The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-25
PERSONAL TOPICS


cleared 81 900 tof the walking business,
and saved it.
ABOUT 1926 the Gar decreed that no
Pole should assume the title of Prince
unless he had $500 a year, of Count under
1876 year, or of Baron under $120.
LEWIS SWIFT, the Rochester astrono-
mer who has just discovered new
comet. keeps small hardware store and
runs very effective observatory.
A MONTANA infant used seven hum
dred dollars of her fathers greenbacks
to make head-dress for doll, clipping
off the corners to make good fit.
AARON B. HAYES, of Utica, is prob
ably the oldest bank cashier in point of
service in America, he having acted in
the capacity for forty-eight years.
QUEEN VICTORIA sent a wreath of
snow-white flowers to be laid on Earl
RussePs tomb, with the inscription, /" A
mark of regard from Queen Victoria." /"
ANOTHER steamer has been built to
preven: sea-sickness in crossing the En-
glish channel. She is modelled after
the Catalia, which consists of two YES
sells placed side byside.
LORD RosEBERY has been making a
speech in favor of opening the picture
galleries and museums on Sundays, in
which he describes the British Sunday
as vacuity, varied with drink
EXTREME cold produces the same per-
ception on the skin as great heat. When
mercury is frozen forty degrees below
zero, the sensation is the same as that of
touching red hot iron.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY is repre-
sented by her newspapers as anxious to
become State, but her population still
falls short of 124, 900, the number on
which representation in Congress is
based.
In London, from 1888 to 1852, the
average annual death rate from small
pox was five hundred and forty million.
In twenty-five years of compulsory vac
cination (1853-77) it declined to three
hundred and forty-four.
A ROCHESTER wife opened tele.
graphic message addressed to her husband
and read, "Jenny will meet you in
Syracuse this evening"" Then she did
everything that a jealous woman could
do, only to find that Jenny was law.
yer, and the message was to arrange fol
consultation in an important case.
MICHAEL McC CoRM1CK, aged ffty-fve
years, was drowned in the river at Terre
Haute, Ind, while bathing. His com
panion in the bath was large bulldog
which, through playfulness, climbed OF
his back and held him under the water
until he drowned.
ELIAS BLACK of New Britain, Pa, ha.
not sold an ounce of his farm products
in years. He believes in keeping every
thing. A field of four acres is covered
with stacks of grain, some of which
have stood there fifteen years, and arr
the homes of vermin.
AT the death of Queen Mercedes
Queen Victoria telegraphed to Kins
Alfonso as follows: "Dear Brother, my
heart bleeds for you. What an awfu
misfortune it has pleased God to sent
you! May He give you strength to bea
this terrible loss"
A WATER wAGTAIL has built her hes
for two years beneath the roof of s
thlrd-class carriage on the London anc
Southwest Railway. The carriage is il
constant use, but the bird does not ap
pear 10 De IN the least disturbed by th'
morse or Joiting OF travel, put com
piacentiy accompanies her Drood.
Nor wishing to grace the rogues' gal
lery, Baltimore hotel thief screwed hi
face out of shape and made it impossibl,