The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-10-11
PERSONAL TOPICS.

dent of Randolph Macon College, died
at Ashland, Va, recently, aged forty
seven. He was the most eminent and
noted divine in the Methodist Church
South.
TEXAS has 1,75O,OOO people, and
Louisiana only about 100000. When
the war ended Louisiana was the more
populous State of the two. Three years
from now Texas expects to have twenty
Congressman.
CHIEF JOSEPH is described as tall,
finely built, with thoughtful, intelli-
gent face, and is about forty-five years
old. His slightest wish is law. He has
a son about twenty who is as brave as
his father, and who is what might be
termed his fathers chief of staff.
GOVERNOR WADE HAMPTON is not
the historic Southerner of the gloomy
eye, the melancholy mouth, the droop-
ing mustache, and lean frame. He has
a rosy and genial face, pleasant blue
eyes, iron-gray whiskers, portly figure,
and voice full, agreeable and sonorous.
THE officers of the United States army
stationed at Atlanta, Ga, have bought
the plot of ground upon which General
Mcpherson was killed during the civil
war. The spot has been marked with
a Parrott gun firmly set in the ground,
and the lot has been inclosed with sub
stantial iron fence.
In 1910 Mr.. Alvin Adams, who re-
Gently died in Watertown, Mass, was
not worth dollar. The week before he
died the express which he established
carried in one day S27, 100000, and at
the present time that express company
employs nearly $4,000 persons. In 1910
Mr.. Adams, with one man and boy,
did all the work.
PROFESSOR SWING commends the
Southern Methodist Conference which
has had the courage to suggest that pull
pit orators should avoid "a frequent
drink of water during sermons" and
should "not finger the leaves of the
Bible, nor pound the desk while preach
ing" and that the congregation should
"wear coats to church, and walk in
softly-not like mules on bridge"
CHATHAM (Ont.) Planet: A few days
ago small colored boy in the neighbor-
hood of Chatham held one end of a
short hickory whipstock in his mouth
while running and playing. In the
course of his scampering he fell, and
the end he held in his mouth was driven
through the back of his neck, requiring
the strength of strong man to draw it
out. Providentially it missed the spinal
column, and, being healthy, the child is
quite we'll.
SHREVEPORT Times: A man who
edited a paper in Texas for two years is
one of the curiosities now travelling with
Barnum's show. He carries thirty-seven
bullets in his body one hundred and
sixteen bowie-knife scars, has one eye
gouged out, one ear bit off, his nose
twisted around on his left cheek, all his
teeth knocked out and his skull tre-
panned. At the time of his leaving
Texas he was the veteran editor of the
State press.
THE Hottentots always rejoice in the
arrival of a swarm of locusts, eat them
in great numbers, and make soup Of
their eggs. They are brought in wagon
loads to Zez in Africa, and are preserved
by sailing or smoking. The Moors pre-
fer them to pigeons, and person may
eat two or three hundred without feel
ing any ill effects. They ase usually
boiled in water half an hour, after
throwing away the head, legs and wings,
and then fried with a little vinegar.
PROFESSOR AsAPH HALL, whose re-
cent discovery of the moons of Mars, has
earned him foremost place among those
who have made the most important as
Economical discoveries during the cen
tury, is tall man of substantial weight,
his well-knit frame telling of the mus
cular strength acquired by manual labor
in early life. His dark hair and beard
render more pallid in appearance
complexion whose sallow tinge suggests
the worker without sunlight, and yet
more the malarious atmosphere sur
rounding the Naval Observatory.