The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-01-06
FACTS AND FIGURES.

country are prompted by jealousy.
THE Methodist denomination controls
forty mine educational institutions.
NIAGARA county, N Y, sent 21O, O,402
barrels of apples to market last year.
Two young Tcnnesseeans recently took
out licenses to marry the same girl.
THE army chews and smokes $4,000
worth of tobacco per month. The
"weed" is furnished at cost
A GLOUCESTER, Mass, barber has a
pianOfOrte in his shop for the benefit of
his waiting patrons.
AN institution to educate colored preach
ers has been opened in Macon, Ga, with
twenty-five in attendance.
IT is reported that the production of
salt in Michigan during 1869 amounted to
ST. $50 barrels.
children profess no creed and never enter
place of worship.
As sort of poetical justice, London
convicts are put at hard work making
boots for the Metropolitan Police.
THE latest plan to draw custom is pla
carded in Boston store: "Ten dollars
presented to every tenth customer"
VIM. G. JONES, Wilmington, Delaware,
undertaken, has buried 6,S76 persons in
half O century. He saw Washington
once
1T is authoritatively stated that the loss
of life by kerosene is greater than by rail-
road and steamboat accidents combined.
THE whole number of colored schools
of every description in the South is 5,454,
with 9,5O3 teachers and 256,3 1853 scholars.
A sPUNKY bride in Port Hope, Canada,
married the grOOmsman because the bride
groom was too drunk to stand up.
JOSEPH RAMETTA has played the flute
at the Boston Museum for the pasttwcnty
six years, without being absent from per-
fOrmance.
A GAME Of chess, lasting ten years, has
recently been concluded between DR.. Karl
Brenzinger. of Germany, and his brother
in New York.
THE recent paragraph going the rounds
that little Minnie Warren was dangerous
ously ill, grew out of malicious remark
in California paper that she could not
live "long"
1T is estimated that within five years
$120,OO0,00O will be invested in factories
in Maine, employing 100000 annually.
GOVERNMENT has granted to railroads
1S5,S90,794 acres of public lands, or 2OO,
454 square miles-equal to the combined
area of Great Britain and France.
THERE is a steam hammer at Danville,
Pa, which cost $4,000, and which will
crack nut without breaking the kernel,
or crush a solid cannon ball with sixty
ton blow.
ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, which has
been building in New York since 1853, is
to be the largest church edifice in the
United States, affording ample room for
1900 people.
A MAN in Concord, N H., on being told
a few days ago by his counsel that his
wife would probably succeed in her ap-
plicaton for divorce, became insane,
and he is now an inmate of the State
Asylum.
HARPER shows figures to prove that in
fifty libel suits instituted against newspa
per during the last ten years, the gross
amount of money collected is only three
thousand dollars.
THE Louisiana Penitentiary has 341 in
mates, who make every week day 10000
yards of cotton and wooden goods, 400
pairs of shoes, 20 barrels, and 10000
brick. The machinery employed cost the
State 100000.
"A YOUNG lady at Sioux City, Iowa,
whose father was accidentally shot, sup
posing it was premeditatcd, dipped her
fingers in her fathers blood, swearing not
to wash it off till she had avenged his
death.
WATTS composed six hundred and nine
ty-seven hymns, and Wesley six hundred;
and about tenth part of them live to
this day, and are sung in every Christian
church where the English language is
used
THE Nantucket Iquirer recently re-
ported that a venerable citizen OF that is
land 81 years of age, was moving salt
grass on the meadow "Where can this
be beat" it asks, cutting hay in the mid
die of December by man OF 3d."
THE women of Georgia have reinterred
1927 fallen Confederates in the Confede-
rate cemetery at Marietta, Ga, and appeal
for further aid TO gather up the soldiers
whose remains lie scattered over the
fields of corn and wheat and by lonely
roadsides."
AT Cincinnati, $4,000 barrels of "saleon
washings" are re distilled every year,
yielding about two and a half gallons new
spirits EACH The slops bring about two
dollars per barrel, and whisky guzzlers
drink the stuff distilled from them with
out being able to tell it from new.
A SAN Francisco Chinaman was caught
: by his queue, as he jumped through the
hatchway to escape the police in pursuit
of him. He dangled for an instant, and
then drawing his knife he severed his
precious pig tail and dropped in safety,
. while the officer tumbled over backward,
with handful of hair.
GEORGE LuMB a Paducah, Ky, dray
driver. recently inherited $4,000 by the
death of q relative i'm England. He inn
mediately went over after 1t, but found
/ he would have to wait year or two be
, fore touching the money, SO he prudently
returned to Paducah aud resumed his old
business
CARRIE DIAMOND was pretty San
Francisco milliner who made over $30-
D 600 worth of property to friend" before
I failing in business After making sue
cessful failure she wanted the money back.
D Her friend wouldn't agree to that. Soon
after she fell sick her friend watched with
: her, and one morning early she was found
C dead. fumes of chlOroform in her lungs
t and prussc acid in her stomach.
= OF 1,777 Protestant missionaries, 533
0 are in India and Ceylon, PIT in South
: Africa, 217 in Guiana and the West Indies,
! 1876 i'm the Pacific Islands and the China
Sea, 1873 in China and Japan, 1872 in West
Africa and 80 i'm Western Asia. The large
II numbers in South Africa and other British
+ colonies include many pastors of feeble
n churches of English settlers who are not
j.. properly foreign missionaries.
y PoRr SAID, the terminus of the Suez
Canal on the Mediterranean, is the mari
time capital of the Isthmus. With its tall
n chimneys of brick and stone and its iron
. stacks, it looks rs if a part of Pittsburgh
/, had been planted in the !sthmus 1t al,
Is ready contains 20, 600 inhabitants, but not
% n yestige of a dwelling existed within
q = miles of the spot when M. de Lesseps and
his few adventurous companions first
: pitched their tent upon this barren coast
e THE United States pensions paid during