Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-05-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

| IHE ready-mnQe clOth1ng business OF
Boston amounts to upward Of s10O00,O00
per annum. -alteu'oJ
TEE New England Female Medical Col
lege of Boston was opened in 1S4S, and
since then has graduated "a women.
A CASHMERE shawl, which necessarily
occupied 300 weaYers for three years, has
been sent by the Maharajah of Cash
mere to Queen Victoria.
TIE total number of fires in Pbiladel-
phia in 1859 was 632. Total loss, $5067,-
125 insurance, s4,172, Boa clear loss, over
insurance, $s94,S21. otie
IT is said that 50 was the amount in
volved in case which occupied the Su-
preme Court at Exeter, N. a., day and
$500.
THE catalogue off-the "PhiladeIphia
School of Design for women shows that
| 70 young women enjoyed its ADVANTAGES
and there are 81 women attending there
as students at this time 80
THE New York Herald is claimed TO be
worth $4,000, 600, the ZEibzne $1,250, 900,
the Times 81 900, 900, the journal Of Com
naeree $600000, the H0entng Post 800, 900,
the Sltn 100000. the World $400, 900 and
the HoeniDg Erpress 100000.
TIE poor old blind king of Hanover
lives lust outside of Vienna, In a quiet
cropping his way in the streets of Vienna's
aristocratic quarter, leaning on an attend
ants arm and followed by shabby and
dreary looking suite. flJ
An obelisk stands in johnson square,
Savannah, dedicated, though without any
explanatory inscription,to General Greene
Lafayette, manyyears ago, laid the corner
stone Of it. An effort is now making to
add to it bronze medallion Of Greene
with q suitable inscription.
A BosToE paper says "a widow, who
has followed successfully three husbands
to the grave, entered Well-known jewel
ry establishment in this city last Saturday,
and producing the three silver plates
which had erst adorned the collins Of the
dear departed, desired the proprietor TO
have than made over into a butter knifel"
SIRIUS was described as - fiery red star
by the ancients; some yeLrs ago it was
pure white, while IL is now becoming ofa
decided green color. Capella was also
called a red star by the ancients; IL wasaf-
terward described as yellow star, and is
now bluish. Many other. instances Of
change of color have been detected.
THE rise of sap IN trees and plants has
been explained on the principle Of capil-
larry attraction, but NJ Becquerel considers
that electricity il an acting cause. A ca
pillary tube that will not allow water 70
pass through 1t, does 50 at once on being
electrified, and considers that electro
capillarity is the efficient cause of sap
travelling in vegetable life. .
Ar recent dinner party, given by a
young gentleman at Delmonico's in New
York, rose was placed by the plate of
each guest, and on touching small spring
underneath, made to represent q thorn,
the top Of the rose flew back, disclosinga
very elaborate bill of fare, printed in gilt
letters on white satin ribbon.
AfLIEERPoo1 gentleinsn made a very
strange egress, from a diapers shop, re-
Gently. One ofrthe show lwindows, which
was nearly even with the floor, happened
to be empty for the purpose Of redressing,
and, before the astonished salesman could
interfere, the unluclCy visitor made his
way into the street through the large and
very thick plate glass window. His only
injury was e slight cut on the left cheek.
WILLIAM b. AsToR Is declared by those
who oughtsto know to represent 100000
600; A. T. Stewart, $40 900 900; Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, $80O0000O; Daniel
Drew, $6,000,000; George Law, $4,000
900; August Belmont, $5,000,O00; Sam
nel N. Pike, $1,000, ,O007 James Fisk, Jr,
$6,O00,000; /; James Lennox, $5,OOO,OOO;
VIM. NJ Tweed, $5,000,00O, and two or
three hundred others, whose fortunes are
variously estimated at from two to five
millions. t3
TRINITY CHURCH, In Newark, N. j.,
was built in 1743. During the Revolu-
tionary war hundreds of Csoldiers wor-
shipped in it, holding a musket in one hand
and prayer-book in the other; ana
ingston, General Lord Sterling, Colonel
Schuyler, and other illustriOus men, par
took of the holy sacrament, and many Of
the sick and wounded soldiers of the Rev
oIutionary struggle were nursed and re-
ceived medical attention in the venerable
church. "a .if-Hyl
A YOUNG lady clerk. employed in the
Treasury Department at Washington was
frightened nearly out of her wits the other
day while at work, by finding a mouse
snuely ensconced in her ichignon. It
must have gone to roost there the night
before, and had kept quiet, through fright
or some other cause; bqt,W1en IL did be-
gin to kick, the numerous companions or
the female clerk were made aware OF the
fact by her screams. The addenda to the
young lady's caput was instantly re-
moved, and the mouse scan1pered away.
7DuRrEe service at St., PapPs Episcopal
Church, at Pittsburgh, on recent Sun
day the walls began 20 icFack, and on
looking in the direction from which
the noise proceeded, the congregation saw
daylight streaming through'a large open
ing between the wall and the roof, and
crack extending down the wall several
feet. The rector succeeded IN allaying
the excitement, after which he quietly
but hurriedly dismissed the congregation,
having them pass through the vestry In
rear of the building Everybody was
and nobody was hurt.
THE shipwrecks of 1889, ,laccording 70
The books of the French Lloyds, involved
the total loss Of 2,6i2 vessels, of which
2,453 were sailing vessels aud 159 steam
ers. In the above figures are included 159
sailing vessels and 8 steamers never
heard from The nationalities of the ship
wrecked vessels Wereas follows English,
l,172; French, 270; German, POI United
States, 199 Norwegian, 1876. Dutch, 101
Italian 30; Swedish, 52 Danish, 4s
Spanish, SO; Russian, 30; Austrian, 26i
Greek, 1S; Portuguese, II minor nations,
e8; unknown, 214 ,ei7, ,r-r-
TIE present coneumption OF wood in
The United States is enormous One hun
dred and fifty thousand acres OF the best
timber is cut every year 10 supply the de-
mand for railway sleepers alone. For
railroad buildings, repairs and cers, the
annual expenditure in wood is $3S 5OO,-
300. In single year the locomotives IN
the United States consume 5O,OOOOOO
worth of wood. There are in the whole
country more than 100000 artisans Ia
Of mol