Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-29
Current Items.

Current Items.
The keeper of the town clock at
Westport, Conn, in receipt of an annual
salary of $3.50.
Boston is raising fund to give a
musical education to the Hyer sisters.
the California negro prodigies.
A LADY in Washington, Ohio, recently
aimed kick at her husband, but, mis-
sing him, accidentally killed a little
child who was near by.
AN owl is playing naughty tricks
with the English sparrows on Capitol
Hill, Harrisburg, who have become
tame enough to pick up crumbs at the
feet of visitors.
Mrs. ANNA Goss, of Amherst, N. H.,
celebrated her birthday on Friday last.
Gentle Anna is 102 years old, and en-
joys the best of health and a pension
from the government.
Mrs. AMELIA JOHNSON, of Southbury,
Conn.,, who killed her drunken and
brutal husband on the 21st of January,
has been discharged; the jury holding
that she shot him in lf-defense.
Mas. WooDs, of Milersburg, Holmes
county, O., is driving a good business
with the aid of the liquor law. She has
ToCOV0To S1O3OOO lEOll OCtlOI6 WhO AdbO
sold liquor to her husband, and the old
man sticks to the saloons.
A LARGE crowd gathered on the canal
at Lafayette, Ind, on Sunday last, to
witness baptism through the ice.
Several involuntary baptisms of unre-
pentent sinners was the result of too
much crowding upon the ice.
The Figaro states that during the two
DAYS of snow and frost in Paris the
official reports show that there were
upward of nine hundred accidental
falls and seventy-six cases of broken
limbs, two of which proved fatal.
A PROJECT is under discussion to take
hundred of the New York public
school girls on tour to Europe next
summer. The passage from New York
to Liverpool and return will not be
more than $50 piece, and the Conti-
nent can be seen for another 500.
THE new Carrollton Hotel, at Balti-
more, is nearly completed. Alterations
| of the plans have swelled its cost to
1926, 900. To meet the additional figures,
the stockholders will increase their
subscriptions so per cent. Robert b.
| Coleman, of New York, has taken a
ten-year lease 1T $41 900 per annum.
| A FRIEND of ours eourted lady for
twenty. eight years and then married
her. She turned out to be a perfect
virago, but died in few days after the
wedding. "Now," said our friend, ia
self-cong graduating tone, "see what
have escaped by a long courtship."
THE population of the little Kingdom
of Greece, according to the census for
1870, amounted to !, AS, 1894 inhabitants,
of whom 754,176 were males and 703,-
716 females. Comparing the present
returns with those of 1860, an increase
is shown of 132,515 souls. Athens has
population of 44,510 souls.
IT has been recently discovered that
a graduate and Bachelor of Arts OF one
of the Eastern colleges is a woman,
who, unexpected, went through the
entire collegiate course under the style
and habiliments of one of the sterner
sex. She was graduated in the class of
1869, and took high part on the com
mencement programme.
A SQUARE bar of steel coated with
nickel may be immersed for long
time in water without showing any
, signs of rusts, and it is said that 1t
NAV be buried in -four of sulphur for
: several days without furnishing the lus.
: tre of the nickel surface. Copper ano
. brass bars, upon which the nicel coating
. has been applied, may even be immersed
r in an AQUEOUS solution of nitrate OF sll
r yer without precipitating the silver.
4 A BosroN girl, who was formerly 6
f pupil in Dio Lewis school at Lexington
8 has rid herself of an importunate love
s by taking him weston-like walks, which
e resulted in the heart disease and deatf
n of the unfortunate one. The lady Il
e delighted with the success OF the ex
e pertinent, and has resolved to treat al
n her troublesome admirers in the sam
way. She has been known to walk
miles without making a single stop.