The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Physicians in the Sandwich Islands
have come to the conclusion that the
only way to stop the alarming spread
of leprosy is to begin vaccinating with
leprosy microbes. They think the op-
Grafton will be a success.
The African elephant will be ex-
tinct in another hundred years unless a
stop is put to the indiscriminate mas
sacre now going on. So says Josef
Menges, the great importer of African
wild beasts, and probably the most em-
inent authority on such subjects.
Dennis Butler, a swimming master.
on a wager of $3.50, swan the East
River, from New York to Brooklyn,
with his hands and feet firmly tied.
The distance was a little over a mile,
and the time was nineteen minutes
~. Y. Sun.
According to the statistics of the
past year up to the age of fifteen more
males die than females. From the age
of fifteen to forty-fve more females die
than males. From forty-five to ninety
more males die than females. At ninety
the mortality of males and females is
the same.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
The tropical ~gooseberry, which is
cultivated in Florida, grows ON a hand
some tree from ten to fifteen feet in
height. The fruit is rather smaller
than the Siberian crab apple, and the
shape a fattened globe. It contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable, but the tree is orna-
mental.
The word consols is an abbreviation
| of the term consolidated annuities. The
English consols differ from our national
| debt in this way: The principal may
vary in amount, but the interest never.
They constitute a perpetual obligation
of the United Kingdom, bearing three
per cent. interest, and representing an
irredeemahle principal.
The story is told of Mr.. Evarts that
. he once sent a donkey up to his farm
at Windsor, VT, and about a week
afterwards received the following letter
from his little grandchild:
DEAR GRANDPA: The little donkey is very
gentle. but he makes a big 70 $; nights; He
won't be so lonesome. MINNIE.
Many hooking birds are shipped
from Atlanta every season to the North
and West. The young birds are caught
by the hundreds by small boys who
peddle them at fifty cents each. They
are kept in their native cline until they
are four or five months old, and then
are sent by express to all parts of the
country. A good bird, four months
old. is worth from three dollars to five
dollars. They sing well when a year
Old.-AttGnta Constitution.
There has bean a steady increase
in the number of convictions in En-
gland for smuggling during the last ten
years. Ten years since-that is, in
1S76-the total number was LILA,
whereas in the financial year just ended
it amounted to 1850. The authorities,
however, do not attribute these facts to
an increase in the practice of smuggling,
but aseribe them chiefly to improve
ments in the system of guarding the
coast.
"A female ofice-seeker in Washing.
ton Unanswered her way into the White
House with six small children in tow,
and made a most pathetic plea for an
appointment which would enable her tc
support her widowed brood. 1t was 8
neat bit of strategy, but it wofully mis-.
carried when she was recognized by one
of the attendants. She was never mar
ried at all, and the squad of juveniles
had been borrowed for the occasion.
The author of SO ingenious a device
almost deserved .success.-ChicGg6
Times.
The girls in the Philadelphia Min
made a favorite of a sparrow that wa!
permitted to pick up their lunch crumbs
A little boy stole its nest the other day
and upon drawing his hand from tn,
box it was found full of shining par
ticles. An examination Of the DO,
showed it to be fiecked not only will
gold dust. but that it was carpeted will
sparkling. soft, yellow gold. The spar
row had been regularly carrying ava,
, gold dust in its feathers. which it shool
out when making its oilet.-Philadel
phia Press.
Minute instructions are given t.
the officers of the Salvation Army hov
to behave, what to read. what to wear
and as to marriage. They may no
marry or court the first year, and ma,
not become engaged at any time with
out the consent of the General. AS t.
reading, they are told that is better no
to read secular newspapers, but if the
do look at them. it is to be only a look
They are 10 read 10 novels, to avoid al
the ordinary religious books, all tn
twaddle and trash and goody-goody
milk-and-water stuff. and to confin
themselves to the Bible, general orders
the hymn book and the War Crv.-N
Y. Sun.