The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-24
INTELLIGENCE.

IT costs thirty,six and a half cents per
mile to run a locomotive.
TIE Columbus, Ga, Enquirer says that
Columbus has $4,000 spindles in sight,
and is pretty certain of $1,000.
The New York Legislature has settled
the weight of eggson sale, by enactment.
One dozen must weigh a pound.
In 1901 Great Britain had 10000, 900
people, Ireland 10000 Now the
former has 1900, 900, the latter |, $780,
900.
RUss1A's public debt is about S $780,
900, 600 and is able to contract loans.
Turkey, with a debt of only $95O,OOO,-
900, has no credit.
The cost of the production of cotton
in the South is greatest in Mississippi
and Louisiana, while it is least in Texas,
South Carolina and Georgia.
THE English navy consists of sixty
eight iron-clads, three hundred steamers,
and a hundred and seventy sailing ships,
available for actual service in war.
A BILL has passed the Illinois Legisla-
ture authorizing railroad conductors to
stop trains and put off everybody play
ing cards for money OIL using obscene
language.
THE girls of Cashmere can make shawls
worth thirty thousand dollars a piece,
that will show three hundred distinct
colors which we cannot make nor dis
tinguish.
BUSH fires have been raging north and
west of the Ottawa Mountains. Around
Bennington, VT, they were one sheet of
flames, while the forest fires lighted up
North Conway and Upper Bartlett, N. H.
The rays of the sun, shining through
an ordinary stereoscope, set fire to a
newspaper lying upon a table in house
in Maine, a few days ago. An early dis
covery prevented the destruction of the
building.
NEBRASKA farmers are attempting the
I dom~estication of the buffalo. Half and
quarter breeds are very hardy, and in the
yield of milk from COWS raised of mixed
stock give even more than the average Of
rich milk.
THE nti-Russian demonstration in
Hyde Park, London, on Sunday, mum.
bered about three thousand. The speak.
ers included no one of note. The crowd
finally overturned the platform and dis
persed in disorder.
The name of Logansport was given to
the survey of that town in 1928 by Col
J.. B. Duret, who won the right to name
the place at a.. shooting match. BE
named it in honor of the services o.
Captain Logan, the Shawnee chief.
A FIvE.YEAR-oLD son of Reuben Hall
a farmer at York Station, Cleveland, San
dusky and Cincinnati Railroad, while
asleep on the railroad track at San
dusky, was run over by the accommoda
ton train, having his head cut off.
In 1859 Russia borrowed e5, $685. 900
in 1862, e15, 900, 900; in 1864, 1888,
600; in 1866, 95, 92O, 1874; in 1867, e22,
9Os, 600; in 1870, e11,962, $50; in 1871
ELL, 1852, $50; in 1872, ETA, s6s, 300, an'
in 1873, ELS, 900, 900, making a gram
tatol of elOs, 514 ,934.
GERMANY furnishes annually 10000,
fox skins, 10000 pine martens, 6O,0O
stone martens, 2SO. 900 pole cats, 500
offers, 5000 badgers, and 10000 har
skins. In rabbit skins she sendsout onl
800, 900, to frances 5000 900. The lis
closes with 400, 900 domestic cat skins
AN immensely tall silk hat supporte
by a twelve-inch collar, insulted a lad
Oh the street in Memphis. A momen
later and the police were carrying this
hat and collar away on a shutter in
fearfully mutilated condition, and picl
ing up the fragments of a heavy parast
scattered around.
In the Turkish navy are in all abou
SO, 900 sailors, equally divided betwee
branches of the service. In time
peace not more than 5000 to 5000 sal
ors are actively engaged. There al
twenty-three iron clad ships, carryin
from two to seventeen guns; four irol
!; cased batteries, of two guns each sever
,, teen screw steamers, carrying an aggr
gate of six hundred and forty guns; an
about eighty other steamers; making
: total of one hundred and fifteen steam
ers and one thousand six hundred gun
, Rar7-otU RoadtUaus.