The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-10-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE Baptist contributions TO missions
last year were S9o2,419.
TEXAS exports goats to Kansas. The
current price is 81 per head.
THERE are now upward of sixty thou
sand Germans in Paris.
THERE are two hundred and fifty syna-
gogues in the United States.
"FRoM Maine to Texas" is now super
seded by " from Florida to Alaska"
THE Prussian Court spends daily five
hundred dollars for charities; the Russian
Court twelve hundred rubles.
TIE most promising young sculptor in
Paris is George Warren, the son of Amcri-
can parents, but born in France.
A SOMEWHAT defective copy of the first
edition of Shakespeare Of 1923 fetched e33
at Puttick & Simpsons auction sale in
London
ADAsIs EXPRESS COMPANY compels all
agents and employees to put up their pho
tographs at the general office, SO that in
case any Of them run, the detectives can
identify them.
THE aggregate membership of the va
rious branches of the Order of Odd Eel
lows in all parts of the world is consider
ably over 100000. In Great Britain
alone there are over 100000 Odd Fellows.
EIGHT hundred millions one hundred
and eighteen thousand letters passed
through the Post Offices of Great Britain
and Ireland during the year 1S6S-an in
crease of nearly thirty-five millions over
1867.
AN English coroner's jury lately re-
turned verdict of death from fatty
degeneration of the heart, accelerated 10y
the deceased having strangled herself"
That soould naturally aggravate such a
disease.
THERE is a remarkable diver, named
Coad, at Bodmim, in Cornwall, England,
who, during recent swimming match,
remained under water three minutes and
ten seconds. This exceeds anything on
record.
A RICH man who lives near Rio Janeiro
is said to keep a large anaconda on his
premises to frighten off ladies and mis-
.ionaries, who are constantly soliciting
donations for charitable and religious pur-
poses in that city.
THE gross receipts of the places Of
amusement in New York, for the month
of August, were $20S, ,33a; of the differ
ent lines of railroads, S959,919; of the diff
ferent stage lines, sos, ,i32. There were
114,O5o, 1873 cubic feet of gas consumed in
August.
THE Rev. Mr.. Reed, Of Maiden, Mass,
considered the expenditure of $4,000 on
his church edifice poor way TO dispose of
money. and hoped "the Lord would Law
the whole thing fat" The big gale did
the business, and left wreck worth, for
kindling wood, about $500.
THE Methodist Episcopal Church last
wear erected 710 new places of worship.
Onc hundred and forty Of these were hult
to take the place of old ones, the other $40
are a net increase. The total amount of
money expended in building these church
cs was nearly S6,0O0,000.
THE oldest clerk in the departments at
Washington is John Barclay, chief clerk
of the office of Commissioner of Customs,
who has been a clerk for sixty-fivc years.
Charles Vincent, of the Third Auditors
office, has been there fifty-eight years
A FAMILY which was residing in Lynn,
Mass, at last accounts, has, during the
past sixteen years, lived in sixteen differ
ent towns and cities, and has occupied
twentv-eight different houses. During
this moving period the wife has become
the mother of eleven children.
A LONDON velocipedist was sent 10y
| London velOcipede manufacturing COM
pany to Edinburgh, Scotland, in order 10
attend an agricultural exhibition at the
latter place Edinburgh is more than four
hundred miles distant from London, and
the velocipedist made the trip in about
| five days.
THE business of Ames & Sons, the
great shovel manufacturers of North
Easton, Mass, having suffered from drunk
| enness among some of the workmcn,
rule has been adopted to discharge every
man found drunk, unless he viii disclose
and testify in court where he obtained his
liquor
THE six great Continental Powers Of
Europe have at the present time no less
than five millions five hundred and eighty
thousand men under arms France has
1,350,000, the North-German Coniedcra-
ton ], OPS, ,9l6, Southern Germany 2e0,l
Austria and Hungary 1,O53,CO0, Prussia
l, ,461 600, and Italy 4S0, AGO, soldiers.
ALTHOUGH the PruSsian government in
sists on all precautions which science has
discovered for the protection of miners,
293 men lost their lives in the colilerles OF
that country in 1867. The proportion was
.. 81 for every 900 men employed In
England the rate per cent is higher (351
per 1,000)
THE lists of patents granted in Franco
contain some curious articles, among them
the following: 4 hat with decorated rim
an umbrella hat; a woman's hygienic and
impermeable skirt, called "la Prcvoyante;"
| stockings with garters attached; a me-
chanical mustard pot; application of the
instinct of animals 10 the guidance of
steam carriages on ordinary roads-what-
ever this last may mean.
A DOMESTIC romance comes from New
! York. Twenty-Five years ago couple
were married, had one son, lived together
ten years, and then, after losing all their
property, procured a divorce. The wo-
man married again, and got a fortune; the
husband didn't, and remained poor. And
now that the woman has become rich
widow, she has remarked her first hus-
band and they are going to Boston Tor
revised honeymoon.
THE Titusville (Pa.) Herald has the fol-
lowing concerning some recent marriages
in that place: at is somewhat rcmarka-
BILE, first, that four weddings took place
during the past week; second, that the
four gentlemen were all merchants of Ii
tusyille: third, thai they did business on
the same street; fourth that they occupied
the same block fifth, that they were all
widowers; sixth, that in the aggregate
they have had thirteen wives"
AN excellent suggestion is made 10y an
English druggist in relation Ia the dis
pensing of poisonous substances. lie pro-
poses that, i'm addition Ia the word pol
+ son." the labels should have printed on
their margins the appropriate antidotes
Cor each class of poisons n bottle con
tanning a mineral acid, for instance, would
have on its label: "Poison If taken by
accident, give (mixed with watcr) chalk,
or soap, or whiting, or ceiling scrapings."
DELAWARE is a small State and is grow
ing smaller The Delaware encroachcs
upon it from ten TO twenty feet every year,
and the sites of houses that once stood in