The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-07-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.

German penl'entlaries.
THERE are 1854 draft, and 2.928 driv.
ing horses in brooklyn.
THERE are three hundred and forty ex-
isting species OF pigeons.
az SHALL be better presently were the
Iast recorded words of Charles Dickens.
The birthplace Of xPresident Pierce
recently brought So, i25 at auction.
GUsTAvE PICARD, 103 years old, is the
champion ragpicker OF Troy, n. Y.
THE 6 900 miles of railroad in Illinois,
with equipments, cost Sl2O,OOO,O0O.
FORTY FOUR thousand women are en-
ployed as Out door la5Grers IN England.
They. NJ. c. 4. of Chicago has found
employment for over 5000 men the pas
year.
Two hundred miles Of pathway has
boen explored in the MammO cave OF
Kentucky.
A YoRK State octopenarian has married
a girl of 16-younger than some OF has
grandchildren.
BETWEEN three and four thousand
American boys are studying in European
schools and colleges
THERE are in tnc United States four
Anndrna newspapers published in foreign
languages.
POSTMASTER BURT has introduced
voIng ladies into the delivery department.
of the Boston PostOf1ice.
GARABALDI's novel, we arc told, was
published in six languages, bat never
paid its expenses in any.
THE stvle of Partisan ladies' bats now
and one hund-ed and five years ago is said
to be identical.
Ir is said there is danger of the total
extinction Of elephants, the hunters are
killing them off so fast.
EIGHTY miles on a bicycle in eight and
half bours has lately been accomplished
by gentleman at Dundee.
a PHILADELPHIA lady proposes 70 build
memorial church to George Washing
ton, IN Westmoroland county, Va.
Two chairs. which had once been the
property Of Benedict Arnold. were lately
sold for 81 $50 at st. Johns, n. b.
Over 1000 women used the free baths
in New York City on the 3urth. They
represented all ares, colOvs, and condi-
tions of life.
TIE machinery used in the State Of
/ Massachusetts IS capable Of doing the
wN-'y of more than hundred million ot
men.
Four busincss-irms in London have
names which make curious combinations
Flint & Steel, Ward * Lock, Lamb ~
Hare. and Holland \ Sherry.
FoUR thousand tons Of ore we're thrown
cut at a single blast in the Lake Superior
/ iron region the other day. Fifteen and
halt kegs of powder were used.
New YoRK was in such heated condi-
ton the other day that 100000 pounds
of ice were necessary tn relieve the sui
fcrings of her unhappy ci'iz
APARIs shoemaker is ssid to have in
vented shoes provided with rollers which
allow the wcarer to move as last as
horse. and to stop Immediately.
PERSONS who prefer stale bread can
have their taste gratified by sending 70
Pompeii, where they have loavcs baked
over eighteen hundred years ago.
BELGIUM, a little kingdom Of II ,3S2
square mlles,-about the size of Maryland,
gives a comfortable support TO over
100000 people, or about 500 to the
square mile.
THERE are fifteen hundred and thirty
nine incorporated societies in one prov
ince in Austria, of these eight hundred
and eighty are in the city OF Vienna.
THERE is mountain in the north of
Sweden situated 50 near the Arctic Circle,
that from its summit on midsummer
night NAV be seen the phenomenon OF
the midnight sun.
A MAN in Lyndon, Vt. has been on his
bed twenty one wears, unable 20 move or
bend single Joint in his body Every
ioint has been affected by rheumatic dit
ficulty, and all the bones appear 10 have
grown into one.
The hirsute aprendsgc Of a young lady
T in New Orleans became undone the other
day. aud when she became aware of her
misfortune a string ot hair several yards
long was streaming behind her IN the
wind.
ARAT in store in Troy, "fooling
around" with piece of tin, attracted the
attention of policeman, who. thinking IL
WAS a BURGLAR, watched several hours Tor
the latter TO come out The rat IS now
dead.
In Queen Victoris's crown there are
, 1863 brilliant diamonds. 1.2s5 rose dia-
m.nds. and 141 table diamonds, l large
, ruby. II sapphires, IL emeraldS, small
, rubies, and pa peaIls-a total OF :, le5
precious stones.
, THERE are two ladies in the Post Office
. Department AT Washington who are EN-
a ployed i'm translsting the foreign CORE
I spon1ence, and in keeping up the scrounts
: i'm foreign languages They are S h llsf $
: in four anguages-German, French, Span
g ish and Italian.
r. The average number of persons Inv
i ing in single house in London is :, III
n b. Rim %, in Paris -. in 81. Petersburg
IS 81, and in Vienna 50. For every l,OOS
inhabitants the average annual mortality
in London is ~ in Berlin - in Paris 2s
in st. Petersburg Al, and in Vienna AZ.
A WIDOW of forty recently married, a
,, Paris. a widOwer whose first wife was
q widow. whose first husband was wild
D: over. whose first wife WAS a widow. III
l this family for the last 175 years, this &C
l. cidental marriage of widow and wldowe
e has constantly taken place
In the second week in June there wen
). 13l. .9i4 persons in receipt of parochial re
y lief in London, of whom b si1 were u
+ the work houses, and 99091 were Gu,
81 door paupers This was an increase c
e doI4 upon the numbers i'm the CORE
es spending period of last year.
q AN assistant secretary of the Briiis
% Astronomical Society, Mr. Williams, hs
~ lust finished translation of the Chimes
- records of comets observed for ESQ YEAR
: ending A. ID 1910 This is the only col
> tinuous registry of the kind ia existeno
# and is expected to yield important resul
a hereafter
a. THERE is a boy living in Woodwar
n township, Lycoming county, Penn,
ed wears of age, who stands six feet eisl
lg inches high, and weighs over two hu
ed dred pounds His name is George Wul
re ter There is also girl living in Midi
or bury township. Tioga county. Ia wears