The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1869-07-01
FACTS AND FIGURES

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A TERRIER in Bristol, England, was
lately sold for $500.
In Salt Lake City $1s is the price paid
for cord of pine wood.
A HARTFORD lady has Just had $1,000
watch sent her by express.
By new law in Italy the clergy be-
come liable to conscription.
IT has been calculated that sixty persons
per minute die in this world.
A NEW Ir.sh paper, The Irish West, has
made its appearance in Cincinnati.
THE lady who knit her brows is now de-
voting her attention to a pair of socks.
THE Catholic Publication society has
printed $4,000 tracts during the past
year.
ONE hundred and seventy-nine thousand
dollars have been raised for the American
College at Rome
SIX women were recently admitted to
the University of London, having passed
satisfactory examinations.
SWITZERLAND has about 900, 900 cattle,
worth $42,000,00O; 552, 900 cows.yield $780,
100000 worth of milk year.
THE Society for the Prevention of Cruel
| ty to Animals in New York average two
arrests of cruel teamsters per day.
THERE have been three Popes besides
Plus TX, who have celebrated the fiftieth
| anniversary of their first mass.
A Boston letter-carrier was recently
made the recipient of $3.50 from the we'll
pleased citizens whose mail is entrusted to
his care.
Al &c A II
builder, is dead. 1t is said that there is
not a portion of the world where Halls
clippers are not known.
In one of the French departments q
poster adorned the walls, inviting the
voters to cast their ballots for Jules X.
the drunkards' candidate"
A FATAL quarrel in Jersey City arose
from the refusal of barkeeper to allow
teamster to water his horses from the ice
pitcher.
A LADY in Rhode Island subscribed for
Newport paper, the other day, to be sent
to nei;. Dor who worried her by borrow
ing her wn.
A TEXAS paper claims that there are
more newspapers published in that State,
in proportion to the white population,
than in any other State in the Union.
By singular coincidence, the first day
of the Peace Jubilee fell upon the date of
the commission to George Washington as
Commander in Chief of the American
armies.
LORD BYRoN's valet, Swede, named
James p. Lindberg, sixty-four years old, is
now an inmate of the National Military
Asylum at Milwaukee. He was present
at Byron's death.
DURING the year 1868, there were As
S4S male persons, charged with crime,
taken before the police magistrates of the
metropolitan districts of London. OF this
number, Sc were ticket f,leave men, and
5,544 had been previously convicted.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York to bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas. The entire hold of their
vessels is lined with a non-conducting felt;
and by chemical means cold below the
freezing point will be kept up.
A WHITE baby was picked up few days
ago on the Dan river, near South Boston,
Va. 1t was in metallic coffin, with a
bottle of milk at its mouth, and a roll of
greenbacks under its head, while newly
plucked roses decorated its strange cradle.
THERE is a man living in Northampton,
within three miles of the railroad, 3S
years of age, who has been in but four
different towns in his life, has never been
inside of railroad car, and has never
slept In any house except the one in which
he was born, has never been courting and
never kissed girl
IT is recorded of Catholic lady, of
Northumberland, England, In the last cen
tury, that she married thrice, her first
husband being Quaker, her second q
Church of England man, and her third
Catholic; and what is more curious still,
on each occasion she married man twice
her own age; at 16 man of 30 at 80 a
man of 60; and at AZ, a man o.
THE champion strawberry has been ex-
hibited in New York. 1t measured ia
inches around, and weighed one ounce
and seven pennyweights. 1t was raised
by Nathaniel Niles, at Madison, n. j., and
is cross between the Wilson and the
Agriculturist. Governor Randolph, of
New Jersey, has christeneG it the Niles
Seeding"
THE report of the Inspectors of Con-
siabulary in Scotland for the year ending
March 10. 1862 states that the number of
tinkers, gipsies, vagrants, and other per
sons who have no apparent means OF sup
port, has increased in Scotland to the ex-
tent of $4,000 within the last two years.
The number of vagrants now amounts to
6S,036, or 1896 men, 2O,756 women, and
1854 children.
A PAPER was recently read before the
Academy of Sciences, at Toulouse, France,
To prove that the trunks of trees are not of
a circular, but of an elliptical form, the
axis from east to west being longer thsn
that from north to south. The names of
eight distinguished observers of the ope-
rations of nature are given as supporting
the fact mentioned.
THE other day seam in the rock
cutting, on the Ridgefield Branch rail
road, in Connecticut, was charged with
forty-two kegs of powder and quantity
of nitro-glycerine, the whole costing $500.
The explosion shook the windows in Ridge
| field, two miles away, and removed earth
and rock, the displacement of which by
| the usual course would have cost $2,Ooo
A CHEMIST in England has discovered
| fluid preparation which he atfirms will
| cause bodies plunged into it TO petrify and
become stone within five years time.
| The secret of this process is known only
| to himself He throws out the suggestion
that, in time, if persons will only preserve
their relatives and friends with his fluid,
| they will be able To construct dwellings
with them, and thus live in residences sur
rounded by their ancestors.
The one hundredth birthday. of Mrs.
Ruth Hemphill, of Henniker, N. Ht was
recently celebrated. She was the nrst
| fesaale born in the town. Her istner,
Deacon Ebenezer Hartshorn, built the nrst
| frame house in Henniker, and il now stands
in good condition. 1t was in this house
/ x.xa, horo Her