The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-05
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE young King of Greece is said to
| have become drunkard.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, claims population of
Al ,45O-an increase of 2,440 over last
year.
THE Rev. Miss Olympia Brown has ac-
cepted the pastorate of Bridgeport,
Conn, church.
In North Carolina any person who
hunts with gun or dogs, OF Sunday, is liza
BILE to fine of $50.
THE Yale students who drew the best
college rooms made about one thousand
dollars by selling out
A BOGUS Rarey has been swindling
Louisville, in spite of the fact of Mr..
Rarey's death, two years ago.
MATCHES are now made with sodium
instead of phosphorus. 1t ignites as easi-
ly, and is free from offensive odors
SINCE Lamartine's death 100000 of his
photographs have been sold, and no fewer
than 5000 cheap statuettes
A FRENCHMAN has purchased 5000
acres of swamp in Tennessee, and pro-
poses raising frogs for the Memphis
market.
THE Coliseum in Boston, minus the Ju-
| bilee, Gilmore and the anvils, can now bc
visited at the moderate price of twenty
| five cents per head.
TWENTY thousand elephants are annu-
ally destroyed to furnish the manufacturers
| of Sheffield with ivory for knife handles
and other purposes.
A NEW JERSEY horse thief. convicted
| of fifteen horse thefts, was lately sentenced
ten years apiece for them-total, one hun
dred and fifty years.
A POOR shoemaker, named Donohuc,
| residing in East River street, Newark, has
fallen heir to the sum of $500, 900 in gold,
by the death of his brother.
OF seventeen graduates of Dartmouth
College who died last year three were
fOver eighty years of age, and five others
had passed the allotted period of human
life
AT recent temperance celebration, a
little Lad appeared in the procession bear
lowing: "All's right when daddy's
sober"
THE remains of George H. Steele, of
Windsor, VT, which have been inferred
for twenty three years, were recently ex-
humed and found to be in a..thorough state
representation.
A DIVORCE case is now pending in Graf
ton County, n. H., in which the parties
have been married forty-four years, and
had fifteen children, of whom twelve are
now living and of age.
VISITORS to Niagara Falls are notified
that a new Treasury regulation imposes Il
duty of forty five per cent, in gold, on all
fancy articles purchased on the Canada side
and brought over the river.
MIR. A. ID. RICHARDSON, who has recent
ly been through to the Pacific" says that
if the Central Union Railroad becomes
remunerative, it will make its six original
owners the richest men on the continent.
THE United States contain an area of
over two billions of acres, which, if
peopled as densely as Massachusetts, would
accommodate in the neighborhood of six
hundred million inhabitants.
A FATHER, mother and nine children,
from Pennsylvania, recently passed
through Grand Rapids, Michigan, on their
way to Minnesota, the children being three
pairs of twins and one triplet.
WATCHES were invented in Germany,
Nuremburg, in 1477. The Emperor
Charles V. was the first man who owned
one, but it was too large to carry in the
pocket. Pocket watches were invented
by man named Hooke in 1868.
ALICE CARY, the poetess, reports an in
come of 81, $50; Clara Louise Kellogg, the
prima donna, 5000; Maggie Mitchell, the
Cricket 81 ,933; Florence, the comedian.
$3,025; Barney Williams, the Irish actor,
$3,195
In the old burying ground at Kirk Cross
in Shetland, the curious in epltaphs may
read that the death of Donald Robert
son, to all appearance sincere Christian,
was caused by the stupidity of Lawrence
Tullock, who sold him nitre instead of
EPSON salts"
A NEW YORK letter says: Mr. De-
groot is putting an immense bronze cast
ing of scenes in the life of Commodore
Vanderbilt over .he entrance TO the Hud-
son River freight depot in ST. John 5 Park.
1t will cost $SO0000, and is the largest
casting i'm the world. The foundation
alone cost $4,000"
A MAN i'm Hamburg, Pennsylvania,
bought a wagon-load of boards about
thirty years ago, and failing to get the
price he asked, determined not TO lose
money on them. Accordingly they are
for sale in his yard, having never been re
moved from the wagon, but wagon and
boards are mostly rotten wood.
AN Assistant Assessor recently applied
to headquarters at Washington, relatlveto
the liability of butter and cheese manutac-
turers for taxes on sales above 5000. The
reply was that manufacturers of butter
and cheese, including factories and asso-
Citations, as commonly conducted, are lla-
bic to a tax of 81 upon every Sl,OoO sale
above 5000 per annum.
THE mud of the hard paved streets of
the city of London consists, according to
DR.. Letherby, the wellknown sanitary in
spector. of 81 per cent. of horse refuse, 30
per cent. of abraded stone, and 13 per
cent. of abraded iron-from horses hoofs
and wheel tires A chemist in Dublin has
obtained the same results from an eNaml-
nation of the mud in the streets OF that
city.
3IN the Middle ages the fires in the houses
were made in cavity in the centre of the
floor, over which there generally was an
opening i'm the roof for the escape ol the
smoke; and when the fire was out, or the
family retired to rest, the place IN which
il was made was closed by cover. In
those days a law was almost universally
established on the continent that fires
should be extinguished and families be all
at home at certain hour in the evening
which was notified by the ringing of
bell. that in England was called the Cur
few.
THIRTEEN cases of small pox were re-
Gently discovered in a tenement house ON
FORSYTH street, New York. The sole
origin of these cases was traced 10 tne
culpable recklessness of one Henry keis,
who keeps cake bakery in that street.
For thirteen days after he became infected