The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.


The Philadelphia theatres received last
year $405,S1S.
NEW YORK is said to expend $4,000, 900
a year for false hair.
For the Bank of England 29, 900 notes
are printed daily.
ONE hundred and eighty seven mar
riages in Cincinnati in January.
SPAIN has seventy-seven normal and
$4,000 elementary schools. -
FIVE Police Commissioners of Phila-
delphia are worth in the aggregate $2,000,-
900.
ONE hundred millions of dollars has
been invested in the Superior copper
mines
THE Christians of the world last year
contributed S5,0O0,000 to foreign ms
sions.
Four thousand and forty-fo horses
were killed in Berlin, and used as food, last
year.
A. T. STEWART & Co. have given $685.
900 worth of spool cotton for the poor in
Washington.
A LYNoHBURG (Va.) carpenter has fallen
heir to $4,0O0,000 by the death of an Eng
lish relative.
THE Masonic Lodge at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, has been presented with Kit Car
sons rifle.
FIVE hundred New York bank clerks
have united in cooperative insurance
scheme.
ABoY died lately in Huntington County,
Pa, from hydrophobia, induced by bite
from cat.
AN English farmer has been sent to
prison for month for sending bad beef to
market
THE annual egg product of the country
/ is Is, go, ,000, 900 eggs, worth, at 16 cents
per dozen, s243,333,339.
A NAN in Philadelphia has been held in
/ $1,000 bail for having wantonly and wick
edly cut off the tongue OF horse.
IN California, the men outnumber the
women four to one; in Nevada, eight to
one, and in Colorado, twenty to one.
THE residents of Put-in-Bay have SUBJ
scribed $1,000 toward the erection of a
monument in honor of Commodore Perry
on that island.
4 PENNSYLVANIA grocer ingeniously
tried to clean out bOmbshell with a red
hot poker. He succeeded in cleaning
himself out most effectually.
SIXTY folio volumes are daily filled with
the accounts of the Bank of England,
and eight bookbinders are constantly en-
ployed.
A GENTLEMAN of York, England, has
been sued in $3.50 fire for refusing to ac-
cept the Office of Alderman, to which he
had been elected.
THE area of public land asked from
Congress by the numerous Pacific Rail
roads down to June, 1868, amounted in
the aggregate to only 1876, 100,0 900 acres.
A CONSCIENCE STRICKEN Connecticutter
lately inclosed thirty-five cents to the
Osborne House, Rochester, the worth of
a door-key which he had carried off in
1868.
AN insane man became unmanageable
in New York Central Railroad car, and
it was acertained that out of thirty-two
gentlemen in the car, twenty-nine carried
revOlvers.
"A MAN in Greensboro, Vt, nearly broke
his wifes neck, recently, by playfully shak-
ing her. Her neck cracked, she became
partially paralyzed, and was confined to
her bed seven days.
A WIDOW lady named Mrs Mead, living
in Fremont, Steuben county, N. Y, and
aged seventy years, has spun one hundred
and sixty eight thousand yards of yarn
during the past year.
THIRTY-FIvE years ago Mrs. Erastus
Corning deposited in an Albany Savings
Bank the sum of $22 to the credit of her
nephew. Both forgot all about il until
the other day. when the deposit had in
creased to 1923.
A BERKSHIRE girl, says the Boston Post,
walked fourteen miles through the snow
the other day to marry young man who
couldn't come to her house for fear of a
six shooter which the stern parent car
ried.
Snow fell in such abundance in ST..
Petersburg and its suburbs in the latter
half OF December that in several streets it
rose to II feet in height. Accounts from
the provinces state that whole villages
were buried under the drift.
THE revenue officers assert, after a
patient investigation and inquiry, that the
amount of capital in active use in Wall
street, during year, is not less than q
thousand millions; that is, that large
amount changes hands and makes for
tunes for the owners or spectators on its
way.
A REPORT on the operations of the va
llOuo dooOCldblOuS III NldSSd-
chusetts, it is stated, will soon be pre-
sented to the Legislature. The financial
condition of about twenty five societies is
| given, ard a list of the members of each
The associations, it is reported, present
the most varied results N their different
statements. Their capital stock varies
from 81 900 to $4,000, and the small asso-
Citations are generally more successful than
the large ones.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has decided an interesting case. 1t came
in the form of a petition of father for
the custody of his child. In the absence
of the father, who follows the sea, the
mother died, and the child, being of ten
der age and destitute, was placed in the
care of respectable family in Beverly, to
be brought up as their own. When the
child was nine years old the father ap-
peared and endeavored to assert his claims
Judge Hoar refused to grant him the GUS
tody of the child; holding, with the con-
currence of the other judges that where
by misfortune or accident father has left
his child destitute and dependent upon
charity, and the child has been permitted
TO form new relations in life so deep and
strong as to change its whole nature and
character, the child should be considered
as emancipatod by the father, and the
father caunot assert his legal right to his
custody