Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-18
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Current Items.
A PENNSYLVANIA has signed the tenn
perance pledge go times.
THERE is large emigration from the
upper counties of Tennessee to Alabama
and Texas.
The average life of an Arkansas week
ly paper is seventy days, and sixty-nine
of these days are very sick ones.
FRED. SINGER, of McGregor, Iowa, cut
his throat from ear to ear, last week,
upon learning he was attacked by small
pox.
EDWARD A. EoGERT, of Buffalo, has
written the Lords Supper, three times
repeated, within the circumference of a
three-cent piece.
IT is fact that America has not yet
succeeded in producing a raisin grape,
though there is something very like it
in California.
TRENTON, n. j., has a startling instru-
ment in the shape of circular saw some
twenty -four feet in circum ference-the
largest in the world.
The Atlanta Plantation suggests that
of agricultural interest in Georgia, where
the fruit grows to perfection.
ANGEL, the Mexican General, has been
captured. He doesn't want to stand
with his celestial namesakes just at
present, but is afraid he will have to.
A PHOTOGRAPHER in Los Angeles, CAL,
was astonished the other day by some
parties bringing corpse wrapt in a
sheet to his Office, to be photographed.
EDWIN FORREST has cancelled some of
his Western engagements, his time being
occupied in playing the tragedy of
Rheumatism to small but apprecia-
tive audience.
THIS is the era of tunnels as well as of
investigations. The latest project is to
connect East Boston with the city proper
by means of a bore under the harbor.
Its estimated cost is $3,OO0,000.
WHEN a man in San Francisco wants
to take a little run to pass away time,
he embarks on sailing vessel for Liver
pool. He can get there and back in
nine months, if he has good luck.
A MICHIGAN paper reports that an in
ventive genius in that State has devised
an eight-legged steam walking machine
that can hitch on and walk off with any
amount of tonnage that wheels will roll.
Mrs. ANN THOMPSON, poor war widow
of West Union, Iowa, the other day or
dered the pension for herself and SON
$40 per month-stopped, as her son,
lad of ID years, was now able to support
them,
TREES have been found in Australia
taller those of California, though not as
large. One has been measured 480 feet
high. The wood closely resembles red
cedar, and the bark is sometimes Is
inches thick.
TWENTY-FIVE cent diamonds are be-
comm SO plenty among railroad brake
man that they are compelled to wear
piece of carpet over their shirt-bosoms
after dark, to avoid giving lantern signals
when moving about at stopping places.
A PHILADELPHIA girl married an old
man in that city, 40 years ago, expect
ing to be left a rich widow in a short
time. But somehow the old man seemed
to thrive on it, and now she has died
at the age of Sc, leaving him hale and
hearty at 100.
A NUMBER of planters throughout
Iberia Parish, La, are setting out willow
posts, as they find that, in almost every
case, they grow into trees, answering a
double purpose-making the most dura-
BILE posts, and at the same time giving
shade and furnishing fuel.
THE widow of the late Gen. Henry w.
Halleck, who lately removed from
Louisville to Faribault, Mimi. is re-
ported to be worth $l.50O,O0O. She is
educating her son at Faribault institu
ton, and it is reported that she will
endow the school with 100000,
A RICHMOND belle has an original
method of attracting attention to her
self. She imports her hose from Paris
at an expense of $40 pair, and, of
course, when she goes walking, crowds
flock to see her stockings. Her plan is
not commended for general imitation.
A QUEER trot took place at Smiths
Falls, Ont, lately. A crippled boy drove
a Newfoundland dog harnessed to a
seventy-pound sleigh against a local
trotter, standing start. and Bruno al
lowed two rods at the outcome. The
dog won three straight heats. The dis
tance was forty rods.
BEN. BUTLER is Miss Sadie Wilkinson's
counsel in her breach of promise case
against Mark NJ. Pomeroy. 1t is ques-
ton whether he espoused the cause of
the heartbroken maiden on account of
the retainer, or for the splendid oppor-
tunity offered for getting eyen'' for the
names that Brick" used to give him,