Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-23
WHOLE NUMBER 265.
Current Items.

Current Items.
A LARGE steamship is being built in
one of the Brooklyn ship-yards for the
| Japanese Government.
A YOUNG boy in Lafayette, Ala, shot his
mother dead the other day on her re.
fusal to allow him to go out hunting.
LEMON juice is used by physicians to
effect a cure in some attacks of rheu-
! matism. tl.E
VERMONT farmers complain of a
scarcity of good farm hands.
CONNECTICUT will cultivate more to,
bacco this year than ever before.
DRUNKEN men display stoical indif
ference to pain in Worcester, Mass.
other day, dropping about eighteen
feet; he rose from the ground, and
when asked if he was hurt, replied, 1t
Jared me a little" ~s-fti. .E-+t' eti
THE last steamer of the Pacific mail
line from the East at San Francisco
brought 1900 Japanese. immigrants,
and IN agent has gone to bring 20, 900
mole as laborers for the, different sec
tions of the country.
SALEM, N. c., is remarkable place.
But one house has been destroyed there
by fire in the past ninety years. There
is not a whisky shop or bar-room in the
place. It has but one lawyer, and he
recently moved there r., ,insF,
A CRUEL lady in Meriden, Conn,
keeps an Usage orange-plant in her par
lor, and has recently made two full
blown flowers and one halfopened bud
of white wax and placed them upon the
barren plant. All her callers admire
the " "sweetsmelling fraud, while
several rentlemen have observed that
the half-blown bud has opened con-
siderably since they first called.
THE other afternoon some gentlemen,
while prospecting for coal about mile
from Rockport, KY, came upon the
complete skeleton of a human body,
gigantic in size. 1t was found about six
feet below the surface of the earth.
The forearm bone from elbow to wrist
measured forty-two inches, and the
thigh bone from the hip bone to the
knee, measured forty-two inches. The
lower jaw bone completely covered the
whole lower portion of an ordinary
sized human face.
The drug clerk who administered
arsenic for magnesia, and killed his
man, says he don't see why people
should make so much talk about it, as
he's made an apology and done what
he could to make it right with the
family.
The Bangor (Me.) Wing learns that
quite a number of families in that city
have made arrangements to send to
Sweden for servant girls and cooks, by
purchasing tickets for their passage to
this country-the money thus expended
to be refunded from the girls wages.
A BosToN druggist states that a noted
temperance lecturer is one of his most
regular opium customers.
PLENTY of room in the West. Not
one-quarter of the State of Iowa is now
under cultivation.
LAZY California bar! enders nowadays
place the ingredients of a cobbler into
tumbler, and then wait for an earth
quake to mix them up.
AN Indiana maiden, su eing for breach
of promise, has put in evidence not
only the letters of the faithless one,
but also one of her own, to show the
depth of ruined affection.
ONE of the latest patents granted in
Washington is for an improvement in
chignons.
ALABAMA thinks that she has enough
coal within her limits to supply the
civilized world for a century. @
THE Maine lumbermen predict that
five years hence, at the present rate of
destruction, the forest OF that State
will be wholly cleared of timber. The
lumber crop this year is estimated at
700 000. 600 feet tlt& f