The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
CAR-SATIoH-Railroad people.

THE FIRST WAGER OF REcoRD.-The
alphabet
DEAD REcKoxIxG.-An undertaker's
account.
4 Coop INvEsTMENT.-A policy IN the
Washington Life
WHEN is a lot of corn like corner-lots
Whenit's ground.
STAGE-DRIvERs look upon rainy days
as peculiarly fare weather.
WHAT relation does a tenant bear to his
landlord? \ parental relation
WHEN is the moon in bad financial
condition? When she IS in her last quar-
ter
THE preachers fee at fashionable we'd
ding in New York ranges from $50 to
$500
THIRTEEN MILLIONS worth of pianos
and cabinet-organs are annually sold in
this country.
SOFT soap. in some shape, pleases all /;
and, generally speaking, the more tys you
put into il the better.
PROVIDE for your own household, and
do so by insuring in the Mutual Life In
surance Company, OF Chicago
TIL: youngest burglar in America halls
from Troy. His age IS nine years ana his
name Is Patrick l dflnouN.
THE last of : 100' was the valodictOry
written by New Orleans chap on the
back of a bill before he passed it for
drinks
4 BosToN chemist says that burnt sole
leather enters largely into the composition
OF the ginger put up in packages.
SINCE the opening Of the present cen
fury, eiehty-Six English patents, and
u al
motion, have been granted or applied for.
A LITTLE two-year old jersey youngstcr
was saying Now lay me down to sleep,
the other night, and concluding that amen
was incorrect IN his case, amended it by
saying a-t0y.
AN enterprising ice-cream maker in Chi
caaso atvertises: Families supplied BY
the quart or gallon, and delivered in any
part of the city" For those who wish to
obtain families, this IS IN eligible opportu-
nifty.
THEY have musical prodigy in Boston
in the shape OF n tliree-yearold violini,t,
whose performances are said to be truly
wonderful. lie is called Master James
Speight.
4 YOUNG lady having called ont an ugly
gentleman 10 dance with her, he was
astoniShed Al the condesccnsion. and, be
lievin- that she was in love with him. de-
sired u know why she had selected him
from the rest Of the company. " Because,
sir, replied the lady, my husband com
manded me to select such n partner as
would not give him cause for jealousy"
THE Coroner's Jury IN the case of IIar-
Tiet Stewart, a c0lOred woman, in PrOvi-
dencs. r. J., who was lily poisoned re-
Gently, by the mistake Of an incompetent
druggists clerk. are OF the opinion that
al prescriptions should he written in
plain English, describing the II sent mode
of dead language and charactcrs not read
IL understood, and liable to II s'llC in mis-
takes"
a COUNTRY apothecary, not little dis
tinglIshed for his impudence. in the hope
of disconceriing Z Young clergyman whom
he knew 10 be a man of singular mOdesty,
asked him in the presence Of large com
PAW. az public assembly, Why did the
patriaTchs Of old live to such an old are :"
To which the clergyman replied i sup
pose the ancient patTiarchs took no
phvsic'
A STORY IS told Of IN ancient Mohawk
notion that some great misfortune would
happen If any one spoke on Saratoga Lake
A strong-minded English woman, while
being ferried over. Insisted upon talking,
and as soon IS she got over in safety, raj
lied her bOatman on his superstition. But
he had the best Of l. for he at once re
piled, The Great Spirit IS merciful. and
knows that q white woman cannot hold
her tongue
q SAN FRANCISCO man saturated rat
with Kerosene oil and let him loose, think
ing he would convey certain valuable in
formation 20 other rats, and they would
leave the premises The fire department
were promptly on the ground, bat could
not save the house The man SAYS it &C.
CURED 10 him what a mistake he had made
n soon as ne saw the fire coming up
through the cracks in the floor.
The ten largest libraries in the United
States, with the number of books in each
are as follows: Library of Congress, 1873
600 Boston Public Library. $4,000: As
tor Library, New York. $4,000; Harvard
Library, Cambridge. $4,000; Mercantile
Library, New York, 10tj00; Atheneum
Library, 1oston, 100000: Philadelphia
Library $4,000; Mex York Society Library
$1,000; Yale College Library, $4,000,
II the recent battle before Metz. Ger
man soldier in the front rank of one Of thC
storming parties had both Of his lips par
tally carried away b. ball which grace
his face. ard was requested to fall back b,
his commanding officer But he managed
to splutter ont with great difficulty through
the blood that gushed over his mouth
" No. no, Captain, not yet I've sighted
the fellow that did It, and he must fall bacl
firstr
THE Lowell ClIass) Copries. is response
bic for the following fish story: "Andrey
Sheffield, who lived ON East Pine street. II
this city, cut the head of Il large mu,
turtle this past summer and two davs af
forwards, hearing a great noise among tn
domestic animals in his garden, he founc
that cat had been PLAYING with the tur
ties head when the head, in retaliation, ut
tackled the cat, attaching itself 70 the fe
lines head causing the animal much pain
1t was with great difficulty that Mr. Shelf
field opened the turtles mouth and di,
engaged its grip on the frightened quad
ruped"
Az unhappy gentleman at CaDandaigu
owns an elephant II is as unsatisfactor
a piece of property rs the white one draw
by the lucklcss shoemaker of the story
Beiag sick, il is probably somewhat pale
If not positively white Among its princi
pal ailments at present arc Group, brOn
chitis rheumatism, and inflammation Of tn
trunk-or chest. perhaps Taking medi
cine by the barrel 1t has already exhauster
one apothecary shop. and if the dCctO
makes his bill according to the size of tn
patient and length Of prescription, the Pre-
prietor has moral certainty Of bank
ruptcy.
WHEN IN Arab woman intends m.rry
ing again after the death of her husband
she goes the night before the ceremony {
pay visit to his grave There she kncet
and pravs him not to be OfTended-not {
be jealous As, however, she feels he wi
be offended or jealous, the widow bring
with her a donkey laden with two goat,
skins with water. The prayer ended, sh
proceeds to pour the water upon the gray
TO keep the first husband cool under til