Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-04-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

are cultivated In India
A LADY in Maine was left by the war
with 81 orphan grandchildren.
THERE are said TO be 1000 French
Canadians in the United States sii
MAINE calculates that she has popula
ton Of seven hundred thousand.
A PARIS female is reading peoples for
tunes by the lines on their feet. 49,
TIE Jerseyman who invented patent
leather died recently, worth over $1,000
TEE outstanding I'VE per cent. bonds
of the State of Indiana wiz be redeemed
July1. ss re-
An experiment in France proves that
horse win live for twenty y-four days on
water alone.
"MoEFH" is the sole unrhymable mon
osyllable in the English language, says The
Boston Adueftissr. !.
TIE quantity Of malt used In the United
Kingdom in 1867 was 47,S80, 900 buzhels,
each making 16 gallons Of beer.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, proposes TO cele-
brate, on June 2, the fteenth anniversary
Of the location OF the State Capital in that
city.
TEE Romanist population Of the French
Empire is 36, 800 ,664; the Protestant, l.
501, $50; the Jewish, 15S,994.
A MAN in New Orleans offers 10 fight
an 1lilgdIOT uQQcI Wdbers MltHOuly kLllCg
If some one viii give him $500.
TIE dwellers on the Rhine are wonder
ing at an old man of 76, who bathes in the
icy river, and rests on cakeof Toe.
ST. JOHN, N. B., has a mushroom,
grown in q cellar during the winter,
measuring ffteen inches in circumfer-
ence.
A CoNREcTrcUr woman, who married
her father-in-law a few years ago, now
/ aI I. ..ssn tfr.s
for services as housekeeper.
A COUNTRY Postmaster IN New York
State has posted notice in his Office di-
recting people eto lick their own stamps,
else the letters won't 60"
The leaves Of the coffee plant are now ..
proposed as a substitute for tea. In Su-
matra the natives cultivate the plant al
most entirely for the leaves.
AccoRDIHs 70 the circular Of Messrs.
Dupee, Beck g Sayles, Of Boston, the
amount of fine copper secured from the
Lake Superior mines during 1859 realized
90, ,079 pounds.
LONDON city pauperisn increases The
number OF paupers IN that city IN the
second week in March was 174, 700, TO
contrast with las, ,165 for the same week
in 1859. The indoor poor were S7,sSI
against 30, ,76S.
THE Pittshsld Eagle says there is
who is the mother Of twenty children,.
twenty y-rhree OF whom now tivlnBs
and a more healthy woman Is seldom
seen. -
IT is stated positively that there Is a
fhfaine) mills who Is worth at least
$4,000, but who works quietly day BY
day, earning her sixdollara weekly, M
stead d-of retiring with a competency
1T is said that the machine power Of
England and Wales is Competent TO per
forin the labor of nearly six hundred
millions Of men, and is probably greater
in productive capacity than the labor
power of all the world beside.
JEDDo, the capital Of Japan, Is, without
exception, the largest and most populous
city in the world In contains the vast
number Of 100000 dwellings, and 5,OOO,-
600 human souls. Many of the streets are
nineteen Japaneseries In length-22 Eng
hsh miles. -
THERE is man in the vicinity OF
Cedar Keys. Fla, who has twenty-five.
children living. The family subsist prin-
cipally on fish and oysters. They have
never had plate or q Gun and saucer In
their house. In lieu Of cups they use
gourds and shells. sFa3
A MISSIONARY in India lately preached
on the subject Of faith, illustrated by the
story of Abraham and Isaac, with such
hearers immediately went home and
slaughtered his son and offered him up as
a sacrifice
A FRENCH chemist has succeeded In
producing paint with which TO nlumi-
nate numbers of street doors at nient.
Figures traced with 1t shine 50 as 70 DC
read through the most profound oarknessi
and the preparation Of the compound ls
said to be simple, inexpensive, ana unin-
furious in any way. ~ ~
{ TEE Chinese never have any pockets,
the only places answering for such being
the capacious sleeves. Speaking Of the
compression Of the women's feet, and the
painful process Of compressions mission
ary recently said he regarded II as less re-
voting, and far less injurious Than tne
practice OF COMPRISING the Waist Dy
lacing.
OF the cases Of suicide, mental disoroer
is the most active, one-third OF an cases
that occur being traceable TO It one-ninth
to physical suffering; one-eighth TO loss /.
of property; one-tenth TO oremorse, shame,
or fear of punishment; one-elgntn 70
family troubles; one-n1nth 70 gaming eno
other vices, and very small proporuon
to disappointed love.