The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-08-11
FACTS And FIGURES,

ONE hundred thousand settlers entered
Kansas in the year 1859.
In Virginia the oak is said to be dying
out, and the poplar succeeding.
FIVE SIXTIES of the American railroads
have the four fest eight inch gauge.
THE George Peabody statue in London
is now complete, at cost of $4,000.
A CALIFORNIA lady has taken to silk
worms as pets, and raised large colony
for amusement.
NASHVILLE has population of 25.771,
being an increase of nearly 5000 since
1860.
THE birds with the city limits of New
Orleans are now protected by law from
being killed.
THERE is an umbrella in Bangor, Me-,
which has been IN possession of one fam.
lily for fifty years. 1t was bridal gift.
A CENSUS of Sweden, just completed,
shows population of 4,l72,0S9 souls-a
decrease in two years of 22,061.
THE Prussian Government, it is said,
pays fifty thousand dollars year to the
political spies whom it keeps in Paris.
A CONsoIENCE-sTRICKEN New Jersey
tippler has entered complaint against
himself for drunkenness, and paid the
fine.
ONE of the rules of the Philadelphia
free baths is that no person shall remain
in the water longer than twenty minutes
IT is stated that Daniel Webster's head
grew larger as his intellect expanded, and
he had to change the size of his hat every
few years.
IT is but five years since nitro-glycerine
was introduced. During that time it has
been the direct cause of 1,700 deaths.
A LIQUOR dealer in Linn county, Kan,
has been sentenced to ten minutes impris-
onment and fine of $500 for violation
of the law.
ONE hundred and fifty men, each over
65 years Of age, sat down to a dinner to-
gether, the other day, at hotel on Peake s
island, Portland Harbor.
THE late James T. Brady once remark
ed that his experience among clients con-
vinced him that mans wife is his best
lawyer.
THE Sportsmen's Club Of Denver City,
last spring imported several hundred doz-
en- of quails, and turned them loose. They
are reported to be doing well.
A YOUNG lady of Boston, troubled with
large ears, is reported to have had a
couple Of inches trimmed from them ali
around by an ingenious surgeon.
PETER SCHURTz, farmer living ia
Clinton, N. Y, has, in his barn, hay that
was cut tiityfour years ago. 1t is said to
be as bright and sweet as any cut this
summer.
TIE youngest man in the United States
House of Representatives is Eugene Hale,
of the Fifth District Of Maine, who is "a
years old. The Republicans have nomin-
ated him for reelection to Congress.
THE London rose show took place on
the 25th Of June snd was visited by over
seventeen thousand persons. The roses
exhibited varied in color from white to
almost black.
THE Rev. Elias Libby, of Limerick,
Me-, walked twelve miles and picked half
e bushel Of blueberries on recent Satur-
day, preaching the following Sunday, as
usual; aged 81.
A YOUNG lady in Brooklyn, N. Y, has
received as wedding present fan made
in Paris, at cost of over $4,000 in gold
1t is of tortoise shell, studded with tiny sol
itaire diamonds.
THE assessed value of real estate in
New York city for the present year is
$742,134, $50; the personal property is
assessed at $305, ,292 600 making total Of
real and personal property OF Sl,O47 ,427,
Gao.
A YOUNG girl, convicted Of child-mur
der in Austria, and sentenced to death,
committed suicide in her cell after she had
been informed that the Emperor, Francis
Joseph, had changed her sentence TO i'm
prisonment for life.
THE Trenton Santinel says: CA family
of high social standing in New York city
has lately lost a daughter by deli'ium tre-
mems. Another daughter of the same fam
lily has been reduced very low from the
same cause, but is gradually recovering
A LEADING physician in Paris, after
asking patient the questions according
to formula, as to sleeping and eating, next
demands what newspaper he reads Ii
the patient be nervous or excitable, the
mildest and dullest journal is prescribed
THE Boston Journal of Chemistry says
that the one hundred grains of metallic
iron found in the blood of healthy adult
would be sufficient to make a good sized
pen knife blade, but no useful implement
of a larger size.
a WASHINGTON gentleman, the other
day, tried the experiment of carrying
81 AGO in one dollar bills in his hat, but q
gust of wind took off mis- hat, scattering
the greenbscks in every direction, and
leaving him $500 poorer, if not wiser
man.
In Prussia there are 1913 academies
with 3,242 professors and 56,1n pupils, Of
whom 3S,175 are Protestants, 1922
Catholics, 1865 Israelites, and 10 belong
| ing to different other sects The number
OF preparatory colleges is twenty nine, ol
which thirteen are in the Rhenist
provinces.
THE emigration from Sweden to the
| United States has decreased vastly since
last year. From the beginning Of thi'
year to the last of June, abOue nins
thousand four hundred emigrants have
sailed from the port Of GOttenburg fol
America, to eighteen thousand and Sly
hundred in the same period last year.
Ara recent trial in Texas the jury were
unable to agree, eleven being for convic
ton, while the twelfth stood out stoutly
for acquittal All other attempts to Sc
cure unanimity having failed, the recalcl
trant Juror at length agreed to settle the
question by game cf cards, and having
lost the game, cheerfully gave his vot1
| for convection.
AN organ grinders monkey came neal
creating tremendous conflagration fl
Baltimore recentlY just as the careless act
of a child caused the late awful destruc
ton by fire in Constantinople. Ths
monkey found a box of friction matche'
in the house, took them to a bedroom ant
set fire to bed. He was found dancing
in great glec around the flames he ha(
kindled.
AN insurance company in Philadelphis
refused to pay insurance on property de
stroyed by recent fire in that city, TAX
ing the ground that the fire which de
stroyed the property, was the result of ,
riot and the city Is responsible for all de
struction of property within its limits
! that is caused by riots. The riot wa
created and conducted by the firemen.