Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-03-02
Miscellaneous.

upon some mems faces which is honored
almost wherever presented. -
A Boston paper urges that-the name'
of the builders should always be given
in reports of fires caused by defective
hues. rh
THERE are I,0l7 American claims
against Mexico now before the Ameri.
can and Mexican Commission in Wash.
ington. -
MANY blast furnaces are putting out
their fires on account Of inability to get
coal, owing to the suspension of labor at
the colieries.
! A CHINESE thief, having stolen a mis-
sionary's watch, brought it back the
next day to be shown how to wind it up.
SEVEN UPl-Now that Olive Logan
has become the owner of a brown-stone
'front.'" she may be counted High Lo-
Gan. ....f..
A WESTERN paper, describing the
speech of a young orator, says that he
broke the ice felicitously with his open
ing, and was almost Immediately
drowned with applause" iiF
WITHIN the last month five hundred
colored persons have applied to the
American Colonization Society for aid TO
go to Liberia. More negroes are now
attracted TO the colony than ever before.
"DAD, have you been 10, the Mu-
scum? ?' said a ten-year-old boy. "No,
my SON" "Well, go and mention my
name to the door-keeper, and he'll talSeI
you round and show you everything<
"PAT, who is this Nilsson we hes -
much spalzin' about In the newspap.
" Don't you know, Mike Why, it's
that ould sea divil Nilsson, that ft the
battle of the Nile, tubbe sure"
A BosToN paper reports that Boston
gets much of its poultry from the far
West and a Nevada paper says that
Virginia City gets its chickens from the
Atlantic States.
TIE expenses of our wars with In
dians since the beginning Of the century
amount to more than e40O, 100000,
while the amount of money spent in
attempts to educate them has only been
$8,OO0,OO0. .-s--.r t.ft
FROM careful experiments made by q
physician of Lyons, it has been ascer-
tanned that the old remedy of warm
water is the best solvent of accumulated
wax in the ear, being superior 10 olive
oil, glycerine, DC. ~ sqrci8e
Books which have been handled dur
ing recovery from scarlet fever should
be burned after they have served their
purpose for the patient. In the stages
of recovery such books frequently be-
come charged with the germs Of the
disease. -F- ..a. -
SOMETHING for the novelist and play
wrights Your hero kills your heroine
by poisoned postage-s stamp, which he
sends her in a note requesting an an
swer, and gets the evidence of guilt
into his hands again by return mail.
MARcoGRAPH PEEs.-Under the name
of "marcograph pens," an article has
lately been introduced into England for
marking boxes, bales, etc. The arrange
ment consists of a number of different
marking points, placed side by side; ac-
cording to the width of stroke required,
by means of which perfect letters of
large size can be produced with great
rapiditY. ~
GEoLoGIcALLY, the hardest and most
elevated rocks are the sites where the
least mortality from cancer is found.
Along the river courses which flood
their banks seasonally are to be found
the districts in which the highest NOR
tality takes place; and thqt those
from the nature Of the rocks
forming the watershed, the foods are
much discoloreds by alluyium, and
where, from the fatness Of the country,
the floods are retained and not easily
drained off, there we find the greatest
from cancer among females.
A GENTLEMAN who has been studying
botany in the Sandwich Islands de
scribes the pursuit of the science there
as somewhat difficult and perilous. On
one of his trips he was obliged 10 de-
scend a deep incline at an angle Of
seventy degrees, by swinging from the
roots of one tree TO the branches of an
other, and this with a gorge beneath
him two thousand feet deep. But he
was rewarded by finding a magnificent
violet, with splendid snowy-white waxy
flowers, some Of them nearly half an
inch in diameter, and exquisitely per
tuned.
IT must not be imagined that adul-
terations are to be reclSoned among the
precocities of the nineteenth century.
Even 50 far back as the time Of Henry
VII. of avaricious memory, there APP
pears to have been no end 10 the inge-
nuity of our ancestors in inventing and
these iniquities. Here is an
enactment of his upholsterer's depart
ment: "None shall put 10 sale in fairs
Or markets any feather beds, holsters or
pillows, except such as are stuffed with
one sort Of stuff, viz, dry pulled feath-
ers, and not with any unlawful corrupt
stuff" However, even the dread Of
Empson q Dudley, that monarch's very
sharp attorneys, doesn't seem TO have
inspired the bedmakers with much awe,
for not long after they were adulterating
With gravel, fen down, and thistle
down.