The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-30
PERSONAL TOPICS.

PERSONAL TOPICS.
AFTER his marriage with the Princes
Louisa Margaretha of Prussia Prince
Arthur will, it is said, take up his resi-
dence on an estate in the County Cork
HUGH ANGLER, of Atlanta, is the
latest accession to American singers
abroad. He is said to be a handsome
tenor with fine voice, and there are
not many of that class on the stage.
"HoLTUM is Dane, an extraordi
nary man, who has been exhibiting in
England marvellous feats of strength
He placidly throws about balls weighing
twenty-five, thirty-six and fifty-foul
pounds, and holds, with arms out
stretched on either side, horse pulling
at each side.
AS lately as 1872 Bishop Selwyn Of
New Zealand expressed his opinion that
the active exercise, strict diet, and reg,
ular habits demanded in. training for
boat racing had fitted him for the hard
physical work of his New Zealand
diocese. At the close of 1869, twelve
out of sixteen oarsmen who rowed in
the Oxford and Cambridge race of 1929
were living.
MILE. LABLANC, the Partisan actress,
wears 100000 worth of diamonds on
the stage. She is escorted to and from
the theater by two policemen, who keep
watch over the dressing-room during the
performance. She has, too, an enormous
bulldog, as ferocious as he looks.
PETER REID, ex-President of the Fat
Mems Association, was buried in New
York lately. The coffin was five feet
ten inches long, twenty-nine inches wide,
and eighteen inches deep. 1t weighed
one hundred and five pounds, and, the
weight of the corpse being nearly three
hundred pounds, fourteen men staggered
beneath the load as it was carried to the
hearse.
The papers record the death of Bant-
ing, who gave his name to a system of
diet for reducing corpulency. He was
once so fat that he could not tie his own
shoes, and was obliged to go backwards
down stairs to keep his balance; but by
stunning all farinaceous and saccharine
food he reduced himself to manageable
dimensions, and lived to the fat age of
eighty-five.
AN old cat belonging to farm house,
four miles southeast Of Topek, had four
kittens recently, and three of them died.
In running around the cat came upon a
rabbits nest, in which were several
little rabbits. The cat killed the old
rabbit and brought the little-ones to her
own nest, and is now nursing them and
will probably be able to put them
through.-Dodge City, Kansas, Times.
THEY are starting women's hotels all
over the country. They have one in st.
Louis, but it is not quite as extravagant
as Stewards. The Western hotel was
built and is owned by ladies, and fur
nishes excellent accommodations for
So. to 81 week. Who will start a
hotel exclusively for men, where they
can go and enjoy themselves without be-
ing stared out of countenance? We ap-
pear to be coming into the age of ex-
clusiveness and single blessedness.
WILLIAM BANGS, of Philadelphia,
makes living by collecting bad bills.
He wears very high hat with the
legend " Bad Bills Collected" painted
conspicuously on it, and +" the debtor
class are naturally not pleased to have
him seen hanging around their doors
very much. One indignant debtor made
complaint of him before the court of
law, but Billy was acquitted, the
Judge deciding that Billy could wear a
hat with town clock on it if he wished.
PATTI is going it in Italy. Nicolini,
considering that one of his comrades
was too assiduous towards the diva, set to
work to administer to him a chastise.
ment with his walking-cane. The other
defended himself, and the lady, the OBJ
ject of the quarrel, fearing that hel
champion was getting the worst in the
encounter, rushed between the combat
ants to separate them, and received, by
accident, on her hand blow from 6
stick, which broke her little finger. She
was carried fainting to her dressing
room.
COLONEL THOMAS W. KNOX, writing
from Naples to the New York Times
says: An American lady, Miss Blanche
Davenport, daughter of E. L. Daven
port, has been singing here in opera t.
the delight of the Nespolitans, who ar,
the most difficult and exciting opera
goers know of. She displays the dra
matte tendencies of, her family by he
very fine acting, and she has clear
sweet, and well-trained voice, which sh
knows how to manage with good effect
She has the advantage of beauty o
face and form in the Neapolitan type
evidently understands the use of fem
mime wearing apparel, has good taste il
dressing, and employs an intelligen
modiste. Her voice is entirely suficien
for the Bellini Theater- -somewha
larger than Wallack's and smaller tina
Niblo's-but whether it would be equa
to the Academy of Music or not 1 al
unable to say.
THERE is one fact very amusing, say
The Capital, to the cynical lookers-on {
the national capital. This is the GO
geous and costly raiment which the ma
and female Jenkinses make their favo
ties wear. 1t is all pure invention. W
knew a little modest bright-eyed gi
who read description of herself in
journal one morning shortly after b.
appearance in Washington, and was fir
amazed and then chagrined at the a
count, thinking the ready writer w
, making sport of her. She cried ov
: the matter for an hour, refusing to
comforted. The daughter of new
created official with but two gowns-b
pardon, dresses those village mad
: she could not comprehend the fact tn
' she wore real Worth the night befol
E "The vile wretch" cried a femini
fashionable correspondent, referril
= thereby to society woman who HI
!, sighted her, " this is my reward for tt
( turing my Imagination and tearing l
e my conscience in making dresses for b
a the miserable dowdy"
: FRED. WHITEsToCK was summon