The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-03-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are 10000 tenant farmers in
Ireland.
The bear crop of Maine last year was
32S animals
MAN drives a street car in Cincinnati
who was once worth $20O,OJO.
THE coal fields of America are estimated
to contain 3 800 COX, ,00O, 600 tons of coal.
ITiscomputed thot there are s., ,092, 600,
600 of fire and marine insurance in the
United States.
The first cheese factory in Massachu-
setts went into operation in 1861; now
there are 26 in the State.
EVERY steamer between New York and
Europe is said to carry an average of five
pickpockets or burglars.
THE curious discovery has been made
by an English surgeon that monkeys can
not be poisoned with strychnine They
seem to eat all kinds of poison with I'M
punity.
THE East Greenwich Pendulum records
the death of Betsy Hunt, of North Kings
town, Rhode Island, and says "She died,
apparently, early in the day. and, while
some of her ncighbOrs were engaged in
laying her out, the corpse, as it was sup
posed to be, commenced winking, and
finally rallied, and lived several hours,
when she died again"
WHEN Judge Ingraham sentenced the
New York murderer Reynolds to death,
he alluded To the plea of drunkenness set
forth by his counsel, and said that if the
law admitted any such cause, there would
be no punishment for crime.
J.- ronnDt ,o1 oc N I'LL oo.o 80, t.,
woman testfie she and the testator
stood before a lo...."g glass, joined hands,
and agreed to live together as man and
wife. She received by the viii $4,000 in
fiye-twentes, and house and the furn-
ture therein.
A CALIFORNIA operator, who tele-
graphcd to San Francisco, inquiring If he
should buy at quotations, received
in reply: "No price too high" but
when, after acting upon this advice, be
asccrtaincd that the reply should have
read, "No; price too high" he was pro-
voked, not to say annoyed.
\ MAN in Wood county, Ohio, who was
acquitted of murder on a plea of insanity,
a year ago, secured his lawyers by giving
them mortgage on his farm. He rcpu
dates the mortgage now, as he was in
sane when he made il, according to the
showing Of these same lawyers
A NICE young man in New Orleans ran
away with and married the supposed
daughter Of highly respectable lady, and
came back for the lady's blessing, which
was freely given, together with the in
formation that the girl was not her daugh-
ter, but quadroon servant girl. He said
it was a swindle, and left Tor parts un-
known.
AS some Young men of the village of
Walls, Shetland (Scotland), were amusing
themselves by firing shots from an old
shin carronade on "a recent hOlidsy occa-
sion, the gun burst. One of the youths
legs was blown off and carried about 100
Yards, where it fairly kicked bystander,
breaking his back The young man who
was kicked died few hours after the ac-
cident. The other will recover.
RECENT statistics show that England
has about ., 500 miles of navigable rivers
$500 miles of canals, and 10000 miles OF
railroads; France has l ,74O miles OF river
navigation, 3,700 miles of canals, $3.50
miles of railroads; Belgium has 73O miles
OF river navigation, 900 miles of canals
and 400 miles of railroads. The Ger
man States have over 1000 miles of navi
gable rivers, 600 miles of canals, and
about 800 miles Of railroads.
THE Springfield (Mass) Republican tells
q story about young man who, while
with some companions examining safe,
entered il and closed the door. But the
lock sprung to its place, and the poor
youth was buried alive. The man who
had the key was two miles distanrNnd
the immured would die in five minutes.
Hammers and chisels were brought into
use, and the door opened, and the almost
dead man crawlcd out of his too safe re-
treat"
THERE is lady in Atlanta, Ga, who is
the mother Of FIVE healthy, intelligent chill
drcn, the eldest of which is about years
old A singular fact in connection with these
children is, that not one of them has ever
been known To cry. They have been VIC
Tins TO the pains and aches that child-fiesh
is heir to, vet all the sign of pain they
have ever manifested are low means.
They never cry. In other things they
are as other children, and full of life and
mirth.
A GERMAN paper states that tram
composed of all the locomotives and rail-
road carriages in Europe would reach
contain 100000 passenger carriages and
800, 600 luggage vans. The network oi
European railroads represents length oil
7O,118 miles $4,000 locomotives are en-
ployed on it, and these rush over dis
lance of 600000 900 miles in year. l5o,-
OOO, 900 cwts of iron have been used for the
rails, and 50, 900 600 cwts. of coal are re-
quired yearly to feed the engines.
A sUopIIFTER, recently arrested in
New York. was found to have in his pos
session a valise which, although to all
appearances wellmadc leather trunk,
strapped up tight and locked, could be
opened at the end by pulling short cord.
In this way goods could be stolen by slip
ming them into the valise, which was
placed on the counter for that purpose.
The shoplifter in the present instance was
carving off two pieces of valuable silk IN
his valisc.
THE new building of the Five Points
Mission has just been dedicated. One OF
the sneakers said that great mistakes are
sometimes made about the Gospel. He
maintained that doing kindly act to a
fellow being is religion as well as preach
ing and praying. a. would not Che said)
give q copper coin for the mere preaching
in this chapel, if nothing else were done
if the Gospel were not sent kissing
hot from warm hearts into the cellars and
qarrcts of this locality. | am firmly CON
vinced that the grandest power on this
earth to-day is warm human heart. II
is worth a barrel of Bibles and a barrelful
of sermons