The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-08-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.


| DIAMONDS have recently increased in
value or per cent.
THE sale of Charles Dickens personal
effects realized nearly 10000.
MASSACHUSETTS had, the first Of July,
$500 inmates in the prisons OF the State.
IT is stated there are ore hundred salt
springs in the State of Kansas.
AN American lady in Paris has Just
bought love ola bonnet for the trile Of
$3.50.
A FRENCH paper asserts that seven per
cent. of lunatics are made so by the en-
ployment OF hair dyes.
| BocHEsTER points proudly 10 q litt.e
chunk of coal weighing over eight thou
sand pounds.
THERE are now living in Athens
county, O., sixteen couples who have been
married over fifty years.
NICHOLAS LoNGwoRTH once purchased
the business portion of the city Of Cincin-
natl for the value of horse.
A CAUTION has been given by the doc
tors against the ladies wearing green
tarlatan dresses or trimmings.
CINCINNATI had 29s divorce suits pend
| ing during the past year, Of which 1l3
were decided. Wives were the petition
ers in 113 Of them.
From the year 1862 to 1867, according
to recent publication, 1,26S people were
killed, and 4,42G wounded, by railway
| accidents.
A BANGOR policeman owns dog which
amuses itself in its own way I'll cay, but
| at 9 p. N. appears on his owners Deats
and shares his watch.
D., -
how a savage mule near that place killed
2 COW, then proceeded to devour her calf,
| leaving but a email portion Of i.
ANEW counterfeit twenty franc piece
lust "uttere6" in France, and made of
platins and aluminium, is 50 perfect Is to
i~fv al tests but those OF chemistry arc
time.
A DIssIPATED Englishman, who commit
ted suicide il Boston a few weeks since,
has had a torture of two hundred and
twenty thousand po,nds left him by the
death Of relative.
SINCE Queen Victoria took her place on
the English throne, thirty-three years
ago, every throne in Europe, from the
| least unto the greatest, has changed cccu-
pants.
A BOY in Portland has naG Dean re-
moved from his ear, which lad been there
| thirteen years, and the only change It had
sustained during this long period o. time
was change of its color to black
DIR. MENDKI, of Berlin, who has been
investigating the temperature of the era
nial cavity, finds that the temperature of
the interior of the skull Is lower than the
general temperature of the body.
THE Rural Neso Yorker thinks there
will be a great falling Of in the prOGuc-
ton of wheat this year, taking the whole
country into view; that there will DC
full crop of corn, large one Of potatoes
ard full average one Of hay.
SIDNEY SMITH says, regarding the un-
necessary consumption of food: "Ac-
cording to my computation / have eaten
and drank between my tenth and seven
tieth year, forty-fOur wagOn-lOads more
than was good for me-"
A WRITER in Dublin medical journal
says that many sworn teetotaliers IN Ire
land have acquired the habit Of intoxlcat-
,nr themselves with ether. The annual
consumption Of the liquid in the region
about Belfast is 1000 gallons.
MR. BEssEMER's plan for obviating sea-
sickness, by means Of an OscillatIng cham
Der, supported on bearings similar 10 those
of compass, will shortly be put to prac-
tical test. A chamber of this description
is now in construction in England, and
will be fitted to 3 steiner O. about 30
tons.
CINCINNATI has 35 insurance companies,
76 jewelry establishments, eco retail gro
ceries, 81 large restaurants, l3O dry goods
shops, 800 shoe shops, 63 coal yards, 40
candy shops, 70 pork packeries, 14O cloth
ing firms, 20 printing offices, III drug
venders, and 95O liquor saloons.
By placipa,seversl individuals in cir
Gle, with j6ned hands, and observing the
time required to transmit the impression
of hand pressure several times
around the circle, Prof o. w Holmes has
deduced the fact that it requires about
one tenth of second for q sensation to
pass from one hand to the other, through
the nerves and brain Of an individual.
PROMPTED by various cases Of illness
caused by the use of syrups scld under
the name of raspberry. CuIrant, etc,
Vandevyyere, in Brussels, according 10
the Journal de Pharmacie II GAarcrS, has
analyZed some of these syrups, and found
that none of them contained a trace of
the fruits after which they were named.
Many consisted of a solution Of glucose,
colored with aniline red, RUjis ImpcriGlt,
or fuchsine, and mixed with some tartaric
or citric acid and a few drops of fruit es-
sences.
The Chinese in California make gold
dust out of silver hslfdo pieces, by
cutting up the silver coin into particles
which resembles in shape the gold dust
formed in the streams This IS then col
ored to resemble gold and is mixed with
genuine gold dust. How the yellow color
is put upon the silver is Celestial secret.
The profit of the business must be great,
rs two silver half dollars make almost an
ounce of gold dust, worth about eighteen
dollars.
A NICE little boy in Pittsburgh went 20
the circus the other day, and amused HIM
self throwing stones at the elephant while
he was drinking When he got through
the boy tried to propitiate him by offering
him a piece of gingerbread. Before ac-
cepting the cake, the elephant emptied
about sixty-four gallons of water, beer
measure, over the boy, and then slung
him into the third tier 10 dry eff This
boy is very Indifferent about circases
now. He says he believes he doesn't care
for them as much as he used 20.
AN amusing incident occurred a few
weeks ago at a marriage in Hanoverian
village. After the marriage ceremony
had been performed, and the people were
enioyipg themselves in the village inn,
one of the peasants remarked But.
children, the pastor has not asked if thew,
the bridal pair, will have one another.
All present agreed that the question hal
been omitted, and so the newly-married
couple were again hurried to church,
where the ceremony was re-nerformed, 90
their own and their friends entire salts