The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-03
FACTS AND FIGURES,
has 523 physicians.

THERE are seventy papers in America
called the Taegraph
THE Massachusetts savings banks gained
$4,000 900 in deposits last year.
THE christening cake of the Prince of
Wales new baby weighed sixty-five
pounds.
AT marriage lately cOnsummated at
Ottawa, Canada, $4,000 were donated to
the poor.
A LITTLE girl six years old was found
the other night.
RAILROADS in South Carolina have re-
duced their fare to immigrants to ore cent
mile.
A HOTELKEEPER in Evans, Cal, was
shot dead by bOarder for not preserving
him seat at the first table.
DURING the summer months the con-
sumption of lagerbeer in the city of New
York is estimated at 10000 kegs.
EVERY day dove visits a fruit stand in
Boston, lights upon the shoulder of one
of the attendants, and is fed and petted.
No citizen of Japan can leave that
country without giving bonds that he will
return at the time specified.
OUT of 392 Ohio divorce cases granted
last year, the custody of the children in
334 suits was given to the mother.
THE Salt Lake Reporter knows of one
Mormon family that has buried one hun
dred and forty-eight children.
THE trade organizations in New York
city number eighty eight, with a mem
bership of $500. They have in bank
about 100000
nd, Oc II Il
senger argues that the opening of the Suez
Canal pOrtends the restoration of Pales
tine to the Jews.
AT Hudson, New York, a disappointed
bride recovered fifty dollars of the fellow,
as payment for letter paper and stamps
used up in two years.
THE New York Association for the Pre-
ventiOn of Gambling expended $1S,150
last year. They closed 23O gambling
houses during that period.
A GENTLEMAN in Petersburg, Va, the
other day, for wager, ate one gallon OF
fresh oysters, minus the shells and liquor,
at one sitting.
An old lady at Windsor, England, was
| saved from burning to death by her pet
parrot, who, seeing her in flames, called
out to her sleeping son, Harry, get up"
TIE Philadelphia Mercantile Library
now contains over $4,000 volumes Last
year 4 ,254 were added to it. The average
issue per day during the year was 4S1.
AT the Metropolitan cattle show, re-
Gently held at London, England, the SUI
periOrity of American Implements in
lightness and beauty was unanimously
admitted
ALIENS ST. MARTIN, whose side was shot
away in 1922, in such manner as to eX-
pose the action of the digestive organs to
the surgeons eye, is still alive and well
in Cavendish, VT.
YoRh, Me-, was the first city chartered
in this country. Now it is country vii
lage of $50 voters. Its name was first
gamenticus then the city of Gorges or
Georgina, then York.
HENRY WARD BEECHER commenced
preaching thirty four years ago, in West
ern town, for $3.50 a year, during which
period he raised his own vegetables and
tended his own pigs.
THE "small sewing machine" which
some rascal in New York sends to those
people who respond to his advertisement
/ by inclosing him 81, is a shoemaker S awi,
worth about 10 cents
THERE is a man in New Hampshire
who persuaded dealer to let him have a
barrel of flour for $S.7J for a poor blind
man, and then compelled the poor blind
man to pay him $40 for it, besides 81 for
taking it to his house.
In Boston it is the fashion to have "Dick-
ems parties" The invited assemble as they
would at any other party, and listen to
reading, by a choice reader, from Boz's
works. After the reading come coffee and
dancing.
THE statistics of the Cumberland Mary
landl coal region for the year 1869 shows
that during that period 1,SS2,619 tons of
coal were mined-an increase of 552, ,2226
tons over 1868. The aggregate produc-
ton of the mines from 1912 to 1869, inclu
sive, amounts to II ,S35, 1856 tons.
AT the Iowa State Fair of 1856 a man
received through mistake four dollars
more than he was entitled to. He moved
to Pennsylvania, and endured the gnaw-
ings of conscience till the Christmas of
1869, when he remitted the amount to the
society, minus the interest, because "the
mistake was the society's and not his"
THE bust of Senator Sumner, which
was ordered and paid for by Hon. A A.
Lawrence and other Boston citizens, has
been placed in the niche on the east side
of DOric Hall. 1t was accepted by the
Legislature of 1859 in behalf of the peo
pie of Massachusetts.
GEORGE ARENsBURG, the New York
printer who has accepted the challenge O
George Barber, of Cincinnati, for the
championship of the lease" and s 900
some time ago set up in seven days, work
ing seven hours per day, 101, 500 ems, al
average of about 2,071 ems an hour
! A WROUGHT iron chimney, 1876 feet higl
} and feet inches in diameter, has JUS
been erected in Pittsburg. Another is tt
be put up, 215 feet high. The first wa
riveted together in horizontal position
: and then lifted to the perpendicular by
crane. The other will be made upright
| The plates will be rivited by means of
scaffolding running up inside.
THE report of the veterinary surgeon O
the New Orleans e. CarroltOn Railroad
shows that horses are very much superior
to mules for drawing cars. On the aver
, age OF the past three years there hav,
been % per cent. of strained shoulder
, among the mules to per cent. among th
horses, and Is per cent. of straine,
launches among the former to per cent
: among the latter.
A GERMAN paper gives an account of
strange incident which occurred lately OIL
(, the occasion of a marriage before the civi
authorities in Algeria. The official re
quired the consent of the mother, an,
asked if she were present A loud bas
{ voice answered., Yes" The Mayor locke,
up and saw tall soldier before hin,
"That is well, he said "let the mothe
come here-her consent and signature ar
necessary" To the astonishment of al
present, the soldier approached the Mayo
! with long strides, saluted in militar,
fashion, and said: "You ask for tn,
mother of the bride; she stands befor
you" Very well, sir" replied tn
Mayor, then stand back, can tax