The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-10-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.
MARK TWAIN is sc years old.

THE Unitarians have 315 societies and
3S3 ministers in the United States.
The Prussian Bible Society has distrib
uted three million Bibles since 1914.
HELENA, Montana, claims $500 inhab-
| itants, and an annual business of 81 ,O00,
600.
TIE wife of a mail clerk in the Louis
vile Courier -,JOurndL office has fallen heir
to 100000.
In its forty seven years of existence the
Yale Theological School has sent out 32O
clergymen.
PRUssIAN distilleres last year consumed
6,750,000 bushels of grain and nearly 40
1000 bushels of potatoes.
TIE city of New York consumes an
nually fully 100000 sheep; Boston
about 100000; and other cities in proper
ton.
PROF benin, one of the most eminent
men of Berlin, died recently of slight
wound on the finger, inflicted while he was
dissccting.
TIE mail carriers at Cleveland delv-
cred, during the month of September,
1860 mail letters, IL ,S04 local ones, and
63, 1876 newspapers
VERMONT is the only State that was un-
represented at the session of the United
States Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at San
Francisco.
TIE Old and New School Presbyteri-
ans have 3 synods, 16 presbyterics, 1S9
ministers, 263 churches, and 13131 COM
municants in Iowa.
Ex-PREsIDENT PIERCE's estate is csti
mated at $1,000,000, the bulk of which
will probably go to nephew, who is be-
ing educated at Princeton College.
AN English servant boy pretended to
have murdered his master for the sake of
making a sensation, and would have been
hanged had not science proved him to be
a liar.
A NEW York jeweler gives his opinion
that nine out of ten of the sO-called sets OF
diamonds worn by fShionables are mere
paste, not worth a shilling peck.
H. NJ. CRrTTENDEN, of Waterloo, Iowa,
exhibited some sweet potatoes at the Fair,
ten of which weighed thirty pounds, and
three Of the ten weighed three and a half
pounds each.
BURTON H. CARTRIGHT preached the
! first sermon ever delivered in Iowa, in
1924 He broke prairie on week days,
and took the Lords field on Sunday,
/ IllOHg lHc carry Scbtltto.
NELAToN, the famous French surgeon,
often receives, in the course of single
day. the visits of between two and three
hundred persons who desire to consult
him personally.
DURING the Mechanics Exhibition at
| Boston more than 5000 individuals were
weighed, whose aggregate weight was
AIS, 100 pounds The average weight Of
the $4,000 was 1873 pounds.
In 1867 Italian statistics show out OF
| 110, ,456 marriages there were 81, ,l59, con
siderably more than One-half the whole
number, in which neither the bride nor
bridegroom could either read or write !
A GENTLEMAN recently left at the office
of the Vincennes, Ind, Times four ears of
corn weighing seven pounds. Each ear
contained % rows, each row % grains OF
corn, making in the aggregate 1910.
A YOUNG boy at Richmond bet "two
| bits" that he could lie down on the track
bed and let the train pass over him, and
the train did, though the boy was minus
his head and cash by the operation.
BISHOP CLARKsoN has ordained three San
tee Indians in the northwest corner of Ne
braska, to the ministry of the Episcopal
Church. They will be employed as mis-
sionaries among their own people, OF
whom more than three hundred are COM
municants in the church.
THE Troy Wing has made n calculation
from which it appears that enough rain
fell in Rensselaer, and Albany counties in
two DAYS during the recent heavy storm to
supply every man, woman and child upon
the face of the earth with two and half
| law for,
EXPERIMENTS made in the Botanic Gar
den, London, showed that leaf of the
"Victoria Regia" would support four
hundred and twenty-six pounds before it
sank. The leaf selected was the lightest
of eight on the plant, and it is estimated
that the entire plant could uphold weight
of ton and half.
In 1885, Sir Robert Peel presented a
farmers club, at Tamworth, with two iron
plows of the best construction. On his
next visit the old plows with the wooden
mould boards were again at work. Sir"
said member of the club, "we tried the
iron, and we be ali of one mind that they
do make the weeds grow"
MADAME X, an avaricious dame of
Paris, not long since, had an oak stair
case torn down, segment OF solid wall
ruined, cavern eXcavated beneath the
floor, and spent finally $50, to get five
frame piece which her careless grandchild
had dropped into chink-and didn't find
it after all.
THE English are very liberal in their
support of Christian missions. The fol
lowing are the receipts of some of their
missionary societies: The Church Mis-
sionary Society received last year $780,
900; the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel, S572,00O; the LonGon Mis-
sionary Society, $555,O00; and the Wes
leyan Missionary Society, $75O,OOo.
TIE singular fact is related of Mr..
Willitts, who was recently murdered in
Detroit. that, on the day on which he was
killed he obtained an insurance on his
life for five thousand dollars, for which he,
not having the money by him at the time,
gave his note He put the policy in his
pocket, where, after his death, few hours
later, it was found.
TIE Marquis 'D'Orches offered a'prize
of 10000 francs to any person who would
discover a practical and cheap method of
determining actual DEATH This prize has
been gained by DR.. Caniere. His method
is to place the hand of the subject before
light in "a darkeped room; if the subject is
not dead the light will make the hand
semi-translucent with rosy hue; but if
dead it will be perfectly Opaque.
TIE Board of Missions of the Protest,
ant Episcopal Church recently held its
annual meeting in New York. Two
hundred and eleven clergymen are en-
rolled rs home missionaries, of whom one
hundred and seventy-eight are now in the
field. Total receipts for domestic missions,
for 1869, were Sl27,1l0. The report of
the Foreign Committee was read, show
ing the mission force to be thirty seven.
AK ingenious calculation has been made
| i'm England, that an average human being,
after deducting the value of what he con
sumes, adds about fl00, or $500 in gold
| ...l.,o in Tho ,vnnlfh of the community