The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-15
GENERAL INTELLIG ENCE.

! The Spitz dog keeps on biting Ne7
Workers.
IT costs 2,70O,OOO per annum to kee]
up the pavements of Paris.
BLUE glass is becoming popular. NJ
well-regulated window should be withou
t.
BUFFALO has 21,80S pupils in it
schools registered; average attendance
14,525; teachers, 353. This gives the
Buffalo teachers an average number O
Al pupils.
THE London Standards dispatch from
Vienna announces that the Hungarian
Ministers have rendered their resignation
because of a failure to affect an agree
ment with Austria on the bank question
1t is doubtful whether the Emperor hal
accepted the resignation.
The bark Adept, drawing ninetee1
feet, was put to sea through the jetty
channel without moments detention
Colonel Anderson says there is now g
good straight channel through the shoal
at the head of South Pass, with mini
mum depth of twenty-five feet.
WHEN the bill prohibiting the selling
of pools, lotteries, and other gambling
devices was before the Maine Legislature
an amendment was offered to allow
churches to indulge in ring-cakes, grab.
bags, fsh-ponds, and other benevolent
devices at their fairs, but was defeated.
and the bill passed.
AT a meeting of the Chamber of Com.
merce, in Manchester, England, lately.
the President stated that the exports o.
Manchester goods to the United States
which formerly afforded an excellent
market, were now emil" and that there
is a considerable trade in Manchester in
cotton fabrics manufactured in America
NEARLY twenty thousand alligator
skins are yearly Used by the boot and
shoe manufactures in the United States
Only a portion of the hides are services
BILE. These are packed in barrels, in
strong brine, and shipped to the Northern
tanner, who keeps them under treatment
for from six to eight months, when they
are ready for use.
A FEW years ago Australia imported
cargo of rabbits for the purpose of free
ing the pastures from noxious weeds and
frightening mischevious animals from
the grain fields. 1t is now importing
weasels for the discussion of the rabbits,
with a tolerably fair hope of having
some day to import rattlesnakes to ex-
hort the weasels.
A LITTLE tavern has been dug out at
Pompeii. 1t contains table used for
the drinkers. and surrounded with
mugs of earthenware. The walls show
representations of drinking scenes, in
which the participants sit on wooden
benches, assuming all sorts of hilarious
postures and expressions. Several in
scriptions describe with sufficient
minuteness what is going on.
The walls of Sedan are in course oi
demolition, the fortress being worse than
useless for purposes of defense. The oc
casion has been improved for the com
parison of different kind of explosives
and it is understood that an explosive
gum, the invention of M. Nobel, ha'
taken the lead. 1t is compact gelatine
having nitro-glycerine for its base; it'
power is twice that of dynamite; it ii
handled with safety, and is imperviou'
to wet.
ZADK1EL's Almanac for 1877 predicts
year of discords and dangers of war ant
woe for England unless her people are pre-
pared and prudent. The heavenly bodie
hardly pay as much attention to thu
United States as might be desired, bu
in June, Cancer, who presides over thu
destinies of the city, is benignant, ant
trade is to receive a great impetus il
July. Mexico is to be happier, but a
the close of the year physical and politi
cal osnvulsions will affect South Americ'
notably Patagonia.
BUT two millions of spices of lan'
and water animals and plants are be
lieved to exist. There are at least 100,
900 species of plants, and 10000 of in
sects only. The species in the seas ar
believed to be still more numerous. Th
number of polypi exceeds that of othe
insects, and the infusorie are numbered
nor are the parasitic tribes. The specie
of the whole may even be five millions
If an old species became extinct, and
new one were evolved once week, tn
whole would last 100, 900 years.