The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-23
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CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
The pearl fisheries of the Gulf of Cal
ifornia threaten to be entirely ruined
unless the Government shuts down on
the wholesale use of submarine armor.
Last year they yielded about 100000
worth of pearls and $500, 900 worth of
shells, while this years operations will
hardly pay expenses.
The Constitution of Rhode Island de-
mands property qualification from all
foreign-born citizens, who claim the right
to vote in that little State. Attempts
have twice been made to abolish this
discrimination against foreign-born citi-
zens, but each time the proposition was
voted down by an overwhelming ma
jority.
WE mentioned some months ago that
an International Horticultural Exhibi-
tion was to be held in Amsterdam in
1876, with which was to be combined an
exhibition of vegetable productions,
chiefly from the Dutch colonies, and a
botanical congress. 1t has since been
arranged that the Horticultural exhibi-
tion for 1876 shall be held in Brussels,
and the display in Amsterdam in 1877.
On the panel of desk in the Mer-
chants Exchange in San Francisco the
grain of the wood, which is bird's-eye
walnut bears close resemblance to the
chaotic sea of flame in the midst of which
shaggy head appears. The features are
those of middle-aged man, and bear
look Of despair. It is not unfrequent
that the grain of bird's-eye walnut con-
tains outlines which by little stretch
of the Imagination can be made to ap-
pear like animated forms, but resem-
blances 80 plain and unmistakable as
this one are very rare.
THE Queen of England, in her royal
capacity, receives altogether from the
public purse f385, 900 year, of which
amount, however, she has only absolute
control over ECO, 900 year. The Crown
lands, however, in possession of the Gov
eminent bring in about as much yearly
as ths Queens total income, so that vir-
tually she costs the country nothing, for
the Grown lands are as much the prop
erty of the Crown as the estates of no
blemen or joint stock companies are
private property.
a WONDERFUL invention has been
patented by the Victoria Printing Ma
chine Company, in a machine which can
turn out, ready for the reader, four thou
sand copies of a work, containing twenty
four pages, bound together, without any
manipulatiye aid. The machine has
cost about twenty thousand dollars, and
requires no " feeding" as it regulates its
own supply, taking in sheet at one end,
and in less than second, ejecting it at
the other, printed, and with the pages
stitched together, and ready for the
booksellers.
TIE body of hunter. named Ais
bach, was found near jamestown, New
York, recently, terribly mangled, one
shoulder and portion of the face having
been eaten of. The hunters double
barreled gun lay about ten feet from his
body, both barrels discharged and the
gun broken IN two. The surrounding
leaves and bushes were covered with
blood and the hunters clothes torn to
shreds A panther has been seen in the
vicinity, and it is believed the unfortu-
nate man met his death in desperate
struggle with the savage beast.
In the East Indian Archipelago, the
narrow Strait of Lombok, but fifteen
miles wide, separates the island of that
name from the ueighboring Island of
Bait. This strait is remarkable as the
line which separates two great and
wholly distinct geographical provinces
OF animal ife-the creatures of the
Asiatic side widely differing in character
from those on the Australian side.
Alfred Russell Wallace, the English nat
uralist, who spent so long time in that
part Of the East, first recognized the
location of the boundary in this strait;
and we observe that it is now beeoming
known among men of science as Wal.
lace's line.
The Popular Science Montsly contains
valuable article, by Prof. B. W. Rich
ardson, upon Induced Disease from the
influence of the Passions" printed from
tne advance sheets Of new work en-
titled "The Diseases of Modern Life.n
Anger, fear, hatred and grief are the
passions that act most severely upon the
physical life. Of these, anger is the
most injurious. "He is man yery rich
indeed in physical power" says this
author, "who can afford to be angry"
The effect of rage upon the heart is to
produce permanent disordered and ir-
regular motion, as is well known. This
sometimes is 50 severe as to cause instant
death, and is more to be avoided than
almost anything else by persons having
organic disease of the heart
A WIND that moves but one mile an
hour is scarcely perceptible, and has,
according to Smeaton, perpendicular
force Of one square foot of .OO5 of a
pound. A gentle wind moves at a rate
OF four miles an hour, and presses on one
square foot .O7s of a pound. A pleasant
gale moves from ten to fifteen miles an
hour, and has a perpendicular force of
from .492 of pound to 1.OO7 pounds.
A high wind moves at a velocity of thirty
and thirty-fye miles an hour, and has
perpendicular force of from four to six
pounds avoirdupois on one square foot.
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