Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-17
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A MILLION dollars in gold weigh two
tons.
OATS are 10 cents a bushel in South
ern Kansas.
BANGOR, with its 10000 inhabitants, is
one of the finest cities in Maine.
WEBsTER's spelling book keeps up its
sale of 100000 copies per annum.
S~EvENTY-FoUR persons keep the Har-
yard cabinet in order by the sweat of
their brows.
The State of Tennessee contains about
100000 900 acres, of which only 100000
are improved.
A TEMPERANCE thunderstorm in ar
Indiana tow recently destroyed LOO
barrels of whisky.
PROF. CUNNING, of New York, thinks
the Niagara river has had an existence
of only 100000 years.
LADIES and gentlemen ~promenading
together of afternoons this fall are COM
manded by Fashion to walk arm-in-
arm.
THERE are 573 lighthouses on the
American coast, with % light-ships.
" . bhOoO " ASOIOA0 ~N ~
duired.
RoxBURY, CT, r~ejoices in the posses
sion of q mine of pure steel. They are
now boring in hopes of striking a lead
of type-metal.
The total population of California is
56O,247. The foreigners outnumber by
ten per cent. the natives born beyond
the limits of the State.
In Massachusetts, forty per cent. of
the population are depositors in savings
banks-the aggregate being 56l,201 out
of a total of only 1,457, 900 inhabitants.
The thoughtful man has discovered
this bit of evidence about the moral
effect of exciting political campaigns,
that while the book trade is very dull,
and is not expected to improve gener-
ally until after the Presidential cleo
ton, the liquor traffic is remarkably
active.
A is on foot in New York
looking to an early abolition of the
usury laws in that State. AS proven
tives of usury, these laws have been
thoroughly tested, and have proved not
only useless, but positively injurious to
the business interests of the commu-
nifty.
THE Southern planters are fast finding
out the advantages of free labor, and
are already beginning to harvest their
cotton crop on the Western system, by
employing a full supply of hands at
the planting and picking seasons, and
keeping the year round only a few
field hands to keep the growing crop up
in trim.
Few people imagine how extensively
the manufacturing of wool into its vari-
GUS forms is carried on in the North,
Northwest and West. In the compare
lively new State of Iowa there are at
the present time some ninety wooden
mills, and in the adjoining States fully
as many.
AT Valley Stream, Long Island, a man
fell between two trains of cars in at
tempting to jump from one to the other.
With the exception of a slight confusion
he was unframed. When some of the
railroad employees stopped to pick him
up, he waved them off, saying, al can
pick up my own corpse"
AMONG the different small ways of
making money we find these: A New
York milliner, with a turn for light and
airy literature, is engaged in writing q
book to be entitled "The Language of
Feathers A Massachusetts firm is
making a fortune by manufacturing
dolls shoes. They send out $4,000 pairs
per annum And in Maine, one tooth
pick factory each year works up one
hundred cords of poplar.
The blade of the first of the 1,0OOnew
swords for the use of tho officers of the
United States army has been finished at
the Springfield armory, and is a very
elegant thing. 1t is thirty-one inches
long, perfectly straight, and the upper
third of the blade is beautifully etched.
The steel is covered with asphaltum
varnish, in which the design is drawn,
and the blade is then immersed in
acid, which eats the parts not covered.
The sword is very light, and while fully
as useful, is much less cumbrous than
the old style.