Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-03-27
Miscellaneous.

THERE are 10000 male Chinese in San
Francisco, and it is estimated that they
occupy less than 700 dwellings, and
stores.
A NATIONAL convention of writing
paper makers is shortly to be held at
Springfield, Mass, to discuss measures
for increasing their profits.
The subscriptions to Harvard College,
to make up the losses by the great fire,
have already passed the $3.50, 900, being
at last accounts $151, 763. so.
A PAR1sIAN savant has discovered that
when young crawfish are deprived of
their eyes new ones will grow in the in
terval between the, shedding OF two
shells. --s-
ACCORDING to the Boston Journal,
Massachusetts, pays annually for school
instruction $5, ATS, 925, or $19.39 for
every child between the ages of and
Is years. rs
THE skeleton found by Capt. Hall in
the Arctic regions is believed to be that of
Lieut.. Viscomte, one of Sir John Frank
Inns officers. It has been buried at
Greenwich.
THERE are three hundred and forty
three towns in Massachusetts,, and there
are residents in all but sixteen who own
more or less interest in some corpora
ton located in the State.
THE Boston advertiser intimates that
it might not be inappropriate to change
the name of the Massachusetts, Agricul-
tural College to "a school to wean
farmers sons from farm work.
A CALIFORNIA firm has set up an in
cubator of 1000 eggs capacity. 1t is 9
feet long, 81 feet wide, and 16 inches,
high and is expected to turn out live
chickens promptly and unerringly.
IT is safe to say that the most popular
humorist in the United States just at
present is Bailey, the ridiculous genius
of the Danbury NeaOs. And yet he does
not lecture, and never has published a
book. Bring him out
THERE is a report that the outlaw
Henry Berry Loweryis not dead. He is
said to be in New York, from which
point his wife has recently been receiv-
| ing packages. The reward offered for
him, dead or alive, is 81, ZOO.
| THE Misses Greeley Will not hire out
the farm at Chappaqua the coming sea-
son, but intend to manage it themselves.
They go out to Chappaqua early in May,
accompanied by their aunt, Mrs. Cleve-
land, and her two daughters, who will
make Chappaqua their summer resi-
dence. z. So, s
i"WoMEN of the age of twenty-one
| years and upwards shall be eligible to
any office of control and management
| under the school laws of this State. y
| These are the new and progressive words
| Just incorporated in the organic law OF
Pennsylvania by the Constitutional Con
| vention. r8 81
| 50 IMPORTATION of tobacco from China
is the latest novelty in English trade.
Large arrivals have been received dur
] ing the last month. It is used in some
measure as substitute for Turkey,
whichit resembles in appearance, though
not equal in quality. The leaf is quite
yellow, and is almost void of flavor.
THE Greeley (Col.) Tribune tells of 8
frog which was cut out of O rock neal
that place recently, where he had lived
quietly for some hundreds of years, and
which was still living. But this is not
all. His frogship was cut open, ano
found to contain an ancient Aztec coin
with an undecipherable inscription
Either this story is true, or the Greeley
Tribune is a horse thief and liar.
IT is rumored that shortly after Anna
deus first arrival at Madrid, tolerabl.
conclusive proof was placed in his hands
that the plot for the assassination o
Prim was known to, if not concocted by
the Due de Montpensier. The news o
Prim's assassination, it will be remem
bered, reached the King as he frs
landed in Spain, and he was very anx
ious to bring his murderers to justice
but he was overhauled in this, as il
nearly everything else.
THE Rev. Fred. Bell, formerly pu
gilist of considerable note in England
preached Sunday evening in New York
He stated that at the age of seventies
he was an habitual drunkard, and use
to support himself by singing in tavern
and bar-rooms. He subsequently wen
into the ring, and later still into tn
, ministry, where, as he says, he ha
T * fought his best fight. His remarks
it is said, showed him to be thorough
; in earnest in his profession, while th
f accompanying gestures proved that h
!, had not quite forgotten the old one, a