Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-07
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous. ,...
YALE COLLEGE catalogues 16O Smiths.
POUNDED ice, dipped in white of egg
will settle the stomach when all else
| fails. Hfa- '...
The census shows that there are
35, ,S14 more men than women in Wis
| consln. ...-
Miss NELLIE GRANT is credited with
contemplating a book about Long
Branch.
GEN. BRAxToN BRAGG is canvassing
the cities of Georgia as agent for
patent wooden water-pipe.
A VERMONT man has invented con-
trivance by which kerosene lamps may
be filled from the bottom.
AN Idaho lawyer paid $25 the other
day for calling the Judge on the bench
ga bloated old rhinoceros.
CHIco, Cal, has produced some onions
weighing four pounds each, yielding
from eight to ten tons per acre.
A FLOATING cannon ball is one of the
sights at Vienna. It weighs SO pounds,
and floats in a caldron of quicksilver.
DURING the last six months 1880
Chinese emigrants have landed in Cali
fornia OF white folks there were 600
less. .5ta
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS doctor bills
as to insanity, presented to the New
York Board of Supervisors for payment,
amount to 81, 800. n.r. = '#.r-
A VERMONT school-teacher has struck
the thing at last. He makes unruIy
BOYS turn grindstone 1000 times,
how II will, a or
of wood.
The value of -four and wheat exports
from California to Atlantic and foreign
ports for the year ending June 80 is
SIS, ,252, 900. Value of the wheat crop,
$50, 100000. f.- ....:.-......
SOME of the ambisexual colleges, this
year, are bestowing the degrees of &C M.
S. ;" Maid of Science. And the bache-
lors ditto sing Maids of Science, ere
we part, give, oh, give us back. our
heart
IT is said that some of the enterpris-
ing New York journals, unable to OBJ
tain permission to send correspondents
on the Tigress, overcame the difficulty
by causing their correspondents to enlist
as seamen. .
The property valuation of Mississippi
in 1860 was $6O7, 1924, 900. In 1870 it
was 5000, LIT, 600, a loss of two-thirds in
ten years.. The amount gathered by
taxation in 1860 was $945, ,806, and in
1870 So, 736, 1878. - isfa
JACOB B. JORDAN and Clayton Sutton
were deer-driving in Ouachita county,
Ark, recently, when the former and the
horse upon which he was riding were
shot and killed by Sutton, he taking
Jordan's horse for deer as he came
through some bushes near him.
The average number of persons per
house, in various cities of the United
States, is as follows New York, IA. 72 !;
Cincinnati, 9.S1 Brooklyn, 8.64; Bos-
ton, 8. /; Jersey City, S.37; Hartford,
5.56; Rochester, 5.36; and Toledo,
the lowest, 5.25. The densest popula-
tion is that of the Fourth Ward, New
York, where there are 24.61 persons to
each dwelling.
| ILLINOIS is almost out of debt. In
| 1860 the State owed nearly $12, 900, 900,
and during the war the equipment of
troops and similar objects cost large
sums, which temporarily increased the
debt. All has been paid off since the
war, however, excepting about So, ,500,-
900, which the State is now ready to
pay, but is unable to do so because the
holders refuse to surrender their bonds,
which are not yet due. -
| Ex-Gov. LEONARD SARGENT, of Yer
mont, who was counsel for the accused
at the celebrated Boorn trial more than
fifty years ago, and is the only living
man thoroughly acquainted with that
remarkable case, when the prisoner was
saved from hanging by the discovery
that his supposed victim was alive and
well, is soon to publish a pamphlet con-
tanning an authentic record of the half
forgotten and often misquoted facts.