The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-10-24
Personal TOPICS.

DEATH is the penalty in China for the
authors of all anonymous accusations of
crime, though the charge be true.
NINE. ANToINETTE STERLING is the
present pet of the London public, and
no singer in England draws SO well.
"Aw, Wooster Moosical Convention, !"
said the languid swell; aw-yaas-
vewy moosical bird is the wooster H-
Boston Transcript.
Mr.. WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT says
| that the railroads now existing in the
United States, if crowded to their full
est capacity, could do four times the
business of the country"
THEODORE TILToN, who has Just re-
turned from Europe, left his. daughters
Alice and Florence to finish their studies
in Germany, the one being devoted to
painting and the other to music.
FATHER BRoPHY, of Boone, Iowa,
who is over one hundred years old, re-
Gently felt called upon to chastise a
neighbor with whom he had an alterca-
tion, and trounced his opponent very
soundly.
Mrs. MACKAY, wife of the bonanza
king, has sapphire which was once the
property of Russian prince, and which
cost her $l50,000 1t is an inch in di-
ameter. Her pearl necklace cost $780,
200, and her coral set $4,000.
THE Grand Duke Nicholas Constan-
tinOvich, the Cars nephew, has been
dismissed from the army, and the Eighty
fourtb rooi,oanf Of ;nfopfrx of ,.,L;cL
he was the honored chief, has been for
hidden to bear his name. = sax.
A LONDON firm advertised recently
for collector, work hard and wages
low, and received over one thousand
eight hundred replies, nearly all from
men of apparently good education and
character, many of them from gen.
tlemen.
AT the siege of Ostend a soldier was
holding up loaf of breadth boasting
manner, when shot took off the upper
most half, leaving the other in his hand,
on which he coolly said " the shot had
divided fairly, and left him the better
half"
Some negro boys organized mock
court in Baldwin, Georgia, condemned a
playfellow to death, and hanged him
from beam. They supposed he would
tell them when to let him down, but he
only kicked, and they took that for
sport. He was choked to death.
AN English officer, in sally from
Ostend, had one of his arms shot off
with a cannon ball, which taking up
with him, he carried into the town to
the surgeon, to whom he said, Behold
the arm, which but at dinner did help
its fellow"
AN American soldier during the siege
of Quebec. being posted as sentinel in
place of some danger, requested his
officer to change his situation. Being
asked the reason, he replied: "He knew
not how it was, but he did not feel him
self bold enough to stay there"
The latest plaything for French chill
dreh is mechanical Newfoundland dog
destined for the saving of dolls that fal,
in the water. He takes them in his
mouth and paddles across tank or very
considerable pond, keeping his head and
his precious freight above water until
he has reached shore, his ample tail be-
ing used as rudder.
Mr.. BEECHER is thought to have
aimed the following at Theodore Tilton
on Sunday night: There be men who
are great geniuses, who have large facul-
ties of thought and expression, who are
orators, accomplished speakers. Then
there comes small fry of sputtering
speakers who have the gestures, the
hair, the bad grammar, running about
in imitation"
BARON HUGO, one of the musicians
in Gilmore's band, was recognized in
Berlin by an elderly couple of rank as
their son, who had been compelled to
leave Germany because of debts he had
contracted, and which his father re-
fused to pay for him. The recognition
is said to have been followed by an
affecting scene, in which the prodigal,
his father. mother and sister took part.
THE man who, but for revolution,
would now be Tycoon of Japan, is a
student in Paris, living quietly as M.
Tokugawa. He is small, 1.-THE and well
dressed. His income is 5000, 900 year,
of which he spends little on himself,
\ duU SeuuS Ine TeIudluucT VI Ills lOllOW-
ers who were ruined by the revolution.
He will learn all he can at the Sorbonne,
and will then 60 to London to continue
his studies.
A PULASKI thief named Miller tried
last week to escape from Jail through a
stovepipe hole. He stuck. We have
always held that the stovepipe is great
moral educator.-New York Commercial
Advertiser. And we have always con.
tended that the stovepipe was great foe
to mans liberty; but such method Of
escape no doubt sooted Miller.-Norris
toDn Herald.
In trying to be bitter, Mr.. Moens, o.
Boston, was bitten. He met Andrew
Bressart, who carried bag and seemed
to be crazy. Bressant talked senselessly
and showed that the bag contained goll
coin-$5, 900 he said. This money b,
wanted to leave with Moens for saf,
keeping, but demanded 5000 in pape
money as security. Moens, ready tt
take advantage of the supposed maniac
gave the 5000 and took the bag, whicl
he afterward found to contain very littl
coin and great deal of lead.