The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-09-19
Personal TOPICS.
HENDRICKS is fifty-eight; Thurman is

POSTMASTER-GENERA KEY Is the
father of thirteen little Keys.
Miss BRADDoN acknowledges the au-
thorship of thirty-three novels.
QUEEN VICTORIA is very fond of fine
old port, and is said to take pint of it
ALPHABETICALLY, of course.
IssAAc Brown, an octogenarian of
Jefferson County, Ala, has plowed the
same field for sixty-two successive years.
GUsTAvE DoRE is coming to America
to look at Niagara Falls, the Rocky
Mountains, Mammoth Cave, and the
Yosemite.
LOUIS KossUTH, the illustrious Hun
garian, was made Mason in Cincin-
natl lodge during his visit to this coun-
try in 1852.
THERE is insanity in Victor Hugo's
family. One of his brothers died insane,
and one of the poets daughters isa hope
less maniac.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD is renewing his
youth and becoming quite gay again.
He is regular attendant at the theaters
and evening entertainments in London.
CARDINAL DI LUCA, who declined the
office of Pontifcal Secretary of State,
was once a journalist and had some rep
utation as writer. He is said to re-
semble Theirs.
THE anti-lawyer movement is pro-
crossing. The wave has reached Vir-
ginia. Rev. Lewis Cabell has announced
himself as candidate for Congress on
this simple platform: "No interest on
money and death to lawyers"
JOHNNY STEEL Goal Oil Johnny,
who more tnan dozen years ago in
sanely squandered the millions got for
his adopted parents oil lands, is now
clerking in grocery store in Dennison,
Iowa. He is now but thirty years old.
WHEN Cyprus had been wrested from
the Venetians by the Turks in 1911, the
latter inaugurated their reign by slaugh-
tering twenty thousand of the inhab-
itants. The Turkish rule has proved the
curse and ruin of the island, once so rich
and hourishing.
CARDINAL NINA, the new Pontifcal
Secretary of State, is sixty-six years old.
From his earliest years he showed de-
cided ability. He is tall in figure, of
handsome presence and of somewhat
forid complexion. In manner he is
courteous and unaffected, mild in dispo-
sition, and frank in speech.
Mrs. DE GROSS aud her ten-year-old
daughter made up their minds to drown
themselves in the river at Alton, Ill.
They waded into the stream, and the
mother obligingly aided the child by
holding her head under water; but her
courage failed when her own turn came
to die, and she got ashore.
HoNoRs," by the by, are getting de-
cidedly common in England. Carriers,
Baths and knighthoods have been flung
about in such reckless confusion that it
will soon be the greatest honor to be
undecorated. Plain John Bright and
plain William Ewart Gladstone are
thought great deal more of by decent
people than the host of ambitious men
who walk about smothered with titles
and orders.
Miss MARTHA ATALANTA LUMPKIN,
daughter of Gov. Lumpkin, is the guest
of Mrs. DIR. John M. johnson. 1t may
not be generally known that Atlanta
was first named Marthasville, after this
lady, and afterward her second name
Atalanta, was given to the place. Thi:
was changed into Atlanta gradually
Miss Lumpkin should be proud of hel
hourishing namesake.-AtlantG -(Ga.,
Constitution.
HENRY M. SrANLEY's real nanle, &C
cording to the Baltimore Eeery Saturday
is Henry M. Eastway, and he was borr
in New York City. His father was ,
sea captain. The family went to Europ,
when Henry was very young, and sool
afterward the Captain died. Henr.
quarreled with his mother at the age O.
sixteen, and went away to seek his for
tune. Other accounts make Stanley ,
Welshman, by name Rowland.
THE reason given by Guizot for tn,
prosperity of the French is full of in
terest: "Aabits of prudence have pene
trated all classes There are very few
families, even among the lower classes
that spend all their income. A singh
manufacturer in my town of Sissicu,
puts by, and has long been doing SO
| six hundred thousand frances year. Th
wealth of France has at least doubles
during fifty years; and, as the popula
ton has augmented during that time b,
only one-tenth, it is obvious that tn
comfort Of the people has increased enol
mously."
| GERMAN newspapers correct the asset
tion published last year both in Europ
and the United States, that the last &
the descendants of Martin Luther ha
| Just died in one of the smaller towns {
Germany. The last male descendant {
the reformer departed this life at Dire
den in 1869, but on the female sic
Luther's posterity is more hourishir
than ever. Its oldest and most prom
nent representative was Prof. Robbie, {
the University of Leipsic, disti
gIlished scholar, who died a few wee
ago at the age of eighty-eight, and b
place is now taken by Prof. Mobius,
the University of Kiel.
, DURING the recent eclipse the Pueb
. Indians of Taos, New Mexico, we
much .agitated. The chieftain of t
village came forth in great excitemer
, and declared that some one had col
I mitted great sin, the destruction
: the village was imminent, or, at lea
the extinction of the sun. Thu
h trusted passengers were therefore Sc
v to the priests to conjure them to ke
the eternal fire on the altar burning
+ its brightest, while all the women of t
e village were ordered to strip themsel'
!. naked and run in pairs round the rs
d course, where the foot races took pla
/. Thanks to these simple precautions
5. eclipse soon passed off. The custom
d having the women run these races il
n nude state is universal with the Pueb
on occasions of this kind. They hav
e. tradition that Montezuma was betray
is into the hands of the Spaniards by
O. daughter, and it is thought proba
,f that the requiring of the females
m humiliate themselves as penance for
r. original crime committed by one of tt
il sex against this dignitary grows out
nj the tradition.
ed 81 WANT to find out who is the n
ng ter of this house." said the man wit
h hook under his arm to the yinepf