The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-24
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| FIFTY out OF one hundred students in
the Minnesota State University are
women.
A oNE-cENT workingman's paper is to
be started in Brooklyn on the 1st of
March.
| JANUARY last, it is said, averaged eight
degrees warmer than any previous Janu-
ary for fortysix years.
THE Khedive is coloring meerschaum
said to be worth, with diamond trim
mings, $4,000.
In Baltimore nearly 5000 women find
steady employment throughout the season
in packing oysters.
THE latest census taken in Vienna
shows that there are 2,536 persons in all
attached to the imperial palace.
THE Tract Society of the NJ. E. Church
has distributed four million pages of
tracts in Germany, during the past year.
THE total amount of coal consumed in
this country in 1869 was 29,s39,014 tons
In England, in 1868, 103, al ,157 tons were
used.
In recent breach of promise suit at
Bloomington, ILL.,, the jury rendered a
verdict in favor of the plaintiff, Miss Lee,
for $4,000.
THE sons of Maine in Lowell, Mass,
will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary OF
the admission of Maine into the Union
March ID.
A RICH Mussulman at Smyrna has just
died, leaving no ; 's-at-law, and $780, ,000
thus drops int lie Turkish Treasury
where it is very much needed.
THE first coin made in the Philadelphia
mint, was the copper cent in 1893 The
first silver dollar was made in 1871, and
the first gold eagle in 1895.
THE selectmen of Douglas, Mass, have
decreed compulsory vaccination for all the
inhabitants of the town, on account of the
occurrence of case of small pox.
THE Paris workmen who went out to
bury Noir lost $15O,0O0 in wages, and the
whole loss to trade by the demonstration
is put at 100000.
A WOMAN recently fell out of fifth.
story window in Paris, upon the head oi
foot passenger. They both had a roll
in the mud, but neither was badly injured
THE Lord Mayor of London, at a re
cent meeting to promote emigration, esti
mated the number of skilled workmen ou:
of employment in England as between
10000 and $4,000.
MILTON PAGE, of Alexandria, n. H., is
the champion egg-eater of New England
On the 2Sth ult., he stretched himself out
side of eighty-tive of the largest eggs that
could be selected.
WHITTIER, being asked for an auto
graph, the other day, at once complied by
penning the following couplet under hi:
signature:
1.-THE name is but the shadow, which we find
Too often larger than the man behind"
THE production of petroleum in 1865
was 10 per cent more than in any other
year since the lucky pioneer first struck
oil" The production of Pennsylvania
since 1859 has been 1883, 100 barrels.
BoTEToURT, Va, can boast that she ha!
not had prisoner in her jail for nearly
twelve months, nor has any crime beer
committed in the county for which il
would be necessary to imprison one.
THE Country Gentleman makes good
point when it says, in answer to request
for the address of a stock breeder, that as
he never advertises it is fair to suppose he
has nothing to sell.
PROFESSOR JOHNSON, of Yale College
having recently examined sixteen different
kinds of fertilizers, some of which are SOLD
as high as $50 ton, finds that very large
proportion of them are worthless.
PRUSSIA decides that horsehesh i.
wholesome food, also that it is cheap, mucf
cheaper than beef or mutton. Perhaps OF
; the average, it is But it would be deal
, feeding to masticate steaks cut from sucl
animals as Dexter and Mountain Boy.
ONE of New Hampshire's. Governor
made it a rule to take into consideration
| A. 81 II 20 1T =,
the State Prison until he had served ou
at least half the term for which he wa
committed.
BROOKLYN claims to be the "City o
Churches, having no less than two hun
dred and three places of worship, beins
an increase of eighty ght in the last fiji
teen years, some of them surprisingly
elegant.
PERTRUsET, the lion-killer, giant il
form and strength, is one of the curiositie
of Paris. He has chamber carpete,
with the skins of lions slain in Algeria
and gives recherche dinners therein. Hi
gun can hardly be lifted by an Ordinar,
man.
Bishop SIMPSON said, in a recent lecture
that while in Europe he never trayele,
with a German student without being tol,
that he was saving money to go T.
America, nor rode with an Irishman tha
did not ask him if he knew his cousin
, Boston gives its poor on Monday an,
. Thursday, mutton soup with rice; ol
: Tuesday and Friday, fish chowder ol
{ Wednesday, beef soup with vegetables
on Saturday, beef soup with ship bread
/. and on Sunday, beef soup with dump
8 lings
2 THE Michigan State Treasury, ol
: February 1, had a cash balance on han,
of 1885,, 900, and, during January, the re
, duction on the State debt was $310, SOC
4 leaving a total unpaid debt at that date c
: about 50, ,57S,0 900, of which over $4,000
s bears no interest.
r THE Hartford and New Haven Raj
road Company have locomotive which
e during the past twelve and halfmonth'
0 has run upwards of 10000 miles, withou
n the loss of a single trip, and without fiv
minutes detention at any time, and ha
never needed repair.
PHILIP HEBBARD, of Quidneck, Rhod
Island, is at the head of weighty hous,
o hold. He weighs 225 pounds, and h
L wife 100. Fifteen children have been th
e result of the marriage, the youngest bein
n II wears of age and weighing 100 pound
h and the oldest 80 years of age, weighir
;, 237 pounds.
NEAR Fort Montgomery, on the HUI,
Ii son, there lives man named Storms, WI
/ was born with mslformed spine, ar
T. has never been able to move about e.
/ cept on all-fours," using his hands equs
ly with his feet He has wife and s
T. children, and earns "a living by cuttir
!" cord-wood.
"a THE late Prof Faraday, who was
;s humble origin, said that when bread W
! very dear his mother, at the beginning
- the week, gave him loaf for himself tn
= he might have the management of it e
:, tirely. He Immediately marked it o
" carefully into fourteen portions, one
y which he ate each morning and eyenin