The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-12-28
GENERAL IHTELIGENCE.


ner. She turned out $4,000 worth of
peanuts this year.
In Brazil diamonds are found on
mountains six thousand feet above the
sea. This is what makes them SO
high.
PAUPERIsM is making rapid strides at
Paris as well as at London, the number
of INDECENT people having increased
since 1874 from ia, 600 to $4,000.
IT showed lately in Constantinople,
and the superstitious Turks were filled
with dismal forebodings at a phenom-
enon of such rare occurrence in their
climate.
TIE large bell in the Colonge Cathe-
'dra1f made out of captured French cans
nony il a failure. The tone is unpleas-
ant. 1t will not be used, and is named
"The Silent Bell"
PRESIDENT GRANT has stated that i'm
mediately after hif retirement from
Office in March, he intends to leave for
Havana, Cuba, and after passing few
weeks there will sail for Europe to re-
main for some time.
AFTER the Richmond Theater was de-
stroyed business was suspended for forty
eight hours, and an order passed the
Common Council prohibiting any person,
under heavy penalties, to exhibit any
public show or spectacle, or to open any
public dancing assembly within the city,
for four months.
Moody and Sankey haven't converted
Chicago yet. At fashionable ball there,
the other night, the most popular dance
of the evening was one in which the
walters snayed about to the air of San
keys Almost Persuaded and "What
shall the harvest ,be?" The band
was led by German, who put on the
programme, Manifestations from
Moody and Sankey.n
BOSTON ranks among the highest in
the amount of school material furnished
free to pupils. Last year Boston fur
nished books to the costof SOL 1873, while
the bill for books, stationery, ETC., was
s1O4, ,252 for A, 900 pupils. Philadelphia
spent S1O9, 1898 in the same way for 95,-
600 children; st. Louis spent ST., $50 for
$4,000 pupils Chicago $500 for 10000
scholars, and Lowell 1892 for $500,
pupils.
The Sioux Commission have submit
ted their report to the Secretary of the
Interior. Their report shows that the
Sioux have granted the Government so
much of their present reservation, set
apart in 1868, and lying east of the one
hundred and third meridian, as lies be-
tween the North and South forks of the
Cheyenne River, which exceeds to that
extent the requirements of the act
creating the commission, and completes
the title of the Government to the entire
Black Hills country.
A RECENT census of the city of Cal
cutta gives some interesting facts in re-
lation to the religions professed by the
population. The number of native
Christians is 1885, against 2, 466 in 1872.
The total population is 409,036. Two
thirds of the whole are Hindoos, and of
the Hindoos the Brahmans are the most
numerous caste. As to intelligence the
Hindoos are far in advance of the Mo-
hammedans. Of the Hindoo males AZ
per cent. can read and write; of the
Mohammedan males only 16.5 per cent.
Of the Hindoo females 33 per cent. can
read and write; of the Mohammedan
only one per cent.
ACCORDING to a French statistican,
taking the mean of many accounts, a
man of fifty years of age has slept 5000
days, worked $500 days, walked eight
days, amused himself 1000 days, was
eating 1,5OO days, was sick five hundred
days, etc. He has eaten 1900 pounds
of bread, 16,90O pounds of meat, 4,6OC
pounds of vegetables, eggs and fish, and
drank 1000 gallons of liquid, viz e.: water
coffee, tea, beer, wine, ETC., altogether
This would make respectable lake o.
three hundred square feet surface, and
three feet deep, on which email steam
boats could navigate. And all this solid
and liquid maGerial passed through 8
human being in fifty years.
PICKING up cigar stumps, for which
the dealers pay three francs kilogram
is so profitable an industry in Paris that
according to the ever-veracious Figaro
the young bloods OF the city go rount
with brads in the heels of their boot
wherewith they transix the casual stub
They also wear spurs, which are, indeed
part of the equipment of all fashiona
BILE pedestrians. When these high-tonet
scavengers gaff condemned cigar, the,
jerk up the heel, and, under pretense O
arranging their spurs, transfer the priz
to their pockets. They make, says tn
Figaro, from twenty-five to thirty franc
a day, which represents an average yiel'
of from seventeen to twenty-four pound
of cigar stumps daily per collector.
An Old Notion Upset.
Weigh pig; give him three pals G
swill, and then weigh him again h
will weigh no more than he did at frs
This has been very popular theory i
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