The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-09-11
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pounds Of butter.
TINS seasons peanut crop promises to be
the largest on record.
TIE annual honey product Of Vermont 10
about 1000, 900 pounds.
TIE cash in the public Treasury, Sep
tember I, was S414, 81 ,952 81.
TEE bean crop of Buffalo County, Dak.,
Is estimated at Il, 900 bushels.
ToN OCHnTREE refuses to be q candi-
date for reelection to Congress.
ANXIETY for crops is increasing in India
on account of continued drought.
THE shipment of cattle from Colorado
will be unusually large this season.
The decrease of the public debt during
the month of August was $s,542, ,152 26.
NEw ENGLAND has more seaside resorts
than any equal extent of coast in the
world.
GEEEcE has notified the Powers of her
intention to quit the Latin Monetary Union
in 1885.
at Dubrovitza, Western Russia, have been
arrested.
TEE Austrian post>of1css in Bulgaria
have been suppressed, and replaced with
local offices.
A LADY was elected School Trustee of
Johnstown, N. Y, under the new school
election law.
LITTLE girls on summer resort piazzas
are getting rich at killing mosquitoes at
cent q hundred.
A KEY WEST turtle on sale at Washing
ton Market, New York, the other day,
weighed $50 pounds.
SIX years ago steel rails sold in this
country at $172 FER ton. Now they are
quoted at $2S or less.
+ ALI defaulting bank presidents and
cashiers go to Canada, and all repentant
murderers to heaven.
TROUGH the French have destroyed Foo
Chow we shall not be inconsolable as long
as chow chow is left us.
TwENrY-FoUR postage stamps 10 each
person was the average sale in the United
States during the past year.
TEE statute of Admiral Dupont, now
being cast in New York city, will be un-
yelled at Washington in October.
A PrTsBURG concern makes maple sugar
of plaster of paris, rico, -four, molasses and
little coloring matter, without any sugar
at all.
BERLIN oculists assert that the dust
from the elevated railroads have added
Eve per cent. to the profits of their pro-
fession.
TIE horsemen of France are beginning
to awaken to the fact that the best of their
breeding horses are being brought over
from America.
Wool raising is becoming an important
Industry in the Black Hills. A. full train
recently left Deadwood with 80 900 pounds
Of this staple commodity.
RECENT advices from Liberia state that
the country is in prosperous condition,
and that the opportunities for negroes are
superior to those in America.
AT fashionable dinner parties where the
Dish is Spanish mackerel, lemon juice in
tiny jar is placed at each plate and Is con-
sidered best to use instead of any sauce.
EVEN oranges are now subject TO aiul-
teration, some ingenious rascal having ins
vented way of changing ordinary fruit
into blood oranges by the Introduction Of
coloring matter.
New York is the center of the cigar
making trade. She has nearly 1000 fac
tories, and turns out 1000, 900 900 cigars a
year. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois rank
after New York.
TIMES are getting very hard out West.
farmers boy of eighteen in Washington
Territory became so Respondent because he
could not raise money enough to go to the
circus that he hung himself.
FINE writing on glazed paper will give
pne or two fair copies without calling in
the assistance of press or water If use is
made of a writing solution Of three parts
Df good, jet-black ink and one part of gela.
tine.
THE United States navy consists of a
total of ninetyssix vessels of every kind.
Of these fifty-two are in efficient service.
The British navy comprises 23s vessels,
France has. .25s, Germany has eighty-six and
Russia has $50.
THE Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Scudder, of Chi
rsgo, who was for many years amissionary
IN India, expresses the opinion that "for
unmixed wickedness and utter moral de-
pravity no city of Asia could equal
Chicago or New York"
ENGLAND receives daily an average of
tifty to sixty tons of eggs from North Italy.
On one day the present season. the aggre.
gate of 100 tons, representing 2,00o, 900 eggs.
was landed at Harwich from this source,
and sent on to London by the Great Eastern
Railway.
THE cranberry crop of South Jersey Is
almost total failure. Charles 8. Brad>
bensive growers, estimates that about
three-fourths of the yield was frozen in tn
blossom. The season has been unprofitabl.
20 all fruit and berry growers.
ONE of the Newfoundland dogs brought
nome from the North by the crew Of the
Bear, of the Greedy relief party, suffered
so much from the heat at New York the
other day that it deliberately jumped over
board and drowned itself.
SoME weeks since an English school
teacher boxed child's ears with some
severity. There followed s severe and
long~continued headache, and it is not un-
likely that the child is injured for life. The
medical journals agree as to the very great
impropristy of Furnishing a child in this
way, and give the many anatomical and
medical reasons against it so clearly that
the brutal practice is likely to be lsssened.
THE Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York,
rents for $4,000 q year. The Madison
Square Theatre rents for $4,000. What is
commonly known as "Wallack's Theatres
rents for $4,000. The Fourteenth Street
Theatre is rented at low rate, probably
at ST. 900 a month during the season. The
A. T. Stewart estate owns Harrigan and
Hart's Theatre, which formerly was .
church. 1t rents for 1000 a year. 1t il
said that the Astors get $1,000 q year for
the Thalia. Madison Garden, which Bar
mum occupies for his msnagerie, cost at
least So, 900 a week.
A NATIONAL convention of cattle men has
been announced to meet in St. Louis, No.,
November II.
AVERY remarkable sight was recently
observed by several persons near the
steamship wharf, San Diego, CAL A dog
rushed into the bay, came out again imme-
diately, commenced to howl and then went
and deliberately committed suicide by
ducking his head under water and keeping