Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-05-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE Boston Adoertiser announces that
boards are going nut of fashion.n
A coLoRED voter, a century old, was
registered the other day in San Fran
SENoRA BLEsTIGUK, Mexican lady
died lately, and gave $3,0OO,OOO to the
poor. ~ '-sos 4 sfersi..
TIE opium revenue in India, for the
year 1S87-6, was just under $45,OOO,OOO.
A MAN has lately been whipped at
Newgate Prison, London, for garroting
lady. os -aaG 9. f.a5
IA CoNEEcrICUr; wrestler recently
broke one leg in four places in his ath-
letic practice. rsia
IT is estimated that.th will be half a
million Texas cattle driven to Kansas
this year. ri
THE estimated population. of Pennsyl-
vania, by the coming census, is over 4,OOO,-
in.THE dealers in kerosene in Vermont
town have agreed not to draw any oil af-
ter sunset. f-liiif
Mr.. .LYMAN UTLEY, of Walden, vt, has
a tub of maple sugar that he made in
1895, thirty-fve years ago. sa.ir
THE oddity of book titles eliminates in
one lately announced. in London
" Ginx's Baby !; his Birth, and Other
Misfortunes." nsflrgyro'J
81 Iris reckoned that there are fifty Pro-
testant Missionary Societies in the world,
with 2,033 missionaries, and expe nding
e5, ,164, $40 mutually. di r5-t
~" OH my dear child, how came you 80
wetS inquired an affectionate mother Of
her son. "Why, ma, one Of the boys said
L daresn't Jump into the creek, and by
jfbgo, L tell you amt to be dared"
D. liz 1868, 568 capital crimes were com
L.
sons were CONDEMNED to death, OF whom
six were reprieVed and five executed.
i0THEI fota number Of persons buried,
during the past seven years, in three
Cleveland cemeteries, was $500, and Of
this number LIZA died Of diseases of the
lungs - 4 AZ
TIE Methodist Book Concern annual
lV publishes 1000. bound volumes, and
about 1000 tracts, and, in 1850 printed
547. $4,000 pages Of Sunday school
A PHrLADRLPH1A blind man recovered
his sight remarkably when a passing po-
liceman offered to drop brick In his
cap " No yer don't" said he, and was ar
rested.
RALPH w ALDO EMERSON says the chain
of Western railroads to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time
than it costs to bring an orchard into
bearing rs ar .rffaa
TIE railways of Great Britain and Ire
land are r13 ,344 miles in length, and for
the week ending April l, received Tor
freight and passage money $5,ISo,SoO' OF
$29960i a mile. q ~ ug-
M sSoAf1aER propounds a new theory of
sleep his idea is that sleep is simply
result of the edeoxygenation Of the system,
and he believes that sleeplness comes on
as soon as the oxygen that is stored In
the blood is exhausted 9ff
!. TEE ail-powerful influence of the EN-
peror may be Imagined when 1t is stated
that there are in 2 ! France 55,OOO
rural guards, $1,000 genoarmesS
$4,000 primary schoolmasters, 5hOVO
10000 foresteIs, 5000 police agents
5000 Justices of the peace, S,4oO
Judges, at least $4,000 tobacco deal
ers 1appointed by the Government), and
immense numbers of constables, notaries,
and pensioners.
TEE soil for Lima beans should be
richer. than for the dwarfs, as they are
strong feeders. A shovelful OF rich light
compost mixed with the earth in each hill,
will he the best fertilizer. Sandy or
0ravelly soils are much TO be preferred,
as clay lands are subject TO become hard
and retard their growth Hills should not
be less than four feet apart each way, as
.upon an abundance of room viii, IN
measure, depend the amount OF the crop.
THK Paris GdszOis says that some
workmen, engaged In demobshing an oiQ
house in Paris, came upon nest OF ad-
ders containing solnel hundred OF these
reptiles "a sfbe bottom of an exhausted
we'll in4kk fhidst of this snake nest was
found skefetDhs which bad probably
fallen into the well years ago, and the
flesh Of which had been ssaH1outed by the
adders. Strange to say IN the hand OF
the skeleton was a pocket- book OF req
moFocco leather, in which when opened,
theFswere found forty bank potes forl ,OOOI
eaclxsea woman's likeness, and letser
which had been almost entirely eaten by
the reptiles. the only fragment remaiDing
decipherab1e bearing heyerds DO not
make known the plot" Atudicial inquiry
has been commenced.
ALAS for the giant business In New
York State The exposure OF the Caroin
humbug has encouraged an old repro
bate to write TO the Rutland (Vt.) Herald
that the Cohoes mastodon, so carefully
preserved in the museuml at Albany, Is
the skeleton ofa circus elephant which ne
knows to have been buried in 1888. In
those days caravans, not understanding
the art of advertising, used 10 travel oy
night to avoid being seen for nothing,
and this animal died ON the road, and was
buried consequently in the night. The
circus was Titns & Angeyine's, and the
keeper sawed off the tusks of the dead
elephant for preservation. The body was
SO large that it had to, be cut in pieces
before the horses could haul IL out OF the
road and dump it in a neighboring peat
hole r-I.fu E-t-.t.r
A FRIEND who has dog, valued In the
family as pet, relates a strange incident
of the power to charm or fascinate, com
mon to reptiles, but rather extraordinary
among quadrupeds. Recently the kitch-
en- girl saw this dog seated on his binders,
with one fore foot lifted, eyeiDg rat uI.-
der cupboard, in some room connected
with the house. The rat also had his
eyes fixed on the dog, and after watching
them few minutes, the girl. thinking 1t
strange, called some of the family, who,
interested to see how this curious circnm-
stance would turn out, stood by. For
half an hour these animals maintaine eo the
same position, being six or eight ieet
apart. At the end, the rat, slowly, and
trembling with fear. BEGAN TO approach
the dog, their eyes still fixed on tach 9th
er immovably Continuing 10 creep mp,
when within a couple of feet the dog
sprang, and catching the rat quickly DIS
posed of hTm. 1t was atterWard discov-
cred that the hole ip the wall through
which the rat came was immediately back
of where he was first seen .-SprdeuSe' w.
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