Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-08-04
FACTS AND FIGURES
claims 22O,761 inhabitants.

CINCINNATI has the second highest spire
in America t3 H.s.tsi'i.' - p
IN 1859, 159 persons were killed by
crocodiles in Java.
r IT costs New York $4,000, 900 annually
to. have its streets sprinkled. Era
THE Leipsig GortenEGu6e claims circu-
lation of 100000 copies ftf
THERE are ,s14 draft and 2,928 driv.
ing horses in Brooklyn.
A PHnADELPHA paper has for its edit
orial staff q father and his FIVE sons.
THERE were 2, ,136 marriages solemnized
in st. Louis during the last year.
A NRw YORK Judge and jury recently
spent a day on case involving fifteen
cents.
CATHERINE BBECHER is now 20, Alice
Cary 4S, Fanny. Fern go, and Harriet
Beecher Stowe sc.
A "L;fe of Abraham Lincoln" in the
Hawaiian language, has been published
in Honolulu.
A WIDOW lady in Durham, Me, has
worked out her road tax f0r this year
with horse and cart.
THE following sentence contains all the
letters in the alphabet: "John quickly
extemporized five tow bags"
A MAN weighing one hundred and fifty
pounds contains one hundred and eleven
In Connecticut a young lady celebrated
the Fourth by leading out her pet poodle
dyed in the national colors.
"WE all owe something to our coun-
| try" said the man who went abroad with
out having paid his income tax.
THE people Of Cleveland ride in 3,455
private carriages, carry 2. .732 watches,
and are supplied with music by 1,31O
pianos. 1ioTls H"i sGf'f s.tfa
A MAINE farmer lately found three
sheep which he lost last fall, in the woods,
doing well, having lived all winter on
hemlock boughs. .-fi..
THE original Declaration of 1ndepen-
dence, now in the Patent Office at Wash
ington, is nearly illegible from the fading
of the Ink. ;t....
TIE Iowa Homestead, in an article on
the " Wastes of the Farm" AYERS that the
10000 agriculturists of the State "waste"
S1O,000,G00 yearly. rti5
AN English swell has recently given a
fashionable breakfast to party of other
swells, which cost the very moderate sum
of $4,000. ,sr..- 80 -.-....s
AN analysis shows that cotton seed is a
highly concentrated food, and is richer in
flesh producing elements than corn, but
somewhat interior TO corn as fat pro-
ducer. s-.. .-s-...t
n MAN III I6uu1lOIu3 Nc =, HAS Jug bndb
produces fleece six inches long every
year. The materiAli is said to make nit
tens that wear like iron. g. .as.f
THE number of gods of China has now
reached &c. .ee9.--F --FAe Chinese have only
one Sunday IN the year, and that Is New
Years day.
THE Supreme Court of Georgia has de-
cided that bachelor is a family, that he
is the head of il, and as such entitled to
the privileges of the Homestead act.
THE patronage at the disposal of the
Collector of New York, distributed
through the several departments of the
Custom House, is enjoyed by 1856 en-
ployees. fgg
A H1NDoo cabby, before mounting box
and taking the reins and whip in hand,
always first formally prays that his driv-
ing may be to the glory of his God.
I. IT costs a Massachusetts youth $50 to
celebrate our nations birthday, by per-
ambulsting the streets and throwing fire.
crackers and torpedoes at unprotected
feminines. efl--.5
A French peasant named Surin, who.
had never been out of his native village,
has invented a machine for spinning
hemp, by means of which a great saving
of labor is accomplished. - -
THERE is to be erected Immediately at
Albany, N. Y, a building which will
cover ninety. six freight cars. When com.
p1eted it will be one of the largest, if not
the largest, car building on this continent.
THE members of the Methodist Churches
in the world now number about three and
half millions ministers, 10, 9,049; local
preachers, 1894; Sunday school schol-
ars, nearly four millions. .iy,.,
An eagle was lately shot near Aub urn
N. Y, which measured twelve feet from
tip TO tip of its outspread wings. When
discovered he was perched on fence in
tently watching a small boy picking straw
berries.
A NORWEGIAN vessel, which was given
up for lost and abandoned by its crew last
October, after nine months tossing on the
ocean was discovered recently on the
English coast, with its cargo safe and in
good condition. a-Gj .i-.t
a MILWAUKEE, German, named Rudolph
Meter, while moving a dining table dis
covered $3.50 in half eagles In one of the
legs. Al hole had been bored to admit the
coin. He purchased the table some eight
years ago OF a second hand dealer.
THE Philadelphia Post says /" One of
the most brilliant writers in the city, now
the editor of one of our best known
papers, some ten years ago used to write
the sermons of a clergyman in West Phil
adelphia, for five dollars week.
AT a recent railway accident to excur-
sionists in England, the dead and wound
ed were plundered Unfortunately. The
tempting display Of rings, watches, &C.;
overcame honesty, and even the police
men lent the wrsckers their aid in dis
polling the dead. e.. ~ '.5G y
A FRENCH dwarf fifty-fve years old,
with beard which reaches to his feet,
but being bald, and having but one arm,
proposes to marry any young girl of
about twenty, who is pretty and good
tempered, The consideration is, that the
dwarf possesses fortune of about $780,
600. r-t-.,t-.' tf.L ti5
On the William Connolly farm, eight
miles south of Bowling Green, Ind, is an
apple tree which is ten feet in circumfer-
ence, being about three feet four inches
in diameter. It is twenty-nine years old,
and stands in large walnut stump, most
ly sound yet. --'i
MANY years ago, and before. Landseer
was as renowned as he now is, he was
very poor; and it is said that he one day
paid 81 sterling for the body of dead
lion, from which he made a most success
ful picture called, GA Lion Attacked by
Serpent" He was fortunate enough to