The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-01-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.

LAST year Hartford paid S79152 for
amusements.
THE Barney Williamses have made a
fortune of $750000.
BOSTON has five lawyers and doctors
to one clergyman.
MCPHERsoN's Life of Thaddeus Ste
vens will fill 1000 pages.
THERE are 1901 dram shops in New
York and Brooklyn.
NEW York canals last year yielded a
surplus of $3,293,3O1.
LAST year $50 marriages were solem-
nized in Milwaukee.
ONLY one paper is printed in the Turk
ish language, in London.
THE Troy postmaster prohibited the
letter carriers of that city from circulating
a New Years address
THE receipts tor license tos sell liquor in
New York, last year, were 81 ,431, 172.
TIE Baptists have ninety Sabbath
schools, with 1851 scholars in Phila-
delphia.
MONTREAL citizens have subscribed
$4,000 to erect statue Of Queen Victoria
in that city.
IT costs a Calcutta Hindoo about one
dollar and half to have his body burned
in good style.
IT is now stated that the loss by the
earthquake in San Francisco will reach
$3000,000.
A BALD eagle that measured seven feet
across the wings, was killed, recently, in
Titus county, Texas
In Holland the Chambers have voted
for the maintenance of capital punish
ment by a majority of forty five.
NEWPORT, r. l., during the year 1868
has lost by death fifty-eight persons over
seventy years of age.
TIE Darien Canal, of thirty miles
length, will include seven miles tunnel
and will cost about S65,000,000.
A FRENCH menagerie proprietor keeps
his money in the cage Of his most fero-
cious animals. He never lost any.
A Hoe weighing 1900 pounds, that
stood three feet six inches high, was lately
shipped from Columbia county, Va, to
New York.
THE number of insane persons in
Indiana Is from 1900 to 1000, the ratio
being but one to each 323 of the popula
ton.
MR.. JOEL TAYLOR, of Cromwell, Conn.
has, during the last fifty years, rescued
100 drowning persons from the Connect
cut river.
FRANCE owes 81, 226, 600, 900, keeps $50,
900 soldiers and annually expends S5l5,
1000 in running the government II
peace times
Next to Gov. Seward, Gov. Hoffman il
the youngest Chief Magistrate the State oil
New York has ever had. He Us 80; Sew
ard was 81 when elected.
THERE are 100000 cotton spindles now
| In operation in the United States, of which
over 100000 are running on cloths fol
printing, and produce 450.000,OO0 yards
per annum.
THE State Treasurer of Wisconsin re
ports that the revenue for the past yea
amounted to 1899 $40 80, and the expenses
1916 51S65; balance in the General Fund
September 80, ga, ei6.3S.
A NASHVILLE mechanic has invented
shooting machine, which he calls a Poly
fer" which will destroy a regiment O
soldiers, distant mile and a half, in fOu
minutes.
THERE were 1 ITO cases of small pox j
san Francisco during the six months end
ing on the It'll of December last; 39S wer
fatal The proportion of cases to the Who'll
population was to 80.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has decided that life insurance polio.
on which note has been given for til
first premium, was not vail !, the first II
stallment on it not being due when th
party died.
THE Empress Eugene has given loo
francs TO the convict Dumain, OF Algeri
for swimming with a rope to sinkin
vessel, amid violent storm, and savip
the lives of those on board. The Empert
is urged to pardon the man.
ONE boot and shoe factory at Mort
Brookfield, Mass, can turn out more tina
one million pairs of boots and shoes p
year, and is now producing 4,OO0 pal
,, per day. II was started halt centul
! ago by two brothers, one OF whom d
survived to see his business grow from
/, little shop to the present gigantic factory
/ MANY people think the true value OF
, greenback Is found by deducting the pr
] MUM on gold from 100. This, of cours
IS an error. Take the price of gold sc Z
g divisor, par, or 100, as the dividend, 81
J, the quotient will give the gold value
. the greenbaok. For example, gold is abJ
}, is5 Divide 100 by this, and we find II
!. a doRar greephsck Is Yerth about "a Ger
{ IN gala, -