The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26
NUMBER 81.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| PHILADELPHIA has shipped 1j.15f41O
gallons OF petroleum during the present
year.
TIE Baptists of Germany have in
creased to ninety six churches and over IL
600 members
| THE French Government has authorized
the French Cable Company to lay a wire
from Brest to England.
| UP to January 1, 1869, eight life insur-
| ance companies in Hartford, Conn. had
issued 153, ,G35 policies.
a BosToN toothpick factory has the
monopoly of the business, and sells 1000,
| 900 or 100000 per day
THE model of the bust Of the late James
I. Brady, ordered 10y the New York Law
! institute, * completed.
THE Russian RaTroq7 Ga.aie SAYS that
Russia has already paid upward oi 300
| 000,000 rubles to American Railroad con
| tractors.
| three times every Sunday, each time in Il
different locality, and during the week cul-
tivatcs farm of 160 acres
\ SMALL gartersnake with two hpads.
each exactly alike, and sanding out the
same distance from the neck. was killed
near Nashville, Il few days ago.
THE robe worn by Princess Louisa. of
Sweden, on the occasion of her marriage
TO the Prince ROYAL of Denmark, was
made in Berlin, and cost $4,000
THE father of a deserted wife of Sioux
City has obtained q Judgment against the
recrcstnt husband for bed and board for the
last two years, amounting to $l.3SO.5O
IN recent seizure of a champagne
making establishment in New York. the
articles found on hand were four barrels of
common willie wine one barrel of molas-
scs, and one barrel Of vitriol
a. T. STEWART says his business never
was better than this wear, and that he
never advertised so much before He
gives his advertisements credit for keeping
his trade lively in dull times.
A MAN in Bridgeport, formerly sol
dier, has a walking cane composed of 465
pieces of leather, and made from pair of
old boots owned and worn by President
Lincoln previous to his assassination
The first instance Of the marriage of
Ilindoo widow occurred In Bombay on the
22d Of June, and was the occasion of much
public interest. 1t took place under the
auspices of the liindoo Widows Marriage
Association.
IL New York city, during last year. 92-
272 poor, blind, insane and drunkards were
of S102S each during the wear. I'm De
cembcr, 1853, there remained nearly 1000
persons in the various city prisons, poor
houses, &c.
MIR. JoHN Bullock, of Bristol, L. L.,
100 years old on the I'd day of last
June, never drank glass of alco-
holic liquor i'm his life. and
never has had any need of or
used spectacles. The old gentlemen can
see to pick up Il pin or needle from the
floor asquick as any young person.
IT is Il little singular that the two links
of railway necessary 10 make an absolute
connection between the most eastern
point of our Atlantic co,St and the Pacific
Ocean, should be the short line between
San Francisco and Sacramento. and road
OF about the same length in the State of
Maine.
THERE is man living i'm Adams county,
H., named We. !. who claims to be los
years old. Her, nily walked TO Quincy.
distance of eight miles, carrying under
his arm a clock 10 be repaired. He ap-
pears vigorous rs most men ri 80 and If
as old as claimed, is probably the oldest
man in the country.
SOMETIME since a Portland. Ne. man
had his pocket picked of $500. Shortly
after, he received letter from the thief.
stating that he had Started i'm business with
his stolen capital, and that he should pay
interest on it until he was able To return
the principal. Two payments of interest
have already been made.
a LETTER TO New York paper states that
there are now about 100000 contributing
members of the Order of Odd Fellows on
this continent, conlprised-in an 3,400 lodges.
Total receipts of the order i'm two years,
nearly S5,0e0,000; aggregate amount eN-
pended in the same time for relief of the
distressed, burial of the dead, succor 10
the widow, and education of the orphan,
abeut $2,c0O000.
THE leading French Journals are count
inc up the itinerary round tie world as
follows Paris To New York. II days;
San Francisco, 10y rail, :; Yokohama, by
steam, 2l; HONG Kong. Is; Calcutta. IL;
Bombay, ); Cairo, Ii; and - back TO
Paris 6 total, 50 And ont of all this I'M
menSe line of route, there is only "a dis
tance of 140 miles, between Allairahad
and Bombay, which is, pre- fela., not per
formed by steam, either on land or water.
THEY get rid of their marriageable
children by means of fairs i'm Roumania
When the fair is opened the fathers climb
To the top of their carriages and shout
with the whole power OF their lungs, II
nave a daughter Ia marry. " no wants
wife," The call is answered by some
other parent who has son he is anxious
to pair of. The two parents compare
notes, and il the marriage portion Is salts
factory, the treaty is there aud then con
cluded
THE Icclanters have IA curious custom,
and Il most etlectual one, of preventing
horses from straying Two gentlemen, for
instance are riding together without at
tendants. Wishing 10 alight for the pur-
pose of visiting some objects al a distance
from the road, they tie the tail of one
horse 10 the head of the other, and the
head of this TO the tail of the former. In
this state it is utterly impossible that they
can move either backward or forward, one
pulling one way and the other the reverse.
and, therefore, if disposed to move AT all,
il will be only in circle, and even then
there must be an agreement 10 have their
heads in the same direction.
AT the recent examination for women,
held by the University of Cambridge,
England, i'm Group 4, including religious
knowledge arithmetic, English history,
literature and composition, ten ladies were
placed i'm the first class, eight i'm the second,
seven in the third I'm Group B, Clan-
guages) two were placed in the first class,
two in the second, ten in the third. Sew
eral ladies obtained special marks of dis
tinction in religious knowledge arithme-
tic English, French and German. One