The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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THE wives of Brigham Young, consoli
!, , dated, weigh 5000 pounds.
THE marriage rate in New York is 1.
: in 1000. Brooklyn pairs off at IA il
1000
. SEVEN hundred and fifty seven Orienta
: manuscripts were added to the British
Museum last year.
ONE late issue of the London Times con
, tanned $4,000 advertisements, from al
many different persons
THE Uiversalist schools had last year 1,
400 pupils of whom thirty-two were theO
logical students.
THE oldest man now left in Indiana i:
said to be Benjamin Scalf resident Of
Milesburg, Elkhart county, born May -
1854.
ONE hundred years ago, there were
more than 25O,O00 landed prOprietors in
Great Britain; to-day there are less than
10000.
THE Young Mems Christian Association
of Indianapolis has distributed over $2,-
500 in charity during the past year.
THE Petaluma fair, California, boasts OF
an OK nineteen and half hands high,
weighing 3,317 pounds, ..and a pig weigh
ing 1,003 pounds.
SEVENTEEN thousand nine hundred
marriages were celebrated in Switzerland
during the last year, or one marriage to
every 140 inhabitants.
IT is stated that the BellefOntaine Rail
road has transported over II 100000 pas
sengers since it was built, and has killed
but four of them.
ORANGE JUDD, proprietor of the
american Agriculturist, has given to the
Wesleyan University $4,000 for the cree
ton of building for the Department of
Natural Science
OMAHA has 1896 families. A local
paper from this estimates the population
at 26,9S0, averaging the families at five
each, or 21,5S4, averaging them at four
each.
A CONNECTICUT traveller recently took
tea with Mormon elder, at whose table
six wives presided, and twenty-seven
| children clamOred for more molaSses on
their bread.
THE aggregate af the heaviest votes
ever thrown in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Iowa is 1,356,312, which is nearly one
quarter of the aggregate popular vote for
President last fall.
ONE million, two hundred and eleven
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pounds of sea island cotton, valued at ST.
070. 1876, were exported from the customs
district of Charleston to foreign countries
during the year ending, September 80,
1869
IT has been discovered by careful eX-
perimentS in Charleston that the weight
of bale of cotton varies slightly with
the temperature. A fall of ten degrees in
the thermometer causes bale of cotton to
gain about pound and a half in weight.
THERE are over one hundred students
preparing for the ministry in the Baptist
Theological Seminary and University of
Chicago. About forty of these are in the
Theological Seminary classes, and the
others in the University classes.
If we compare Vienna, Paris, London
and Berlin we shall find that for every
1000 men above 20 years of age in Wen
na, 476 are married; in Berlin, 526, in
Paris, 563, and in London G61 of 1000
females who have passed their Goth birth
day in Vienna, 40S are married, $50 in
Berlin, 551 in London. and 592 in Paris.
THE Congregational Union, in its six
teenth annual report, says that from the
organization of the society to the present
time, 375 churches have received aid, and
393 houses of worship been built. of
these, thirty seven are in New England,
sixty-two in Illinois, and siXty-one in
Iowa.
THE other day, an engineer on the Prov
idence, Hartford and Fishkill road dis
covered stoppage in the water pipe of
his locomotive, and put in his finger,
when he Immediately got bite. With |
the aid of hook he finally fished out an
eel measuring fourteen and a half inches, |
which had passed from the water pipes |
into the tender.
A CORRESPONDENT travelling in Scot |
land remarks "We passed Sunday last |
at the head of Loeb Lomond, in a solitary |
inn. No church is within fourteen miles |
There is large rock near the lake, in one |
corner of which is cell hewn out, and |
this is arranged as pulpit, and the people |
gather in front. A Scotch clergyman |
breaches here once fortnight to the |
farmers and shepherds of the highlands"
ABOUT 800 female voters are now on the |
register of municipal voters at Lincoln, |
England. At Stamford, the number of
female voters for the ensuing year will be |
$50. At East RetfOrd, out of 500 munich |
pal voters for 1S69-70 sixty will be women. |
At Norwich, the municipal register for |
1S69-7O will comprise upwards of 10000 |
names, and about 1900 of the voters will |
be women.
IT is stated that in the Methodist church |
the net increase of houses of worship last |
year was $40. Besides these, over 140 |
new and improved churches were built in |
place of old Ones making the number of
dedications of Methodist Episcopal |
churches during the year u.s. The esti-
mated value of the new edifices, including |
the improvements on old ones, is nearly /
$6,0O0,OOO.
M. Armand, "a FrenchI savant, has
stated to the Academy of Sciences that he
has discovered sure antidote to nicotine
in the common watercress 1t destroys |
the poisonous effects of nicotine, and yet
does not alter the aroma of tobacco. A
solution of watercress may therefore be |
employed for sleeping the leaves of to-
bacco, and would thus divest them of their
noxiOus properties, and, moreover, |
draught of the same will act as sure anti
dote to nicotine.
THE ecclesiastical authorities of Rome |
have just published census for the pres
ent year. The regular clergy is composed
of 2, ,265 persons, thus divided: Cardinals, |
80; Bishops, 26; priests and clerks, 1866 /; |
and students at the Ecclesiastical Colleges, |
Sal; the religious communities count 5, |
215 soulsG2,959 men and 1886 women
the lay population amounts to 1861 |
soldiers in garrison. 1O,207; prisoners un-
der sentence, 32S; Protestants, 637; Jews, |
2,682 making a total of 220, ,532, or an in
crease of 5,154 over the year 1868.
LIVINGSTON has discovered that one OF
the sources of the Nile, emptying into the
great lake Victoria Nyanza, rises some ten
degrees south of the equator. If this be
true, the Nile becomes one of the longest
rivers in the world. The distance between
its last reported source and its delta along
the Mediterranean is equal to the distance
from Lima, i'm Peru, to the city of New
York, or from the City of Mexico away
up to Mount st. Elias the end of the back
bone of this continent, in Alaska.-Meso