The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-26
aEnEaRAL INTELLIGENCE.

CINCINNATI has four thousand six
hundred and ninety-three manufactures.
The Pool of Sloan is now an unat-
tractive hole of dirty water, surrounded
by modern masonry.
The Minot, Maine, corn factory has
put up $4,000 cans, the largest quantity
ever put up in one season, and every a
is sold.
SWEET potatoes may be kept through
the winter by packing them in dry sand,
in barrels, and keeping them in a cool,
dry place.
The first cargo of slate from the United
States lately arrived at Falmouth, En-
gland. 1t is said to be equal to the Welsh
in quality, and much cheaper.
OLE BULL will pass the winter in
Madison, Wisconsin, and occupy his time
in musical composition. He has been
engaged to give ten or twelve concerts
in the chief cities of the country.
ONLY twelve institutions for teaching
dentistry exist in this country, and the
total number of degrees given by them
is about three thousand. Yet there
are fifteen thousand dentists in the
country.
DEATHS from yellow fever in Savannah
alone, from September l to October IL,
were even hundred and t~wenty-six, an
average of eighteen per day. 1t is esti-
mated that the population has been re-
duced by refugees about eight thousand
six hundred.
A DEAF mute was recently ordained a
deacon of the Episcopal Church, in
Philadelphia. Several bishops partici-
pated in the solemnities, and it is proba-
bly, the first ordination of the kind ever
known in any age or country.
DEAD canaries are daily sent to taxi
dermists in New York for stufing that
are too poor in feather to undergo the
process. They are always replaced by a
fac-simile bird, which answers the pur-
pose of the lost pet, the owner being none
the wiser.
LARGE fires are raging in the Alps.
ALI that part of the mountains called
the Esterel Alps is covered with dry fir
brushwood and other iniammable vege-
tation, which is burning, Formerly this
part of the mountains was covered with
an oak forest, but it was all destroyed by
fire in 1888.
HOLLAND has still got its Achinese
war on hand. A member of the Legisla
ture suggested to the Government a few
days ago, that it would be better to limii
the occupation of the Dutch to the coast
and SO avoid a long and ruinous war
Good advice, said the Minister, but hare
to follow. Continental nations are moi
successful at tackling Africans ant
Asiatics, and this Acheen war has cos
the Dutch a pretty penny.
THE Marquis Talleyrand-P erigard, il
his new book on America, says: at
a people whose morality is that of
nation in d~ecadence. LISA people whicl
produces things, but no longer produce
men-no men of letters, no orators, n
men versed in political science, no states
men, no works of art, or at least yer,
few, to attest the existence of a nation.
The Marquis was with us three months
and, to judge from his book, he was Sc.
dom in good company.
THE population of the German En-
pire does not show signs of decay, as tn
results of the wars in which it has bee
engaged. On the 1st of December last
according to the official census, tn
population Of the Empire numbere
~, 726, S44, while four years before tn
population was Al, O2S, 095. The increas
of population during that period
1908, 749, an average annual gain {
about one per cent. The val wit
France, it is estimated, cost the Natio
about a quarter of a million of men.
AN agricultural admirer of Edwi
Booth, in San Francisco, lately brougt
an enormous watermelon to the stag
door, as a present to him, and was az
mitted. He stood at the upper wing
waiting for Booth to come off, when b
, suddenly recollected that he had-left h
team united. He laid the melon dow
and rushed out. In the meantime th
=. melon, which was the size of a your
J.. barrel, rolled to the center of the stag
and then took a straight line down
where Booth and Mccullough were
very earnest ~coiloquy as 1ago ar
Othello. 1t much astonished Iago by
blow in the legs, and, being kicke
J. rolled to the side of the stage and fe
off. The orchestra made it prisoner, al
at the close of the act discussed it.
MERCHANTS GARGLING OIL has b
> come of the most popular liniments tn
is now prepared, 1t is, beyond a dout