The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-10-13
Current ParHgr0DhS

A pertifed woman has been discovered in
Kansas.
Too much botany has driven an Albany
florist crazy.
Stanis!aus county, California, is infested
with gorIllas
Kansas City has street railway, just
erected.
In Mississippi, 81 out of every 100 Of the
population can neither read nor write.
A large rcice of gold was recently found
in a well near Fredericksburg, Va, and tie
place is now overrun with persons DESTROYS
of purchasing the property.
1t is thought the low price of cotton will
have the effect. next season. of inducing
planters to devoted more land 10 the cereals,
and less TO the great staple.
New York has Roscius aged six years.
who rccitcs Shakspeares tragedies by
heart.
Soue 800 colored people from North Caro-
lima have app led for passage TO Liberia. in
expectation TO be sent out by the American
Colonization society on the LIST of November
next.
Out Of 20 66i pupils enrolled in the Gin
cinnati public schools II .2S3 are studying
German.
The following is vouchtd for "a boys
COMPOSITION: The IIorse-The horse is the
most us vful animal in The world. So is the
Cav. | once had l3 Ducks and two was
brakes and Skunk killed One. He smcld
Orful. ! knew boy which Had chickens
but His father would not let him rails Them
and 20 he god mad and he boared Hole
in his mothers Wash tub. Our savior rode
on u Ass. | wish Had q hors 4 horse
weights 1000 pounds.
The apportionm9nt of the school fundfor
the par .sh Of Orleans. Louisiana. SHOWS 90 =
o93 to BE- the number Of school children,
and the census returns give the population
of the parish as only ISl.6SS. According 10
nu.nbcr Of school children would indicate
that New Orleans had u population of al
| least 300 400.
A scientific French gentleman, DR.. Laborde
has announced the discovery OF an infalhbie
means of distinguishing between real and
! apparent death, by sticking a needle an
inch or so into the supposed co.pse. The
novel eicmen; ofDr Laborles diocovery isi
that III the living tissues the needle soon
becomes furnished and oxilized. while in the
actually detunct il retains its polish.
| II is the opinion of many persons that the
late unprecedented fresAct Ia the James an
| Shenandoah rivers not caused by "a
continuous rain, but som thing like the
| bursting of IT water-spout on or about their
! hcadwa, ers. and their sources are not /:
! very great distance apart. The flood cain
DOWN in the Shenandoah in great waves.
succeeding each other rapidly.
\ relig ious young man at New Hartford,
iowa. recently attempted to moderate the
views of an orthordox clergyman OF that eli ;
! by appearing outside hi- bedroom habited
majesty. The clcrt IMAM, being q practi. a
man. seized Ii good jaIck stick and laid II
on to the back Of the enthusiast until he
was forced 10 call for mercy.
One of the marshals in Iowa reports to
the census bureau family consisting of 4.
father, mother, and 10 children, the latter
| all born within psrlod of seven years and
all living. a; the first birth, the wife pre-
| scented her husband with four cher,i5s. and
at each of three successive deliveries five
more, making - within the specified
time.
! The comPletest pun in tn, records of IT.
erature rs produced in tue following words
winch were inscribed on n tca-cheast: To
doces; which is re second pcrson singular.
| present tense, of the Latin VERT doceo,
teach; and when literally translated become
| Thou tea-Chest"