The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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A MAN at Duncansville, Pennsylvania,
went barefooted all last week to punish
himself for swearing.
A GLASGOW, Scotland, man brutally
assaulted his sister-in-law, but the Court
fined him fifteen shillings only, the pris-
oner having pleaded that he mistook his
victim for his wife.
WALES, it is said, will take back with
him to England the cheering remem-
brance of having met Sir Jumsetjee
Jeejubhoy. Nothing makes a man so
cosmopolitan as travel
The Rev. Moody admits that it takes
four times as long to convert a man who
has money out at usurious interest as it
dees a cultured gentleman who goes
home by the alley to avoid his butcher.
AT Stonington, Connecticut, recently,
woman found thirty thousand dollars
lying near railroad track. 1t is sup
posed to have been thrown from a car
window by some thief, who expected his
confederate TO pick it up.
AN open-face watch, without crystal,
the outer case being of wood and silver,
with an inner case of silver, is exhibited
in Springfield, Massachusetts,, as having
once belonged to Augustine Washington,
the grandfather of this country.
AN enterprising citizen of Sumner
county, Kansas, is getting rich fast.
During the grasshopper plague he cor.
rallied about one hundred and sixty acres
of the festive jumpers, and has been
shipping sardines to the East ever since,
THE venerable Mrs. Sarah J. Hale,
co-editor of Godey's Ladys Book for over
forty years, and now in her eighty-ffth
year, claims the authorship Of "Mary
Had Little Lamb" She says she wrote
it forty-six years ago, and published ii
in little book of "Poems for Oul
Children"
THE latest fraud is man who makes
regular business of deserving his wife
and children among strangers. The
latter usually give them money and
needed articles. after receiving which
the family joins the husband, and they
repeat the game in some other place.
THE Newburg journal says: The fathe
of the wife of William B. Astor, tn,
New York millionaire who died recently
was Major John Armstrong, the mai
who wrote the Newburg letters urgin,
Washington to make himself king at tn,
close of the Revolution.
How's this for red-tape? When tw,
young Cinnamon, now being educatet
in Lowell factory, made application
the other day for permission to cut OF
their pig tails for fear of their catching
in the machinery, the request had to b
first forwarded to the authorities il
China.
Mr.. WALTER OULEss, the portrai
painter who received the gold medal an
EOS from the Council of the Exhibition
at Manchester recently, is only twenty
six years of age. His engagements ar
so numerous that he has been compelle
to decline applications for sittings fror
the Duke of Deyonshire and the Bisho
! of London.
: SOME of the papers are giving Twee
, credit for boldness in making "das
! for liberty" but we don't see where th
!, bravery came in. When countryma
saw the water tumbling down at Niagar;
, and some one asked him if it WASH
! wonderful, he replied that he didn't r
> gard it as very wonderful; there ws
nothing to hinder it. There was nothin
to hinder Tweed from walking off.
A FEW days ago an elegantly dresse
S lady got into Madison avenue Ne
: York; car, and although, the day WI
: cool, she could not wear her gloves, c
e account of her many diamond rings.
d balky horse having twice stopped IL
e car, the lady went to the door and loo
s ing at the team for few moments, sa
n to the driver, "That ere off horse air
n used to be druv on that ERE side" Al
that was just the trouble, in spite of Il
h diamonds.
Mrs. MELINDA JONES, who TWEEN
= years ago was famous and well-knoy
a actress, died in Boston recently, ag
, about seventy years. She made b
! debut in New York, March %, 1887,
- Blanca, in Fazio. She married the SON
what celebrated Count Johannes, b
u u afterward separated from him, and has
u late resided in Boston in straiten
" circumstances. She was the mother
Avonia Jones, the actress (new dea,
who was the wife of Gustavus V. Brool
ID the tragedian. Mrs. Jones had play
m in nearly every city in the United Stat
n. both in stock companies and as st
tb Her remains were buried in Mount 4
ne burn.