The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-10-21

FACTS AND FIGURES.
BAVARIA has 233, ,139 hives Of bees
Mr.. STEWART, though he is called A. T.,
is only g..
a $1,000 diamond.
BROOKLYN has appropriated 100000 for
free public baths.
THREE hundred and seven ladies eX-
hibit works of art in the French Academy
of Arts.
TIE cheese crop of the United States
this year is cstimatedat 100000 pounds.
THERE is a lunatic in a New York asy-
lum who imagines himself William III.
Seward
The total valuation Of property in
Kansas is S96,3S3,797, an increase over
last year of $9,434,147.
A JoURNEYMAN blacksmith says he has
been striking for hire wages these twenty
years, with uniform success.
A New HAMPSHIRE genius is construct
ing a miniature steam engine, boiler and
all, out of single silver half dollar
ZEN QUAD" and Shooting Stick are
the names of two rival base ball clubs,
composed of printers, in Reading, Pa.
BRIGHAM You've has school for his
own children-siXty or seventy in num-
Der. 1t is two-stOry square adobe and
succeed building.
THE Commissioner of Agriculture esti-
mates the total value of the crops of the
United States, for the year 1869, at 81 ,S1l,-
66S,915.
THE st. Paul Pioneer thinks that not
less than one hundred and fifty thousand
bushels of apples will be gathered in Min
ncsota this year
ONE of the features in the New Hamp-
shire State Fair was team Of eleven
yol1es of oxen, from Barrin gton, drawing
a handsomely decorated rural cottage on
wheels
BILL PENNYwEALTII, an Englishman,
living in Boston, on a wager of $50, eat
in succession three dozen hard boiled eggs,
without drinking any liquid whatever
AT funerals in Massachusetts, for two
or three generations after its settlement,
the prayer was made by the nearest male
relative of the deceased who was com
municant g4r
THE Southern Typographical Unions
are each to send boy to Gen. Lees col
lege, to be thoroughly educated, but to
work one hour every day at the printers
art.
A MAN in Woodbury. recently broke his
leg while wrestling. The village butcher
and blacksmith got up a match for his
benefit, and like accident befel the black
smith.
A QUICKSILVER mine, discovered in
Bornco a year or two since, promises to
prove one of the richest in the world. The
specimens of native ore already shipped
yield between seventy and eighty per
cent. of pure metal.
A GOOD deacon, whose slumbers were
nightly disturbed by the fluttering of
swallows in the house chimney, set bun
die of straw on fire in the fire place, when
down came $50 swallows in the flames,
and were picked up dead
THE Territory of Utah has $4,000 square
miles, population 10000, not 5000 of
whom are Gentiles; has under cultivation
135, 900 acres of land-S0,000 acres are iii
cereals, 1000 in sorghum, 1000 in root
crops, 200 lin the southern section) in cot
ton 900 in apple orchards, 1000 in peach
es, - in grapes, 195 in currants, and
ton as a success, for their own use. Nine
cost, during the year. in making canals,
bitches, etc, of S247 900.
TIE life of the Empress Eugenie was
insured four years ago, for the benefit OF
her son, i'm three different offices of Paris,
to the amount Of 100000 or 10000. Sup
posing any neglect to occur in keeping up
these insurances, which, on account OF
her peculiar position, were charged at an
unusually high rate, the Prince, at her
death, would only possess the barren lands
bequCathed to him last year by his fathers
eccentric cousin, Princess Bacciocchi, and
situated in the Landes. The Emperor has
not laid aside money; he has spent his
civil list in keeping up more magnificent
court than any other in Europe, as well
as in profuse charities but neither for
himself, his wife, nor son, has he laid aside
any portion of the money received from
the country.
Nor long since, in the vicinity of Utica,
n Y, marriage was solemnized in sim
gular manner. AS the parties. to be mar
ried entered the parlor arm in arm, the
clergyman met them midway in the room,
when the bridegroom, taking the right
hand of the bride, said 1--WE have prom
ised to protect each other so long as we
live. We intend now to be united, and
hereafter to live together, husband and
wife, and we have invited you to be pres
ent this evening to sanction our union ac-
cording to the requirements OF custom
and the laws" The clergyman, in reply,
said: "By the authority possess as
clergyman, and in the presence of these
witnesses, I hereby Caying on his hand)
recognize you as husband and wife III full
fillment of your promises. Prayer FOL
lowed, and the ceremony was ended.
A STRANGE story has got abroad in
Edinburgh recently, in regard to an aged
female pauper i'm the ST. Cuthberts poor
house. The woman has been an inmate
of the poorhouse for a good many years,
and, in addition to her other misfortunes,
she has been afflicted with blindness. Not
long ago, she was attacked with violent
pain, such as the medical officers could not
understand, far less relieve. 1t lasted the
whole of the night, and part of the follow
ing day, and was described as of such a
nature that it threatened TO "tear her eyes
out" At last ii reached height; the
poor woman for time was left in a state
of semi-prostration but, to her delight, as
soon as the pain had passed off, she found
that her eycsight had been restored One
can imagine the astonishment OF one oI
the officers, when, shaking him heartily
by The hands she said Il have often
shaken hands with you before; have
often heard Your voice and spoke TO you,
but never have seen your face Till this
morning!" al ag se,