The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-28
NUMBER 81.
FACTS and FIGURES,

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married to foreigners last year,
FRANCE claims nearly onefourth Of all
the theaters in Europe.
CANES with whistles are % the present
time very fashionable in Paris.
THE total yield OF quicksilver on the
Pacific coast, in 1869, was 16,S95 TASKS.
OVER thirteen miles OF streets were
opened in Detroit during the past year.
THE elevated railway in Greenwich
street, New York, viii ran for the public
in May.
THE city ofParis uses 100000 reams of
paper per day in her different printing
houses.
A TwENTY-oNE pound trout two feet
nine inches long, has been caught in Lake
WinnipisiOgee.
AT late funeral in Hartford, tie coffin
was borne by six sons Of the deceased
lady.
A WOMAN in Concord, N. H., with an
income of near 5000, hires out as . house
keeper.
A BosToN paper states that few clips
and some small pieces of tarred paper are
al that is left Of the great Coliseum.
THERE are now in Berlin seventeen
| advertising agencies, which do together
a business Of four million thalers a year.
TIE English National Lifeboat Insti-
tuition is doing great work. Last year
the boats saved S71 lives and 33 vessels
4 PENNSYLVANIA girl has reclaimed
her lover from lunatic asylum, where
his parents put him because he would
marry her.
a CORRESPONDENTS writes that new
mania has sprung UP among the ladies of
Edinburg-a fancy for learning to cook.
ALADY who was injured by the falling
Of seats at circus in Oregon City, Ore
gon, has recovered 5000 damages from
the company.
Hon JOHN A COBB, eldest son Of the
late Howell COBB, owns and manages
1860 acres of rich land, in one body,
about fourteen miles from Ame;icus Ga.
JACK REYNOLDS, while on the way to
the. .gallows, exclaimed. in the bitterness Of
his heart and soul, "My God I wish all
the rum was out Of the world !"
A VERDICT Of $4,000 has been render
cd against the Adams Express Company,
the value of large lot Of peaches intend
ed for New York, left 1T Fortress Mon
roe in 1861
IT is said that George Hunncwell, who
was recently pariOncd from the Massa-
chusetts State Prison, sfier twenty-five
years confinement, was more surprised
at the street cars than at anything else.
Two old pumps in London, the handles
of which had been removed, have been
mistaken for letter boxes by stupid peo-
pie, and thirty or forty letters, supposed
to have been stolen in t1e Post Office"
have been removed from them.
THE editor of Cassells Maqr7ine says
one of the most successful editors Of the
day once remarked: " An editor is gen
orally right when he rejects an article, but
almost always wrong when he begins 10
| give his reason for 50 doing"
4 ROCHESTER, Police Justice, instead Of
sending to Jail a man who was brought
| bo1nre him i0I Dos, ,Sinss, pTocared employ
mcnt for him, and was rewarded by the
heartfelt thanks of the man and his prom
Use to give u good report Of himself
STATISTICS of commerce and navigation
show that the imports ofthe year 1869 were
S4G3, f61 ,421, gold valCe, and IN 1868 were
$3.50 101 80; domestic exports, $iG4 ,Sc3,
800, mixed values, against 81 S00G12 in
! 1868, while the re experts were So, 3,22l,-
514, against SO 199l97S in 1858.
Mr.. HowLETr writes ID the London
Times that on March - spot was visible
on the sun, indicating disruption OF the
solar photosphere 10 the enormous extent
Of not less than 100000 square miles,
or eight times the sllPcrfcies Of the terra
Queous globe.
\ cIsrERN in Lawrence, Kansas, was
cleaned out recently The Tribune says:
"Ihe result was interesting 70 that class
of our young men Who depend upon
boarding houses for thcir daily food.
Coffee and tea had been concoctod from
this cstern for long time. The clean
ipg-oGt operation brought to light one
dead cat, five dcfurct rats, an Old boot, n
shoe, two hoop skirts, part of mop, and
about foot of general iilth."
OLDJUDGE AIKEN, of Grecnfield, Mass,
was quite fimous for his extra judicial
opinions. One of them runs as follows:-
| Presiding 1T the trial of one Fisk for an
aggravated crime, and the jury having
brought in verdict of guilty" Judge
Aiken said: "Fisk, stand up. For the
crime OF which you have been convicted
you ere condemned to solitary confine-
ment for one Gay, and to imprisonment
during the rest OF your natural llic-and
wish it was in my power to sentence you
longer"
THE Pottsville Pa.) Msers' Journal
says that few days since, at the Colorado
Colliery, the wcrkmcn struck an Old
gangway of colliery worked many years
ago by Stephen Cir !, in which was
found a three foot gam, railway track up
on which stood coal wagon capable of
carrying three tons of coal. Although
this gangway was cut many years ago, in
the early history of the region, the props,
timbers, the ties, and wagons, were IN Il
perfect state of preservation, and from all
appearances, will last century yet.
THE Chicago Christian .Sand1rd says
about twenty of the students of the Bap-
tist Theological Seminary, in that city,
found themselves unable TO meet the
small charge Of two dollars and thirty
cents a week for board at the Seminary
building. There were two alternatives
left thcm-eithcr to abandon their studies
or submit to still further pTiyations.
With Il spirit of sacrifice rarely oqualcd,
they decided upon the latter; and they
have been liging-the wife of married
student doing the COoking-on one d0}GT
q aceek. They do without meat CT butter
or tea, or coilee-in fact the staple OF
| lhtlE l3IOCI Is COAll DaAitAtsA- AEt
their wardrobe is as scanty as their table
The San Jose (Cal) Mercury of April
relates the following incident: "The
Mayor brought into our Office yesterday
little lad, who gave his name as Robert
Graham, and says lie is II years of age
but looks several years younger. This
lad tells n singular story. He says he lefl
kalamazOo, Michigan, about month ago
without any money; he did 50 because
his stcp-mothcr, with whom he had been
stopping, turned him out OF doors, and he
thought he could reach a married sister
supposed to be living in this valley. lie
got ON the train coming west, and when
the conductors would put him oil the cars
he would get on the next train, spending
intervals at stations along the railroad
Sometimes passengers, on learning hi:
r condition, would give him a little money
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