Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-20
Miscellaneous.

THERE is iron in % counties of Ten
nessee.
The Ames family are exemplary tenn
perance people.
A"CABINEr LADY" returned In person
$500 calls last season.
A NEGRO died in Lexington, KY,
recently, at the age of l15.
SEVEN hundred American manufac-
turers will be represented at Vienna.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has 1,O3O stu
dentsin its several departments this year.
THE little busy bees of the United
States produce annually So, 200, 000worth
of honey.
GEN. FREMONT denies that a suit has
been commenced against him in Paris,
as reported.
A BILL to abolish the wipping-p post
died miserably in the Kentucky Legis-
lature a few days since.
The cotton seeds of the South, which
were once thrown away as worthless, are
visible to the naked eye.
THE telescope of Lord Rose reveals
700, O00, 900 worlds only 5000 of these
are visible to the naked eye.
THERE are only eighteen families in
Logansport, Ind, who have not had a
wrestle with smallpox this winter.
PHILADELPHIA and New York capital
lists have taken a large amount of stock
in the Loomis aerial telegraph project.
LIEUT.. FRED GRANT is stationed at
Fort Griffin, Texas, where he is reported
to be very popular with officers and
men.
AMERICAN cheese and American hams
are now acknowledged by high British
authority to be fully equal to the best
English.
"Just to favor an old neighbor," ex-
President johnson argued a case before
a Tennessee Justice of the Peace, a few
days ago.
IT is a noticeable fact that there has
not been a single strict party vote in
either branch of Congress during the
recent session.
The Kentucky Legislature has tri-
umphed over any action of the Roman
Senate. 1t has passed a law to fine and
imprison baggage-smashers.
THE tarantulas, spiders, lizards and
snakes of Mexico kill off 1000 greasers
per year, but don't dampen the enthusi-
asm for a new rebellion every few weeks.
On the Kansas Pacific railroad in 1872:
miles run by passenger engines, 75S, 939;
freight, Loss, 147; miscellaneous, $780,
1874 making the total mileage, 2,475, 27O.
A ooRoNER's jury in Missouri recently
gave an intelligent and explanatory YER
dict, thus eve find that he came to
his death from calling Bill jackson a
LIAR"
JOHN BURKHART, of Virginia, is over
100 years of age, and for a long time
lived in the hollow of a large beach tree.
Last year he married, however, and has
now built an addition to the tree.
A MODEL Yankee shoe factory, doing
all the work by machinery, and turning
out a finished shoe in seven minutes, will
be put in operation at the Vienna Ex-
hibition by II. II. Bigelow, of Worcester,
Mass.
A SMALLPOX patient got into the Jail
at Jackson, Tenn, the other day, .andthe
to lock up his bastile. When he came
back the smallpox man was gone. So
were the prisoners.
THE AHa California has this among
its answers to correspondents : "Dis-
| COuUSllUGu WIG ACGACI JOu Cdu
safely sweeten your husbands coffee
with sugar of lead will depend a good
deal on the intimacy of your %acquaint-
ance with the attending physician"
AN extraordinary hen in Lewiston,
Me-, cackled with admirable regularity,
but then she laid ne'er an egg. An ex-
asperating irregularity like this demand
ed scientific attention. The hen was
sacrificed, and the post mortem devel-
oped the presence of twenty-five good
eggs inside this incomprehensible fowl.
THE Boston Journal is confident that
the idea that household work is thought
degrading in the United Ssates, in any
general sense, or to any exceptional
degree, as compared with other coun-
tries, is utterly absurd, and that, rs a
whole, the women of America stand at
the very head of the household workers
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