The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE Oldest tops in the world-Moun-
tain tops
MINERS are not always unhappy, al
though their hopes are always in vein.
CALIFORNIA paid $4,000 bounty for
| gopher scalps last season.
THE utter most parts of the earth must
be that part where there are The most
| women.
Why does pretty girl need no mirror !?
Because she is a good-looking (g)lass her
self.
| OF most young ladies-she has one hun
dred engagements on hand.
| WITHIN the past seven years, the saw
ings-bsnks in Maine have increased from
fifteen to thirtysix.
| A DAVENPORT Justice has married
1910 persons in eight years, receiving
therefor nearly $4,000.
Six hundred and fifty soldiers in Berlin
were married on the 31st of July pre-
vious to their departure to the front
| THE announcement is made that at the
recent book trade sales in New York
city, the books brought on an average Is
per cent. more than last year.
AT Wamego, a place in the extreme
| West, is a shanty which bears the sign /:
Here's Where You Get Meal Like
Your Mother Used TO Give You"
IN one district in Nebraska, eighty
voters have to travel from thirty TO sixty
miles in order to deposit their ballot, and
they anxiously ask for a voting place
nearer home.
| SYDNEY SMITH once said, in an aristo
cratic party, That man, to know how
bad he is, Tlust become poor; to know
how bad other people are, he must be-
come rich"
FIRST MoRMoN-"I wonder who that
blonde is? A nice fgure!" Second
Mormon" Why, don't you know? She's
yoar wife" First Mormon" SO che is
l thought had seen her before"
TWELVE bridesmaids, twelve grOoms-
men, and twelve ushers are to help marry
q couple in New York, in a church where
the decorations are to cost over 5000.
"THERE is but one good wife in this
town" said a clergyman, in the course of
his sermon-the congregation looked ex-
pectant--"a and every married man thinks
he's got her." ADDED the minister.
A BILL posted ON wall in a village in
the west OF England announces that "a
lecture will be delivered IN the open air,
and collection taken at the door to de-
fray expenses."
SCENE in the Dayton Police Court
Counsel says: (which side of the street
do you live on, Mrs. Kippei?" con either
side, sir. If ye go one way it's on the
left; if ye 60 the other way it's on the
right"
| TEACHER-"LoOk here, Johnny, sup
pose you had twenty sugar plums, and
you wanted to divide them into four
parts. You give five to the baby and five
to Gaylord-now what would you do
with the other ten?" SchOlar,-"Eat
'em" :.
u.ah YoNo6. t55fg Y8Gtliirpdt" Ills head out of
the window, and asked him if he wouldn't
| please keep his head in, as she had a new
silk dress on, and didn't want it al spat-
tered up with brains and such stuff.
A FINE brick building, which has just
been erected in New York at cost OF
about one hundred thousand dollars, has
been condemned on account OF the weak
ness of its foundations, and must be taken
down.
THE OsagO Mission Journal of Kansas
|
world are the Osages. The tribe num-
bers 1900, and have, after alleXpenseS are
| paid, 16O acres of choice land per capita,
and $1,000, 900 in money"
DIR. HURST, the Methodist professor in
Germany, writes to the Methodist, that in
Germany "the Voluntary contributions
to the sick and wounded do not amount,
in individual cases, TO as large sums as
occurred in our war, but the number OF
smaller offerings is much larger. A
thaler, or half thaler, or even less, is the
rule"
A sAvANr says that if you kin a mos
quito when ne is drawing blood, the
poison remains in the wound. Ii, how
ever, you wait till he gets enough and
retres, no Inconvenience will follow.
This may be right in theory, but the
| practice of MASKING them on the spot is
much more satisfactory.
THE three scientific men who are to OBJ
serve the coming winter on the top OF
Mount Washington expect to be showed
| in AT the Tip.Top House from December
till March, but will maintain daily com
munication with the lower world by tele-
graph The room which they will occupy
is TO be lined with felt, and they ex-
pect to use twenty tons of coal during
the winter.
A CALIFORNIA reporter secured an item
weighing $50 pounds. Passing house,
he saw young lady lighting a fire with
kerosene, when he rushed In and threw
his coat over her in time to save her life,
and she wouldn't let him off without mar
rying her. As she is worth million,
and is unhealthy, he accepted the situa-
ton.
A SCIENTIFIC French gentleman, DR..
LabOrde, has announced the discovery OF
an infalliblc means of distinguishing be-
tween real or imae mary death, by stick
ing d needle an inch or so into the sup
posed corpse. The novel element OF DR..
Laborde's discovery is, that, in the living
tissues, the needle becomes furnished and
odorized, while, in the actually defunct, il
retains its polish.
On a window pane at Domassville, Ky,
is true figure of an arched rainbow,
about twenty -four inches in length and
twelve in width, with the colors of a rain
bow plainly visible, same as in nature
, So permanently is the imprint made that
il cannot be erased by washing with soap
and water, or by rubbing with any other
substance, and it appears TO have been
moulded in the glass.
In recent jumping match for $1,000
and the State championship at Utica, N
Y, Loomis jumped first and covered thir
teen feet one inca and half Sarles fol
lowed, springing over space of thirteen
; feet five inches and three quarters, beat
ing his best practice distance and making
the longest spirit level stand jump on rec
ord After several Intellectual efforts Il
emulate his rival, Loomis acknowledged
his defeat.
A SINGULAR fate has hsfallen the wifi
!, of master carpenter in Berlin. In tn,
space of eight years she has been made
, three times widow through war. In TIT
year 1854 her husband was killed at thu
storming of Duppel. In 1865 she agar
married carpenter, who was called III
in 1866, and was killed at KGniggratz