The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-01-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

by million miners.
WHY is hen immortal? Because her
son never sets.
SUNDAY evening sittings in Rev. Fl. w
Beecher's church are advertised at S16
each, yearly.
VELocIPEDEs are prohibited in New
York Central Park, because they will
frighten the horses.
A BOY of fourteen was recently mar
ried at Holly Springs, Miss, to a woman
of thirty-two.
THE Rev. David Winters, of DAYTON.
Ohio, has married over 4, 900 people during
his ministry.
ST. LorIs had thirty-three murders
thirty suicides and five fatal coal oil explo-
sions in 1868.
THE hair of James Ferguson, Of Buffalo,
worker in copper, has, it is said, turned
perfectly green.
THERE are twelve churches on Erie
street, Cleveland, Ohio, within space of
less than mile.
A FIVE thousand dollar monument is to
be erected over Sam HoustOn's now name
less grave, at Huntsville, Texas.
AUDUBON and his wife made their bridal
trip in 1908 down the Ohio, from Pitts
burgh to Louisville, On fiat boat
PHILADELPHIA has three hundred and
eighty-five churches, which will not nearly
give sitting room to all its people.
THERE'S promising young giant in
Cheshire, Mass, only sixteen years old,
and already six feet and three inches in
height.
Two HUNDRED and eighty-fo wives
and one hundred and seventy-six husbands
fled petitions for divorce in Chicago last
year.
JOHN B. COUGH was born in Sandgate,
England, in 1917. His father was a
Peninsular soldier, and his mothers schoo,
teacher.
SIX new postoffices have been named
Norwood since the publication of
Henry Ward Beecher's story in the New
York Ledger.
DURING the past year there were 295
commercial failures in New York; 63 in
Philadelphia SO in Boston 81 in Balti-
more, and % in Chicago.
OF the six last elected PENNSYLVANIA
Senators -Buckalew, Cameron, Cowan,
Brodhead, Bigler and Scott-none have
ever served in the lower House.
w Hill llitJ III blC udlut
Muller" the Muller should be pronounced
SO as to rhyme with duller. He says that
is the New England pronunciation of the
name.
A CALIFORNIAN speaks of 1000 acres
as "small farm" Two hundred acres of
wheat is "small patch" Some farmers
have as many as 5000 acres devoted to
wheat In one season.
A MACHINE has been invented and put
into operation in California, which il is
said has cut, thrashed, cleaned and sacked
the wheat from twenty acres in ten hours,
with ouly three men TO work it.
TIE town of Wells, VT, has citizen
who married at II. His first child was a
daughter, who married at IS, and
eighteen months afterward made her
father grandfather, at the early age of
81 years.
SOME one versed has calculated that it
will take fifty men, working twelve hours
day, seven years, four months and thir-
teen days, to read through all the public
documents issued in the United States
every three months.
IT is now seen that cotton has not ex-
hausted the cotton fields of the South, but
bad tillage. A bale of 500 pounds of
cotton, when burned, leaves but four
pounds of ashes All the rest goes into
the air from whence it came.
A PHILADELPHIA surgeon, who was on
his way to perform an operation on a
patient, had his carriage robbed ard lost
| his surgical instruments while making a
temporary ltop, whereby" adds the re-
| porter, " ne operation was prevented and
! the patient ) life saved"
/ In the amusement world the following
are among the dead of 1868: Rossini,
! Samuel Lover, Sterling COyne, Mary Gan
non, Julia Dean Hayne, Menken, Helen
Western, Anna Lac0ste, c. NJ. Walcott,
Sr. John Seton, Charles Kean, George
jameson, VIM. Hanlon, Ronzini, Salvador
Tagliona, VIM. Harrison, George Christy
THE annual incomes of the various
English Bishops range from $4,000 to
about $4,000. Canterbury enjoys the
latter and SOdor the former amount.
London and Windsor have each an in
come Of $4,000 year, and Durham
! $4,000. The other Bishoprics are worth
from 100000 to $4,000 year.
ONE of the most productive taxes in
the city OF Berlin is on dogs, amounting
to three thalers on every animal. The
number has increased about 1000 in four
years, and is at present 20,950, of which
1900 are useful, generally used in draw
ing truck). This duty produces every
year for the municipality about 10000
! thalers.
THE Protestant Episcopal Almanac for
1869 gives the following general summary
of statistics of that church in the United
| States; Bishops, Al; Bishop elect, !
clergy, 1926; baptisms, 29,5S5; cenfrma-
tions, 1906; communicates, 157,SS4 ;
marriages, 1856; burials, 1l,454; ordina-
tions, deacons, S5; presbyteries, 93 can
didates for orders, $50; Sunday school
teachers, 1880; contributions, $3,443,
1887.
ORANGEs were frozen solid on the trees,
at Augustine, Fla, on Christmas day. The
weather was the coolest known in that
locality since 1865. The thermometer at
daylight stood at twenty degrees above
zero. II afterwards touched seventeen de
! grees. In a climate where even white
frosts are unusual, this was very severe.
Last year, at the same time, the Florida
ladies were dressed in lawns.
A WRITER to the Waco (Texas) Register,
gives summary of the profit of his farm
operations during the past year. He has
had $50 acres under cultivation-430 in
cotton, and 159 in corn. From this, with
the labor of forty.two freedmen, he has
raised 800 bales of cotton, and nearly
10000 bushels of corn. He has sold his
| oo.,o,, on tho rrouud for S24 Cir and