The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.


BRIGHAM You've weighs two hundred
and forty pounds avoirdupOis.
| IT is said that operate singers eat an
early breakfast on the day they are going
to sing.
THE late Henry Keep left four million
dollars which will be fine keeps sake for
the heirs.
PROFESSOR JUDAH DANA, of Rutland,
VT, has a copy of Virgil printed over
three hundred years ago.
THE first newspaper published in Vir-
ginia, a weekly issue, in 1880, was $50 a
year subscription.
HARRY SCHMIDT, a newsboy on the
Kentucky Central Railroad, has fallen heir
to fortune in Germany of $13S,000.
IT costs eight hundred dollars year to
clothe the hand of the Empress Eugene
with appropriate gloves
A FRENCH lady was detected, the other
day, in trying to smuggle through the New
York Custom House six poodles, slowed
in her pockets.
A STORY is told of belle at White
Sulphur Springs who, according to VOW,
accepted the one hundredth man who pro-
posed 10 her.
The largest tannery in the world is at
Kane, Pa. 1t is not yet finished, but has
600 watts in operation, and consumes $4,000
tons of hemlock bark per year.
REV. JAMES DURBoRow, an Episcopal
clergyman in Philadelphia, recently sol
emnized his 1,000th marriage ceremony
during a fourteen years pastorate
SOME one has sent to Postmaster Gen
eral Creswell $500 for the widow and
children of Secretary Rawlins, with the
request that his name shall not be men,
toned in connection with the matter.
THERE is a letter in the Postoffice at
Richmond, postmarked Savannah, Ga, di-
rected as follows: "To Mr. Porter,
young man in Richmond, Va, whose first
name | have forgotten"
THE Brooklyn Mercantile library is
vigorous and flOurishing institution. Ii
has on its list $4,000 books The member
ship is about 1900. Thirteen thousand dol
lars are to be expended annually in the
purchase of new volumes.
THE largest mandatory of gas fixtures
in the world is in Philadelphia They
have built the largest chandelier in the
world for the Philadelphia Academy Of
Music-16 feet in diameter, % feet long,
with 250 burners.
A MARRIED couple in the Palatinate were
about to make a journey by cars from
GermerSheim to Durkheim, and missed the
train; the man began to abuse his wife !;
she returned his abuse with interest, which
exasperated him SO much that he pulled
out a pocket pistol and shot his wife and
himself
TIE Young Mems Christian Association
Of this country has membership of 30,
600, having property to the value of $3,-
100000 Nearly $500 conversions are at
tributable to their efforts There are T.
! 100000 of young men in our land and
only 100000 profess to be Christians.
THE full strength of our navy actually
on duty, in ships and guns, is stated to be
as follows: North Atlantic squadron, 10
ships, 6S guns; South Atlantic, ships, 43
guns; European feet, ships, &c guns
| Pacific, II ships, n guns; Asiatic, Q ships
30 guns; on special duty, 3 ships, 36 guns
This force could be trebled at short no.
tice.
JOHN COFFIN, of Chichester, n. H., re-
Gently seized by the tail black snake
which had taken refuge under a rock.
Coffin held on at one end and the snake
at the other, and the result was that the
snake parted, breaking open in the mid
die. The two pieces, when put together,
measured six feet in length.
A FRENCH Canadian girl, aged nineteen
years, was killed few days ago, at the
st. Alexandra Station, near Riviere du
Loup, in attempting to cross in front of
an engine. Her mother demonstrated,
and said the train was too near, but the
father said, "Go, you can do it, if you're
Il l,o1 L., . I,
the engine wheels.
THE entire cost of the Suez Canal, to
be opened next December, has been about
$S1,000,000. But to include improve
ments, which will be applied as experience
may suggest, we may safely set the sum at
$S5000,000. 1t is estimated by some au-
thorities that the annual business of the
canal will amount to 100000 tons, and
that its gross receipts will be $2O,OOO,O 900.
THE Hottentots living in Cape Colony,
South Africa, number i'll all 1886. Many
of them are rising in the scale of educa-
ton, civilization and religion. In one OF
their towns, having population of over
1000, they have lately built Christian
chapel which will accommodate about
600 hearers, and it is generally crowded
with sober and attentive worshipers.
THERE is a straight forward, broad
shouldered, honest drayman standing
every day with his team at the corner OF
Third avenue and Twenty third street
who once lived where Mr.. Field now re-
sides in Grammercy Park, and whose
father owned all of what is now Union
Square, and much of the neigboring land
He bears his downward turn of fortune
quite bravely.-Ne'o York Mall.
AT Jamaica, i. l., few day ago, Lewis
Carter, a colored man, descended into q
well to take out the tube of an iron pump
At halfpast 3 the earth and stones fell
upon him, and he remained thirty
feet below the surface until eXtIicated the
following night at half past IL. He was
inferred thirty-two hours. Heavy stones
lodged on his shoulders and pressed against
his sides, and he was unable to move. He
was entirely without light, but air reached
him through crannies between the stones
He experienced no bodily pain, and his
mental sensations were not distressing, in.
asmuch as the sounds above gave him as
surance of rescue. After working the
whole of the first night, the laborers were
gratifed at daybreak to hear the man
voice. His head was uncovered in the
afternoon, and brandy was administered tC
him, but it required six hours more to re
lease his body. When drawn up he was
weak from bruises, but perfectly able t.
walk to his home, leaning on the arm o
friend. Beyond being stiff and sor'
from the contusions received, he was in NJ
way injured.
| HORsE-RACING AMONG THE INDIANS
Rcdander," New Orleans correspondent OF th
T,IrJ, a.1,td AID Farm tells the following story q
n race I'm the Greek nation. where the racing author
| itics believed that Meight was objection II !