The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-07-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.
WESTON has 10000 dogs.

shows the population of that city to be
fully $4,000.
IT is now positively certain that the
next Universal Exhibition will be held at
Vienna in 1873
THE profits oftbe Methodist Protestant
Book Concern for the last four years have
been SO 036 06.
INDIANA, it is said, has fewer female
convicts in proportion to her population
than any other State in the Union.
THE yearly income of A. T. Stewart
is given at Sl,420,0O0; W. B. AS
tors, 81 273,0O0; Cornelius Vanderbilt s.
100000.
CHARLOTTE GUILIARD was the first
notable female printer. She was in
business for so years in Paris-from 1906
to 1856.
THERE is boy in Sullivan county, Pa,
three months old, who weighs forty
pounds. He weighed twenty eight
pounds at birth.
LAST year hundred and forty-three
plebeians in France importuned the
Emperor to confer titles of nobility upon
them
THE Methodist Episcopal Conference
in New Jersey has ruled that no minister
in the conference shall marry any di-
vorced person.
THE average weight Of the graduating
class of Trinity College II irtford, TWEEN
ty-One members, is 1929 pounds. The
average age Is 22l years
THE statistics OF emigration and immi-
grafton of the Kingdom of SixOny show
that All persons moved into that country
during the year 1869, while 451 emf
grated from it.
PARAMOUNT PARK, Philadelphia, in
Guiding the new district, has 2,706 acres,
and is the largest public park n America,
Central Park, New York, only measuring
800 acres
THE British iron-clad navy comprises
AZ vessels, varying in size from the
Agincourt, of 621 tons, and % guns, to
the Viper, of 737 tons, and two guns.
JUST opposite to the famous political pris-
on of Mazas, in Paris, is an inn with this
legend over the door "Here the inmates
are more comfortable than they are across
the way"
A MAN in Washington county, Pa, has
recently built house, the four corners of
which are each in different township,
the corners of the townships meeting in
the center of his cellar.
A WOMAN named Agnes Swoka, in East
Prussia, injured her husband in such
terrible manner by pouring boiling water
over him, that he died OF it. She was
sent to the penitentiary for five years.
A LAKE has been discovered in the
mountains, Near Helena, Montana, from
which an unlimited supply of water will
be obtained for mining purposes at and
near that place.
IT is estimated that eight hundred
young men in Baptist colleges in this
country are studying for the ministry
two hundred and forty Of whom are in
theological institutions.
AT a Lisbon theater, where they are
playing drama descriptive OF California
life, a party of miners are represented in
red and blue silk pantaloons and patent
leather boots.
A MONTREAL bat maker made a cricket
bat which be begged Prince Arthur to &C.
cept Prince Arthur, however "cannot
accept presents" and soothed the mans
tender feelings by buying it.
THE Newport Mercury has entered upon
its one hundred and thirteenth year OF
publication. One hundred and twelve
first published by James Franklin.
IT is claimed that man in Salem, Ohio,
can tell from memory the weather of any
and every day since 1S27-that he distinct
ly remembers whether any day was clear
or cloudy, warm or cold, rainy or snowy.
A YOUTH of seventeen, named Charles
Thompson, was brought to Iowa from
New York, last April, and bound out to
II farmer. He became dissatisfied, and
started back on foot, making the distance
of 1 100 miles in six weeks, averaging -
miles day.
Ina case in Germany, where little
girl died from injuries received by her
clothes catching fire, while locked up in
room by herself the mother was sen
fenced to three months Imprisonment
for manslaughter through carelessness.
THERE are altogether 953 officers in the
regular army of Saxony. OF these, 3 are
generals ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 10 major
generals; % colonels; 1S lieutenant
coonels; 50 majors; 1919 captains; 1856
first lieutenants and $50 second lieuten-
ants; IL auditors aud 96 surgeons.
MR. ]. III. SCHRGDER, of Hamburg,
seems to be ambitious of. rivaling George
Peabody in the muniticence of his dona-
tions to the poor He has just founded an
asylum for widows and their children in
Hamburg which cost him two millions OF
mares, about nine hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars of our currency. His dona-
tions to the poor amount besides to
several hundred Thousand dollars annu-
ally.
The tribe to which an Indian murderer
belongs is known by the method by which
the victim is scalped. The Cheyennes re-
move a piece not larger than silver dol
lar, from Immediately over the left ear;
the Arapahoes take the same from over
the right ear. Others take from the crown,
foreh, a /, or nape of the neck The Utes
take the entire scalp from ear to ear,
and from the forehead to the Dape of the
neck
In Massachusetts, during the past year
there were fewer marriages than in the
year before, or the year preceding that,
fact which may To some extent be eX-
planned by the emigration OF young men
to the West There were twice as many
nae rriages between Americans as between
foreigners, and yet more children born of
foreign than native families. In the city
of Bostsn hesnumber of foreigners and
of Americans married was about equal,
but the births OF the foreign were as seven
To three of the American families. The
increase of the population of the State Is
twenty nine per day.