The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
GENERAL LINrELLIGENCE.

hNOlhEh SOlOl J1hC 1h GAO hloV Slk1oo
of West Point graduates we find the
rank of names thus put down: l.
Black; 12-Green; 16- White; 4S-
Brown.
IT is reported that both Senator An
thony and Senator Burnside are ill. 1t
always seemed to us that the Rhode
Island farm didn't afford sufficient scope
for good after dinner exercise.
FRANCE has 1,037 printing establish
ments, which turn out aboutS0 900 books,
worth $1,000, 900 per annum. They en-
ploy $500 compositors, 5000 pressman,
900 proof-readers, and $50 superinten-
dents.
THE municipal clocks of Vienna are
moved in accord by means of pneumatic
tubes with a central clock. Every
minute wave of compressed air is sent
through the tubes causing the hands to
move.
A HIGHLY priced Newfoundland dog
in Wakefield, Mass, the other day, after
tugging at his muzzle, placed on him in
accordance with law, became despon-
dent, and soon afterwards jumped into
the pond and drowned himself.
The French army is being exercised
in railway maneuvering. The troops are
going through new drill, the principal
features of which tend to make the
soldiers expert in embarking into and
debarking from railway trains.
It's all very well to growl about the
hard times. But how would you like to
be brakeman on the one-horse railroad
from Rustchuk down to Varna, at a
salary of eight cents day, and about
nine chances out of ten of being
bastinadoed before the weeks out7
THE Scherif of Mecca, a recent Lon
don dispatch states, has placed the treas
ures of the Kaaba-the holiest shrine
known to the Mohammedan world-at
the Sultan's disposal. The treasures,
which are the gifts of pilgrims accumu-
lated during several hundred years past,
amount to S2OO,OOO,OOO piasters or $50
100000.
IT is estimated that coffee, both beans
and leaves, are drank by sixty millions
of the human family. Tea of all kinds
is used by five hundred milliops, and
opium by four hundred millions; alcohol,
in its various forms, by five hundred
millions of the human race. Tobacco is
probably used by seven or eighthundred
millions.
GEN. GRANT, it would seem, was
slightly premature in his remark before
leaving America, that there would be
emo handshaking there" There were
one thousand persons at Pierrepont's re-
ception, according to the cable account,
and every blessed one of them remorse-
lessly shook the ex-President by the
hand.
SAN FRANCISCO Bulletin: A lot of ten
thousand sheep were offered few days
since. in one of the Southern counties
of this State, for five cents head. There
was neither grass nor water, and the sheep
were not strong enough to drive any dis
tance. This instance is only one of many
of the same kind occurring in Southern
counties.
PUPILS of the French Archaeological
School, while pursuing their studies at
Melos, have disinterred the arm of a
statue, of which the hand holds mirror.
There is reason to believe that the arm
is that of the famous Venus of Milo in
the Louvre, and at last accounts it was
to be sent to Paris for verifcation and
adjustment.
A wELLrKNewN San Francisco gam
bier, Henry Lederer, met his death in
violent and mysterious manner. A
police officer heard a pistol shot about
midnight and saw Lederer fall from
third.story window. A few seconds after
ward light was extinguished in the
room, and carriage was driven rapidly
away from the house. An unaddressed
love-letter in German was in Lederer's
room.