The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-01-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Rosa BONHEUR makes $4,000 year.
LAST year 10000 persons visited Girard
College, Philadelphia.
LAST year insects injured the crops in
France $105, 900 worth.
CALCUTTA has exported $4,000, 900
worth of opium within a year.
In France, to one person who reads a
book, 100 GO the theatre.
THERE are seven Jews in the new Brit
ish Parliament, and all are Liberals.
LAST year in Boston, over $4,000, 900
were expended in building improvements.
THE New York Express says the He
brGws are the chief owners of real estate
in New York.
FIFTY families of Europeans were re-
Gently slaughtered by New Zealand saw
ages.
Gov. BAKER, of Indiana, pardoned
foTty-two criminals during 1868. In 1867
he issued 115 pardons.
THE average weekly number of deaths
in London during the winter seasOn is
about 1000.
THE convention to organize Society
of the Army of the Potomac is to meet
in New York FEBRUARY %.
THE Philadelphia Ledger dined 165 boys
on Christmas day and presented $4,000
to its employees.
THERE are now in the Michigan State
Prison 632 convicts-the largest number
ever in the prison at one time.
THERE were S42, III baths taken in the
Boston free baths in 1868, at a cost of
hn Inr in
A MISSISSIPPI lady named Carr has OBJ
tanned a ten thousand dollars verdict
against recusant lover for breach Of
promise.
Coal in abundance, and of excellent
quality, has been discovered near Argenta
station, on the Central California; Pacific
Railroad.
QUEEN VICTORIA passed the 14th ultimo,
the anniversary of Prince Albert's death,
in weeping over his tomb in the royal
mausOleum.
The New York Herald states the total
loss by fire in this country during the
year 1868 at $34, 757 600; during the last
thirteen years, $339,6 900.
THE Norwich Conn Savings Society
has $6,000,000 of deposits, the maximum
allowance by its charter, and is going to
have it amended so that it can receive
more.
DURING the year just closed, there were
80 murders in Philadelphia, II more than
in 1867. The number of cases of infanti-
eide was 96, against sc in the previous
year.
THE receipts of customs at the port of
Montreal, after increasing for several
years, show falling off for 1863, being
S3 540,601 for that year, against $4,S1S,-
SIG for 1867.
DURING the past decade in England,
100000 gold sovereigns and $4,000, 900
half sOvereigns were coined, which piled
one on the other would make column
thirty-five miles high.
A MANUFACTURER in Berkshire county,
Mass, has offered to give to the ladies in
his town all the cotton cloth they will
make up for the poor of that town during
the winter.
AN old gentleman on the burning
steamer United States, seeing all hope cut
off, went back to his stateroom, saying,
"Here let me die" A young woman
dived straight into the flames to make
short work of it.
BRAZIL has a standing offer of a prize
Of $4,000 in gold to any one who will in
vent mode of preserving beef SO that it
will be suitable for expectation. Four
hundred competitors have appeared for
the prize, and still it is not awarded.
THE total number of arrests made by
the police of ST. Louis during the past
year was 1850; males, 9,941 females,
2,S7S. The money stolen and stray pro-
perty received and restored to owners
during the year amounted to $114,49S.
FIVE libraries in this country contain
are in Boston and Cambridge. Boston
Public Library contains $4,000 volumes,
and the Library of Congress, 175,0OO.
The others are the Astor, Harvard College
and Boston Atheneum.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR announces that the
fourth annual meeting of the American
Dairymen's Association will be held in
Utica, on Jan 80 "Cooling milk before
cheese is made therefrom has it received
its due attention ?" is the leading subject
announced for the consideration of the
association.
THE weight of gross of steel pens is
but few ounces, and it is not difficult to
believe that it would take a good many
boxes to make ton. The largest pen fac
tory in the world, on the French coast,
uses sixty tons of steel month in this
manufacture, and there are a dozen other
houses whose product is not very much
smaller.
THE township of Newton, Mass, near
Boston, has seven villages, named respect
lively as follows: Newton Center, Newton
Corner, West Newton, East Newton, New
ton Upper Falls, Newton Lower Falls,
and Newtonville Visiting parties fire.
quently find themselves in the wrong
"NewtoD," while letters take their
chances, and pass back and forth inde1-
nitely.
THERE are lib miles of telegraph line
in South Australia. The rates are low and
more messages are sent than in any other
part of the globe. In England the annual
proportion is one message to every seven
of the population. In South Australia ii
is one TO every four. In England there
are 121 letters sent to one telegram, in
South Australia only 13 letters. The au
thorities now possess postal telegraph
system.