The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-04-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.
IDA LEWIS has turned seamstress.

| -hsNttfsc1 hh, ~ IL, tltS
smoking IN its streets on Sunday
OVER twelve million tons of coal have
been received in Philadelphia since 1855
TIE Territory of New Mexico contains
a population estimated at 5000.
A BROOKLYN woman unsuccesSfully
| tried to commit suicide by swallowing
bair-pins.
A HERMIT in Westches'er county, N.
V, wears a costume of old boot legs tied
together
TIE Emperor of China is receiving
mirrors and costly household furniture
from Paris
PENNSYLVANIA has a pcdagogue ninety
six years old lie is one of the Old Mas
tcrs.
! WALLINGFoRD, Conn, intends to cele-
brate its two hundrcdth anniversary IN
September next.
A NORFOLK lad shot himself rather
than to take care of IA squtlling baby for
two hours.
A LITTLE bow died at Grass Valley,
Cal, last month, from eating friction
matches.
4 BROOKLYN man brags over watch
which has been in his family for two hun
| dred years.
TIE British House of Lords now num-
bers 41f members, only thirty-one of
whom are unmarried.
| TIE first London edition of the first
number OF Mr. Dickens new novel will
consist of 70,091 copies.
THERE are three men in New York who
make, good livings by writing advertise
mcnts for the public.
THERE are now living in Maine, in good
| health, five brothers named Lambert, aged
respectively 96, .92, 81, 81, and 10 years.
THE next great Astronomical Congress
will take place in 1871 at Stuttgart. A
Geographical Congress will be held in
Antwerp in August
4 LADY is in trouble at New Orleans
for padding her clothing with five boxes
of cigars and a lot of jellies, when she
landed from Havana steamer.
OVER 100 young women are said To be
ut present studying law in this country
many in the universities, bat more in law
yers offices, where they pay their tuition
fees by writing.
BosToNIANs suggest grand tea party
on the centennial anniversary of the day
on which the tea was thrown overheard,
10 which ali native born Bostonians shall
be invited.
TIE 'cAignoa is doomed, say the Paris
COssips. One lady, hearing the report,
has retired to her country seat, where she
means to be.shaved, in the hope OF having
head of native growth before next
season.
AT the recent municipal election in the
small town OF Purtuis, France, only
twcnty-nine voters out OF eighteen hun
hred registered their votes. Without loss
Of time the whole twenty nine voted
themselves unanimously into office.
The reduction in telegraphic tolls in
France increased the receipts by nearly
5000 for the month OF December.
Twenty words, counting the address, sent
from one point in France to another, now
cost twenty cents, instead of forty.
JOHN CoTTLE, Cincinnati policeman,
| convicted of manslau ghter, was SO over
come by his sentence of five years in the
penitentiary, that his hair has turned
white, and he lost fifty pounds in weight
within six weeks after his arrest.
TIE cost of the ranking privilege in
| Canada is estimated at 100000 a year.
The privilege is eDjovcd by the Governor
General, the chief officers of each depart
mcnt the Speaker and Clerk of each
| House of Parliament, and during the SeS-
sion, as well as for ten days before and
after its opening and closing, by members
OF both Houses.
LIGHTNING struck and melted gun bar
rel A careless inspection of the solved
metal suggested a thought, and that in turn
begat another, until the final result was
the discovery of the manufacture of steel
by means of electricity, for which the
discOvcrcr Low holds letters patent from
the Government Of the United States, and
which will be among the most important
discoveries of the age.
A CALIFoRNIA paper reports that the
friends OF "A Chlnaman, who had been
sick for some time, thought he was dying,
and forthwith tumbled him into Il coffin,
and proceeded to bury him. Some Amer
icans, however, interfered, and took him
out of the coffin. 1t was then about
O'Clock in the afternoon, and the China
man lived until the next morning, when
his spirit took its flight.
WHILE the officers of detachment of
the Algerinc army, posted near the from
tier of Morocco, were talking over the
last news from France, a civilian inter
ruptcd them with an assault upon the En-
pcror and Empress Sir" cried Il young
| Lieutenant 1T is no affair of mine to de
tend my sovereign here, but | never will
| permit woman, present or absent, to be
assailed in my presence. III We had not
been within sight OF the soldiers should
already have pulled your ears In five
minutes swords were crossed, and the
civilian was run through the body.
| Mrs. ROBERT DALE OWEN makes the
assertion that More than half the work
of the world is done by women. Even in
the case of shirt, with the cotton or flax
that is picked for it-nay, even In the
| mines whence the ore that furnishes the
| iron-work of the looms that weave it, is
taken-her work begins; and, with the
making, the washing, the ironing, the
starching, the mendlng, the sewing on
buttons, it continues as long as the gar
ment lasts" She also asserts that, 80
long as women have the providing of
mans food, they can govern him as they
choose"
| A REMARKABLE case of long life and
premOnition of death is reported from
! Egar, Bohemia. An old man of l0S years
arose in the morning perfectly healthy,
smoked his pipe, and then went out To
see his son, who was working in the for
est, to tell him that he Uhe father) would
die that evening; at the same time telling
the son how the funeral was to be con-
Quoted, and who should bear him to the
grave. The son, seeing the old mans
good humor and health, laughed at what
he considered whim. Nevertheless,
when he returned home at night, he found
his father dead. The mother relates that
he had returned to the house, desired a
drink of water, had fallen asleep in his
chair, and never woke again.
| A NEW process has been discovered in
which sulphuric acid is used in the man
ufacture of whisky from corn, by which
treatment the quantity of whisky is in
creased from ID and l6 to 1Sand 19quarts
per bushel A specimen of the article
which has been shown To us proves to be
a most deleterious and poisonous COM
pound. When put through the usual
course of rectifcation il corrodes and
a.