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

QUEEN VICTORIA is the richest widow
in the world. She has laid up at leas
$1O,O00,000.
A A"LYCEUM for ladies" has been opened
at Breslau, in the Russian province o.
Silesia.
THERE are at the present time upward
of 300 scientific and learned societies il
Europe.
A SEASONS expenses of the various
baseball clubs in this country amounts t.
over $20O0,OOO.
A DECEASED citizen of Nashville ha
left six widows 5000 each, conditioned
that they never marry.
A TROY Police Justice sends man t
the work house for having an abject con
tempt for hard work"
Four hundred new money offices will
be opened July 1, and new ones will here
after be opened only semi-annually.
OUT of 7,426 books taken from tn,
Mercantile library in San Francisco durin.
the month of January, 5,43O were novels
ONE of the stipulations in an approach
ine marriage in Massachusetts, is that tht
bride shall pay the groom $500, casl
down, on the wedding day.
THE cost of telegraphic dispatches il
Australia has been reduced to one shilling
for twelve words and one penny for every
additional word.
A VERMONT court has decided that i
any person winks at an auctiOneer, tht
winkist is not bound to take the article
knocked down to him on account of tn,
sign.
For every death in a community it il
said there are two persons constantly
sick, and for every person who dies there
are tw9nty-seven who suffer from attack!
of temporary illness.
A BELFAST storekeeper, annoyed by
loafers who persisted in roosting on the
granite sill of his window, poured sui
phuric acid on the stone, so that each O
the loafers left part OF his trousers there
when he got up.
THE Massachusetts railroads, compris
ing 2,235 miles, carried, during 1869
twenty eight millions of passengers, kill
ing only ten of the number, thirty nine
employees, and forty persons who were
lying or working on the track.
THERE are 49, 900 wind in constant
use in Holland at the present day, for the
simple purpose of drainage. They are
almost all of colossal size, each lifting
from ten million to fifty million gallons
of water every twenty-four hours.
NORTH BRooKFIELD, Mass, has citizen
who was born with only one ear. There is
no auricular ori6ce on one side of his head
and only rudimentary external ear, about
an inch long, near the jaw, where the
front part of the ear is located.
EVAPORATION of ammonia is said to be
the best method of producing artificial ice,
and German machine has been con-
structed capable Of turning out by this
means, with the aid of three men and a
horse power engine, thousand POUNDS ol
ice an hour.
FUNERAL style in Paris consists in not
issuing the billet dc mort till month after
the dea ia, and then inclo>ing photograph
the size of pOstage-stamp, OF the de-
parted, with scriptural extracts suitable to
his life, aud with request to pray tor the
repOse of the soul.
A MINISTER in New England, receiving
a salary of $4O0 year, wears an overcoat
made from cloak he wore in 1884. His
wife has one cloak only, and it is thirty
five years old.
A FIRE company in Pawtucket, X. l., re-
Gently captured golden eagle, and pro-
posed to keep him in captivity. But Mr..
ii. G. L. Dorsey, the prisoners friend,
could not remain easy under such clrcum-
stances, and so he bought the bird ter $50,
half in gold and half in greenbacks, and
set him at liberty.
THE numerously deluded "American
heirs to English estates" who are continu-
ally being feeced by lawyers, would save
their money if they were aware that an
alien cannot be an heir in England where
there is no will, and that he cannot take
real estate even if left to him by will.
THE Maine Supreme Judicial Court
recently tried suit on promissory note.
The plaintiff claimed that the endorse
ment of the note was: 81 back this note
holden for debt and costs" The defend
ant claimed that the endorsement was
Il back this not holden for debt and
COSTS" and that the letter "e" has been
added. Verdict was rendered for the de-
fendant.
THE machine power of England and
Wales is competent to perform the labor
of nearly six hundred millions OF men,
and is probably greater in productive ca
pacity than the labor power OF all the
world besides. The machine power OF
the United States, though growing with
amazing rapidity, does not more than
equal the labor power of two hundred
millions of men.
AMONG number of letters addressed
to the late Traupman, which have been
opened by the French Post Office author
tiles since his execution, was one from
romantic damsel, who enclosed her por-
trait, with a request that he would grant
her a private interview to confide to her
the names of his assistant assassins, and
another postmarked from North America,
announcing the safe arrival of his accom-
plices on our shores.
NOTWITHSTANDING the trying climate
of Massachusetts, deaths from cOnsump-
ton have diminished twenty per cent. in
that State in the last seventeen years,
owing to greater sanitary knowledge. The
report of the State Board OF Health to
the Legislature shows that in 1853, AT
out of each 100000 inhabitants were vic
tins of consumption In 1854 the rate
was 47S in 1856, 408; in 1858, 334; in
1860, 365; in 1866, 361; in 1868, 344.
A LADY living in Marseilles, France
was returning from church on recent
Sunday, when she heard steps behind her,
and felt some one take her hand and draw
it under his arm Turning around she
saw gentleman, elegantly dressed, who
was quite a stranger to her. She tried to
draw away her arm, but the unknown
held it firmly, and said with an air of the
greatest politeness, Madame, am thief,
and am closely pursued by the police.
They know that | am stranger in the
town, and will never suspect me If they
see me in the company of a lady so re-
specially connected as you must be-"
A CHILD while playing near Drogheda,
Ireland, found a curious piece of metal
which she gave to an old woman, whe
took it to dealer in old iron and got q
shilling for it. The dealer in his turn sold
it for two pounds and half, and it has
finally been purchased for the Royal Irish
Academy in Dublin for e3OO. 1t proved
to be the celebrated Tara Brooch, one OF
the most remarkable pieces of goldsmith s
work known to exist. 1t is formed OF
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