The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-28
PERSONAL TOPICS.

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THREE Hindoos, who recently killed
a young man at Mainpuri as sacrifice
to the Goddess Kali, have been arrested
and stand very good chance of being
hanged.
THEoPHILE GAUTIER, who was a
great traveller, said that to see countries
to advantage you ought to see them in
their extreme season-Africa in summer
and Russian winter.
IT has been proposed to the Khedive
of Egypt to convert into paper the cloth
of the mummies of which it is calcu-
lated 100000 must be deposited in
the pits of Egypt.
KING HUMBERT is thirty-fve. The
Socialist who tried to kill the King used
the same expression as Moncasi did
when he, few weeks ago, attempted
the life of Alphonso-"I want to kill a
king"
The Crown Prince of Sweden may be
described as long, dangling boy, with
legs like pair of compasses in trowsers |;
he is very young and very tall, wears
eye glasses, and looks as shy as school
boy at his first grown-up" party.
GERMAN papers say that the socialistic
editors and politicians, sentenced to i'm
prisonment, have been seen, during
their conveyance to their places of con-
| 6nement, chained and. handcuffed to
thieves and, other criminals of the most
abandoned type.
THE Berlin police have lately found
that at least one-tenth of the population
of that city live in cellars. The NOR
tality among them is great. Half of
the houses of the city are excessively
crowded.
JOHN MARSH, of Baltimore, took an
ounce of laudanum to rid himself of the
miseries of the married state. His wife
had him pumped back to consciousness,
and then sent to Jail as common drunk
ard. A nice mess John Marsh seems to
have made of it.
The Michigan Supreme Court has de-
cided that a married woman who has
lent money to firm of which her hus-
band is member is entitled to recover
against the firm even though the in
debtedness was contracted by her hus-
band acting in the firm name and
without the knowledge of his partners.
The late William Dixon, of Vicks-
burg, Miss, was philosopher. The day
before he was hanged he caught three
mice, erected miniature scafold in his
cell, and worked them of. The result
of the experiment satisfied him that
death by hanging was painless, and next
day he walked to the scafold like one
sustained by an unfaltering trust.
BILLIARD.PLAYING husband (who
claims that important lodge meetings
keep him out so late at night)-" Good.
ness gracious, Addie, what are you do.
ing in this billiard saloon% Neglected
wife-"Oh, [ thought l would like to
enjoy some of your society; and as the
children don't often see you, / brought
them along with me. Keep right Oh
with your lodge business:' have go
my sewing and 1 can wait until you arr
4 ready to go homen She didn't have tt
wait long.
| A PITIFUL incident OF the late grea
| fires in the Iowa prairies was the deatl
of Fred. Aiken, boy, in Grant Town
ship. He stayed in hay field trying
to save stack until it was too late to es
cape the fire by running. He wet :
horse-blanket in creek, wrapped him
self in it, and took the desperate chanc,
of a dash through the flames. The eff
fort proved fruitless. The fire licked OF
} the blanket as though it had been paper
and burned the boy so badly that h,
died within few hours.
SOME of the poor white families of tn
far West become exceedingly toughenet
by their lifelong exposures and hard
ships. A lady travelling among then
took shelter in a hut during rain
storm, and one of the barefooted daugh
ters of the family coming in who ha,
been hunting for the COWS, stood on th
hearth to dry her clothes, to whom he
mother said, "Sal, there's a live Goa
under your foot" The girl, who's
soles were as hard as horn, merel
turned her head and drawled out
" Which foot, nanny ?'e- e--------
, THE last survivor of Napoleon's ez
pedition to Egypt has just died at tn
/ Invalides. This veteran, Darcy b
| name, who had almost attained his hur
.dredth year, was fond of relating how b
$ was on duty in Egypt on the day tn
!. murderer of Kleber was executed
4 Kleber was assassinated at Cairo in June
e 1900, by fanatic named Soleymar
E who, after having been condemned t
0 death, hadhis right hand burned off an
. was then impaled. Tortured by thirs
: he called for something to drink, an
Darcy, touched with compassion, CAV
him a glass of water. Darcy had bee
Y for more than half a century at the Ii
q valides, which now contains very fe
q old soldiers.