The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

The fashionable craze fer Wild
flowers which made the florists sur
prised last year has declined this sea-
son, but apple blossoms and daisies are
considered of value as decorations
Chicago Times.
-Cabul is pronounced Kawble; Merv
is Mahriv; Herat is Hermit; Kurrachee
is K'rahchy: and the accent of Afghan
istan is on the second syllable. In all
of these words the s'a" is pronounced
as in "ah."-M Chicago Herald.
"A scientist has advanced the theory
that the Esquimaux has lived in the
polar country since that hot period. be-
fore the region became ice-bound. This
theory tends to explain why human be-
ings ever sought a residence in that
part of the world.-N. Y. Mail.
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 fiattened globe. 1t contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
| erately valuable, but the tree is orna-
mental.-N. Y. Tribune.
An inventive Australian has de-
| vised an arrangement by which the doors
of railway carriages are closed and kept
closed while the train is in motion by a
| lever worked by the motion of the car
| rage axle. When the train stops the
| device ceases to work and the door may
be opened.
"A certain father in Middletown at
tended one of the meetings Sunday with
his little son. When it was announced
that the collection would be taken the
father gave the boy money for that
purpose, but what was his establishment
when the box was passed to see the
little fellow hold on to the money. Upon
being asked the reason for so doing. he
replied: Saving it for the circus
Hartford Comm Times.
Concerning the perfumery manu-
factories at Nice and Cannes it is relia-
bly, stated that these establishments
annually crush and squeeze no less than
154, 600 pounds of orange blossoms.
13, 200 pounds of acacia blossoms, 154,-
600 pounds of rose leaves, 30, 200 pounds
of jasmine blossoms, %. 900 pounds OF
v~iolets, $500 pounds of tube-roses and
a relatively large amoun of Spanish
lilacs, rosemary, mint, lime and lemon
blossoms, thyme and numbers of other
plants and leaves and flowers.
"A letter describing the markets Of
New Orleans says that everything is sold
by the eye, and there is no standard .o1
measure. Nine-tenths of the hundreds
who sell in the noted French market o.
the city do not know what a bushel Oh
a peck is. They buy Their vegetables
by the lot, and place them on little piles
on tables. These piles are of different
sizes and prices. The buyer looks a
the piles. and buys that which he think:
is biggest and best. Sometimes bucket:
and boxes are used to measure, but they
are of all kinds and shapes.-M. Y. Post
For ingenuity and originality i
takes a down-east Yankee to perfec
plans to shuttle off this mortal coil. 4
Massachusetts man, having determined
to die, set about his arrangements. de
termined that there should be nothing
lacking to make it a perfectly origina
suicide, unique and complete. He pro
cured a piece of brass pipe, and firml,
fixed one end of it in the root of a tree
He then loaded this i%mprovised cannon
to the muzzle with powder and ball, ap
piled a slow-match, and calmly la,
down with his head in range. Tn,
whole arrangement was perfect, ant
he was dead as a door-nail, but some
what disfigured, when Chicag
Inter Ocean.