The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-09-05
PERSONAL TOPICS.

AN occasional noIluay saves doctors
bills.
Rev. JOSEPH Cooks education cost
81, 900.
BRIGHT sunshine on white walls tends
to ophthalmia.
CHINESE officials are dismissed for
eating opium.
BOLOGNA SAUSAGE killed Washing
ton baby by indigestion.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD clutches his
handkerchief when he speaks.
SHAKESPEARE uses "and thereby
hangs tale" in four of his plays.
ONE of the most daring Turkish Off
GERS in the late war was woman.
SHOOTING women thirty feet out of
cannon is one of the amusements of
Paris.
In Jersey any citizen has the right to
shoot any unregistered dog running at
large.
THE Sultan encourages tailors by
buying three hundred and ninety-five
suits a year.
EIGHT prizes offered by the Agricul
tural Society of Paris were won by
Americans.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever was
caused at Bristol, England, by contain
mated milk.
A GERMAN physician claims to have
traced the death of two infants to the
sun shining on oilcloth tops to baby
coaches.
The Rev. S. F. Barber, curate of
Lower Milton, Conn.,, has been dismissed
because the vicar objects to the color of
the trousers he wore while officiating on
several occasions.
THE Spanish government has Just Sc
cured the extradition from France of
mysterious lady of high rank, said to
have engaged with several illustrious
accomplices i'll. the theft of 100000.
THE ex Empress Eugene, who has
been of late in Vienna, proposes buying
large estate in Austria, and making
that country her residence. The waters
of Ems lately cured her of a cough.
A SEASIDE belle left her bathing-shoes
hanging out of her hotel window to dry,
and the next day the local paper an
nounced "that such hotel had put up
new awnings, of an unique design"
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wouldn't
permit the use of the word commence"
If an employee inquired when the paper
would commence TO raise his salary
he was obliged to "begin" way down
in the folding-room.
THE banks of Chill have suspended
specie payments, and the congress of the
country has given them until one yea1
from August l in which to resume
The amount of billetes" rendered in.
convertible is about $14, 100000.
VICE CHANCELLOR MALINs has de
cided in London that mans promise
made before marriage, 10 educate his
children in his wife's religion, is moi
binding, and can not be enforced by
law.
| ANEW rope-making material has beer
found in the fibrous leaves of a New
Zealand aloe. The long, tough threads
are said to exceed iron wire of the same
thickness in tenacity, and they are moi
affected by immersion in salt water.
One of the most daring feats evel
achieved by swimmer was performed
at Tonbridge, England, by Prof. Henry
Hoare, who succeeded in swimming {
distance of two miles with his hands
fastened together with handkerchiefs
so that no effort could possibly extricatt
them; his feet were chained together
and his-eyes blindfolded.
The best of our American colleges
bear no comparison in the strength O.
sites. The University of Leipsic, fol
instance, this year has corps of on,
hundred and twenty-three professors
forty-six tutors and fifty-eight assist
ants. This university has two Thousand
eight hundred students.
WHEN you pay a note don't destro,
| it. A Michigan man claimed that h
did that, and the creditor said he de
stroyed it without paying it. TIL
matter was carried into the courts an,
an appeal taken to the Supreme Cour
of the State, which had just decided tina
the burden of proof was on the debtor
; -Keokak Constitution.
The publisher of an esteemed Col
temporary on Mount Washington print
the names of young men at IKE hotel
: who work off on hand-press the grea
est number of copies of his paper in
given time. Muscular summer boarder
covetous of fame, flock to the office, an
:. thus the publisher saves the cost of
. steam engine or mule.
' AT a Paris matrimonial agency
a "We have just the thing you want-a
8 orphan of twenty next grass" "Prettyi
n "N-no, not exactly" Worth
n "Half million francs, in government
t Then she is consumptive." Consum
|. tive, Ell? Well, that's always som
: thing. Perhaps, however, you are on
e exciting my hopes to" "Sir, tt
J. house always guarantees its goods to |
:, as represented"
o A CONGRESS of fathers of families
II to be held in Brussels for the purpo
t of petitioning the King of the Belgian
d for the pardon of the fifteen thousar
n deserters from the Belgian army wi
have fed to other countries. They wi!
IS their sons again with them. The pre-
d of the country is opposed to their desir
is saying that the population of the count
e is now too great, and that work is dit
% cult to procure. If fifteen thousal
t. men were added to those seeking it, Il
e pinch would be still more severe.
n A Higher Bid.
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