The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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A CLERGYMAN has recovered s26. 900 for
an injury on an English railway.
DURING the last three years 200
horses have perished by fire in New York.
TwENTY-EIGHT young Chinese have
arrived in Marseilles to study theology.
THE Princess Metternich recently paid
dress makers bill of $240,OO0 for one
season in Paris.
THERE has not been days interruption
In the operation of the ocean telegraph
since July 81, 1866.
MACMILLAN, the London publisher, has
presented 135 volumes of his publications
to the Harvard College library.
CALIFORNIA consumes fifty per cent of
its own wines, the Atlantic State twenty
five and Europe the remainder.
a CHINESE giant, eight and one -halffeet
high, arrived at New York few davs
since. He is properly named Chang-Hi.
GEORGE HUDSON, the exrailwav king of
London, has been presented with Ga 400
by his friends to keep him from starving.
The Protestant churches in this coun.
try raise annually, for foreign missions.
81, 726, 900, and sustain 4S1 missionaries and
S95 native assistants.
DURING the period between 1915 and
1868, fifty-f years, six and half mil
lion people left Great Britain to seek
homes in other climes.
THE Hartford Times states that Per
sons troubled with corns can find relief by
calling on Mr.. Sc iger Colts band will
be present and furnish good music"
AN orthodox Congregational Church in
Massachusetts has subscribed 81 200 for
singing and s., 800 for preaching. The
value placed upon each is about equal.
THE largest artesian well in the world
is that of Passy, near Paris, being two
feet in diameter and discharging 5000 900
gallons of water in twenty-four hours.
THE Great Canadian Traveller" is a
conductor on the Grand Trunk railway,
OXteby by name, who has conducted six
teen years, and travelled 500 miles.
DIR. KoHN, Breslau oculist, finds 61
per cent. of the night compositors he has
examined near sighted, and that the light
of oil lamps is more detrimental than that
of gas.
THERE are sixteen portraits of Mary
Queen of Scots in the British national
gallery in London, each of them unlike
all the others in every detail of feature
and complexion.
THE late Henry Keep left to his wife
and daughter So, ,0O0, 900 worth of stock of
the Northwestern Railroad, with instruc-
tons not to sell it, as it would pay better
than any investment.
THE total amount of the gifts presented
to the Pope, on the occasion of the fif.
teenth anniversary of his entering the
is estimated at 2O,O00,OO0
francs.
THE Knoxville Wing saws it is es-
Minated that the blackberry crop of Ten
nessee, if properly harvested, would make
10000 barrels of wine, worth about S.
100000.
YANKEE RoBNsoN's Circus Troupe
drove into Brookville, Pa. on a recent
Sunday, and put up at the hotels engaged
for them. On Monday they were arrested
and fined for breaking the Sabbath by
on that day.
In the reign of Edward /, the price of a
Bible, fairly written, was $37 The hire
of a labOring man was three half pence q
day. To purchase a copy of the Bible
would, therefore, take 4,S00 days earnings
Of such a man, or about thirte en- years
toll.
N
Danville, VT, in his eighty-fifth year who
never rode in stage or car, or attended a
circus or lecture in his life, and never got
drunk, recently walked to Hanover, N. H.,
4 distance of 125 miles.
DAVID MELVILLE, of Newport, r. /. is
said to have been the first person TO intro
luce gas light into this country. In the
year 1912 he lighted his residence in New
port, a factory in Pawtucket, and Beaver
Tail Lighthouse, Narragansett Bay.
DURING the sixteen years of the exist
ence of the New York Newsboys' Lodg-
ing House, lodging has been furnished &C.
ISL different obys; restored to friends,
1928; furnished with homes, 1900; and
furnished 42S,S46 lodgings and 2S3,931
meals.
THE annual report of the Augusta (Ga)
cotton factory shows the following figures
Is the result of years operations: Total
$149, 763. IS; total expenses, $40
1867 net profits on the years opera
ions $120, ,7175S, on a working capital of
5000, 900.
PIGEONS have been killed in New York
State with Carolina rice in their crops.
From the known rapidity with which
hese birds accomplish the process of di-
lave flown 400 miles in six hours, or over
mile minute
THE amount of business transacted i'm
he postoffice in New York may be judged
" the fact that two windows are open for
he sale of stamps in sums less than ono
lollar The receipts at each of these win .
lows average 1000 per day. The daily
of stamps at the office must
,e in all about $4,000.
Rev. THOMAS S. BURNELL and his wife,
ormerly of Northampton, Mass, who
ave been missionaries in India for the
asst twenty one years, recently returned
lome TO Northampton. They were 13S
lays in going to India when they first
vent out, ana but thirty eight in return
ng, SO great has been the improvement i'm
raveling within the last two decades
A FEW days ago a farmer sent To
yew York one hundred bushels of potatoes,
0 raise which cost him not far from forty
ollars. He received from his correspond
mt in return ten dollars, or ten cents
ushel. The freight bill for transportation
leasure of paying one dollar for the
rivilege of giving away one hundred
ushels of potatoes
Two New York ladies stopped their car
iage on crossing. One went into store
nd the other remained in the carriage
'wo gentlemen wishing to cross the street
rdered the coachman 10 move on. The
adv in the carriage told him not To stir
IN this one of the gentlemen opened the
oach-d door and with his boots and spurs
topped through the carriage. He was
Dllowed by his companion, to the extreme
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