Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS Items.

i Dog-washing in London is a trade.
Penny hot dinners are furnished In
4 London.
Canada papers talk of the "silver"
nuisance.
The Pope is to put cardinals hat
on Pole. ~
Brazilian troops draw .rAtions Ofdog
meat. M fr
The mountains near Lynchburg,
i Va, are on fire. ~
Spiritualisnn is called "Spiritism"
Two aids-de-camp OF Napoleon I.
are still living. s
In England telegraph messengers
wear uniforms.
The British army is to be allowed
to wear boards.
California has a new town called
"Shirt Tail Canon.p aH
Cigars arenow madein some places
by machinery.
Montreal has a paper called The
lGrinchuckle. of.t.s--rt
A Virginian town, has just been
sold entire for 5000.
Germany don't grant marriage
licenses to drunkards. f,........,
The city of Washington is $10,000,-
900 in debt and bankrupt.
South Carolina has over 100000
colored children at school.
The immigration to Kansas this
season is unprecedented.
The vonito prevails at Rio Janerio
to an alarming extent.
The Japanese colony in California
is importing tea plants. nI
The Bethlehem (Pa.) zinc mines
yield "A, 900 tons of ore a year. ~ lfv
Emigrants can now go from New
York to San Francisco for $40. r
A S., 500 diamond cluster is exhi-
bited in Troy jewelers. window.
The "richest silver mine In the
world" has turned up In Kentucky.
It is proposed to hold an inter
national exhibition at Vienna In
1873. m
Eighty cents per bushel is the retail
price Of oranges in South Carolina
A Quebec bsnk has three tons Of
twenty-five cent pieces In Its vaults.
The Erie road wants to take up its
track from Salamanca to Dunkirk.
Liquor is now openly sold over
nearly every bar in New York on
Sunday. ily
A number of gentlemen of all poll
tics at Liverpool have subscribed Tor
q statue of Gladstone.6a
The Constantinople police have
added three women to the detective
force. 4o tr rrfs
Diamonds are being found in large
quantities at the Cape Of Good Hope.
A New Yorker has panes Of glass
in his stable windows that costs
$3.50 each.
Snakes bites are successfully cured
in Australia by injections Of am
monia.
Half the freshmen Of Westminster
College, Pennsylvania, are under
The library of the Troy Young
Mems Association contains over
Is, 900 volumes.
Vesuvius is spouting a substance
resembling rock salt, but not quite
so valuable.
o A man at Lowell, Mass, has con-
tracted for a burglar-proof safe to be
buried in.
Some successful experiments in
animal vaccination have been made
at Bombay.
There have been twenty murders
in New York recently, and not one -
execution. a-.,.,.-f.. q.
TheWashington landlords general
ly reduce rents fifteen per cent. after
this month. - tas sifiii- aifi
Corruption is charged against both
the meat and the inspectors there
Of in Cincinnati. .t, ...-
A Iife-sized potrait ofwashington,
for s., ,25O, is to be bought by New
York City,. a.19fl o. pl az si
Rev. j. Hyatt Smith writes that
he has not "come out on the basis Of
open commulion."
Over 1000 persons havebeen add
ID to the Cincinnati churches during
,he present reviyals. Fsf 80
An ice-house in Lee, Mass, is said
% contain quantity of ice packed in
{ seventeen years ago.
A girl at Fort Madison, Iowa,
worth $1OO, 900, hasjust made poor
Irtist happy by marrying him. sl1r
Virginia papers continue to la
nent the "exodus" of negroes from
hat STATE to the South.
Over one hundred young women
ire estimated to be at present study.
ng law in this country.
Mrs. Partington, hearing ofa pedes-
rian's great feat, wondered II they
rave him trouble In walking.
A little three-year old boy was
calded to death, at Evansville, Ind,
IN Wednesday last, by falling into
Kettle of boiling SOAP.
Boston is again talking of laying
,ut huge public park, where the
citizens can go with their families
md enjoy the east winds.
A Montana sportsman has distin-
yuished hinnself by shooting q sky
1lue rabbit without forelegs or
Ihoulders. L
A Southern paper says that the
price of broom corn brush has been
Using yearly, and is now quoted at
rom twenty to thirty cents per
must be more profitable crop to
produce than cotton.