The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.

New HAMPSHIRE has thirty-slx news
papers.
A CLERGYMAN the other day took
$1,000 wedding fee in New York.
BELLE BOYD, the noted Southern spy
has been sent to the California State In
sane Asylum.
T PARIS will have, on the 1st day of Jan
uary, 1870, a dry goods store employing
1900 statesmen.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has stage-driver who
has held the lines for thirty seven year.
on one route.
1T is estimated that over million bush
els of peaches were shipped from Alabama
during the past season.
THERE are three times as many men en-.
gagged in selling liquor as in preaching the
Gospel or teaching school,
A New BEDFORD marble worker has
an order for a couple of tombstones fol-
the tombs of two hens.
A WEDDING guest in New York esti.
mates that out OF 80 marriages which he
attended last season, only 19 were "love
matches"
BISHOP KINGSLEY, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, expects to ordain nine
4
China
KATKoFF, the most eminent journalist
of Russia, was, fifteen years ago, an ap-
prentice in a house painters shop in Mos
COW.
VERMoNT's funded debt is 81 ,O75, 600
a net reduction during the past year of
$157,042, and since the close of the war of
$602,500
THE total number of voters on the Eng
lish parliamentary register last year was
| 1908, 40, and the number who voted was
S25,519.
A YOUNG lady, who has been studying
finance for some time past, wishes to know
whether the day rate of gold affects the
nitrate of silver
| VICTOR HUGO is 67, Alexander Dumas
66, George Sands 65 years old. The three
| great French authors have sons who are
celebrated authors themselves.
A FAMILY of seven brothers and sisters,
the youngest of whom is sixty-eight, have
resided together all their lives, in Knox
county, Tennessee.
A NOVEL feature of the Danville, Va,
Fair, was a pistol shooting match, partici
pated in by number of young ladies'
Miss Ella Yates taking the premium.
In McHenry county, H., there are II
cheese factories, which use the milk of
about 400 COWS, and the past season have
made about 100000 pounds of cheese
LORD PALMERsToN never visited the
most important seaport Of the British En-
pirn T.ivnrnnOl which thn roilrrny bod
brought within four hours of Broadlands,
his country abode, until the year before
his death.
A WRITER in the Pro- idence Journal,
addressing Senator Sprague, says: "GOv-
ernOr, you have no idea how much money
one able bodied, industrious man can lend,
in the course of a day, if he is so dis
posed"
SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, has an en-
thusiastic Christian who attends eleven
religious meetings week, works at his
trade every day, and goes twenty-siX
miles by rail to his work, and finds time
to read his Bible and his newspapers.
THE new Roman Catholic Cathedral in
Boston will probably be finished in 1871.
1t will cover an area of $4,000 feet. 1t
will have chime of bells, and its chief
tower will be 800 feet in height. The style
of architecture is the early Gothic.
In bayou near Natchez, short time
u,
stones, balls, ETC., were discharged INTO
crowd of alligators fighting over the car
cass of a sheep, and twenty-one of the
reptiles were killed
FALL BIvER, Mass, has bank with
100000 capital and only eleven stock.
holders, a majority of whom are named
Brayton. There are four thousand shares,
and of these one gentleman owns twenty
nine hundred.
AN eccentric capitalist in Buffalo offered
a man, presumed to be lazy, seventy-two
dollars and some groceries if he would
wheel barrow containing one hundred
pounds of stone certain distance twice a
day for twenty-four days. The offer was
accepted and the contract faithfully exc
cuted.
A BAR of iron one inch in diameter
| will sustain a weight of % tons, bar of
steel so tons; and, according TO computa-
ton, based upon the fact that fiber only
| 1-4000th of an inch in diameter will sus-
tain 54 grains, a bar of spiders silk an inch
in diameter would support weight OF "A
| tons.
THE statistics of the last General Con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
| Church shows 80 dioceses; Bishops and
clergy, 1862: candidates for Holy orders,
| $40; total number of baptisms, 9O,120 !;
combinations, 59,940; communicates,
| 1875, 1888; Sunday School teachers, y, ,4'o !;
scholars, 1SS, ,132 amount of ofcontributions
for three years, 100000.
THERE is living in the town of West
minister, Mass, a maiden lady az years OF
age, who, though totally blind and par
tally deaf, lives entirely alone. She
builds her own fire every morning in an
open fireplace. She prides herself upon
having had over forty offers of marriage,
still she prefers to live on with no compa-
ny save an old cat.
| A REMARKABLE fossil skeleton has been
discovered at Horse Shoe Bend, Cal, that
measures twenty-six feet from the jaws to
the hips, with teeth hat are three and a
half inches broad, and two smooth horns
projecting backward thirty-two inches in
circumference at the base and five and a
half feet long. The skull weighed five
hundred pounds, and surrounding the
skeleton were about fifty skulls of human
shape, but small and apish.
WISE men are puzzling themselves to
account for the fresh water which comes
up through an iron tube, sunk fifteen feet
through the constantly shifting sands OF
Cape Cod, from sixteen TO twenty feet
from high water and not more than three
feet above it. The water in this tube
rises and falls regularly with the tide, yet
more than 100 barrels have been pumped
from it at one time without finding the
slightest trace of saline matter. Ii is oi
such fine quality that vessels supply them
selves for sea voyage from this well.
A PRISONER who escaped from the Au.
burn Jail, in Maine, few days since
showed much ingenuity in making the
false key for his purpose, He borrowed a
pair of scissors from prisoner, ostensi
bly, to mend some clothing, but used them
in cutting up a tin dipper, out of which
he cut his false key, using nail for the
handle. The tin is of many thicknesses
and fits the lock precisely. The handle
was made by winding black cloth neatly