The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-28
STKAY PARAGRAPHS.

Arkansas has organized a state as
sembly of the X. of L.
The International cigar makers
union numbers $4,000.
The average cost of q session of
Congress is $3,0O0,O00.
1t is estimated that there are 1,1OO,-
600 cattle i'll Montana.
ST. Louis will soon have a twelve
story building.
The deposits in Massachusetts saw
ing banks amount to $375,0o0,000.
New York striking cigar-maksrs
number 1900.
Graphite is growing in favor as. q
lubricant for heavy machinery.
Iron and glass manufacturers gen.
orally admit that natural gas has adj
vantages over coal as fuel.
Sixty million people speak the
German Ian guage, 4 100000 the
French, and 100, 100000 the English.
Buddhi I'm has not only many vota-
ries in Los Angeles, but it is said to be
rapidly spreading there.
Seventy-seven counties in Ken
lucky have stopped the sale of liquor
under the local option law.
A Roman paper estimates The num-
Der of Catholics in the world at three
hundred million.
According to the MEDICAL WORLD,
every farmer wears out, on the aver
age, two wives and a half in his life
time.
A million of money in gold weighs
less than two tons, it is stated, while
a million in silver weighs about thirty
tons.
Boston constructed more buildings
during 1885 than in any year since
that following the great fire. The total
value Of these was 100000.
Chicago now claims a population of
100000 and the TIMES of that city
thinks she will outstrip London in
1910, if the present ratio is maintained.
The Illinois Assembly, Knights of
Laboi, have ordered a boycott against
five boot and shoe dealers in Chicago
for handling prison goods.
Fourteen students of the Terre
Haute commercial college have been
suspended for %frequenting the skating
rink. t..
The Franklin county court house
will cost 100000. The first estimate
was 100000. Liberal county commits
sioners want an expensive edifice.
1t would take the 'proit" on the
wages of 1888, S09men for twenty-one
years to make what the national banks
of this country have accumulated in
the same time.
An iron clad temperance order, call
ed the "Independent Order OF Recha-
bites" has been organized at Mt. Ver-
non. Nearly every man who joined
was formerly q drunkard.
Citizens of indianapolis will not
trade with merchants who do not keep
the sidewalks in front of their places
of business free from dangerous accu-
mutations of snow and ice.
A thirty pound tumor was removed
from Mrs. Lewis Klipstein. near Ver-
s%ailles, by five physicians. Second
time she she has been SO afflicted.
Will recover.
Most of the Chicago establishments
employing 800 to I,UOO persons have
five to ten Pinkerton detectives among
them, who report weekly the senti-
ments and purposes OF the men to the
employers.
Some enterprising American has
been stufing the London papers, one
of which says, that when journalists
dined with Vanderbilt they invariably
found q $1,000 greenback under their
napkins.
The congressional committee on la
Dor has in preparation circular letter,
a copy of which will be mailed each
labor organization in the country, re-
uuesting views on what legislation
they think is due the laboring inter-
ests.
The knights of Labor of San Fran
cisco have issued all address which
has been sent to every district assem-
bly, of knights of Laborin the United
States. The address entreats each as
sembly TO use it's influence on its rep
resentatives in congress to secure the
absolute prohibition of Chinese i'm
migration into the United States. 1t
also asks each assembly to forward
petitions to congress praying for such
legislation.