The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| ErOtecLlOn OF tnlIUTcn.
DAKOTA contains 10000 square mile:
of territory, $4,000 more than Illinois.
JACKSONVILLE smOw the largest city
in Florida, having about 5000 inhabitants
THE Boston Custom House employs 8
hundred and fifty soldiers and sailors.
THERE are 5,433 works Of art in the
present Paris. exhibition in the Palace OF
Industry.
TT keeps 1000 COWS busy supplying the
milk for single Vermont cheese factOry
a LADY at Paris advertises for employ
evening parties"
A MOUNTED letter carrier, who an
nounces his approach bv blowing horn
is the latest novelty in Newark, N. J.
A BoY only fourteen years of age has
been sentenced at the Police Court OF
Lowell, Mass, for being common drunk
ard
IT is estimated that there are five hun
dred millions of dollars deposited in the
savings banks of this country.
EIGnTY young ladies, trained in the
Queens institute, Dublin, are now en-
ployed Ia the various English telegraphic
offices.
Mr. STEPHEN FREELovE, of Fall
River, has an apple tree, % years old,
which bears fruit every year, but never
| blossoms.
A GERMAN chemist has found test so
delicate that one part of arsenic in one
million parts of solution may be detected.
NAUGHTY boys at New Orleans cut the
tails off Of cows III the suburbs of that
city, and sell them to the chignOn-makers.
DURING the past year 1913 men, So
women, and 3S children were killed by
tigers in Java, 15S persons by crocodiles,
and % by snakes
WEDDING cards are no longer printed
with a monogram The latest style is the
letter only of the brides name, printed
large and plain.
Gas usual" writes a French critic of Lo-
THAR, "Mr. Disraeli allows no one to
] figure in his novel who has less than
e50,000 year"
A LONDON chimney-sweep has been
fined forty shillngs for stOning some peo-
ple "whO prevented him from roasting
two thrushes alive"
MIR. HuMBERT, the Swiss Minister at
Yeddo, Japan, says that every woman
throughout the Empire is able to read,
|
THERE are in the vicinity of st. Joe,
Mich., 10000 fruit-trees, covering ), 40
acres In 1869 the fruit trade brought
the growers the handsome sum of
| $10i 600.
A GENTLEMAN writes to the London
Daily Netcs to complain that two of his
servants have given HIM notice that they
shall leave unless he gives them five meals
a day, instead of four.
THE Concord Patriot reports that one
New Hampshire boy of fifteen years is
now six feet five and half inches tall,
| but it does not brag about him yet, as he
has not got his growth.
IT is said that within circuit of one
hundred and twenty-five miles around
the White Sulphur Springs OF West Vir-
ginia. there is more iron ore than IN the
whole of Great Britain.
THE number Of eggs imported into
Great Britain during the year 1869
amounted to no less than four hundred
and forty-two million one hundred and
sixty five thousand and eighty.
A ONE EYED man in Paris gets his liv-
ing by exhibiting the lost eye, which he
has preserved in spirits Of wine. He lost
it when child by an unsuccessful at
tempt of his father to play William Tell
The Rev. Joseph w. Allen claims to
be the oldest Baptist Minister of the
State of Rhode Island, having been in
the ministry nearly fifty years, and pastor
of Quidnisville church thlrty-nlne years
THERE are, in New York city, 240 Pro
| tcstant churches, with a membership of
~ 600. There are also 40 Protestant
missions, with SABBATH schools, etc. There
are 10 Roman Catholic churches.
THE Alaska Indians hold Corontr's in
| quests over suicides, not To decide how,
but why, they killed themselves, and il
any other party he to blame he has to pay
a line to the friends of the deceased
A RICH American died few weeks
ago in Paris, of the effects of the abuse
of tobacco. He is said to have frequently
consumed as many as forty cigars day.
BY his will he leaves his children millions,
and strictly prohibits them from smoking
AMAsA GooDYEAR, of Nangatuck, Conn.
father of India rubber" Goodyear, is
claimed as the first button maker in
America. He made pewter buttons about
1900, and af(erward patented brass or
copper eye To them.
TIE editor of the New Orleans Pho
anime was recently shown a very remark
able phenomenon in the shape OF three
roses growing on one stem, two OF which
were red and one perfectly white. The
white rose occupied the central position.
THE American Deaf Mute Asylum at
Hartford, Conn, had 2S2 pupils last year,
with an average attendance of 246. Its
fund of 1922 6S4 nets the institution over
500, 600. The six New England States paid
S39,55S last year for the support of their
bcneiiciaries.
The surface of society is much smaller,
eyen in a city like New York, than is
generally supposed. 1t is said that you
cannot put any two people together but
they will be sure to hnd some acquaint-
anccs in common before the end of half
an hour
TIE Young Mems Christian Association
| i'm many of the cities of the United States
send daily to the post-ofllce and pay the
requisite amount on all letters not proper
| ly prepaid To insure their transmission
and Keep them from the dead letter office
in Washington.
SIR FRANCIS CROssLEy, who belongs to
the famous English firm of carpet manu-
factures-a firm that makes million ana
a quarter of profits year-has just given
4
ty, and as much more for fund tor as
abled pastors and their families.
THE following arc a few examples oil
the large fees received by prominent law
yers: David Dudley Field receives x5OO,-
| 600 from the Erie Railroad; william Nj.
Stewart was paid $4,000 cash by the
,;ould Curry silver mine, and SO many feet
ofthe ore, which, altogether, netted him
100000 jeremiah s. Black received
100000 from the New Alexander mine,
and, "a few months ago, he sued them for
Si5,O0 in addition, and received judg-
nent; William NJ. Evarts has been paid
| 25,0U0 for defending Andrew Johnson,
aud his annual income is $4,000. He
recently charged 5000 for one speech
which occupied eighty minutes