The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-25
FACTS AND FIGURES.

were Introduced.
Mrs. SwIssHELM gets $500 year as
lumber Inspector.
THE public library at Cleveland con-
tains 5000 volumes
GEORGE PEABoDY's London buildings
shelter 1871 poor people.
New YORK car drivers pay license of
twenty-five cents each.
LAMARTINE's S life was insured for 100,-
600 francs in favor of his niece.
The English Lord Chancellor gets So 900
for reading the Queens speech.
A PENNY tax on opera tickets supports,
in Paris, $50 charity beds.
Concord, N. H., has had eighty-three
days of uninterrupted sleighing.
A LADY who died recently in Worcester
county, Mass, left her property to forty
cousins.
THE General Winfield Scott homestead,
| in Elizabeth, N. j., has been sold for
| $9,750.
One hundred and eighty ladies have
already entered the College Victoria,
Berlin.
DAUGHTER of Wirz, the Andersonville
| TAILOR, is a gOverness in an English noble
mans family.
| In each of two Episcopal Churches in
London the congregation consists of
couple of hearers.
bIRs. LADD, who reached the extraOr-
dinary age of 10S years, died recently,
at Hartford, Conn
NATHANIEL GREENE, of the Boston
Post, has showed the editorial quill of that
office 81 years.
uoorc onO 40 dove uara
consumed in journey from Philadelphia
| to Chicago-900 miles.
THE daughter of an ex-President of
Wall street bank is clerk in Broadway
millinery establishment.
CALIFORNIA encourages the planting of
! shade trees by the roadside by the pay
meut OF 81 premium on each.
NEBRASKA claims to raise more and
better quality of spring wheat to the acre
than any other State in the Union.
WEBsTER's unabridged nets the heirs of
the great photographer $4,000 year,
and hey sincerely hope it may never be
abridged.
A COUPLE were recently married in
Pennsylvania, the bride over 100 years old,
ard the bridegroom we'll along in the
sixties.
THE English patentee of device to
dress mill-stones by a revolving diamond,
cleared S1,0O0,000 during the first year of
its use.
BISMARCK receives $4,000 year as
Chancellor of the North-German Confed-
Grafton, aud similar salary as Prussian
Foreign Minister.
THE Fifth Avenue Jewish Synagogue,
in New York, cost S6S5,000 Besides sell
ing Tor 800 900, the seats are subject to q
tax Of five per cent.
THs 3l,659 Regular Babtists in Indiana
arc ministered by 2S5 pastors and 81 licen-
tiates, in 475 churches. Last year 3,703
converts were immersed.
THE picture of the "Rat Catcher"
drawn by John Carter, the artist who
painted by holding the brushes in his
mouth, has been solo to Boston merchant
for 81, 300.
The fortune of Marne, the great French
book publisher, is estimated at sixty mil
lion francs, and that Of Cottar. the veal
thiest of the German book publishers, at
about half that sum.
PETER COOPER has recently given 800
600 To purchase complete set of mochan-
ical models by which the application of
power to machinery in every conceivable
form may be Illustrated.
A COLoRED man in Bridgeport, Conn,
recently lifted keg of nails, weighing 106
pounds, by the chime, with his teeth, held
| it out in horizontal position full min
ute, and won a bet of ten cents.
A WRETCH, who put powder in the
stove of public school house, near Balti-
more, had the satisfaction of knowing
that eight boys were injured and two girls
fatally burned by the explosion.
| THE Legislature of Maine has increased
the bounty on bears from two to five dol
| lars. These creatures have been increas-
ing their depredations lately, and killed
three hundred sheep in Kingfield alone
| last year.
A FARM in Sutton, New Hampshire,
which was purchased by Thomas Wad
| leigh in 1857, has remained in the family
ever since, being now occupied by the
great great grandson of the original pro-
| prietor.
| On the Monongahela river, within sixty
miles of Pittsburgh, are eighty coal works,
with an average daily capacity of 5000
bushels The production during the year
amounts to at least 40,000,000 bushels.
A GERMAN at Lake Village, N. II, has
received pair of boots from Germany
by mail They have wooden soles only
an inch and half thick, guarded by iron
and studded with brass nails. Cost 81
post paid.
THERE are now i'm Australia, says the
Marx Lane Express, some four millions of
cattle and forty millions of sheep, while
there are not million consumers, and
the live stock, with abundant pasturage,
| increases enormously.
In the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain 13. 5000 gallons of wine were used
in 1867. ranging from Z per cent. of alco-
hol to 25 per cent; 46,5OO,0OO bushels of
malt were used to make ale.
| Mr. ALEXANDER TOMBSTONE, father of
Ex- Governor VIM. +. Johnstonc, of Penn
| sylvania, is now 96 years of age This
venerable gentleman has been Master
Mason seventy-four years, and is believed
to be the Oldest mason in the United
States.
PATTI, who now sings for thousands OF
dollars night, to say nothing of the rich
presents received at the hands Of royalty,
commenced her public musical perform
ance by singing in an old building in Jer-
sey City now used as carpenters shop