Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-31
Miscellaneous.

THERE are twenty-seven Roman Catho-
lie churches in Chicago.
A TOLEDO paper fixes the wealth of
the late Horace F. Clark at S25, ,00O, 900.
MORE visitors attend the Vienna Ex-
position on Sunday than any other day.
EM1GRANTs are still arriving in New
York at the rate of 5000 to 1000
daily.
THE Japanese mint has already coin
ed Is, 500, 900 pieces of gold and silver,
valued at $40, 17S,OOO.
MIR. Moses DUPONT, of Holyoke,
Mass, and his twenty-three brothers
have, between them, 322 children.
AMERICAN female newspaper reporters
are found IN all parts of the world. Six
teen went to the Vienna Exposition.
MORE persons were wounded by the
use of powder on the recent Fourth of
July than in any battle of the Revolu
tionary War.
OH CRY mourns because Barnum
could not find level spot of ground in
or near the city large enough to place
his tents upon.
The walls around Constantinople,
which were built fifteen centuries ago,
are still perfect-only seven of the forty
three original gates are remaining.
BUFFALO BILL and Texas Jack have
both retired from the stage in order to
extend tine hospitalities of the boundless
prairie to the Earl of Dunraven and
party.
SYLVESTER BROWN, of Ashtabula,
Ohio, when adjudged not guilty of the
murder of his wife, rose up and said !:
Gentlemen, [ think 1 can stand the
soda water on this p
A ST.. LOUIS physician committed an
assault upon a fellow who tied his horse,
attached to a load of coffins, to a post
before the doctors door. The NJ. D.
objected to such mode of advertising.
FIVE girls, neither of them over twenty
years of age, have entered 800 acres of
land in Kansas, and intend to make a
dairy farm of it. ALI but two of the
girls are graduates of Eastern schools,
and two of them are proficient in agri-
cultural chemistry.
THE total tonnage of the vessels
which passed through the Suez canal in
1870 was 409, ,312 in 1871, 703, POP in
1872, 1,O82, ,O91 tons. These figures in
dictate satisfactory increase in the traf-
fc, which, however, is not at all as
great as was expected.
"THE drain of emigrants to America, -
says the Limerick Reporter, &c is abso-
lutely alarming. The people are leaving
the country in crowds respectable,
| we'll dressed, intelligent and orderly
| population are abandoning their country
in countless numbers.
The woman who is annually killed by
| ID;E <>er 10,
at Knoxville, Tenn. He1 gifted sister,
who works out the road-tax, when last
heard from, completed grading section
of road in Maine. The remaining sis
ters plow eighty acres and plant it in
corn this year in Kansas.
A LYNN, Mass, lady sold rags to Z
Salem buyer. A week afterward she
called at his establishment and desired
to examine what she had sold. After
searching the loft diligently she found
her 81 800 in currency, and savings banl
book calling for So, 400. Moral Never
hide your valuables in rag bags.
ACCORDING to the Melbourne Age
bushranger, who was killed some year.
ago in an attempt to escape arrest, is as
serted by another bushranger, Power
who is now in prison, to have been M
less notorious q person than Arthur
Orton, although he went by the nam
of Cosgrove. Another complication thi
for the Tichborne claimants ittl
affair.
The difficulty of inserting screws il
plaster walls without attaching them t.
any woodwork may be overcome by en-
larging the hole to about twice tn
diameter of the screw, filling it witt
plaster of Paris, such as is used fo
fastening the tops of lamps, ETC., an
bedding the screw in the soft plaster
When the plaster has set the screw Wi
be held very strongly.
THE counterfeit fifty cent notes whic
are in circulation can be detected b
. holding the notes to the light, when on
can see there is no silk fbers in the ps
, per, but it is simulated by irregula
Scratches on the plate, which gives th
. surface impression. The red treasur
seal is also printed in ink which will ru
and blur over the paper if a perso
dampens his finger and passes it over i