The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-08
PERSONAL TOPICS.

exceedingly pale, but his friends and
admirers deny that he is decaying phys
ically or mentally.
BISMARCK found Disraeli the only
man he had met for some time really
worth talking to. 1t is painful to reflect
that this was after the visit of the hya-
cinthian Stoughton to Berlin.
In France architects and contractors
are legally held responsible for period
of ten years after the completion of a
structure for total or partial loss occa-
stoned by defective plans or work.
IT is stated that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company makes great saving
of fuel by the simple device of allowing
the fremen half of the coal saved out of
a specified amount for running the
trains.
DOUGLASS E. JERRoLD, JR., son of
the famous English writer, is i'll at
iGreenyille, Miss, and his wife and three
children are in so destitute circum-
stances that he has appealed to the
public for help.
The Italian extremists clamoring for
the annexation of Trieste and Trent are
certain that they have the secret sane
ton of Prince Bismarck, and that he, in
his turn, intends to clamor for the an
nexation of all the Austrian Germans to
the empire of William 1.
M. SALMON, French Judge at Aux
ere, was killed last month by the sting
of wasp. Inflammation at once set in.
The doctor succeeded in reducing the
swelling, but the venom poisoned the
Judges blood, and he died within twen-
ty-four hours after the sting.
COUNT RUMFoRD, by boring cannon
within water, so heated it by friction
that the water was made to boil, while
he actually boiled a piece of beef in it.
The temperature of nine quarts was
raised from 60o to 170o in an hour, while
in two hours and ahalf the water boiled.
SIR THOMAS EcHLIN, the seventh
baronet Of the name in Ireland, is serv-
ing as a common policeman in the
Royal Irish constabulary in Dublin.
The founder of the family went over
from England as Protestant bishop in
the time of James l, and his grandson
became the first baronet in 1721.
The Duke of Portland is tall, slender
and pale, and he likes cattle. He fat
tens his deer on Spanish chestnuts, but
he never fires shot. He farms $4,000
acres, and yearly raises 10000 trout. He
lives almost alone, stunning friends
more than he shuns workingmen. He
is regarded as an eccentric and misan-
thrope.
DEMoCRITUs taught that the milky
way was caused by innumerable stars.
Nicetas and others taught the diurnal
motion, while Pythagoras, who had been
in India, taught the two-fold motions
and the modern system of the world.
He ascribed eclipses to shadows and ar
ranged the planets as in the Copernican
system. The latter system of Ptolemy
was his attempted improvement.
A YOUNG and comely white girl of
sixteen was publicly whipped at Eliza
beth City, Va, by big negro constable,
for stealing a pair of shoes. A crowd
of loafers assembled to see the young
girl stripped to the waist and the twen-
ty-fve stripes laid on. The law author
izing such punishment went into effect
only the 1st of July, and will be re-
pealed at the next session of the Legis-
lature.
AMONG the British Indian troops now
quartered at Malta, there are (the Je,o-
ish World says) some black Jews, MEM
bers of the community of the B'nai
Israel, existing on the coast of Malabar.
They claim to be descendants of the
Jews sent by King Solomon to India to
collect ivory and precious stones. They
differ very materially from other Jews
in many of their religious ceremonies,
and only observe the Jewish Sabbath
and the passover.
SEVERAL weeks ago a very valuable
horse belonging to Mr.. Henry Oakley,
of Hart county, KY, was sun-struck,
and ever since has been crazy. Mr..
Oakley found it impossible to keep the
animal confined, so last Saturday it was
turned into lot near by, where there
was a very large pond, the center of
which is about twenty-five feet deep.
The horse made a complete circuit of
the pond twice, and then waded out as
far as it could, without swimming, and
put an end to its suffering by drowning.