Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-21
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
The distance to the sun is 81 ,43O, ,22O
miles.
The London Times cleared e2OO, 900
last year.
SPORTING men speak of the Shah as
diamond flush.
A HoAR frost is said to have nipped
Buffers budding political proclivities.
THERE are now being educated in this
country sixty young Cinnamon.
SAN ANTONIO has meat extract COM
pany which congresses twenty-eight
pounds of beef into one pound of ex-
tract.
HOOPS brigade of Texans numbered
A, ,120 men men in 1862, but now only
14O persons live to meet and talk over
old times.
ONE of the new Congressman from
Wisconsin brings experience. He has
been superintendent of lunatic asylum
for five years.
In Philadelphia, the Jews have eight
synagogues, and in New York twenty
six. The census of 1870 numbers 152
synagogues in this country.
LAURA D. FAIR has struck a balance
sheet, and found it cost $11 900 to settle
Crittenden and the unpleasant complica-
tions growing out of the affair.
MAGGIE MIrcHEn1's S wooden wedding
took place at Long Branch last week.
Among the presents were a cord of wood
and wooden saw-horse, from Edwin
Adams.
WHEN some one told DIR. Barton that
Mr.. Vowel was dead, he merely remark
ed fsLet us be thankful it is neither
. nor 1. )" This is entirely consonant
with the character of the man.
THE train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railway which carried the Washington
steam fire engine to Baltimore made the
distance, forty miles, between the two
stations in thirty-fve minutes.
A ROMAN CATHOLIC daily journal will
appear in New York city early in the
fall 1t will be backed by $100, 900, and
will advocate Catholic schools, and fight
education by the State in every form.
In the annual report of the Utica On.
" Lunatic Asylum for 1872, is given
the particulars of curious case, that
of seamstress from whose body 300
needless, which had been swallowed at
various times, had been extracted.
| APARIs letter to the New York World
says CDR. Helmbold's family affairs
are once more occupying the public.
His wife has again had him thrown into
mad house as lunatic. He escaped
day before yesterday, but has again been
carried back"
AN Ohio County Clerk refused to issue
a marriage license because the man was
only four feet high, while the woman
was six. He knew something about do
mestic life with the proportions reversed
and couldn't assist a fellow-man to buy
into a lottery when the odds were sc
fearfully against him.
THE Holy Father has, so the story
goes, little cups and saucers lying or
his writing table before him, filled with
unset gems of great value, out of which
he occasionally takes little pinches te
give as presents to his most favored at
tendants and visitors, making as fret
with the glittering baubles as if he were
merely dispensing pinches of snuff.
CONNECTICUT has lost a remarkable
clergyman in Rev. Daniel Williams, who
had preached for upward of half cen
tury without a regular salary, but fo.
the sake of doing good and from love O
the cause, and who delivered between
two and three thousand funeral sermons
Such wholesale administering of conso
J lation is as unusual as it is beautiful t.
| think of.
THE Times boasted that it had
"Walter press" from London tn
Tribune says there is none in New York
and that Mr.. Hoe is rendering the i'm
portation of one needless by the inven
tion of a new printing machine tina
prints both sides of paper at once
from a continuous roll of paper, and a
such rate of speed as puts all previou
machines into the shade.