Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-05-05
FACTS AND FIGURES.

CNoENATT pays $4,000 a month for
street cleaning. G
NEARLY 100 Philadelphia girls wore
married to foreigners last year.
FRANCE claims nearly one fourth of all
the theaters in Europe.
i CANES with whistles are at the present
time very fashionable in Paris.
THE total yield of quicIxsilver on the
Pacific coast, In 1869, was 16,898 Tasks.
OVER thirteen miles of streets were
| opened In Detroit during the past year.
TIE elevated railway in Greenwich
i street. New York, win run fer the public
! in May.
THE city ofParis uses 100, 900 reams of
paper per day in her different printing
houses.
A TwEETY-oNE pound trout, two feet
nine inches long, has been caught in Lake
Winnipisiogee.
Ar late funeral in Hartford, the coffin
was borne by six sons Of the deceased
AwoNAN in Concord, N. h, with an
income Of near $4,000 hires out as house,
keeper.
| A BosroN paper states that few chips
and some small pieces of tarred paper are
al that is LETT Of The great Coliseum.
THERE are now in Berlin seventeen
advertising agencies, which do together
business of four million thalers year
THE English National Li6eboat Insti-
tuition is doing great work. Last year
the boats saved S71 lives and 83 vessels.
A PENNsYLvANIA girl has reclaimed
her lover from a lupatic asylum, where
his parents put him because he would
marry her.
A CORRESPONDENT writes that new
mania has sprung up ameng the ladies of
Edinburg- fancy for Learning to cook.
ALADY who was injured by the falling
of seats at circus in Oregon City, Ore
gon, has recovered $4,000 damages from
the company.
HoN. JOHN A. CoBB, eldest SON of the
late Howell Cobb, owns and manages
Il, 900 acres of rich land, in one body,
about fourteen miles from Americus, Ga
JACK REYEoLDs, while on the way to
thesgaIlows exclaimed, in the bitterness Of
his heart and soul, q MY God I wish all
the rum was out of the world r. 5f
A VERDICT of $4,000 has been render
ed against the Adams Express Company,
the value of large lot Of peaches intend
ed for New York, left at Fortress Mon |
roe in 1857. blas hfs. -
IT is said that George Hunnewell who
was recently pardoned from the Massa
chusetts State Prison, after twenty-five
years' confinement, was more surprised
at the street cars than at anything else.
Two old pumps in London, the handles
of which had been removed, have been
mistaken letter. boxes by stupid peo-
pie, and thirty or forty letters, supposed
to have been stolen in the Post Office"
have been removed from them.
TEE editor of Cassell's Magdsfns says
one of the most successful editors Of the
day once remarked: "An editor is gen
orally right when he rejects an article, but
almost always wong when he begins TO |
give his reason for so doing.n
A ROCHESTER, Police Justice, instead of |
sending to jail a man who was brought
before him for begging, procured employ |
ment for him, and was rewarded by the |
heartfelt thanks of the man and his prom |
ise to give a good report of himself
SrATzsFIcs of commerce and navigation |
show that the imports Of the year 1889 were |
S463, ,461 ,427, gold value, and in 1858 were |
$3.50, ,701, $40; domestic exports, $464 .87S9,- |
800, mixed values, against Sal, ,SQ0,972 in |
1868, while the re-exports were $e9, ,221,- |
5f4, against $40, ,904, 1913 IN 1888. %
MR. HowLHrr writes 70 the London |
Times that on March % spot was visible
on the sun, indicating disruption of the
solar philosophers to the enormous extent
of not less than 16,000,000 square miles,
or eight times the superhcies Of the terra
queous globe.
A CIsrERN in Lawrence, Kansas, was
cleaned out recently. The Tribune says:
The result was interesting to that class
of our young men who depend upon
boarding houses for their daily food
Coffee and tea had been concocted from
this cistern for a long time. The clean
ing-out operation brought to light one
dead cat, five defunct rats, an old boot, q
shoe, two hoop skirts, part of mop, and
about foot of general filth
OLD JUDGE AIKEN, of Greenfield, Mass,
was quite famous for his extra judicial
opinions One of them runs as follows:-
Presiding at the trial of one Fisk for an
aggravated crime, and the jury having
brought in q verdict of guilty. Judge
Aiken said: Fisk, stand up. For the
crime of which you have been convicted
you are condemned to solitary confne-
ment for one day, and to imprisonment
during the rest of your natural hfe-and l
wish It was in my power to sentence you
longer" Ea
TIE PottsYille Pa) Miners Journal
says that few days since, at the Colorado
Colliery, the workmen struck an old
gangway Of q colliery worked many years
ago by Stephen Girard, in which was
found three foot gang railway track up
on which stood a coal wagon capable Of
carrying three tons of coal Although
this gangway was cut many years ago, In
L bQ6 carly VI buC AC8AOA1 bAC P-CPoI
timbers, the ties, and wagons, were In
perfect state of preservation, and nom all
appearances, viii last century yet.
THE Chicago Christian STANDARD says
about twenty of the students of the Bap-
| tist Theological Seminary, in that city,
| found themselves unable to meet the
small charge of two dollars and thirty
cents a week for board at the Seminary
| building. There were two alternatives
| left them-either to abandon their studies
or submit to still further privations-
| With a spirit of sacrifice rarely equaled,
they decided upon the latter; and they
/ have been living-the wife of married
| student doing the cooking-on one dollar
\ a 1oeek. They do without meat or butter,
/ or tea, or coffee-in fact the staple of
their Harder is corn and oatmeal And
their wardrobe is as scanty as their table.
TIE San Jose 1Cal.) Mercury of April
2 relates the following incident: The
Mayor brought into our Office yesterday,
a little lad, who gave his name as Robert
Graham, and says he is IA years of age,
but looks several years younger. This
lad tells singular story. He says he left
Kalamazoo, Michigan, about month ago,
without any moneys he did so because
his step-mother, with whom he had been
stopping, turned him out Of doors, and he