Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-14
Miscellaneous.

The Central Pacific railroad owes
$10S, ,61S, 900.
THE total number of Methodists in
Ireland is 10000.
THE outstanding debt of Vermont
amounts to only 1927, 800.
"JoHN," the New York Suns fool, is
drummer for Philadelphia house.
AMERICAN girls are said to expose the
biggest braids at the Vienna Exposi-
tion.
A WOMAN always carries letter in her
hand, but can usually find space in her
pocket for pork-steak.
SOMETHING THAT TAKEs.-The three
fold combination agency for selling '' Wealth
and Wonders of the Boundtess Vest" There
is much sure money in it. See advertisement.
HINDoo women own $500, ZOO, 900
worth of ornaments. They must have
jewelry, even if they wear nothing
else.
The name of Kosciusko, it seems, was
not Kosciusko, after all, but Koscius-
zho. How could freedom shrek such a
name as that?
PERSONS desirous of learning the size
of shoes worn by lady friend should
praise the beauties of the foot of some
other woman.
HENRY WILSON thinks that Phil Sher-
idan stands as good a chance of being
the next President of the United States
as anybody else.
HARTFORD has nearly $12, ZOO, 900 in
vested in manufacturing enterprises, be-
sides upward of $1OO, 900, 900 in bank
ing and insurance.
The Colonial Government of Queens
land, Australia, has offered to pay the
passage of 10000 skilled laborers from
Great Britain to that colony.
BY sowing pine seed 1000 acres of
barren land in Eastman, Mass, have
been converted into forest, where quail,
plover and other game abound.
THE first Christian school in Jerusa-
lem was opened in 1877 with nine mem
bers now there are FIVE schools, with
upward of four hundred scholars.
The most recent inventory of A. T.
Stewards property gives him 800, ,00O,
900. He will nevertheless continue to
fine cash boys for looking out of the
window.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT, accompan-
led by cigar, lately made the trip from
New York to Saratoga, on a regular
train, at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
Timid individuals got off.
The exports of coin from New York
since Jan.1, 1873, are stated at $35, 941, :
S52, against $44, las, GIL in the same
time last year, and $49, 403, 1913 in CORE
spending time the year before.
ONE of the survivors of the wrecked
steamer Atlantic has brought suit
against the owners for $1OO, 600, claim
ing that he has been disabled for life
by reason of having had his legs badly
frozen.
The editor of Russian journal has
been punished with imprisonment and a
fine for publishing four words of the
Gar addressed to the Khirgistan envoy,
Mohammed Sultan. They were, "Ah,
you speak Russian.
This is one of Josh Billings latest
strokes: ''I have eat these lamented
NJ Jersey ham sandwich, and must say
that I prefer couple of Eastwood chips
soaked in mustard water, and stuck to-
gether with Spalding's glu.''
The average salary of 81, 600 clergy
men (Protestant) in the United States
has been put down by one who has been
gathering the facts at 800 per annum,
and while the whole receive an average
of not over $500, about one-third do not
receive $500.
Mr.. L. T. OUT, of Otoe county, Neb..
is the happy father of recent pair OF
twins-a girl and boy. The former
has been baptised Betsey, and the lat
ter L r. Out. That settles the ques.
ton between Carleton and the other ole
maid about the pedigree of ''Betsey and
I. r. Out"
SIXTEEN years ago, a Carolina father,
who knew the virtues of the rod
thrashed his big boy, and sent him out
to hoe corn. The first seen of him since
was last week, when he returned from
California with $4,000 on his hoe
When you send boy to hoe corr
always click" him first.
In spite of the opinion of Prof. Wy
man, the ancient mound builders O.
Florida were cannibals. This conclu
sion is based upon the fact that man,
of these bone-heaps contained human
bones, which were broken in the sam,
manner as those of certain animal
that were killed for food. The splitting
of the bones had been resorted Il
as a means of obtaining the incloset
marrow.
A MAN of Springfield, VT, has invent
. ed a now suspension bridge. It consist
of a single wire stretched across Blacl
!, river, and car that will contain tw
persons travels back and forth on tn
wire. The east end of the wire is tn
!, highest, and the momentum of the ca
, serves to carry it across, distance O
; two hundred feet in fifteen seconds. Re
= turning, the car travels to the center O
the wire without help, and from theme
is drawn up by cord attached to tn
car, the entire trip occupying only THU
a ty seconds.
OrTAR OF RosEs.-From recen
paper on the "Ottar of Roses, we lear
that this rare and fragrant oil is obtaine
g mainly from the southern slopes of Ba
: kan, Turkey, where there are over Oh
t hundred and fifty stations where the il
r gathering of the rose-blossoms and til
o manufacturing of rose-oil take plac'
:, The quantity of oil produced in I'll
o South of France is unimportant con
Il,