The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-07-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are $3.50 beer saloons in St.
Louis
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, claims a popula-
ton of 10000.
INDIA has a ladies' newspaper, edited by
a woman.
Russia Furnishes her drunkards by
making them sweep the streets.
4 GRAND HAVEN hen recently hatched
53 chickens at one setting.
VI0LINs were invented in 1477, and in
troduced into England by Charles l.
A PRACTICAL man wants to make
lager beer vault of the Mammoth Cave.
In the last election in Washington
Territory, fifteen women voted in Thurs
ton county.
THE census is to cost about six cents
head for all the persons enrolled, or g, 1885,
900 for the whole.
PRESIDENT FULLERTON, of TIE Bellows
Falls, Vermont, Natioi al Bank, is 96 years
of age, vet ne rides seventeen miles each
day to the bank
THERE is girl near st. Paul, Mimi,
who, although only twenty years of age,
supports, by working a farm, her aged
father ami mother and an idiot brother.
THE average daily consumption of Co
chituate water in Boston the last year
was 15070, 400 gallons, being an in
crease over the previous year of 301 ,233
gallons.
A CABBAGE which branches out every
year and bears great number of small
cabbages, each about as big as an orange,
is one of the attractions at Los Angeles,
Cal
ONE of the cheap papers of Paris cir
culates 100000 copies daily, mainly among
hackmen, nursemaids, soldiers and farm
ers. 1t is not allowed 10 discuss politics.
IN demolishing TIE old Episcopal
/ Church In Newtown, Conn, the other
pulpit, whose body had probably been
there hundred years.
CARL II WALTON, who recently COM
mitted suicide in Woodlawn cemetery,
near Boston, lett note declaring that 'as
the garden he laid out had been devast-
ated by the chickens of his son, be had
become tired of life, and was going to
meet his beloved wife"
THOMAS & THOMAS, newspaper ard
magazine publishers al Boston, paid $50
and costs the other day for rejected and
destroyed manuscripts /; the Suprene
Court ruling that the manuscripts were
the property of The author until the pub
fishers paid for them. and that in neglect
ing 10 return them 10 the author they
became liable for their value.
THE official returns recently received
at the Bureau of Statistics show that the
total value of condensed milk exported
from the port of New York in the year
1869, was $40 .652. Of which s21, $50 went
10 England, $4,000 to Australia, 50 4O4 10
The United States of Columbia. $9176 10
China. SS,116 to Brazil S3,0S7 to Cubs,
S3 093 to the British West Indies, and
81, ,167 to the Danish West Indies.
In New England the average amount
of milk required to make one pound of
cured cheese is 10 pounds the product of
cheese per cow from April 10 November
is 400 pounds the average cost per pound
for manufacture, including interest on
capital, commission, etc, is p cents, and
the net income the past summer has been
ID cents per pound.
A PARIS journal explains the origin of
the phrase, 10 make fascO. A German
Professor, touring in glass factory,
imagines that glass blowing is the easiest
thing in the world. Putting the pipe TO
his lips, he attempts practical illustra-
ton of the ease with which various forms
| may De ptouuCtN, DIb OIliN chttttOr III
! celebrating fiask-that is, a fascO-fail-
ing wholly in anything more complete.
THE Pungolo, of Naples, mentions a
| strange suicide committed at Gaeta. A
/ sergeant named ComOlli, young man of
excellent conduct, went 10 the building
where the artillery is kept, and lighting a
fuse of loaded cannon, placed himself
in front. He was blown literally to
atoms, his head and feet slone being at
forwards found. The cause assigned was,
as stated in two letters, one To his father
and the other to his captain, extreme dis
like of a military life.
ACCORDING to the jamestown On. "
journal, there lives in the town of Har-
mony, Chautauqua county, a husband and
wife who have not exchanged words for
twenty one years. In 1S49 the husband
contradIcted his better half hsrshly before
company, aud she threatened that in
default of better behavior she would never
speak To him again. The husband replied
that he wished nothing better, and the
wife took him at his word. They have
continued 20 live together i'm this taciturn
fashion ever since, and during the long
silence have had several children. Their
intercourse is conducted in an indirect
manner through one of the children, as
for instance, by asking a child at table
Twill your mother have some meat ?
which is answered i'm the same roundabout
fashion The couple is said to be wealthy
and to be owners oi pretty large farm.
FLORIDA is proud of the possession Of 8
youth who can handle snakes, scorpions
and centipcdes with perfect impuuity III,
makes pets and playtellows of the largel
kind of rattlesnskes, twisting them arounC
HIM, and dallying with their forket
tongues or twelve rattles. He actual,
has carried scorpions in his bosom, ant
wasps and hornets in his sleeves anC
pockets without receiving bite or sting. IN
: the lonclinoss of the grove or forest, or II
any secluded place infested with snakes
he can, by a few talismaDic words. cal
around him any number OF snakes, whom
he can charm into perfect obedience u
all his mandates. He can PICK them uI
4 and lay them down at any given place, ant
/. at his bidding they will remain there unit
+ his return after an absence sometimes
hours He can take rat or a mouse ans
r SO manipulate it-so put that inexplicabl
tvrant spell upon it-that II becomes
:, mute snppliant for favor, is quiescen'
, and may be tumbled about at pleasure.