The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-05-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

come of two million francs year.
In twenty-three weeks there have been
twenty rainy Mondays in Boston.
THERE is factory in London which
produces 10000 artificial teeth week.
THERE is only one town in Massa-
chusetts that has not a church building.
THE number of milch-cows in the
United States has increased 100000 since
1860.
IT takes 1000 head of cattle to supply
Philadelphia with beef for single DAY.
POTTsvILLE, Pa, is the home of man
who has been on drunk for thirty-tive
years.
THE Germans of New York have form
ed a Fat Mans Association. A 265-pound-
er presides
IT is said that 100000 Californians are
unconnected. even nomirally, with any
religious body.
SIX men, convicted of petty larcenies,
were publicly whipped at Wilmington,
Del, few days ago.
Ice thirty three inches thick, and so
clear that newspaper can be read
through it, is product of Minnesota.
THE whole number of vessels owned in
the United States is 26,393, the tonnage
being 3,744,319 tons.
THE Neeo Hampshire Gazette is one hun
dred years oil, and boasts that it never
missed a publication day.
Boston has had sixty. seven marriages
during the past year in which the grooms
were under twenty one years of age.
A LONDON criminal has been imprisOn-
ed three hundred times. He has spent
forty years and eight months in cOnfine-
ment
A COLORED pedestrian arrived at Lynch
burg, Va, the other dav, after some twen-
ty-five days walk from New Orleans.
THERE are :}94 lodges of Odd Fellows
in Ohio. Their general fund amounts to
$715 S96, and the widows and orphans
fund to $800,01S.
A PARIS correspondent estimates that
twenty thousand sane people are i'm
prisOned as lunatics in France, simply to
get them out of the way.
AGRICULTURAL implements being
introduced throughout New Zealand, and
the culture of flax is an industry which
bids fair to assume large proportions.
A LIVE lizard, five and half inches
long, was found, on post DaOrtena examin-
alton, in the heart of an OK which recent
ly died at fremont Centre, Long Island.
A MAINE burglar in prison recently
gained possession of hoop skirt, and
made the steel springs into saws, with
| which he cut the bars of his cell window.
HEREAFTER. according to the laws OF
Mississippi, any person sending OF accept
| ing a challenge, or second carryinga chal-
| lenge, or any person going out of the
State to fight duel, will be forever dis
| franchised.
BROOKLYN, Mass. has "last years" lamb
the head of which is put on upside down.
| 1t can turn it about half way around, and
when it feeds it travels backwards. The
animal appears healthy, and has fine
| fleece of wool.
THE leading Job printers of Boston
have decided to keep black book for each
others inspection, wherein shall be reg
istered the name of individuals who
neglect to pay their bills, or who order
printing and never call for it.
| THE blasting of Blossom Rock, in the
| harbOr of San Francisco, was witnessed
by from $4,000 20 10000 persons. Twenty
three tons of powder were used. An i'm
mense column Of water, stones and smoke
was thrown up about one hundred feet.
In the square of st. Mark, at Venice,
| there is a clock, and two bronze men
| strike the hours on bell. One day an
inouisitive stranger put his head between
| the hammer and the bell, and the bronze
man knocked his brains out.
| DURING the quarter ending March 80,
1870, there were ,415,266 letters for
warded from the United States for Eu-
rope, the postage on which amounted to
| 1pl ODi apA 1uri fhp nprIOI
| 1,317,S54 letters were sent from Europe
to the United States, postage, $l24 ,O95. 10.
A COPY OF Spooner's Vermont Journ.v,
published at Windsor in 1921, has a COM
munication which the editor prOnOunces
crazy, and which suggests the feasibility
of opening a road, or canal, for freight,
"across New Hampshire and Vermont to
the Pacific. or Western Sea"
A BosTON paper says: with all our
increase of population the past year the
deaths have only been increased by four
the total number being 5,523. OF this
number, 916 were by consumption, 29l
by brain diseases, 146 by bronchitis, 40
by cancer, and 220 have died from acci
| dental causes"
sm~APPARITION RINGs-A novelty has
reached London under the above appella
ton which is said to be an invention the
cleverness. of which is unquestiOnable.
Without any necromantic tricks, an Opti-
cal delusiOn, pure and simple, is produced.
| To all appearance link is seen to traverse
the whole length of a chain, but it does
not fall Oft, and whence it comes or
whittier it goes are inexplicable mys-
teries.
| New YORK does about one eighth of
| the whole soda water business of the
United States. One thousand fountains
are in blast in that city alone during the
summer months. One store on Broadway
sells, during the hottest days of the sea-
son, ten thousand glasses per day. 1t is
computed that during the three hottest
months New Workers drink two hund red
thousand glasses daily.
In a history of labor embodied in the
report of the Massachusetts Bureau of
Labor Statistics, it is stated during the
reign of Henry ViII.-thirty- eight years
the number of robbers, thieves and va
grants executed in England was $4,000, or
about 1000 per year, and in the reign of
Elizabeth hardly year passed by
wherein 300 or 400 of them were not de-
voured and eaten up by the gallows, in
one place or another"
| PROF. VIRCHOw recently delivered a
lecture before the Berlin Medical Society
on the Siamese twins. In the course of
his remarks he mentioned case of twins
who were grown together in a manner
similar To the Siamese, but who had been
separated by an operation Immediately
after birth by their father, DIR. BOhme,
of Gunzenhausen, Nassau. The weaker
of the twins died after three and a half
days; the stronger Is now living, and is
years old.
THE United States mercantile navy on
June 30, 1869, according to the monthly
report, No. I, of the Bureau of Statistics