The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Two WEALTHY Boston girls have recent
Y married English orde

Two WEALTHY Boston girls have recent
ly married English Lords.
NEARLY one half of the type setting on
the Paris literary papers is done by wo-
men
CEsPEDEs, the chief of the Cuban in
surgents, was student at Middletown,
Conn, in 1857.
GEAR ALEXANDER has invited Napoleon
to the Russian International Exhibition
next year.
AUBER, now nearly 90 years cid, is
about composing an opera called a
Dream of Love-"
BooT and shoe making is great busi-
ness in Philadelphia to five
millions year.
AT recent wedding in New York,
among the bridal gifts was bottle of
brandy corked and sealed in 1772.
OVER seventy thousand people visited
the French exhibition of pictures on the
opening day of this year.
THE japanese, in bringing living plants
to this country, wrao the roots in mix
ture of earth and carrots ground together.
ENGLISH house sparrows have been inn
ported into Buffalo. One gentleman re-
SHELBURNE FALLS, VT, has citizen
who claims to be the champion horse
snapper" He is 40 years of age, and has
traded horses over 600 times.
OF the 0,027 800 furs sold in st. Peters
burg last year, about 1900, 900 were from
Siberia and 1S6,5OO from Alaska. The
value of these furs was about So .4S9,375
in gold.
PAREPA RosAs voice is thus described
by misguided Boston critic: " Five hun
dfed feet long, three hundred feet wide,
and as high-as the Coliseum"
A BELLE Of Agra, India, is in full dress
when swathed in two shawls, with 30
bracelets, IA pairs of earrings, seven neck
laces, one nose pendant, and seal ring
on each thumb.
A LONDON photographer. who has pho
tographed nearly all the royal family Of
England, has been paid nearly e35, 900
for cdrtes de oisite of its various men,
bers
A YOUNG gent of high standing in
Washington recently attempted suicide
because young lady, who went with him
to picnic, left him to return with another
fellow.
THE philadelphia Post says "the report
that Madame Parepa -Ross's voice so
filled the Boston Coliseum that the audi
ence had to go out to make room for it, is
incorrect"
A YOUNG Welchman, Tilted by the girl
of his choice, has sent in 20 her a bill for
damages, in which perhaps the most cruel
item is, "To IL days lost in your compa-
ny, ga Is 3d."
THE new City Directory of Buffalo con-
tains about 10000 names. The Courier
multiplies this number by five, and claims
that the product represents very nearly
the population of the city.
THE children at the royal court of Prus-
sia are never permitted to eat sugar -plums,
bonbons, or any indigestible food, and the
servants are especially forbidden to let
them have any wine or beer.
PRINCESS KAzLowsKY, of Moscow,
whose father lost all his fortune, declined
the aid of her friends, and now keeps a
cigar store, by which she earns enough to
support herself and father.
In Schem's Ecclesiastical Almanac for
1868, the total number of members in
evangelical denomi nations in this country
is placed at 1904 ,929, in population of
not less than 35,0O0,000, or one in seven.
Mr. THOMAS SAVERS, son of the pugilist,
has come out as comic vocalist, and ap
pears at the music halls " wearing the cos
tune in which his father fought the mem
orable battle of Marlborough"
SOME indication of the number of per-
sons who for some cause have left White
Pine, is afforded by the fact that there
were recently four thousand letters re
naming uncalled for in Wells, Fargo Il
Co.'S office in Treasure City.
THE revolution in the island of Crete,
from August, 1866, to March, 1869,
period of two years and seven months,
has, it is reported, cost the Turkish Gov
ernment $25, 100000 in money and 10000
soldiers
A CHAP, who replied to an advertise
ment offering an article of great use To
those contemplating marriage, "price 30
cents, or four for ST." received for his
three dimes, pocket handkerchief of the
coarset material, worth about six cents.
AT bull-fight in Nismes, Spain. few
weeks ago, the picadOrs appeared mounted
on velocIpedes instead of horses, and dis
played such skill in the management of
their iron steeds that the astoundei bull
was unable to dismount single one of
them.
PHLADELT HIA is particularly happy in
its detective force. One of the papers
says that there is scarcely a professional
thief in the city. The chief detective
" has made the air so insalubrious to them
that the whole party have left in disgust"
AT recent election in Boston, Lizzie
Harrison offered to vote. Being told that
she could not, as she was not on the list,
oha docla rod II at che had a RIGHT tn vote
all regulations to the contrary notwith-
standing, deposited her ballot on the box,
and departed.
ENGLISH artists take the rejection of
their pictures very much TO heart, and
one worthy coroner asserts that he has
held several inquests upon artists who
had been killed by sheer anxiety on the
subject before the decision of the hanging
committee was made known.
BOTH Houses of the New Hampshire
Legislature have passed bill making 1t
unlawful for first cousins To marry. How.
ever. i'm order not to lead to any breach of
promises already existing, the Legislature
very considerably provided that the act
should not take effect till six months after
its passage.
In the city of Cincinnati according to
the City Directory, there are seventy-four
houses of worship belonging to the Pro
testant Evangelical denominations. Their
average capacity does not exceed 500 sit
tinps The average attendance Is less
than 400, so that the attendance in sll
these churches is never more than 10000,
in population of 100000, or one in eight.
In the Third Street Baptist Church, of
Troy, N. Y, a few days ago, as the Rev.