Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-04
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larly injurious to the eyes.
MIXED schools (black and white), in
| Boston, are success.
EMIGRATIoN of our fashionables to
Europe was never greater than at
| present.
CHR1sr's Hospital, London, has been
sold for railroad depot, bringing
$3,OOO,OOO.
A $5,oooOoo TUNNEL is to be con-
structed under the Mississippi, at Mem
phis.
THE Albany State Library contains the
papers on which Major Andre was con-
victed as spy.
THE debt of the city of New York, as
shown by Comptroller Green's latest
bulletin, is $104,675, ,953.O6.
WEsTFIELD, Mass, employs 526 per-
sons, and hundreds of women who work
at home, in the manufacture of whips.
They produce I'll 900 whips every
month. I
The Cincinnati Board of Trade has
been presented with the window cast
ings of the cabin in Indiana where
President Lincoln lived, and which he
made with his own hands.
New HAMPSHIRE has fifty-four savings
banks, with aggregate deposits of nearly
$25, 100000.
MASSACHUSETTS is turning to account
its unfinished Hoosac tunnel by MAX
ing up excursion parties to go and look
into the big hole. A band of music
and all the materials for nice dancing
party are taken along.
The Witness, the only religious daily
in New York, has received $4,000 from
Coma cuY,o hofio Ghpiskion
The management of the Erie railway
has issued an order prohibiting the sale
of liquor in the restaurants along the
line of the road. a
Col. SIMPKINs, Florida engineer, es-
Inmates the value of timber that can be
made available by the opening of the
Choctowhatchie river, in that State, at
fir m $5O,O0O,OOO to $144, 600, 900, accord
ing to the distance it can be proftably
hauled.
The winner in the idiotic Bostonian
pedestrian match against time took lees
than six hours rest out of four days and
eight hours a performance which, as
its principal injurious effect would prob
ably fall upon the brain, is not likely to 4
do any harm to either him or his COM
petitor.
The barkeepers of La Crosse, Wis,
conformity present their compliments to
the mothers, wives, daughters, and Sis
ters of that community, and beg to say
that if these ladies will had to the Chief
of Police the names of any male rela-
tives to whom they do not wish liquor
to be sold their desires shall be strictly
carried out.
EVERY week the Patent Office is
plagued to give letters patent on a new
plow.
The number of periodical publications
in the United States is 6,432; 985 are
monthly.
ONE hundred books on chemistry
have been sent to Yeddo from New
Haven.
A LAWRENCE, Mass, machine makes
seventy-nine miles of wall paper day.
The total revenue derived by the
Government from brewers was $37 ,306,-
500, from the close of 1862 to the close
of 1870.
DUvALL COUNTY, Fla, with a popula-
ton of less than 1900, has, during the
last forty two months, had fifty-two hom-
icides and suicidal deaths, and thirty
two fatal accidents. Only one murderer
has been hung.
ONE hundred Norwegians sailed from
New York on June Is, to be present at
the celebration of the 1,000th anniver-
sary of the existence of the United
Kingdom. he event will take place at
Hangesund o July Is.
A NIAGARA TAILS correspondent has
spent some time in classifying the arri-
walls for last season, which numbered
Al ,975; New York heads the list with
1878 Illinois shows AGO; the British
Provinces, 1865; Europe, 1,lOO; the
Orient, los, and Africa, 4.
The Board of Audit of New York
City has before it newspaper claims for
city and county advertising amounting
to nearly $2,0O0,O00. During the period
of little over two years to which most
of these claims apply, there has already
been paid on account of advertising
about S2,75O,0O0. The amount of the
legal appropriations hardly covered one
eighth of the actual expenditures.
NUMEROUS young women of Boston
are to be prepared for freshmen under
the auspices of the Woman's Club of
that city, and if they be denied matric-
ulation in the masculine colleges of the
Atlantic coast they are to be prottered
to similar institutions in the West,
where, it is said, they expect to be re-
ceived "with open arms" Is this quite
proper?
Ar last the long-looked for art has
been found, for an italian savant named
Luigi Valerie has discovered means of
producing not only drawings but the
colors used in making them. The
name of photo-painting-a barbarous
expression-has been proposed for the
new process.
YANKEES ABRoAD.-A correspondent
of the New York World relates the fol