The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-03
PERSONAL TOPICS.

fEhSUNAL IUflCSs
THERE are fourteen ex-Governors in
the United States Senate.
TIE Prince of Wales has been re-
elected Graud Master of the Free
Masons of England.
Mr.. DARWIN, the celebrated naturalist
and evoiutionist, has recently celebrated
his sevenieth birthday.
PRINCE LEOPOLD, Queen Victoria's
youngest son, has been making speech
in London, and is mentioned as showing
many of the best qualities of real
orator.
The tomb of Charles Louis Napoleon
Achille Murat, nephew of Napoleon I,
stands in the city cemetery at Talla-
hassee, Fla. The body of his wife, a
Virginia lady Of great excellence of
character, is entombed by his side.
AT INST, Shetland Islands, few days
ago, the Rev. DR.. James Ingram, min
lister Of the Free Church, died at the age
of one hundred and three years. He
began to preach in 1900, and continued
up to his ninety year.
MRS. GENERAL SHERMAN, who
headed the Catholic movement by which
million and half of dollars were
raised for Pope Plus TX, thinks the
Catholic ladies of the Union should
raise fund for the reliefof Archbishop
Purcell.
WHILE we endeavor to discover
CLEAN of light in the black and threaten
ing news from Eastern nations, we stum-
BILE over the alarming intelligence that
Lord Beaconsfeld consumes three
guineas' worth of champagne jelly at
each meal.-RhinebecE Gazette.
Dr.. 7. A. BLAND. who has written
Life of General Butler" for campaign
purposes, blandly remarks that the
General has "the brain of a Franklin,
the frmness of Jackson, the intel
ectual force of Bacon, the integrity
of an an Aristides, and the ripe scholar
ship of Cushing"
AN Irishman, in describing America,
said: II am told that you might roll
England thru it, an it wouldn't make
dint in the ground; there's fresh water
oceans inside that ye moight dround Old
Ireland in; an as for Scotland, ye
moight stick it in a corner an ye'd niyer
be able to find it out, except it might be
by the smell of whisky"
OF EEhu Burritt an acquaintance and
old pupil says that he never questioned
his ability TO understand almost any
thing, and what he could not understand
he honestly thought was not worth
knowing. His cardinal doctrine was
that genius is creature of the will and
not an accident of birth.
PRESIDENT GREY being asked recently
to write something in lady's album,
indited the following: "Life is like a
game of chess; each one holds his rank
according to his quality, but when the
game is over, kings, queens, knights,
and all the rest are thrown into one
common box"
The French are curious people.
Two army surgeons have just fought a
duel in the Bois de Vincennes. One
wounded the other badly, and then
fraternally dressed his opponents wound
and helped him to carriage. Having
thus proved his gallantarya humanity
| AC WChU AOmO sulCtuC.
MAJOR J. s. STEVENSON, the super
intendent of railroad construction under
the late Harry Meiggs, in South
America, comparing the trouble and
expense of the silver mining of South
America with that of our country,
thinks that Colorado with its resources
will become the great silver bearing
State.
A TRAMP called at the house of a
clergyman, and asked for money, pre-
senting a paper representing that the
bearer was "a poor widow woman
with four small children, and no other
resource but charity" etc. The good
pastor inquired of the fellow il he was a
widow. The reply was, Is that what il
says9 He writ it wrong again." and
walked off.
TWENTY years ago the wife of Mr..
Sullivant, of Dubuque, Iowa, eloped,
taking with her their boy. During ali
the time that has elapsed since then
Sullivant has been seeking for his son.
After travelling thousands of miles and
spending a fortune and the best part oi
his life in the search, he found him the
other day in the Oregon State Prison
having just entered it under sentence
of twenty-one years.
A New SOUTH WALES colonist re-
sorted to the ingenious device of put
ting a living fly in the mouth of dead
man, and then guiding his hand to trace
his signature to the writing that pur
ported to be the will of the deceased per
son. Upon the trial he swore, will
audacious assurance, "That he saw thu
testator sign the will with his own hanc
whilst life was in him."
THE Catholic priests of Quebec hav,
begun crusade against fast dancing
Er. We indorse the action of tn,
priests. Young folks should dane
slower. We once saw nice young mai
whirled around so rapidly by his part
ner that his rear colIar-button flew of
and his collar crawled up on the top o
his head, which made him feel very un
comfortable-and profane- all the res
of the evening.-Nor9stown Herald.
PHILOSOPHERS have written and poet
have sung of the feelings of the mai
, who can't scratch between his shoulder
blades, but it's nothing in comparison
with the despair of the person who get
piece of chocolate tafy wedged into tn
roof of his mouth, and realizes that h
must either stand on his head and hav
, it extracted with derrick, or else Dor
! a hole through the top of his skull an
lift the dreadful compound through hi
roof.-RockLand Courier.
|
, CARLYLEs age has compelled him t
: give up his midnight saunterings i
Cheyne-row. A lover of his friends, h
: dislikes strangers, especially American
| and Frenchmen. Truth tells how b
once replied to German who criticise,
/" FAUST" "Did you ever hear of tn
, man who complained of the sun becaus
he could not light his cigar with it?
In early life he would have become dc
spondent but for friends suggestion
$ that he study German literature. He
3 happy in his marriage; his only littl
"vice " is smoking; at great dinner Q
' Sir William Hamilton's he refuse
everything but potato; he never read
newspapers; he once bought Deighbol
/ ing house TO get rid of the GROWING of