Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-03-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Turkish postage stamps are
the most beautiful in use.
The Baptists in Great Britain have
2, 447 churches. 10
Professor Fowler is phrenologizing
in Scotland. - ~
EMark Twain's" father-in-law pre-
sented him with house and lot In
Buffalo. ~
Brazil supplies more than half the
feeannually produced-4OO, ,OOO,O ,OOO
out of 718. 600, 900 pounds.
The New York Commercial says
"there is disease in Canada called
the silver nuisance"
January averaged eight degrees
warmer than any previous January
for forty-six years.
Scandal is a bit of false money,
and he who passes it is frequently
as bad as he who originally uttered IL
Don Piatt says Sumner never Of
fers his seat to lady, unless she Is
colored, and then he does so not
through politeness, but principle.
Boston having decreed that its to-
bacconists shall no longer cumber
the pavements with wooden Indians,
a party has sprung up there to give
them the right of suffrage.
The clergy cost the United States
| S12, 900, 600 per annum and the Grim
inais SAC, 900, 900, the lawyers, $70,-
600, 600 and rum, 5000, 900, 900. f.,-
| One of the solemnities connected
with the Peabody funeral at Port
land, Me-, was a ball in honor ofthe
officers of the funeral feet.
The Tract Society of them. K.
Church has distributed four million
pages of tracts in Germany, during
the past year. te $40 l3Ietl
The patent Office, the other day,
received letter from an Iowafarm-
er, who wanted to know IL he could
lget patent on an Improved mode
Of making fried cakes"
Iowa plants every year forest Of
i 5, ,000.0 900 trees within considerably
less than half q dozen years, 25, ,000, 900
forest trees have been planted, and
are now growing In the Northwest.
The British Government, in TAX
ing possession of the telegraph lines
of the United Kingdom, have dis
carded all modes Of telegraphing but
the Morse system.
There are now living, in Baltimore
county, Md, five brothers; the
youngest of whom Is 73 and the old
est 81, who served in the same COM
pany in the war of 1872, and have
never received pension.
The expectation offrogs to France
is quite a business. One man in Ger
many forwarded 200, 900 in three
weeks. Not only are the things
eaten, but the whole body Is made
into delicious mock turtle soup.
according to Milton, Eve kept ST
lInnano n n. hAnr hnE hrnohnn6
talk" said a gentleman to a lady
friend and then added, in q melan-
choly tone, "Alas,. there have been
NO Ewes since.u Because % quickly
i retorted the lady, "there have been
no husbands worth listening tor
The Chinese who were taken to
Texas are working industriously on
the extension. of the Central Rail
road, above Bremond. They are
giving general satisfaction so far. as
heard from, and lose no time. They
remain at camps during resting hours
and are not addicted to drunkenness.
The meteorites which now arrive
upon the earth are not Of the same
meteorological nature Of those
which fell in past ages. Formerly
the Last 118 years, there have been
whereas there have been annually,
on an average, three falls of stones.
Perhaps 1t may even be said that
| stones of q new kind are beginning
to arrive, for falls Of carbonaceouf
meteorites were unknown before the
year 1903, and four have been OBJ
served since then. $40 Qf 7s7i-
Mr.. Samuel L. Clements, better
, known as Mark Twain, has at last
ceased to be an aggravation to the
susceptible damsels Of the crowded
audiences before whom he has beer
! recftiDg the troubles of the limo
? cents. 4 He Is married to Miss Olivia
l.. Langdon Of ElmIra aud 1t II even
said that he will quit lecturing
Perhaps he expects to be -lectured
for the future. i"'' at'i
: In Washington, when Prince Ar
thur was there, the English buffers
J and coachmen, resident in the city,
gave a supper to the Princes ser
wants. One of the speeches was
made by his favorite valet, who was
enthusiastic In his praise or the uni
ted States as compared to Canada.
"Ow his 1t !" he asked, "that Heng
! lishmen want to law anything to dc
with such blausted cold place
where the people are French. hano
the beers as weak as water?p
el A Case of Deafness of Il years stand
4 ing (the result Of Catarrh) cured b.
E the use of DIR. Sage's Catarrh RENE
/. dy.-Levi Springer, Esq. Of Durham
< Corners, Williams Co., o., writes
/; under date of january 9, 1883, that b,
: has Deen using DIR. Sage's Catarrl
Z. Remedy, and says 1t has cured hin
Q of deafness of fourteen years stand
: ing. He was so deaf that he couls
!. not hear person talk when seates
e church bells ring two miles distant
T 1t is sold by druggists, or send sixt,
t cents to DR.. r. ". Pierce Buffalo
< New York.
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