The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-11-18
People and Things.

York Herald.
People and Things.
SxrY-sEvEN journals are nowpublished
in Russia.
A SCOTCH gentleman is about to start
a marmalade factory in Florida.
SOME of the Canadian papers want a
law to force men to vote.
In Knoxville, Tenn, 2S2 families are
found to be destitute of the Holy Scrip
lures.
MANY of Garibaldi's former officers
and soldiers are fighting in the battles of
Herzegovina.
TIE public bath house at New Haven,
Conn, cost the city $S44.80 for the
season of 1875.
AsTARCH factory at Caribou, Me-, is
working up potatoes at the rate of 1000
bushels per day.
SENATOR ANTHONY owns two-thirds of
the Providence journal, which cleared
$4,000 last year. s;#
TOPEKA, Dec. 5, will have q grand
celebration of her coming of age, 1. e., of
ner Alst anniversary.
A VENERABLE hen, Is years old, owned
in Madison county, Tenn, was recently
assassinated by hogs.
SUNFLowERs prove to be the most per-
feet preventive against chills and fever
that has yet been tried.
You've man, go to Texas. They tell of
sheep kings down there who began driv-
ing at $50 a month and board.
The Choctaw nation is to have q paper
printed in that language. Blind printers
are wanted to set the type.
A MARRIAGE licease has been issued
to a woman in Boston only Is years old,
who has been married twice before.
A SENECA county IN. " farmer ex-
tinguished the potato bug by planting
Limburger cheeses about his potato
patch.
IT is stated that there are more
drunken women than men just now
locked up in the Providence station
houses.
The Postmaster at Okahumka, Fla,
feeds O pet turtle from his own hand;
but that hand has one finger less than
common. -
THERE are more Americans residing
in Dresden than any other city of the
Fatherland. But they are nothing like
as thick there as Germans are in New
York.
SEWING has been taught in the public
schools of Boston for twenty-three years,
and it is just nov discovered that it is
Illegal to expend public money for thai
purpose.
IFyour horses have the epizoot, dis
solve a teaspoonful of crystal chlorate o.
potash in a bucket of water, this amount
making a morning dose for four horses
1t will work a cure.
IT is estimated hat the great bridges
chiefly for railroad purposes, built in the
United States during the last ten years
have cost $3.50, 000, 900. The West ha!
built the greatest number.
;. Two RIVAL brass bands gave a com
petitive exhibition at Port Hope, Ont.
the other day, and the people there say
that, rather than have the thing re
peated, they'd welcome another Fenial
invasion.
AMONG the English pensions paid las
year are the following: 932 to persons
who suffered by the rebellion in IRELAND
in 1913; 910 to a servant of King Georg,
Ill; 1859 to servants of Queen Char
lotte, and EGO to servants of Queen Car
oline.
DURING nne week, recently, the Lon
don health authorities seized and de
stroyed two tons and twelve hundret
weight of meat as unfit for human food
that had been exposed for sale in tn
markets.
: THERE resides in Greenville, New Je1
sey, an estimable lady who possesses tn,
: following prefixes: "Georgiana Louis
; Angelica Lydia Cecilia Frederick Cleo
: patra Millicent Catharina." She is IN
married.
, THE Parisians are already tired O
Buffet, their Prime Minister, because h
entirely lacks chic. The man afte
, their heart is the one who gets up til,
, most fireworks and makes the mos
| fuss. Napoleon Ill. was q shining
3 mark ; Theirs was dull /; Buffet is simpl..
stupid.
A PRETTY young lady lawyer of Chi
: cago always declines divorce cases. He
; argument on that score is short an,
| sweet, viz. Every woman who accepts
husband should forever thereafter dur
. ing life be compelled to live with him
! whether ugly, shabby, good, bod or in
different.
PRESENCE of mind is an admirabl
, quality, and in conjunction With til,
presence of mustard it recently savet
the life of Mrs. Frank Perry, in Mime
, sofa. Mrs. Perry, by mistake, swallowe,
, a t~easpoonful of the solution of arsenic
, A neighbor was present, and prompt,
administered a large dose of mustard
r The emetic was effectual, and tho pa
| tents life was saved.
The Southern Pacific Railroad,