The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-18
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are 10000 citizens in Vineland,
II. j., and not liquor shop there.
LAST year nearly 100000 were raised
in New Hampshire for school purposes.
FEMALE laborers on the suburban
farms, near Boston earn from 81 to $3.50
per day.
started his first Sunday school in Quincy,
Mass.
BosToN is able to support seven thea
tiers, besides concerts, oratOrios and lee
lures.
FIFTEEN million fish hooks were made
at single establishment in New Haven
during 1868.
TIE keeper of a groggery, in Hart
ford, killed his bartender because he
snored so loudly
A CALIFORNIAN has built an "agricul-
tural locomotive" that runs thirty-nine
plows at once.
THE first printing press set up in New
Hampshire was in Portsmouth, in 1855, by
Sam Fowle, Esq.
THERE are two establishments in Maine
for Matching fish artiicially, one at Au-
gusta and one at Alma.
A FULL length statue of Fitz- Greene
Halleck is to be erected in Central Park,
New York, at cost of $4,000.
Two DRY GOODS clerks in New York are
reported to have each received salaries
amounting to $4,000 the past year.
THE lumber trade of Burlington, VT,
for 1868 amounted to 100000, as 49,
10000 feet of lumber were received du-
ring the year.
A. L. STEWART, this season, sold twenty
$4,000 shawls, and one worth $4,000. One
lady ran upa 100000 bill in two months
at his store.
"VELoCIPEDE candy" is now sold.
The manufacturer fines it necessary to
give notice that it is not worked with the
feet.
THIRTY thousand acres of public lands
were disposed of to actual settlers during
January, in Nebraska, Minnesota, Mis-
souri, and Wisconsin.
A SEVEN feet long cigar, one foot in cir
cumference and weighing thirty pounds,
has been twisted out of leaf tobacco in a
New Haven (Ct.) factory.
JOHN NJ LANE, of New Hampshire, has
been awarded verdict of $1,150 33,
against his mother in-law and her son for
enticing his wife away from him.
THE Cincinnati papers report $50
counterfeit greenbacks in circulation
which are so nicely executed that it is
almost impossible to distinguish them from
the genuine.
NEARLY 500 persons live by selling the
$4,000 oranges daily consumed in New
York. One hawker, besides earning a
subsistence, has $4,000 in the Savings
Bank.
A CLEvELAND-BUHT schooner, "Wir-
raliti," has successfully breasted severe
storm On the Atlantic, and reached her
destination at Liverpool safely with a
cargo of coal.
THE New York World estimates that
! 10000 persons nightly attend the theaters
of that city, a great part of whom come
from the floating population, which num-
bers 10000.
A DUBUQUE Qowa) teacher. who re-
ceived $40 as she was eating dinner, re-
duced the national debt that amount by
unconsciously emptying the green roll
into the stove along with the other frag-
ments on her plate.
THE amount of interest paid on the pub
lie debt Of Massachusetts,, exclusive of the
railroad debt, during the year 1868, was
$1,150,367 81. The premium paid for
specie to pay the interest was $4,000.
A LONDON On. H. citizen sports coat
made of cloth spun and wove by his grand
mother when she was "swect sixteen"
and which his mother, now in her ninety
sixth year, first wore as cloak when
seventeen years old.
QUEEN VICTORIA owns the Koh-inOOr,
the largest diamond in the world, and
thought to have it cut recently. A four
horse power engine was constructed to do
the work, and the diamond has been
spoiled in the process.
MARTIN HALEY, of Albany, indicted for
obstructing the mail by knocking down a
letter carrier, has been acquitted in the
United States District Court, the Judge
deciding that letter carrier is not mail
carrier
The Massachusetts papers say that a
few years ago a young man residing at
Milford, in that State, after few years
of married life, was divorced from his wife !;
the divorced wife Immediately went to
work in factory, saved $1,000, returned
to her husband, was forgiven" and they
were remarked.
WITHIN the United States the names of
towns are duplicated to the following ex-
tent. There are "a Fairchilds, 90 Adams
es, - BOstons, 40 Richlands, AZ Centers,
81 Perrys, Sc Waynes, ~ Van Burens, 81
Harrisons, SO Franklins, 80 Jeffersons, 100
Jacksons, and 134 Washingtons There
are in the Union 90 towns named Union,
and So called Liberty.
SOME Minneapolis merchants recently
rusticated a month in the woods. Seeing
fine deer they were greatly excited and
shot at it in the most reckless manner pos
sible. They were somewhat chagrined
upon discovering that it was fine deer
skin stuffed for the occasion by some Of the
lumbermen, who enjoyed the "joke on the
city chaps" hugely.
A CURIOUS lawsuit is on the tdpis in
England. A Liverpool merchant, sud-
denly called to New York on urgent bust
ness, took cab to the steamer, and in his
haste forgot to pay the driver. On his
return, three months afterwsrd, he found
the cabman and cab just where he had
left them, sheltered by little wooden
shed, and was met by bill for coach fare
for 1880 hours by day, and 1880 hours by
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