The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-01
FACTS AND FIG URES.


AT the latest count, Louisville had sol
Smiths
THE King of Burmah is building school
houses
THE estimated cost of the Isthmus canal
is $100,000000
PARIS is to have new bank with cap
ital of $4,000, ,OO0
QUEEN VICTORIA is seven years the
senior ofthe Empress Eugene.
IT cost s., 900 to bury New York gen.
ueulan who died recently.
THE Congressional library now contains
170,965 bound volumes.
rHE National Bank circulation of the
United States is s999S54,S40.
WILLARD's Hotel in Washington took in
$4,000 day during Inauguration week.
Ex-PosTMAsTER GENERAL RANDALL has
taken up his residence at Elmira, N. Y.
A NEW music hall, with seating capa-
city of $500, is to be erected at Boston.
TIE loss by the International Exhihi-
ton at Havre, last year, was 100000
francs.
IT is estimated thst there are s2,G00,-
000, goo worth Of hors efiesh in the United
States.
CUBAs population, last yesr-was ,370,-
0O0-of whom 7G4 500 were whites and
Cos, 500 coIored.
ENGLISH papers speak of . girl still liv-
ing in Wales who has not eaten anything
for 16 months.
A FUNERAL in Brownstown, Pa, was
attended by five sisters, al Of whom were
aged over eighty.
AT his death, Eugene Sue was worth
nd 10
S150,000 francs in eight years.
TIE estate of the late Senator Guthrie
valued Of about 81 000000-has been
divided among his three daughters
ARTEMUs Wards works are to be re-
published in London, with thirty five illus
trations from his panorama.
DR.. JudSon baptized the first Burman
convert in 1919. Since that time more
than 10000 have been baptized.
HAMILTON FISH is the fourth Secretary
Of State furnished by New York The
others were Van Buren, Marcy and
Seward.
A MELANCHOLY news-vender in Eng
land committed suicide by pouring petrO-
leum over himself, and then lighting it
with match.
In Massachusetts,, in 1867, there were
5000 births, nearly thousand increase
over 1866. There were 1,415 marriages,
more than ever before.
AN ingenious citizen of New Albany,
Indiana, with too much time on his hands,
has been two years in making q checker
board that contains c, 49, pieces.
TIE Kentucky University has an at
tendance Of 80 students the present year.
The buildings are located on the old home
stead of Henry Clay, at Ashland.
THE Secretary of War is Rawline, with
out "g:" the Secretary Of the Navy is
Adolph E. Borie; the Postmaster General
is Creswell, with only one "s," and there
is not a final &c" in the name of the At
torney General, Mr.. Hoar.
MILTON MERRYFIELD, of Sheffield,
caught f0rtytwo rats in one night, recent
~, by exchanging barrel of cats that
had often been visited by rates for bar
rel of water, covering the surface with
chaf. The yarmints unsuspiciously
pitched in and met watery grave.
THERE are in France fifteen coins, as
follows: Gold pieces of one hundred,
fifty, twenty, ten and five francs; silver
pieces Of five, two, one and one half francs,
and the four sous piece; bronze pieces of
ten, five, two, and one ccntime. To
these we may ado the Empcrors, of twcn-
ty-iivc francs, soon to be coined.
ACCORDING to recent reports on inebric-
ty in this country, 122 lhen out of 300 never
drink Intoxicating beverages, 100 drink
moderately, 30 are ephemeral drinkers, %
drink periodically, and 5 are hsbitual
drunkards. Of every 200 women, 600
ardent spirits, 36 drink beer habitually, If
Iriply }ioallv nd ara bit,,al ina-
briates.
SAMUEL SEDGwICK, Of New Lebanon,
n. ", recently killed and dressed hen
because she produced no eggs; but, upon
being dressed, fifteen eggs were found, ,,six
of them with hard shells and full size, and
two with soft shells, also full size. This
was one of ten fowls which produced 600
eggs in four months-the one dressed
above having laid during that time ten
eggs measuring seven by eight inches.
Nc wonder she stopped.
Mr.. WILLIAM CHURCH, of Seymour,
Conn, who cultivates trout on his farm,
estimates that he has five hundred trout
) which will weigh from one and a quarter
to one and half pounds each; five thou
sand which win weigh one pound; twenty
thousand which will weigh from eight 10
ten ounces, and one hundred thousand
from two to four ounces. In three years
time he expects to send TO market yearly
at least two hundred tons.
THE experiments which have been
made over the telegraph lines between
Harvard College and San Francisco show
that the travelling time required by electri-
city is IS follows, from Boston: To Buff
falo and back, O10seconds To Chicago
and back, 0 20 seconds To Omaha and
back, 033 seconds. To Salt Lake and
back 0 81 seconds. To Virginia City and
back, O.7O seconds. To San Francisco and
back, 074 seconds.
A QUEER bet was recently made in
Swansey, Mass One man wagered that
no horse in town could pull four bushels
of corn 1.-TWO hundred and twenty four
pounds) in a bag or bags, four feet on a
barn floor, the bags being fastened to an
inch rope one hundred feet in length. The
novelty of the bet attracted quite a crowd
to witness the performance, but the frs.
horse did the business easily. The primer
ple which induced the wager was that
small anchor attached TO long cable, will
fasten large vessel, even in q rery high
wind.
By the annual report Of the Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue. the great
centres appear to have paid taxes to the
Government for the year ending June so,
1865, as follows: New York city, $e2, ILL.,
O04; Philadelphia, $9,03S,972: Boston,
S6,S17, ,457; Brooklyn, $5,3i5 40; San
Francisco, $5,l45.256; Cincinnati, 81 ,49s,-
1875; Chicago, S3,993.2 Baltimore, So
500, 901; St Louis, $3,4S3,7SS; Newark,