The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-09
FACTS AND FIGURES.

lost enormous sums of money.
THE State of Iowa reports S,770 sheer
killed by dogs in twenty-eight counties
last year.
FIVE New York ladies are declared tC
have sailed for Paris, by recent steamer
to have their faces enameled.
A SILVER wedding was given in New
York the other day, at which the presents
received were valued at fifteen thousand
dollars.
"CAsH" boys are no longer employed
in most of the large dry goods stores in
New York Girls are taking their places
and it is said they make excellent substi-
tutes.
THE official executioner of Paris sug
gests knocking criminals on the head with
an iron mace as a pleasauter and neater
mode of killing them than by the guillo-
tine.
INDIANAPOLIS has eight colored physi-
clans and one student in the Medical Col
lege; also one law student, one telegraph
operator, one insurance agent, and two
printers-all colored.
JAMES BLACK, of Washington, Ark,
noY an old man and hopelessly blind
made the original bowie knife, according
to plan furnished him by the celebrated
Colonel Bowie.
DURING the last 60 years France and
England have each granted $4,000 patents.
During the same period the United States
has granted more tnan 100000, and re-
jected $4,000
BETHESDA is the title of charitable
institution founded at Savannah, Ga, by
Wbitefield, in 1740 Its one hundred and
thirtieth anniversary was recently duly
celebrated.
THERE is a journal in Paris published
in the japanese language. 1t is in the
shape of memorandum book withou.
backs, and is edited by M. Rosmy, a pro-
fessor of Oriental tongues
THE Royal Agricultural Society of Eng.
land will offer prizes at the annual show
to be held in Oxford, in July next. to the
amount of e3,29S, or about $4,000. On
cattle the prizes amount to ei,O52.
THERE were 4754 marriages in Con-
necticut in 1869, S,417 deaths, and 12,4S1
births. The number of divorces granted
during the year was 491-being one to
each 81 marriages. OF the divorced 327
were wives, and 164 were husbands.
A MAcLAREN, who has the charge OF
the gymnasium connected with the Ok
ford University, England, reports of the
first 100 names on his book, as they ar
rived at the University, their average
height 5.S25 feet, and average weight
1872 $50 pounds.
GENERAL BoYNToN, of Augusta, Me-,
had bullet extracted from his hip re-
Gently, which he received in the battle of
Drury's Bluff. The ball had moved seven
inches from the point of entrance, and
was deep seated. 1t had produced great
suffering for six years.
THE following are the number of beats
per second for the wings of each insect
mentioned: The common fly $50, the
drOne 240, the bee 100, the wasp 10, the
hawk moth II, the dragon fly 4S, and the
cabbage butterfly, which is inaudible, 8
beats per second.
AN association has been formed under
the title of the Northern Ohio Fair
Association" with headquarters at Cleve
land-the capital stock being $500, 900
the object OF which is to give an annual
exhibition of live stock, agricultural,
mechanical, and other local industries.
THE deep soundings made in connec-
ton with the laying OF submarine cables,
show the average depth of the Atlantic
ocean To be 10000 feet. The deepest part
of the ocean is on the American side
near the Newfoundland banks, where an
immense basin exists, whose depth is sup
posed to exceed the height of the Hima-
layan range.
AT Munich, recently, the Royal Theatre
was to play Schiller's Maid of Orleans "
Everything was ready for the performance
when an order came from the King: Let
every knight who appears in the 'Msid of
Orleans wear no beard" 1t was the
Kings theatre, and, as he pays the actors,
there was no help for it; all the actors
had to submit to the razor.
A WOMAN in Franklin, Ky, while re-
Gently carrying bucket of butter on
horseback, was savagely attacked by an
eagle measuring seven feet from tip to tip.
Making two or three passes it almost
knocked her off the horse, and tore her
neck and breast in IA frightful manner !;
but she, dismOunting, dealt it heavy blows
with club and finally killed it.
which were more or less in vogue last
summer, have passed away. Even the
pretty shades, which were so daintily
ruffled, are consideredspasse. Their place
is usurped by the sun umbrella, which
may be OfpOngee or silk, lined or unlinod d,
scolloped or plain. Lining and trimming
are matters of taste, but size is essential
if lady desires to conform to fashion,
her parasol must be large.
ABOUT three miles north of Wilmington,
between the Xenia and Port William
r Dads, stands a sycamore tree, which can
truthfully be called the monarch of the
woods. This tree is about forty feet in
at the ground. Ten feet
from the ground its diameter is ten feet
About thirty five feet from the ground it
divides into four monster arms, each of
which is of the thickness of an ordinary
forest tree. This old patriarch stands
alone.
In Germany at large the consumption
of beer has increased hundred per cent.
within the last twenty years. Until 1S4l, 4,
brewing was an arstOcratic privilege, linn
ted to nobility and clergy, though as early
as 1895 the monopoly had been SO far re-
laxed as to permit the people to brew for
their own use but not for market. The
present policy of the government is to
protect and stimulate manufacture pro-
viding the people with untaxed beer, even
at royal cost and loss.
HKTTY RoBINsoN is New Bedford
heiress, of high business qualifications,
who makes semi annual raid into Wall
street, and performs bear or bull opera
ton in Reading stock, on a large scale,
and with almost uniform brilliant results
to her own pocket. She is known in Wall
street as the Princess of Wales, and about
six months ago bought fifty thousand or
Axty thousand shares of her favorite
stock, at from 81 to 95, and has recently
realized at 106. By selling out she brought
the stock down suddenly To 103. These
little CORNERS serve to keep her in spin
money"
THE Reconstructed Farmer tells the fol-
lowing story: When the First Rhode
Island battery went to Washington, pair
of French horses which had worked
together were sent with it, Owing to diff
ference of coler, they were separated and
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