The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
WHALES are rarely over ffty feetl,

WHALES are rarely over fifty feet1ong.
ABOUT four Thousand roses are re-
quired to make M pound of ottar OF
roses. ~
FOURTEEN kinds of dogs a be dis.
tinguished in the Greek and Roman
records.
THE pearl fisheries of the Persian
Gulf afford support to about 5000
families.
FORTY thousand dollars worth of
chewing gum is gathered annually in
the State of Maine.
The number of persons killed on rail-
ways in England is proportionally twice
as great as in France.
IT Is reported that twenty thousand
people in India, in the year 1880, were
killed by snakes and tigers.
! THE milk of the elephant contains less
water and o fatty matter and sugar
than that OF any other animal.
The age of an oyster may be reckoned
by counting the lines in the grove of the
hinges of the bivalve. These lines indi-
cate the annual layers of the she'll
growths.
THE Malays Of Singapore used to give
q large price for the flesh of a tiger, not
because they liked it, but because they
thought a person was imbued with the
characteristics of the animal he ate.
ITALIAN bees gather honey from flow
ers which fail to attract black bees, be-
cause the former have a longer tongue
and are able to find honey which is be-
yond the reach of the black variety.
BoTH linen and cotton cloths were
wrought by the Egyptians, but, unlike
the modern work, the warp had gener-
ally twice or thrice and not seldom four
times the number of threads in an inch
that the wool had.
The leprosy prevalent in the Hawaiian
Islands does not differ from the European
and Asiatic forms. The increasing in.
%tercourse between the Pacific States,
China and the Sandwich Islands makes
vigilance a duty in suppressing the
spread of the disease.
A FRENCH soldier, stationed for som
years in the Pontine Marshes, has be
come entirely Of a deep brown color
totally distinct from that shade produced
in natives of Northern Europe by ex
posure to the sun of lower latitudes.
In JAPAN, owing to the gentleness O
the people, the crow has full liberty t,
go where he likes. As a consequence
the most densely populated cities swarm
with the noisy fellows, who repay tn,
kindness shown them by acting 8 scay
engers.
FORTY years ago only about thirt,
auks and forty eggs were recorded as be
longing to public and private collections
At n time $50 were paid for two aux
and two eggs; a little later, half tina
sum for one egg and not very lon,
since we read that $500 were given TO
one egg.
ONE reason that the ancients wer
lacking in museums was the fact tina
they lacked efficient methods of pre-
serving the various forms of life. It wa
not until the discovery of alcohol an,
manufacture of glass bottles that muse
ums became of Importance.
ST. THOMAS, of Aquinas, gives tn
most ingenious explanation of any of tn
ancients on the subject of earthquakes
He suggests that the commissions ma
be caused by the struggles of the de
funct disbelievers trying (by a stimuli
taneous stampede, perhaps,) to escap
from the pit Of torment.
WHEN a Kaffir is on a marauding ez
pedition he gives utterance to those erie
and misses in which cattle drivers indule
when they drive a herd before then
thinking in this manner to persuade til
gods of the country he is attacking this
he is bringing cattle to their worship
pers, instead Of coming to take the
heads from them.