The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.

are cultivated in India.
A LADY in Maine was left by the war
with 81 orphan grandchildren.
THERE are said to be 100000 French
| Canadians in the United States.
A CONNECTICUT cooper has made bar
rels enough to form line ten miles long.
MAINE calculates that she has a popula-
tion of seven hundred thousand.
APARIs female is reading peoples for
tunes by the lines on their feet.
THE Jerseyman who invented patent
leather died recently, worth over $3,000,-
000
THE outstanding five per cent. bonds
of the State of Indiana will be redeemed
July 1.
AN experiment in France proves that a
horse will live for twenty-four days on
water alone.
"MoNTH" is the sole unrhymable mon
osyllable in the English language, says the
Boston Adoestiser.
THE quantity of malt used in the United
Kingdom in 1867 was 47,SS0 900 bushels,
each making IS gallons of beer.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, proposes to cele-
brate, on June Z, the fifteenth anniversary
of the location OF the State Capital in that
city.
THE Romanist population Of the French
Empire is 36, SO0,6 ,664; the Protestant, l.
sol $50; the Jewish, 15S,9G.
A MAN in New Orleans offers to fight
an alligator under water, with only aknife,
if some one will give him $500.
THE dwellers on the Rhine are wonder
ing at an old man Of 76, who bathes in the
icy river, and rests on cake of ice.
ST. JOHN, n. B., has mushroom,
grown in a cellar during the winter,
measuring fifteen inches in circumfer-
snce.
A CONNECTICUT woman, who married
her father in-law few years ago, now
thinks the marriage null, and sues him
for services as housekeeper.
A COUNTRY Postmaster in New York
State has posted notice in his office di-
recting people "to lick their Own stamps,
else the letters won't go"
THE leaves of the coffee plant are now
proposed as substitute for tea. In SUI
matra the natives cultivate the plant al
most entirely for the iesTes.
ACCORDING to the circular of Messrs.
Dupee, Beck & Sayles, of Boston, the
amount of fine copper secured from the
Lake Superior mines during 1869 realized
23,4S3,0i9 pounds.
LONDON city pauperism increases. The
number of raupcrs in that city in the
second week in March was III, 100, TO
contrast with 149, l65 for the same week
in 1869. The indoor poor were 37,337
against Sc 7SS.
THE Pittsfeld Ergle says there is a
woman living on Washington Mountain
who is the mother of twenty-five children,
twenty-threc Of whom are now living,
and rtore healthy woman is seldom
seen.
IT is stated positively that there is
young lady in one OF the Biddeiord
(Maine) mills who is worth q; least
$4,000 but who works quietly day by
day, earning her six dollars weekly, IN
stead of retiring with competency.
IT is said that the machine power Of
England and Wales is competent to per
form the labor of nearly six hundred
millions of men, and is probably greater
in productive capacity than the labor
power Of all the world beside.
JErDo, the capital of Japan, is, without
exception, the largest and most populous
CITY In the world. In contains the vast
number of 10000 dwellings, and co.,,
600 human souls. Many Of the streets are
ninete.n Japaneseries in length-22 Eng
lish miles.
THERE is man in the vicinity Of
Cedar Keys, Fla, who has twenty-five
children living. The family subsist prln-
cipally on fish and oysters. They have
never had plate or cup and saucer IN
their house. In lieu of cups they use
gourds and shells.
A MISSIONARY in India late,y preached
on the subject Of faith, illustrated by the
story of Abraham and Isaac, with such
magnetic elOQuence that one Of his native
hearers Immediately went home and
laLghtered his son and offered him up as
a sacrifice.
A FRENCH chemist has s--cceeded in
producing paint with which &c llluml-
nate numbers of street doors at night
Figures traced with it shine 50 as tn be
read through the most profound darkness
and the preparation of the compound Is
said to be simple, inexpensive, and unin-
furious III any way.
THE Chinese never have any pockets,
the capqcious sleeves. Speaking of the
compression of the women's feet, and the
painful process of compression, mission
ary recently said he regarded it as less re-
voting, and far less injurious than the
practice of compressing the waist hy
lacing.
OF the cases of suicide, mental disorder
is the most active, one third ct all cases
that occur being traceable to it; one-Hinth
to physical suffering one-eighth To loss
of property one-tenth to remorse, shame,
or fear of punishment; oneeighth to
family troubles; one ninth to gaming and
other vices, and very small proportion
to disappointed love
THE total value OF property reported |
stolen in Chicago the past year, was S2O3,
292 total value of stolen property rccoy-
cred, $4,000. The total amount of fines
assessed in the Police Court was Sl10,5i6;
total number of arrests, 2S,01S; of these,
23,073 were males, and 5,006 females
married, 1852; single, %, t26. The mum
Der of lost children was 1907, and the
number Of dodgers accommodated, 2,755.
A BALTIMORE correspondent writes
"Thunder sours milk and kills oysters.
You may load vessel 10 its utmost ca
pacity, start for market, and one good round
clap of thunder will kill every oyster in
the vessel Immediately Pounding with
an axe upon the deck of vessel when
oysters are thereon, or pounding upon
the sides of vessel with a heavy weight,
will Kill every oyster that feels the jar.
NIAGARA has rcceded from a point
where it was more than 200 feet high to its
present position, with a height of about
$50 fee, and it is not unlikely that it may
grind lis way back To the lake which
supplies it. On our continent, holding as
it does more than three quarters OF the
fresh water Of the world, are to be found
the most mighty waterfalls and cataracts
known, among which may he named
Niagara, the falls of the Missouri river,
the Shoshone Falls on the Snake river,
2l0 feet in height and immense in volume,
and the falls of the Yosemite.
A GENTLEMAN of New Haven has a set
of Spanish coins coined in Mexico, con-
sis,ing of dollar dated 163. half dollar,