The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-06-06
PERSONAL TOPICS.

ITEM for side-showmen: A four-year-
old child in Kennebunk, Me-, has head
weighing fifteen pounds and body
weighing nine. se
"GAIL HAMILTON is too smart to
live" says the Utica Observer; and then,
after long pause, it wickedly adds the
words with"
THE report about Edison having in
vented an auriphone capable Of re-
cording the very faintest whisper in a
room and repeating it in any desired
volume" is an unfounded yarn. 80
LET'S see, it has been nearly three
weeks since st. Louis man has shot a
girl because she wouldn't marry him.
Has the holy fame of human affection
died out in that loving village? Have
men entirely ceased to love?
| TwENTY-THRFEw women are now study
ing medicine in Paris, only five of whom
are French. The others comprise six
English and twelve Russians. But thirty.
two women have taken medical degrees
in Paris since 1865. Iif.Ji ~.
/ A LITTLE WASHINGTON corresponds
ent of the Monthly Elevator says that
DR.. LeMoyne has received nearly a
i hundred applications from persons wish.
ing to be cremated since the incinera-
tion of Mrs. Pitman. ~
i The artistic sensation of Paris is an
artist named Andre Gauther, who
draws large audiences nightly 10 see
him paint landscape in five minutes, a
portrait in six, and two different pic
lures at once, one with each hand.
i WILLIAM E. DODGE can hardly be
4 very enthusiastic over ceramics Just
now. He has lost one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars, it is said, in a
porcelain company, and other members
of his family have sunk as much more.
| Mr.. FRoUDE, the historian, recently
| addressed to DIR. Newman letter, in
which he says that "the principle OF
grayitation is only looked upon now as
an hypothesis by all careful minds, y
and, further, that it would be far better
| if all mankind could agree q to hold
their opinions as mere hypothesis" = :
| A LEADING Socialist in Detroit said
few days ago, in conversation with 8
reporter: "We have thot summer
before us. mean by a. shot summer
trouble between labor and capital
Labor will assert its rights. 1 mean
that the railroad men and coal miners
are going to strike, and there will be Sc.
rious trouble" ~
4 AT Bologne, Italy, in the old church
:, of San Stefano, there is queer old pill
lar mounted with Latin inscription
writ in choice Gothic characters, which
| informs the needless passer by thatit is
the column of fagellation, and that fol
every blow you give your bare body
one hundred years of pains of purgatory
| will be RENTED. 3
i Mr.. and Mrs. McCollester quarreled
in Story, Iowa, and he sued for di
vorce; but after the case had been q
while in the court they settled their diff
fculty, and lived together again. He
died recently, and the widow learns that
the suit resulted in divorce, the lawyer
having failed to discontinue it, so that
she has no legal claim to the estate.
DUBLIN has bad reputation fol
Drunkenness, but it must be conceded
that if its greatest brewer and distillel
derive their vast wealth from sources
which do harm, they are unexamplec
among men in this line of business fol
munifcence. Sir B. Guinness magni
fcent restoration of st. Patrick's Cathe
dral, Dublin, has been surpassed by Mr.
Roe, the distiller, who has spent one
million dollars on the complete restora
tion of Christ Church, the other Pro
testant Cathedral in that city.
THEY tell story in Lynn, Mass, of {
physician who was called to see lawyer
and went, supposing his prefessiona
services were required. He found, how
ever, that he was threatened with sui
for damages for slandering rival ply
sician, unless he would consent to pay
damages. He refused to do SO, and pre-
sented bill for his professional call
Payment of that was refused, and he ha
placed it in the hands of another lega
gentleman for collection.
In personal appearance Mr.. Brigh
is of medium height. His motions ar,
energetic and active. His figure is wei
put together in solid and somewha
square shape. His head is nobly wei
set on, being erect and firm in its pose
y He has a pleasant expression of fac,
and clear complexion, a light gray eve
gray hair and whiskers. He wears hi
hat somewhat sailor-fashion, more OF
the back of his head than forward
London Letter. 20 .
CHIEF NACHEs informs us that at
council of Indians which is. to be helc
in few weeks he will resign the chief
tainship of the Piutes. He has littl
farm on the Big Meadows, and is goin,
to try to be an American citizen, AMI
} will no more be chief. He says: "M,
people are dying Of diseases they do no
understand and cannot prevent. The,
are passing away like the snow on th,
mountains. Thirty-four of them hay
died in Winnemucca and at Big Mead
ows within the last two or three months.
Winnenucca Steer State.
ENGLISH Prime Ministers have rarel,
been very rich men, and some have
been quite the reverse. Pitt neve
married, and declared that he couldn'
afford it, and Canning and Disraeli wer
bolstered up by wealthy wives. Th
late Lord Derby and Sir Robert Peel ar
about the only instances of very wealth,
|, Prime Ministers, though Lord Mel
I bourne was very well off. Lord Palmers
ton only became SO late in life through
a rise in mineral property. His wife
; too, succeeded to her brother, Lore
Melbourne's estate.
In 1851, Joseph Medill, the veteran
editor of the Chicago Tribune, wrote t,
Horace Greeley from his then home a
: Cleveland, Ohio, inquiring whethe
: there might be a chance for him to Sc
! cure position upon the editorial stai
! Of the New York Tribune. The repl,
: was decided negative, coupled witt
that original and memorable advice
j "Go West, young mani Go West!'
This is the real origin of that now ia
, nous and historical expression, and
| naturally enough, Mr.. Medill preserve
the letter with especial care. He di,
) go West, built up the Chicago T1ibun.
and has acquired material wealth as wei
as journalistic honors.
r Miss KELLOGG is reported by an en-
2 emy to have declared that " newspape
men are like lemons-ft only. IN h