The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-05-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are in Kentucky Al 30 negroes
over IS years ofagc.
THE Boston Adcertiser announces that
boards are going out of fashion.
A COLoRED voter, century old, was
registered the other day in San Fran
cisco.
SENoRA BLEsTIGUE, a Mexican lady
died lately, and gave 100000 to the
poor.
THE opium revenue in India, for the
year 1967S, was just under $45,000,00o.
A MAN has lately been whipped at
Newgate Prison, London, for garroting 4
lady.
A CONNECTICUT wrestler recently
broke one leg in four places in his ath-
letic practice.
IT is estimated that there will be half a
million Texas cattle driven to Kansas
this year.
THE estimated population of Pennsyl-
vania, by the coming census, is over 600,
000
THE dealers in kerosene in Vermont
town have agreed not to draw any oil at
ter sunset.
Mr.. LYMAN UTLEy, of Walden, Vt, has
tub of maple sugar that he made in
1885, thirty-five years ago.
PIERRE BoNAPARTE's head is describ-
ed as so fllt that you could set out small
cold supper on the top of it.
THE oddity of book titles eliminates in
one lately announced in london ::
Ginx's Baby; his Birth, and Other
MisfOrtunes."
T,r, &C hot
testant Missionary Societies in the world,
with 2,033 missionaries, and expe nding
Go, ,164, go annually.
"OHl my dear child, how came you so
wet ?" inquired an affectionate mother of
her son. "Why, ma, one of the boys said
| daresn't jump into the creek, and by
jingo, tell you [ amt to be dared"
In 1868, 5GS capital crimes were COM
mitted in France, while only eleven per
| sons were condemed to death, of whom
six were reprieved and five executed
THE total number of persons buried,
during the past seven years, in three
Cleveland cemeteries, was 6S99, and of
this number LIZA died of diseases of the
lungs.
THE Methodist Book Concern annual
ly publishes 1900 bound volumes, and
about 1000 tracts, and, in 1860. printed
547, 900 pages of Sunday school
books
A PHILADELPHIA blind man recovered
his sight remarkably when passing po-
liceman offered to drop brick III his
cap. "No yer don't" said he, and was ar
rested.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON says the chain
of Western railroads to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time
than it costs to bring an orchard into
bearing.
THE railways of Great Britain and Ire
land are 1874 miles in length, and for
the week ending April 1, received for
freight and passage money 50, 500, or
$22950 mile.
AT a minstrel show in New Orleans,
one Talbot performs William Tell by
shooting with pistol an apple from the
head of his wife, the ball lodging in the
board against which she stands.
M. SOMMER propounds new theory Of
sleep his idea is that sleep is simply
result of the deoxygenation of the system,
and he believes that sleepinesS comes on
as soon as the oxygen that is stored in
the blood is exhausted.
In an English trial for breach promise
of marriage, lately, letter was read from
the lover, which, among many other nice
things, contained the following frank ami
gracious suggestion: II was you, dear
/ est, would take that beastly floger out of
your hair y
The all-powerful influence of the En-
| L q II
that there are in France $4,000
rural guards, $4,000 gendarmes,
$4,000 primary schoolmasters, $1,000
private guards, 10000 custom agents
10000 foresteIs, 5000 police agents
5000 justices of the peace, $3.50
! Judges, at least $4,000 tobacco deal
ers (appointed by the Government), and
immense numbers OF constables, notaries,
and pensioners.
THE soil for Lima beans should be
richer than for the dwarfs, as they are
strong feeders A shovelful of rich light
compost mixed with the earth i'm each hill,
will be the best fertilizer. Sandy or
gravelly soils are much TO be preferred,
as clay lands are subject to become hard
and retard their growth. Hills should not
be less than four feet apart each way, as
upon an abundance OF room will, in a
measure, depend the amount of the crop
THE Paris GaulOis SAYS that some
wOrkmen, engaged In demClishing an old
house in Paris, came upon a mes of al
ders containing some hundred OF these
reptiles, at the bottom of an exhausted d
well. In the midst of this snake nest was
found skeleton, which had probably
fallen into the well years ago, and the
flesh of which had been devoured by the
adders. Strange to say, in the hand OF
the skeleton was pocket-book of rec
morocco leather, in which. when opened
there were found forty bank notes for1 900
each, woman's likeness, and a Letter
which had been almost entirely eaten by
the reptiles, the only fragment remaining
decipherable bearing the words, "Do no
make known the plot" A judicial inquiry
has been commenced.
ALAS for the giant business i'm New
York State The exposure of the Cardiff
humbug has encouraged an old repro
bate to write TO the Rutland tVt) Rerdlo
!, that the Cohoes mastodon, so carefully
preserved in the museum ut Albany, is
the skeleton ofa circus elephant which h
knows to have been buried in 1893 IL
. those days caravans, not undersiandinl
the art of advertising, used To travel h,
night, to avoid being" seen for nothing,
and this animal died on the road, and wa
buried consequently iu the night Tn,
circus was Titns & Angevine's. and IN,
keeper sawed off the tusks of the deat
elephant for preservation. The body wa
so large that it had TO be cut in piece
before the horses could haul it out of tn.
Il road and dunn IL In q -oinhhorinr non