The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29
PERSONAL TOPICS.

GuCVNAh AV1 4OCs
FRIENDS yearly meeting of Phila-
delphia was organized in 1881. T
KRUPP, the great cannon maDufac-
turer, has succumbed to financial pres
sure.
EMINENT geologists have recently
figured up the age of the world 2OO.O .OOO,-
900 years.
THE King of Burmah imprisoned all
his ministers several hours for being
late.
AN eminent physician strongly recon-
mends carbonate of sodium in the treat
ment of whooping cough. t9t
THE London World has humor that
the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia has
fallen into disgrace because of an official
speculation.
A FRENCH actress recently nearly lost
her life by sleeping in an apartment
filled with the flowers that had been
thrown on the stage during the evening.
She was unconscious when found.
CHIN Lam Pm, the Chinese Embas-
sador to the United States, traces his
ancestry back to a remote age, and be-
longs to the second rank in the empire,
the next in order to the imperial family.
Miss MARY w. STEERS, of Goshen,
Va, deaf mute, but handsome and a
heiress, recently eloped with John w.
Michael, another deaf mute. They fell
in love with each other at deaf, dumb
and blind institution.
PROF. LEvIFEUv, Pole of Warsaw,
has Just discovered a method of taking
entire clay casts of the living body with
out the least injury. Hitherto, these
could be had of corpses only, and hence
the new discovery promises to be ex-
tremely advantageous to sculptors..
THE father-in-law of Ten Eyck, the
colored murderer who was hanged at
Pittsfeld, Mass, got up little side
show at Chester by exhibiting the body
to the curious at ten cents head. When
he had netted about fifteen dollars
the authorities put a stop to the exhibit
tion.
THE Arabians are highly imagina-
tive and poetical people; their power
of storytelling is very remarkable. Job
was an Arabian. They have never been
conquered by any foreign nation. The
sands of Arabia have been its security,
and the poverty of the people has Of
fered no temptation to invaders.
DEWITT CLINTON praised President
Jefferson, in letter, for g his unaffected
simplicity of manner, his plain but gen.
teel attire, his communicativeness and
apparent total exemption from art and
dissimulation, added to piercing eye,
striking physiognomy and majestic per
son."
GARIBALDI, old and cripple as he is,
urgently advocates another war with
Austria on the part of "Unredeemed
Italy"-the unredeemed consisting Of
the handful of brethren inhabiting
Trieste and Trent. At this rate France
and England hold some of the aforesaid
if the maps gives the ownershipof Malta
Nice, and Corsica correctly.
A GENTLEMAN gives the following ad
vice in relation to dogs: Ell" says he
"you enter lot where there is vicious
dog, be careful to remove your hat or caI
as the animal approaches you, hold the
same down by your side between your
self and the dog. When you have dont
this you have secured perfect immunity
from an attack. The dog will not bite
you if this advice is followed. Such il
my faith in this policy that l will pay al
doctor bills for COG bites and funera
expenses for deaths from hydrophobia.
BISMARCK walks out every morning a
Kissingen from ten to eleven, before hi
house, or he goes by path beyond th'
Saale to the part of the forest near tn,
restaurant bearing the sign of the Hous'
of Altenburg, and saunters beneath tn,
cool alleys of thewood. A black Danisl
dog accompanies him, and he is Away
followed at certain distance by polio
agents in plain clothes. A guard O
Bavarian gend' armes watches day ant
night before the closed door of tn
house, and line of telegraph connect
the apartment of the Chancellor witt
the station of Kissingen.
Two young velocipedists have jus
shown what can be done by bicycles b,
way of travel. They left Paris ant
travelled through part of the west, tn
middle and the south of France, Ital.
and Southern Switzerland. They tray
eled through Orleans, Tours, Poitiers
Angouleme, Marseilles, Toulon, Nice
Mention, Sau Reno, Genoa, Turin, Milan
the Simplon, Vevay, Berne, Lausanne
Geneva, Dijon, Troy and Provins, dis
tance of more than three thousan
miles, returning to Paris. They mad
an average of at atleastseventy-seven mile
for every day, making no distinction fo
, delays for rest or on account of weather
, The longest single days journey wa
Turin to Milan, ninety miles, which wa
+ made in nine and a half hours.