Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
DOUBLE you. oH.MAHi is woman.


JOHN JAcKsoE, of Long Island, is aged
THE Oldest tops in the world-MOun-
tain tops.
MINERS are not always unhappy, al
though their hopes are always In vein.
~CALuoREIA paid $4,000 bounty for
gopher scalps laRt season.
THE utter most parts of the earth must
be that part where there are the most
women.
WHY does pretty girl need no mirror ?
Because she Is good looking (g)lass her
MISS KATE FnLD, the lecturer, Is ahead
Of most young ladies-she has one hun
dred engagements on hand.
WTHN the past seven years, the ssv-
ings-banks in Maine have increased from
| fifteen to thirty-six. rrr
A DAvEEPoRr Justice has married
1910 persons in eight years, receiving
therefor nearly $4,000
SIX hundred and fifty soldiers in Berlin
were married on the 8lst Of July lpre-
vious to their departure TO the 'front.'
THE announcement Is made that al the
recent book trade sales 10. New York
city, the books brought on an aYeraRe 10
per cent. more than last year.
AT Wamego, q place in the extreme
West, is shanty which bears the sign ::
. Here's Where You Get a2Meal Like
Your Mother Used to Give You"
In one district in Nebraska, eighty
voters have TO travel from thirty 20 sixty
milea in order TO deposit their ballot, and
they anxiously ask for q voting place
nearer home.
SYDNEY SMITH once said, in an aristo-
cratic party, That q man, to know how
bad he is, must become poor to know
how bad other people are, he must be-
come rich"
FIRST MORMON wonder. who that
blonde isfsA nice hgufei1H Second
MORMON Why, don't you knowh She
your wife, Firet Mormon" Soshe Is
Ithought had seen her before"
TWELVE bridesmaids, twelve erooms-
men, and twelve ushers sre 70 help marry
q couple IN New York. In q church where
the decorations are 70 cost over 81, 900.
"THERn,is hut 5ne good wife in this
town." eaid d clergyman, in the course of
his sermon-tRs congregation looked. ex-
peetanf--a ard every married man thinks
he's got he" added the minister.-
al Bill posted on q wall in q village In
the wet of England announces that "a
lecttfe VIII be delivered IN the open air,
apd a collection taken at the door to de-
16aY expenseR" -s...eg .y~fEE =.
SoEEH in the Dayton Police Court
Counsel says Which side Of the street
do you live ON, Mrs. Kippeif" Son either
side, sir. IF ye go one way it's on the
left; if ye go the ,other way it's on the
right" = ~ .izoH cfi -DE eUcH
TEAcHKR.-aLook here, Johnny, sup
pose you had twenty sugar plume, Pnd
you wanted 70 divide them into four
parts. You give i've 70 the j5e1g-srd Eve
20 Gaylord now what would you no
with the other tent" ScholarS-"Eat
Al WOMAN trsyelane on the Acafs saw a
man Ia front of her put his head out Of
the window, and asked himif he wouldn't
please keep his head in, as she had new
silk dress on, and didn't want Il al spat-
tered up with brains and such stuff
A FINE brick building, which has just
been erected in New, York at q cost OF
about one hundred thousand dollars, has
been condemned on account of the weak
ness of its foundations, and must be taken
down.
TEE Osago AE1ssf0s Journal Of Kansas
says: "The wealthiest people in the
world are the Osages. The tribe num-
bers 1000, and have, after allexpenHes are
paid, i6O acres of choice land per capita,
and $6, 100000 in money"
DIR. HURar, the Methodist professor In
Germany, writes to the AetAodsst, that In
to the sick and wounded do not amount,
in individual cases, 70 as large sums as
occurred in our war, but the number OF
smaller offerings is much larger. A
thaler, or half thaler, or even less, is the
rule.p Wrn1 TT FErV
TEE three scientific men who are to OBJ
serve the coming winter on the top OF
Mount Washington expect to be showed
| in at the Tip. Top House trom December
| xsfT L..A
munication with the lower world by tele-
graph. The room which they VIII occupy
IS to be lined with felt, and they ex-
pect to use twenty tons Of coal during
the winter. hIfse.J D 1lErlnfigo
A CALIFORNIA reporter secured an Item
weighing 100 pounds Passing a house,
he saw young Lady lighting hre with
kerosene, when he rushed In and threw
his coat over her in time to save her hfe,
and she wouldn't let him of without mar
rying her. AS she is worth million,
and Is unhealthy, he accepted the situa-
"A A SCIENTIFIC French gentleman, DR..
I,aborde, has announced the discovery Of
an infallible means of distinguishing be-
! tween real or imaginary death, by stick
| ing needle an inch or so into the sup
/ posed CORPSE The novel element OF DE-.
taborde's discovery Is, that, in the living
tissues, the needle becomes tarnished and
odorized, while, In the actually defunct, II
retains its polish -
OK q window pane at DemassVille, Ky.'
Is a true figure of an arched rainbow,
about twenty-four inches in length ana
twelve in width, with the colors OF ram
bow plainly visible, same as IN nss1re,
So permanently is the imprint Dede tnst
it cannot be erased by washing with soap
and water, or by rubbing with any other
substance, and it appears to nave Deen
moulded in the glass.
liza recent jumping match for 1000
and the State championship at Utica, N.
Y. Loomis jumped frst and covered thtr-
teen feet one inch and half Sarles fol-
lowed, springing over space OF thirteen
feet five inches and three quarters, beat
ing his best practice distance and making
the longest spirit-level stand jump on rec
ord. Alter several Intellectual efforts TO
emulate his rival, LOOMS acknowledged
Al SINGULAR fate has bsfallen the wife
4 of q master carpenter in Berlin. In the
space of eight years she has been made
three times q widow through war. Inthe
wear 1884 her husband was killed at the
storming of Duppel. In 1865 she again
married carpenter, who was called N
in 1866, and was killed at Keniggratz