Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.


GALVESTON has 30, 900 dogs.
ANNA DICKINSON is worth $4,000 a
BALTIMoRE has forbidden the playing
of hand organs.
SPRIEeFrKLD Ill, papers say the census
shows the population of that city TO be
fully $4,000.
IT is now positively certain that the
next Universal Exhibition will be held at
Vienna in 1878.
TIE profits of the Methodist Protestant
Book Concern for the last four years have
been $2,03606.
INDIANA, it is said, has fewer female
convicts in proportion to her population
than any other State in the Union.
THE yearly income of A T. Stewart
is given at $1,420,O00; w. b. As
tors, 81, 5000; Cornelias Vanderbilt's,
CHARLOTTE GUn1ARD was the first
notable female printer. She was in
business for 80 years in Paris-fom 1905
to 1856.
THERE Is boy in Sullivan county, Pa,
three months old, who weighs forty
pounds. He weighed twenty-eight
pounds at birth.
LAST year hundred and forty-three
plebeians in France importuned the
Emperor to confer titles Of nobility upon
them.
TIE Methodist Episcopal Conference
in New Jersey has ruled that no minister
in the conference SHALL marry any di-
vorced person.
TIE average weight Of the graduating
class of Trinity College, Hartford, twen-
ty-one members, is 1424 pounds The
average age is 224 years.
TIE statistics of emigration and immi-
grafton of the Kingdom of Saxony show
that All persons moysd eSso into , that country
grated from 1t. ts~t
l. FAIRMouNr PAnK. Philade1phia, in
cluding the new district, has Z, 700 acres,
and is the largest public park IN America,
Central Park, New York, only measuring
800 acres. -orff
THE British iron-clad navy comprises
Al vessels, varying In size from the
Agincourt, of 9 621 tons, and 28 guns, TO
the Viper, of 737 tons, and two.guns.
JUST opposite to the famouspolitical pris-
on of Mazas, in Paris, is an inn with this
legend over the door; Here the inmates
are more comfortable than they are across
the way"
A NAN in Washington county, Pa, has
recently built q house, the four corners OF
which are each in a different township,
the corners of the townships meeting N
the center of his cellar.
A WOMAN named Agnes Swoka, in East
Prussia, injured her husband in suci
terrible manner by pouring boiling water
over him, that he died of IL. She vas
sent TO the penitentiary for five years.
A LAKE has been discovered In the
mountains, near Helena, Montana, from
which an unlimited supply Of water VIII
be obtained for mining purposes at and
near that place.
IT is estimated that eight hundred
young men in Baptist colleges IN this
country are studying for the ministry-
two hundred and forty Of whom are In
theological institutions.
Ar a Lisbon theater, where they are
playing drama descriptive OF California
life, party of miners are represented In
red and blue silk pantaloons and pstent
leather boots.
I A MONTREAL bat maker made a cricket
bat which he begged Prince Arthur to &C
cept. Prince Arthur, however cannot
accept presents" and soothed the mans
tender feelings by buying it.
THE Newport Mercury has entered upon
its one hundred and thirteenth year of
publication One hundred and twelve
years ago (June, 1853, the Mercury was
first published by James Franklin.
IT Is claimed that man in Salem, Ohio,
can tell from memory the weather OF any
and every day since 1627-that he distinct
ly remembers whether any day was clear
or cloudy, warm or cold, rniny or snowy.
i A YOUTH of seventeen, named Charles
Thompson, was brought TO Iowa nom
New York, last April, and bound out 70
a farmer He became dissatisfied, and
started back on foot, making the distance
of / 100 miles in six weeks, averaging "a
TT T1rpE are altogether 953 officers in the
! regular army of Saxony. or these, are
generals lieutenant generals 10 major
| generals % colonels; 1S lieutenant
| colonels; 50 majors 100 captains; 1876
| frst lieutensnts, and $50 second Heuten-
ants; IL auditors and 90 surgeons.
THE tribe to which an Indian murderer
belongs is known by the method by which
the victim is scalped. The Oheyennes re-
move a piece not larger than q silver dol
lar, from immediately over the left ear
the Arapahoes take the same from over
the right ear. Others take from the crown,
forehead, or nape of the neck. The Utes
take the entire scalp from ear to ear,
and from the forehead to the nape OF the
neck.
IN Massachusetts, during the past year
there were fewer marriages than in the
year before, or the year preceding that a
fact which may to some extent be ex-
planned by the emigration of young men
TO the West. There were twice as many
i marriages between Americans as between
Z foreigners, and yet more children born OF
!. forei0n than native families. In the city
of Boatop the number of foreigners ana
, of Americans married was about equal,
hut the births of the foreign were as seven
To three of the American families. Inc
increase of the population OF the cbate ID
, Wenty nine per day'