The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| pOA are dO ulSuI.
THERE were nine hundred and sixty
three liquor prosecutions at Boston during
November
THE associated printers of San Fran
cisco have started a newspaper called The
I0,on and Stage.
A SAN FRANCISCAN has been sent to
the .lunatic asylum for threatening to
drown himself
THE death rate of Liverpool is largely
in excess of that of any other port town
in England.
A NEW gun has been invented by a
scientific farmer of Western Prussia, which
fires thirty shots minute
FROM January 1 to September 80, 1869,
according to official records, 3S4 murders
were committed in Texas
THE debt of South Carolina is $1,000
600 and the taxable property of the State
is worth $190,000,000.
THE Boston Home for Little Wander
ers, since 1865, has taken care of 2,4S0
little children. who had nowhere else
to go.
A vELOCIPEDE rider, named Grubbs,
took the prize of $3.50 in gold, at the
Georgia State Fair, by making a mile in
3:24.
THE Boston and Albany Railroad Com
pany have provided their employees with
a library of over 1000 volumes.
EMINENT physicians assert that breath
ing through the mouth, or excessive talk
ing, is highly injurious to the health
The sword knot belonging to Marco
Bozarris when he surprised the Turkish
forces in 1923, has been presented to the
New York Historical Society.
The smallest preacher in the world is
supposed to be the Rev. Thomas Noble,
of England. He is said to be but one
inch taller than Tom Thumb.
THERE are seven million young men in
our country about two hundred and fifty
thousand OF them profess to be Christ
ians.
A RESIDENT of Chichester, New Hamp-
shire, walked half mile on stills, with a
| rooster in his arms, the other day, on
bet.
A PHILADELPHIA CrUsus has Just had
manufactured in New York the finest set
OF drawing-rOom furniture ever made in
America. 1t is got up in the Egyptian
style and cost $4,000.
THE aggregate of members and preach
ers in the Methodist Episcopal Church
South is $4,000 There was an increase
during the year, of white members, of 81
112, and decrease of 81, ,0S7 of colored
members.
| THERE are about 5000 regular gamblers
in the city of New York, besides the pro-
prletors and Dealers and their winnings
average $4,000 nightly. The total losses
| against faro and policy playing foot up the
enormous sum of 100000 per annum.
] IT was stated in the National Board of
Trade, in discussion on extending the
James river and Kanawha canal to the
Ohio river, thus making a complete water
route from the Mississippi to the Atlantic,
that there is only transportation East for
100000 tons, out of 25,000,000 Western
produce.
| Providence, presented Helen NJ Brown
with his photograph, bird cage, $40, and
several articles of jewelry, wrote her sew
eral sweet letters, and then refused to mar
ry her. For this Walter was made to
pay Helen $4,000 by the court
EXPERIMENTS made by an English chem
ist, some years ago, show how much food
of different kinds it takes to make pound
of flesh. According to his conclusions it
requires, of milk, 25 bs turnips, 100; po-
tatses so; carrots, 80; oatmeal, 8; barley
meal, 712; peas, 80 beas, 80.
IT is said that the contributions of the
entire Christian world for foreign mis-
sions last year were about five million dol
lars, while the expenses of armies, nayies
and the wars during the same period were
| two billions, or four hundred times as
much as was given for the conversion of
the world to Christianity.
| AN engineer estimates the loss of horses,
extra wear of vehicles, and extra horse
| shoeing in the cities of the United States,
Occasioned by block stone and cObble
stone pavemeIts, as follows: On horses,
| $15,O0O,O 900; on vehicles, $4,000, 900, and
on horse-shoeing, $21 100000, making
total of 56,00O,000.
THE music in the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's church costs, $1,000 a year.
| The organist gets $1,000, the conductor,
$4,000, the tenor, $1,000, the soprano,
$780, the contralto, $500, and the basso,
$500, leaving $500 for incidentals. The
paid chOi. sing the solos and concerted
pieces, but the hymns are sung by the
whole congregation, led by volunteer
choir of about seventy performers.
THE moons path in the heavens is not
circle, but continuous spiral, that does
not return into itself until after a very
long time. In consequence of its spiral
movements along the face of the heavens,
the moon hides in succession every point in
a belt of sky that stretches to five degrees
eight minutes and forty-eight seconds on
either side of the elliptic, and it takes
eighteen and half years to do this.
1T is reported in Cleveland that a little
German girl was buried at Brooklyn, sew
eral weeks ago, after apparent death from
lock Jaw, and that nine hours after her
burial her mother, fancying she heard a
noise in the grave, got a spade, dug up |
the coffin, and found her child warm as if |
alive, and lying upon her side, when, |
taking her home, she called physician,
but it was too late for resuscitation.
A SHORT time since Mr.. Gideons and a |
son were deer hunting In fernando Coun-
ty, Fla. Mr. Gideons discovered a pain of |
eyes. He ordered his son to hold the dog
while he went in the direction of the |
sparkling orbs. The eyes. however, dis |
appeared, and, after searching for them |
for some time Mr.. Gideons started to re-
turn to his son. On his way he discovered |
another pair of eyes, which he took for |
the eyes of a deer. He fired, and in a |
moment discovered that he had snot his |
own son dead.
THE total number of white officers and
soldiers, known and unknown, buried in
the National Cemeteries is nearly SOC, 0,OOO
The number of negro soldiers nearly So
600, two-thlrds of whom are not known by
name. The expense attending the burial
or reinterment Of their bodies and the
laying out and improvement of the 35
national cemeteries, has reached $4,000
600, and it will cost $2,000,000 more to
complete the work and keep them in
order. The yearly expenses of these
burial places will be about 100000.
THE statute law of Virginia declares
that "no marriage solemnizcd by any per-
son protesting to be authorized to solcm- |
nize the::same shall be deemed or adjndged |
to be void, nor shall the validity thereof
be in any way affected, on account of any
want of authority in such persons, if the |