The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-11-21
PERSONAL TOPICS.

PERSONAL TOPICS.
AN English cook wastes more fuel In
one dav than a French one does in a
month. .s
EVANGELIST MOODY, is announced
to preach in the Baltimore City Jail
every Sunday morning during the
winter.
Mrs. CoRsoN is eclipsed by process
for cooking dinners for one thousand
five hundred persons with FIVE cents
worth of fuel. az eF9sEse ~
HUME, the Spiritualist, who has been
sojourning in the South of. France, for
| the benefit of his health, has recovered,
and is now in Paris.
NJ. GUsTAvE DoRE, it is reported, is
about to visit this country, especially
the Rocky Mountains, Niagara, the
Yosemite Valley and the Mammoth
Cave. ,.- ......--.
PFTER HAMILTON MYERS, success
full writer for the literary press, died re-
Gently at Auburn, N. Y. His serials
have appeared in, tine leading literary
weeklies. ifs IL I'd
UNDER the direction of the spirits of
his two dead wives, Mr.. Wheaton has
erected fag-pole on Mount Washing
ton, and placed upon it banner with
a strange device, costing sixty dollars.
Miss CELESTE WINANs, daughter of
the late Thomas Winans, of Baltimore,
is said to be the richest heiress in Amer
lea, very handsome, and only twenty.
The fortune she inherited from her
father is said to be $40, 100000. 9; :"
THE late Judge Keogh is said to have
been such good mimic that he could
initiate the styles of the different
speakers in Parliament SO exactly that
it was only necessary to shut your eyes
to believe you were listening to an
actual debate. o-, --- .--,.~l.s
PROFESSOR" JAMES BARBOUR at
tempted to walk for fifty hours on the
head of barrel, at Norwich, recently,
but after walking day and night the
head of the barrel gave out, and bets
were declared g of" The Professor re-
marked when the head caved in, !" &c
NEST pas bung." 4,
PRINCESS HELEN DEMIDoFF has es-.
tablished in Florence for the winter, at
her own expense an economical
kitchen" for issuing to the poor as much
soup as they can consume in a day at the
trifing charge of four cents to every ap-
plicant. Such prices would be ruinous
to the lazzaroni of Naples. ~ ~ -, ~
"CoAL OH JOHNNY" has an imitator
in ,Pittsburg. Eleven months. ago a
fast young man had large. fortune left
him, but now the spendthrift is almost
as many thousands in debt as he has
fingers and toes. When a boy blacked
his boots he would invariably give the
urchin five dollar bill, and there
was a champagne supper every evening.
Down at Bolton, Ga, a woman
twenty-five years old bought from his
mother young man of twenty, for the
purpose of making him her husband.
The trade was made on Sunday, the q,tid
pro quo being muslin dress. The young
man was delivered to his purchaser, who
walked three miles through the rain to
receive him on the next Tuesday.
LADY ANNE BLUNT, the grand
daughter of Lord Byron, is about to pub
lish volume on a Winter Residence
Among the Bedouin Arabs" She spent
last winter with her husband among the
Arabs of the Syrian desert, and they
were admitted by their host to the priv
| ileges not only of hospitality, but of
sworn brotherhood, honored as friends,
and protected by royal escort,
d. G. G..CRoLY has retired from the New
York Graphic. He says heis thoroughly
tired out and wants rest. He has been
a newspaper man for twenty-four years
and never had more than weeks vaca-
tion in a year. He is, next to Dana, the
oldest editor on the New York press,
and during his term has seen the editorial
staff of every paper in the city changed,
from managing editor to the poorest re-
reporter.
TALMAGE is still slashing away at
the wickedness of New York. There is
little doubt that he has tackled an in
terminable subject. Last Sunday he
seemed to get little mixed in his
metaphors. He said (Tribune) report
"With the hammer of Gods truth |
shall fash light upon the shining
seriously, wouldn't dark lantern OF
truth, or an electric candle, or even a
kerosene lamp, flash light somewhat bet
ter than hammer, especially if you
wanted to light UP hinge2-Detroi
Free Press .. tf -
JOHN MCINTYRE was colored Metho
dist preacher, in Somerset County, Md.
: who aspired to be a regular pastor. Hi
power as an expounder was great, ant
) he was constant revival worker. Th,
| presiding elder was expected as visito
by Mcintyre, who, no doubt believed
, that good fare might effect his chance
! of promotion. His larder was bare, ant
5 in the emergency he stole hog from
neighbor's pen, killed it, and mad
i ready to feed some of it to the presidin,
!. elder. However, the theft was discov
e cred, and an officer searched the house
The pork was found in bed, in spite 0
/ McIntyre's misleading assertion that
9 was sick child. He has gone to Stat
!, Prison. sSE 81.
GRAVE robbing seems to travel West
ward along with empire, ciyilizatio
and emigrants. Great Britain. and tn
Atlantic seaboard States long ago passe
through days (or nights) of grave rot
4 bing, which led to riots. Such time
>. have passed away in the East. Now
= however, scarcely a week goes by tha
= news does not come from the West 9
/. some fresh outrage Of that kind. 1
j Mondays Ledger there were three item
y y of news about grave robbing, two tel
II II ing of the discovery of bodies dragge
u ~ from their graves, and one of the col
% viction of thief arrested in Cleveland
e Ohio, for a similar offense. In Englan
y and in some of the Eastern States tn