Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-09
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

CINCINNATI Jews talk OF taxing Oh
their hats in church hereafter.
THERE is in Switzerland, on an aver
age, one journal for 6, ,479 inhabitants.
PARIS has $4,000 paupers, a much
larger number in proportion to its
population than London.
DRY PAINT is removed by dipping a
swab with handle in a strong solution
of oxalic acid. 1t softens it at once.
IT is stated that the use of tar as a
preventive against potato disease is at
tended with the most satisfactory results.
UPWARD of 100000 copies of the
penny edition of "Pilgrim's S Progress
are said to have been sold by the En-
glish Book Society.
JOAQUIN MILLER rides in Hyde Park,
London, in his Mexican vauquero cos
tune, with white sombrero, covered
with cords and tassels.
The London Times keeps "ibel
suit lawer," and he has carried the paper
through thirteen suits without iudg-
ment being rendered against it.
A STRANGE and fatal disease has be-
come very prevalent in Utah, producing
great CONSERVATION. Patients die in a
few hours. The disease resembles
fever.
The suit of Elizabeth Parker against
the Boston and Albany Railroad Com
pany for personal damages has resulted
in verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
$19, 800.
The most accurate estimates state
that China possesses coal fields to the
extent of over 400, 900 square miles, one
province (ShausD having no less than
81 900 square miles with veins from IL
to 80 feet in thickness.
THE value of the property as
sessed for taxation in England, in 1872,
was nearly 100000, 900. Industrial
incomes had increased from 91S9, ,024,
567 in 1871, to e2O2, 9O5, ,367 in 1872, and
other incomes in similar ratio.
GRocERs in cities are using postal
cards for new purpose. They send
out to their patrons postal cards upon
which orders for goods may be written,
and they will be delivered to order with
out extra cost to the purchasers.
BALTIMORE is probably the greatest
fruit packing country in the world.
There are millions of dollars invested in
| the businesses, and many thousand
bushels of peaches are canned every
year. One firm is said to pack 25, ,00C
cans per day.
MIR. EDWARD ROBINSON, who was the
first man to officiate as a railway con
ductor, is now living in Utah. He il
now &c years old, and at the age of %
he was the first of the six men selected
to run trains on the Liverpool and Man
chester railway, the first railway evel
built.
The prospects of a large beet-roo
yield may prevent any very extraordi
nary rise in the price of sugar in Europ,
in the course of the present year, bu
the article is so cheap that, even in tn,
midst of general financial crisis on tn
continent, it could hardly be seriousl,
affected.
IT is reported that an immense irol
manufacturing firm in England purpose
removing its entire machinery to thi
country, and locating it's works on tn
Delaware, at Philadelphia, the remova
being prompted by the scarcity and con
sequent rise in the price of coal il
England.
RECENT geological surveys of the neN
Territories of the Far West have re
vealed the very important fact that tn
known coal deposits of the Rocky Noun
tain region extend over an area of uE
ward of 25O,OOO square miles, in STRAIT
varying from five to thirty-ive feet i
thickness.
STAMoNlUM, known also as Jamestow
Corrupted into jimson) weed, is a
effective remedy for snake bites, and wi
cure them even some days after they al
inflicted. The weed should be apple
in the form of d poultice. In the al
sence of any other remedy, cauterizin
the part with live coal is good, espt
pecially for horses and cattle.-Scie,
} tiJfc american.