The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-05-19
FACTS AND FIGURES

NAPOLEON H. was 60 years old on the
Goth of pril.
TIE appraisal of personal estate in
Vermont is $22,OS4,9
Ara recent sale of old coins in New
York, one cent piece of 1900 brought
$50.
VIRGINIA oysters are sent to England
packed in mud, that they may reach there
alive.
A YEARLY license fee of five dollars is
TO be required of all who carry firearms
in England.
The Custom-H House weigher at Boston
wharf weighed p, 100000 pounds OF sugar
during April.
The Philadelphia City Council has ap-
propriated $4,000 for free public baths in
that city.
ENGLAND has seventy-one daily news
papers, Ireland has fourteen, Scotland
eleven. and Wales two.
THERE are on one square mile in Lon
don %, 0O children growing up entirely
without education.
THERE are a thousand persons in New
York who are worth, at the lowest calcu-
lation, $500,000 each.
AFTER the Richmond disaster of 1911,
public amusemens were forbidden for the
space of four months.
DURING the last two hours of the Penn
sylvania Legislature, bills were passed
at tie rate of two minute.
A LONG autograph letter from George
Washington on agricultural matters was
recently sold in London for s175.
THERE are only six stills in the United
Stites for the di>tillation of gin-four In
Connecticut and two in Massachusetts.
In a certain school district in Orland,
Me, there are ten ladies whose united
weight is $500 pounds, being an average
of 250 each.
4 FANATICAL virtuoso of Lowell, a miss
Of eleven, has button string" thirty
six feet long, containing 2,675 dissimilar
buttons.
A STONE jar, now owned in Kentucky,
and br r)ught to this country 100 years
ago, has been in the possession of the fam
lily for 313 years.
In the salt Lake City Museum is a
specimen of flour cached for ten years,
having been buried in 1853, and dug upin
1868, fit for use.
ElGHrY grandchildren of William Innis,
county, Pa, have fallen heirs to an estate
Of S30,000,000 in Scotland.
A sHEAF of "petrifed OATS" four feet
long and weighing eighty pounds, mas
bee.s t..lsen from the ground sixty fee. be-
low the surface, in Nevada county, Cal.
AN Allegheny county On. " man who
died recently, left his wife one cent, his
brother few dollars, and $1,000 for the
of monument tO himself
A JURY at Lewiston, Me-, recently con-
victed liquor sellers enough at one sitting
(withOut retiring to consult) to pay fines
amounting to $4,000, besides sending some
to Jail.
women committed suicide, Of whom 81
were under is years of age. OF those
deaths, $40 were caused by love, jealousy,
ordebauchcry.
ONE hundred and ffty-four persons
were killed in 1869 on the railroads run
ming into Philadelphia, or making direct
connection with them near that city, and
303 persons injured.
In Boston, permits are now given to
grind hand organ or peddle fruit only to
persons who can show that they are in
really needy circumstances, and have no
other means of obtaining livelihood.
HENRY LILLEY and wife, of Epping, N.
H, recently died within ten days of each
other, both at the age Of S5, having en-
loved sixty years of married life, and lived
for forty years on the farm where they
died
THE Maine forests have been so well
stripped, that not a tree of old growth is
to be seen in them. The white pine is
represented only by saplings, which will
not be of any service, as lumber, Tor years.
A MINISTER in Berkshire, Mass, now
80 years old, has lately completed the
payment of note for $1,000, which he
was unfortunate enough TO endorse tor an
uusound firm eighteen years ago. The
payments with interest have amounted to
over $4,000.
NEW YORK State can now boast of
twenty one Incorporated cities-Rome and
Long Islaud City (the latter composed of
the villages of Astoria, Hunters Point
and Ravenswood) } having been added to
the list by the Legislature recently ad-
journed.
THE ears of a horse may be called in-
dices of his mind. Intelligent animals
prick UP their ears when spoken to; vi
cious ones throw their ears back. A
blind horse directs one ear forward and
one backward, and in deaf horse the
ears are without expression.
THE street passenger cars in Philadel-
phia. employed by seventeen different
companies, number 6SS, with 179 miles OF
track. Last year they carried 55000000
passengers. Nine persons were killed
and twelve injured by accidents. The
receipts from passengers amounted so
$3,500,O00.
TIE New York Newsboys' Lodging
house has been in existence seventeen
years During these years it has lodged
73 S34 different boys, restored 5.465 boys
to frienos, provided 5,i26 with homes.
furnished 1923 lodgings, and 3i7, 1873
meals The expense of all this has been
S94 223 10 OF this amount the boys have
contributed $24 742z7.
GEORGE w. Rust, for several years past
the Financial and Commercial editor of
the Chicago Times, has resigned his posi-
ton on that journal, and will commence
the publication of new Democratic
weekly, with Sunday edition for city
| circulation. The first number will make
its appearance about June 1. If the en-
terprise meets with suitable encourage
ment from the Democracy of the North
west. it will probably prove the stepping
stone TO daily.
THE Newark On. j. advertiser says: :
Yesterday cautious young man drove
his team alongside of a car loaded with
lumber Standing on the railroad track at
Somervllle, and preparatory to loading
his wagon tied his horses to an empty
coal Car that stood iii front of them. In
q few minutes while he was busy about
the wagon, a locomotive was backed up
and the car 10 which the horses were tied