mississippi,
and previously spent fifty years in Jackson
County, Alabama. His second marriage
took place when ne was 81, and he has
been "piOus and consistent Baptist for
seventy five years.
|. The way in which sugar is made per-
fectly white was found out in a curious
way. A hen that had gone through a clay
mud-puddle, went with her muddy feet
into the sugar-hous 1t was observed by
| some one that wherever the tracks were
the sugar was whitened This led to some
experiments. The result was that the clay
came to be used in refining sugar 1t is in
this way The sugar is put in earthen
jars, shaped as you see the sugar is. The
large ends are upward. The ends have Il
hole in them. The jar is filled with sugar,
the clay put over the top and kept wet
The moisture goes down through the sugar
and drops from the hole in the small end
of the jar. This makes the sugar perfectly
white.
A PARIS letter says: suspect most of
the beef have eaten of late is horse; any
how il does not taste like ordinary beef
To obtain joint at home is almost i'm
possible. In the first place, ii is difficult
10 purchase il; in the second place, if,
when bought, it is spotted by patriots go
ing through the streets, il is seized upon
the ground that any one who can obtain IA
joint for love or money must be an aristo-
met lady early this morning who used to
be most fashionable. She was walking
along with parcel under her shawl, and
six dogs following her. She asked me to