The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
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The earliest money was in the form
Of animals skins.
General Kuropatkin is drawing q
salary of 100000 a year, but he is not
having much time to spend it.
4 Swiss matchmaker has invented
an electric watch which will run for
fifteen years without being wound.
One of the oldest known living ami
mails on earth is tortoise in New
Zealand that weighs go pounds. 1t
Is known to be over three hundred
years old.
Eagles sometimes rise TO a height of
six thousand feet, and larks, crows,
storks and buzzards often get up two
thousand feet But the average bird
seldom goes one thousand feet above
the earth.
The total number of horses at Paris
decreased one thousand last year, be-
cause of the great increase in the use
Of automobiles. There are more auto
mobiles in Paris than in any other city
I'm the world.
The attorney-general of Kansas has
decided that a pupil in the public
schools cannot be compelled bv
teacher to tell tales on another pupil
That is a great question that has long
required settling
It is asserted by sculptor that the
human foot is becoming smaller. The
masculine foot of twenty centuries ago
was about twelve inches long. The
average mans foot Of to-day is easily
fitted with No. S1a shoe, which is not
more than ten and seven-sixteenths
inches in length.
South Australia is sai1 to be suf-
fering with a great invasion Of mice.
The cause is the recent bad weather.
which caused more or less of failure
OF the wheat crop, and the farmers al
lowed much grain to remain in the
fields. This fell to the ground in time,
and so furnished much food for the
mice.
The French Minister of Commerce
has received an official report of the
last census of France, begun in 1901.
1t shows the population to be $780,
9f5, or gain Of only 444,613 in ten
years. Comparative tables disclose
that there is no other European coun-
try in which the population increases
so slowly. The percentage Of increase
I'm Germany, Great Britain and Russia
is almost a third greater than in
France for the same period.
Pedro Alvarado, the richest man in
| Mexico, was working for eighty cents
day few years ago. Then he struck
| it rich in mining, and the money has
come in so fast that he cannot handle
it. He offered to pay the Mexican ma
tional debt to get rid Of some of his
money, but the government would not
accept his offer. He has been max
ing a little trip around Mexico now in
five Pullman cars. The last time he
left his palatial home was two years
ago, when he chartered a special train,
put his family and an armed band Of
retainers in it, and went to Mexico
City to get tooth filled.
Since the use Of wire fences has
become so extensive, the number OF
cattle killed each year by lightning has
| greatly increased. Farmers insur-
ance companies have investigated the
matter and now come forward with a
warning to policy holders. Nearly all
of the cattle killed by lightning have
met their death in open fields. where,
in many instances, there was not even
q tree to attract the electric fluid. As
many dead cattle were found near
wire fences, this led to the discovery
that the lightning was carried along
the wires composing the fences. Dur
ing a severe storm cattle are liable to
run until stopped by a fence. Here
they stand huddled together ready for
the bolt. A remedy is suggested in
running ground wire every ten rods
several feet into the earth.