The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-02
FACTS AND FTGTRE2e

a MAN IN AkrOn, Ono, rccentlF rec5ly
ed his eleventh divorce.
A SALT we'll at Terre Haute, Ind, hs.
been sunk 526 feet.
;. BRIGHAM You've is the third largest de-
positor in the Bank Of England
DR. H.wKINs blind chemist Of Phil.
adelphia. invented soda-water in 1912.
| A LONDON stenographer has used one
pen constantly for twenty-one years.
GEORGE W. Snow has occupied the no
sition of City Clerk of Bangor, Me-, for
twenty-five years.
TIE travel on tie Union Pacific
amounts to between 500 and 600 passen
gers daily.
A BOY, aged only fourteen years was re-
Gently arrested in Hartford, for habitual
drunkenness.
IT is said that Fifty three languages are
Nnoken in the cigar and tobacco shops o
New York.
VICToRIA's youngest daughter is ius'
turned 13, and her first name is Beatrice
Mary Victoria Feoiore.
A BALL was given lately by Russian
nobleman in Paris, which is said to have
cost over two million francs.
A BOY on the Staten leland boats PLAYS
on his violin with q piece of or 'inary mu
sic tied in roll, instead of bow.
THERE is in Paris milliner that has
made, in the last seven years, upward OF
seven hundred and fifty Thousand francs
MISS RYE, who brought 20 English girls
to Canada, has found good homes for all
Of them, and is going back to England
for 100 more.
In this country there are ESQ Young
Mems Christian Associations, and 400 in
the worl ;. with an aggregate membership
of 10000.
THERE are 1S5 Lodges of Odd Fellows
in the State of Missouri, with totsl con-
tributing members, 1897; total Assets,
| s211, ,S46; increase for the year. $33. 217.
A BRASS DOOR, weighing 1 ,456 lbs, and
costing $3.50. has recently been man.
rfactured in England for the Wolf Ro5 K
light house. It is intended 10 replace q
solid oak door, four inches thick, which
! had been shattered into fragments by the
| force Of the waves
THE fashionable shoe for ladies is MADE
seven inches bigh, with an ircb and a.
| half heel, a Spanish insten, arched soia. a
movable heel Of gilt or silver with a. H.
dia rubber tip to deaden the sound, and
they cost from s8 to 500 pair.
THE Indians on the island Of Olatown,
Ne, have formed a debating society, a. d
hold weekly meetings for discussing msi-
ters of the day in their own language.
The meetings are carried on with the
strictest regGrG for parliamentary usaqe.
Mr.. RAwLrSsoN, an eminent En- lish
engineer, in a report to Parliament ahOEt
the sewers of London, estim ,tes the mar
ketable value Of the matter accumulated
there at eto00,010, and states that II
would enrich annually 10000 acres Of
land.
The vaccination mania in Paris has
nette1 over sl0e 900 to the enterprisipg
owner Of heifer in the full glory Of cow
p0x, which he takes to the houses OF CHS
toners, Who can thus be vaccinatcI direct
from the original source of prot action.
THERE is family Of nine brothers and
sisters in Maine whose circle has never
been entered by death The your gest is
now 63, AMI the Oldest 20, and their united
age is GGl years They have oighty
children, IA grand children, and fifteen
rcat-grandchildren
SINCE 1885 the number of lunatics in
France he's increased from 96 per cent.
If the population to 24.2S per cent II.
Inilier. the Inspector General Of lunaiics,
Is OF opinloa ln'st consi ierabie proper
tiOn of this increase is duo tn the ,,se of
spirituous liquors.
a NEW HAVEN man called his friends
to q social gathering in bis pear orchard
the other evening, and desired each one
to pick out brarch on which should
grow the pears tor his or her eating, the
name Of the person being affixed upon
label. In the harvest time they will meet
again and enjoy the fruit so generously
and ingeniously DISPOSED Of
MARIE, the lste French Republican put
the following clause in his will: q crave
your pardon, my dear children, for leav-
ing you but modest competency
Another would have been able to make
you rich. But have held it a duty to
devote my whole life to the political
cause which l kad embraced, and assume
that you would prefer that TO any other
heritage"
RECENT legislation in England has
largely curtailed the trsffic in liquor in
that country. At last years sc sion of
Parliament a law was passed transferring
the licensing Of beer houses from the ex-
else officials to magistrates, and the result
is said TO be that 5000 beer houses have
been closed. 1t is now proposed bv the
temperance reformers to transfer the issue
of licenses from the magistrates 10 the
rate-payers.
BONNER is reported to have spent nearly
$200,000 since he was first bitten by mama
for "fast horses" The prices paid for the
most noted horses were as follows: POca-
hontas, So, h,000; Dexter. $33. .0a0: Bruno,
$4,000; Major Winfield, 500 0G0; Ian
rern and Light, $1,000; Flathush Maid,
So 500; the Auburn horse, $4,000; Joe
Elliott, a colt now owned by him, and eX-
pected TO beat Dexter, cost $4,000.
AN English paper says that one Of the
novelties of the season is a summer hat,
looking much like very good straw,
but in reality made Of wood shavings, and
sold for two and One-half pence. 4 high
ly superior article may be had for nine
and one-half pence. 1t is said to be ira
gile; heavy shower would reduce il 10
;he consistency of bl0tiing paper, and il
will not stand the slightest blow. But IL
fine weather it looks as well IS Panama
in America it would scarcely be re
garded as an evidence Of very ndeT
filial affection for son TO send his father
coffin az birthday gift but IN China
such gift is considered the very height
of courtesy and love, and is received with
gladness. paraded ostentatiously in the
best chamber, and, until required Tor
special use, is made depository tor cloth
ing or food. Sometimes the Chinaman
provides his own cofli ,, according TO Lis
fancy, long before his deceaSe.
THE distance To be covered by the pro
posed catlc from San Francisco f. China
i. as follows From San Franeisoo 10 the
Sandwich Islands, 2,0So; thence 20 MI
way Island, ], ,l4D; thence 70 Yok9hsmq.
Japan, . 260; thence 10 Shanghai, 1,035
miles. To this is To be aided one sixth
OF the whole to make statute miles Il $3.50,
and, also, the usual 20 per cent allowance
Tor slack in paying out cable & $50 miles,.
making the total length of cable required
to connect San Francisco, California. with
the Sandwich Islands, Japan, and China,
9,i2l miles.