Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25

Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
JEwELRY of cut steel is coming into
fashion.
EMPRESS EUGENE looks dispirlted,
worn, and old.
YOUNG JESSE GRANT will go to Cor
nell University.
New YORK doubles its assessed valua-
tion every 10 years.
A PURE white vinegar can be made
from the juice of watermelons.
FAIRBANKS, the scale man, bankers
after the Governorship of Vermont.
A cANTER will give you a ruddy
cheek; decanter will give you ruddy
nose.
A FUNNY freak of fashion is the sud-
den disfavor into which diamonds have
fallen.
Ex-senator FooTE has fought thir-
teen duels. He ought to go to the
"head."
A GEORGIA plantation, which sold for
$50, 900 in 1860, brought $500 at sher-
ifs sale recently.
A CAR1INvIL1E OL) woman broke
her leg while kicking her husband for
kissing the milk-woman.
Tom SCOTT has borrowed the trifing
sum of 800, 600, 900 to build the South
ern Pacific railroad with.
On some of the wooden railways of
Canada trains have been run at the rate
thirty-fve miles an hour.
Thus far this year England has i'm
ported cotton from the United States to
the value of over ss24, 100000.
JAMES LAMoN, of Metcalf county, KY,
ate GA eggs at sitting. Six were boil
ed, eight were roasted and SO raw.
TExARKANA, the southern terminus of
the Cairo and Fulton railroad, is named
after Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
WHAT is the difference between Jew
and lawyer? The one gets his law
from the prophets, and the other his
profits from the law.
PHILIP ARNOLD, of diamond planting
fame, is living at Elizabethtown, KY,
where he is spending large sums beauti-
flying his house and grounds.
ABOUT rs, 900 Americans are estimated
to be now travelling in Europe, and that
they will spend there not less than
SA,OOO CaShs LII e1h T1cO,OOO,OOo.
You can buy the house occupied by
Napoleon, l., on the Isle of Elba, in
1914, for 400, 900 francs. It is for SALE
None of the modern improvements.
THE mean life time of the English
people is 40. Sc years, or, in round num-
bers, Al years that is, the average
number of years that people born in
England live.
The firm of Harper & Brothers now
consists of Col. John and Mr..
Fletcher Harper, with five of the sons
of tine original four, who were SO long
associated together.
to the mayor and council of the town in
which he was born that he is able to
support family, no clergyman is al
lowed to marry him.
| WILLIAM M. TWEED offered to bet
$4,000 to $1,000, recently, that he
would be acquitted, in the end, of al
the charges brought against him, and
nobody would take the bet.
THE following is copy of notice
displayed in field in South London
" Ladies and. gentlemen are requested
not to steal turnips. Other persons, i
detected, will be prosecuted"
This year is expected to witness the
completion of halls with an aggregate
valuation of $40, 900, 900, which are il
course of erection by or for the Masoni,
fraternity in the United States.
"THREE towering intellects," says al
Atlanta paper, "met accidenly yester
day on the street, Stephens, Hill, ant
Toembs. The three intellects shool
hands and walked off to the depot.
IT is rumored that Paul de Cassagnac
the noted French bully and Journalist
is coming to this country on account O
his present unpopularity in Paris, FL
is said to have killed eighteen men i
duels.
HARD times means lounging in ban
room expecting to be treated to drink
and doing your work so well that you
employers are afraid of loosing you
services.
OAKEs AMEs' brother and execute
says that his estate will not settle NOR
than So, ZOO, 900, or about one third whs
was estimated at his death the net re
suit of all his Pacific railroad opers
tions and speculations turns out q pos
tive loss.
DURING the year 1872 the whole nun
ber of new books and pamphlets printc
in England was 4,814; of these rs
were theological and biblical, 744 wei
| novels and works of fiction, 533 wei
scientific and artistic, and 439 educ;
tional and classical.
JOHN G. SAKE sends the following
temperance convention
+ You have heard of "the snake in the grass" n
boy,
l OF the terrible snake in the grass;
But now you must know,
Mans deadliest foe
Is a snake of different class.
3 Alas!
: GEORGIA farmers appear to ha'
needed the counsel so often given
planters in the cotton States to gro
their own corn. This year 1,702, II
9 acresIwere planted in cotton, and 1, 791
1 469 acres in corn, showing difference
r favor of the latter and there are b
t sides over 100000 acres planted wi
I other crops.
,, THE New York papers announced, 6
d through the early summer, that Il
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