The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| ~ POLISH count is regular LOGGER at
a station house in Baltimore
THE taxes in Texas are the highest of
all the States in the Union.
ONE Of Brigham Young's daughters
claims to be the belle of Salt Lake.
IT is said that nine-tenths of all patent
ed inventions turn out worthless
A sEvENTY-THREE years old Virginian
has recently been arrested for horse steal
| ing.
THE ladies of Salem, N. Y, have
| formed an association to build a town
hall.
IT is estimated that fifty per cent. of the
people in Dubuque, Iowa. drink cistern
water
OF the G52 convicts recently in the State
Prison, at Jackson, Mich, only nine were
women.
AN English coast steamer lately burned
100 pigs in order to get into port, having
exhausted her coal.
THE King of Prussia declares that so
long as he is on the throne of Prussia the
death penalty will not be abolished
THE city of Burlington, Iowa, has a
colored population of ia, and voting of
2,111, according to the census of 1869
THE new Mormon paper says that Brig
ham Young has impoverished hundreds
of families in building his new railroad.
AN Italian n2''"'nan, who has spent
| two years in An a, has written book,
in which he says the Boston ladies excel
for beauty in this country.
THE advice of Pennsylvania suicide
to his brother was, "Willie, don't 90 with
| fellows who have more money to spend
than you have"
SIXTY thousand copies of German news
papers published in the United States cir
culate in the States Of the North German
| Confederation.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE man has, this win
ter, raised full-sized green peas on vines
grown in his sitting room, fed with water
and air entirely, having no soil near them
| Mrs. PIERsoN, a venerable lady of New
ark, n j., has recently celebrated her
hundredth birthday. The invitations to
her party bear the figures, 1770-1S10."
AN astronomer predicts for this year a
comet of such brillianCy, and so near the
earth, that our nights viii be almost as
bright as our days.
| JAMES COOMBE, a printer, who set the
first stickful of type on the World, died in
New York the other day, having been a
comp" for forty-three years.
MORE than forty years after the pocket
of the late Judge Richard Fletcher, of
Massachusetts,, was robbed of twenty five
cents, the thief sent back the money with
compound interest.
AS a .Leavenworth man was vending
his way to the river to commit suicide, he
was told of a fellow who had called him a
liar, and he gave up his idea of death to
''lay low" for the slanderer.
Mr.. JABEz GATES, of Germantown
Pa, is very happy in the possession of an
anvil upon which were forged the molds
in which the first types made in this coun-
try were cast
Two medical students at Keokuk pre-
tended to rob friend in dark alley
They were arrested as street thieves, spent
a night in limbo, and were obliged to
friends for an explanation which liberat-
ed them in the morning.
A New YORK physicians bill was $125
for attending child; and the parents
satisfaction in paying it may be imagined
from the fact that six doctors testified in
court that the treatment did not kill the
child, and three others that it did.
A CINCINNATI woman, who had receiv-
ed from the Relief Union an questionable
pair of boots for her daughter, promptly
returned them with the request Please
give me a finer pair, and the tops high, for
my daughter wears her dress short"
GEORGE THOMAS, called "the local Pea
body" of Bristol, England, has an income
of 500, 900 a year, of which he takes $4,000
L. fbx md
lays up the balance, $4,000, where moth
and rust do not corrupt-by charitable
contribution.
SIX years ago, John E. Dewitt, a youth
of eighteen years, took the local agency of
of life insurance company at New York
By energy he soon took the general agency
, for New England and New York, and the
other day was paid by the company $120,
, 900 to give up his right.
J GREAT BRITAIN has 1929 miles Of
f railway, on which has been expended 50,
455, 100000. Last year the gross receipts
were $200,000,000. Less than half thi
: sum was required for working expenses
2 so that upwards of $100,000,000 remained
available in the form of profit
AT a meeting of the Social Science As
!. sociation, in Albany, New York, the fol
. lowing statement was made: In New
York alone, $32,000,000 worth of mea
annually is consumed, besides $4,000, 90
D pounds of butter, valued at $33,0O0,000
12,000,000 pounds of cheese, valued a
$14,OOO,O00-a total of $19,000,O00.
THE University of Edinburgh has mad
arrangements to enable ladies who wis
to do so to study medicine, but in sepa
rate class from men. Five lady student
, have presented themselves In Londol
there is Female Medical Society, unde
the Presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury
= which established medical college 70
. women five years ago, and elghty-tw'
. ladies have during that period availeC
themselves of its facilities most OF then
- have since started in business, and ar
h succeeding admirably.
4 A FRENCH paper mentions the following
r custom which prevails at Stuttgart, tn
capital of Wurtemburg. On the after
\ noon of New Years Day sort of fair, o
: exchange for visiting cards, is held in
o public place. All the servants of goo(
q houses meet there, and one among then
/, mounting on bench or table, calls ou
the addresses. At each name a cloud o
g cards falls into basket placed for the pul
. pose, and the representative OF the pei
o son for whom these cards are intende
can pocket his contingent. Each follow
|. in his turn, and in few minutes hun
q dreds of cards have reached their deStins
d ton without fatigue to any one.
T. X. BEECHER believes in pensionin
a the families of convicts. He puts it thus
It "a husband is convicted of crime an
r sent to the States prison. Then he
q sbayad clothed housed. fed. warmed
of doctored, preached to, good books give
n to him, and extra pay for overwork. iii
4 wife. with two children under six years {
j. age, is left without wood, coal, food, she
ter, or friends, to shirk for herself.
at tinge of infamy settles on her good name
j. She loses caste. She girds herself for VI
s. wonted work. Her back aches. Sh
ID staggers home from days washing, ha
q | naid hecause as vet she cannot do a day