The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
PERSONAL TOPICS.

SENATOR SHARON mas IOrIune OF
$40, ,000, 900 to look after, and has to stay
away from Congress and keep sober.
SETH GREEN has Matched out this
season at Rogers's Island, on the upper
Hudson, $500, 900 shad, and let them
loose in the Hudson. Seth will not rest
content until he has boundless contiguity
of shad.
LITTLE green apples, nesting amid
apple-blossoms and leaves, appeared re-
Gently on the dress of rich California
widow. We are sure this is the only
proper way to wear green apples. Those
worn on the inside are sure to create mis-
chief.
WISCONSIN has three-legged baby
natural result, we take it, of the re-
cent Indian scare in that State. In
these emergencies, particularly in view
of the limited powder and number of
the army, three legs are not too many.
Ar sham battle at Annapolis, few
days ago, marine had his hand badly
shattered with a bullet. Should think
those young men at the Annapolis
Academy would have known better
than to use unloaded guns on such
an occasion. ,IR - dtt
DID the prophet Isiah ever eatat rail
road station? 1t certainly looks so, for
how could he have described it so liter
ally if he had not? "And he shall
snatch on the right hand and be hungry
and he shall eat on the left hand, and
shall not be satisfied"
THE pistols with which Kullman and
Blind attempted to take Prince Bis.
marck's life are conspicuous objects on
his table, and the latter weapon acci.
dentally went off in 1876 at q reception.
The Prince took considerable trouble to
secure them. Kullman's he bought
from the Bavarian Treasury for one
thaler, twenty silbergrochen, and Blinds
| the Ministry Of Finance at Munich de.
,cided might be given up to the Prince
at the market price. The Emperor ii
accommodating similar historic museum
Mrs. SARAH HELEN WHITMAN, who
was engaged to marry Edgar Allan Poe
in 1S48, and has been his warm defen
der ever since, died of heart disease al
Providence recently at the age oi
seventy five years. She was poet Of
gentle measures, and writer of cleal
and effective prose. Her devotion te
the memory Of Poe was extraordinary
and the most eloquent tribute paid t.
the finer qualities of that strange being
OF LATE wears Mrs. Whitman has hac
much comfort in the phenomena O.
spiritualism. She was refined anG
delicate lady, who will be missed il
Providence society.-Springfeld Repabh
can. ;tie5I-, .lat..f ~;
DURING Booths engagement here
says the Pittsburg Leader, an indiyidua
applied at the box-office for a reserved
seat. and after stating what was desired
said: "lwonder if Mr.. Gotthold woult
allow the party this seat for to sit il
the uppes box w "That's not a yer,
good place to see the play" said tn,
genial Follwood. Well, that's jus
what Iwant," returned the man. "Yol
see the seat is for our preacher, and h,
dom want anybody to see him." I'll
that case" said Foilwood, "we'd bette
put him up in the other box. You
Sunday-school superintendent is ther,
| uOW, anu uC IL udfO COuSCuls1l COu pduy.
The man bought the ticket.
The Vanceburg (Ky.) Courier say
there is rich old bachelor, by the name
of Shaw, who lives on a tve-hundred
acre farm in Lewis County, dresses lik,
a monk of the thirteenth century, ant
devotes his whole time, talent anc
fortune to flowers and tropical fruits
His farm is surrounded by high fence
without gstsss or or bars for ingress or egress
/ His house is completely covered witt
rare vines; he has fg-trees twenty-fy,
years old and flowers by the acre. III
never derives cent from his outlay o
money and labor, but delights in mul
tiplying curious growths and combinin,
nature and art in wonderful forms. H
calls his large colony of bees his chill
dren, and the birds that feed from hi
{ table his little angels. The birds fol
low him through the walks and take th
berries from his hand"