The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-12-06
Personal TOPICS.

| BUFFALO BILL UOOk part In rlH
match at Worcester, Mass, the othe
day, and won the first prize.
PRINCESS ANNE MURAT, the wife o
the Due de Mouchy, is the only Princes
ever born in America alway
Pocahontas.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT thinks w
W. Story, like Michael Angelo, emf
nent in the sister arts of sculpture ant
poetry" and calls him "great genius
LIDA DUTToN was burned to a crisp
at Moccasin. six miles north of Altamont
Illinois, recently. She was subject t.
fits, and falling near the fireplace hel
clothes caught fire.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Lone
Branch Road looking for wash-outs
found one near South Amboy, and was
thrown from the track, killing three
men and injuring four.
On the day Virginia seeded from
the Union a daughter vas born to
Senator Withers, who now represents
the Old Dominion in the Senate, and he
named her Virginia Secession. <
Mrs. Roscoe CoNKL1NG and her
daughter rarely stay at Washington, as
Mrs. Conkling's health does not permit
her to indulge in social gayety. They
are going South to spend the winter.
LARGE, dark-blue eyes, brown cluster
ing hair, a firm but smiling mouth, a
noble head, and a tall and stately
presence-these are the goodly possess
ions of Miss Louisa Alcott, as noted in
ST. Nicholas.
A FEW nights ago the body of Mr..
Hill, son of Hon. Joshua Hill, was
found on the track of the railroad at
Madison, Georgia. The head was nearly
severed from the body, and one of the
arms was broken.
Mr.. AND Mrs. EDWIN BOOTH visited
Mammoth Cave recently on the actors
birthday, and he celebrated the occasion
by laying the cornerstone of monu-
ment to Shakespeare, near the base of the
Giants Coffin. r,t
The Honorable Benjamin F. Butler
did not vote when the yeas and nays
were called upon the question of re-
pealing the Resumption Act. The re-
port says: Butler occupied himself
looking at newspaper, and did not vote
at all"
ABDUL HAND, Sultan of Turkey, is
having built marble staircase which
will cost about 81, ,250,000. The Proyi-
dence Tool Company, which is making
arms and ammunition for the Turks, does
not like to hear this any more than it
did the fall of Kars.
THE Toledo Blade thinks it must be
every discouraging to the quack
medicine alarmist to have a man like
Commodore Vanderbilt, whose autopsy
shows him to have been the victim of
fourteen fatal diseases, live to be eighty
three years old, and accumulate for
tune of 800, 900, ,G00."
PROFESSOR HITCHCOCK, of Amherst
College, who is digging for fossil bird
tracks near the Connecticut River, has
found four tracks measuring foot from
heel to toe and proportionately wide,
which he thinks must have been made
by bird twelve feet high, two million
years ago.
THE millionaire, Mr.. Arnold, of New
York, would not let his eighteen-year-
old daughter have any beaux at all, but
whenever she needed an escort, sent her
out with bald-headed old confidential
clerk, nearly sixty years old. The bald
headed clerk ran away with his en-
ployer's daughter, and married her him
self.
NOTHING fnical about Beethoven. In
his first apartment were two or three
pianos without legs, and on the ground
a trunk, which contained some clothes
and three-legged chair. As to the
second apartment; all its furniture was
bed, which, winter and summer, wa:
composed of a mattress and sheet, and q
deal table, upon which stood wash
hand basin. His night linen lay anyhow
on the floor.
WASHINGTON LETTER to Boston Post
I have heard Morton speak hour after
| hour in the Senate Chamber when the
muscles of his face were visibly con
tracted with pain, and his skin pallid
with suffering and weakness. Time anc
again has he fallen fainting in the
corridors about the Senate Chamber o.
in his committee-room, yet so we'll die
the attendants know his strong aversion
to letting the public know his weakness
that the incident was rarely know
beyond the limited circle of those wit
claimed to see it or knew those did ant
wormed it from them.