The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-18
FACTS AND FIGURES,
DEXTER is II years old.

FAC1S AND flUOhESO
DEXTER is II years old.
THE coal fields of Alabama cover an area
of 1000 miles.
THERE are 609,365 children in Indiana,
between the ages of 6 and 81
THR population of Rochester, N. Y, is
69,20S. The gain in four years is 1S,26S
A WRITER in the London Society asserts
that the wearing of cOrsets produces cor
pulence.
AT the late Mecca pilgrimage, 10000
pilgrims assembled at Mount Ararat, an
increase of $4,000 over 1868.
THE total value Of all the horses in
twenty-One Northern States in 1865 was
over $30O,000,000.
THERE are 430 species of humming
birds, and they are found only on the
Western continent.
THE number of letters distributed at
Indianapolis, in October, were 154, ,4SS-
13, 1856 being drop letters.
A WRITER in Harpers' figures that only
two Americans out of twelve carry
watches, and only one woman out of forty.
THE Rev. Chas. Beecher, of Georgetown,
Mass, is the possessor and skilled PLAYER OF
violin over 200 years old /; and Hayden
Brown, of West Newberry, owns one 199
years old.
A YEAR ago a resident of Greenland,
N. H., was worth $2,000,000. He put it
into copper and silver mining stocks and
lost it all.
A MAN and his wife at Washington,
who kept each fruit and refreshment
stand in the neighborhood oftwo or three
ofthe departments, cleared $4,000 during
the war.
A BELL boy at Cincinnati hotel found
a wallet in the hall containing $4,000. He
gave it to the clerk, who returned 1t to the
owner. The man coolly put it in his
pocket without saying a word, or even
kicking the boy.
AN American official at Paris has found
among the old bookstores a copy of Ell
lots Indian Bible. 1t will be remembered
that the last copy sold for $1,000, and it is
probable that this newly discovered one
will bring at least $4,000.
In Great Britain, with a population OF
"a 363, 900, there are 36, 200 ministers, and
34,7OO churches and chapels, or one for
every 700 persons, and minister to every
672 Inhabitants. In this country, in 1860,
there were $4,000 churches, being an
average of one church for every 5S2 per
sons of all ages.
A FEMALE medical school for natives
has recently been established at Bareilly,
India, under the charge of Dr. Corbyn and
Baboo Gunga Pershad. The female stu
dents, it is asserted, have shown great
Quickness and aptitude for the art of
medicine, and have made surprising pro-
gress. The founders of the school have
made application for aid from the govern
ment, in order to carry on the institution
on larger scale.
THE Watchman and Reflector mentions
the following long pastorates of Baptist
ministers in Boston: DR.. Stillman was
pastor of one church in Boston AZ years
Dr. Baldwin, of one church, nearly 81
years; DR.. Stowe, of two churches, nearly
36 years; DR.. Neale has been pastor Of
two churches in Boston more than 81
years; DR.. Hague, of four churches, 81
years. The united pastOrate of these five
men amounted to 167 years"
A NEW ORLEANS baker having lost a
mule, advertised for the recovery of his
animal, which he described as "a gentle
mule, valued at $3.50, and answering to
the name of Fanny" offering at the same
time a "heavy" reward to the finder
The animal was discovered on the levee, in
the possession of suspicious person, and
taken to its owner, when the latter full
filled his promise by counting out fifty
Old-fashioned copper pennies.
A SPECIMEN of the wonderful plant "the
Anxuor of tba uo1u Ghost - hoe haap cirr
cessfully raised in Norwich, CT The
flower is IA creamy white cup, nearly a:
large as half an egg, and extremely beautl
| full, and its wonder as a natural flora
growth is the fact that in this flower is &
little pure white dove, with pink bill an(
eyes, and its head turned as if looking
over its back. Its wings, feet, bill, &c.
are as absolutely perfect as those of tn,
living dove, whose counterpart thii
wonderful mimic vegetable bird is.
INEvER saw anybody do anything ths
did not watch them and see how they
did it, for there is no telling but that som,
time might have to do it myself / wa
going across prairie once my horse be
gan to limp. Luckily | came across
blacksmith shop, but the smith was no
at home. asked the woman of the hous,
| if she would allow me to start fire anC
make the shoe. She said l might il
knew how so l started fire, and heatet
the shoe red hot, and turned it to fit my
horses foot, and shod the horse. At tn,
next place l came to, l went straight to
smith and told him to put the shoe or
properly. He looked at the horses foot
and paid me the greatest compliment
ever received in my life. He told me if
put on that shoe | had better follow black
smithing all my life.-Beecher.
AN accurate statement of the hequest
of Mr.. Peabody has never been pub
lished. The following is an approach {,
correctness: For Institutes at Danver
and Peabody, $250,000; Peabody Museum
at Salem, $150,000; Newburyport, for
library, $4,000; Memorial Church in
Georgetown, Mass, to the memory of hi
mother, and free public library at sam
place, 100000; Phillips Academy, Ando
yer, $4,000; Massachusetts, Histories
Society, $4,000; Harvard College, fo
Museum and Professorship of America
Archaeology and Ethpology, $l5O,OOO
Yale College, for Museum of Natural His
tory, $15O,OOO; Peabody Institute at Ba
timore, $1,O00,000: Maryland Histories
Society, $4,000; Kenyon College, $25
600; Public Library at Post Mills, The,
ford, VT, $4,000; Southern Educations
Fund, $3,0OO,OO0 London Poor, $1,750
600; his kindred, $1,500,000, and man