Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-01
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
NEBRASKA has 300 miles of railroad.
SOUTH CAROLINA has 101 colored legis-
lators.
BRoAD-soLED shoes are best for COM
fort. s
Iowa and Colorado owe no man any
thing. 80.
Iowa farmers are going into peanut
culture.
ONLY one person out of forty belongs
to church out in Nevada.
THE hensof this country do $6O, ,OOO, 900
worth of business a year.
THUR1ow WEED likes to walk his
room at midnight and repeat &c The Ra-
ven. -
AN Indiana farmer figures Congress
mans new salary at 10000 bushels of
oats. s-s4
AN Iowa man is planting 1000 trees
on his S00-acre farm near Ellsworth,
Kansas.
THE average diameter of blood cor
sandths of an inch.
THE New York Herald advocates the
abolishment of 1ife-boats and the carry
ing of RATS by ocean steamers.
THE United States grows annually
about 130, 900, 900 bushels of potatoes
three bushels for every man, woman and
child.
THE new Atlantic cable between the
United States and Great Britain will be
5000 nautical miles in length, and will
cost 81 ,211, 900.
A WOMAN in Gardiner, Me-, weighs
sixty-five pounds less than she did be-
fore the surgeons removed her from a
tumor on which she had grown.
TIE man who can set the Thames on
fire has made his appearance in Lon
don. He claims to have perfected a plan
by which the hydrogen in water can be
used as fuel.
A GIRL of 13 recently brought to mar
ket at Americus, Ga, a 500-pound bale
of cotton, the result of her own unaided
labor, from the plowing of the soil to the
picking and ginning.
EVERY member of the family of Craw-
ford Nally, who left Paulding county,
Georgia, last November, for Arkansas,
has died of smallpox since reaching the
latter State. The family consisted of 81
persons.
The average weight of the brain in
man to the weight of his body is as to
Sc, or 1 to 40. In the mammalia the
proportion is to Sc /; in birds, to 212 /;
in reptiles, to ,321; and in fishes, only
l to 5,668.
A YOUNG woman, while eating stew
in Middletown, Ct, the other evening,
complained that one of the oysters was
full of bones, and careful, if not attrac-
tive, examination showed that it con-
tanned As pearls, varying in size from a
pea to pins head
IT is generally believed now by me-
teorologists, says the New York Times,
that we are to have cycle of very hot
summers. An eminent sanitarian in the
Health Department, DIR. Stephen Smith,
has already issued a report suggesting
measures during the coming summer
which shall prevent the fatal effects OF
the expected heat.
PROF. AaAss1z has been lecturing on
eggs, and he asserts that s'all living be-
ings, whatever their diversity of form,
have grown up from eggs which are at
first all precisely similar. Deviations
take place, little understood, that event
| ually change these oelngs INTO W1uely
differing animals" This explains where
everything comes from except eggs.
TIE Troy Times has story that 8
gentleman residing in the vicinity OF
| Sandy Hill holds note against Gen
Washington for 81, 500, given for sup
plies during the American Revolution.
There is an Endorsement on the note fol
/ about one-half the amount, and it is al
legged that the balance has never beer
paid. 80
THE temperance cause in Kentucky
has been somewhat set back by the an
snouncement that one of the few water
drinkers in that State has just discov
cred at the bottom of his well the body
of neighbor who disappeared foul
years ago; and the majority of the peo
pie have resolved to stick to whisky an(
let well alone.