The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.


GENEVA, N. Y, boasts of cow which
recently sold for $4,000
IT costs 100000 per annum to feed the
| dogs of Cincinnati.
Two Americans have opened dentist
| shop in Odessa, on the Black Sea.
ONO paid 1897 ,997.73 os her State debt
during the month of March.
THERE were 22O alarms Of fire in st.
Louis last year; total loss, S2020S00.
Insurance, $1,655, los.
THERE are $4,000 ministers of all de-
nominations in Great Britain, with S4,7O0
| churches and chapels.
THE Cornell University has thirty-one
professors with twelve additional pro-
fessorships to be filed and 3SS students
BIsHoP HUNTINGTON, the new Episco-
pal Bishop of Syracuse, N Y, has been
presented with a S25, 900 house
THE telegraph companies of Great
Britain and Ireland own 100000 miles of
wire and manage 3169 stations.
THERE are $4,000 shade-trees in Paris
principally the Elm, Plane, Horse
| Chestnut, Maple, Linden, Acacia and the
| Alianthus,
DURING 1863, 15S persons were acci-
dentally injured on the New Jersey
railroads. In 104 cases the injuries proved
| fatal.
MANCHESTER, n H., authorities allow
no one on Sunday to smoke pipe or cigar
upon the public pave, within one mile of
the City Hall
A BABY advertised for adoption in
London was wanted by $40 applicants, all
OF whom sent money as pledge of good
faith
THE father of cash boy in a Louisville
dry goods store hiss brought action against
salesman for slapping the urchin, laying
damages at $4,000
| A SINGULAR mistake was made by Fields
q OsgOod, the other dav, in binding the
current number of Our Young Folks in the
covers of Parton's Danish Islands"
THE Fall River cotton mills manufac-
ture ia. .364,000 yards-or Ok 977 miles of
cloth, yearly. The pay-rolIs of the various
establishments amount tO$200 000amonth.
| M. SCHNEIDER, the President of the
French Corps Legislatif, is one of the
wealthiest men in France He has four
| daughters. each of whom viii inherit one
million dollars.
THE burgomaster of Leipzig has prohi-
bited velocipede riding in the streets of
that city, owing to the numerous acci-
dents which have recetly befallen the velo-
cipedists of Leipzig.
A PARIS bookseller, u. GOsselin, hiss
recently been sentenced to three years
| imprisonment, and fined one thousand
dollars, for selling books and phamphlets
not very complimentary to Napoleon and
Eugene.
Mrs JOHN JAcOB AsToR. Of New York,
| celebrated the recent coming of age Of her
son, by furnishing Dir. Brace, of the Chill
dren's Aid Society, with the amount re-
quired to provide one hundred orphan
boys with homes in the West.
DURING 1863, the seventeen street rail-
ways of Philadelphia, with a total length
of 17215 miles of track, transported So
435 5l2 passengers, received s. 500, ,623
and paid out S2,460,703 During the same
time, IL horses were killed on the roads,
and IA injured.
FIVE rustic New Workers gave polite
metropolitan sharper $3.50 to buy their
tickets to California. on mis- assurance thst
he could save ten dollars on each ones
passage money. The clever fellow disap-
peared in a crowd and forgot to return.
A BRIDGEPoRT gentleman lately saw,
without interference, his landlord tleeced
of 800 by gamblers on the train, and re-
marked in explanation, Il wasn't going
to warn him. He raised my rent $500 this
year" From which let all ayaricious
landlords take warning.
| CHEvALIER, the aeronaut, who proposes
to cross the Atlantic, has had hundred
! applicants for seats in bis car on the occa-
sion. He has concluded to charge $3.50
per passenger. The voyage is to be under
taken on the 31st of July, from New York.
THE London Lancet mentions case in
which new blankets, having been infected
by scarlet fever, were put away uncleansed
| in wardrobe. Fourteen months after
wards the mistress of the house had these
blankets taken out and put upon her own
bed in few days she took the fever and
died.
A HACK DRIVER in Buffalo, who had de-
tanned two gentlemen purposely from
reaching the train, in order that he might
make more money out of them. was arrest
ed at the instance Of the gentlemen, and
was compelled to pay their hotel bill and
| the costs of the case.
A GENTLEMAN who has had several
months experience with the velocipede,
states that new beginners, instead of pro-
pelliDg the machine by adjusting the hol-
| low of the foot to the treadle, would find
it much easier and more conducive to
health to use the forward part of the foot.
THE Journal Of Chemistry states that
fish may be kept alive for ten days or
more without water, by filling their
mouths with crumbs of bread saturated
with brandy, and pouring a.little brandy
| into their stomachs, after which, in this
torpid state, they may be packed in straw.
They become alive in few hours, when
again placed in fresh water.
THE New York Herald states that, of
the seven or eight societies organized in
that city eighteen months ago, for the pur-
pose of furnishing groceries and other
supplies at cheap rates to the stockholders,
only one succeeded in establishing store,
and that has been closed at loss of $2,-
500. There are, however, several build
ing societies in the city and vicinity that
are more or less successful
AVERY amiable and modest widow lady
| lived In a certain country. Soon after her
husband had paid the debt of nature, leav-
| ing her his legatee, a claim was brought
| against the estate by his brother, and
process was served upon her by the sheriff
of the county, who happened to be a wild
over of middle age. She was much
alarmed, and meeting with female friend,
she exclaimed with AGITATION: "What do
you think2 the sheriff has been after me ~
"Well," said the considerate lady, with
perfect GOODNESS, lie is a very tine man.
But he says he has an attachment for me"
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