The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-09-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

One of the out going bishops of the
| Irish Church is 80 years old
| FROM two to three dollars is the daily
profit of a New York rag picker.
| OF seventy women who went to Oregon
from Massachusetts two years ago, sixty
| nine are married.
| OVER 5000 persons have stopped at the
hotels at the White Sulphur Springs, Va,
during the past season.
| A NEW dock was recently completed at
Hull, England, which was begun nine
years ago, and cost about 81 100000
THERE are 130 Mormon settlements in
Utah, and the number of adherents OF
Brigham Young is estimated at 10000.
A CHILD belonging to Benjamin Garner,
of Lebanon, Ind, burst an eyeball recent
ly, during a violent fit of coughing.
A LITTLE child, eighteen months old,
died at Goshen, Ind, few days ago, from
the effects of swallowing penny
/ A NEwsBoY in Cincinnati, ten years old,
supports his father and mother, two broth
ers, and himself The parents are both
invalids.
THOMAS Cooke, the well known carriage
maker of New Haven, died, aged rs, re-
Gently, leaving his large property decided
to Yale College.
NEARLY $11 900 worth of bank checks
and bonds were recently found by a boy
in an upright boiler in front of the boiler
works in Fall River, Mass.
IT is stated that one hour after the gas
of London is lighted the air is deoxidized
as much as if 100000 people had been ad-
ded to the population.
TIE King of Denmark makes annually
$4,000 rix dollars by his beet sugar factory,
the machinery Of which has been designed
10y him, and made under his personal su-
pervisiOn
THE hight above the pavement of three
well-known church spires in Boston is as
follows: Christ Church, 17j feet, Hollis
street, 1876, and Park street, 21S.
THE Boston Recorder states that, at a
birthday party given by little girl in that
city, and attended by her playmate boys
and girls five different kinds Divine made
portion of the entertainment!
TIE daughter of an oil millionaire
brought sixteen trunks to Saratoga She
dresses six times a day, and sings two
pieces which she paid a music teacher
$4,000 to teach her.
In a village near Breslau, in Silesia, a
peasant woman has given BIRTH for the
second time, to three children. She has
been married three years, is twenty-one
years old, and has seven children.
THE number of homicides in Southern
Italy, last year, was 1884 to every 100000
inhabitants, or ten times the proportion in
England, and more than hundred times
that in Belgium.
THE whole number of persons in
Charleston, S. c., as appears by a census
recently taken, is 1852. There are 1920
more blacks than whites, and 1900 more
females than males. The population of
the city in 1860 was 40,522.
AT Paris, Russian valet out of place
hung himself in despair, and the suicide
was discovered by the pOstman, who called
to deliver letter to the deceased announc-
ing the death of his father and the inherit
ance of $4,000 year.
THE old hotel in which the first Consti-
tuition OF the OtaJc OF Vermont vas adopt
ed, in July, 1777, is still standing in Wind
sor. 1t has been sold within a few days,
and the purchaser intends to preserve the
main building.
One of the most conspicuous f0ur-in-
hands seen on Fifth avenue, New York, is
Owsed by an old gentleman who lives in Il
little room on the fifth floor of an uptown
hotel and eats but two meals a day. This,
it occurs to his friends, is rather inconsist-
ent.
THIRTEEN women were arrested in New
York the other day, at the Pension Office,
charged with drawing pensions and fraud
ulently representing themselves as widows
of soldiers All of them have remarked,
and some of them came to the Pension OF
flee in their own carriages.
A MAN called "Old john" recently
died in a London workhouse, at the age of
50. He went into the house," a blind
orphan, at the age of Z, and consequently
had lived there IS years. For many years
he played the organ and led the singing in
the wOrkhouse chapel. He could repeat
correctly every word of the Psalms.
THE following statement shows the num-
Der of miles of railroad in the States given !:
Pennsylvania, 4,400 Illinois, $3.50; Ohio,
3,400; New York, 3,400 Indiana, 1900
Iowa, 1850; Georgia, 1880; Massachu-
setts, 1,4J0; Missouri, 400; Virginia,
1880; Tennessee, /, ,440; Wisconsin, $50 ;
Michigan, 1860; North Carolina, LOO; !;
South Carolina, 1000.
THE Treasurer of Danvers, Mass, ac-
knOwledges the receipt from Edwin Nudge
of his check for S61j. The following ex-
tract from his letter enclosing the check
will explain the use to which he wishes
the money applied: 81 propose to con-
tribute the money | have received as Il
member of the Legislature last year, by
dividing it proportiOnally between the
Towns of Danyers and Wenham, towards
Il fund for the erection of a soldiers mon
ument in each town" The sum received
last year from Mr. Nudge was $S29.
GOLDEN-HAIR fluids have recently been
the subject of continued investigation by
an English chemist, who, after a careful
analysis, asserts that they are composed of
dilute nitric and muriatic acids, with
traces, in some instances, of sulphuric
acid. Though the proprietors of these
llUlds announce that the preparations are
harmless, yet instances have been reported
of ladies being injured by drops of the
hair-dye falling on their shoulders The
agent to effect the change in the color of
the hair is the nitric acid. aided by the
chlorine evolved by the decomposition of
the muriatic acid.
TIE little Princess Felicia, said to be the
smallest girl of her age on the continent,
is the great sensation in Paris. She is
only fifty centimeters high. On her ar
rival in Paris she was Immediately taken
tOthe Empress, who put her into work
basket and carried her to the Emperor's
room. The girl was placed on Napoleon's
| writing table, on which she promenaded
and danced for awhile, and closed the
performance, to the great amusement OF
the Emperor, by turning somersault
She is only seven years old, and the physi
clans who have examined her predict that
she will yet grow about eight or ten
centimeters, when she will be about two
feet high.
AMONG the vessels lost in the cyclon,
that swept over the Bay of Bengal in 1867
were the steamer Thunder and the shiI
Morayshire. Search was made for them
but no trace was discovered, and it wa
taken for granted that both had gone dowl
at sea. The other day party of fisher