The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-23
sEyEsRAL INTELLIGENCE.

4h6 DCdlb III al hSe1
seconds clock are 8 $500, and II, 2SO a com
mon watch; seconds watches beat Is, 600
times an hour, or five per second.
THEidea of postal cards first origin
ated with the present Postmaster-G Gen.
eral of the German Empire, but they
were introduced by a citizen of Vienna.
THE Virginia City Enterprise says:
A train of twenty camels, loaded with
wood, came into town about eleven
o'clock the other night. On account of
their frightening horses and mules they
are not allowed to enter the town during
daylight.
ANIECE of Mungo Park, the African
explorer, is living in destitute circum-
stances in Scotland. She is seventy.three
years of age. A subscription paper is
going the rounds for her benefit. 1t is
to be hoped that the money will reach
her before it becomes necessary to use it
for her funeral expenses.
KEY LARGO, Florida, but a few days
since, was occupied by nearly twenty
happy settlers, all having comfortable
cottages, with fields of pineapple and
other tropical fruits, but is now a scene
of devastation and destruction. The
most of their dwellings are gone with all
they had, their fields covered with salt
water, their vessels high and dry on the
rocks in the woods, and most of them
will be totally lost.
The German Government, in pursu-
ance of its scheme of coin reform, has
called in the old two-thaler pieces, of
which $40, 000, 900 worth are said to be
now in circulation, and will subsequently
proceed to call in the one-thaler pieces,
of which $271, 96S, 900 worth are supposed
to be circulating. In course of time a
traveller in Germany will be able to know
what he is spending, which, when the
horrible old coinage was in circulation,
he could not possibly.
Two players at bezique cutting for
deal both cut aces; they tried again and
both cut kings; they both cut again a
third time, and here appeared two knaves.
As a bezique pack consists of only
thirty-two cards-all the twos, threes,
fours, fves and skies being re~jected-the
improbability of such a coincidence is
not SO great as in a whist pack of fifty
two cards: nevertheless, the odds are
calculated to be five hundred to one
against the occurrence of this particular
event.
The biennial report on the progress o.
Oregon gives the whole population o.
the State in 1875 as about 105, 600
against $1,000 in 1870, but, though the
growth of population is slow, a pro-
digious amount of wealth is produced
Nearly 600,0 900 acres of land are uude,
cultivation, ,250,O 900 bushels of whea
are raised, over 5000, 900 bushel of othe.
grain, 1868, 600 pounds of wool, 1855,
600 pounds of butter, besides 1900 bar
rels of salmon and 10000 cases of can
ned salmon, the salmon fishery alone be
ing valued at $4,000 900 year.
TERRE HAUTE Journal: On Sunds.
last a hen belonging to a Mr.. Green, O
the Wabash Rolling Mills, was seen in
fight with a garter snake. Mr.. Gree
and several men got near and watche,
them fight for fifteen or twenty minutes
The hen made a pick at the snake
head, when, like a fash, the snake mad
a dive into the hens mouth and wiggle,
itself entirely down. The hen bega,
running sideways, and finally died
On cutting her open, the snake was foun
to be alive yet. 1t was killed, an
proved to be sixteen inches in length.
THE French committee for pre-
noting the consumption of horse
1esn has issued the following note
"During the summer six months {
the present year the butchers establish
ments for the sale of horse flesh have d.
livered for consumption 8. 500 horses. 10
asses, and 10 mules, which yielded TAT
61O kilos (2.2 pounds EACH net of mear
without taking into account the live
heart, tongue, etc., which are used lik
those of pxen." According to thes
figures, the consumption of this articl
of food is extending in the capital, an
; the same condition applies to the larg
towns in the provinces.