The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

EARTHQUAKES ana smallpox cost san
Francisco 100000 last year.
A CHURCH bell has recently been heard
for the first time in Cheyenne.
In one of the Paris gardens is a came
liza with thirty-seven hundred buds.
THE Boston Trotting Association offer
prizes to the amount of $4,000 this year.
GEN. LANE, co-candidate with Breckin-
ridge in 1860, has become Roman Cath
oic.
THERR are eight tunnels on the Penn.
sylvania Railroad, ranging from 200 to
3.612 feet.
MOUNT AIN trout over two feet long have
been found in the inland streams of Cali
fornia.
THE Dubuque Herald says that census
of that city, recently completed, shows
the population 3,543
THE Troy Budget says there is pea
nut peddler in that city who clears be-
tween $40 and $50 per week.
A LADY died at Columbia, Me-, few
days ago, at the age of 104, who had been
four times married, and yet died widow.
A ROLL OF female hair, measuring six
feet long. and weighing twelve ounces, is
owned by London hair dealer.
BEEcHER says he receives about $685.
600 a year, and gives onethird of it in
charity and to applicants for aid.
THE Roman Catholics of New York
have subscribed $44, 500 toward the sup
port of the American College in Rome.
THE 2,447 churches of Great Britain
last year gave f44,9O0 to foreign mis-
sions-an average of about $75 each In
gold.
In the Island of Hawaii, there are two
lakes side by side, one of fresh water and
the other salt. Both are far above the
level of the sea.
NINETREN-TwENTIETH of the rice
raised in the United States is grown with
in narrow limit upon the seaboard of
the Carolinas and Georgia.
AFTER an expense of $12 900, and many
months work, the artesian we'll at Colts
armory, in Hartford, Conn, has found
water.
A PITTsFIELD lad recently sold 201
muskrat skins of his own trapping, and
with the avails thereof paid his last win
ter's tuition at school.
THE great Australian nugget of gold,
"Welcome Stranger" found by the de-
spairing miners of Donolly, netted the
finders $4,000.
If you go into store and find the clerk
lying on the counter asleep, you may
know that the firm don't advertise. Any
thing for quiet life.
In London, fifteen diamonds, weighing
one carat each, are worth about 81 500 /;
one diamond, weighing fifteen carats,
brings from $12, 900 to $15 600.
"WHAT are you burning off my writing
table, sonny?" said an author to his six
year old "Only the paper that's written
all over, papa. | hain't touched the clean"
A MAN in Elizabeth, n. j., recently sent
to drug store for some medicine for his
horse, and the clerk, by mistake, put up
something which killed four horses, valued
at $2,400.
WHEN Prince Alfred was "touring" In
Australia he made presents which cost
him about $4,000. When he returned
home he brought in bill for this item of
expense, and the Government allowed it.
In removing the debris of the Pacific
House, in st. Joseph, Mo. few days
since, the discovery was made that the
fire was still burning. Nearly i've months
had elapsed since the house was burned.
DURING the past winter not a fake of
snow fell in Portland, Oregon. Only three
or four nights did ice form, and then only
of the thickness of window glasa. Sow
ing and planting were going on all winter.
THE solitary system has been partially
dispensed with in the Pittsburgh pa
State Prison, and convicts have been al
lowed to come into the corridors and have
the chaplain preach to them, instead OF
being locked in their cells.
THE Lincoln Monument Association, at
Springfield, ILL.,, have awarded to Mr.. w.
D. Richardson the building of the archi-
tectural portion Of the monument for
$136,550.
HAINEs' Treatise on the Powers and
Duties of Justices of the Peace, etc, has
real he'd Sale of 1000 copies,-a larger
sale than any book of the kind ever before
had in this country.
ALL male children born in France this
year on August Is, the birthday of Nspo-
leon l., whose parents will consent TO their
bearing the name of Napoleon, are to be
taken under the special protection OF the
Government.
LIEBIa says: every farmer who
takes ! sack of corn or bushel OF pota-
toes to town, ought like the Chinese
coolie, to carry back an equal or greater
quantity of the mineral constituents of
the produce sold, and restore them to the
field from which they have been taken"
AT Dunstable, Mass, in 1851, dancing
at weddings was forbidden, and in 1860.
civilian Walker was imprisoned month
for courting a maid without the leave OF
her parents" In 1872 the wearing OF long
hair, and superstitious ribbons to tie it up,
were prohibited by severe penalties.
ON the 1st of May the New York truck
men reaped rich harvest Their charges
were as follows: One horse truck, one
mile, So; two miles, $40; three miles, $l2;
Two-horse trucks, including loading, un-
loading and housing, from $40 to $2O, &C
cording To distance to jersey City, new
ark and Brooklyn, $l2 to SEQ and $40.
TRAVELLERS on the planet Mars can go
t. anv part of il on the element-land or
watar-on which they have commenced
travelling, SO complex is the arrang gement
of the continents and oceans on that
planet In this respect 1t differs very
much from the earth, where the oceans
are three times as extensive as the land,
which is divided into two great insuiar
continents
4 old building in Hartford, CT, re-
cenaJ torn down, was originally
erected, some sixty years ago, for the
Hartford Courdnt. In this building the
first Bibles ever printed in this country
were produced. At a large expense, the
printed matter, all set up. was brought
from London in forty or fifty "chases.
The finest minion type was used. 80
choice were these "forms" that a fire.