The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.
SIX hundred and five horses were eaten

| tnrougn Indianapolis every twenty-fouf
| hours. e,rr
THERE is a farm in Hardwick, Mass, on
which there are fifty miles of stone wall.
Mr. PEABODY has given $4,000 TO pro-
mote science and useful knowledge in Es-
sex county, Mass.
THERE was set of jewelry valued at
$500 in bouquet recently thrown 10
New York danseuse
Local observers place the number of
visitors to the HoOsac tunnel, during the
past thee months, at $4,000.
OK the Austrian pension list are 33S
Generals, 403 Colonels, All Lieutenant
Colonels, and / ,410 Majors.
A YOUNG woman has been admitted 10
the course Of medical studies in the Medi-
| cal College at Salem, Oregon.
THE production of corn and wheat in
the United States in 1868 was about $780,
| 100000 bushels, or % bushels per head.
a NEWARK haciman hung his canvas
fced-bag on a lamp-post and on his return
from dinner found it full of letters.
THE value of boots and shoes manufac-
tured in Massachusetts the present year
Will amount probably to over $95000,O00.
The little town of Bennington, VT,
with population of 5000, does heavier
manufacturing business than any other
town or city in the State.
BANTING, the anti-Obesity philosopher,
after five years of experiment, finds sugar
to be more productive of fat than any
other element of food.
IT is estimated that the cotton crop of
Arkansas for 1869 will net 100000 bales,
worth S30,0O0,000 The corn crop will be
the largest ever made in the State
THE Rev. Dr. Spaulding, who is 76
years Of age. is the Oldest living missionary
Of the American Board He has been en-
cared in his holy work in Ceylon since
1919.
A JOURNAL at Dieppe complains of the
number of children of from twelve to four
teen years who are TO be met i'm the streets
of that city in a state of intoxication
\ CALCULATION has been made by late
accurate philOlocist, that there are 1900
words in common use in England which
do not appear i'll any dictionary of the
language.
A. FARMER having plowed the land
about his apple-trees for the first time this
spring was surprised by second blossom
ing about two weeks after the first bloom
had disappeared.
Mrs. JOHN 5. JONES carried fire in an
Old-fashiOned fOOt-StOve, from Durham To
Straflord, n. H., sixty-thrce years ago, and
from that day to this that fire has never
been permitted to go out.
ONE of the members of the American
Association for the advancement of Science
fayors the abolition Of months, and wants
the days of the year numerically designat-
ed up to 365.
TIE bromide of ammonium is recon-
mended by DR.. Glib, of London, to those
who suffer from an excess of fat. He says,
when taken in small doses for length of
time, it will diminish the weight of the
body with greater certainty than any
other known article.
THE various labor organizations in the
United States claim total membership of
1G8, 900 The Knights of 81. Crispin lead,
with ) 900 members the miners have 3d.
000 the iron moulders, 1900, and the
bricklayers $4,000.
DIR. STRoNGsBURG, Jew, who, seven
or eight years ago, lived a penniless adven-
turcr in a London garret is now called
the Prussian Railroad King. He is worth
at least j0,000,000 tlalers, and owns nearly
one half of the railroads in the Kingdom.
A GENTLE .EMAN who advertised for a clerk
SAYS that he paved attention to only four
out OF sixty replies, because the remainder
exhibited bad spelling. bad writing, too
much independence, a disposition To write
too long a letter, or a taste for writing 1t
on fancy paper and using "A fancy envelope
and monogram.
A NEW knitting machine has been per-
fccted in Hamilton, Ont, that knits 32I,-
600 stitches of ribbed work, colored or
plain, per minute. 1t has been patented
in the United States and Canada. 1t is es-
timated that one machine will turn out 5Vo
shirts per day.
A GENTLEMAN in Litchficld, Conn, hav-
ing reached his hundredth birthday, his
friends determined to give him a reception
in the church. Arrangements having been
made, as the old gentleman entered the
church with his two brothers, each over
20, the entire audience rose and sang "Old
Hundred"
4 POSTAL treaty has been concluded be-
tween the United States and British Hon
duras, to take effect on October 1st. Let
tiers weighing n half ounce or under will
require a twclvc-cent stamp; newspapers,
without regard TO weight, a two-cent stamp;
and books, patterns or samples, a SIX cent
stamp for every four ounces.
HE uSlllll8 NCSSClN vi INV
appear to be very successful. On board
Gloucester OIass.) vessel, recently, $4,000
pounds of fish were spoiled for want of
sufficient salt; and a schooner recently ar
rived in port, after thirty days fishing,
with $1,000 pounds of halibut and $1,000
pounds of cod fish. Every member ofthe
crew received $40 as his share of the
profits of the trip.
A MUNICH professor estimates the
amount of beer annually manufactured in
Europe to be equal To $500, 100000 pints,
or more than enough, he says, to float the
whole Prussian navy. The average
amount drunk by each individual, in 1868
was, in Bavaria, 234 pints; in England,
1913; in Belgium, 140 in Austria, 81; in
France, b in Prussia, 50 in Russia and
Spain, 1S4.
TIE Protestant Episcopal Church Al
mdRGc gives the following summary Of
that church in this country: Bishops, AZ;
priests and deacons, 1861 parishes, 2,412;
baptsms, 35,a02; combinations. 21,95S;
number of COMMITMENTS, 194, 4,692; Sunday
scholars, 1906 contributions, 81, ,451,SSS
The oldest Bishops are Rev. B. II. Smith, of
Kentucky, and Rev. G. Il. Mcllyaine, of
Ohio both consecrated in 1882.
As AN illustration of the prevalence of
insanity on the Pacific coast correspond
ent states that on the 2d ult. no less than
four men were sent TO lunatic asylum,
and adds Californians live continuously
in a perfect whirl of feverish excitement,
enduring an amount of wear and tear of
body and brains not eQualcd in Wall
street, itself There are few old Californi-
ans to be found who have not been rich
and poor again at least half a dozen times,
and most of them are poor now"
YALE has had among its alumni folr
signers of the Declaration of Independ-
encc, one Vice President, forty-four
United States Senators, and fifty-eight
Presidents of Colleges. Princeton has
had two sirncrs of the Declaration of In