The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

AT NleDQa New OrK dOLel
= erecting at cost of 100000.
Mr. BULINGAME's two balls in Paris
cost the Emperor of China $4,000.
In San Francisco, there have been re-
turned ninety-two incomes in excess Of
$4,000.
PAPER PETTIcoATs are now sold in
London at sixpence each. Shoes are made
of the same material.
THE number of real estate sales in San
Francisco during May was 1904, amount
ing to 81, 222, 237.
HARTFORD, Conn, is to have rink
which will seat 5000 persons, accommodate
800 skaters, and cost $4,000
A BOY aged Is has been sent to prison
for week, in France, for aseditious hurrah
IN the presence OF the Empress.
THE Second Adventists, it is said, have
fixed upon the 10th of July as the day on
which the world will come to an end
In Williamsburg, L. L, there is a man
1877 years old. He is weaver by trade,
and. though too feeble to work, is still
lively.
THE number of immigrants arrived in
New York during the first five months of
this year was 5000, against "a, SIT for the
same period last year.
DR. JUDsoN baptized the first Burman
convert in 1919. Since then more than
10000 Burmans, Karens and Shans, have
believed and been baptized.
THE Queen of Madagascar has been re-
ceived into the Church of England by
baptism, and ordered her ministry to do
likewise, under penalties.
| In =
wealthiest actor on the American stage.
His property is said to be considerably in
excess of half million dollars.
THE number of passengers over Prus-
sian railroads in 1868 was 81, S48, 665. Dur
ing the year SO persons were killed by
railway. accidents, and 1914 were wound
| ed.
HANS WACHENHUsEN, the German
feullletOnlst, says, In a recent article, that
a certain Miss Arabella sold, at a fair in
New York, 5000 kisses for a dollar each.
| A NOTE was found in the pocket of a
recent suicide in England. saying: Dear
friends, don't believe my wife if she saws
she has not money to pay for my coffin.'
THE cattle 10 Switzerland amount to
900 1000 in number. and are valued at $42,-
10000. or about $47 per head The cows,
$4,000 in number, yield $30,000,OOO of
milk every year.
AN ivory tusk, six feet three inches long
and 221 inches in circumference, has re-
Gently been exhumed in Montana. 1t was
found buried in the sand, twenty-five feet
below the surface
THERE are only twenty-five persons in
oregon who pay income lax on sums ex-
| ceedlng $4,000. The largest income ia
500 $50, returned by the agent of an es-
tate. and the largest personal income is
| $4S OLA.
HE Russian church at Sitka, Alaska
Territory. was recently robbed of a COZ =,
OF the Bible, richly studded with va ~ ~ y
Die stones, crosses and other Ornar ,onts
altogether said to be worth 100000.
The Masonic Grand Lodge, Now Vol
city, has purchased lot on Siytb CT
nue., opposite Booths Theatre. at q 60,
OF between 100000 and S4OO. 600 o.
this lot a large Masonic Hall ia tn hn
erected. ~ oe
The authorities of Dresden and V;en,
set free large number of sino;na y h uua
which had been brought to those niaoas
tor sale. In Saxony and Austria thp ,'oo
fulness of birds as destroyers of INSECT. ser s' Is
officially recognized. i'''' 10
Maine laf, "a. ding In Lewiston,
home Will three little children =.
he retp-- he attended cnurCn, anu WI Ell
i. ned found them busily emplo' rec
cleaning the inside of $500 gold W atct
with soap and water
FIFTEEN hundred eggs were accidP. ntally
broken in front pf the Batavia IN. Y.
Post Office not long since, APT the presi
dent of the village had to spread barre
of coal tar over the street and then set fir,
to it, to destroy the smell of bad eggs
A WOMAN in Troy, N. Y, has produced
needleworked picture of Washington
containing nearly 100000 stitches 1t wa
ratified off and won by Prof. Fl. M. Cole
man, of Vassar College Three hundret
tickets were sold at one dollar each.
A NEW YORK lady recently ordered
, trousseau at Stewards for her daughter
doll, which received complete outfit il
under clothing, silk and lace. One of tn
articles ordered was an India shawl, minis
,, ture size, at $50, and lace hsndkerchie
! was valued at $12.
, ACCORDING to the figures presented a
6 the Brewers Congress, nearly 100000
8 barrels of beer were sold in 1868. TIL
! capital used to produce this quantity
! valued at one hundred and rive milliO
dollars, and the number of persons en-
q ployed is stated at forty one thousand.
y WHITE PINE, the silver mining distri(
q in Nevada, received its name from th
Il vast quantities of white pine timber co,
e ering the mountains in that neighborhOot
A local paper notices boards TWENTY-FIVE
e feet in length and twenty one inches Wild
e cut from the white pine trees. One 10
Il Welded seven hundred and sixty six fet
l. of lumber.
/ WoRKMEN repairing an old house i
Hartford, Conn, lately, found beneath th
e kitchen floor young butternut tree tina
- without sunlight, had grown to the sil
:. of mans wrist, running horizontal
81 twenty feet In its course it had pickle
t. up an old inner-fork, and clasping it
d a branch, Rugged it to the main stem 6
as to bend it to the curve of the tree, an
= then adopted it as part of the butternl
:, family by growing its bark and wood a
- ar nund 1t.
q THE number of children in the Sunda
70 Schools of the United States has been est
- mated at about four millions, and of teacl
n era, four hundred thousand. 1t has bee
N estimated further, that the cost of mail
~ tanning the Sunday Schools of the cOul
N try averages about sixty cents schOl,
no per year. This would make an aggrega
.. of two millions four hundred thousan
70 dollars for Sunday School expense
m which Is only the one-eighth hundrs
,e part of the~mount paid by the people
4. the United States for intoxicating liquor