The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
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THE salary of the Governor of New
York is $4,000. Il
A SOCIETY has been formed in Eng
and. the object of which is united
prayer for the protection of animals
from cruelty"
MANUFACTURING is quite brisk in
New Hampshire, considering the general
business depression. The mills of Nam
Amoskeag, Nashua and other
places are running full n
IT appears that the Russian lady who
fred a pistol the other day at M.
Gortschakof, son ofthe Russian Chancel-
lor, and himself Russian Minister at
Berne, was simply insane. She fancies
that a fortune of five hundred thousand
roubles belonging to her is detained in
Russia by the Government, and took this
way of getting att.
W receive" says the Paris Journal,
"the news of the marriage of Count de
Fersant with Mile. Marie Poirson. The
bridegroom was a sub-lieutenant of
artillery during the last war, and had
both his legs carried off at Sedan bya
cannon-ban. The young people were
afianced in their infancy, and the lady
insisted upon keeping her word. She is
the daughter of a very wealthy ship
owner, while her husband had only the
cross of the Legion of Honor"
DURING the forced march of Terry's
troops to unite with Crooks command,
the Fifth Regiment, after they had just
completed a fatiguing march Of sixteen
miles, started on one of thirty-fye
through the binding dust and darkness
of night, over a rough and difficult
country covered with cactus thorns, and
made forty-three miles in t~wenty-four
consecutive hours, equal to q march Of
sixty miles over an ordinary country.
THAT tunnel channel between England
and France is passing from the condition
of a dream to that of an entity. The
preliminary ~soundings are nearly fin
ished and reported satisfactory. But
fter al |, everything turns on the ques.
ton of whether that microscopic insect
who made the chalk cliffs tended strictly
to business in that portion of the coun.
try underlying the channel. If the
chalk is thick enough and unbroken
the project is quite feasible, otherwise
not.
THos. WINANs, of Newport, Rhode
Island, is having an organ built that has
some novel devices. 1t is an open-aiI
church organ, the case forming an
octagon-shaped house with three win
dows, with shutters that can easily be
closed and opened, to increase or de.
crease the volumes of sound. The wine
is supplied by a steam engine, and th,
entire connection between pipes and key
is electrical. The wind power is thres
times the ordinary pressure. A Mors
telegraph connects the organ with Mr.
Winans's house, a distance of three hun
dred and fifty feet.
SIXTY years ago occurred the yea
without a summer" Frost occurred il
every month of the year 1916. Ic,
formed half an inch thick in May SNOW
fell to the depth of ten inches in Vel
mont, seven in Maine, three in the int
rior of New York, and also in Massa
chusetts in June; ice was formed of th
thickness of common window glas
: throughout New England, New Yori
| and some parts of Pennsylvania on tn
! 9th of July; Indian corr was SO froze
that the greater part was cut down an
dried for fodder in August, and farmer
supplied themselves from the cor
produced in 1916 for the seed of tn
spring of 1877.
WE find this story in the Washingto
8 Star: For ten days two factory CIR
/. named Deverrel, of Cohoes, New Yorl
! have been lying in a ~lethargic state i
their room in a Cataract street boardin
: house. On the 9th inst. they retired
r bed as usual, but had complained all da
Of a singular sensation of drowsines
Next morning they did not appear, an
their landlady went into their room
e They we're both asleep The landlad
could not arouse them, and until SUI
day, the 18th, neither of them gave an
. misunderstanding -0n-that ds
A.
!, the elder OF the girls awoke and dresse
herself. Soon afterward she fell aslee
and, with her sister, has RENAME
: asleep ever since. The case has a
e tracted the attention of medical me
e who are watching its result with gre
interest. The girls are, to all appea
n ance, in a natural and healthful slice
< Food is forced into their stomachs by 8
d tifcial means. The sleepers are sixtes
E and twenty years of age.