The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-01-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.
WYOMING has 700 women voters

} SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, did not lose dol
lar by fire last year.
Four prominent English magazines are
edited by women.
ONLY four deaths from smallpox oc-
Cured in Boston last year.
HORACE GREELEY says he has not drank
drop of liquor since 1924
A FoRTY-oyE- POUND turkey was lately
brought to Philadelphia market
|. In less than two years the Coroner OF
Memphis, Tenn, has held 800 inquests.
NEARLY a million acres of public lands
! were taken up in Dakota last year.
A ST. LOUIS woman has taken $4,000
= contract for macadamiZing street IN that
I ! city.
THE people of Saratoga Springs send
away 10000 tons of mineral waters each
year.
IT is said that there are now four times
as many cattle in Texas as there were be
fore the war
1T is reported that the English Ian
!; guage is to be universally adopted by telc-
graph companies.
A QUARTER of million of dollars was
expended in Sacramento in the purchase
!, of Christmas gifts.
In San Francisco there were 6,90S sales
of real estate made in 1869, of the total
value of S29, ,937,717
THE thirty-seven savings banks in
Maine had, last year, 39,527 dcpositOrs,
and S1O,S39,99 of deposits.
DURING 1869, the amount Of internal
revenue collected in New York city was
$780, 662.33.
THIEVES broke into church at Auburn
one night recently, and carried away the
empty contribution boxes.
THE prettiest girl in Californa rises
every morning at 6 o'clock, and milks
three cows before breakfast.
| MCDONALD CLARK, the "Mad Poet"
once said that g any expression of thought,
so arranged as to make man fight or cry,
is poetry.
| Iris computed that 100000 men in New
| York city receive wages for labor and
spends 6,720,000. year for rum and to-
bacco.
ST. ALBANs, VT, has shipped in the
way of freight the past year 2,Sl5,OOO
| pounds of butter, ,920 pounds of
cheese, and 4,935 boxes of mineral water.
THE number of failures in the United
| States during 1869 were 2,799, with liabil-
tiles amounting to $75,054,000; while in
1 lSOc IncTc WtTt ~,DVC,
amounting to $63,774,OO0.
| THERE are great number of workmen
out of employment at Montreal. The
houses of industry and refuge are full,
and there are numerous applicants for
charity.
SINCE 1880 one hundred and sixty-one
vessels have been lost from the Gloucester
| Mass. fishing fleet, and ninety eight lives.
| aet o;ytv-cav lives and siytpeO
vessels were lost
Four hundred letters were recently dis
| covered by an agent of the Postoffice De
| partment at a hotel in Boston, addressed
| to guests, but never delivered. He sent
them to the dead-letter office.
THE Pittsburgh Commercial proposes the
| division of Pennsylvania into two States,
with Philadelphia as the capital OF the
State of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh the
| capital of the State of Allegheny.
THE convicts at the Bagne of Toulon
are no longer flogged for infractions of the
rules, but deprived of food for two or
three DAYS. They are said to dread that
mode of punishment by far more than the
| lash.
THERE was painful scene in the court
room at Hartford, a few days ago. girl,
| only 13 wears of age, was brought up as
common drunkard. Efforts have been
made to save her, but the taste for liquor
has got such hold of the child that she
cannot be kept from the use of strong
drinks. The Judge sent her to the reform
school for girls, at Middletown.
THE large Court House of Navarro
county, Texas, is said to have been COW
cred with shingles made from a single
cedar tree. The oaks, pecans and cedars
| of that section of the Country attain an
immense size. A pecan tree in Navarro
county. on the banks of the Trinity,
measured twenty-three feet in circumfer-
ence The cedars are often more than 100
| feet high.
| ACCORDING to the very accurate OBJ
servations of NJ Marie Davy, just an
nounced, the heat derived from the caloric
rays of the moon is not sufficient TO raise
the temperature of an exceedingly scnsi-
| tive Thermometer the one e-milllonth OF
/ degree. This result, it may be added, is
| in direct variance with that deduced by
| Lord Rose, in his investigation OF the
same subject.
THE greatest storm on record In Eng
| land occurred on November 26 and p,
1903, when 5000 people were drowned IN
the rivers and on the coasts. Twelve
| men-of-war were lost beside an immense
number of smaller vessels, and l, 100 trees
were torn up in Kent alone. 1t was
during this gale that the Eddystone light
house and its architect were swept away
| together.
THE total cost of maintaining the Sing
Sing prison for the last year was S30,l52.-
IS. and the total receipts were $264, l53OS,
leaving a deficiency of $l0S,99941 To bc
provided for by the State. The average
| cost of keeping each male convict per day
is 73 $40 cents; females, 81 cents. On
the 5th inst. there were in prison a total
of .29S conyicts-1,196 males, and l22
females
A NEW explosive, of asserted great
power, is announced by English Journals,
under the name of ammonia powder.
Analysis shows merely a substitution OF
nitrate of ammonia for nitrate of potash
in ordinary gunpowder; the change add
ing immensely to the explosive force The
salt being quite deliquescent, the old
adagc, keep your powder dry, would
lose its significance, should the powder
come into general use.
A REMARKABLE case of suicide is re-
ported from Hanover. On the 25th oi
November the wife of a day laborer oi
, Linden, near Ebsdori, A years old, ana
: the mother of five children, seated her
self in cauldron of boiling water, which
had been prepared for scalding pig Just
killed. She had been reading the pre-
yious evening about the martyrdom oi
Uuss. and had said that burning was not
so fearful after all. She is supposed In
q have been insane.
FEMALES are in decided minority in