The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.


A BREED of dog. that cannot bark has
been discovered in Australia.
AMAN in Bremen has made figure o
woman which can, owing to ingenious
ly contrived machinery, talk.
A HALF-PENNY paper is projected in
London which is expected to circulate
from 100000 to 10000 copies daily.
In recent hailstorm at Buffalo stones
fell, five of which aggregated the weight
OF five and quarter pounds.
THERE is one man in the Legislature
OF Massachusetts, who boldly declares that
whisky is nutritious and healthy.
MANY of the wsves of trouble, like those
of the ocean, will, if we await them calm.
ly, break at our feet and disappear.
SOMEBODY suggests that the descend
ants Of the signers Of the Declaration of
Independence should meet on the 4th of
July, 1875.
TwENTY-ONE millions of dollars are ex-
pended annually by the drinkers of lager
beer in the United States for their bev-
erage.
A BAR-KEEPER in one of the down town
hotels in New York is said to wear dia-
mond pin worth $3.50, and to get salary
of $12 week.
A VIENNA merchant celebrated the for
tieth anniversary of the founding of his
business by giving fifty thousand dollars
to the poor.
AN Iowa mathematician has calculated
that the English alphabet is capable of l.
391 724 2S9. .SS7 252 ,999, 425, 12S, ,493, ,402 200
changes, and not one more.
THE population of Washington Terri
tory, which in 1860 was II ,594, is now es-
timated by some persons at 10000, and by
others at 10000
THE Directors Of the Connecticut State
Prison say there is an apparent increase
of crime in the State, the number of con-
victs having increased from 1873 to 219, and
the prison is crowded.
A POOR woman in Buffalo, compelled to
beg to save her husband and children from
starvation, dropped her bank book the
other day, which showed that she had Just
deposited 1925.
A LOUISVILLE man, who is a graduate
of an Eastern college. and has prscticed
law and medicine, and studied for the min
istry, now drives brick cart, and thus
earns an honest living.
In Holland there are $4,000 wind mills
in constant use for the simple purpose of
drainage They are said to be almost of
colossal size, each lifting from 1O,O0O,OO0
to 5O,OOO,OO0 gallons of water every "A
hours.
THERE is family of summer residents
at Newport, consisting of four ladies';
they have brought with them twenty six
servants, and nine horses What house
hold, and without head"
ANILINE dyes are now said to be adul-
terated by mixture with fine granulated
sugar, each crystal of which is covered
with very thin film of the true dye, so
as to produce an excellent imitation in
color and form.
THE Mayor of Montgomery, Ala, in
the case of negro charged with petty
larceny, sustained the point that pinch
beck breastpin, won in "gift enterprise"
100 Mt Tho i"--rf.,l rrnrarty of the reputed
owner, and that to take it was not theft.
A RICH old lady of Caen, France, left
all her property to the "Institute of Fine
Arts" meaning probably the Academy
of Fine Arts" As there is no such insti-
tuition in existence as the former, the
heirs-at-law hope to secure the property.
CHARLES DICKENS lived longer than
Shakespeare, who died at flfty-three; than
Byron, who died at thirty-seven than
Tbackeray, who died at fifty-two; than
Burns, who died at thirty-seven; and was
one year younger than Macaulay, who
died at fifty-nine.
IT is estimated that should the entire
progeny of single pair of birds survive,
in the course of fifteen years they would
increase to nearly 100000. AS it is,
there is scarcely any increase from year
to year, the number that perish equaling
the number that are born.
A FRENCH observer, Mr. Jourdain, finds
that the administration of chloroform to
plants produces strange effects s-analOgous
to those of some drugs upon some ami
mails For instance, it gives the raspberry
plant sort of lock jaw, violently invert-
ing the leaves, as if they had muscles.
THE Michigan Press Association offer
the following premiums: For the best
make up" local paper, first week in Au-
gust, $40; and for the the paper present
ing the best get up of local matter during
the month of August, $10-the competi-
ton to be confined to local papers uncon-
nected with dailies.
THE New York Sorosis claims to have
among its active members thirty eight en-
gagged in literature, six editors, twelve
poets, six musical artists. twenty-fiv au
thors, two physicians, four professors, two
artists in painting, nine workers in art,
nine teachers. ten lecturers, one historian,
one author of scientific works, aid three
known philanthropists.
AN absurd wager between Lord Wey-
mouth and Sir Archibald Home has re-
Gently been decided in Scotland. They
were To walk up Ben LomOnd during a
high wind, Lord Weymouth in top boots
and backward, and Sir Archibald Home
rs he pleased, but to carry in his hand an
open umbrella Sir Archibald lost the
wager, which was for $4,000.
SPANISH gentlemen speak with great
enthusiasm of the handsome behavior, i'm |
A recent duel, of two naval officers of high |
rank, intimate friends, who had quar-
relied over their cups. They fought twenty |
PAGES apart, to advance to a central line |
and fire at will. One walked forward, and |
when near the line the other fired and hit |
him. The wounded man staggered to the |
inc, and said, 81 am dead. Come thou |
and be killed" The other came up until |
be touched the muzzle of his adversary's |
pistol, and in moment both were dead
ike gentlemen.
A SINGULAR story comes from Sheffield.
Briefly sketched, it amounts to this: A |
farmer was sitting in a public house, when |
entered a woman with fine baby in her
arms Jolly farmer admired the baby and |
wished it were his. The mother said that |
for half a sovereign she would give him
the child. Jolly farmer laid down the |
half sovereign and received the child. A |
cab was called, and the jolly farmer and
his child started homeward. Sequel-1n-
human mother repented, but she bad
omitted to take jolly farmers card. Po-
lice summoned. No child found at last
advices.
A VERY generous act is told OF nj. Ger
nusch, the italian banker lately expelled
from France After the taking of Rome
and his Imprisonment in Fort st. Angelo,
he was compelled to leave Italy. He was
without funds, but one of his compstri'
OTIS said, "Here are 500 francs for which |