The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-10-25
PERSONAL TOPICS.

GARIBALDI has written letter to
prove that the brigands of his native
land could be put down if the Govern
ment would give them bread and coed
treatment, instead of lashes and torture.
SAMUEL G. ROBINSON, who has just
died at Augusta, Maine, at the age of
seventy, was the champion player on the
fife, piccolo and clarionet in that region,
and could play one thousand tunes from
memory.
WOODEN revolvers were found on the
body of dead Russian Lieutenant. 1t
was surmised that he had lost his real
weapons in gambling, and had devised
these substitutes to conceal his fault
from his commander.
BOB INGERsoLL is not far from right
when he says that " the frying of beef
steak should be made penitentiary Of
fense;" but bad as fried beefsteak is,
there are moments in mems lives when
it would be comparative bliss to none at
all.
A WAYNE County farmer left his
vest hanging upon chair. In one of
the pockets were about dozen strych-
nine pills. His two little children dis
covered them, thought they were candy,
and ate them. Physicians were called
and antidotes administered, but both
died within an hour.
Mr.. WILKIE COLLINS, the English
novelist, is great sufferer from goQt in
the eyes. He lives in large, dingy old
house in Gloucester Place, London, in
which, on account of his disease, he will
allow no gas to be burned, using only
candles and shaded lamps for such dim
light as is necessary after nightfall.
A WORKMAN found great consolation
in talking to himself. GLOW is it,"
asked the employer, that always find
you talking to yourself?" "Well, for
two reasons" answered the man; first,
1 like to talk to sensible man, and sec
ond, l like to hear a sensible man
talk" The explanation was satisfac-
tory.
New YORK World: The Sunday
school at Tilton, Kentucky, passed a
resolution last spring that any scholar
attending the circus should pay five
cents to the treasury, any teacher twenty
five cents, and the Superintendent
five dollars. A nice crisp V was put in
the box last Sunday, and the Superin-
tendent still wears his Summer hat.
AN Englishman who has made bet
of s50,000 that he will in six years walk
through France, Germany, North Rus
sia, and Siberia to China, has started
from Calais on his journeying. His bet
ebliges him to return through India,
Persia, and Southern Russia, and from
there over Greece to Italy and France.
He must be in Liverpool by July /,
1883.
Bob INGERsoLL says that cooking is
one of the fine arts; that it takes far
more sense to be an excellent cook than
a tolerable lawyer; and that he is good
cook himself and has no other accom-
plishment of which he is so proud. And
he adds: "There ought to be a law
passed making it crime punishable
with imprisonment in the penitentiary
to fry beefsteak.
IT is fair that all the fun should not
be made at the expense of the mothers
in-law. An old anecdote touching a
son-in-law has been revised in France.
NJ. Rose, Secretary of Louis XIV, an
noyed at the incessant complaints ad-
dressed to him by his son-in-law, finally
said to him: "You are right, mon ami; !;
if my daughter gives any further cause
for dissatisfaction, will disinherit her"
HOWARD, the philanthropist, was al
ways cool man. He would have damp
sheets whenever he could, and before
riding and going to bed, swathed him
self with coarse towels dipped in cold
water. He never put on a great coat.
He had never been a minute under or
over the time of an appointment, so far
as it depended upon himself, for six
and-twenty years. He never continued
at place or with a person single day
beyond the period prefxed for going,
and he had not for the last sixteen years
of his existence eaten any fish, flesh or
fowl, nor sat down to his simple fare of
tea, milk and rusks. His journeys were
continued from prison to prison, night
and day; and where hecouldno go with
a carriage he would 60 on horseback,
and where that was hazardous he would