The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-09-22
EISCELLkNE0US ITEMS.
A LIGHT DRINK-Benzine,

STEAK.
The DRAUGHTsMAN's PARADISE
Pencil-vania.
A PITCHED BATTLE-A fight between
two tara.
Col FISK spent $4,000 pocket money
last year.
A MoTro FOR AN ARAB TRIBE-Up
and Be douin.
A Bird on the roast is worth two on
the roost.
DRINKING men, like drowning men,
catch at straws.
Russia Furnishes drunkards by making
them sweep the streets.
LORD PALMERsToN once defined dirt as
"matter in the wrong place"
THE Grand Jury of Baltimore re-
ported base ball as lone OF the gradations
Of crime"
OF what feminine creature are you re-
minded On the completion OF building
4 house made.
UP 10 the 1st of September nearly 1000
persons had visited the summit of Mount
Washington, this year.
SOMEBODY has discovered that in forty
months to blowing his nose. :
THREE young couatrymen were fined
ten dollars each few days ago for lOiter-
ing upon the sidewalks at Boston.
WAFER, this bit of turbot is not as
good as that you gave us last week F"
Waiter" Beg pardon, sir, it's off the
very same fish,"
THE Lewiston. Me-. Journal SAYS there
isa little boy attending grammar school
in that city, thirteen years of age, who
weighs 165 pounds.
PATIENCE is exemplified in the man
who left his wagon while the horse
baked, and sat on q stump and read the
Bible till the animal Was hungry enough
TO go home.
A JOURNAL asks what is the difference
between a soldier and fashionable young
lady and replies, zone faces the pow
der, and the other powders the face"
DIT is a curious fact" says some ento-
biologist, that it is the female mosquito
that torments u.s." A bachelor says that
Is 10 not ~ oil c,-rio,,s -,
its 1000 inhabitants has Methodist, d
Congregational, an Episcopalian, Pres
byterian and a Roman Catholic church.
THE Boston Post is responsible for the
statement that the mosquitoes now caus-
ing the English people SO much discOm-
fort are marked and branded New
Jersey"
THE State Prison at Auburn, N. Y,
has 500 cells, and there Is a new extension
now being built, which will contain an
additional 300. The prison was founded
In 1917.
The Louisville Courier says there is a
Servian Prince in the Prussian army
whose name is so long that a company OF
engineers have been ordered to level
down the consonants and use it as pom
toon- bridge.
PROF. KING, of Poughkeepsie, recently
made trip to Westport, Conn, in hi
balloon. The distance sixty miles-wa'
passed over in one hour and forty min
utes. The highest point he attained Wa:
half mile.
FROM the returns made to the United
States Marshal, it would seem that Ten
nessee is the healthiest country Oh the fac'
Of the globe, and the most remarkable Q
any for longevity.
A BOX containing a black bear waa re
ceived at an express office in San Fran
cisco, the other day, with this inscription
"Hlsck Bare. Eff ycw don't want to ge
bit, kepe yer fingers outen the GRAZ"
ONE of the amusements at Long Brancl
Is to watch the New jersey mosquitoe
open clans with their bills, on the shore
Several Of these useful insects are bein:
domesticated and taught to punch rive
holes in steam boilers
A RURAL Englishwoman had the RICH
idea when, finding hersclf Unable to whil
her husband, she shouted TO her con wh'
was UP STAIRS in bed "Bill come down
stairs and lick thi feyther, or else he'll b
the maisster o. tn whole house !"
THE Bricksburg IN. j. Times counsel
moderation in the use of fruit. 1t says
Three watermelons and a dozen larg
punches of grapes form dessert ampl
for any civilized man, and anything be
yond that is not to be thought of, if yo'
care for Jour health
A NEWARK merchant got up lot @
fans with his business card printed there
on, which he gave TO deacon to be dis
tributed at camp meeting, but that gentle
man turned an honest penny by hirrn
boys to sell them at ave cents apiece.
AN apprentice, one day, after dinner
deliberately stepped up to his master, an
asked him what he valued his services q
per day. "Aboub sixpepce," said his mas
ter. well, then," said the boy, puttinI
his hand into his pocket and drawing ou
some coppers, there's tLreepeace, III
eli on the spree"
In the Third District of New Orlean
resides Jules PADRE, Sc years of age, wh
for more than thirty years has not mad
tooth in his head. Some six weeks ag'
however, his gums began to itch an
swell, and very soon he began to cut som
teeth. dc has now q full mouth OF yonn
teeth, which are growing finely.
A WOMAN in Cincinnati raises fort,
eight inches of hair on her head ever
three years, aud then sells it. Supposin
that she lives to be 10 years of age, 81
will raise, allowing her fifty-one years
the seventy to do this business Ia, sevel
all To sixty eight feet of hirsute sdor
ment.
A BANKER lent n graceless scanp fit
dollars IN the hope of getting rid OF hin
but, 10 his surprise, the fellow paid q
money punctuslly on the day agre,
upon, and short time after ward apple
to him for another loan. mo-" said &
banker; "you have deceived me on,
and L am resolved you shan't Go it
second time"
The mortality ret, rms of England 1
1858 record the death of 1T8 men and
women registered AS % years old and Il
ward When they diet; IL OF these m
had reached 100 or upward, and one
Cheltenham was liz; so of the WON
had also completed o century Of life,