The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE ages of the Freshmen at Yale range
from 36 to 10.
CHEYENNE has three church organiZa-
tiOns and two church buildings.
A SON of Theodore, of A6yssinia, is
travelling with menagcrie in England.
LAST year the American Bible Society
printed 100000 copies of the Scriptures.
DURING January, Pennsylvania yielded
daily average of 10,192 barrels of petro-
leum
THE first piano sent to Japan was re-
Gently shipped thither by New Haven
manufacturer.
IT is supposed that the annual losses by
cattle diseases in this country amount to
$50, 900, 900.
A BUDDHIST monastery IN Thibet, 10
III feet above the sea, is the highest
known human hebitatiOn.
One New York car-driver is worth
$125,O0O. He lately sold Central Park
property that brought him $4,000.
A new HAVEN merchant has insured
his life for $1,000 for the benefit of the
New Haven Orphan Asylum.
YALE has graduated 80 College Prcsi
dents, 10 Cabinet Ministers, 40 Senators,
80 Governors, and more than 100 Judges
ONE-TnIRD of the 10000 women and
girls who have to earn their own living
in New York, do not average over S5 a
week.
Mr.. BURLINGAME's credentials to the
French court were five feet long and coy-
cred all over with five-clawed dragons.
A NUMBER of young women in Massa-
chusetts manufacturing establishment re-
Gently kert silent, on WAGER, tor sixty
long minutes.
A CARGO of wheat from California,
which recently arrived at Boston and was
sold, returns a net loss TO the parties in
tere-ted Of over $4,000.
New YORK is more dcnsely populated
than any other city. In one portion 1872,
coo persons reside within square mile.
London cannot furnish parallel.
HALF g. mile in $50 carried off silver
cup for the fastest of nine velocipedists in
Nashua, N. H., the other day, the victor
being Walter Hartman, nephew of the
Governor.
OUT of 109,1S7,3S. passengers con-
veyed on Massachusetts railroads, in 1868,
seventy-fve lost their lives. During the
same period 155 railroad employees were
killed.
Ok the east side of the highway leading
from Buckland, Me-, to the Congrega-
tonal Church in Sumner, every tree is
rock maple, and on the west side every
tree is beech.
IT is curious fact that although the
rain keeps thousands away from church
on Sunday, it docs not deter a single man
from attending to his busipcSa on week
days.
PROBABLY the Oldest tree on record is a
cypress at Semma, in Lombardy, that was
known to be standing when Julius Cesar
| lived, 1000 years ago. 1t is 1O6 feet high
and 90 feet in circumference.
TIE largest man on record in modern
times was Miles Darden, a native of NORTH
Carolina, born in 1898. He was seven fee
and six inche Ugh. At his death, in 1S5 Z
he weighed little over one thousand
/ pounds.
Hone KONG contains $4,000 inhabi
tants, Of whom 81, 900 are Europeans anC
Americans Its annual export and i'm
port trade is valued at 500, 100000. The
Chinese exclusively occupy a portion o
the city.
THE Maxwell House, erected in Nash
} vile, Tenn, on a lot that was bought 70
$11, in 1880, is nearly completed at a cos
of 100000. 1t will be one of the larges
hotels in America. During the war it wa
used as a hospital.
IT seems that veritable black damon,
was found by a Federal soldier back O
Atlanta, Ga. 1t is -eighths of al
inch long, two and half inches in Gil
cumierence, weighs two ounces, and j
worth several thousand dollars.
THE number of newspapers in tn
Southern States is as follows: Texas, II
Louisiana, 94; Alabama, 81; Arkansa.
! 4S; Florida, %; Georgia, 96; North Cal
olina, Go; South Carolina, 67; Kentucky
10; Mississippi, rs; Tennessee, 90.
"A lady in New Hampshire recentl
determined to exchange for currency a sil
yer dollar which she had carefully KEEP
for tbirty-ive years. rhe money change
astoundej her with the information that
was cOunterfeit.
A BRAKEMAN in Eastern Pennsylvania
who leaped from some cars that had b'
come unooupled, and which ran back il
to q passenger train, causing the loss {
several lives, has been sentenced to thil
teen months hard labor for neglect {
duty.
LADIES Of New Orleans construct the
panniers Of old newspapers; which we
demonstrated the other day by polit
youth, who endeavored to remove trai
, ing incumbrance from lady's skirt an
{ brought down the whole edifoe.
DURING the twelve months ending DC
, 1, 1867, rs, 451 crimes were committed
New York. Of these 7S were murder
! 1871 assaults, and the remainder rol
berries and thefts. The police force nun
bers 2, 200 men there are eight police jul
tices. with II aldermen and 81 clerks I
assist them daily; one district attorne,
with 10 assistants; recorder, city iudg,
and a Judge of oyer and termincr b,
! sides. there are go officials of the Coul
, Of General Sessions and D officers of Sp.
. .cial Session, besides 4 coroners ard 4
: jails, station houses, &C, which requir
, 4l keepers. The expense of the city 70
{ this number Of officials is S3,912, eco pc
. snnum, or oYer $500 a day.