The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-10-04
PERSONAL TOPICS.

NJ. 10leTS ) eullr6 lOTluue Is Ndlueu at
So, 200, 900, and he left it all to his wife.
His history brought him 100000.
GENERAL FORREST and his son-in-law
have eight hundred acres of cotton and
four hundred acres of corn Just below
Memphis.
CIRoAssIAN women are selling their
glorious hair in order to provide funds
for the wounded soldiers. Some of their
tresses-four feet two inches long-are
sold in London.
Mr.. DANIEL WARD, of Stickleyville,
Virginia, has just died, at the age of
one hundred and ten. He was aweaithy
farmer, and himself superintendent his
business during a part of every day up
to the time of his death.
A PAIR of boot lasts have been made
for Leonard Wilcox, of Rome N. Y,
who is seven feet in height and weighs six
hundred pounds. The lasts are twenty
two inches in length, seven in height,
and eighteen around the instep.
Mr.. w. w. STORY writes pictur-
esquely in the Atlantic about John
Lothrop Motley, with his eyes flashing
summer lightning, his dark locks cluster
ing thick about his brow, his proud,
quick gestures, and his sudden laugh
from sensitive lips.
JIM FIsK's father is peddling light
ming rods in New Hampshire. In the
same section of the State where the old
man is persuading the farmers to deco
rate their homes with rods, Jim Fisk used
to drive his peddler's cart for twelve
years in early manhood.
ANN WILSON was courted twenty
years ago, in Bourbon, KY, by George
M. Gillespie, who afterward went to
California, and she saw nothing of him
again until recently, when he returned
with eleven children by a wife who had
died, and renewed the courtship. She
accepted him.
A sCHooLMA'AM in Meriden, Conn.,,
is so unpopular that the school committee
was requested by heads of the families
to dismiss her. The committee refused,
and all the children have been with
drawnfrom the school. The teacher goes
to the school-room every day, stays
there alone. and draws her wages regu-
larly.
DAVENPORT was buried at Woodlawn,
New York, instead of Greenwood, where
so many of the histrionic profession are
laid. Forrest was buried in Philadel-
phia, and Charlotte Cushman in Mount
Auburn. Old Booth died while travel
ing on the Mississippi, and it is said was
borne to the family residence near Wash
ington.
DIR. ALBERT LOWER, of Hot Springs,
Ark, and Ed. B. Mcclellan, of New
Orleans, met as strangers on the New
Orleans, st. Louis & Chicago Railroad,
but within half an hour they had a
trifing dispute and were fighting a duel.
Mcclellan was severely but not fatally
shot, and the parties took the first train
north.
: SIR WLFRID LAWSON, in a recent
t address, speaking of the late hours in the
House of Commons recently, said he ex-
e pected at the next Carlisle election they
! should see cabs going about placarded
i Vote for Ferguson, who sat up till
. $780," "Vote for Lawson, who sat uI
4 till S:15;" "Vote for Banks, who never
goes to bed at all"
/ A MAN in Nottingham, England, car
> ries on a trade in worms. He hai
several persons IN his employ who collec
$ themin the meadows and pasture land
in the neighborhood. They are sold b,
the thousand or quart for bait by fisher
men. Afresh-caught worm is very deli
cate and tender, and easily breaks whel
put on the hook, but when a worm i
# properly educated he is as tough as a bi
Ie of India rubber, and behaves as he ough
d when put on the hook.
iae RADETZKY, the Russian hero O
u Schipka, is fifty-seven years old. III
belongs to a noble family of the PROVING
D. of Kazan, and has passed most all hi
n life among the hardships and dangers Q
is border warfare in the Caucasus. H
has takena prominent part in more tina
II n hundred and fifty battles and ski
'e mishes, and possesses three st. Georg
crosses-a distinction very rarely me
l. with in the Russian army.
m FOURTEEN of the fifteen Princes of tn
D royal houses of Europe who have mad
y. morganatic marriages belong to tn
reigning housesof Austria and Germany
e. and in four cases their wives wer
lie actresses. The English law does nc
7; recognize such marriages on the part c
o. members of the royal family. Thu
o. the children of the Queens uncle, til
nj Duke of Sussex, by the first wife did nc
p- even enjoy the rank of an ordinar
n Dukes children, but the Queen create
the Dukes second wife Duchess
V. Inverness. This was I" a sop" in retur
for which the Duke assented to til
e: Prince Consort's taking precedence
A; him. The Duke of Cambridge, I'll
of Queens first cousin, married many yea
ic ago an actress, Miss Farebrother, wi
n resides in a house at Mayfair, With
=. easy reach of the residence of her Roy
e e Highness. They have several childre
Mt who. bear the name of Fitz George,
d. whom one or two are officers in I'll
IL army.