Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-17
Miscellaneous.

ulSCel1dutOuSs
The Shah wears a million dollar over
coat.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is at st. |
GATHERINGS, Canada, where she will pass
the summer.
A PLANT has been discovered in Mexico
which will cure badness. It will pay to
cultivate it in the United States.
THERE is a tree standing in front of
the Dyersburg, Tenn, Presbyterian
Church that has been struck by light |
ming nineteen times and it is a good
tree yet.
SOMETHING THAT TAKEs.-The three
fold combination agency for selling
+" Wealth and Wonders of the Bound
less West" There is much sacre money
in it. See advertisement.
LAST February there were thirteen
oranges in Georgia now there are sixty,
and by next Christmas it is believed
there will be two hundred. The move
ment is gaining in volume and strength
every day, though it encounters some
| opposition from the middlemen.
NEARLY all of the $3.50, 900 worth of
bonds stolen from the Falls City Tobacco
Bank, in Louisville, KY, last February,
have been recovered, by compromising
with the thieves, at 25 per cent. The
negotiations were conducted in New
York. 49,.
A FEW days ago one of the attaches of
the Spanish Legation entered a barber
| shop at Providence, r. L, to get a
shave. He was politely shown the door
| with the exclamation, " We don't shave
no niggers hyah.F
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston
transcript, who renews the cry that our
country needs distinctive name, sug-
! gests that Westland might, perhaps, be
as good one as England is for our
mother land. Our people, he says,
| might then be called Westlanders, or,
better still, Westerans.
A wE1n-KNowN physician of New
York recommends dancing for old peo-
pie, who, he says, require it more than
the Young. He would not have them
tread the mazes of the courtly minuet,
but inclines rather to jigs and horn
pipes, and such other dances as require
gentle physical exertion. Under his di-
rection dancing class has already been
formed, the Junior member of which is
lady of sixty-ive, and the senior a
!, lively old bachelor who has just COM
pleted his eightieth year. @+
/, WHILE Theirs was President of the
/ French Assembly, it is said that he gen.
orally received seven hundred letters q
1 day. The usual proportion of the diff
( ferent classes was Application for as.
: sistance, 25G petitions having apolitical
g OBJECT, lou Others against some preJu
: dice suffered, 100; complaints against
j functionaries, 100; abuse, 80; menaces
i of death, 20. They do not seem to have
j hurt him any, and he could doubtless bt
n threatened with death forty times a day
e and be as alive as ever at the end of the
s year.
- IMMIGRATION to Brazil has succeeded
e in single instance, that of German
. colonization of the southernmost prov
q ince of the Empire, where the climat.
q is temperate enough to be propitious
In the northern provinces Immigrant
" will be killed by the climate sooner O.
y later on the coast, and If they, go ia
). inland to a better climate they fint
h themselves isolated in wilderness, with
s out roads and without market for thei
l. produce.
IS THE citizens of Georgia town wer
N surprised to read in their local journal
e the other day, that perhaps it was no
le worth while for them to attempt to rails
+ boys The afflicted editor insists tina
- - he wrote hogs. s
1T MISSISSIPPI papers record the deaf
1t in that State, ON the 9th of May last
.. of John Owens, at the age of ia years
Q. months, and days. He was a rt
ye markable man for although he admitte
ut that he used whisky occasionally, an
is that he had smoked and chewed for 1O
years, he never claimed that he had see
Washington.
:" THE California people are wonderin
how they shall vote. The new electlo
40 law is very particular in requiring thu
u, the tickets shall be twelve inches lon.
ed and that the printed matter shall
TO f" "single-leaded" and in long prime
o. type. Now, in San Francisco, sixty y-tv
es officers are to be voted for, and the
ne names and those of the offices whic
es they seek cannot possibly be printed {
te a 12-inch ticket in legal form. 1t
n n simply typographical impossibility.
to GEN. MosBY, the Confederate caval
IT. man, predicts that Gen. Grant viii
to the candidate of the Southern whi
in people for President in 1876. He a
ID nounces that as his ticket.
use A WASHINGTON reporter having be
cal struck with the familiar gait of t.
OF zebras exhibited by travelling menae
ret rie there last week, made friends wi
to their keeper, and extorted from him
re- confession that they were only paint
lch mules.
ei9 EDMuND YATES describes Leon Ga
BETA as fat, gross man of mild
, q height, with reddish brown complex
and decidedly red nose, with a que
-; touche or cock-eye, which gives hin
So, sop half jovial, half sinister expression.
ann oan wears a curly brimmed, grease-staiII
az auo hat, tortoise-sheH. double eye-gl
on 1 hanging loose round his neck, shin
was oo0o f'o 49, tlr,,st ~, ~, !
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