The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-07-28
FACES AND FIGURES.
BosToN Claims 220,75i Inhabitants.

CINcINNATI has the second highest spire
| ia America
in 1859, 15S persons were killed hy
crocodiles in Java.
MAINE has thirty-two hundred square
miles OF lake surface
IT costs New York s20oO, 600 annually
to have its streets sprinkied.
THE Leipsig GGrtenlGub6 claims eircu-
lation OF 360,Go0 copies.
THERE are 1884 draft and 1928 driT-
ing horses in Brooklyn.
PHILADELPHIA paper has for its edit
orial stall father and his tiTe sons.
THE Worcester Spy recently celebrated
its one hundredth anniversary.
THERE were 9, 13G marriages solcfunized
in st. Louis during the last year.
A NRw YORK Judge and jury recently
spent day on case involving fifteen
cents.
CATHERINE BEECEER IS now 70, Alice
Cary 4S, Fanny Fern 80, and Harriet
Beecher Stowe sc.
A "I.ife Of Abraham Lincoln" in the
Hawaiian language, has been published
in Honolulu.
A WIDOW lady in Durham, Me, has
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with horse and cart.
THE following sentence contains ali the
letters in the alphabet: "John quickly
extemporized FIVE tow bags"
A NAN weighing one hundred and fifty
pounds contains one hundred and eleven
pounds of water in his tissues.
In Connecticut young lady celebrated
the Fourth by leading out her pet poodle
dyed in the national c0lors.
GIVE all owe something to our coun-
try" said the man who went abroad with
out having paid his income tax.
THE people of Cleveland ride in 3,455
private carriages, carry 2.132 watches.
and are supplied with music by 1910
pianos.
A MAINE farmer lately found three
sheep which he lost last fail, ia the woods,
doing well, having lived all winter on
hemlock boughs.
THE original Declaration OF IDdaDen-
dence, now in the Patent Office at Wash
ington, is nearly illcgible from the fading
of the Ink.
THE Iowa Homestead, in an article on
the Wastes of the Farm" ayers that the
10000 agriculturists of the State waste"
$1,000, COO yearly.
AN English swell has recently given
| fashionable breakfast to a party OF other
swells, which cost the very moderate sum
of $4,000.
AN analysis shows that cotton seed is g
highly concentrated food, ant is richer in
flesh producing elements than corn, but
somewhat interior to corn as a fat pTo-
ducer.
A NAN in Rumford, Me has dog that
produces fleece six inches long every
year. The material is said to make nit
| tens that wear like iron.
THE number Of gods of China has now
reached 10000 The Chinese have only
one Sunday in the year, and that is New
Years day.
THE Supreme Court OF Georgia has de-
cided that bachelor is a family, that he
is the head of it, and as such entitled to
the privileges Of the Homestead act.
THE patronage at the disposal Of the
Collector of New York, distributed
through the several departments of the
Custom House, is enjoyed by 7SG en-
ployees.
A HJNDoo cabby, before mounting box
and taking the reins and whip in hand,
always first formally prays that his driv
ing may be 10 the glory OF his God.
IT costs Massachusetts, youth $50 to
celebrate our nations birthday, by per
ambulating the streets and throwing fire
crackers and torpedoos at unprotected
fcminines.
A FRENCH peasant named Surin, who
had never been out OF his native village,
has invented a machine for spinning
hemp, by means of which great saying
of labor is accomplished.
THERE is to be erected Immediately at
Albany, N. T., a building which will
cover ninety-six freight cars. When com
pleted it will be one OF the largest, il not
the largest, car building on this continent.
THE members of the Methodist Churches
in the world now number about three and
half millions; ministers, 1909; local
preachers, 1884; Sunday school schol
ara, nearly four millions.
AN eagle was lately shot nca- Aub urn
N. T., which measured twelve feet from
tip TO tip of its outspread wings When
discovered he was pcrchcd on a fence III
tently watching q small boy picking straw
berries.
A NoRwEsIAN vessel, which was given
up for lost and abandoned by its crew last
October, after line months tossing on the
ocean was discovered recently on the
English coast, with its cargo safe and II
good condition.
A MILWAUKEE German, named Rudolph
Meter, while moving a dining table dis
covered $3.50 in half eagles in one OF the
legs. A hole had been bored to admit Tie
| coin. He purchased the table some eight
years ago of second hand dealer.
TIE Philadelphia Post says Zone Of
the most brilliant writers in tho city, now
the editor of one Of our best knc IN
papers, some ten years ago used to write
the sermons OF a clergyman in Wesa Phil-
sdelphia, for five dollars q week"
AT recent railway accident to excur-
slonlsts, in England, the dead and wound
cd were plundered indiscriminately. The
tempting display of rings, watches, &c,
oyercame honesty, and even the police
men lent the wrcckers their aid III dis
polling the dead
A FRENCH dwarf, fifty-five years old,
with beard which reaches to his feet,
but being bald. and having but one arm,
proposes to marry any young girl OF
about twenty, who is pretty and good
tempered. The consideration is, that the
dwarf possesses fortune of about 500,
coo.
On the William Connolly farm, eight
miles south of Bowling Green, Ind is an
apple tree which is ten feet in circumfer
ence, being aboat three feet four inches
In diameter. 1t is twenty nine years old,
and stands in large walnut stump, most
ly sound yet.
NEAR the grave of Washington Irving,
/; at Tarrytown, N Y, is being built the
most costly mausolcum in America. Ills
l over the grave of IL "promiueDt New
, York official" and will cost 100000. 1t
VIII be entirely of marble, aud sculpture
, is now being wrought for il in Italy.
G MANY years ago, and before Landsecr
: was as renowned as he now il, he was
| very poor; and il is said that he one day