Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-01

GENEVA, July 22.-The Board of Arbitra-
ton reassembled this afternoon, about
o'clock. After remaining in session until 4
it adjourned until tomorrow.
The claims for damages caused by the
vessels Boston, Sallie, jeff Davis, Joy, and
Music have been dismissed by the Arbitra-
ton. The demurrer of Great Britain con-
corning the other vessels is overruled. The
case of the Florida was concluded to-day.
The decision, it is believed, awards So, 10000
damages for her depredations. The Board
took up the case of the Alabama to-day.
GENEVA, July 23.-Owing to an unforeseen
difficulty, of which nothing is known,t there
was no session of the Tribunal of Arbltra-
ton to-day, nor will there be any tomorrow:
The precautions to preserve the secrecy OF
the deliberations of the Tribunal are con-
fined to the most minute particulars, and
nothing whatever can be learned relative to
its proceedings.
ton is now fairly at work, and its labors are
excessive. Sir Alexander Cockburn has re-
manned within his hotel three days. Seri-
GUS embarrassment has been caused to the
Board of Arbitration by the English protest
against the consideration of any evidence or
argument showing animus on the part of
Great Britain. England insists nat the it,
PRODUCTION of. this evidence practically
admits the consideration of the spirit of the
indirect claims, which were presented only
to provo other claims, which otherwise it
would be impossible to substantiate. Should
this evidence be excluded, few causes can
be proved.
Curious, Useful and Scientific.
TIE finger nails should only be cut
when the hand is moist; otherwise
there is danger of tearing or breaking
them.
The Chinese are said to have made
paper at the commencement of the
Christian era, from pulp artificially pre-
pared and they and the Japanese are
still the most skillful paper makers in
the world.
If an icicle forty-five miles in diane
ter were thrust toward the sun with the
minute, it could never reach the sun,
but would melt as fast as it came.
LONDON was first lighted with gas on
the 2Sth of January, 1907. In 1906,
Walter Scott wrote: "There is a mad
man in London who is trying to light
the city with smoke"
The American Journal of Pharmacy says
that 10000 infants are killed every
year by the opium contained in the
various kinds of soothing syrups which
they are allowed, or rather forced, to
drink.
A RUSSIAN savant has discovered that
all cholera starts from one of seven
points, situated in or near the Tropic
of Cancer. From there it is propaga-
ted by atmospheric streams, all of which
were in active operation in 1866. The
streams are called into being, he says,
by spots on the sun.
IT is an interesting fact, not generally
known, that the 'fsign language" of all
Indians is the same, or nearly the same;
SO that if a man meets another, belong
ing to a different tribe, he is able to
converse with him by ean of signs,
much in the same manner that deaf
and dumb people v with one
another.
The "Pilgrim's Progress" which has
been translated into almost every Ian
guage, has lately been rendered into
the Chinese by a native publisher, on
the mere ground of it's great merit as a
religious allegory. 1t is said to be hand
somely printed. The Illustrations are
of course all Chinese in their cast, and
Christian and Hopeful each nave their
inevitable queue dangling from their
heads.
THE Taranaki iron sand, which is
found abundantly on the beaches of
New Zealand, has been converted into
excellent steel by a simple and eco
nomical process. 1t is mixed with an
equal quantity of clay, and of the or.
binary yea sand, which contains a large
admixture of shells. The mixture is
worked up into bricks, which are hard
ened in a kiln, then broken and smelt-
ed in an ordinary cupola furnace.
A cURsoRY examination of the South
African diamond region and its geologi-
cal features has convinced MI. John
Pstel son, as he recently told the Lon
don Biologists Association, that the
diggings there "are to be no feeting,
passing industry, but a continuous EN-,
ployment, not only for many years, but
for many ages"
AN instrument for measuring the pro
portions of the human body, especially
useful as a means of identifying Grim
mails, was recently exhibited and de
scribed by Mr.. J.. Bonomi, at a meeting
of the Anthropological Institute.
A SCIENTIFIC examination of the 'fsul
phuric substance " hich fell in a shower
of June II, at Gardner, Mass, has
been made by G. T. jackson, State
Assayer, and Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard
College, who have decided that it is the
pollen of the pine tree, which at this
season is found in abundance in the all
and rain in some localities.