The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-29
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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FEMALE BARRIERS are coming into fashion
in London.
THERE is an editor in Paris who has
fought so duels.
SEVEN Americans are on the Russian
railroad staff
THE Abyssinian Expedition cost fully
ten million pounds sterling.
THE great German oculist, Won Graefe,
has professional income of S1500O0 q
year.
THE emigration to Kansas this spring
is said to be without precedent in the his
tory of the State.
In Toulumne county, Cal, there has
been laid an iron water pipe, $500 feet
long and II inches in diameter.
A BRIDGEPORT Comm cartridge COM
pany has received an order from Spain
for ten millions of cartridges.
JUAREz, the Mexican President, is So
years old, but does not look to be over 40.
He has one son and six daughters.
THE Empress of Austria kissed over 100
babies while joufneying through Croatia,
and smiled upon their mothers
In England clergymen may be trans
| ported for fourteen years for marrying
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| TEXAS has now within her borders
more than 100000 head of cattle, and
can export annually 100000 beeves.
| a COMPANY for the manufacture of ar
tifCil limbs has been formed at Pitts
burgh, ard every member of the organi-
zstion has lost a leg.
| II Is said that the trees planted by one
| Iowa farmer have raised the value of ad-
| joining lands from five to ten dollars per
acre.
| A New YORK miller compelled his son,
aged IA years, to make the preliminary
arrangements to his suicide, and then de-
liberately killed himself.
THIRTY-Two thousand five hundred and
eighty-six emigrants arrived at New York,
| from Jan. to April z. Last year for the
same time the number was 29,SS9.
| THE value of Canadian cattle imported
into the United States during the first
three months of 1869 was 1886, ,252-nearly
double the value of those imported during
the same period of 1868.
AN English chemist, after careful an
alysis of "golden-hair fluids" asserts that
they are composed of diluted nitric and
muristic acids, with traces, in some in
stances, of sulphuric acid.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that farmers who have their
grain manufactured into -four, and then
sell the flour in any manner, must pay a
license to the Government.
THE Planters Banner says that the
planters of Louisiana will make as much
again rice in 1869 as they made last year.
The crop last year was 321 ,9l1 ,344 sacks.
A sack contains 100 pounds.
THE oldest house in the United States
retaining its original form is to be found
in Neponset, Mass. 1t was built by John
MinOt about the year 1640, and is still in
| good repair. The family still hold pos
| session of it.
AT Cornwall, VT, recently, William
Hurlbut starved himself to death. He
| was seventy years of age, a bachelor, and
worth some $4,000; but having lost $130
through robbery, he became despondent-
afraid of coming to poverty.
Mrs BEECHER STOWE gives up her
Florida plantation, as she bought it at a
military tax sale, which holds not good,
and the former owner makes successful
claim-paying Mrs. Stowe the price she
paid for tie estate.
| THE Clinton Us.) Democrat states that
a resident of that place gathers sufficient
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tea plant grown in his garden to more than
suffice for the requirement of his house
| hold.
| In Maine, during the past season ,lmice
| have done great damage. Millions of
young fruit trees have been killed, young
| forest trees injured, and grass ruined. In
| Dixfield orchard containing 1900 grated
trees, only about five hundred can be
saved
A $3.50 DIAMOND RING was lost from
lady's trunk, broken in handling, at the
| Cleveland depot, a few days since On
going to look for it, she found a party
sweeping the floor, who had swept the
| ring some fifty feet without discovering it.
ONE of the Philadelphia papers sold
| 95, 900 copies of the edition containing an
account of the suicide of Twitchell and
the hanging of Eaton, and the demand
| for a morning journal was so great that it
was reprinted on the following morning.
RUBY valley, in Nevada, is so-cslled on
account of the immense number of rubies
| found in the sands of the mountain
streams flowing through it. These gems,
| though very beautiful and perfect, are too
small to be merchantsble, the largest
| only being of the size of a pin-head.
MAEDLER, the German astronomer, has
measured the heighth of l ,093 mountainsin
the moon. Twenty-Five of these are high
er than Mount Blanc, which is within
| few feet of being three miles high, and six
are above 10000 feet The highest OBJ
served mountain in the moon is 24,944
feet
THE number of bankruptcies in Eng
land last year was 9,195, an increase of
POI over the year previous. During the
year dividends were paid in LIZA, but in
6.4S9 there were no dividends. Theg
proceeds realized from bankrupt estates
was 1880, 900, and the expenses of the
bankruptcy courts amounted TO $4,000.
A FIRE near the Cape of Good Hope,
caused by the long continued heat and
drouth, devastated tract of country 400
miles long, and varying in breadth from
Is to $50 miles. The fire broke out on
the 9th of February, when the heat
throughout the colony was more intense
than ever previously known. Several per-
sons lost their lives.
In Portsmouth, N. H, a scientific indi-
yidual, whose wife used tea pretty freely,
and who for the last few years lad suf-
fered much from a nervous affection, re-
Gently made an analysis of the tea she
used, and found that the coloring material
was gypsum and Prussian blue, and that
the amount in pound of tea, if admins
tered at once, would produce instant
death.
A CURIOUS case was before the New
York courts the other day. In 1894 John