The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-03-31
FACTS AND FIGURES,
THERE are 147.623 dogs in Iowa.


| roses.
BosToN has fined a man 81 for attempt
TO kiss lady in the street.
THERE are more Jews in the city of
New York than in the Holy Land.
THE Brooklyn retail groccrs lose ST.
COCO year by the credit system.
THE blood of healthy, full-grown
average man weighs twenty pounds.
THE highest point reached by man,
without the aid of balloon, is 10, 900 feet
a BOY in Trenton, who killed a "valu-
able" dog which bit him, has been fined
So.
Mr. BURLINGAME intended to settle in
California after his mission for China had
| closed.
IL New Hampshire, judges cannot serve
after attaining the age of 20; but they can
go to the Legislature.
THE annual expenditure in the British
Consular Service in Greece is $4,000; and
in the United States, $32 500.
THE cranberry crop at Harwich, Mass,
amounted, during the past year, to 3,761
barrels, which were sold for s39, $40.
NEW YORK in 1860, with population
of 3,SSO,7S5, produced only S,6Sl, 105
bushels of wheat or about two and a half
bushels to each inhabitant.
! AMHERST College claims the honor of
being the first of the New England edu-
| catiOnal institutions to admit women to
study and graduate on the same terms as
| men.
| MEMBERS of family named Wood
| filled the office of Parish Clerk in Dds
bury parish. England, for go years sue
cessively. They began III 1891, and ended
in 1889
| A CoLoRED woman known as Aunt Jcn-
ME died recently in Nashville, Tenn, at
the advanced age of 10. She had been
slave up to the issuance of President Lin
coins proclamation of freedom.
REV. Dr. DOWNING, of New York,
thinks that all bachelors above thirty
should be compelled to marry, or else con-
tribute Onc-fourth of their earnings to the
support Of needy spinsters.
| THE model girl of the period lives in
| Lafayette Ind. She wears with pride
and just pride, toO-a dress made up of
material woven by her own fair hands.
| She is still unmarried.
A GENTLEMAN of Columbus, Ca, the
other day, who has great patience and is
timed the pace of a snail 1t made 20
| inches in 60 minutes.
A FEMALE physician has been arrested
in Philadelphia on the charge of evading
| the special internal revenue tax, but
claims exemption on the ground that she
| is not allowed to vote.
| A WRITER in the Fond du Lac J0urnal
| figures out that, with capital of about
| $4,000, and yearly expenditure of about
| $4,000, an annual income of some $780,
600 may be realized in the beet sugar busi
ness.
THERE are two lovely young ladies in
May & Rogers paper mill at Lee, Mass,
who have worked within ten feet of each
other fifteen months and have not spoken
together mad as March hares all the
while.
THE female teachers Of San Francisco
are married off more rapidly than their
places can be properly supplied. Out of
sixteen teachers in the Lincoln school
thirteen have been married within five
years, and the other three were already
| married.
An old lady in Alabama, not long ago,
agreed to dispose of her estate to young
man, after her death, for $4,000, and the
young man Immediately insured her life
| for his benefit to that amount. She died
| in short time, whereupon he collected
the policy and paid for the property.
PHILADELPHIA has a novel will case
| 1t appears that man and his wife each
made will in favor of the other at the
same time, but by some blunder the man
signed his wile's will and the wife signed
her husbands. Not until after the death
of the husband was the mistake discov-
cred.
THE Louisville Commercial says: owe
have heard that, within a few days past,
one of our cotton spectators made over
one hundred thousand dollars in a single
transaction with New York broker,
without the exchange of so much as a
pound of the exkingly staple"
| THERE is a woman in Dexter, Me-, who
has been married twenty five years, is the
mother of nine children, mostly boys, and
has done her own work with the aid OF
members of her own family. She has, in
| that period, manufactured eleven and
| half tons of butter and thirty-five and a
half tons of cheese.
A RESPECTABLE looking man presented
a pistol at ticket agent at Elizabeth, n.
j., and demanded a ticket to New York.
1t was given him, and he jumped ON
train, leaving the revolver. In the even
| ing he returned and apologzed, saying
that important business called him to
New York, and having left his pocket
book at home, he YVES bound to get
ticket. He paid for his ticket, got back
his revolver, and, thanking the agent, de-
parted.
In 1894, a Hungarian Countess, named
Elizabeth, enticed young girls into her
palace on various preteXts and then coolly
murdered them for the purpose of bath
Ing in their blood The spectacle of hui
man suffering at last became such a de-
light to her that she would apply with
her own hands the most excruciating tor
lures, keenly rclishing the shrieks of her
victims. In this way she is said to have
| murdered $50 persons before her career
was brought to an end.
| CHAMBERS JOURNAL gives some statis-
tics of the business within Il square mile
in London. Ten thousand vehicles passed
Blackfriar's bridge in twelve hours, 1000
at Fleet street and 10000 ut London
bridge. One day of twenty-four hours,
not extraordinary, $4,000 vehicles passed
over the Thames. In nine hours of one
day in 1913, $4,000 peopie entered the
city, and during one day in 1860, 7O7 900
people entered the city, three-fourths of
whom were on foot; $4,000 people en-
tered and passed out of the eight princi-
pal arteries of London in one day.
ONCE an accomplished young American
woman had the honor to dine with the
Car of Russia. During the entertain
ment plate of grapes was passed. The
young lady saw the golden knife on the
basket, but as the fruit came to her first
she had no way of learning its use; so
she did just as she would have done in
America-reachcd out her dainty fingers
and lifted from the dish a whole stem of
grapes. What was her CONSERVATION to
see the next person, as well as all the
other guests, take the golden knife and
sever single grape each and transfer it
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