Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-02-17
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mon.
The profit Of the richest gold mine
in California last year was SS40-OOo.
The Savings Banks In the State or
New York have $lse, 100000 on.de-
posit.
Mr.. George Sheppard is appointed
Times.
Three cases Of death from over
skating have already occurred Ia
New York. t4 z
Stores in New York that have
rented for $4,000 a year, are now
offered for So, 900. ~ ~
It is stated that kerosene kills
more than railroad and steamboat ao-
oidents combined.
The year 1870 will have fifty-three.
Saturdays. It comes in and goes
out on Saturday.
The life insurance companies lose
S170, 900 by the death Of Aaron VII
bur, ofSavannah.
There are great mum bers Of men out
Of employment at Montreal. The
houses Of industry and refuge full.
North Alabamai is full of wild pig
cons, on their way, IL Is said, for the
buckwheat fields further North.
Polish parents are compelled to
give bonds to the amount of 200
roubles that their children shall
speak only Russian in school. 1c :
A younglady went to a photograph
artist recently and wished him to
take her picture with an expression
as If composing poem.
Portland, Maine, is one of the
chief sugar refining cities Of the
country. Itimported lCst year 5 .34e, =
971 gallons Of molasses and 2O, ,59S sS48
pounds ofsugar.
Be careful of your health, girls.
Don't mind being called "old fogy"
because you wrap yourselves up well,
and venture outin thick shoes. Bet
ter be an old fogy than a young corpse.
A Fond du Lac wis paper Gays q
herd of deer wandered into that place
the other day, and as many as eight
were seen in drove in one Of the
sWamps. i S-y a-Slai 80
A little girl lost in London streets,
on being questioned as to her parent
age and place of birth, replied that
she was the "child Of sin, and was
"born in Wrath"
During the last ten years Harvard
has bestowed only thirty-six Of the
higher honorary degrees. Some Of
our one-horse colleges confer almost
as many in a single year.
The Telegraph, most en- terDrisIng
IofLondon Journals, has adopted the
American practice OF interviewing
distinguished men. Among fits dret
victims were Bismark and the Khe-
dive.
At Rheims recently a robber was
struck dead at night by apoplexy In
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broken for the purpose OF carrying on
the sacred vessels and ornaments.
A gentleman fn Petersburg, Va,
the other day, for wager, ate one
gallon OF fresh oysters, minus the
shells and liquor, at one sitting.
Two boys, sons OF VIM. rBorgmau,
brickmaker, residing near Terre
Haute, Ind, were playing on the ice,
on q bayou, when they broke through
the Ice and were drowned. Their
mother, In attempting toreBcuet them,
also fell In, and was taken out In an
unconscious state, but soon resusoi-
lated. -lf9 H7crl u DGgT -
DIR. Gregory, In the course Of one
OF his medical lectures at Edin burgh,
said ;-"One cannotstand perfectly
motionless for half an hour that he
had once tried TO do so, and bad
tainted at the end OF twenty minutes,
the blood requiring the aid Of motion
from the body In order to retain its
full circulating power."a 1 cI
Prof. Loomis, Of Yale, has written
a letter in favor of the scheme for
taking observations of the approach
ofgreat storms. Hesays such stOr ms
usually come from the southwest to
the northwest, and can be easily
| traced. He recommends the appoint-
ment OF a competent meteorologist to
superintend the matter, and believes
that the increased security to com
merce will more than compensate
for the expense. ~ rs
Although the adult oyster Is said
i to generate about one million young
La year its enemies are. so numerous
and actively at work that one In q
million Of the annual production does
not come to maturity. The star fish,
the drill, the winkle, the crab, the
drum fish and the sheepshead, dur
ing their season, subsist In a great
measure upon the oyster.
| Alexis st. Martin, whose side was
shot away in 1922, in such q manner
as to expose the. action Of the digest
i've organs to the surgeons eye, II
still alive and well IN Cavendish,
Vermont. Few men have done
more than he for the advancement
Of science. and no. one probably ever
did so much invoIuntariiy.
ABritish expedition has lately been
at work near the Straits of Magellan.
They report that the Patagonians are
actually several inches taller than
| the average Of Englishmen, as one
chiefmeasured feet 10 1-2 inches,
and several others 8 feet inches.
The average was as high as feet 10
or IL inches. 1A
A young man who was sued for
breach of promise In Birmingham,
Penn, on Saturday, said I'm tustificn-
ton that the would-be bride was q
Methodist, while he ewasa a Lutheran.
Equal to the emergency, TIE young
lady announced her Willingness 10
renouncs her Methodism and attend
the Lutheran Church, and he then
being nothing 10th, the two hearts
now beat as one.
Monroe, Mich, has had fits case of
breach Of promise to marry, the fair
plaintiff Of 81 suing youth of20, who
promised to marry her II she would
buy him a suit OF clothes. The suit
had the desired effect, and they were
married by the,J ustice before whom
the case was brought, the bride ex-
cusing her importantly by saying she
wanted some one to saw her wood.
No HUMBUe.-We do not wish 10
inform you, reader, that DR.. Won
derful, or any other man, has discov--
cred a remedy that cures all diseases
Of mind, body or estate, and is de-
signed to make our sublunory sphere
a blissful paradise, to which heaven
itself shall be but a side show, but
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