Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-07
FACTS AND FIGURES.
.a haa hh nnatmiatraasas.

TEXAS has 90 postmigtresses.
THERE are S69 liquor sellers in Albany.
IT takes 5000 horses a year to supply
Paris restaurants.
A BREED of dogs that cannot bark has
been discovered in Australia
A MAN in Bremen has made figure OF
a woman which can, owing to ingenious
ly contrived machinery, talk
A HALF-PKNEY paper Is projected IN
London which is expected TO circulate
from 100000 to 750, 900 copies daily.
In recent hailstorm at Buffalo stones
fell, five of which aggregated the weight
of five and a quarter pounds.
THERE is one man in the Legislature
of Massachusetts, who boldly. declares that
whisky is nutritious and healthy.
MANY of the waves of trouble, like those
of the ocean, will, If we await them calm
ly, break at our feet and disappear.
SOMEBODY suggests that the descend
ants of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence should meet on the 4th OF
July, 1876.
pended annually by the drinkers OF lager
beer in the United States for their bev-
erage. ~. sts
AZ BAR.KKKPRR in one of fthedown-town
hotels in New York Is said TO wear dia-
mond pin worth $3.50, and to get salary =
of $12 week. iag. i1
A VIENNA merchant celebrated the for
tieth anniversary OF the foundmg Q, ms
business by giving fifty thousand dollars
to the poor. .,.,.--
AN Iowa mathematician has calculated
that the English alphabet IL capable Of l.
301, ,724, ,2SS 687, ,252, 800, 425 126 49S, ,402 200
changes, and not one more.
TIE population of Washington Terri
tory, which in 1860 was II ,594, is now es-
timated by some persons at 10000, and by
others at 10000.
TIE Directors of the Connecticut State
Prison saw there is an apparent Increase
of crime IN the State the number OF con-
victs having increased from 1S3 TO 219, and
the nrison IA crowded. ~ So ~
,oov ,vo,nai, II, RnfFalo comneIled to
bec to save her husI1a,d and childreu from
starvation. drooped her bank book the
other dav which showed that she had inst
denositeS demo si96 - 7Ie y
= - -, r.. -.d,,...
- a.. ~ go. -otIae-a oed has ,syacticed
~ sn ail 80 st,,d,s5 sor tbe min
;s.,, ,,-- J-;T-s : hr;i srt ana fbns
sssr1, .ar,s ~ s,,' honest Ii1ino
- = !. 4, - - p a ooo -sa I'm.
IN nollano tneLe ~ le,vyo ..s... VIII ...'., eSs
IA Consaans rse lot sno 90 u Psi,c.t ~
oIalnase s tney ~ All 1sss:u. s &C.," n oon ooo
- 20 oe 90 - ,ss- erey1 o1
SS,,ys ~ 9i000'eSe = @''''-' "
,er, 1,-y l1,sa s;s.
terated bv a mixture with fine eranulated
SUGAR. each crystal of which is covered
with very thin film of the trus dye, 80
aa to nroduce An excellent imitation In
color and form.
TIE Mavor of MONTGOMERY, Ala, in
the caae Of a negro charged with petty
iarcenv- sustained the poirt that pinch
heck breastpin. won In a g 0ift enterprise"
-
o,rTar end that IN italre n was NOT theft
1yerT ola ladv of caen. France. 1eft
ali her ,,roTer,1 ~ the GInstitufe "a Fine
Arts, meaning probably the ssiAcademy
of Fine Arts" As there is no such insti-
tuition in existence as the former, the
heirs-at-law hone to secure the property.
CHARrrs DIcKEEs lived longer than
Shaksneare. who died at fifty.three; than
Byron. who died at thirty-seYen; than
Tbaokerav. who died at fiftv-two; than
Burns. who died at thfrty-seVen; and was
one year younger than Macaulay, who
died at flfty-nine.
IT is estimated that should the entire
progeny of a single pair of birds survive.
in the course OF fifteen years they would
increase to nearly 100000. AS It Is,
there is scar Sely any increase from year
to wear. the number that perish equaling
the number that are born.
A FRENCH observer, MI. JOuTQMLu, uuOb
that the administration of chloroform to
nIants nroduces strange eeffects-analogous
to fhoae cf aone. drurs upon some ami
maIs. For instance. it gives the raspberry
Man, ,1ant a sort If Iock-iaW Violently fnvert-
r1,,.t nc. the leaves as II 1tbev had muscles.
r. zT;o,,;o.-, p-a.s Association offer
.l-.,,,i,,S-,s IFo- the hest
1.f, ~ % III .1.,sar fir.t Sgaak In An
s,nP ~ c. a. tha 80 ,,o,,er rreaent-
Eust, 4nu ~ ~ .S Icsl yoatfar dnrin0
thee rno,tb ~ Enquat S1O-the competi-
~, ~, he contioed IN local nanera uncon-
sote4 son a ,o~;.I y daSI;es " 49,
necsou WIN ooa'i
The New rork rorosls c,slLns 70 navo
among It's acuve mempers s1iIsy-eikns .s1l- Sn
gagged m literature, SIX eoieo.s, we've
poets, SIX musical ARTISTS, tMensy-n .., au,
thors, two pnyslclans, iour pr1lessoa.s' W.
artists In painting, nine WoIAs WoISI...n-sS "a
nine teachers, ten lecturers, one nlseo oL' lan'
one author OF sc1entlnc Workss aho lnIeo
known phianthropiss.
An absurd wager between Lord Wey-
mouth and Sir Archibald Home has re-
Gently been decided in Scotland They
were to walk up Ben Lomond during
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