The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND F1GUkESs
AMOS KENDALL left three hundred |
thousand dollars;
THE Johnstown PENN iron works |
employ 5000 workmen.
ONLY seven of the active members of
the Philadelphia press in 1910 are now
alive.
THE Bible is now printed by the Amer
lean Bible Society in the languages of
100000 people
THE Empress Eugene, during her visit
to Constantinople, made presents to the
amount of 100000.
GETTING into debt is like mouse get
ting into trap-very easy going in, and
extremely difficult getting out.
In 1913, the British Museum had only
900 works relating to America. Now it
has upward of 100000.
G. c. GIBSON. celebrated Eastern vio-
linist, when a Is year old lad, walked from
Henniker, n. H., to Boston and back, over
$50 miles, to attend one of Ole Bulls con-
certs.
THE Vermont Legislature has passed a
bill holding liquor dealers responsible for
the damage to person or property done by
those obtaining liquors of them.
ALL organists, soloists and chorists have
been invited to join in organizing for the
monster concert in New York, next May.
a coliseum is to be erected in Central
Park.
Miss DE GoRIAN is a London gymnast
who jumps from high platform, bursts
through a double paper balloon, and is
caught by one of her brothers who hangs
suspended from the trapeze with his head
downward.
THE Coroner of San Francisco reports
sevcntysix cases of suicide, forty-four of
drowning, and thirty-fve of homicide in
that city since December 1, 1856. Only
one of the murderers was sentenced to be
hanged, and he comitted suicide in his
cell
TIE Rev. John Smith, the pastor Of a
Presbyterian church, at Washington, was
the other day, voted by his congregation
an increase OF one thousand dollars year
on his salary, but he declined to accept
the increase, saying he was satisfied with
the amount paid HIM.
TRAUPPMAN the assassin of the Kink
family, has found his rival in the Depart
ment of Hainault in France The name
of this human monster is Dessous lie
Moustier. He has killed six persons
namely, three brothers, the wife of one of
them, and besides, he has poisoned his
own wife and his own son.
BIsHoP SIMPSON, IN a speech at the
Methodist Missionary Anniver :ary in New
York the other night, maze curious
statistical statement He said there were
100000. 600 persons still out of the pale
of Christianity, and at the rate the work
Is going on the entire world would not be
converted in less than 5000 years.
THE city of Trier, in Germany, formerly
the seat of one of the Electors of the Ger
man Empire, will celebrate, in the coming
year, the thOusaudth anniversary of its
union with Germany. On the 9th of
June, SO, at the division of the Empire
Of Charlemange among his grandsons, it
fell to the share of Ludoyic, the German.
THE Cincinnati correspondent of the
Newark, On. j. Journdl says: fears
ago we met a farmer, residing near Albany,
who visited this spot in 1905, when the in
FAINT emporium contained about fifteen
hundred people. A friend urged him to
buy forty acres of land in what is now the
heart of the city, for 81 300"
OF those admitted during the year to
Boston, there have been clerks statesmen
and okkeepers, so; merchants and
traders, pa; lawyers Z; physicians, 5;
| printers, 6; farmers, 3 editors, 2; judges,
| y actors, 1 clergymen, ., and one or
more from nearly every trade and calling.
At hotel in Sonoma, Cal, on the 18th
ult., one William Hurd, who was drunk,
said to William Hudson, his friend, also
| drunk, with wnom he had never quar-
relied Z" | wish you would cut my throat,
or my head OFF, Hudson replied "All
right; | can do it for you in minute
| Soon after Hudson borrowed knife, re-
turned where Hurd was sitting and in
flicted severe wound in his neck, causing
| almost instant death. Hudson was arrest
ed for thus accommodating his friend.
A PUBLIC lecturer in New York recently
argued that science teaches us that in six
thousand three hundred years more, q
grand deluge will end man and make him
a fossil Astronomy shows that the earth
is oscillating in the angle of its axis to the
sun In periods of twenty one thousand
years. The zones are undergoing a con
slant change. Now, at the North Pole
it is growing colder each year, and at the
South Pole warmer. Thus, an immense
accumulation of glaciers, or icebergs, al
the North Pole will result, while at the
South they will not form at ALL In six
thousand three hundred years the glaciers
will have accumulated SO much that they
will suddenly overbalance the earth. Then
the waters of the sea will rush from the
South to the North and there will be a
deluge
The Protestant Establishment of Dea
cOnesses," in the Rue de Reuiily, in
Paris, was entered recently by burglars
during the night, and robbed of $500
The Directress received next morning by
the post the following note MADAME
am sorry to have caused any annoyance
but | really wanted some $50 or 600
and it occurred to me that | should find il
in your house If you had left your keys
on your table | should not have broken
open your secretary. l only took e72
and left you S. My idea is that l shall
return the money with interest about
| Easter. And now let me advise you &c
beware of the undergrad behind YOU
establishment. Here is the line of coun
try took to break into your room;
crossed the garden, | got on the roof o
the girls school; and from that on that o
the church entered by the bathroom
window, and thus easily got at your casl
box. | advise you to have a couple o
watch dogs in future in your yard. YOU
really ought to raise your wall, and have
broken glass stuck on the top. Pray, be
lieve, Madame Ia Directrice, that my hear
Will ever preserve pleasant recollection
of my visit to your cash box, and believ
in my profound gratitude"