Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-03
FI9hEATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1878
Miscellaneous.

'i Miscellaneous.
/ MAoMAHoN is fond of children and
| cigars. iIs: s5i1a -.;:'. f.=-f.- - 4
| WA1woHrH's brain weighed fifty
| AaAss1z thinks insects possibly have
| certain intelligence. a-'F1'szs . .-i-
| THE house in Murfreesboro, Tenn,
IN which President Polk was married is
now used as stable. s.s - .F,.eI
| The working population of the United
| States Is estimated at 13, 900, 000-one-
third of the population. -. r..
] The estimated cost of Chicago's new
Grand Pacific Hotel was 81 200, 900.
| The actual cost was 81 ZOO, 857. o.
THERE are in Chicago's new hotel, the
Grand Pacific, fifty-nine flights of stairs,
| thirty eight miles of wire, 999 windows,
and /, ,070 doors. z,,-s l..ifgt ta..s -
PRoF. AaAssIz says that educating
males and females together is; s in the.
nature of things unnatural and inexpe-
| dent" because there is GO as real q dis
tinction. of sex in the mind as in the
! body of human beings" 80 ffJ - siael
| New HAMPsHIRE is seriously begins
ding to think Of amending its constitu-
ton by abolishing the clause which pro-
vides that none but Protestant Church
members shall be eligible to the Gov
ernor's, chair or to the Legislature5 is-
| A FATHER in Massachusetts; who
grew impatient, the other evening. at
the prolonged stay of an ardent admirer
| of his daughter, entered the room and
invited the young man to remain to
breakfast. The young man declined the
Invitation. sGOi51u
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON denies, not
without something like indignation, the.
| report that Nannette S. Emerson (she
who claims to have written &c Betsey
and I Are OUT is his cousin, or In any
way related to the Emersons of Con-
cord, Mass =. I.r-,{st. ia
| TIE great pneumatic tube of Brisbane
! has failed. Even between the Capitol
/ and Government Printing Office, at
| Washington, it does not work satisfac-
/ torily. Pneumatic expresses may m
time trayerse the land in all directions !;
but the time is evidently not near at
hand. ....s-...--,. ..,v fzs
AN astrononfist who has counted them
and knows, says only about 5000 stars
are visible to the naked eye in the clear
est night. An ordinary opera glass for
| inspecting calves and other animals,
brings about 10000 into view, while the
largest telescope in existence renders
25, 600 visible.
| POUNDS sterling were substituted for
! francs the tefegraphie announcement
of the sum the Shah of Persia intends
to ego through" in his summers trip.
Instead of $25, 900, 900, it is only 81, ,000,- :
600; SO, in place of being a spendthrift
and profigate, it appears that the Shah
| ia q rDarSirnODiOus old u1iaar
In speaking of King Mirambo, of
Central Africa, the Court Journal says
that monarch who would take the
trowsers sent from missionary-in
ladies of Aberdeen, split them in halves,
fill them with sand, and make a war
club of of each leg, cannot be forgiven
| upon the ground of mere eccentricity.
IT has been shown by careful investi-
cation that the amount of heat received
from the sun in one minute is sufficient
to raise the temperature, of five and a
j half cubic miles of water to one degree
of centegrade-or an amount of heat
equivalent to force required to do the
work of two thousand steam engines of
one hundred horsepower each, working
| continuously for four thousand years.
LIZZIE AND LYDIA TAYLOR five years
ago entered the office of the Charlotte
Republican as compositors. They af-
forwards went into the Battle Greek
Journal office, and since that time they
have earned from So to $40 per week.
From their earnings they have support
ed their mother as housekeepers they
have lived well, bought q piano, taken
music lessons, gave 800 toward the
building of the Baptist Church at Battle
Greek, and have saved 81 200. They
are unmarried.
4 The following story is told to illus
trate the strictness with which the
Cunard Steamship Line is managed:
The captain of one of their New York
ships having lately married, asked leave
to take his wife with him ON one voyage.
This was granted, but, on going to take
command when the ship was ready for
sea, he found one of his brother captains
on board, from whom he learned that,
though the company had no objections
to his taking his wife to America, they
were not willing to trust him with the
ship, too.
i1 INFLUENCE OF Sex ON CRIME.-An in,
vestigation into the nature aud cause OF
crimes in Massachusetts has developed
the rather unpleasant fact that q little
a over seventy per cent. of the females ar
restedor imprisoned are guilty of offences
against morality, and that for every
100 men who have been sent to prison
1872 times, 100 females have been sent
there $40 times. The other day, a wo-