Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-10
EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY APRIL 1873.
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
NEAL Dow, of Maine, is going to
Europe to talk Temperance.
MARY C1EMMER AMEs writes seven
newspaper letters per week.
HALF of the religious papers in this
country are printed in Massachusetts.
ABOUT one-sixth of our entire popu1a-
ton have no church accommodations.
THOMAS MAST, the carcaturist of Har-
per's Weekly, has sailed for Europe.
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN gets $4,000 for
playing at Washington for two weeks.
McCREERY, of Kentucky, is the LATEST
and jolliest man in the United States
Senate.
81 OLD JOHN HARPER is going to mort
gage all his property and stake the
money on a last race.
A1ExANDER II. STEPHENS has not re-
tired from the Atlanta (Ga.) Sun, but
continues to be its chief political editor.
CARL ScHURz says he found in Europe
but one man who had comprehensive
knowledge of this country and her in
stitutions.
NEW HAMPSHIRE is one of the nine
States in which the postoffice receipts
exceed the expenditures the surplns
on her behalf last year was over $40, 600.
A ST. PAUL jury has brought in ver-
dict that a husband and his wife have
each suffered cruel and inhuman treat
ment at the hands of the other, and that
consequently each is entitled to a di-
vorce. u
IT is as surprising as gratifying to dis
cover that the tedious trial of the Ala
bama claims case in Geneva, for which
the ablest counsel in the land was en-
gagged, was accomplished for the reasona-
BILE charge of $62, 900.
CARL SCHURz praises Bismarck's 8 open
ness, candor and general manner, and
says the walls in the great statesman's
Office in Berlin are hung and the tables
are covered with meerschaum pipes. It
is evidently a puff.
THE tunnel mania threatens to become
q great bore. A San Francisco engineer
proposes to burrow under the bay be-
tween that city and Oakland, and a Rus
sian railway contractor wishes to make
a car-path through the Carpathian
Mountains. 80
IT is said that in nearly every case the
soldiers who are preparing to take ad-
vantage of the laws, and to utilize their
one hundred and sixty acres of public
lands within railroad limits, have unani-
mously decided in favor of Texas.
THE Lehigh iron region contains Is
blast furnace corporations, that with Al
completed furnaces manufacture one
third of the iron product of the country.
Five other furnace companies have been
organized, but they are not yet at work.
THE spring travel to Europe is includ-
ing more than the usual proportion of
literary men and artists. Thomas Mast
has left, to be gone three months, in the
hope of restoring impaired health.
Dana, of the Sun, and Winter, of the
Tribune, will follow in a week or two.
Jennings, of the Times, also goes out
shortly.
THE Shelby CKy.) Coatro'at tells of a
basket in use in that town, and still in
good state of preservation, which was
made in the reign of James I. of England
more than $50 years ago, when Milton
and Butler were boys and Dryden and
Bunyan were yet unborn. The basket
is made of willow and covered with satin
that was once white, but has now gone
into the tsear and yellow leaf.
LAST summer was very favorable for
arctic exploration. The thermometric
range in Iceland and the Orkney Islands
was higher than for many years pre-
viously, and Capt. Nils Jahnsen reports,
through DIR. Petermann, of iceless seas
found by him last August to the east of
Spitzbergen. It seems that we may
really hope for good news from the three
expeditions now searching for the pole.
The Rev. George G. Harding, accord
ing to the Louisville COurier-JOat77eGt,
| is one of the most remarkable men of
the age. Regularly once or twice a
| year he starts Sunday paper at In
dianapolis. As soon as the enterprise
bankrupts him he goes to st. Louis or
Cincinnati andconnects himself with one
of the daily papers there. And then,
when he gets money enough to pay his
railroad fare, he goes back to Indian
apolis and starts another Sunday paper.