The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-12-14

Oh Inls sue tn6 WdIeI, mas Deen lm-
mortalized. The officers and men of the
Arctic expedition named one of the
peaks on the edge of the ice-world
which they could not traverse "Mount
Punch"
In Southern Utah, from silver mine
of considerable depth, petriied wood is
taken, in which there is chloride of
silver worth nearly one thousand dollars
a ton. The formation is sandstone, out
of which horn-silver is taken. This
shows that the deposit of the silver was
made subsequent to the surrounding of
the wood by the sand that afterward
became sandstone.
A FEW days since young man was
run over by freight train near Carroll,
Ia, and one leg was severed. He was
not seen by any of the train men. He
rolled himself to stump, when he tore
up his vest and bandaged his leg so as to
stop the flow of blood, and hobbled back
to the track. where, with the severed
part of his leg, he tagged and stopped
passenger train, on which he was taken
where he could get surgical aid.
SAMUEL q. WENTWORTH, brother of
"Long John" Wentworth, of Chicago,
is elected Democratic Representative to
the Legislature from Boston. Another
brother, Joseph Wentworth, a Republi-
can, is elected to the Constitutional Con-
vention from Concord, N. H. A son of
the latter, Paul Wentworth, Democrat,
is elected to the Constitutional Conven-
tion from Sandwich, n. II. Another son,
Moses J. Wentworth, Democrat, is elected
Representative to the State Legislature
from Chicago, Ill. "Long John" hasno
office. Though urged to run for two or
three different ones he has declined.
THE Ex-Empress Eugene is in no
particular danger of starvation. She
has real estate in Paris valued at 81 $685.
600, on which there are mortgages to the
extent of $240, 1000. Then in the Prov
inces scattered about she has estates
worth at least 81 100000. Only one of
these is mortgaged. Besides all these the
Bonaparte family possess large estates in
Spain, Italy. Switzerland, Corsica and
England. As for the personal property,
eitimates vary, some of them reaching
nearly $15, ,06O, 900, and others falling as
low as S5,O0O,00O. The Emperor was
what the American housewife calls ga
good provider."
THE last visit of Sir Salar Jung, the
wealthy Hindoo Prince, to Europe cost
over $3.50, 900, including the expenses of
his suite of ifty-three persons. Much
of the money was expended in presents.
Every landlord and employee of hotel
received rich gift, and all employees of
railroad trains or steamboats, were like
wise favored. The captain of the steamer
which brought the nabob from India
received for his wife costly dress and
jewels which would have been worn with
pride by an Oriental princess; the officers
received rings and watches enriched
with diamonds, and all the sailors, fire.
men and cooks each gold coin.
DR.. FRANK CowAN, of Greene County,
Pa, is engaged in examining into the
details of an interesting geological dis
covery recently made by him in South
western Pennsylvania. On sandstone
two hundred and fifty feet below the
Pittsburg coal stream stratum he has
found the footprints of six new species
of air-breatbing animals. The doctor
has secured plaster casts of the impress
sions that the delineations in his report
to the State Geologist may be as perfect
as possible. As many as thirty. mine con-
secutive pairs of one kind of tracks have
been found on one stone. The largest of
the animals is supposed to have been
about the size of an otter and of the
nature of an alligator.
INSANITY is just now exciting more
than usual amount of attention in Mas
sachusetts. The fact that this State now
contains about four thousand insane.
against two thousand six hundred in
1870, is causing considerable alarm among
the staid communities and quiet neigh
borhoods of the old Bay State. The peo-
pie are anxiously inquiring how soon it
will be before the rest of them all go
crazy. The cause of so remarkable an
increase in the amount of mental disease
must be attributable to some cause, and
no people in this country are so well
fitted to ascertain what that cause is
as the people of Massachusetts,. They
should institute careful and thorough
examination, and, if possible, ascertain
if any portion be due to their methods
of education.
SUPERFICIAL observers formerly as
sumed that the saltness of the ocean was
due to beds of rock washed by its waters,
but little examination will prove that
this is putting the effect for the cause
since the beds themselves, wherever
found, give sufficient evidence that they
are but the deposit of ancient oceans OF
isolated bodies of sea water that have
dried up. The modern scientific theory
refers the salt in the ocean to the chemi
cal changes which have taken place be
tween the elements that constitute tn,
earth's crust in former geological periods
The sea water also contains gold anC
silver. Gold exists in nearly one grail
to a ton of water, and is held in solution
by iodide of calcium. Silver will deposi
itself on the coppering of ships until i
is actually found profitable to melt u
the copper from old ships and extrac
the more valuable metal. 1t is estimate,
that the entire body of sea water hold
in solution more than two million ton
of pure silver.
A NORTH CAROLINA farmer, to catcl
the thieves who had been stealing hi
meat, put strychnine on one of the ham
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