The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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CoNsTANTINoPLE has twenty-eight
newspapers, printed in eight different
languages.
DURING recent hot spell thermome-
ter in an Arkansas editorial room showed
a temperature of 119 degrees
A NORMAL school for the benefit of ma
tive ladies and girls is to be opened in
Poona, in India.
NORFOLK, Va, restricts the number of
bootblacks in the city to eight, and gives
each district
A CLEVELAND paper acknowledges the
receipt of bouquet of fresh flowers cut
in California.
THERE have been sixteen cases Of sui
eide in Lowell, Mass, within eight months,
mostly of young girls.
A DEFECTIVE copy of the 1923 edition
of Shakespeare was sold by auction in Lon
don lately, and brought e33S.
A RESIDENT of Mt Jackson, Va, found
a young crocodile several inches in length
packed in barrel of sugar.
THE St. Paul Pioneer thinks that not
less than 100000 bushels of apples will be
gathered in Minnesota this year.
A CINCINNATIAN has wagered 800 that
he can carry an anvil weighing 700pounds
a distance of seven miles without resting.
Tom THUMB and party posted their per-
fOrmances in San Francisco in Chinese as
well as in English, and took, in two weeks,
$4,000 in gold.
THE Duke of Ossuna, the first noble
man of Spain, has SO many titles that it
takes him more than a quarter OF an hour
to write his full name.
A HEN in West Winsted, Conn, has
been sitting for several weeks on seven
potatoes, which have sprouted and grown
above her head.
A LIVERPOOL woman, doubtful whether
the fire in her stove was out, poured gun
powder on the emberS in order to ascertain
the fact. Her doubts and the rest of her
were removed.
1T is stated that one guest at Cape May
this year, whose party consisted of three
persons and whose accommodations were
two rooms paid the hotel $125 day dur
ing his sojourn.
AT recent coin sale in Philadelphia, a
New Jersey cent, 1877, realized S25;
United States 1898 silver dollar, SO;
United States 1904 cent, $12; United
States 1899 cent, So; United States 1897
dime, $12; United States 1915 dime, 81;
United States 1893 cent, 81.
Two Duxbury Conn ladies. descend
ants of the Winslow family, possess,
among other curious relics, the wedding
shoes of Cotton Mather's grandmother
On one of the shoes is pasted the original
punishment of her marriage, taken from
the church door where it was first posted.
a POISONOUS bush has proved very de-
cf oh 10 e
pretty shrub about four feet high, with
bright scarlet blossom. The botanical
name is gastr0l0bium grGndif0runn, and
over two thousand sheep have been lost
out Of one flock from eating this bush.
PORTLAND claims the championship of
the world on old folks 1t has over
one hundred and fifty inhabitants above
seventy-One years of age, and twelve busi-
ness firms which have not changed their
style for the past quarter of a century.
The veritable oldest inhabitant" is also
supposed to be resident of Portland.
1T is said that, near CochrantOn, Ohio,
the other day. a meteor. followed by
blaze of light, passed by the engineer of a
freight train that was stopping, struck an
oil car in the rear, and exploded, tearing
off portion of the roof, setting fire to
the car and destroying it. a brakeman
was struck in the face by a fragment of
the meteor and severely hurt
ONE of the most marked illustrations of
the change which has taken place in the
way in which good men regard certain
things, is afforded by the following ex-
tract from the diary of the Rev. Samuel
Seabury, of Ledyard, Conn, father of
Bishop Seabury, of Connecticut. He
says 1.-THE ticket 1866, in the Light
House and Public Lottery, of New York,
drew in my favor, by the blessing of AL
mighty God, $500, of which l received
e425, there being deduction of 10 per
cent. /; for which now record to my pos
terity my thanks and praise to Almighty
God, the Giver of all good gifts"
BELOW we give the grand total of funds
raised by the leading national and de-
nominational societies in this country, for
the year ending May 1, 1869. 1t is said
that the amount is nearly $2,000,000 larger
than in the year preceding: