The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-27
PERSONAL TOPICS.

DANIEL WARD, of Stickneyville,
Va, died the other day, aged one hun
dred and ten. He attended to his farm
up to the day of his death.
RICHMOND, Virginia, has lost its
ancient colored barber who shaved
Lafayette. The old man never smiled
after failing to find any way to chronicle
the fact on the tombstone.
A WHILE ago, party of lynchers,
down South, postponed the hanging five
minutes to allow the victim to finish
smoking a cigar. This proves that the
use of tobacco prolongs life.
THE proprietor of bar-room in San
Antonio, Texas, when his slate gets full,
shuts up his establishment and goes out
to collect his dues. Those who refuse
to pay he whips, and that fact is SO well
understood that he has little trouble in
settling his accounts.
A BALTIMORE gentleman accepted a
challenge to fight duel, and then over
slept himself on the morning when the
CORY field should have been visited.
Having made such ridiculous spectacle
of himself he will be punished more
than the law could do for him.
Mr.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON is
seventy-four years of age. He speaks
of himself as a man whose work is
nearly ended; but the only sign of
failing power noticeable in conversation
is slight hesitation and apparent effort
in recalling a needed especially
proper name.
New YORK Commercial: The death
of E. L. Davenport, the actor, was due
to a quack doctor, who poured his
medicine into him. Being a public
character, the fact has become known ;
but if it could be learned how many
thousands prove victims to the quacks
every year, an astonishing exhibit
would be made.
COLLECTIONS of postage stamps are
valuable in Europe. The London Times
states that a Middlesex magistrate has
refused 81, 500 for his collection, that a
collection of 1900 varieties was lately
sold for 81 900, and that in Paris one of
the finest collections ever made was sold
privately for $4,000. Thisinformation
the Times gives under the head, "Fools
and Their Money"
A YOUNG man was attending a party
at a West End residence, recently,
without knowing his host. 1t was
rather dull, and turning to a pleasant
looking stranger near him, he remarked,
"This is fearfully stupid; can't you and
I go out and get drink" d" l could,
if it wasn't for one thing" Said the
man: "Whatis that?" Said the pleasant
looking stranger: 81 am the one that's
giving the party!"
A LITERARY man who knows Joaquin
Miller's early history said to him
"Miller, there are half dozen stories
about you and where you come from, I
should really like to know which you
really call the truth" The poet, who
was swinging his legs on a table, looked
up and replied: "Well, George, the
fact is I've told so many lies about
myself should not want to confuse the
record any further"
NJ. GAMBETTA has been sentenced by
a French Court to three months
imprisonment and fine of two thous-
and francs for a speech that, in a
political contest in any other civilized
country, would be regarded as moderate
in tone. This three months imprison-
ment is not the worst part of his SEN
tence. He is deprived of his civil
rights for five years, and thus for that
time as efectually killed, for all political
purposes, as Theirs has been by death.
A LONDON journal makes the announce,
ment that Mr.. Mapleson, the director OF
Her Majesty's Opera, has determined to
no longer submit to the extortion Of
such terms as 81 900, $3.50 and $500 g
night, which represents the prices paid
to Madame Nilsson, Tamberlik, tenor
and Faure, baritone. Mr.. Maplesor
knows the singers can notget these sums
in France, nor at the present time il
Germany; neither can they be had il
Italy. Russia is left to them, but thai
is an uncertain field.
THE recent death of the grandson anG
last male relative of the poet Schiller
has led to the statement that there i!
not now living single descendant in thu
male line of Chaucer, Shakespeare
Spenser, Milton, Cowley, Butler, Dryden
Pope, Cowper, Goldsmith, Scott, Byron
Moore, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter
Raleigh, Drake, Cromwell, Hampden
Monk, Marlborough, Peterborough, Mel
son, Stafford, Ormond, Clarendon, Ad
Olson, Swift, johnson, Walpole, Boiling
broke, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke
Grattan, Canning, Bacon, Locke, New
ton, Davy, Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay
Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Davit
Garrick, or Edmund Kean.