The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-12


Or the 255, 900 headstones Just finished
to mark the resting places of Union sol
diers in the national cemeteries, 1876, ,OOC
are for graves of the unknown.
AHENo of Jonathan Bodwell, of Middle
town, Conn, ceased to lay, few weeks
ago, and rapidly fattened up till she
could scarcely walk, when she was killed,
and mass of ten full-sized eggs and
number of smaller ones taken from
her.
THE richest woman in America is the
wife Of Prof. Gammel, formerly OF
Brown University, Rhode Island. She
has an income of at least million q
year, her fathers estate, which she has
just inherited, being estimated at fully
$2O,OOO,0OO.
ssA SUFFERER" who wrote to a Chi
cago editor asking what course to adopt
in order to relieve himself and his family
from the nuisance of being kept awake
night after night by the barking dogs of
a near neighbor, was recommended to
try strychnine in piece of raw beef.
CHICAGO Tribune: "Copy was out.
The devil picked up paper and said,
Here's something About a Woman
must cut it out2' 'Nol' thundered
the editor; the first disturbance ever
created in the world was occasioned by
the devil fooing about woman"
FRANK NORTON resigned position as
Clerk In the Interior Department to be-
come q professional ballplsyer. He
married young Brooklyn girl with a
maiden aunt worth half a million, and
the considerate old creature gracefully
withdrew from this world, leaving the
property to her niece.
The Centennial Board of Finance an
nounce that, in addition to collections
and subscriptions already made, 81, ,000,-
600 will be required for building pur-
poses alone in the last four months of
this year, and make further appeal for
aid to citizens of Philadelphia and the
country at large.
JOHN WELSH, President of the Cen
ennial Beard of Finance. estimates the
total cost of the exhibition at So, SOC, 900.
Tie city of Philadelphia and the State
appropriations, together with private
subscriptions, reach $3,OOO,OOO. The
stock basis will thus be about S., ,000, 900,
and this, it is expected, will be met by
admission fees and sale of materials after
the exhibition.
THE London papers are giving de-
served attention to the case of q little
girl who was sentenced by the magis-
trates at Spalding to imprisonment a
fortnight and a reformatory for four
years, for plucking geranium flower.
"British Justice" as thus illustrated,
would appear to be in the hands of grim
and dyspeptic giants such as are the
bugbears in nursery tales.
MmwAUKEE is entitled to be classed as
the beer capital of America. That city,
with its 100000 inhabitants, consumed
during the month of June 2S, ,327 barrels
of lager, making 1850, 1872 glasses, at a
cost of $702, ,5O9.60 to the consumers.
As half OF the population may be as
sumed to be minors below the beer
drinking age, the remainder must have
taken ten glasses each per day.
AT Altayille, Sicily, hogs have the free
entry of the house, and move about on
very familiar terms with families. Not
long ago a rich proprietor came home
from hunting, and set up his gun against
the wall of his room, when one of the
inmates, hog, knocked it down by ac-
cident, and wholly unintentionally, and
sent ball whizzing into the wealthy
farmers leg, which had to be amputated.
AN unfortunate New Yorker afflicted
with sleeplessness wrote to metropoIi-
tan journal for instructions how to WOO
the drowsy god, and received the follow.
ing answer "We assure sSleepless-
ness that his case is one of thousands.
There is an old prescription which re,
commends the perusal of a chapter
of the Patent Office reports before re-
tiring. This will either produce sleer
or death. We forget which, but we
recommend you to try it."
The Postmaster General has definitely
decided to change the system of Post
masters bonds. Hitherto the amount
OF the bonds has been determined by th.
sales of postage-stamps. They are nov
to be rated according to the receipts from
stamp sales for one month only. TIL,
regulation for postoffices in smaller cite
will not be the same as those of large
cities. One of the arguments in favor o
smaller bonds from government official
where it is consistent with safety is tina
1T is found that bondmen in frequent il
stances seem to own the official, for the
have become strenuous for the contrc
of appointments under him.
TIE long contest in Michigan for th
admission of homeopathy to instructio.
in the medical school of the State Uni
versity at Ann Arbor has at length bee
closed by the establishment of tw
homeopathic professorships and the al
preparation of $4,000 by the Legislatur
to Day salaries The law rao,,;r;n,, IL