The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-03-10
FACTS AND FIGURES.

1
THE British Bible Society has issued
| 57,200,000 volumes.
MISSISSIPPI is receiving large numbers
| of Swedish emigrants.
AT lion, New York, a clergyman got
| ninety dozen eggs at donation.
ENLISTMENT in the army has been de-
| cided not to be desertion of wife.
A FELLOW in Danbury, Conn, boasts
| of mOustache nine inches in length.
AMONG the best skaters in Europe the
past season is a Yankee named Fuller, in
Paris
THE first pair of handouts made in New
| England are on exhibition at Hartford.
OLETUsBEJoYFUL is the name of an
Indian editor of the Port Hope British
| Canadian.
A NEW magazine called The Matrimo-
niM Gazette and AdrertiSer is announced in
London.
| MAJOR RAINEY, of Carrollton, Ill, has
been Justice of the Peace constantly for
36 years.
A NAN in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
broke his arm, few nights ago, in pulling
off his boots
A MAN in West Chester, Pa, has been
sent to prison for one month for stealing
an umbrella.
LADY librarians have charge of no less
than fourteen public libraries of impor-
tance in this country.
A LADY physic''n in Lafayette, Ind, re-
| turns her income = n her profession last
year at $4,000.
COLOGNE Cathedral, which has been
building for some 600 or 800 years, will be
! finished in 1875.
AMERICAN newspapers have now
much larger circulation on the European
continent than British journals.
THE entire length of the "greatess
| bridge in the United States" at Louisville,
is 5,299 feet, nineteen feet over a mile
A CALIFORNIA paper reports a recent
fish shower " near Montgomery, in which
the fish varied in length from six inches to
three fccti
A DOG of the Havana breed was left
for thirty four days alone in the cabin of
the Canova, moOred at Havre. When
discovered the dog was alive, but hungry.
A DEAD ragpicker in New York was
found lying on pile of rags in his shanty
the other day, with bank book showing
500 to his credit in his pocket.
| Miss DIX commenced her philanthropic
work among the hospitals, jails, and close
prisons, over thirty years ago She is now
at work in Tennessee.
THE dog tax in Ireland, established in
| 1865, has caused diminution in the
number of CANNES in that country from
3533, ,79S in 1866, to 5000 in 1869.
THERE are in Europe at the present time
| 1,4S2 theaters, of which there are in
France 337, in Italy 2oS, in Spain 16S, in
Austria 152, in Prussia 76, IL Russia 81,
and in England 156.
AsILvER mine, said to be Of unparalleled
richness, has been discovered in Greyson
county, Ky. The ore was found to con-
| tain a larger per cent of silver than any
hitherto discovered.
JOHN NEAL says that cut of 544 cases
brought before the Supreme Court OF
Maine in six terms, only ninety-nine went
to jury. That is, the people preferred
the decision OF Judge in 405 cases.
THE French Government has decided
not to levy any taxes upon the estate of
the unfortunate Knick family, which
amounts to 100000 francs, and the tax
upon which would have been 5000 francs
THE Boston association of banks for the
suppression of counterfeiting report that
| the counterfeiting for the past year has
been mostly on legal-tender notes and
postal currency, and very little on National
| bank currency.
MARY RUSSELL Milford, in one of her
letters in 1920, said "I write merely for
remuneration, and / would rather scrub
healthier, more respectable, and feminine
employment"
Miss CAROLINE GoDsEY, the " sleeping
girl" eleven miles from Union City, Tenn,
is still living, and, as usual, arouses and
remains awake nine minutes eleven times
in twenty-four hours. Twenty years
have passed since the sun shone upon
her.
1T is said that the keeper of lighthouse
off the coast of New Hampshire once
picked up 375 little land birds, which had
been killed in one night during the mi
gratOry season by flying against the glass
of the great lantern.
i A POOR fellow, now under arrest in New
Hampshire for setting fire to two barns,
said he was hired to do the work for $3
by q wealthy farmer who had quarrel
with his neighbor, and that the wealthy
farmer, after all, paid him but $2S5.
A WIDOW in Parkersburg, w. Va, ran
away with fellow the other day, leaving
four children at home, the oldest nine and
the Youngest one year. 1t was three
DAYS before their abandonment was dis
covered, when all their feet were found
frozen.
THE average level of Iowa above the
ocean is 800 feet Keokuk (southeast cor
ner) is 444 feet; northeast corner, Got
feet; southwest corner 1,060 feet; north
west corner, 1850 feet The highest point
: is at Spirit Lake, in Dickinson county
which is LOO feet above the sea level.
, ATTEMPTS to commit suicide are here
after to be punished in Massachusetts
, upon the principle that attempts To com
NIT crime are indictable as misdemean
ors at common law. A person who re
Gently endeavored to shoot himself, bu
failed, has been bound over in Worcester
Mass, for trial in the CriminalCourt.
AMONG the packages recently bid off a
, an auction sale of express packages II
, Hartford, was lot of love letters writer
by young lady who, having married, re
, uuested her lover to return them. Th
purchaser is heartlessly giving series q
evening readings from them at his board
: ing house.
r THE Page County, Iowa, Herald has tn
q following account of a man lifting himsel
:, blind: "A gentleman from Bedford wa
in town on Monday. A short time ago h
lost his right eye. The sad event was th
u result of lifting two heavy sticks of tin
J. ber In half an hour after he had Over
: taxed his strength he was sightless Ill
s felt no pain at the time, and has exper
d enced none since"
s. The following words of Franklin al
,, as applicable to the debtors OF the prescr
, day as they were at the time when the
e were written The sound OF your han
: mer at five in the morning, or nine 1
d night, heard by creditor makes I'M
easy six months longer; but if he SCI
YOU at a billiard table, or hears your voiC
y at a tavern, when you should be at worl