The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The value of our railroad freight in 1867
was Sic, ,472. .250,0O0.
The New Orleans gambling houses nav
yearly license of $4,000.
THE ballet troupe at the Berlin Opera
House consists of 4S6 persons.
THE editor of the South Orange IN il
Budget is 10 years of age.
SAN FRANCISCO is not vet Quarter of a
century old and has $50 600 inhabitants.
THE Pope has two brothers older than
himself, and a nephew sixty years of age
THERE are forty-two societies, with
l,7OO missionaries, engaged in giving the
Gospel to the heathen
ALTHOUGH Paris returns only nine
members, there were eleven hundred can
didates in the field.
A WOMAN died of corpulence few days
ago, In Philadelphia, weighing nearly six
hundred pounds.
A 0osToN horse car conductor has been
given Government bond by some of his
regular passengers.
SWITZERLAND has now 2O1 political
papers, 163 German, 81 French, Italian,
and Romanic journals.
THERE are $4,000 commercial travellers
In the United States, of whom 10000 are
sent out by New York houses.
A TEACHERS meeting will be held at
Berlin this summer, at which about 1900
teachers will be present.
THE Tempest" was lately read by Mrs
Sterling, In London, with chorus of 400
voices to sing the incidental music.
EIGHT horse-slaughteriug establish
ments at Stettin, Prussis, turned out las.
year 500 carcasses and $4,000 pounds of
meat.
A coLoRED child recently fell out of
third story window in Cincinnati, struck
It's head against the stone pavement and
escaped uninjured.
On an opening night at an opera house
In Nevada, an enthusiastic admirer of an
actress threw an $50 silver brick at her.
NEARLY three thousand duels were
fought in 1868 at the various German uni
versities. Most of these duels, however,
were very harmless affairs.
THERE are fifteen male and female opera
singers on the European continent, whose
aggregate income amounts 10 four mil
lion francs and half
ANNA DICKINSON said; in a late lecture
at New York, that in five years she would
vote, and in ten be a member of Congress.
The imports of wheat into great Brit
ian this year have averaged twenty per
cent. less in amount than during the co.,
months of 1863.
THERE are twenty -four voters of the
name of Ellis in Keene, n a., and in
same State, in 215 voters there
are twenty-five of the name of Wiggin.
THE French Mutual Benevolent Society,
of San Francisco, numbers 1887 mem
bers. Their receipts during the last year
were $57,172 and their expenses $46 476.
THE receipts of the British Bible S )cie-
ty for last year were el87,97O 1t has
lately occupied new and elegant build
ing. The society, since 1904, has issued
81 ,O00, 900 copies of the Scriptures.
THE Crown Princess of Prussia spends
more than half her income in charities.
The Queen, her mother in-law, spends a
still larger portion of her income for the
same purpose.
THE Rev. Samuel Mott, who died the
other day in Hartford at the age of 81, was
aries sent to the East Indies by the
American Board in 1912.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, has an ordinance that
prohibits boys under eighteen years of
age from going into saloon, and fining
any saloon keeper $40 who sells them
liquor in his establishment.
DURING the last fiscal year the number
of letters sent through the foreign depart
ment of the post office in New York city
to 5000, ,307, and the number re-
ceived was 522S, ,225, making an aggre-
gate of II, 1913, ,532
ANsoN w. WILLIAMS has sued Jesse
Colby at Buffalo for the value OF $75
horse killed by collision of the wagons
of the parties and the case is still unset
tied with 81 800 costs already heaped on
the original bill
A PIECE of track on the Oil Greek
Railroad, over a great bog, gave way
few days ago, allowing three cars to sink.
In two days they got twelve feet below
the surface. The bog has been sounded,
and found to be thirty-eight feet deep.
The door of carriage in fast train
on the Edinburg & Glasgow Railway sud
denly burst open the other day, and
little girl five years OF age, who was lean
ing against the door at the time. was
LEVI Snow, of West Dover. VT, has
been feeding out his hay this season that
has been in his barn thirty four years. 1t
came out bright and sound, the cattle ate
it we'll, and it was as good in every re-
spect as hay grown last summer.
A CUP of coffee and sandwich invaris-
bly form the breakfast of the King of
Prussia. At 10 o'clock in the morning he
takes a substantial lunch, and st the din
ner table he eats very heartily. He takes
his last meal, generally consisting Of fried
potatoes and fish, beiween and 10 in the
evening.
A GIRL at Bromberg, 13 years old, the
daughter of a high Prussian dignitary,
took her own life by jumping into the
river, in consequence of rebuke which
she received from her teacher. Before
making the fatal leap, she informed her
that she was about to die,
and invited them to her funeral.
THE Missionary Society of the British
Baptists reports an income of E3O,5oo.
At lis recent session, an address was made
by the Rev. DIR. Landels, in which he
brou pht out the fact that each missionary
family in India cost on an average f3S0
ner annum, and urges that the missions-
rries 90 out at first unmarried.
CHARLES E THURBER, of East Burke,
VT, while building road on his farm,
few days ago, turned over q fiat stone, un-
der which ne found $134 in silver halves
and quarters. 1t is supposed to have been
deposited there by Pat Currsn, who hung
himself at East Burke some twelve or four
teen years ago.
W. ToRKEY, of Cephslis, Ala, saw an