The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Iowa has 1903 life insurance az

Iowa has 1903 life insurance agents.
VELOCIPEDEs rent at 60 cents per hour
in Boston.
In Maine 5000, 900 acres of land remain
unoccupied.
A CINCINNATI genius advertises " Work
not so much of an object as good wages"
THERE are six times as many daily
papers published in this country as in Eng
land
SEVENTEEN hotels in st. Paul, Mimi,
have been destroyed by fire in as many
years.
THE average monthly wages ofthe male
teachers, in Illinois, last year was $4240
and of females S32 So
A PARIS shopkeeper has been fined for
exhibiting goods in his window marked
at lower figure than he would sell.
SMITH is almost innumcrable there are
S03 Of him in Boston, $50 of Brown. 53S
of Jones, and the same number OF Sulli-
van.
THE Dominican Father Minjeard, at
whose preaching ladies tore off their jew
els and put them into the plate, has be-
come insane
A GLASGOW firm boasts that -four is i'm
ported there from America, made into bis
cults, and in that shape exported back for
sale.
AN obituary of a deceased ferret in
Worcester, Mass, shows that during its
lifetime of six years itkilled ,461 rabbits,
rats and squirrels.
AT a recent wedding in the Baptist
Church, in Charlottesville, Va, the
bridal party consisted only Of the bride
and groom and two lady attendants.
ALASKA produced for market last year
225,000 seal skins, worth from SO TO $25
each. In addition to their skins, every ten
seals are good for barrel Of oil.
THREE swindling bogus guides at
Niagara Falls were arrested the other day
by Buffalo detective, who affected inno-
cence, and allowed them to cheat him for
several hours.
A MATRIMONIAL engagement in high
life was recently broken off in New YORK,
| in consequence Of the parties having 8
dispute as to who should pay for the wed
ding cards.
THE passenger travel between England
and France during 1868 reached the total
of 306, $50, being Uid Calais, 142, 1911; Bou-
logne, 109,325; Dieppe, 81, ,5T and Havre,
19,207.
TIE seventeen standard places of
amusement in New York city employ 3
020 persons. The average nightly attend
ance is 23,360 persons, and the average
nightly receipts $!4,6GS.
AN individual from the rural districts
dead headed to a considerable extent late
| ly in Burlington VT, on the strength of
being CONNECTED with the press" On
| inquiry it was ascertaincd that he tended
a clder-mill.
AN old man employed to hunt rabbits
on the Duke of Portland's estate, in Eng
land, was recently found dead in rabbit
hole into which he had crawlcd, and from
which he could not extricate himself. He
was drawn out by the heels, grasping a
rabbit and ferret in his hands"
A MAN was executed in Brigham
Young's doninions the other day. He
was brought ironed into the court yard,
where there was a crowd of some four
hundred, and seated in chair. He then
read aloud chapter from the New Testa-
ment, the irons were taken off his hands,
and, at a signal from the Sheriff, he was
shot dead.
A CLEVELAND gentleman, while cross
! ing the Atlantic, sealed a bottle and con-
signed 1t TO the waves inc DOtlie con-
tanned the history Of some dastardly thief
who had stolen the whisky and drank it,
and a request to the finder of the bottle
to send the same to his address at CleYc-
land. What was his surprise the other
day, after six months had passed, to receive
from Brighton, England, the identical
waif which had been washed ashore COW
cred with barnacles.
A ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, mechanic recently
invested $50 tor the purpose OF obtaining
valuable prizes which he had "drawn.
OF course he never received them. After
cogltating on the matter, he wrote over an
assumed name, representing that if he
could draw good prize he could get others
to invest Upon this the lottery managers
sent him about $50 worth of silver plate,
etc, the package marked &C. o. d." When
notified of their arrival, he attached them,
won the suit, and the lottery people "smell