The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURES.
| FOURTEEN incomes in Hartford, Conn,
exceed $500, 900 each.
| EX-SENATOR DIXON, Of Connecticut, re-
turns an income 100000.
THE area of Minnesota is larger than
the six New England States.
THE English railroads earn on an aver.
age 957 It's per mile per week.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN speaks four
languages fluently, and reads four more.
THE highest store rent paid in i,ew
York is 100000; the highest in Chicago.
$52 900.
| THERE are 160 cases of divorce pending
in the Supreme Judicial Court for Middle.
sex, Mass.
THE number of persons who died from
drunkenness in Russia, last year, was
| 2,74S-seven day.
SMOKING pipes to the aggregate value
of fifty-twO million francs were manufac-
| tured in France last year.
ALL the sons of the Harpers brothers
have been admitted to the firm since the
death of James Harper.
A LONDON publisher announces q reli
gious tract with the title: Salts and
SIENNA, a Cathartic in Seven Doses"
A GREAT aquarium is being constructed
at Berlin, for which 5000 living varieties
of marine life have been collected.
MORE than $33O,OOO has been spent
since 1855 in decorating the Capitol at
Washington with works of art.
A BIG blast was recently made in Cali
fOrnia. Twelve hundred kegs of powder
were used and a mountain was blown up.
In Vienna last year seventy-one Roman
Catholics were admitted to the Lutheran
churches. and eleven Lutherans turned
Roman Catholics.
Mrs. RACHEL VBNTRoUs died in New
Haven, Conn few DAYS ago, aged SO
years-leaving "a grandchildren, 40 great
grandchildren, and 3 great great grand
children
THE fuckers, of Monson, Mass, are
long-lived family. Two died lately aged
SO and 100; and there are four still living,
of whom the Oldest is 80 and the youngest
70.
In California, four locust trees less than
twenty years old were lately cut, and
made from them the remainder made more
than four cords of firewOod.
THE Houses of Parliament in London
cost $4,000, 900 in gold, and it is now said
that people of taste have most noble
monument, and people of business most
| incOnvenient house.
ToADs are sold in Paris at the rate of
| fifty cents dozen. The animal is used
for the protection of vineyards and gar
| dens from the ravages of insects that
escape the pursuit of the birds
The average winnings of the gambling
tables at Ems, Baden, Wiesbaden, Ham
burg and Mannheim have, for the last ten
years, amounted to an annual grand total
of three and half million dollars.
THE canary bird has been an object of
traffic for five centuries. Five hundred
years ago there was but one kind of Co.
nary bird, but the original stock has been
so mixed and adulterated that the varieties
now number at least so.
MR. A. T. STEWARDS property on
Broadway alone is worth about s., ,000,00
Mr.. w. B. Astor's real estate on Broad
way is worth about $3,000,000. The Loril-
lard estate has $S,000,000 invested in that
thOroughfare.
A LARGE sperm whale was recently
harpoOned on the coast of Madagascar.
From it was obtained 2S5 pounds of am
bergris, worth about $25, 900. Sailors say
that ambergris is produced by dyspepsia
in the whale.
A BOsTON merchant is the possessor of
a business ledger 100 years old. 1t was
formerly the property of Lieut. Gov.
Usher, of New Hampshire, and contains
accounts dating back TO 1878 which are as
legible as when written.
AN enterprising youth of Is, a resi-
dent of Pittsburgh, bought liquor in four
saloons on a recent Sunday, and on the
following Monday lodged information
against the dealers for selling liquor on
the Sabbath, and received 800 as the in
formers fee
COLONEL ROBERT JOHNSON, who has
recently died, was the second, but eldest
surviving, son of the ex President. He
ser red during the greater portion of the
late war, and, when his father became
President, he assumed the position of his
Private Secretary.
NEXT year is the centenary of Ameri-
can Universalism, and is to be duly cele-
brated by the payment of all debts and
obligations resting on the various organi-
cations of the denomination. A memorial
monument at Washington, to cost $780,
600, is talked of.
In California, there is made, on an aver
age, from $50 to $50 gallons of wine to the
acre. The four most productive of the
wine growing districts of Europe are
Italy, giving to the acre 4411S gallons;
Austria and her provinces, 265 gallons;
France, 176 81 gallons; Nassau, 2371s
gallons.
OLIVER DYER, in Pdckdrd's Monthly for
May, gives the following figures as the cost
Of a wedding outfit for fashionable
young man in Gotham underwear only
being enumerated:
pair of wedding socks. ks.....................f SIS
1 pair of wedding drawers ................. 30
pair OF wedding suspenders. ................. 25
1 weudlng shirt OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20
1 wedding undershirt. t........................ 35
wedding neckte ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. s5