The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-12-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.

CANADA has 80, 100 militiamen.
New YORK contains 100000 Spaniards
THERE has not been an execution in
Maine since 1882.
A HORSE in Coventry, VT, recently died
at the ripe age of thirty
RoTHsCHILD commenced his will, an
enormous parchment volume, in 184S.
On recent Sunday 2,218 children at
tended the Bethel Sunday School, in Gin
cinnati
MERDEN, Conn, has only four police
men. The chief gets $1,000 a year, and
the others 1925.
TWICE as many people pay income tax
in massachusetts as in all the rest of New
England.
Four Vermont clergymen recently killed
six deer in four days hunt in the AdirOn-
dacks
SOME clocks recently imported into New
York contained 100000 worth of shawls
concealed inside
THE other evening Bishop Keller told
Boston audience that he travelled two years
in Europe on $50.
HARVARD COLLEGE was named after
John Harvard, who, in 1888, left to the
College e579 and library of over 300
books.
THE other day, four. young Philadel-
phians were imprisoned for beating
father for flogging his son, their compan-
| ion.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN holds positions
at present which give him from fifteen to
eighteen thousand dollars year income.
A Mr.. BROWN, an old peddler of apples
on st. Louis ferry boats, has had 100000
left him by deceased relative in Ireland.
THE tower in the Circular church in
Charleston, S. c., has been haunted by
ghosts for three years past They proved
to be owls.
VELOCIPEDEs are so common in Paris,
in the evening, that the police compel the
riders to afiix lamps to them to prevent ac-
cidents
A DRUGGIST in Worcester has received
from Sacramento an order for medicine
from numbered prescription Of several
years ago.
THE Mississippi river was navigable to
st. Paul, this year, two hundred and fifty
eight days, the longest period known in
one year.
THE New Jersey Insane Asylum at
Trenton, has $40 inmates. One sixth are
paying patients, and five-sixths are sup
ported by taxation.
AUSTRIA pays its diplomatic agents at
Paris, $4,000; at London, $i2 900; st.
Petersburg, $32 900; Rome, $4,000 and
so gradually down to Washington, Sc, 500.
PHILADELPHIA's largest Protestant Sun
day School is the Fifth Baptist, the Beth
any Mission alone excepted. 1t was or
ganized in 1915, and numbers 1 200 schol-
ars
A FEW nights ago Kansas City SOM
nambulist, walked abroad in his night
shirt, until, stepping into snow drift, the
sudden cold awoke him.
One of Josh Billings maxims: "Rise
early; work hard an late live on what you
kant sell give nothing away; and if you
don't die rich and go to thedevil, you may
sue me for damages"
l. THE Mormons, in twenty years, have
built up Sc towns, 100 churches, and 100
school houses. During that period the
emigration from Europe has been $4,000,
and from the old States. $4,000.
THE american Agricuturist gives the
following summary of the things necessa-
ry in fattening pork economically: A
good breed; good housing early fatten-
ing variety of food; regular feeding
three times day.
ELEVEN young thieves were surprised
and captured by the police in their den
no larger than good sized hog pen, and
little better-on Keene street. Milwaukee,
a few nights since. They were recounting
their exploits when captured.
FROM the Lutheran Almanac, for 1862
recently issued, we learn that this demon
nation now has 1900 ministers, 3,162
houses of worship, 81 synods, and nearly
100000 commandments There are "a re-
ligious periodicals. II English, 10 German,
2 Swedish, and 1 Norwegian; 10 theo-
logical seminaries, II colleges, schools
for females, - academies, IL orphan
houses, besides other eleemosynary and
benevolent institutions. In the Lutheran
Church the Gospel is preached in English,
German, Swedish, Norwegian, Bohemian,
and In several Sclsv!sh aielepts-