The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-08
FACTS AND FIGURES,

OANCiNNAIl las O,Uol registered dogs
Boston has about dozen good female
velocipedists.
ONE hundred and sixty-eight twins
were born in Philadelphia last year.
THERE are 100000 Norwegians in the
Northwestern States.
FIFTEEN members of the new Spanish
Cortes were saloon-keepers.
THE memorandum book of Frederick
the Great has recently been sold for
$240.
THERE are over 100000 invested in
circuses and mensgeries in this country.
THERE are only 5000 Gentiles In Salt
LAX City, out of population of $4,000.
IT is stated that there are always about
five thousand well-to-do Americans in
Paris.
THERE are 1910 Indians in Massachu-
setts, comprising representatives of more
than twenty tribes.
THE average length of the session OF
the Massachusetts Legislature for forty
years has been 1T days
NEVADA is becoming deeply interested
in silk culture. There are 1,250, 900 mul-
berry trees in the State.
A RETIRED wealthy New York merchant
lately paid $4,000 for landscape paint.
ing at private sale.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is to be sent
abroad by his congregation, $4,000 being
| raised for that purpose.
THE Pacific mills, Lawrence, Mass,
with capital of 50, $50, 600. paid twenty.
four per cent. dividend in 1868.
In 1868 the ten Southern States pro-
duced 222 100000 bushels of corn, being
100000 more than in 1867.
PAT MURPHY, aged 10, and his wife
aged oO, OF Westmoreland county, are the
Oldest married couple in Pennsylvania.
THE product of the fisheries of Cape
Cod the past year, it is said, amount to
about million and half of dollars.
THE Iowa Agricultural College is five
stories high, and contains over one hun
dred rooms the farm is 64S acres.
ACCORDING to the report of the Secre-
tary of State, the total valuation of Mas.
sachusetts at the present time is $780,
49S,939.
THIRTY years ago, A. T. Stewart was
rated on the mercantile reports f" Said
to be worth $3O,0O0 credit A /, cautious
and safe"
THE Buffalo Elevator Association, dur.
ing the season of 1863, handled Al ,3333, 96s
bushels of grain, being 24O,9SO bushels
more than was handled in 1867.
A FARMER in Dooly county, Ca, last
season, made 272 gallons of "good thick
syrup" from half an acre of sugar cane.
Six hundred and seventy-four persons
rio ,ota aI &I
courts of New York city during 1863, and
ninety eight were acquitted during the
same period.
A MERCHANT of Bangor, Me-, has had
to pay $50 damages to couple of ladies
who were knocked down and their fine
clothes spoiled by snow-slide off his store
roof
THE Cincinnati Gazette estimates that
the population of Ohio in 1870 will num-
ber 100000. 1t bases its opinion on
the vote of 1868, when 519, ,254 votes were
cast.
ST. PETERSBURG is frequently called
Pianopolis because even the humblest
families possess instruments, while 800
men and 5000 women live by teaching
the use of the piano.
DURING the year 1863, nearly 10000
bushels of apples were used in Orange
county, New York, in manufacturing
32,S7O gallons of apple whisky, valued at
about $115,000.
A BOY II years old was recently fined
$15 or wenty days imprisonment, for
pitching two quids of tobacco at the cler-
gymaa during revival meeting at West
Berne, N. Y.
In the Michigan State Prison, at Jack
son, during 1868, twenty-seven convicts
were punished with whips, thirty-four
with the paddle, forty y-eight by being put
into dark cell, and six by being placed
on bread and water diet.
SUBSTRACTION.-
" From six take nine,
From nine take ten,
From forty take fifty,
And six will remain"
From-SIX, IX, XL,
Take . TX, Y, L,