Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-03
Miscellaneous.

MANY sugar planters of Louisiana are
going to devote their lands to raising
rice.
PARIS, Ga, recently enjoyed a cock
fight in a church-yard with a deacon for
umpire.
The Louisville Courier-JouTnal thinks
Blaine the coming man of the -Repubh-
can party.
THUR1ow WEED, it is said, reads
Dickens for an hour every night before
he goes to sleep.
THERE is now a Democrat on the Su-
preme Bench of Massachusetts, for the
first time in nine years.
ONE of the very youngest inhabitants
of Lockport, Pa, sports twelve toes, ten
fingers and three thumbs.
ADVERTISING reminds people of things
they had been wanting all along, but
had forgotten all about it.
A CHILD in Hartford, Conn, which
has attained the age of twelve days,
weighs a pound and a half.
A WASHINGTON belle can speak five
different languages, but couldn't bake a
loaf of bread to ave her life.
THE Governor of Nevada has signed
the bill passed by the Legislature of
that State making education compul-
sorry.
from in the gambling saloons of Monaco,
Italy, where she o $4,000 in one
night.
THE railroad conductors in Canada
nave just held a convention in Toronto,
81 5000 - Efo
for their benefit.
A CANADIAN lunatic was lately restored
to sanity by escaping from an asylum
and spending three weeks in the woods
during the coolest weather.
Down East, when they want to speak
of a mans iberality, and yet don't want
to praise him too much, they say he has
a heart as big as Rhode Island.
BY a new Japanese law " expectora-
ton in the'.streets" is prohibited. With
what wonderful quickness that people
follow on the heels of our higher civil
cation.
THE tillers of the Oregonian soil are
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES into farmers clubs,
in very much the same manner as their
co-laborers of Illinois and other Western
States.
Hon. CALEB CUSHING has taken occa-
sion, recently, to express the opinion
that Gen. B. F. Butler combines our
age and ability in a higher degree" than
any other man at present in Congress.
THE creditors of the dry goods firm of
George B. Grinnel & Co., which failed
in 1861, have just received their in
debtedness in full from Mr.. Grinnen,
w1th iofo1.ocf IN fill for fura1un e.
DURING the civil war in the United
States pork rose from $13 to $40 per
barrel, beef from $40 to 500, -four from
SIS to $40, cotton from ID to 11S cents
per pound, and cotton shirtings from 10
to 60 cents per yard.
THE heirs of Richard v. Meade and
the children of the late Gen. George and
Commodore r. W. Meade nave a claim
against Spain which, if proved to be cor
rect, the United States, under the treaty
of 1910, must pay. It amounts to $685.
$40. 9S.
BEN. BUFFERS recent declaration that
the Almighty made him, and not the
newspapers, is hardly worthy of belief.
The newspapers often turn out such
wretched jobs, but it is very seldom that
the Almighty does .-LouasUiUe Courier
Journal.
A MEDICAL authority says that if the
ladies continue to wear long earrings,
the lobes of their ears will be dragged
down and disfgured. Does the man
think that any right-minded woman will
allow herself to be influenced by N
such frivolous considerations
The little postofice at Rockland, Me-,
takes more foreign money orders than
New York or any other office in the coun-
try. A large number of Scotch, English
and Irish stone-cutters are employed in
the granite quarries, who take this mode
of sending money to their families in
the Old World.
THERE have been quite a large num-
Der of cases tried by women justices of
the peace in Wyoming Territory. Out
of the whole number, but two cases
have v been carried to a higher court,
by appeal or in any other manner; and
in both of those cases the decision of the
female magistrate was sustained, and
her judgment confirmed.
If you wish to ~personate a Prince or
Emperor at a New York carnival or
masked ball, your costume will cost you
$50; clowns, donkeys, mandarins, monks,
lackeys and pages can be done for from
$40 to $25 :; you can be a private, pomp-
Gus old gentleman for So, but if you
want to be a monkeyyou must spend $40,
and to represent a f~rst-rate devil costs
$40.
IT is suggested in England that a law
shall be passed requiring that 10 strike
including more than 500 men shall be
regarded as legal unless the opinion of
the workmen has been first expressed in
it's favor by ballot and, also, that dur
ing the progress of a strike a minority of
reasonable number may demand a fresh
ballot to decide whether the strike shall
not terminate. This plan is proposed to
counteract the exercise of terrorism
which, it is said, commonly causes and
prolongs strikes.
The Debts of the Whole World:
A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette has
been figuring up the debt of the world,
and comes to the conclusion that the ag-
gregate Indebtedness of al nations
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