The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.
has . 500 collieries.


red in 1916.
A CALIFORNIA sportsman shot 2,273
squirrels last spring.
THERE are 20,S00 coopers in the United
States and Canada.
EACH convict in Nevada costs the State
e, ,254 per apnum.
y TROUT pond near Watertown, N. Y,
contains nearly $4,000 fish.
GIRLS are received as pupils in the Am
herst, Mass, Agricultural College.
NEW ALBANY claims to he the second
city in Indiana in wealth and population.
THERE is only one town in Massachu-
sets that has not church building.
SACRAMENTO CITY has twcntysix laun.
dries the operatives in which arc all Chi
namen.
New YORK city has thirty-two daily
papers, and their receipts are nearly So
00O,000 year.
THERE are three hundred and three
newspapers and periodicals published in
Ohio.
An eel seven feet long and as thick as a
mans leg was caught, the other day, at
Antioch, Cal.
Il
at Bablesber, fifty white mice, which he
often watches for hours.
THERE are 242 chartered Masonic
Lodges in the State of Iowa, and twenty
six working under dispensation.
Col. PRATT, of Prattsville, N. Y, is
said to have given to public and private
charities, in the course of his life, ST.
100000
Mrs. HAWTHORNE says there will be no
biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne pub
lished, in accordance with his expressed
wish.
LONG lace wells, slightly pointed in
front, are worn with bonnets this sum-
mer, instead of the short wells which have
been so popular.
IT is stated that a gentleman residing
near Portland, Me, has found perfect
white rose growing upon one Of his apple
trees.
PRINCE DEMIDoFF received from his
Russian iron and copper mines, in which
he employed $4,000 laborers, an annual
income of 1,400 coo francs
A YOUNG shoddyite in New York
makes great display in hotels and public
places by lighting his cigars and cigarettes
with greenbacks.
A FEW days ago an express train on
the Erie railway was run seventy-three
miles in ninety-six minutes; forty-two
miles were made in tifty-seven minutes.
THE Methodist Missionary Society, want
ing ten new missionaries, applied to all
the seninaries and TO every district, and
found only six from them all.
PIrTsBURGH has an old lady under arrest
for stealing large illustrated Bible. She
says hers was too fine print, and she
couldn't get any consolation out of it.
BRIGHAM YOUNG, having become tired
of the many false reports circulating about
him, says that he is aged sixty-nine, and
has sixteen wives and forty nine children
only.
In Russia, women having certain
amount of property have right to vote,
though it must be exercised by proxy, a
male relative or friend representing them
at the election.
A FRENCH society of a hundred per-
sons have each, by special agreement, be-
queathed their bodies to the dissecting
room to forward the progress of the
science of anatomy.
A PARIS workman, drinking with a
companion, offered to bet that he could
kill him with a single blow of his fist.
The bet was accepted, the blow dealt, and
the man fell dead
A WEALTHY New York lady has
mania for stealing parasols, not to use, but
to give them pet names and hang them
In hall bedroom, which she has made a
perfect museum of these articles.
UsURY laws have been abolished in
Maine. Parties can lend and borrow at
such "a rate of interest as they may ex-
press in writing. Where there is no agree
ment in writing, 6 per cent. is the legal
interest.
CALIFORNIA has one and one-half per
cent. of the population of the nation; in
the number of her inhabitants she is the
twenty fourth State, but in amount paid
as income tax she ranks fourth
SOME thoughtful individual that rather
likes figures says the liquor used in the
United States would fill canal " four feet
deep, fourteen feet wide, and one hundred
and twenty miles in length"
LONDON pickpockets have habit of en-
gaging jugglers, and tire-eaters to begin
their performances in crowded thorough
fares, and thus attract crowds on whom
the light fingered gentry can operate.
J. III. MCMICKLE, ESQ, of Crawford
county, is said to be the oldest acting JUS
tice of the Peace in the State OF Indiana
and has been acting in that capacity for
forty-three years, and is still hale and
hearty.
Bishop THOMPSON says that there are
now So missionary societies and 40 900
missionaries in the field; the Word of God
is preached in $4,000 localities in the
heathen world $5O000O0 is annually
collected to sustain them; 6S7, 900 converts
are enrolled in Africa and 10000 in
Asia.
THE Agricultural Society of England
is composed of some of the cleverest and
most important men in the Kingdom 1t
now consists of "A life governors, IA an
nual governors, 1911 life members, 3,764
annual members and Is honorary mem
bers, making total of 5,43S.
In Contra Costa county, California, the
bounty for squirrel scalps has induced such
raid on the little rodents that more have
been killed already than the fund can pay
for. Two dozen young men of PacheO
went out on hunt and returned at
night with ,4SO scalps, or more than 60 TO
the man.
CHAMBERS JOURNAL gives this illustra-
tion of the power of India rubber to
deaden sound "We once visited a fac
tory where some forty or fifty copper
smiths were at work in shop above our
heads but what was remarkable, scarcely
a sound of their noisy hammers could be
heard. On going up stairs we saw the
explanation. Each leg of every bench
rested on cushion made of India rubber
cuttings. This completely deadened the
sound"
SOME forty years ago there lived in q
certain town an old man whom we shall
call Briggs, who had a propensity for
hooking " small and portable articles that
came IN his way. AS he was poor and
past labor, and well known about town,
no further notice was taken of his pecu-
lafinno than tn obar