The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-26
PERSONAL TOPICS.

Idululn8 nOC leave an estate worm MIL
lions, but his widow is asking an al
lowance of fifty dollars a month from
Congress.
SoJoURNER TRUTH, who is at least
one hundred years old, and perhaps
ten or twenty years older, says the date
of the second advent of the Lord is near
at hand, and "God has given her the
foresight to foretell it.
Pope LEO XIII sits writing at his
desk four hours daily, and often works
late into the night, sometimes even
studying until dawn, when he goes to
bed or not, according to the place of
business He keeps himself continually
busy in the Vatican.
HORACE W. TABOR is lucky man.
In 1854 he was with a stone-cutter in
Augusta. In 1859 he went to Colorado
and engaged in mining. He is now
worth So, 200, 900, and has been. elected
Lieutenant-Governor of the State.
THE Captain of the Tenasserim, a
British ship, reported on his arrival at
Liverpool from India, that during the
voyage negro steward, named Sher-
rington, seized an ak, and with it in
stantly killed the chief officer and an
apprentice. The murderer then leaped
overheard and was devoured by sharks
in the presence of the Mortified crew.
A QUEER prophet of new dispensa-
tion has appeared in Rye, England. He
is about thirty years old, and dresses
himself in sheep-skin, trimmed with red
flannel. He bears a large blackboard,
inscribed, Il am the Prophet Elias"
and journeys from town to town with a
view of saving the human race.
ATHLETIC games at our institutions
of learning which should have tended to
strengthen and develop the frame have
been carried to such an excess as TO have
broken down many strong constitu-
tions. The baseball and rowing clubs
of our schools and colleges have under
mined the health of more students than
hard study.
PRINCE BISMARCK, in addition to his
other peculiarities. is quite superstitious.
He will not sit down at dinner in party
of thirteen; he will not negotiate on the
anniversary of such disasters as the bat
tie of jena; he will conclude no treaty
on a Friday; and his whole life is
solemnized by the fact that he foresees
the year of his own death.
| MADAME MoDJEsKA is one of the
cheeeriest and wittiest of women, but
does not like joke at the wrong time.
In Buffalo she had the curtain rung
down, and would not proceed with the
play until the ushers had elected fell
low who interrupted the potion scene in
Romeo and Juliet" by initiating the
drawing of cork.
The Bayard family of Delaware has
a remarkable record of political service.
The present Senator entered the Senate
in 1860. His father was his immediate
predecessor, and occupied the same seat
for eight years. His grandfather oc.
cupled it for thirteen years, and an
uncle was also for many years member
of the same body. They were all good
lawyers.
AT Wednesday,, in England, few
!, days ago, a girl named Julia Burns put
metallic sleeve link in her mouth fol
J the purpose of hiding it from her sister
who was searching for it. She swallowed
!, the Wink, which was the size of five
cent piece, and fell down upon the floor
She turned black in the face, and
, although an emetic of salt and waite
, was at once administered, she died il
about fifteen minutes.
IT was rumored that Burbank, of tn
New Orleans Picayune, was to write
: book on yellow fever, entitled "Jacl
and l." Referring to this, he says:
have no intentions Of writing book o
any sort, much less on the subject o
yellow fever. Of that I have enough
Its record is written in this city on fou
: thousand new graves, on vacant chairs
! in broken family circles, on sable gal
ments and sorrowful faces. There j
no fun in it."
+ ONE of the Southern heroines brough
to light by the yellow fever plague
i Grandma Wilson, an old negress @
r New Orleans. Ever since the yello'
fever epidemic of 1887 she has been o
hand to nurse the sick whenever th
plague has broken out in that city, an
also at Norfolk, Savannah, Shreveport
and elsewhere. As soon as her ph
= lanthropic work is ended she refuse
e gifts and returns to her occupation (
t selling peanuts in the streets of Ne
: Orleans.
~ TOWARD the end of her reign the En-
press Catherine of Russia found th
civil list of her son Paul much in deb
&c Several bottles of brandy were charge
u as having been used by him, althoug
he never tasted brandy. The charg,
e g were traced up to the day of his brit
- >, There were some slight excavations {
e e his legs when he was born. The nur
= ! sent for a glass of brandy to make
~ lotion for them. From that time be
= u tie of brandy had been sent or charge
d to him every day.
% THE phlegmatic Persian Shah, wi
d refused to 60 to the Derby because
E was already known to him that Of
If horse was faster than another horse, W
+ good deal like the distinguished Pasl
a. whom Lamartine desired to be presente
v, to when he was travelling in the Eas
t. "What does this man doY" said t
Is Pasha to the French Consul. "I
s. makes books" "Then," said the Pash
ne " his books are either about the custor
I'd tariff, which I know all about alread
IN or else they are not about the custor
IN tariff, and so don't concern me.
u either case there is no need of my seei
At him. Let him go in peace"
i'd JUDGE WENDELL went fishing ne
of Truckee, Cal. The stream was alme
u dry, and he could walk over its rocl
ce bed between the pools. He sat down
he a bowlder and dropped his line into
no pool. Suddenly he heard a tremendo
re roar. Looking up stream he saw v.
er- body of water, eight feet high, rushi
so down upon him. A dam had brok
nd away. He ran as fast as he could, J
Dr. not very swiftly, being fat and sho
ng legged. The water quickly overto
ne him and carried him nearly a quar-
er- of mile, finally throwing him on t
ire bank so nearly drowned that he v
thought to be dead.
represent ruler of the Afghans, Sh,
I Ali, has never been friend at heart
q' the English. His father fought agail
Irv them in '99 and '42, and Ali has e,
-ho regarded them with disfavor. He
re-. a man of unusual intelligence, althou
not knowinu how to rood or vvrito