The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-01-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

TOLEDO has a one-legged champion
skater.
CHARLESTON has q military school II
years old.
THE King of Sweden has written over
500 poems
THE Bank of California paid dividend
of 100000 last year.
Two arrests for umbrella stealing have
occurred in New Haven.
DIR. HOLLOWAY advertised six hundred
thousand dollars worth last year.
THE message of the Governor of Rhode
Island was not two columns long.
THE profit of the richest gold mine in
California last year was $340, 400.
A. T. STEWART has sold this season,
twenty $4,000 shawls, and one for $500.
BRICK POMERoY is the third wealthiest
man and the largest taxpayer in La
Crosse.
In Liverpool, England, over 5000
women were punished last year for drunk
enness.
PRESIDENT GRANT has received suit of
clothes from Siberia, made of Siberian
furs, and cut in the Siberian fashion.
WISCONSIN has 626 persons who draw
pensions from the United States The
amount paid them is $575,649.66.
THE young women of Lewiston, Me-,
have formed a society pledging themselves
not to kiss man who uses tobacco.
EIGHTEEN Hundred and Seventy, finds
old Boston entering upon its 240th year
of existence, but the 4Sth year of its city
life.
IT is estimated in London that the .fetes
at the opening of the Suez canal have cost
the Viceroy the enormous figure of $6,600,-
600 in gold.
A MAGAZINE writer estimates that every
man, woman and child in America uses
up five hundred matches per year, or at
that average.
EVERY fashionable bride in New York
expects such costly presents that many
people decline to be present at the cere-
mOny.
The "Universal Russian Exposition
to be held at St Petersburg in May, 1870,
will be an exhibition of Russian products
and manufactures solely.
B. B. ALLEN, of Vergennes, VT, who
died few days ago, aged 81, had taught
the High School in that place twenty six
consecutive years.
Mrs. STATIONS advice about choosing
a wife is: always look for girl with
good teeth, for the teeth are sample Of
every bone in the fair ones body"
A SAW mill in Gardiner, Me-, the pro-
prietors of which were compelled in 1868
to hire teams to cart off the sawdust made,
received last year $500 from the ice COM
panies for all the sawdust made.
TIE "supes" in the London panto-
mines complain that this year they lose
their situations because ambitious clerks,
anxious to be seen on the stage, are will
ing to take their places without pay.
In Queen Victoria's crown there are /,
1868 brilliant diamonds, 1913 rose dia-
monds, and 147 table diamonds, 1 large
ruby, II sapphires, II emeralds, small
rubies and 277 pearls-a total of 2,19G
precious stones.
A PHILADELPHIAN named Morgan, re-
Gently arrested as thief declared by all
that was sacred that he was an honest
man; yet he at that moment had on four
shirts, all stolen.
THERE is a couple in New Hampshire,
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Ford, "a years
old, who have lived on the same farm
forty-1ive years, and for the last eighteen
years have not deemed it necessary to
employ either servant or doctor
SOME very fashionable ladies in New
Orleans hung yellow ribbon on their
door-knobs, New Years Day, as an indi-
cation that they would receive calls The
callers didn't come, and they afterwards
found that it had been considered a sign
of smallpox.
AFEw years ago an ingenious gentleman
managed to get drunk free Of expense al
most daily in the streets of London, by fall
ing down in fit, with small placard ON
his breast, Don't bleed me, but give me a
glass of hot brandy and water"
POPCORN, vegetables and cold water
are said to be the principal diet of Pitts
field (Mass.) family, with only two meals
of these daily. Ii breakfast is not on the
table at 8 o'clock precisely, the pastime
of eating is dispensed with until 3 o'clock,
the dinner hour, as no member of the
family is allowed to eat between meals"
Music is to be introduced as curative
treatment for insanity, hypochondriasis,
and other chronic diseases of the mind, in
some of the great asylums of Paris. Sew
that, in their opinion, music, if well and
skillfully applied, will cure, or, at least,
moderate and check insanity and kindred
diseases.
PROBABLY the cheapest carriage of mail
matter in the United States is that be-
tween Rock Island and Newport, II. l.
The contract for carrying the mails is let
to the lowest bidder, and there being con-
siderable rivalry at the time of the letting,
the bids were accordingly low, the sue
ccssful party agreeing to perform the
duties " for one cent per year" The low
est terms ever before known on the same
route were four dollars.
The San Francisco police are raiding on
Chinese gambling houses, with small re-
sult. The dOOr-keeper at these dcns has
his hands always on string, which, when
pulled, sounds a gong beneath the gam
bling table, and enables all hands to clear
up and make their escape in ease any un-
welcome visitors come. SO well have
they operated that one keeper of such an
establishment has procured the punish
ment by fine of an officer who entered his
saloon.
THERE is a singular barometic spring
on the farm of j. H. Temple, of Farming
ham, Massachusetts, which has the pecu-
liarity of Overlooking with a sudden rush
just before a rainfall. 1t matters not what
the season of the year may be, summer
and winter, in wet weather and at the
time of the severest drOuth-all at once
the water comes pouring from this spring,
often flooding the intervale through which
it is discharged, and within thirty-six
hours thereafter rainfall comes
SOME interesting statistics on the densi-
ty of European population have been
grouped by German writer: In France
there is one dwelling house to every 40
inhabitants in England and Wales, 81 /;
in Belgium, 3; in Ireland SO; Holland,
So; Italy, SO; Spain, So; Bavaria, GO !;
Norway, 63; Austria, &C; Baden, 6.S +;
Hanover, 60; Switzerland, 7.2; Prussia,
80 and Saxony, 81. In the cities one
dwelling comes upon &C. Inhabitants in