The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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now has its newspaper.
ONO has twenty-five different female
| suffrage associations.
NEARLY 700 Philadelphia girls were
married to foreigners last year.
| THE aggregate debt of the cities and
towns of Massachusetts, is nearly So, ,OOO.-
600.
| NAPOLEON calls the 45, 900 schoolmasters
in his Empire the pacific army of
/ France"
ONE hundred and fifteen women are at
present suitors for divorce in the Indiana
| courts.
| ALABAMA has 91G miles of railroad, the
total assessedIvalue Of which is S11, ,095, 7O1.
| ABOUT twelve hundred persons visit
the New York pneumatic tunnel under
| Broadway, daily.
The Odd Fellows in the United States,
| according to late enumeration, are some
thing over 100000 strong.
THE Freemasons of New York are
| about to build an asylum for aged mem
! bers and orphans, TO cost Sj00000
THERE is a stone house at Dunsback
Ferry, Saratoga county, n. Y, now oc-
cupied by family, which was built in
1717.
A HOTEL building in Meadow Lake,
Nevada county, Cal, which cost original
ly $4,000, was sold at auction few DAYS
ago for ST.
TIE Chinese laborers on the Texas
Central railroad drink no water during
the day, but keep one hand busy landing
around tea.
THERE were recently confined in the
penitcntiary at Joliet, H., 1879 convicts,
the largest number that had ever been
cOngregated there at one time.
A FARMER in Maine has shOrt-horn
hcifer, coming three years old, that girths
seven feet and one inch, and weighs l 1,G20
| pounds.
TIE amount Of Peters pence received
| by the Pope since its establishment ten
years ago, is about four million pounds, or
| twenty million dollars.
| IT is stated that every farm of 100 acres
in Eastern Kansas is underlaid with
| ,5J5, 600 tons of coal, or nine times more
/ fuel than if the surface were covered with
%Reavy timber.
| ]. REUBEN MILLER, of Springfield, Ohio,
who is seventy-iiye years old. has kept
! diary in verse for the last half century
and it contains over eighteen thousand
items.
| A MAIDEN lady, nincty-three years old,
appeared as defendant in Massachusetts,
| Court "A few days ago, and when it was
| decided that she must pay "a servant
| $1l59, claimed as wages due, seemed not
| at all disconnected
ONE of the passengers on the Golden
City at the time she was wrecked on the
coast of California, has sued the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company for $4,000 for
the privations he endured in consequence
of the disaster.
AN Eastern paper says that the verb
to interview" denounced by purists rs
an Americanism, was SO employed in
| England in the Elizabcthan era, and can
claim higher antiquity than the noun,
which is used without hesitation.
A CINCINNATI paper insinuates that the
| officers of ferry boat made no effort TO
save man who fell overheard the other
| paid his fare. They made desperate
| dive for him and the two cents, then.
| Bishop SIMPSON, Of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church, gave the following ad-
| vice 10 a class Of deacons ordained by
| him in Philadelphia on recent Sunday
Don't eat late suppers i have found
that nine out of ten ministers WHO eat
| after preaching die carly"
A MAN in England named Gilman, has
| been fined 600 for kissing widow. lie
admitted that he had often kissed her.
This however, he averrcd, could mean
nothing, as he had kissed the daughter at
the same time, and had been in the habit,
indeed, of "kisSing the family all round" j"
THE ENGLIsu Society for thc Suppression
of Wee has destroyed 129,6S1 indecent
prints, 16,2 go illustrated books, five tons
of letter press of the same sort, 16,0OJ
sheets of songs, Besides copperplates,
printing presses, &c. The funds of the
society are contributed by private indi-
viduals, and each prosecution costs $3.50.
THE Minneapolis (AIinn) Tribune says
"A shoemaker of that city Z" has received an
order for a pair of boots, the measure sent
being II inches in length by - across the
slab of the foot. If made up, IN size, they
would be about No. 22. The dealer was
unable to furnish them from the store, but
is negotiating for contract
AT an inn in Vienna (says the Neue
Freie PresSe) an old topper recently cele-
brated the completion of the twenty nth
wear of his regular attendance at the beer
table. The President Of the dinner party
which was given in honor OF this event
had also been constant visitor for thirty
eight years, and made a short speech, and
ended by cmptying his 0,lS0th seidel
| (pint) of beer.
TIE Detroit Tribune says: A very
| important suit has Just been decided in
the Circuit Court at Adrian, Mich. IL is
t he recovery, by the wife of drunkard,
| of the money paid by her husband, during
| the past Elk years, 10 saloon keeper,
| Judgment being entered against the unlaw-
| ful seller under the provisions of Prohib-
| itary Liquor Law of the State. This is
the first suit of the kind that we recollect
| of. but, under the law, the recovery of all
| money so paid by the parties to whom II
| originally belonged is unqucstionably
possible, the ground being that it was
| paid without consideration, liquor not
being property.
THE San Francisco A'ta is responsible
for this statement: "A crab, measuring
| thirteen feet from point To point of claws,
| and weighing some forty pounds, has
been brought to this city from Yokohama,
| by the last steamer. 1t was obtained 10y
| gentleman from some japanese fishermen,
who captured it last month upon the
wreck of the United States corvette
Oneida, recently sunk in the Bay OF Kan
agawa, by collision with the steamer
Bombay. The formation of the legs,
claws, carapax and mouth presents a
marked difference from those of the com
mon crab, having protruding tusks, and
the ends of the claws being armed with
rows of teeth"
| REV. A. G.. ByERs, Chaplain of the
Ohio Penitentiary, in sermon before
the convicts on a recent Sunday, gave the
following interesting statistics of that in
stitution "Since October 8, 1864, 2,l20
persons have been received at the peni-
tentisry, and 1884 discharged; 2l2 were
pardoned, and 81 had died; 20 per cent
of the men received were under 21 years
Of age 81 per cent. were uneducated; 20