The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.


THERE are 3,377 pensioners on the rolls
of the Navy Department.
LONDON hairdressers are not allowed to
talk to customers unless spoken to.
A WEALTHY lawyer in London let his
wife starve to death on $3.50 week.
FIFTEEN hundred dogs were executed
last season under the Cleveland dog Crdi-
nance.
THE Michigan Central workshops at
Detroit has a chimney 165 feet high, and
containing $4,000 bricks.
THERE arc 139 pupils in the North
Carolina Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute,
of whom 43 are blind, and 81 deaf and
dumb.
WHEN the bottom of the Great Eastern
was cleaned, fifty thousand gallons of
muscles and other accretions were rcmov-
ed from it.
THE Salt Lake Theatre, according to
the Desert Ne'os, is the only place of
amusement that was ever dedicated by a
prayer.
S. G. HAYES cast in section of stove
pipe, forty years ago, the first compost
ton roller" ever used in a New Haven
printing office.
A STATISTICAL observer, on late Sun
day morning in London, found but 1862
worshippers in fourteen churches, whose
pastors received altogether e7,074 salary.
AT recent medical lecture in Penn
sylvania Hospital, at Philadelphia, a class
of thirty-nine ladies were present, with
140 male students
A FoG-wHIsTLE at Cape Fourcher, N. s.,
said to be the most powerful in North
America, may be heard - miles in calm
weather, 3 to s in storms, 25 with the
wind, and to 8 against the wind.
M. RAsPAIL, the champion of the Paris
workmen, was in youth intended for the
Church, but changed his mind to the study
of medicine. He has spent ten years i'll
prison and fifteen in exile.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Massachusetts
P0ughmGh says: ".COver your strawberry
bOughs are just the thing forit; but oak
leaves, sca-wecd, or coarse hay are good.
Remember long manure is fatal to them. y
THE quantity of gold produced in Nova
Scotia from the date of the first discovery
of the precious metal to the end of 1868,
period of eight years, amounts to 100000
ounces. The best year was 1867, when
the yield amounted to nearly 10000
ounces.
As EVIDENCE that American ideas are
getting fOOthOld in Italy, a correspondent
cites the fact that American rocking chairs
are now in high favor, though when first
introduced by American families, they
were looked upon by the natives as some
thing ridiculous.
ONE million, two hundred and eleven
thousand, one hundred and ninety three
pounds of sca-island cotton, valued at
$1,070,736, were exported from the Gus
toms District of Charleston to foreign
countries during the year ending the 30th
of September, 1869.
BISHOP POTTER, of Southern New York,
during the fifteen years of his cpiscOpate,
hoo oonfirnnnd 1900 persons, admitted
400 To holy orders, and has travclcu up
ward of 10000 miles. During this time
the diocese has contributed almost $5,000,.
600 for charitable and church purposes
FRENCH statisticians assert that the
mortality among women has decreased 49,
per cent. since cOrsetS went out of fashion
but that brain diseases have increased
among them at the fearful rate of 1924 pei
cent. since chignons and other pyramidica
ornaments came into vogue.
ELDER SMITH, at Salt Lake City, recent
ly married the widow and two daughter.
of his brother, and reporter of the 7tle
graph inquired what relation the children
of the two daughters would bear to Smith
Thcreupon Smiths son thrashed the re
porter, and his curiosity is supposed to b,
satisfied
SAN FRANCISCO invests in five of it.
leading hotels, $4,750,000; they produc,
an annual rental of about $450,000; the
people on their pay-rolls number six hun
dred. The annual income of these hotels
exceeds $2,500,000, and their pcrmanen
population is about two thousand people
Miss SALLY ROBINSON, of Stratham, N
H., ninety four years old, is reported t,
known in that region. Her weight never
much exceeded one hundred and fifteer
pounds. In her prime she shouldere6
barrels of cider with ease. She is still
vigorous, and reads without spectacles.
DIR. WARING, the late friend of the Rich
mond poor, was followed to the grave by
an immense concOurse on foot, and on,
hundred and five carriages. His riding
horse was garlanded with flowers, ever
green's and Grape, and placed in front o
the procession, just in rear of the hearsc
| On the saddle was the inscription, a. Gu
Doctor" His well-wOrn buggy and driv
ing horse followed next
| A SHORT time ago clOse-fistcd farme
on the Sandy river, in Maine, died, afte
| devising 81 to his only son. The oil,
gentleman was duly buried in the vener
able churchyard, which suffered terrible
washing away by the late flood, and
short time ago his body was found OppO
site the sons place, having been brough
down the river a long distance. Whcl
the tender-hearted son was informed q
the fact, he made the touching remark
Probably come back after that dollar !!
The New Orleans Commercial Buueti
says that one third of its present popula
ton would be ample to transact its busi
ness. 1--WE may assume" it remarks
"that about fifteen thousand of the seven
ty thousand men arc entirely idle, and iii
teen thousand more are only nominall
employed. Five thousand others ar
fully employed the year through, and tn
remaining thirty five thousand do on a
average only about half the labor an
| DuSiuCSo touiU CstShy wv IA ehS.
could find full employment"
How THE proof fabrics are made
"Thc cloth is first submitted to the actio
of moderately strong sulphuric acid, tn
time of such action varying with the ma
ture of the fabric, but never exceedin
two minutes A thorough washing follows
and when dried the material is ready fo
use The action of the acid is To decon
pose the wool or cotton fibcrs into glu
tinous material, the gum filling up tn
spaces between the threads, and thereb
preventing the passage of water.
THE Cincinnati Commercial says tina
the Red Stockings have, during the pas
season, played in fifty seven match game
and three games with picked nines-siNt
i'm all-and have been victorious in ever
instance. They have travelled from Bosto
to San Francisco, and have encountere
all the famous base ball clubs in the cour
try-East, West, North and South-an
now retire from the field with an ur