Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-12
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
SEE in another column the advertise
ment headed 81 WIZ Help 4py Afu1a. !"
jBENyAM1N FnANKLIN's electrical ma
chine. is in the laboratory of Dartmouth
College. a'N .'-
; ;lAsMAN at New Bedford, Mass, has re-
iceived postal card bearing ! 1,607 words |
in shorthand.
Fl is proposed to write messages upon |
postal cards with invisible ink, as'islt the |
practice in France ~ ,3{4 |
THE widow of Gen, Candy is in indi-
gent circumstances, and her pension en- |
In is stated on good authority that in |
the last four years, Spanish troops in |
Cuba have bntchered $4,000 prisoners
OF Yar0 i,a9T9 3tg1lta fs - t
PUTBEFAcTIoN and decomposition of |
animal matter can be prevented by the |
use of aniline, the coal-tar coloring |
matter. s3sff7ft t1 4es,f zsgf i8sFs ( |
TIE supply of nickel is small, both in |
this country and In Germany, and likely |
to run out unless some new discoveries
are made, no, v9ai5sy4 Isggsfll.
BIsMARCK has just completed his fifty |
eigth year, and shows the wear and
anxiety towhich he has been subjected
since 1860. 80 ,.s taa59
A MISSISSIPPI quack is, making a for
tune by selling to the negroes a nostrum
which he warrants to turn their wool
into long, straight hair. ii.i.,si,
UP to the present time the stock sub
scriptions to the Centennial Board of
Finance amount to So, ,0U0, 600, which in
sures the success of the enterprise. go.
THRRs, as President of the French
Republic, had upon an average eighty
abusive letters q. day, and twenty mem
aces of de nth every twenty-four hours.
WADE HAMPTON, who was one of the
richest men in the South before the
war, is now President of an insurance
company in Baltimore, with salary of
s., 600 q year. -S 5fsb =
| THE fourth milliard of the French in
demnity has been paid. The fifth and
last is due by Sept. /, and, if paid,
French soil will be relieved from Ger
man occupancy. i=st... i3ueF.t e.,li74.If
/ THE Rev. Mr.. Ancient, who did he
roic service saving lives on the occasion
| of the Atlantic disaster, has been hp-
pointed assistant, curate of Trinity
Church, New York.
p. T. BARNUM has purchased colos-
sal painting of London, as seen from the
top of st. PauIs Cathedral. The pic
ture is 4e0 feet. long by rs feet high, and
] was painted by Paris, who took ten
years to complete the work. .a ali
WILLIAM SHARoS, formerly dry goods
i clerk in Carrollton, ILL.,, has, it is said,
i amassed in California q fortune of not
. 4 IL a0n II
spirit Of the Bank of California, and is
one of the men who played for a Nevada;
Senatorship and made money by it. ~
For the year 1872 the imports of for
eign goods exceeded the exports of do
nestle produce to the extent of $94 ,000.-i
900, all the estimates being In specie.
During the same year the excess Of
exports of bullion over imports was
$7l 200, 900, leaving us in debt on trade
account about S23, ZOO, 600.
THE postal cards cost the Government
81. .36 per Thousand. The orders have
reached over q, 600, 900, for which the
4 Government pays $34, coo, and the peo-
pie $3.50, ,000s The orders from post
| masters average 1,500, 600 daily, while
i the capacity of the contractors manu-
factory is only SOC, 900 per day. a.. IA
A FEW years ago there were scarcely
any shad in the Hudson, ind the fish
was rare and,costly luxury in the New
York markets. Now, according to the
Troy Times, tshad lie like snow banks
on the shores" /" and are retailed toJthe
city householders at thirty cents a pair.
This is the result of stocking the stream
with young fish. gi7 57.i5 .
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANr's equanim-
ity is frequently disturbed by compi-
mentary allusions to ' Tlianatopsis % as
the best poem he has ever written. As
he produced Thanatopsis . before he
4 was 10, the venerable bard regards such
illusions as anything but pleasant.
What is strictly true is seldom quite
agreeable for us to hear.
.MRs. ALLEN Coy, living near Saratoga
Springs, q N. Y, has carefully kept the
rope with which her brother hung him.
self in 1852. After she had got the
breakfast dishes washed and the morn
ing's work out of the way, one day last
week, she thought she would go up
stairs and hang herself-and that iden-
tical rope served her, purpose I This is
the first time Mrs Toodles was ever dis
, counted. 9S = ttU -