The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

CHIMNEYs were first put to houses in
1886.
GLASS windows were first used for
lights in 11S0.
Two thousand American firms have an
nounced their intention of contributing
to the Paris Exposition.
THE inner channelways of the harbor
of Norfolk, Va, which is one of the finest
in the world, TT gradually filling up.
THE failures of the last year in the
United States have been far fewer and
smaller in amount than in England or
Canada.
THE Galveston Mecs thinks the next
census will show a larger increase in popu-
lation and production in Texas than in
any other State.
A MONUMENT is to be erected to the
memory of the two hundred alumni of
Virginia Military Institute who fellin the
Confederate service.
The manufacture of brier-root pipes,
from laurel root, is carried on in War.
rem, Penn. From eight to ten workmen
are employed, and some three hundred
pipes are made daily.
LIGHTNING struck the Columbia Ho.
tel at Chester, Pa, and set it on fire.
Seven persons were stunned, n OF
whom, William Appleby, was seriously
injured. The fire vas quickly extin.
guished.
A LONDON paper prints the following
"The attendance at the wedding of Mr..
Smart and Miss Jones, yesterday, being
50 large, for benefit of the friends unable
to gain admission, the ceremony will be
repeated"
THE Ralpay Age says that three hun.
dred and ninety-fve American lOcomo-
tives, worth S., AGO, $50, have been ex.
ported in sever years, and that the
reputation of American engines is stead.
lily increasing.
COINAGE reports from all the minis in
the United States, except Carson City,
state the aggregate coinage for the fiscal
year as seventy-one million dollars, show
ing an increase we the last fiscal yea1
of fourteen million.
THERE is a pecan-tree on the farm OF
Wash. Feasele, in San Saba County,
Texas, the trunk of which is six feet in
diameter, and a line drawn across its
branches, the widest place, measures one
hundred and fifty feet.
A POOR woman in Providence found 8
pocket-book containing sever hundred
and fifty dollars, and returned it to the
owner, a wealthy merchant. He expert
enced fine glow, and gave her a twenty
fve-cent bottle of cologne.
SUSIE ANDERSON, a little colored CIR
of Indianapolis, and young daughter Of
farmer Farley, near Fort Wayne, Ind.
were struck by lightning on the SAM
day, lately. The colored girl died, and
it was thought the other could not re
cover.
Two Terre Haute boys, James OBrien.
fourteen years, and Robert Osborne, ter
years, left their homes on Saturday morn
ing and were missing until Sunday even
ing, when the bodies of both were dis
covered in a bayou just south of the city
where they had gone bathing.
NUBIA is a strip of land nearly five
hundred miles long and three hundred
miles broad, on each side of the Nile
and is very fertile. There are on thi:
island one hundred and ffty-nine vii
lagos and about one hundred thousand
black inhabitants with Hindoo features
A NATURAL bridge zeal Pomona, Ill.
is of pure sandstone, one hundred fee
in length on top, and seventy-six fee
from one abutment to the other. 1t il
sixty feet high, and eight feet broad OF
top. The average thickness is nine feet
and a team crosses it in perfect safety
AN invention has been patented
which may produce almost as remark
able an effect as the cotton gin. 1t is
~wagon-like machine, calledth Picker
and when driven through the ripeneC
fields, picks clean every scrap of cotto1
and saves the labor of one hundred
hands.
THE celebrated Casa Granda ruin
Arizona Territory, was discovered by tn,
Spaniards about the year 1880. 1t wa
then the remains of a colossal structure
with eight stories of the main buildin.
in a good state of preservation. 1t ha
now melted by the friction of time ant
rain to four stories. Its walls are from
eight to ten feet in thickness.
A SoNoMA, CAL, man has raised fv
cork trees, which are nov twenty-five t.
thirty feet in height and from ten t.
twelve inches in diameter in the trunk
One coat of cork, one and one-fourtl
inches thick, has been stripped off. TIL
tree resembles the live oak in foliage
The seeds were brought from Spail
twenty years ago.
IT is said that the brain of an lido
contains about one per cent. of phos
phoric matter, that of persons of SCUM,
intelligence two and one-half per cent.
while that of the maniac is three and one
half per cent. If this be so, it woul
seem that in a maniac the brain appro
PIRATES an undue proportion ofphosphori
matter from the rest of the system
whereby the functions are materially in
paired.
THERE is a watch in a Swiss museur
only three-sixteenths of an inch in dian
eter, inserted in the top of a pencil-case
Its little dial not only indicates hours
minutes and seconds, but also days Q
the month. It'll a relic of the time whe
watches were inserted in snuff-boxe'
shirt-studs, breast-pins and finger-rings
Some were fantastic-oval, rectangular
cruciform, or in shape of pearls, melons
; tulips, etc.
The Porte has published the follow
ing official dispatch: "The Russian.
denying the rights of humanity an
without any military necessity, hav
!, completely destroyed the fourishin
; town of Rustchuk, which is now nothin
! but a heap of ruins. They spare
| neither mosque, churches, hospitals nc
, public buildings. We hereby max
known their acts to the justice an
humanity of Europe"
The Easiest Way.
. A certain good-natured old Vernon
, farmer preserved his constant goo
$ nature, let what would turn up. On
/, day one of his men came in, bringin