The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-20

mad split on me, and left me without a
finneff."
A PROVOKING piece of impudence was
recently perpetrated upon Miss Emily
Soldene, the opera bouffe singer, In New
Orleans. A superb boquet was thrown
upon the stage, and the fair artist, after
smiling sweetly upon the young man
who threw it, stopped to pick it up.
Just before her fingers touched it, it was
suddenly withdrawn, a string having
been attached to it or that purpose.
The gifted youth has been heavily fined
for the outrage.
THE beretta which was recently be-
slowed upon our new Cardinal McClos-
key with such ceremony, by the Papal
ambassadors, is not the Cardinal hat
proper, but simple sIull-cap, to be
worn at the pleasure of its possessor.
The Cardinal hat, which is to be given
Cardinal McCloskey at the hands of the
Pope in Rome at some subsequent date,
is never worn upon the head, and ap-
pears only on important occasions, when
it is carried at the side of the Cardinal
by his chief officer
A CURIOUS fact is noted by Prof. Hay
den In his description of the Blue Range
of mountains in Colombo. This is the
discovery of vast quantities of dead
grasshoppers on the masses of snow lying
on the sides of these rugged mountains,
where bears eagerly seek them for food.
At certain seasons of the year, the Pro-
fessor says, the air is filed with grass
hoppers, apparently flying in every di-
rection, to aheight beyond human vision.
1t is probably, he thinks, that they be-
come chilled in flying over these high
peaks, and, dropping down on the snow,
perish.
BRIGHAM YOU'VE, whose opinions are
valuable indicators of what civilized
communities should avoid, believes in
systematic brain-cramping. In the re-
cent Mormon conference he said: "I
am opposed to free schools. Children
should be educated under the care of
their parents, and parents should labor
and pay for that education. All the ed
ucation child wants is to fit him to get
his own living. In the prisons, gamb-
ling shops, and other dens of infamy,
you see the results of the education of
children in the free schools, and away
from the care of their parents"
HENRY G. BOWEN says there has been
vast amount of lying and perjury in
this Beecher business, and he insists that
the chief perjurer in the case should not
be permitted to leave the court room
after the verdict is pronounced without
being arrested for perjury. This opin-
ion is universally shared, except by the
guilty man himself. If the jury find a
verdict, they thereby find either Mr..
Beecher or else Mr.. Tilton and Mr.. and
Mrs. Aoulton guilty of the most infa-
nous series of perjuriss. If these per-
jurers remain unpublished, the law against
the crime should be stricken from the
statute book.
A TREMENDOUS explosion recently oc-
CURED in San Francisco, caused by the
>carelessness of a single individual, one
Clark, and resulting in the death of sew
eral persons. One of the local journals
thus pleasantly suggests an epitaph fo1
the man who caused the sad disaster
"The explosion which cost so many
persons their lives was caused by 9
spark from pipe, which the man CLARK
was smoking, dropping into some pow.
der. They need not look for Clark's
brains but when they get the rest ot
him together they ought to bury the
fragments in a prominent square, and
erect over them monument, containing
he inscription Sacred to the memory
of id fool r"
In q Cincinnati beer garden, wher,
dens of huge snakes are kept on exhibi
ton, the most attractive part of the enter
tainment is the placing of live mice ant
squirrels in the cages to be devoured b,
the reptiles, The terror and struggle
and final death of the poor little beast
in the presence of the horrible serpent
were enjoyed as pleasing spectacle b,
those who have a hankering after sucl
sights. As a rule, the mice meet dealt
with a trembling non-resistance, bu
sometimes the squirrels show a gallan
fight for life. The ether evening, relate
the Commercial, a bright squirrel wa
placed in diamond snakes den to
devoured, and in the battle which ensue
killed its passion-fanged antagonist. Th
brrlsh-tailed little conquerer is to
placed in the Cincinnati Geological Gal
den, along with the donkey that whippe
the ioness.
Mrs. RoUsBY, the English actres
created a sensation at the Grand Opel
House, Cincinnati, one night r
Gently, by. coming before IL
curtain at the close of the ac
and making bitter speech, complaint
of the support. She said one actor ha
got drunk, and his part had to be res
by another. She felt mortified to ha,
to appear under such circumstance
which, she declared, was the most di
graceful she had ever met. A long wa