The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.


roasted oysters for SO wager.
The total valuation of property in Ken
lucky is $406,215,77S.
THERE have been 40 ,331 volumes added
to the BRUSH Museum library this year
A FIRM Of bill-posters used sixteen bar
re!s of paste the day before the New York
charter elections
OUT of twenty-nine divorce suits pend
ing in Connecticut, the husbands are
plaintiffs in but three.
The profits of the Baden Baden gam
bling bank, last year, were 100000, and
OF the Wiesbaden bank, S650,000
BATH is, in proportion to its population,
the richest town in Maine. The valuation
gives So, ,j03 to each inhabitant
A RESIDENT, of McKeesport, Pa, fell
face downward intO,a mudhOle, while drunk
the other day, and was smothered to
DEATH
Mr.. FARGO, the Express Manager, is
building a residence in Buffalo, and nine
tons of glass have been used in its con-
structiOn.
a REDCEDAR hitching post, set in
plymouth, in 1870, is still serviceable, and
apparently will be good for twenty years
more.
THE French Ambassador at St. Peters
burg receives $4,000 francs q year, and
the one at Washington about the fourth of
that sum.
THERE are 12S mOnasteries in the
United States where men live under the
vows of cclibacy and poverty, and 800
nunneries OF various grades.
In Westminster, Vermont, with a popu-
lation of about 1 200, there are taken of
daily, weekly and other periodicals and
papers, about 200 in number
NINETY SIX pounds Of wild honey were
taken from single tree in Gambia, n. IL,
q few days ago. Some of the comb was
over six feet in length.
A BARBER drowned himself at West
minister bridge, leaving note: "I have
suffered from liver complaint for forty
years. Can you wonder am not Cody
MANI"
A YOUNG man in New London, Conn,
is playing game of chess with friend
in st. Louis, the moves being cOmmuni-
Gated by mail. They both anticipate
long life.
THE Congregational churches of Mas
sachusetts have entered solemn protest
against the increasing proclamation of the
Lords day by railroad and steamboat COM
panies.
A NoBLEMAN, who painted remarkably
well for an amateur, showing one of his
pictures 10 POussin, the latter exclaimed,
" Your lordship only requires little pov
erty to make you complete artist.
A BROOKLYN gentleman has invented
system of language whereby conversation
may be carried on by the sense of touch
1t is intended for use by deaf and dumb,
and may be denominated the "Mute's
Whisper"
IT is calculated that there are on an
average 10000 strangers in Paris, and
that they spend 2,0U0,0U0 francs per day.
Multiply by 365, and at the end Of the
year, it appears very respectable amount
finds its way into the pockets of the shop
keepers.
THE Daughters Of ST. Crispin have now
twenty four lodges in this country, four
teen being located in Massachusetts. The
largest lodge is at Rochester, with about
700 members. The Lynn Lodge has only
AGO members, although 1860 or 1890 wo-
men are engaged in manufacturing shoes
there
IT is announced that three persevering
gold -diggers, two from California and one
from Australia, have discovered gold in
Lapland. In the spring a nugget weigh
ing ten ounces and remarkably pure was
picked up, and during the summer sixty
ounces, worth about S 200, were obtained.
In the Thirteenth District of the Twen
ty-first Ward of New York city, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton received one vote for
Mayor, Susan B. Anthony one for Alder
man, Anna Dickinson one for Assistant
Alderman, Harriet Beecher Stowe one for
Police Justice, Lucy Stone one for Civil
Justice, and the Rev Olympia Brown one
for School Trustee.
IT is stated that the number Of Chinese
brought to California is 1873, 900 Ofthese
10, 1926 have died, 57,323 have returned to
China, leaving 81 900 on the Pacific coast,
and only II 900 in California. OF these
Al 900, $500 are women, children, old and
decrepid, or criminals confined in the
jails. There remains $4,000 active men,
all at work all producers.
A CURIOUS case of loss of speech Oc-
Cured recently in Budweis, Moldavia. A
young man dreamed that he was attacked
by robbers, one of whom was about to
murder him. He tried 20 cry out fer help,
but his voice failed him, and when he
awoke he found that he could not utter a
word. He was advised to go to Vienna
for treatment, and has there fortunately
recovered his speech.
In a charge of assault brought by nj.
Aureln Scholl against Count Gu Bisson,
in a Paris court, the latter was asked
whether knife he carried about him was
poisoned. The Count said he did not
know, but would see, and thereupon stab
bed himself in the left arm so violently
that the blood spurted out in abundance,
the wound being nearly two inches in
depth The President rebuked nj. du Bis
son for this novel mode of vindicating
himself. and characterized the act as un-
necessary and improper.
THE United States Army had in use, on
the 1st day of July last, 1854 horses, 49,
OO5 mules and 237 oxen. During the pre-
ceding year 2,50S horses and 726 mules
had died, 600 horses and go mules had
been lost or stolen, and ,427 mules and
II oxen had been sold. There had been
purchased 1858 horses, at an average cost
of $139.75, and 2502 mules at $l3696
The yearly consumption of forage was
1, 1,25O,O0O bushels of corn, 100000 bush
els oc oats, 1000 bushels of barley, and
5000 tons of straw.
THIS astounding concatenation of rela-
tives was at Thanksgiving dinner at VIM.
A. Smiths, in Hadley, Mass Three
fathers, five mothers, one father-in law,
two mothers in law, one grandfather two
grandmOthers, one great grandmother,
three sons, three sons-in- law, seven daugh-
ters, one step mother, one step-son, one
step daughter, three uncles, seven aunts,
.hree great -aunts, three nephews, five
tieccs eight cousins, ten second-cousins,
e.ic at-grand- son, and one great grand
.aughter The Oldest person there was
76 years 'ot age, and the youngest four