Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-10
Miscellaneous.

EUROPE alone possesses III cities con-
tanning more than $4,000 inhabitants.
MANUFACTURING is not a poor-paying
business, although it takes ten mills to
make n cent.
If persons about to wash new calico,
especially black, will first soak it in salt
water, it will prevent the color from
fading.
A PHILADELPHIA bar-keeper has con-
tributed So, 600 of a prize won by him in
the Havana lottery to the funds of an
inebriate asylum.
PEARLS require airing as much as
horses and babies. Unless they are
constantly worn, they change color, and
finally crumble to pieces.
THE Canadian authorities have di-
rected that the United States postal
cards be delivered to any part of their
Dominion for one cent. additional.
A GERMAN journal seriously declares
that all the great fortunes in this coun-
try have been made either by petroleum
wells or by the sale of patent medicines.
IT is estimated that the annual con
sumption of tin in America and Europe
was, in 1858, about %, 900 tons in
1870, 26, 900 tons /; in 1871, 81, ZOO tons.
OF the Yale seniors, Al have chosen
the law for a profession, Is business, Is
the ministry, 6 medicine, 6 teaching, 2
journalism, 2 banking, 2 civil engineer
ing, 1 art, and 1 mining.
j. H. sAvu1n, Chief Clerk of the
Treasury Department, Saturday made
an estimate that it would require g.
975 tons and $50 pounds of gold to pay
off the public debt of the United States.
THE river Neva was frozen over for
the second time this year, at st. Peters
burgh, on the 18th of May, large bodies
of ice having drifted in from Lake
Ladoga. It remained frozen for several
days.
THE Prince of Wales has begun to
economize. He is said to have saved
$500 put of his last yearly allowance,
though it is whispered that he found
the sun in a pair of cast-off trowsers he
had forgotten all about.
The dome of the Capitol at Washing
is a hollow sphere of iron of 8,000,-
900 pounds weight, and is 10S feet higher
the Washington monument at Balti-
more, 6S feet higher than the Bunker
Hill monument, and % feet higher than
Trinity Church spire at New York.
THE valuation of the real estate in
Ward 5, Boston, will be about the same
as last year, Notwithstanding $13, 0OO.-
300 worth of buildings were destroyed
oy the fire, and it is estimated that the
increase in value of real estate in the
,ity will be from SIS, 600, 600 to $780,
200, 900.
T-wENTY-EIGHT million dollars have
expended in deepening and other
wise improving the river Clyde, Glas-
,ow, by the Trustees of the River Clyde
Company. The work is still
continued with six powerful
machines, dredging over 1000, 600 tons
year..
The Emperor of Austria has two Min
sters in his employ to-day who have
Ugh treason-Count Andrassy, Minis
er of Foreign Affairs for the Empire,
nd Herr Florian Zicmalkowski, Mayor
Lemberg, who has lately been ap- {
Prime Minister for the province
f Galacia.
RUSSIA is especially unfortunate in the 7
of manufactures. She has co. :
of them, with a million of operatives. q
ut the latter have a bad habit of get
ng sick. The sick rate is from sixty
seventy per cent, and the average life c
a factory is only twenty years. At Q
lis rate, her manufactures will prove s
ore destructive than an army of in L
HooKA JM's skill as a trailer and scout n
rpasses common experience ever in o
dian warfare. The command under Fl
s lead as guide followed the Modoc Ii
all by night /; by some mysterious
'wer he skillfully led them over the A
ridges as if by intuition. When q
e trail grew cold he felt with his hands q,
er the rocks and caught it again /; and 81
len at dead halt would strike a match, n
d holding his coat over it would catch r
scent again and push ahead. It is
lily wonderful what perception he pos CT
;ses to catch a trail. ft
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