Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-08-18
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CINouNNATI has 15O miles Of streetsand
alleys. "@t . re-
DURING 1859 there were $1,000 deaths
by violence in England.
THE Milwaukee city directory contains
$4,000 names. go fa-sl Ttsts
ONE hundred thousand settlers entered
Kansas in the year 1859.
In Virginia the oak is said 10 be dying
out, and the poplar succeeding.
FIVE sIxrHs of the American railroads
have the four feet eight inch gauge.
TIE George Peabody statue in London
is now complete, at q cost of $4,000. A' Z
A CALIFORNIA lady has taken to silk
worms as pets, and raised q large colony
for amusement.
NASHVILLE has populations Of e5.771,
being an increase of nearly 1900 since
1880. '-'
THE birds with the. city limits of New
Orleans are now protected By law from
being killed. 49, ~ GssR
THERE is an umbrella in Bangor, Ne,
which has been in possession OF one fam
lily for fifty years. It was bridal jgifE.
A CENSUS of Sweden, just completed,
shows population Of 4, 4,l7e,O89 souls-a
decrease in two years of 22,061.
THE Prussian Government, it is said,
pays fifty thousand dollars year to the
political spies whom it keeps in Paris.
A coNsoIzNoR New, Jersey
| tippler has entered a complaint against
| himself for drunkenness, and paid the
fine eft' nfsud ja.i79ffri
q ONE of the rules of the. Philadelphia
free baths is that no person shall remain
In the water longer than twenty minutes
1T is stated that Daniel Websterss head
grew larger as his intellect expanded, and
he had to change the size of his ateYey
lew years. sr4f @af SrFyr -,
IT is bat five years since nitro-gly lycerfne
was introduced During that @ time has
| been the direct cause of ], 200 deaths.
A LIeUoR dealer in Linn county, Kan,
has been sentenced to ten minutes impris-
onment and fine of $500 for violation
of the law. 0'i t=-,---.lE--
ONE hundred and fifty men, each; oYel
E66 years Of age, sat down TO q dinner to-
| gether, the other day, at a hotel on Peake'f
Island, Portland Harbor. - s7iH 90
TIE late James T. Brady once remark
ed that his experience among clients CON
yinced him that q mans wife is his best
lawyer.
THE sportsmen's Club, Of Denver City,
last spring imported several hundred doz'
en- of quails, and turned them loose. They
are reported to be doing well
A YOUNG lady of Boston, troubled with
large ears, is reported to have had q
couple of inches trimmed from them all
around by an ingenious surgeon. 49, =
TEE youngest man in the United States
\ House of Representatives is Eugene Hale,
of the Fifth District of Maine, who is "a
years old. The Republicans have nomin-
ated him for reelection 10 Congress.
TIE London rose show took place on
| the 25th of June and was visited by over
seventeen thousand persons. The roses
exhibited varied in color from white 70
almost black, -rr,--. .,-t.-.-.-. ~
THE Rev. Elias Libby, of Limerick
Me-, walked twelve miles and picked hal
bushe1 of blueberries ona recent 6atur
day, preaching the following Sunday, Al
usual; aged; 81.
A YOUNG lady in Brooklyn, N. Y, haI
received as wedding present q fan made
in Paris, at q cost of over $4,000 in gold
1t is oftortoise shell, studded with tiny sol
itaire diamonds.
THE assessed value of real estate n
New York city for the present year i
$742, ,184, $50; the personal property Il
assessed at $S05, ,292 ,699; making total o.
real and personal property OF $1,O47I IzS7,
A YOUNG girl, convicted of child-mur
committed suicide in her cell after she hat
been informed that the Emperor, Francis
Joseph, had changed her sentence to i'm
pIisonment for life.
TIE Trenton SentineE says: "a family
of high social standing in New York eity
has lately lost a daughter by deliTjunl tre
mems. Another daughter of the same fam
lily has been reduced very low from tn
same cause, but is gradually recovering
A LEADING physician in Paris, ate
asking patient the questions according
to formula, as to sleeping and eating, mex
demands what newspaper he reads.
the patient be nervous or excitable,s tn
mi1dest and dullest journal is prescribed
TEE Boston journal Of GheaaistTy say
that the one hundred grains of metalii
iron found in the blood Of healthy adul
, would be sufficient to make good size
pen-knife blade, but no useful implemen
, of larger size.
A WASHINGTON gentleman, the othe
day, tried the experiment of carTyin
1,4O0 in one dollar bills in his hat, but
gust of wind took off his hat, scatterin
the greenbacks in every direction, an
, leaving him $500 poorer, If not WiseI
man. -...- tr7 .ry ga.
In Prussia there are 1913 academies
|. / with 3,242 professors and 66, III pupils Q
. whom 38, 175 are Protestants, l4,SS
Catholics, 1865 Israelitesi and 10 belong
! ing to different other sects. The numbe
: of preparatory colleges is twenty nine,
a which thirteen are in the Rhenls
i provinces.
e THE emigration from Sweden to th
United States has decreased vastly sine
/ last wear. From the beginning of thi
4 wear to the last of june about min
s thousand four hundred emigrants hay
d sailed from the port of Gottenburg fc
: America, to eighteen thousand and 81
q lbundred in the same Teriod last wear