Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-04
Miscellaneous.


sand trees in Greeley, Colorado.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, is said to be the
best cattle market in the United States.
ANNA DICKINSON is not to go on the
stage, but will deliver 100 lectures this
winter.
THE Methodist Church, the world
over, claims an aggregate of $4,000, 900
members.
ssFoR sale or to rent" is posted on
more than 5000 houses and stores in
New Orleans.
The Sultan's second son, lad of II,
has been made a rear admiral in the
Turkish navy.
A BUFFALO minister recently baptized
twenty-eight children with water that
he had brought from the Holy Land.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEoHER sailed in
to New Haven, the other day, calmly
seated on the cab of a locomotive. Any
thing to make sensation.
NORTH CAROLINA furnishes larger
part than any other State of the 400,-
600 adults in the country who can
neither read nor write.
Ex-PREsIDENT MInLARD FILLMORE is
70 years old. Fillmore and Andy johnson
are the only ex-Presidents living, and
neither of them was elected to Office.
OWING to the bad sanitary condition
of the miners homes in England, the
average length of life among them is be-
tween twenty-one and twenty-five years.
LIFE insurance companies are sending
out prescriptions for the prevention
0f fax
clean shirts it would probably be as
well.
ONE of the Siamese twins was recent
ly summoned to serve on a jury in
North Carolina. Chang would not go,
and Eng was fined 1926 for non-attend
ance.
The experience of all countries that
have been robbed of their forest is to
the same effect, an experience of disas-
trous spring freshets and long summer
drought.
A PATENT medicine for children, which
has recently been analyzed in Boston,
was found to contain three-tenths of q
grain of morphia in the dose directed
for child.
THE debt of Vermont is only $685.
q quarter of million dollars, and is
credited with large amount of uncol-
lected taxes.
CARTEL, the champion carrier pigeon
which is to accompany the Graphic
balloon, in trial flight made the dis
tanoe of sixty-four miles in an hour
and quarter.
So GREAT is the demand for Paris
green and arsenic, used to kill cater
pillars and cotton worms in the South,
that both articles have considerably ad-
vancedin price.
THE condition of the Hon. John p.
Hale is now more hopeful than at any
other time since his recent misfortune.
The fractured parts of the hip bone
seem to be slowly uniting.
ENGLAND is afflicted with myriads of
creatures heretofore un-
known to that climate, produced by the
recent unusual heat, and the suffering
natives are writing to the Times for
help.
SUCCESSFUL cattle breeders in Europe
give molasses constantly to fatten cat
tie and milch cows. A large German
farmer gives pint day, mixed with
oil cake, to his COWS, largely increasing
their milk.
AN ex-cook to the great Catharine IL,
of Russia, has just died at the ad-
vanced age of 1877. The Emperor Mich
olas pensioned him with 700 roubles an
nually. He leaves a son aged SO, whom
they hope to raise if no untoward acci-
dent occurs to him.
Down at Beaufort, S. c., the men take
partners for surf bathing as for dance.
A handsome young fellow plants himself
in the water and opens his arms as the
breaker is coming. A young lady flies
to his clasp, and there remains safe un-
til all danger is over.
Pore PIUs TX. is reported as SO fully
restored to health as to be able to re-
sumo his usual food and exercise. He
retires little before midnight, and
rises at half-past five o'clock, attending
during the day to ordinary ecclesiasti-
cal duties as before his illness.
THE carpet worm is a new pest just
discovered. 1t is of dark color, less
than half an inch in length, and covered
with fine hair. It makes havoc with
carpets in a short time. IT. is said that
fine salt or fine cedar chips sprinkled on
the edges of carpets will protect them
from its ravages.
"JAMEs JENKINS" said school-mas-
ter to his pupil, "what is an average ?"
{" A thing, sir" answered the scholar,
promptly, "that hens lay eggs on"
"why do you say that, you silly boy?"''
replied the pedagogue. Because, sir"
said the youth, az heard gentleman
say the other day as a hen would lay,
on an average, hundred and twenty
eggs year.
This comes from Ohio
Under this sod
And under these trees
Lieth the bod
y of Solomon Peas
He's not in this hole,
But only his pod
He shelled out his soul
And went up to his God.
A VERY adhesive cement, and one par
ticularly useful for fastening the brass
mountings on glass lamps, as it is I'M
affected by petroleum, may be prepared
by boiling three parts cf rosin with one
part of caustic soda and five parts of
water, thus making a kind of soap,
which is mixed with one half it's weight
of plaster of paris.
THEY tell of harvest hand who was
severely attacked with cholera morbus,