The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

has filled that position fifty-one years.
THERE were 1884 births, 4, 694 marriages
and 5, 76O deaths in Boston last year.
SIX of the eight principal colleges of
Indiana admit young ladies as students.
MR.. BERGH has caused the arrest of
man in Yorkville for skinning q dog alive.
THREE cooperative stores have failed
in st. Louis during the past eighteen
months.
THERE are about sixty-five thousand
students at the universities on the CONT
nent of Europe.
Gov. GEARY, of Pennsylvania, signed
l,696 bills during the recent session of the
Legislature.
| THERE are nineteen bookstores in Con
stantinople, mostly kept by Germans and
Frenchmen
| A NAN has been sentenced to six months
imprisonment in England for stealing
$4,000 feet of gas.
THE Boston 7rdceler says that GA
Marblehead scotsman recently paid forty
six dollars for a single potato"
Two hundred aud fifty thousand pounds
of chickory have been imported into San
Francisco within six months.
PROFESSOR EASTMAN, of Poughkeepsie,
has expended twenty thousand dollars in
trying to invent writing machine
VIcroR HUGo gets $4,000 for his story.
"The Man who Laughs" This, some
mathematical chap has computed, is Just
$131 a line
A sEvENTY-FIvE-YEARo old goose is still
living in Kent county, Maryland. She
has raised goslings annually until within
three years
AN English gentleman has bought be-
tween 5000 and 1000 acres of land in
Nelson county, Va, on which he intends
to settle 800 English families
A NUMBER of Buffalo business establish
ments have signs in plain view "No beg.
gars or insurance agents are allowed with
in these premises"
A HUNDRED thousand herring were re-
Gently cast ashore by the tide in Kataya
Bay, Martha's Vineyard, and they were
carried of and salted
In Brieg, Silesia, recently, a young mar
ried couple committed suicide because the
doctor had decided that the young hus-
bands leg must be amputated.
THE best time ever made on a veloci-
pede was accomplished at the Cleveland
rink few davs ago, Mr. Fred Hawley,
of Rochester, N. Y, making fifty miles in
three hours, fourteen minutes and thirty
nine seconds, actual running time.
AN echo in Woodstock park, Oxford
shire, England, repeats seventeen sylls-
bles by day, and twenty by night; but the
most remarkable echo known is one on
the north side of Shipley Church, in Sus-
sex, which distinctly repeats twenty-one
syllables.
LAST WINTER, Boston was visited by
thirtvtwo snow storms, and the aggregate
depth of the fall of snow was feet 11L
inches. In the past twenty-six years, the
only winters during which the total fall of
snow was greater were those of 1884
and 1854.
Nor long ago, in tearing down an old
English house, the workmen came across
secret cupboard, in which were found
quantity of diamonds and iewelry to the
value of several hundred pounds. 1t is
believed that the articles had not before
seen light for centuries.
OLIVER DALRYMPLE, of Minnesota, is
said to be the largest wheat grower in the
United States. In addition to his other
crops, he has sown 1000 acres of wheat
this season. Last season Mr.. Dalrymple
employed 100 men and 100 horses in har-
vesting and threshing his crop.
A YOUNG lady of Jefferson, O., mistook
a bottle of violet ink for perfumery, in
the darkness the other evening and pct
some upon her handkerchief, which she
used to wipe her face, and, Fastening to
church Immediately after, she created an
immense sensation.
THE Chronicle states that it is q very
low estimate To calculate that the people of
San Francisco spent $20C0o0 in celebrat-
ing May-day. Upwards of $4,000 persons
went into the country, while the Cliff
House, the sea beach and the country
around the city were throDged.
The famous mselstrom, on the coast of
Norway is 80 little feared that the fisher
men pass and repass it in their sail vessels
at all states of the tide, except at certain
times in the winter when the greatest
rate of the tide does not exceed six miles
an hour.
THE Yale University crew average in
weight 172 pounds each, the only one
heavier than that being the stroke, George
w. Drew, of New Haven, q native of
Maine, who weighs $50. Their boat is of
Spanish cedar. 81 feet long, 20 inches wide,
and weighs 10 pounds. They row AZ
strokes to the minute.
To ASCEND a staircase eighteen feet high
requires thirty-six times the force that is
required to walk eighteen feet on level
ground; and would, therefore, be equal to
level walk of three hundred and twenty
four feet. So then, person shut up in
the house and in need of exercise. can
walk his mile by going up these stairs say
sixteen times
foil yInfr nc
promissory note dated at Concord, Nov.
25, 1898: "For an old horse which have
bought of Mr. Isaac Dow, | promise to
paw him three dollars in wheat or -four at
cash price; but if the horse does not live
to get to Lebanon, and three days after he
gets there, am To give but two dollars
for the horse. Witness my hand"
ACCoRDING to Chinese writers, the great
bell of Canton was cast five centuries ago.
At first no person was bold enough TO
strike it. Afterwsrd, however, one OF the
officials ordered il u be struck, where
upcn upward of one thousand infants,
male and female, died throughout the city.
On this account young children, both boys
and girls, were made 10 wear clothing
with fringes, to which small silver bells
were attached, as q charm TO ward Of the
evil influence.
A NAN in San Joaquin, Cal, has in his
possession q surveyors instrument on the
front lens of which there is plainly seen
beautiful landscape, with all the varied
hues of nature. Some fifteen years ago,
according to the owners account, the IN
strument had been in use, and was lett
standing for a time, on the plain, In a
scorching mid-dsy's sun, fronting wood