The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-11-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"a Pound OF FLESH "A prize fight
YoUTH's CoMrANIoS-A pretty girl
CONNECTICUT graut,d 491 divorces las
year.
\ MISS is better than mile-of misters
Is il fur TO dafnc blby-clothes Us "baw |
drcsSes9
THE BEST MARRIAGE GTT-A policy
in tue Washington Life.
| VERMONT has a man with a beard sever
! feet long
THE sort of fruit most sought after by
editors-Thc latest dates.
WHY is the letter Y like prodi.al son
Because it makes pa pay!
Ir is mistake to suppose the sun is sup
ported in the skies by its beams.
WHY is the sun like good loaf? Be
cause it is light when ii rises.
THE modern (K)night Errand(t)-A
husband sent for the doctor.-Judy.
OMAHA boasts of watch and chain con-
tanning over 5: 600 worth of gold
VERY AFFECTING-A volume of smoke.
1t will always bring tears to your eyes
However much pawnbroKer's shop
NAV be crowded, it is always Il loan-sum
place.
PROVIDE for old age and infirmity by
insuring in the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Chicago.
A LITTLE girl asked her brother what
was capital punishment, and he said he
thought that it was being locked up in the
cupboard with the jam and other nice
thi,.gs.
A FOP. lust returned from Il continental
tour, was asked how he liked the ruins OF
POmpeii. OF very well, was the reply
they are SO drcadiully out OF repair.
GRACE" am going to see Clara to day.
Have you any messagc?" Charlotte"
wonder how YOU can visit that dreadful
girl Give her my love-
One of the misorieS of life is TO be
beaten in an argument, and immediately
afterward to think of some expression
which would have totally annihilated your
opponent.
A QUARREL between two brothers in
Indiana over the ownership of barrel OF
salt, which commenced couple of years
ago, has Just been settled, at cost to one
of them of 1852.
\ POOR man, who, less than one year
ago, had only one suit of clothes went in
to the newspaper business and now has
eight suits. Seven of them are for libel.
THE Trac Ter says that the three months
from the middle of June to the middle of
September were warmer ut Boston this
year than in any other during the past As
Nor EAsILY.-A lady declared to us the
other day that she wouldn't be cook for
the whole world" For the whole world,
indeed, We should say not. Why, she
could never get through the work.
A PHYSICIAN being asked by patient If
he thought little spirits now and then
would hurt him much, replied, " do not
know that Il little occasionally would hurt
YOU much but if you don't take any IL
won't hurt you at all.
OF the twelve surviving widows of Rev
olulionary soldiers who are 100 years OF
acc and over three live in Maine, their
names, residences and ages being rs fol-
lows: ANNA Plance, of Portland, 100;
Happy Mouse, of Portland, 100; and Han
nah Andrew, Of Lowell, lOl.
THE GREATEST JOINER-The lawyer.
He can place a tenant, empannel jury,
box "A witness, bore the court, chiscl eli
cn,, augur the gains, floor a witness, cut
his board nail the case, hammer the desk,
file his bill, and shave whole community
A CERTAIN furnishing undertaken for
time listened to the remarks of Il CONNER
cial agent for celebrated manufacturer of
glue; finally, he replied: 1T is of no con
sequence in my business whether your glue
adheres or not my customers never come
back"
NUMEROUS instances are on record of
I'll
on the field of battle We subjoin few of
the best known instances
Name Rattle Date
stephen of England, lincoln, 114
He Try ILL.,. Lewes, May II. 1s64
David III. Of Scotland, NeviIs Cross, Oct. II, -
John of France, Poiciiers, sept. H. 1856
Francis L., Pavia, Feb 81. 1926
Napoleon III, Sedan, Sept /, 1879
GEORGE b. CARY, under sentence of
death for murder in the Onondaga county,
New York. Jail, writes to his brother an
ciiecting letter, in which he says: BE
good to NV mother and sister and little