The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE valuation of Hartford, Conn, is
$41, ,7S4, ,165.
New BRUNSWICK paid $l,120 for dead
bears last year.
OPIUM in Southern Asia enables 4G0,-
100000 people to get drunk
An English clergyman charges double
fees for marriages in Lent.
IT is rumored that Charles Dickens win
again visit this country in the fall.
A 10Y in Phillips, Me, has been con-
victed of profanity and fined nine cents
by justice.
SAxoNY, with q population of 10000,
had 210 suicides last year-15S men and
81 women.
THEY have stylish parties in Boston at
which no one worth less than $3.50, 900 is
admitted.
CHARLES WESLEY, brother of the ven
cradle founder of Methodism, wrote seven
thousand hymns.
MELBOURNE, Australia, though but
thirty years old, has quarter of million
of inhabitants.
THE bed Of the Missouri river, at Sioux
City, is $40 feet above that of the Missis-
sippi at Dubuque, in the same latitude.
THE first newspaper printed in Amer
lea was issued in Boston, April 4, 1904
Only one complete copy of it is preserved.
A RESPECTABLE citizen of Philadelphia
lives, when they are in season, upon Meth
ing but goose-eggs, partaking of nine per
diem.
AN old woman in one of the French
departments has just died and disinherit-
ed her nephew because he sung the Mar
seillaise in 1889.
AT Alexandria, Va, gull stuck its ia
Ions into the back of a fish, which proved
too powerful for the bird, and after Sc
we're struggle, carried it under water.
IN the village of Union Springs, ". Y,
there are a thousand and more shade-trees,
planted during the past ten years by a
tree-planting association.
Four thousand pawnbrokers, with $780,
100000 capital, carrying on business in
England and Wales. Thirty million
pawns are affected in london alone in one
year.
A CLEVELAND convict hung himself
in etrigy-the other day, making gene
raj scare among officials, who proceeded
to cut the body down, when resurrec-
tion occurred from under the bed.
MILAN has provided its customs officers
with very powerful microscopes for the
examination of all meat brought into the
city, to make sure that none Of it harbors
trichinG sporalis.
In Europe there are about 5000 known
species of flies, included in $50 genera. In
North America about $500 species have
been described, but the whole number will
probably amount to 10000,
A DRPUTATIoN of Englishmen lately
placed upon the tomb of Macmillan a su-
perb crown of solid silver, the product of
subscription. The crown was made by
an eminent jeweler of Paris.
a MISSISSIPPI editor and Justice of the
Peace married couple in 1853, divorced
them in 1860, married the man TO another
woman in 1861, ditto the woman to an
other man in 1862, and recently married
the original couple.
| HENRY LEwITH, of Hartford, died re-
Gently, and left an estate worth So, 1000,
and debts which figured up $1,000 more
than that. Mrs. Lewith not only waved her
! legal rights TO onethird the estate, but
paid the balance out of her own pocket.
AN enterprising velocipede manufac-
turer has offered handsome premium To
the corporation of Paris for liberty To
establish velocipede Stands" as in the
case of cabs, throughout the city, fixing
his tariff at four sous an hour, or one
frank per day.
IT Is fact not generally tknowE, per-
haps, that Washington drew his last
breath in the last hour of the last day ofthe
| last week, in the last month of the year,
and last year of the century. He died on
Saturday night. at - o'clock, December
| 81, 1799.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
A DONKEY in the suburbs of London
| has attained a celebrity By showing a
fondness for hearing the concertina played.
At the sound of the instrument he will
/ gallop toward the player, braying loudly.
1t is suggested that he wishes, in hu-
name spirit, to drown the sound of the in
strument
AN English physician has just discoy-
cred that the moon passes succcssively,
during its different phases, from temper
ature of molten lead to that of the congo
| lation of mercury While the sun darts
| its rays upon her, thermometer suitably
constructed would indicate temperature
of nearly 500 deg While, on the contrary,
upon the side opposite the sun, tie instru-
ment would descend to 20 deg, below zero,
thus giving fortnight of Siberian winter
followed by fortnight OF super-tropical
summeri
AN Illinois correspondent of the C0uH-
try Gentleman has much faith in real es-
tate He says. "The sharpest and ablest
man, with 81 ,000 at starting, may buy and
sell and trade and deal, add profit to profit,
loan money at 90 per cent, and shave
notes at 25 or 80, and fret and worry and
stew through long and laborious life, and
at the end he will not have accumulated
half as much as he would, had he made at
starting, the same investment in real es-
state, sat down, took things cody and
waited on fortune. This is the average eys
perience."
A PAIR of lovers, near Bristol, Eng
land, were taking walk, when some
slight disagreement arose between them,
and the young man walked hastily away.
The young woman soon went in search OF
him, and found that he had climbed tree
and hanged himself by his handkerchief.
Nobody was near the spot, and the girl
at once climbed the tree TO cut her lover
down, but she had no knife with her, and
the only way by which she could effect
her object was by biting through the
knotted handkerchief This, with some
difficulty, she succeeded in doing, and the
youth fell on the ground insensible He
was taken to a hospital, and it was con-
sidered doubtful whether he would re-
cover.
THE following is q voluntary tribute
TO modest worth aud unobtrusive gentle
ness of character "The wheelbarrow
for simplicity of construction strength,
courage, and general moral excellence, II
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