The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

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Crows have been known to live one
hundred years.
THE way to wear a linen duster is to
wear it all over.
THE Latin translation of the New
Testament was made by Jerome in 4O5.
THE plague of 1916 is said to have
destroyed in Christendom 23,840,000
persons.
SEVERAL members of Harvard's class
of IT lost their degrees through i'm
morality.
A CARDINAL wears a red soutanne, a
rocket, a short purple mantle, and since
1913 a red hat.
IT is calculated that every billiard
player loses one weeks time out of ayear
in chalking his cue.
In 1873 a toad was found in Sweden
nearly twenty feet deep in a quarry, in
the middle of a block.
THE tortoise and crocodile often X
coed a hundred, and the lamprey has
been known to live for sixty years.
A NEW fruit has been discovered in
Queenland, combining the flavor of the
pineapple and the pear. 1t is thought to
be of Mexican origin.
PAPER trunks are the newest. They
are very strong and have no seams, and
can be tossed any distance by baggage
smashers and not injured. They come in
all %colors, and are quite handsome.
SOME of the Spanish papers are advo-
eating the suppression of the bull fights,
.al ora osl-.r~ that - noou ha 1nnlora1
illegal to allow horses to take part in
them. There are one hundred bull rings
in Spain.
In India the elephant is made ser
viceable before a gigantic pillow. The
implement is guarded by two men, and
turns up a huge ridge and forms a fur
row three feet deep by four and a half
feet wide at the top.
A MIssoURIAN is trying to prove that
Marshal Ney never was executed, but es-
capped to America, settling in North
Carolina. 1t is not the same Missourian
that undertook to establish that Lord
Bacon was Shakespeare. He got discour-
aged.
TEXAS has fifty wheat producing coun-
ties, one-fifth of which, if fully cult
waited, would produce 49, 0O, 900 bushels
of grain. 1t has also 68, 120, 900 cotton
yielding acres, which, if taxed to the ex-
tent of their Productiveness, would yield
1862, 600 bales of cotton.
THERE are now ninety-two papers in
the State of Mississippi-four of which
are daily, eighty-six weekly, and two
tri-weekly. The combined circulation
of these papers is estimated at sixty
thousand two hundred and twenty-three,
This is one copy to every thirteen of the
population.
JACOB HUNTINGTON, of Mt. Pulaski
Illinois, committed suicide July 9 by
shooting himself with a revolver. HI
was one of the first settlers of Chicago
and a man well known and identified
with the early history of Illinois. HI
was at one time considered one of thu
wealthiest men in the State, but lost hi
fortune by bad investment.
THE war in the East has doubled tn
price of canary bird seeds. Asiati,
+ Turkey supplies large quantities of thi
| bird provender, but since that t~erritor,
: has become the theater of war the sup
ply has been cut off. The import of tn,
seeds amounts to about four hundred
tons per annum. The little warblers vii
r have to change their diet until the East
ern question is settled.
CINCINNATI has lost her third an
last white whale, killed by too much eS
0 citement in a thunderstorm. BE
stomach was opened and found to COZ
tain about two quarts of small roun
Y stones, the bottom of glass tumbleran
e a small piece of stick. Nothing else wa
S found in the stomach, though she ha
e been fed some two or three thousand mil
nows, clubs and sinners on the night b,
fore her death.
= AN Impractical eye generally makes
n mistake when measuring a height. .Tw
men, while crossing the East River, +
n Gently, in one of the Fulton ferry boat
o were estimating the height of the Brool
Ign bridge piers. "They are abol
Q thirty feet high" said one of the mel
U "Thirty feetl" exclaimed the other, sa
castically, they are fully sixty" The
q height above h~igh-water mark is tv
d hundred and seventy-seven feet.
e A CLoUDBURsT may be a serious thir
y in the Cheyenne region, where IL
streams u down from the mountain
Recently there wa a sudden and uncoI
monty heavy fall of rain there. Almo
y without any warning a wave eve fe
" high rolled down the Chugwater. A d
E. tachment of the Third Cavalry encampC
!, near the bank was overwhelmed by Il
Aanl Tho lru bod Of tha oraal ON whi,
= no water had flowed for six years, su
N denly became a river fifteen feet deep.
n A PERSONAL friend of Jefferson Davt
who has lately arrived in Washingto
to says that Mr.. Davis is busily engaged
the completion of his work on the wa
c. 1t will be put to press in the fall. NJ
ct Davis will criticise very severely t
is policy and plans of General Joseph
Johnston as a Confederate chieftain, al
ID will charge on him the full responsible
III for the non-pursuit of the Federal fore
i'd into Washington on the occasion of t
III battle of Bull Run, in July, 1861.
is THERE are 81 colleges in the NJ
" England States. Maine has 4, with 4
ne students; New Hampshire l, with "a
e. Vermont 8, with 172; Massachusetts
with 1918; Rhode Island l, with q
and Connecticut 3, with 1,037, maxi
P a sum total of 4,197. Of all these C
tt, leges Harvard has the largest numI
1870 of students. There are 20 WON
ry students at Harvard in the SUNNI
IN schools of chemistry and botany, and
at Yale in the school of arts.
IT is related of Mr.. Peter Harvey,
I, Boston, who died a few days since, ii
e when the Washington medals once own
nc by Mr.. Webster were pledged by a me
Der of his family, Mr.. Harvey redeem
"a them, as he had redeemed the Webs
H. Vase years before, and placed them
charge of the Massachusetts Histori
Society. To the preparation of
memoirs of MI. Webster the later We
" of Mr.. Harvey's life were devoted, an
'gs few days ago, while upon his death b
en- he signed the preface to a volume, VIII
will be published during the conf
We autumn.