Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-30
Miscellaneous.

miscellaneous.
CANADA leans more and more this
way.
F1oRID1ANs revel in luscious water
melons.
TEXAS has 14O, ,OOO, 900 acres of unoccu-
pied land.
OVER $500 Philadelphians died of
smallpox last year.
BALTIMORE sends out So, ZOO, 900 worth
of oysters annually.
THE average storm travels at the rate
OF % miles an hour.
AT least twenty new paper mills are
projected in Indiana.
A YOUNG LADY is the most accomplished
whistler in New York.
The Beecher mine in Nevada yields
about $500, 900 month.
MoNoGRAMs on envelopes are said to
be no longer fashionable.
LINCOLN, Neb., is the youngest city in
the world lighted by gas.
A MECHANIC owns the best and largest
library in Memphis, Tenn.
THERE is general movement for the
RAILROAD laborers consume three
pounds of beef each per day.
A PENNSYLVANIA woman has had seven
pairs of twins in seven years.
New YORK boasts three-months-old
baby that weighs rs pounds.
IT costs New Yorker So, 900 year to
dress fashionable daughter.
THE copper yield of the Lake Superior
mines last year was So, 100000.
BARNUM's- hired men are ransacking
all Africa after nice fresh lions.
AN airline railroad is projected be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City.
Two OF THE pension agencies of this
country are managed by women.
SIxTY-THREE of the $50 citizens of
Goshen, VT, are over go years old.
A LAFAYETTE, Ind, man has Just
shaved for the first time in So years.
STRAWBERRIES, large and luscious, are
plenty in the San Francisco markets.
VELVET boots are worn by the New
York fashionables, to match the dress.
In Philadelphia, last year, there were
7O1 fires, causing loss of Sc, 598, ,419.
A CALIFORNIA Chinaman committed
suicide by examining paper up his nose.
EIGHT hundred and eighty-seven Bal
timorians died from consumption in
1872.
THE whole number of acres in meadow
in all the States and Territories is TO-
100000.
THE balance of trade against the
United States last year was, in round
numbers, $119, 100000.
The italian editor who said King
Victor Emanuel was a repllsive looking
man has no paper now.
A CENSUS at Denison, Texas, taken
when the town was three months old,
shows population of 3,O10.
DAVID BROWN, the Vermont hermit
who died last week, left the largest col
lection of books in the State.
LAKE CHAMP1AIN was frozen over dur
ing the first week in January, for the
first time in fifty-eight years.
THE number of marriages in Ohio in
1872 was 26,303 divorces granted,
1,026; births, 81, ,21O; deaths, 25, POP.
TIE oldest inhabitant of Maine has
made the attempt, but failed, to remem-
Der when there was such weather before.
THE American Merchants Union Ex-
press Company will henceforth be known
as simply the American Express Com
pany.
A MATHEMATICIAN says that if Kansas
was as densely peopled as Massachusetts,
it would contain a population of IT,
900, 900.
ENGLISH papers predict that Ameri-
cans won't use the postal cards more
than a month before they viii become
Disguised.
In 1871 Ohio manufactured over 76, 900
tons of rolled and hammered iron-one-
tenth of the whole amount made in the
United States.
The present Protestant population of
the world is estimated at 121, 900, 600.
Of this number 33,9O0,00 are in the
United States.
A LARGE quantity of sugar-cane cut
tings from the East Indies has arrived
in Louisiana to take the place of the de-
generate native seed.
The propriety of knowing whom one
marries is verified in the case of an aged
couple in Iowa, who, as widow and
widower, married, and who, it was after
ward proven, were brother and sister,