The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-03-24
FACTS AND FIGURES


| pound Goldfish.
RUSSIA warns passenger coaches witt
| the heat of the locomotive
TIE private fortune of the King o.
Prussia is estimated al $13,000,00j.
| ONE hundred thousand patents have
| been issued to American inventors.
ONE firm in Minnesota town recently
shipped 10000 rat skins to market in ono
week
HENRY De BARGER, of Trenton, New
Jersey, aged "A, is cutting q new set o
teeth.
THE Philadelphia Inquirer regards the
| Quaker race as doomed to extinction in
ten years more.
THE railroads in Maine have cost 500
| per mile more than in any other State, ex
cept Pennsylvania.
| A MASSACHUSETTS farm has lately beer
sold on a mortgage, after being in The
family seven generations
DOVER, n. H., with 10000 inhabitants
spends $3.50 day for Intoxicating liquors
or $174 year for each voter.
AN indianapolis school boy has been
| punished by being compelled to write the
word "cow five hundred times.
| IL France a convict IS not notified OF
the time of his execution until they come
to lead him to the gullotine
A New YORK doctor will give $1,000
tor authentic rec If case where any
| person ever died VI /, broken heart.
IT cost $1,S15 to wash towels for the
Treasury Department at Washington last
year, and there were 10000 towels washed.
THE most successful and accomplished
| pickpocket in New York is a pretty wo-
man, well known to the police as Little
| Lou.
THE wife of a respectable English
tradesman has ben convicted OF stealing a
carpet from the floor of a railway car
riage.
THE Vienna Academy of Political and
| Social Science has offered a prize of two
| thousand dollars for the best work on
American finances.
| THERE are seven million young men in
our country; about two hundred and
fifty thousand of them profess to be
| Christians.
PARIS has 5000 chi60npicrs (rag pick
ers), 5000 of whom are licensed and 1900
interlopers. Their aggregate gains are
100000 francs per annum.
THE acreage now under cultivation OF
flax in this country is estimated as suffi-
cient to furnish material for covering a
crop OF 100000 bales of cotton.
ONE of the proprietors of the Hender-
son (ky) Reporter received a check the
other day by mail for $215.25, in payment
of debt contracted twenty-sevcn years
ago.
1,,a r>fY I, e,
lures of the United States, AMI of those
manufactures in which wool is Z compo-
nent part, is said to be not less than $40
100000.
THE bridegroom of an approaching
fashionable wedding in New York, has
found the money to pay for Sl25000 worth
of diamonds and pearls as his gift to his
| bride.
ACCORDING to the latest statistics, Enc
| lishmen are about two inches taller and
more than seven pounds lighter than
Americans Ct the same age and similar pur-
suits.
THE whaler True Love, bd;lt in Ph;la-
delphia 106 years ago, and nov owned in
Hull, England, is still in good order. Her
course has run smooth, disproving the
maxim.
A RICH man died in Maine recently, and
his last words to his heirs were: "Plant
me as soon as | am cold, and don't cart me
around for sidc-show." He was planted
accordingly.
A QUARTERMASTER in the French navy,
stationed at Toulon, was surprised recent
ly by lawyer, who informed him that he
was heir to the title of Duke, and 4 for
tune of $500,000.
TIE new Mayor Of Auburn, n Y, at
his Inauguration presented to the Council
a copy Of the city charter, with the re-
mark, "In that book will bc'found my in
augural and speech"
A RECENT charity ball in New York
for the benefit of the Nursery and Childs
Hospital exhibits the following balance
sheet: Gross receipts, S19,715G0; ox-
penses, S3,20703. Net proceeds, S16,-
50797.
THE town of Wardsboro, VT, electt
Miss Ellen A. Brimhall School Superin-
tendent; but the Moderator decided that
it was not legal to elect a woman to such
office, and directed the election of another
person.
THE Directors of the California Insane
ASYLUM report a rapid increase of insanity
Ill lIldJ Nldtt. HCIt Is oilc lUSdlC DtISOu
for every six hundred of the inhabitants.
The number under treatment in the Asy
lum last year was 1,335
A YOUNG man in the vestibulc of a
church in Newark, n. j., accidentally shot
himself in the head during the progress OF
a prayer meeting He won't carry his
pistol any more in the same pocket with
his handkerchief.
A sCHEMING mother in New York paid
$50 to have her daughter abducted and
safely married to rich suitOr, but the
young woman foiled the scheme by leap
ing from the bridal hack, and running
shrieking through the streets.
AN exchange having announced that
can elegant and commodious Congrega-
tional Church is soon to be erected in
for Rev ID. D., the C0nQre
qationalia remarks that Meeting houses
used to be erected by Congregations
Churches for the worship OF Almighty
God"
AN unfortunate lunatic at Saddle River
N. j., has threatened several times tC
commit suicide. The other day he fixed
the halter around his neck and called hi.
family about him to bid them good-by
but no one weeping, the fellow jumped
down and swore that he would stay alive
"just to apite 'em."
THE Assistant Treasurer at Philadelphis
says that the number of counterfeit fiv,
cent nickel coins in bag of 500 never
exceeds nine, and that four is the average
The false coins may best be detected by
the color, which is of yellowish tinge
while the genuine ones are of a steel white
ness, inclining to reddish.
SAN FRANCISCO wants more abundan
supply of water, and seriously entertain'
a project for bringing it in iron pipes
seven feet in diameter, from Lake Bigler
The length of pipe would be ll9 miles
and the cost $10000,O00; but il would
supply water to all the intervening
towns, and to the farms requiring irriga
ton.
CORNELIUS O'DowD expresses the opin
ion, in BlacktoO0d, that IN England mar
meets marvellous energy and ego" tha