The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-12
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Ohio Senate has determined to
place blue glass in the ceiling of the
Chamber.
THERE'S fun in store for the Committee
on Credentials in the next House.
Twenty seats and upwards are thus far
known to be contested. e.. .. -..
Mrs. RoBB of Corpus Christi, Texas,
owns seventy-ive thousand acres of land
on which fifteen thousand beeves are
fattened for marketannually.
NELSON'S flagship, the Victory, isstill
preserved in Portsmouth Harber, Eng
land, and is one hundred and eleven
years old, being the oldest craft in the
English navy. asg e.-
ST. M1cHAEL's Church, in Bath
England, possesses the oldest church
records known. They date back to 1349,
and are complete to the middle of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth.
A RocK-MAPLE tree on the farm of
Deacon Samuel French, of North Hamp-
ton, N. r., was felled, recently, and
when cut up into cord-wood and piled it
measured five cords. The tree was set
out about fifty years ago, and was a
stake taken from fence at that time.
A WARMING is sent to all cities to
clean out their sewers, by Sacramento,
California, which was shaken from center
to circumference a few nights ago, by
tremendous explosion. The carbonic
acid gas in sewer had blown up street
for more than half mile, shaking the
houses in the neighborhood, killing one
man, and injuring several.
THE Indian teas, which were intro
duced from China comparatively a few
years ago, are fast becoming animportant
element of national wealth, twenty-eight
thousand pounds being imported into
England annually. They differ both in
flavor and strength from the Chinese teas,
but have some of the best qualities, of
the leaf, and are often mixed with in
ferior Chinese teas to give them flavor.
ONLY six very large diamonds are
known in the world, and they are called
"paragons." Their names are "Kohi-
moor" lin the possession of Queen Vic
toria), /" the Star of the South" IRE
gent" or "Pitt" diamond, the "Great
Austrian" the "Orloff" or "Great
Russian" and the "Borneo." The latter
is in the possession of the Rajah of NAL
ton, in Borneo. 1t is the largest in the
world, weighing three hundred and sixty
seven carats.
EMIGRATION to the Black Hills prom
ises to be the sensation of travel this
year. The excitement in the West is al
ready becoming quite intense, and large
numbers are daily leaving Bismarck and
Cheyenne for the rich places of the hills
Two stage routes are being opened by
the territorial authorities, and post
orhce has been opened at Deadwood.
Fifty thousand people are expected this
summer, and the Black Hills, with that
number of miners slowed away among
the gulches, will be lively country.
PAUL BoYToN has won new hurels
for himself by swimming across the
Straits of Messina, passing through like
Scyna and Charybdis during gale heavy
enough to wreck one of the vessels which
accompanied him, and getting whack
from the tail of big fish into the bar
gain. He was welcomed by all the peo-
pie of Messina. The Mayor, at the head
Of the other civic dignitaries, met him on
his landing and entertained him at a
banquet. If he does not get laid up
with rheumatism his success will be
unalloyed.
MEssRs- BURCHARD of Illinois, Hale of
Maine, Swami of Maryland, Conger of
Michigan, Cox and Wood of New York,
Garfield of Ohio, Randall and Kelly of
Pennsylvania, and Rainy of South Caro-
lima, in all ten. are the only Representa-
tives of the next House who have served
continuously since the Forty-frst Con-
gress. Messrs. Knott of Kentucky, Banks
and Butler of Massachusetts,, Schumacher,
Potter and Ketchum of New York, and
O'Neal of Pennsylvania, who are mem
bers-elect to the Forty-ffth Congress,
were also in the Forty-frst, but they
have not served continuously. Thus we
have in the next House only seventeen
Representatives, who were in the Forty
first. r-.......