Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-06-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are seven American lady sculp-
tors at Rome.
THERE is a French Society for the
Protection of Children" aI .-.y....
DAKOTA contains 10000 square miles
of territory, $4,000 more than Illinois.
JACKSONVILLE is now the largest city
in Florida, having about 1900 inhabitants.
TIE Boston Custom House employs a
hundred and fifty soldiers and sailors.
THERE are 5,433 works of art in the
present Paris exhibition in the Palace oi
Industry. ..' "It- ~
IT keeps !, 200 cows busy supplying the
milk for single Vermont cheese factory.
2, A LADY at Paris advertises for employ
ment as ornamental guest at dinner and
evening parties" -
A MOUNTED 1etter-carrier, who an.
nounces his approach by blowing horn,
is the latest novelty in Newark, N. ].
A BOY only fourteen years of age has
been sentenced at the Police Court of
Lowell, Mass, for being a common drunk
ard. f ..-- -.
IT is estimated that there are five hun
dred millions of dollars deposited in the
savings banks of this country. af -
EIeHTY young ladies, trained in the
Queens institute, Dublin, are now en-
ployed in the various English telegraphic
oflicss.J,, 47. a-s.IT- .-.e
Mr.. STEPHEN FREELovE, of Fall
River, has an apple tree, % years old,
which bears fruit every year, but never
blossoms. L v7'slp aiI
A GERMAN chemist has found a, test SO
delicate that one part of arsenic in one
million parts of solution may be detected.
NAUGHTY boys at New Orleans cut the
tails off of cows iu the suburbs of that
osH Jkrx4J .oIz
DURING the past year 1888 men, SO
tigers in Java, 158 persons by crocodiles,
and % by snakes.
WEDDING cards are no longer printed
with a monogram. The latest style is the
letter only Of the brides name, printed
large and plain.
GAS usual" writes a French critic of Lo-
THAR, "Mr. Disraei allows no, one to
figure in his novel who has less than
$4,000 a year" sd5 aTsl Vi
A LONDON chimney-sweep has been
fined forty shillings for stoning some peo-
pie who prevented him from roasting
two thrushes alive" .-.I+-,--
Mr.. HUalBERT, the Swiss Minister at
Yeddo, Japan, says that every woman
write and cipher.
Mich, 409, ,O49 fruit-trees, covering S,710
acres. In 1859 the fruit trade brought
the growers the handsome sum OF
$704, 900. -
A aEHrtEMAN writes to the London
Daily Neaos to complain that two of his
servants have given him notice that they
shall leave unless he gives them five meals
day, instead of four. ~ 3if NJ
THE Concord Patriot reports that one
New Hampshire boy of, fifteen years is
now six feet five and half inches tall,
but it does not brag about him yet, as ne
has not got his growth. osr ~ s.se p.
II is said that within a circuit of one
hundred and twenty-five miles around
the White Sulphur Springs of West Vir-
ginia, there is more iron ore than in the
whole of Great Britain. sss5fs g..
THE number of eggs imported into
Great Britain during the year 1863
amounted to no less than four hundred
and forty-two million one hundred and
sixty five thousand and eighty.
! A ONE EYED man in Paris gets his iv-
| ing by exhibiting the lost eye, which he
has preserved in spirits of wine. He lost
it when q child by an unsuccessful at
tempt of his father to play William Tell.
THE Rev. Joseph W. Allen claims to
be the Oldest Baptist Minister of the
State of Rhode Island, having been in
the ministry nearly fifty years, and pastor
of Quidnisville church thirty-nine years
THERE are, in New York city, 240 Pro
testant churches, with membership o.
72,000. There are also 140 Protestant
missions, with SABBATH schools, etc. There
are 4O'Roman Catholic churches.
/ THE Alaska Indians hold Coroner's in
i quests over suicides, not to decide how
but why, they killed themselves, and i
any other party be to blame he has to pay
a fine to the friends of the deceased.
| a RICH American died a few week
ago in Paris, of the effects of the abus'
Of tobacco. He is said to have frequently
consumed as many as forty cigars a day
BY his will he leaves his children millions
and strictly prohibits them from smoking
AMAsA GOODYEAR, of Nangatuck, Conn.
father of "India rubber" Goodyear, /
claimed as the first button maker II
America. BE made pewter buttons abou
1900, and afferward patented a brass O.
copper eye to them. go. ..r--
THE editor of the New Orleans Pic
GyrL7ls was recently shown very remark
able phenomenon in the shape of thre
roses growing on one stem, two of whicl
were red and one perfectly white. Th
white rose occupied the central position.
THE American Deaf-M Mute Asylum a
Hartford, Conn, had 282 pupils last veal
with an average attendance of 246. 1t
fund of $685., ,684 nets the institution owe
10000. The six New England States pal
$39, ,558 last year for the support of thei
benef1ciaries.
THE surface of society is much smaller
even in city like New York, than
generally supposed. It is said that yo
cannot put any two people together bu
they will be sure to find some acquaint
ances in common before the end of hal
an hour. ......- .s..
THE Young Mems Christian Associatio
in many of the cities of the United State
send daily to the post-office and pay th
requisite amount on all letters not proper
ly prepaid to insure their transmissio
and keep them from the dead letter off1c
in Washington.
THE following are few examples {
the large fees received by prominent Law
yers: David Dudley Field receives $500
600 from the Erie Railroad; William n
| Stewart was paid $25,000 cash by th
, Gould. Curry silver mine, and 80 many feC
| of the ore, which, altogether, netted hiI
100000; jeremiah S. Black receive
, 100000 from the New Alexander min
: and, few months ago, he sued them fC
, $4,000 in addition, and received judi
| mont. William M EVarts has been mai