Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-26
Miscellaneous.

A FACTORY in Kankakee, ILL.,, turns out
IA ,400, 900 buttons per annum.
ALWAYS locate the bed-post in your
mind before putting out the gas.
DEATHS from heart disease have in
creased 25 per cent. in twenty years.
PROF. MITCHELL says the earth is
gradually cooling and absorbing the
ocean.
THE Popular Science Monthly says
that children are made deaf by boxing
their ears.
A WEST CHESTER Pa.) lady wrote her
will on a slate, and it has been admitted
to probate.
The total valuation of the State of
Nebraska for purposes of taxation is
about $75, ,O0O,0 900.
The German-speaking Catholics have
raised over $500, 900 for a Catholic daily
paper in New York.
CALIFORNIA has caught it's first shad
this spring, the progeny of spawn de-
posted by Seth Green in 1870.
PHILADELPHIA has more penny daily
papers than any other city in the coun-
try, four. New York has only one now.
THERE were in the United States, in
1870, 14,314 drug stores. The daily
average of prescriptions was twenty-one.
An Illinois mechanic is said to have
invented a steam painting machine,
which, for plain work, paints very well.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is said to have
received at least 500 matchmaking letters
since his name has gained such an lln-
pleasant notoriety.
A RECENT French writer divides the
seasons in London into three equal
parts-four months of winter, four of
fog, and four of rain.
The streets of London are dangerous
places. No less than 533 persons have
been killed by vehicles in the last five
years, and Z, ,494 MANNED or injured.
THE cost of maintaining the public
schools of New York for the coming year
will be So, 356, 900. Of this sum, teach
ers will receive little over So, 900, 900.
A LONDON apothecary advertises for
competent person to undertake the
sale of new patent medicine, and adds
that "it will prove highly lucrative to
the undertak er."
| QUEEN VICTORIA lately discharged a
number of laborers on her estate at Os-
borne for asking sixpence day ad-
| QlGlOudl pay aIlu I'LL HOUR IcoS VI "OIh.
That is economy militant.
| THE beard of a dead man, who was
clean shaved at the time of his burial,
six years ago, in San Francisco, was
found to be eighteen inches long when
his coffin was opened few weeks ago.
A LADY in Reading, Pa, who put out
several pieces of lace on the grass, was
mystified by their strange disappearance.
! They finally were discovered in tree,
| to which a robin had carried them to
weave into its nest.
A KENTUCKY WAGNER finds from his
account book that in thirty years jour-
neying over the turnpike between Mays
vile and Lexington he paid $26, 900 toll
which, as he justly remarks, told heavily
on his business profits.
MANY of the lumbermen in the Michi-
gan pineries are fugitiyes from Justice.
The immense forests render concealment
from the officers of the law easy, and
offenders adopt this method of earning q
living for that reason.
The daily weather map giving in a
complete and portable form the weather
changes over the whole country, and
issuing from the Central Signal Office
at Washington, is now offered for sale
/ under recent act of Congress at two
cents copy.
A FARMERS daughter out West re-
ceived hairy poodle dog from friend
in New York. The unsophisticated
damse1 wrote back thanking her friend
for the present, and saying that she
found it very handy, when tied to a stick
to clean windows with.
EXPERIMENTS have just been instituted
in Berlin with q view of determin
ing what harm is really done tc
the roots of trees and shrubs
by coal-gas escaping from pipes and
permeating the soil. It has been foun6
that even so small quantity as twenty
through 576 cubic feet of earth, rapid,
kills the rootlets of all trees with which