Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-06-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

ENGLAND has $500 collieries.
MARK LEMONS life was insured for
$4,000.
GEORGE SAND has recently inherited
100000.
TIE first prize-fght in America occur
A CALIFORNIA sportsman shot 2,273
squirrels last spring.
THERE are $500 coopers in the United
States and Canada.
EACH convict in Nevada costs the State
$2,254 per annum.
A TROUT pond near Watertown, N. Y,
contains nearly $4,000 fish.
GIRLS are received as pupils in the Am
! herst, Mass, Agricultural College.
NEW ALBANY claims to be the second
city in Indiana in wealth and population.
THERE is only one town in Massachu-
sets that has not a church building.
SACRAMENTO CITY has. twenty-six laun-
dries the operatives in which are all Chi
| namen.
papers, and their receipts are nearly $9,-
000, 900 a year. i4ab
THERE are three hundred and three
newspapers and periodicals published in
Ohio.
AN eel seven feet long and as thick as a
mans leg was caught, the other day, at
Antioch, Cal.
THE King of Prussia has, at the garden
at Bablesber, fifty white mice, which he
often watches for hours
THERE are 242 chartered Masonic
Lodges in the State of Iowa, and twenty
| six working under dispensation.
Col. PRATT, of Prattsville, N. Y, is
said to have given to public and private
charities, in the course of his life, ST.,
000, 900.
| MRS. HAWTHORNE says there will be no
biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne pub
lished, in accordance with his expressed
wish.
LONG lace wells, slightly pointed in
front, are worn with bonnets this sum-
mer, instead of the short wells which have
been so popular. .
IT is stated that a gentleman residing
near Portland, Me-, has found a perfect
white rose growing upon one of his apple
| trees.
PRINCE DEAnDoFF received from his
Russian iron and copper mines, in which
| he employed 65, 900 lahorers, an annual
| income of 1 100000 francs.
A YOUNG shoddyite in New York
makes great display in hotels and public
places by lighting his cigars and cigarettes
with greenbacks.
A FEW days ago an express train on
the Erie railway was run seventy-three
miles in ninety-six minutes; forty two
miles were made in fifty-seven minutes
TIE Methodist Missionary Society, want,
| ing ten new missionaries, applied to all
the seminaries and to every district, and
found only sixfrom them all
PITTsBURGH has an old lady under arrest
for stealing large illustrated Bible. She
says hers was too fine print, and she
couldn't get any consolation out of IT.
BR1aHAM YoUNe, having become tired
OF tne many false reports circulating about
him, says that he is aged sixty mine, and
has sixteen wives and forty nine children
only. 4 ipsFses
IN Russia, women having certain
amount of property have right to vote,
| though it must be exercised by proxy,
male relative or friend representing them
at the election.
A FRENCH society of hundred per
sons have each, by special agreement, be-
| queathed their bodies to the dissecting
room to forward the progress Of the
science of anatomy
A PARIS workman, drinking with
companion, offered to bet that he could
kill him with single blow of his fist.
The bet was accepted, the blow dealt, and
the man fell dead.
A WEALTHY New York lady has
to give them pet names and hang them
| in hall bedroom, which she has made a
perfect museum of these articles.
UsURY laws have been abolished in
Maine Parties can lend and borrow at
such rate of interest as they may ex-
press in writing. Where there is no agree
ment in writing, per cent is the legal
| interest.
CALIFORNIA has one and me-half per
cent. of the population of The nation; in
the number of her inhabitants she is the
twenty fourth State, but in smount paid
as income-tax she ranks fourth.
| SOME thoughtful individual that rather
| likes figures says the liquor used in the
United States would fill a canal :" four feet
deep, fourteen feet wide, and Ole hundred
and twenty miles in length"
LONDON pickpockets havea habit of en-
gaging jugglers, and hre-ealers to begin
their performances in crowded thorough
fares, and thus attract crowds on whom
the light fingered gentry can operate.
BISHOP THOMPSON says hat there are
now SO missionary societis and 40 600
missionaries in the field; the Word of God
| is preached in $4,000 localities in the
heather world $5000,0G is annually
collected to sustain them; 6H, 900 converts
are enrolled in Africa and $4,000 in
Asia.
THE Agricultural Society of England
is composed of some of the cleverest and
most important men in theKingdom 1t
now consists of IA life governors, IA an
nual governors, 1,511 life members, 3,764
annual members and Is h1norary mem
bers, making total Of 5,43.
In Contra Costa county, California, the
bounty for squirrel scalps his induced such
a raid on the little rodentsthat more have
been killed already than tB fund can pay
for. Two dozen young men of Pacheo
went out on a hunt aDt returned at
night with !, ,480 scalps, or more than go to
the man.
SOME forty years ago tBre lived in a
certain town an old man vhom we shall
call Briggs, who had propensity for
Choking" small and portaSle articles that
came in his way. As he was poor and
past labor, and well know about town,
no further notice was tako of his pecu-
} lations than to keep harp look out
when he was around. 4 dealer bad a
quantity of dry fish lande, on the wharf
at an hour too late to gettheR into his
, store, and as he was abOucovering them
} with an old sail cloth he epied old b., ap-
parently accommodating Secting couple
} of the fish, he said q Here Briggs, 1 must
t leave these fish out here night, and 1
. will give you these two ifou promise me
that you will not steal an" "That is a