The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-06-20
PERSONAL TOPICS.

zen. SHERMANS son ln0maS, VINO
has abandoned the law to enter the
order of Jesuits, will soon depart for
Rochampton, England, to take a two
years course of preparatory study.
Ex-Governor HoRATIo SEYMOUR
has been in correspondence with the
War Department in relation to the
question of adopting cheese as ration
in our army. A Government Agent
will be appointed to investigate the
matter.
Mr.. SoHLIEMANN is said to be build
ing himself house in Athens. He has
given his little daughter the ancient
name of Andromache, and the two
maid-servants employed in the family
enjoy the Homeric titles of Penelope
and Briseis.
The Dean of Chichester made good
point on the Darwinians in sermon at
Oxford the other day. eye men of
SCIENCE" said he, "ye men of science,
leave me my ancestors in Paradise, and
/ do not grudge you yours in the Zoologi-
cal Gardens"
In the course of his investigations Mr..
Christian K. Ross has examined four
hundred and ninety-seven boys, sup
posed to be the missing Charlie. All of
these save three, who had been stolen,
were friendless scraps of humanity, and
nearly all have been provided with good
homes.
The Emperor of Germany's daughter,
the Grand Duchess of Baden, who was
with him when he was shot at, tainted.
Within twenty minutes after his return
to the palace, the Emperor, on the other
hand, was at work on documents relating
to the Eastern question, preparatory to
giving audience to Herr Won Bulow.
THE famous French writer, Edmond
About, is responsible for the following
At the age of twenty-five an American
has tried dozen ways of life, made four
fortunes, bankruptcy and two cam
paigns, pleaded a cause, preached re-
hgion, killed six men with a revolver,
enfranchised negress and conquered
an island.
A GEORGIA farmer smeared his hogs
with tar to rid them of feas, and turned
then loose in the woods. At night they
did not return to the pen as usual, and
in the morning he. found then stuck
together, the tar making them adhere
in mass. They might have got home,
nevertheless, by concert of action, but
it isn't in hog to harmonic.
Miss GRUNDY, of the Graphic, says:
Mrs. Fremont has had what rarely falls
to the lot of any one-a beautiful youth,
followed by not less middle age. Her
hair is now as white as snow and very
abundant, and her fresh complexion
and animated play of features combine
to make her one of the most distin.
guished looking woman ever seen.
Mr.. AND Mrs. TYLER separated in
Hope, Mich, agreeing that each should
be entirely free from interference by
the other. Mrs. Tyler became house
keeper for bachelor, and Tyler, instead
of sticking to the compact, went to hel
new home with party of friends and
tarred and feathered her. A few days
later Tyler was killed, presumably at his
wife's instigation.
THE wife of a Hartford clergyman
thought her pretty servant girl was be
coming too intimate with the owner oi
the tenement where they lived, wild
over, who occupied rooms in the same
building, and finally, in fit of indigna
ton, said: "Pack up your things anc
leave my house." The girl left, but re
turned in the afternoon, and entering
said to her late mistress: az am Mrs
-; now pack up your things anc
leave my house." The servant girl haC
married the landlord, and the order wa
enforced.
AN old soldier at Omaha prints thi
recollection of Colonel Bob Ingersol
in action: "Colonel Ingersoll Tough
manfully until overpowered and com
PEELED to surrender, but not until one o
Forests men had him covered with
gun and had drawn a bead on him. In
| gersoll sang out: Hold on there
What do you want to shoot me for?
have been recognizing your old Con
federacy for the last two minutesp Whel
Ingersoll was exchanged his horse wa
returned to him by the rebel General
with the remark that he was the ma
that saved his life with joke.
Rev. T. G. JEROME, of the Congrega
ton Church at Patchogue, R. l., re
Gently preached and published sermo
in which he strongly condemned th
custom of exposing the face of the dea
at funerals, and declared that he coul
not in conscience be made party to
by giving the usual invitation to th
congregation. He also denounced fl
neral displays and expensiveness, an
urged reform in the direction of sin
plicity, privacy and delicacy. He b.
lieves the fashionable usages at funera
dissipate serious impressions, burden tt
living, dishonor the dead, and brin
profit only to the undertaken.