Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-11
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1873.
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
SENATOR SUMNER is taking absolute
rest.
FROM five to seven refrigerator cars,
loaded with butter, are shipped East
every day from Chicago.
PROF. .AGAssIz desires to throw open
to women all the educational institutions
and facilities under his control.
THERE are 2O,0OO,OOO acres of wild
land along the Mississippi river, of great
richness of soil.
INDIANA has the largest school fund
of any State in the Union, amounting
to over So, 600, 900.
Mrs. SoHURz has had the good for
tune to inherit $170, 900 from her uncle,
recently deceased at Hamburg.
THE ancient gates of Constantinop1e,
which resisted decay for LOO years,
were said to be made of cypress.
IT has been twice iudicially decided
that railroad passenger need not give
up his ticket until furnished a seat.
UNDER the revised code of Iowa the
guilty party, in cases where divorces are
granted, shall lose all rights acquired
by the marriage.
ONE of the notorious divorce lawyers
of New York, in his advertisement in
the city papers, says: "Hymeneal in
compatibilities as a speciality deicately
adjusted. 'Tis slavery to retain the
hand after the eradiac entrail has de-
parted"
THE Union Pacific Railroad Company
report that they sold during the
month of July last 20, 500 acres of land,
at an average price of $6.73 per aero,
amounting to $138, ,677.23. The sales
averaged 108 acres to each purchaser.
DERE & Co., the well-known plow
manufacturers of Moline, ILL.,, have
been awarded the first premium at the
great Vienna Exposition. This award
reflects credit upon the manufacturing
skill and enterprise of the Great West.
A NEW dress which Brattleboro
woman invented worked SO well that,
while walking along one of the public
streets, the entire garment fell to the
sidewalk, leaving her costumed like a
Georgia major.
THE total amount of tea consumed
yearly in the United States is about
80, 600, 900 pounds, of which 20, 900, 600
is green teas of various descriptions,
about $15, ,O0O,0 900 Oolong, and the re-
mainder Japanese and other varieties.
Books in China are not dear, and all
the standard histories and school-books
are very cheap. The whole of the Con-
fucian classics sell at from 80 cents to
$1.50, according to the quality of the
paper. The Chinese never lny duty On
books.
SINCE Miss Maggie Elphich, the Con
necsicut oysterman' daughter, pulled
young Sims out of the bay at Green
wich, she has received dozen offers OF
marriage, and the Connecticut girls are
now asking, Mother, may go out to
swim ?''
THERE are seven newspapers pub
ished in the United States which are
over 100 years old. They are the Ports
mouth IN. H. Gazette, Newport (R. I. }
Mercury, New London Conn., Gazette,
| (Conn. Journal, Salem (Mass.) Gazette,
Worcester (Mass. Spy.
THE five leading branches of manu-
facture in the United States are iron,
lumber, cotton, machinery, and woolen,
ranging in Importance in the order
named. The iron trade employs 1877,
| 545 operatives and capital of $685.
356, 116; the lumber trade 163, 1897
operatives and a capital of $161, 800, 273
EMMA BLACK, living in small tow1
on the Mississippi, saved mans life
| the other day in a curious way. He
was fishing, and tumbled out of his
boat, and being unable to swim, would
have perished had not the maiden, dis
covering his danger, swan out to him
- L. L. L. L.
hair, four feet in length, towed him tc
the land.
Mrs. KATE FERGUSON, the wife of 6
Cleveland printer, was frightened tc
death recently. She was walking or
when dog-killer, seeing a chance to
make a fee in his vocation, aimed the
gun at the dog, which SO frightened
Mrs. F. that she ran screaming home,
was seized with commissions, and died
in short time.
Miss ANNA E. DICKINSON rode to the
top of Pixies Peak, Wednesday morn
ing, accompanied by Mr. E. S. Nettle-
ton, Chief Engineer of the Rio Grande
Railway Land Department, her brother,
the Rev. John Dickinson, and Ralph
Meeker She is the first person who
ever mode the ascent on horseback, and
hitherto the feat was considered impos-
sible. On the following day she lee
tured at Colorado Springs on "Joan Of
Arc. .''-Denue1' Neaos.
SPEAKING of the cholera, leading
English authority says that there is nc
sign of any rapid spread of it in Eu-
rope, and that there seems to be little
doubt that physical, like moral, epide-
mics, wear themselves out to some ex-
tent; or rather, that the human frame
accommodates itself to the conditions
which cause them, that they do not pro-
duce the virulent effects after long pre-
valence that they produced at first.
AMONG the recent and ingenious de-
vices for utilizing the electric spark, is
that which substitutes it for the ordi-
nary flint or percussion,'c cap on firearms.
By the aid of small galvanic battery
within the handle of the pistol or gun
or by the convenient arrangement of 6
Leyden jar and rubber, the current il
generated, and conducted by wire to
the cartridge. The contact of the wire
with the cartridge may be effected by
simple press pin or lever.
Our fences are valued at one Thousand