The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

LOUISVILLE has negro child with ten
| fingers on each hand.
| MORMoNIsN, it is said, has thirteen thou
sand capable military men,
| On a train that reached Knoxville,
| Tenn, from Virginia, lately were AZ ba-
bies.
| CHICAGO built two thousand five hun
dred houses during 1869, at cost of $1O,-
100000.
BY the recent death in this country of
five misers, nearly three million dollars
will be put afoat
A CHEESE factory at Cheshire, Mass,
manufactured this year 1O2, ,231 pounds of
| cheese
A LAWYER of Atlanta, Ga, received a
counterpane as a fee from a woman in
that city, in divorce suit.
MORE RATS foated down the Mississip-
pi river during 1869 than are remembered
in any previous year.
CINCINNATI has had corn husking
match. In nine hours one Hess husked 14S
| bushels to his opponents 145.
A WOMAN in the northern part of Maine
who is the mother of twenty children, has
| been granted divorce on the ground that
she has no affinity for her husband.
NEARLY three hundred Parisians took
| the oath rs candidates before the recent
| special elections, merely to secure a gratu-
itOus advertisement of their names and
business in the official journals.
A CHARMING girl of Boston is about es-
tablishing female barber shop. Ten
| sylphs are being put through tuitionary
course of lather for the opening. A sweet
shave will cost twenty-five cents, and
seraphic shampoo half dollar.
A LADY in Utica, n Y, carried to
newspaper an account of her own suicide
by drowning, and, after the item was pub
| lshed, i'm flesh, blood and bones she ap-
peared at the editors sanctum and de-
manded contradiction.
A New HAVEN policeman got 80 sound
asleep upon a door step, a few nights ago,
that the chief, who happened along, could
not wake him up, but took mis- cap, bearing
his number, to the police station, where
it still awaits the call Of the owner
TIE building statistics of St. Paul
| for the year 1869 for buildings and inn
provemcnts foot up 81, ,395, 727, against ST.
| OOO, 800 in 1868. Of this amount nearly
| $600,0 has been laid out in dwellings,
| $500, 900 in business blocks, and $500, 900
| on public buildings
In Hungary a landowner was lately at
tackled by one of his servants in a forest
| and killed. His right arm was then cut
off, and piece of paper, with the follow
ing words, placed upon it "IIere hast
| thou the hand with which thou hast
| whipped me-" The murderer was ar
rested.
THE Maine Farmer makes the following
| estimate of the crops of that State for the
past season: Hay, S00,09O tons, equal in
| quality to 100000 tons produced in
| 1869; corn, 100000 bushels; potatoes,
| 400, 900 bushels; wheat, 100000 bushels !;
barley, 100000 bushels; oats 2000,000
/ bushels
IT was in st. Johns church, Richmond
in the Virginia Convention of -, that
Patrick Henry delivered his celebrated
| Grafton and uttered the immortal sent ence,
"Givc me liberty or give me death" The
place is still pointed out where he stood.
| The celebrated Virginia Convention of
l77S that met to ratify the Federal Consti-
stitution, assembled in St. Johns.
LORD PAIMERsToN, eleven years ago,
expressed the opinion that the Suez Canal
| scheme was the greatest bubble ever
imposed upon the credulity and simplc-
| ity of the country" Robert Stephenson
the great engineer, who had conquered
the difficulties of the Kilsby tunnel and
built the Menai bridge, indorscd Palmer
ston's opinion, stating that the canal was
physically impossible"
| An Ohio clergyman, several years ago
received bright new cent as wedding
fee. The other day he met the bride
groom, who mentioned the circumstance.
and said my wife was a comparative
stranger to me at the time We were united
| in wedlock / had not learned her value,
and paid accordingly. find her jewel,
so here is an additional fee" at the same
| time handing the astOnished minister a
$50 gold piece
| PRINCE NAPOLEON recently sent his
eldest son, Victor, seven years of age, to
a private school in the Rue Caumartin,
in which there are about fifteen pupils.
The principal asked the father how he
should address the boy, as MOnseig-
neur" or "yOur Highness." "Call him
simply Victor" said the Prince. "But
on the lists of honor for attention and
good conduct ~ "Oh, then, Victor Ma
polcon; but when his companions give
him a blow or he returns it, Victor, short (;
and i'm no case whatever Monseigneur."
PIYE wood is of great value in North
Carolina. They have discovered new
way of making turpentine. They char
pine wood in a retort, and the production
from a cord of wood is said to be ten gal
Ions of turpcntine worth 81; eighty gal
Ions of oil, 1928; fifteen gallons of black
varnish, 1920; 100 gallons of wood acid,
$5, and 40 bushels of charcoal, besides
considerable inilammable gas; but be-
sides this, the product has a market value
of $3.50; all of which is obtained at a
cost for wood and labor of $40.
The manner in which De Lesseps won
his wife was very singular one. He
had brought to ladies in France a great
number of Jericho roses, and was dis
tributing them at an evening party. lie
stopped before the young brunette who is
now Mrs DE l. , and said: 1T is not in
my power to make this rose bloom afresh
(every one knows the legend of Jericho
rosesl, but express desire in accepting
it, and swear that it shall be accomplish
ed" 81 desire-whateveryO you wish, mur-
INJURED the young girl. "Well," said De
Lesseps, 81 wish you to be my wife.
And she is.
THE exports Of tea from Shanghai and
Japan during the period which elapsed
between June and October II, 1869
amounted to 3,S69, ,591 chests to the Allan
tic ports of the United States, and A ,2232
J:}S chests to Great Britain. During the
same period in 1868 the exports to the
United States were b,395, 14l chests, and
to Great Britain 1928, 233 chests. OF the
exports of tea from June 1, 1869, to the
United States, ,280 chests were OF
black tea, 3,2l3,9l2 green, and 633, ,4ls
Japanese. 1t is also announced that 1.
bales of raw silk had been shipped from
Yokohama to New York, by way of Sar
Francisco and the Pacific Railroad.
A DELINQUENT boarder was brought tt
terms in Wheeling, Va, the other day, in
a very novel manner. His landlady dis
covered that he was about To decamI
without settling his bill, went into the
room while he was ASLEEP, and removed