The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

SILK was cultivated in South Carolina
as early as 1893.
THE Mechanics Society in Detroit has
a library of 1900 volumes
THE coal production of the world is
100000 tons per annum.
BosToN is to have Horticultural and
Agricultural school for women.
STUDENTS live at Cornell University for
SO cents day, payable monthly in ad-
vance.
A ST. LOUIS reporter was robbed the
other day of the savings ola lifetime-S25
currency.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has 50,750 miles of line, and 1881
Offices
On the $4,000 miles of railway in the
United States there are $500 locomotives
in daily use.
AN insurance agent in New York has
S125,000 worth OF policies on his life,
chiefly Of the endowment style.
THE State election of New Hampshire
will occur on the first Tuesday of March,
and will be the first of the year 1869.
A CHILD in Buffalo, N. Y, the other
day, while playing with a screw, swallow
ed it, and was choked to death.
In the city of Boston women are taxed
upon $23, 100000 of real estate, and $10,-
100000 of personal property.
GENERAL MAGRUDER asserts as a fact
that Carlotta's insanity is caused by the
poison administered to her by Mexican
woman.
IT cost young fellow twelve dollars in
Dr;Iu Of bar m Ii
q girl whom he was escorting across q
bridge
NEW YORK has only $4,000 tenement
houses, occupied by over 560,000 people,
the cellar population alone being over
10000 souls.
ONE of the editsrs of the Cleveland
Leader has fallen heir to fortune. The
amount is the one one hundred and forty
fourth part of $4,000
ONE London coroner held twelve
inquests the day after Christmas, most
of the deaths resulting from holiday ex-
ercises."
JOSEPH GEE, of Luzerne county, Pa,
was burned to death few days ago by
rushing into his house. which was on fire,
to save his papers and money.
TIE London Times, with full supple
ment, contains about twenty thousand
lines, or two hundred thousand words,
equal to 1--WE hundred page octave.
FIVE cities in New Hampshire have a
ropulation exceeding 10000 Manches-
ter leads with $4,000; Concord has $4,000
Nashua, 10000; Portsmouth, 1000, and
Dover about 10000.
OF the 21S,9S6 emigrants who arrived
. To- m aI
in that State, 34.625 went to Illinois, g. ID
to Utah, 5 to New Mexico, and 2,3l1 to
Southern States.
ANNA GARGARIN is the wealthiest heir
ess in Russia We may say for the intor-
nation of enterprising young men that
| her address is Moscow. and that her pa is
a merchant with 100000, 900 roubles.
ONE hundred and thirty nine new jour
mails were started in Paris in 1868. Ot
this number only two have survived the
sea of troubles into which such enter
prises almost Invariably are plunged.
Four daughters of wealthy Berlin
banker were recently married to as many
brothers. The wedding festivities were
simple, the principals having agreed that
the necessary sum for stylish wedding
should be given to the poor.
NORTH GERMANY has twenty cities
with a population of upwards of fifty
thousand each. Seven of them exceed
one hundred thousand. Berlin is, o
course, the largest, with 100000, the nex'
being Hamburg with 21S,000.
PROFESSOR LIEBIG assures us that l ,46(
quarts of the best Bavarian beer con
tains exactly the nourishment of a two
and half pound loaf of bread. This
beer is similar to the famous English All
sop's, and our mare popular American
beer.
IT is stated that there are over nipet,
students in attendance at the Massachu
setts Agricultural College, over one
third of whom have already expresses
their intentions to become farmers. Abou
three -fourths of the students are tron
farms.
ORoUIzA, Ex-Dictator of the Argentin
r Confederation, is one of the richest. me
in the world In his palaces are canar
bird cages worth thousands Of dollar
pseh and upon his eststs thets is Id pr'