Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-06-09
WHOLE NO. 226.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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A LIVE alligator has been found in the
river Thames.
A MAN in Akron, Ohio, recently receiv-
ed his eleventh divorce. = 70
A SALT well at TerTe Haute, Ind, has
been sunk 526 feet.
BRieHAlG YoUNe Is the third largest de-
positor in the Bank of England.
DR. HAWKINS, a blind chemist of Phil
adelphia, invented soda-Water in 1912.
A LONDON stenoQrapher has used one
pen constantly for twenty.one years.
GEORGE w. Snow has occupied the po-
sition of, City Clerk of Bangor, Me-, for
twenty-five years.
THE travel on the Union Pacific
amountsto between 500 and 600 passen-
gers daily.
A BOY, aged only fourteen years was re-
Gently arrested in Hartford, for habitual
drunkenness.
IT is said that ffty-three languages are
spoken in the cigar and tobacco shops OF
New York, 80 ,t -
VICToRIA's youngest daughter Is just
turned 13, and her first name Is Beatrice
Mary Victoria Feodore.
A BALL was given lately by Russian
nobleman in Paris, which is said to have
cost oyer two million francs.
A BOY on the Staten Island boats plays
on his violin with piece of ordinarymu-
sic tied in a roll, instead of bow.
THERE is in Paris a milliner that has
made, in the last seven years, upward Of
seven hundred and fiffy thousand francs.
MISS RYE, who brought 20 English girls
to Canada, has found good homes for all
of them, and is going back to England
for 100more. 13JG
In this country there are $50 Young
Mems Christian Associations, and !, 400 in
the world, with an aggregate membership
of 150, 900. .,.f
THERE are 1876 Lodges Of Odd Fellows
IN the State of Missouri, with total con-
jtributing members, 1897; total assets,
.$211 ,S46; increase for the year, 433,277.
A BRASS DOOR, weighing ], ,45e lbs, and
costing $3.50, has recently been man.
ufactured in England for the Wolf Rock
lighthouse. 1t is intended to replace a
solid oak door, four inches thick, which
had been shattered into fragments by the
force of the waves. re
- TIE fashionable shoe for ladies is made
seven inches high, with an inch and a.
half heel, Spanish instep, arched sole, q
movable heel of gilt or silver with an In
dia rubber tip to deaden the sound, and
they cost from SO to $40 pair.
TIE Indians on, the island Of Oldtown,
Me-, have formed debating society, and
hold weekly meetings for discussing mat
tiers Of the day in their own language.
The meetings are carried on with the
strictest regard for parliamentary usage.
Ma RAWLINsoH. an eminent English
engineer, in report to Parliament about
the sewers of London, estimates the mar
ketable value of the matter accumulated
there at $1,000 900, and states that it
would enrich annually 10000 acres of
land. frHrri1 rl
TEE vaccination mania in Paris has
netted over 5000 to the enterprising
owner of heifer in the full glory Of cow
pox, which he takes to the houses OF Gus
toners, who can thus be vaccinated direct
from the original source of protection.
THERE is a family Of nine brothers and
sisters in Maine whose circle has never
been entered by death. The youngest is
now SO, and the Oldest 20, and their united
age is 661 years. They have eighty
children, ia grandchildren, and fifteen
great-grandchildren tu3
A NEW HAVEN man called his friends
to social gathering in his pear orchard
the other evening, and desired each one
10 pick out a branch on which should
grow the pears TOR his or her eating, the
name Of the person being affixed upon q
label. In the harvest time they viii meet
again and enjoy the fruit 80 generously
and ingeniously disposed Of gi1iv
MARIE, the late French Republican, put
the following clause in his VIII; ! crave
your pardon, my dear children, for leav-
ing you but q modest competency.
Another would have been able to make
you rich. But have held II q duty 70
devote my whole life TO the political
cause which had embraced, and assume
that you would prefer that to any other
heritage - go .....
RECENT legislation in England has
largely curtailed the traffic in liquor in
that country. q AT last years session Of
Parliament a law was passed transferring
the licensing of beer houses from the ex-
else officials to magistrates, and the result
is said to be that 5000 beer houses have
been closed. It is now proposed by the
Temperance reformers to transfer the issue
OF. licenses from the magistrates to the
rAte-payera ~ If u Poo rr
3 BONNER is reported to have spent nearly
500, 900 since he was first bitten by mania
for ''fast horses" The prices paid for the
most noted horses were as follows: Poca-
hontas, $4,000; Dexter, $33, 900; Bruno,
$4,000; Major Winfield, $4,000; Lam
tern and Light? $4,000; Flatbush Maid,
So 500; the Auburn horse, $4,000; Joe
Elliott, a colt now owned by him, and ex-
pected to beat Dexter, cost $4,000.
AN English paper says that one Of the
novelties Of the season, is summer hat,
looking much like very good straw,
but in reality made of wood shavings, and
sold for two and one-half pence. A high
ly superior article may be had for nine
and one-half pence It is said to be fra
gile I; a heavy shower would reduce IL to
the consistency of blotting paper, and 1t
will not stand the slightest blow. But in
fine weather it looks as well as Panama.
THE distance to be covered by the pro-
posed cable from San Francisco to China
is as follows: From San Francisco TO the
Sandwich Islands, 1850; thence TO Mid
way Island, 1,140; thence to Yokohama,
Japan, 2,260; thence to Shanghai, 1,035
miles. To this is TO be added one sixth
of the whole to make statute miles a ,086),
and, also, the usual 20 per cent allowance
for slack in paying out cable Il $40 miles),
making the total length of cable required
to connect San Francisco, California, with
the Sandwich Islands, japan, and China,
y A SPECTATOR states that It is quite i'm
possible to Judge of the merits OF the play
at a a'Chfnese theatre, for two reasons.
Firstly the orchestra, which is literally
supplied with gongs, keep up 8 continu-
Gus clamor during the whole performance,
and the actor has to carry ON an animated
competition with these discordant instru-
ments in order to make himself nearo.