Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-28
WHOLE NO. 233.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THERE are 1884 draft, and 2.92s driv-
| ing horses in Brooklyn.
THERE are three hundred and forty ex-
1 isting species Of pigeons
al SHALL be better presently were the
last recorded words Of Charles Dickens.
TIE birthplace of President Pierce
recently brought 50, ,125 at auction.
| GUsTAvE PICARD, 103 years old, is the
| champion ragpicker of Troy, N. Y.
FoRTY-FoUR thousand women are en-
ployed as outdoor lAborers in England.
TIE Y. NJ. Q. A of Chicago has found
employment for over 5000 men the past
year.
Two hundred miles of pathway has
been explored in the Mammoth cave Of
Kentucky.
A YoRK State octogenarian has married
girl of 16-younger than some Of his
| grandchildren
BETWEEN three aud four thousand
American boys are studying In European
schools and colleges
THERE are in the United States four
hundred newspapers published in foreign
languages.
POSTMASTER BURT has introduced
young ladies into the delivery department
Of the Boston Postoflce.
GARABALDfs novel, we are told, was
published in six languages, but never
paid its expenses in any.
TIE style of Partisan ladies' hats now
and one hundred and five years ago Is said
to be identical
1T is said there is danger OF the total
extinction of elephants, the hunters are
killing them of SO fast.
EIaHrY miles on bicycle in eight and
half hours has lately been accomplished
by q gentleman at Dundee.
A PHfLADELPHIA lady proposes TO build
memorial church to George Washing
ton, in Westmoreland county, Va.
Two chairs, which had once been the
property of Benedict Arnold, were lately
sold for 81 $50, at st. Johns, n. b.
Over 1000 women used the free baths
in New York City ON the Fourth. They
represented all ages, colors, and condi-
tions of life. va IL
TEE machinery used in the State of
Massachusetts, is capable Of doing the
work of more than a hundred million OF
men.
IiFoUR business-frms in London have
names which make curious combinations
Flint & Steel, Ward g. Lock, Lamb 81
Hare, and Holland & Sherry.
FouR thousand tons of ore were thrown
out at a single blast in the Lahoruperior
iron region the oths--dHy. fliteen ana q
half legs sf powder were used
NEW YORK was in such heated condi-
ton the other day that 4,OO0,ooo PONA4es
of ice were necessary to relieve the sui
-ea<ings of her unhappy citizens
A PANS shoemaker is sain ~ have in
vented shoes provided with rollers, which
allow the wearer TO move as fast as q
horse, and to stop immediately--
PERSONS who prefer stale bread can
have their taste gratiaed by sending 70
Pompeii, where they have loaYee baked
over eighteen hundred years ago.
BELGIUM, little kingdom Of II ,882
square miles,-about the size of Maryland,
gives q comfortable support TO over
100000 people, or about 900 TO the
square mile.
THERE are fifteen hundred and thirty
nine Incorporated societies in one prov
fnce in Austria; of these eight hundred
and eighty are in the city Of Vienna.
THERE is a mountain in the north of
Sweden situated SO near the Arctic Circle,
that from its summit on q midsummer
night may be seen the phenomenon OF
the midnight SUM-
A NAN IN Lyndon, Vt, has been on his
bed twenty-one years, unable TO move or
bend a single joint in his body. Every
Joint has been affected by rheumatic diff
fculty, and all the bones appear to have
| grown into one.
THE hirsute appendage Of q young lady
| in New Orleans became undone the other
day, and when she became aware OF her
misfortune q string of hair several yards
long was streaming behind her In the
wind. -1
A RAT in q store in Troy, fooling
around" with piece Of tin, attracted the
attention of policeman, who, thinking 1t
was a burglar, watched several hours Tor
the latter to come out The rat Is now
dead.
IN Queen Victoria's crown there are
1853 brilliant diamonds, 1,273 rose IA
monds, and 147 table diamonds, I largo
ruby, II sapphires, IL emeralds, small
rubies, and PIT pearls total OF 2,lo6
| precious stones.
THERE are two ladies in the Post once
Department at Washington who are en-
ployed in translating the foreign corre-
spondence, and in keeping mp the accounts
in foreign languages. They are scholars
In four languages German, French, Span
ish and italian.
/ TIE average number of persons Hv-
ing in a single house in London Is 8, In
Berlin 80, in Paris 80, In st. Petersburg
80, and in Vienna 55. For every loo
in London is "a, in Berlin 25 in Paris 2Ss
in st. Petersburg Al, and in Vienna AZ.
| AwIDow of forty recently married, az
Paris a widower whose first wife was q
widow. whose first husband was wild
over. whose first wife was widow. In
this family, for the last 176 years, this ac-
cidental marriage of widow and widoWer
has constantly taken place.
Tx the second week in June there were
13f, ,9A persons in receipt of parOchial re-
lief in London, of whom 32,S47 were In
the work-houses, and 99,097 were out
door paupers. This was an increase OF
4O14 upon the numbers in the corre-
spending period Of last year.
AN assistant secretary of the British
Astronomical Society, Mr.. Williams, has
lust finished a translation of the Chinese
records of comets observed for 2, $50 years,
ending A d. 1910. This is the only con-
tinuous registry Of the kind in existence,
and is expected to yield important results
hereafter.
THERE is boy living in woodward
township, Lycoming county, Penn, ~
years of age, who stands six feet eight
Inches high, and weighs over two hun
dred pounds. His name is George Wurs-
ter. There is also girl living IN Middle
bury township, Tioga county, IA years OF
age, who weighs 400 pounds