The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-14
PERSONAL TOPICS.

AN agent of Edison has patented his
electric light in London.
Mr.. SELIGMAN, the banker, is re-
ported to have given as wedding pres
ents to his daughters-in-law within the
last year $4,000.
HoYLE was seventy years old when he
wrote his Treatise on Whist. He in
dulged in the game until he was ninety
seven.
AMONG the inmates of the Home for
the Aged Men, Boston, is retired ship
master, who has crossed the Atlantic
ninety-six times, and a man who ran as
candidate for Congress against John
Quincy Adams.
A WORKMAN in Troy mill was
guiding a red-hot rod of iron between
tive rollers. He stumbled forward, and
the rod entered his mouth, passed out
through his cheek, and coiled round and
round his body. He was frightfully
burned, yet will recover.
AUSTIN EMMETT, of Norwolk, Conn,
has invented method of propelling
canal-boats by "chain propellers," :"
which do not disturb the water, and the
cost of which, it is claimed, will be but
fifteen cents per mile, against twenty
five cents by horses.
GENERAL THOMAS EWING has been
visiting Richmond and foretelling for
her great future as commercial city.
He declares it to be in a position to de-
mand trade, and destined not only to be
the chief southern city, but one of the
greatest on this continent.
A FARMER at Ulverstone, England,
gave lift home from the market to a
neighbor and her three children. For
this kindly act he was arrested, ON the
ground that he had violated the law,
which licensed his cart to carry only
merchandise, and a reluctant Judge was
compelled to fine him heavily.
THE Rev. w T. Ellis preached SER
mon in the West Woodstock (Conn. J
Congregational Church on some particu-
lar sins of his people. One of the alleged
sinners, member of the church, con-
fronted the pastor as he went out of the
house, and crushed his hat down over
his eyes. Then followed a rough-and-
tumble fight.
The number of the Russian branch of
the Slav race, as ascertained by German
investigators last year, is 5S, ,049, 1896 in
the Cars empire; his nou-Slav subjects
foot up II, 421, ,0S7J making grand total
of 71,470, ,4S2. Among the uon-Slav
portion in Poland only the Slav Ian
guage is allowed to be spoken in
churches, schools, theaters, etc.
THEODORE THOMAS and Mr.. Jacob.
sohn have already signalized their re-
moval to Cincinnati by discovering q
musical prodigy in the person of q
twelve-year-old boy, who has, till now
hardly had bread enough to eat The
the two musicians, on hearing him play
the violin, agreed that he might become
great artist.
THE King of Holland, in justification
of his marriage, says: Time will equal
ize us. To-day, when 1 am sixty ans
my betrothed twenty, l am, of course
three times as old as she is; in twenty
years, however, when we shall be re
spectively eighty and forty, shall only
be twice as old, and, if we live long
enough, we shall one day be very gooc
match"
THE champion long-nosed man reside
at Sacramento. Its owner was at break
fast yesterday, when a friend seated a
the opposite side of the table, knowing
him to be a little near-sighted, re
marked: There's a fly on the end o
your nose." "Is there?" responded tn
owner of the horn of plenty. didn'
know it. Just please scare him off
you're nearer to him than 1 amp
WHILE he is Governor-General of tn
domain of Canada the Marquis of Lorn
will outrank his wife--a privilege he i
denied at home. In the procession a
the opening of Albert Hall, in London
the Prince and Princess of Wales. tn
Duke of Edinburg and the Princes
Louise came next after the Queer
while the Marquis of Lorne came ia
behind, almost lost in crowd of roya
attendants.
JOHN BRIGHT has great admiratio
for Mr.. Gladstone. He recently said t
lady who had been abusing that state
man: Permit me, madam, to advis
you to take your children, ON the frs
opportunity, where they can see Nj
Gladstone. When they are in his pre-
ence say to them that they are standin
before one of the greatest Englishme
that ever lived, and who has done h
country the greatest service it has eve
permitted an Englishman to do, by pr,
serving it from a wicked and wanto
war"
SHERE ALI, the Emir of Cabul,
represented in the pictorials as goot
looking man under forty. He is reall
sixty-fve, with long gray beard, whit
eyebrows, large hooked nose, an
broad shoulders. His face is of th
, Jewish type. He is short in statur
,, and in addition to his Astrakhan h;
wears green ilk waistcoat and brow
cloak embroidered with gold. III
, trowsers are white, and his boots I
patent leather.