Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-15

ENGLAND's 100000 hares and rab-
bits. exclude 100000 sheep which
might otherwise be kept.
DR.. DoLLINGER, in his Munich lee
lures, calls Luther the greatest genius
Germany ever produced.
THE fire department of the city of
Florence, Italy, consists of ten men,
three of whom are employed with pipes,
four with buckets. and three with small
brass fire extinguishers.
ENGLAND consumed in 1871 hundred
and twentythree million pounds of
tea. Quantity of roast beef cannot be
computed.
The Princess Mathilde's hotel in
Paris has just been sold for e64,OOO.
The Princess Imperial of Germany,
Queen Victoria's Oldest daughter, has
seven children, three of whom are sons.
GUSTAV DoRE is said to be in despair
at the thought of Miss Nilsson's mar
riage to M. Rouzeaud. In fact he is
living picture of desolation. The poor
man takes it sorely to heart.
OWING to larger area of soil now
under tea cultivation in Japan, it is
said that five times as much tea will be
offered to the market than was five
years ago, notwithstanding the severe
winter that has been experienced this
year.
The Prince Imperial of France, who
has obtained the Queens permission to
become student at the Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich, will join at the
beginning of the next term for tho
usual course of instruction.
The King of Bavaria, in answer to an
inquiry made by the ex-Emperor Napo-
L. ,ul H.
to a Bavarian watering place for the
benefit of his health, has replied that
the popular feeling against Napoleon
was too strong in Bavaria to render his
appearance in that country desirable.
THE British Government has ordered
the withdrawal of the crown and half
crown pieces. These contain four grains
of gold to the Troy pound, a quantity
which could not be extracted when the
coins were struck, because the processes
| then in use were not delicate enough.
Now silver containing two grains of
gold to the pound can be profitably
| treated.
IT is said there are in Russia no less
| than fifty million acres of lands which
will yield 5000 tons of phosphate of
lime to the acre. This contains twenty
per cent. of phosphoric acid. The de-
| cay OF the guano trade Is evidently des-
tined to have little effect upon the
agriculture of the world, for that ma
nure will be replaced by artifcially pre-
pared phosphates. 80
THE King of Siam has sent his "royal
brother Amadeus of Spain, "white
elephant" Considering that Amadeus
has on his hands at present an elephant
of quite another color, and of the most
astonishing proportions, which he can
neither coax nor drive, we think this
| last present little too much of a good
thing, and as a consequence rather
more embarrassing than otherwise. One
elephant on mans hands at time is
surely enough.
A CORRESPONDENT of Vienna paper
recently saw the ex-Prince Imperial of
France at Chiselhurst, and gives the
following description of him.: "An
overgrown boy with a pleasant face,
dreamy but meaningless eyes, manners
not very graceful, and a smile which
| reminds you of that cold, freezing smile
which his father, the ex. Emperor, would
put on when he wanted to make him.
self amiable. The Princes forehead is
low, and shows that his intellectual
capacity cannot be very great. His
| teachers are said to be much dissatisfied
with the slow progress he makes in his
studiesn