The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.
THERE are 173 convicts in the Main

600. ..--
ENGLAND has had more coal mine dis
asters this year than for the preceding
three years.
A CHINAMAN at the Oregon State Fair
did the best plowing that was done on the
ground.
THE oldest commission in the army is
that of General Sylvanus Thayer, who
entered the service in 1903.
THE number of acres this year in cotton
in the United States is said by Southern.
exchanges to be 100000.
1T cost man s1j for refusing to pay ID
cents fare on q Massachusetts railroad the
other day.
J. p. JEwETT, the original publisher Of
"Uncle Toms Cabin" is now working as
jOurncyman printer in Philadelphia.
In Great Britain, with a population of
"a, 1863 ,OOO, there are $500 ministers and
81, 700 churches and chapels.
IT is stated that fairs were held in near
ly every county in the State of Ohio this
year-therc being only five or six ex-
ceptions.
THE architect who planned the new
Methodist church in Waterville, Maine,
made the belfry Windows SO small that tho
bell cannot be got into it.
EX-PREsIDENT FILLMORE, with fivo
others, will represent the recent Louisville
Commercial Convention at the Russian
Exposition of 1870
A NAN lin Waldobero, Me-, zcalously
cares for a hatchet, which, in the hands of
stalwart Indian in 1749, was driven into
his grandfather skull.
THE number OF Mormon emigrants that
| Al II
Utah in the last ten months is 1,62:,, mostly
proselytes from England and Wales.
A BosToN dentist, who sued man for
100000 for reporting that his wife died i'm
consequence of the administration of
nitrous oxide gas at his office, has recov-
cred one cent.
THE catalogue of the Munich Exhibi-
ton of Arts contains nearly fourteen
thousand numbers. More than sixteen
hundred oil paintings and over five hun
dred water color paintings arc on eXhi-
bition.
4 YOUNG woman Of Boston, the other
day, received gold watch, chain, ring and
silk dress, as present from California
woman, whose life she had saved at per-
ilOus street crossing.
THE late Mr.. Peabody accumulated the
greater part of his vast wealth during the
last five-and-twenty years of his life. II is
said, on trustworthy authority. that at 50
he was worth but little more than $J0,0C9.
In a cabinet at Lewiston, Me, is a
double headed snake, which takes its food
in either mouth, as it seems convenient,
the heads being entirely distinct for two
or three joints of the backbone.
THE number of lunatics in France has
increased from 10000, in 1851, to nearly
100000 at the present time. This fright.
ful increase is ascribcd to absinthe, tObac-
CO, politics, and last, but not least, to
stock gambling.
Emma Harding, who few years since
palmed herself off on the citizens Of Nor
wich as the widow of soldier, and sold
them fictitious autographs of Washington
and other celebrities, has recently been
committed to Jail, and turns out to be a
man.
AN old African Methodist preacher, Ev-
ing in Lancaster, Ohio, now in his SSth
year, has been a preacher siXty-nine
years 1t is said that he had six months
schooling when he was 81 years old. This
is all the educational advantages he has
ever enjoyed.
THE first article of tinware manufac-
tured from tin mined in the United States,
has recently been completed in San Fran
| cisco. Itis a case to contain the Pioneers
certificate Of honorary membership pre-
sented to William II Seward.
IT is now denied that Colonel Drake,
who put down the first oil well in this
| country, is dead, or that he has ever been
an inmate of a Connecticut Poor House.
He is living in New Jersey, and from
present appearances will never need any
town to support him or his family.
| THE celebrated Dr. Gregory, in the
course of one of his medical lectures at
Edinburgh, stated: Zone cannot stand
perfectly motionless for half an hour that
he had once tried to do so, and had tainted
at the end of twenty minutes, the blood
requiring the aid of motion from the
body in order to retain its full circulating
power"
PRELIMINARY steps have been taken TO
celebrate in grand style the centennial
anniversary of Beethoven, next year, in
New York. A coliseum is to be erected
for the special purpose of holding the eX-
ercises and the profits of the entertain
ment are 10 be devoted TO the erection in
that city of great music hall, 10 be both
an architectural ornament and means Of
artistic education.
THREE interesting fossils have recently
been found in the township of Seymour,
Canada The first is apparently a petrified
human head, which shows the tongue,
eye-balls, and muscles of the face, the
head having the redlsh- brown appearance
of an ore OF iron. The other relies are
the foot and leg of a young girl, about ten
wears old, and section of meat from the
side of an OK, showing three ribs.
Two young men in Wilmington, Del,
proposed to fight duel recently (about a
young lady, of course) but when their
secor DIS arranged that they should be
securely bound, knee to knee, and fight
with small swords until one of them, Mt
least, was mOrtally wounded, the thing
lost its charm to them, and an apology
from one and its acceptance by the other
arranged the difficulty.
THE cereal product of Europe in 1868,
it is calculated, amounted to 4,95i,516,6Oi
imperial bushels, or sixteen bushels TO each
inhabitant, while that of the United States
amounted to 1,405, 1868, or thirty-six
bushels per inhabitant. OF the product
of Europe, 1,4S4. .43s, 800 bushels were
grown i'm the Russian Possessions i'm Eu-
rope, 664, All 100 in North and South Ger
MANY, 717,2l5 936 in France, 5sl ,254, 100
in Austria. and Hungary, $50, ,sS7, 800 in
Great Britain and Ireland, 191, Sc, Alb i'm
Italy, 204, SIC, $50 in Spain, 129, ,446,65S in
Roumania, and 12O0OO,000 in European
Turkey.
SAMUEL JEssUP, who died in Lincoln
shire in 1917, took between 1891 and 1916,
226, ,934 pills. which is at the rate Of 10, sos
a year, or twenty y-nine pills day. For
the last three years preceding 1916, he
took pills at the rate of seventy-cight a
day, and in the year 1914 he swallowed
not less than 81 $50. In addition he took
40, 900 bottles of mixture, and iuleps and