The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-16
PERSONAL TOPICS.

remedy for gout. There is no remedy
for garlic.
JOHN B. COUGH, in lecture in Eng
land, referring to the question whether
alcohol was food or a medicine, re-
marked that in his opinion it was every
much like sitting down on hornets
nest-stimulating but not nourishing."
BAYARD TAYLoR's remains will be
brought to Cedarcroft for burial. The
deceased was a geherous, free-handed
man, and has left but little property.
But fer q life insurance policy of SIC,
his widow would have been left penni-
less.
PAUL MoRPHY, the eccentric chess
player, has petitioned the courts to
eject from the house he occupies, in
New Orleans, some tenants whom he ac-
cuses of coming into his room at nights
and tearing his clothes, hats, and era
watts.
AMONG the Russian mission lately re-
ceived in Cabul was found an outlawed
Afghan of note. The Ameer recognized
the culprit and in spite of the protests
of the general in charge of the mission
the delinquent paid the penalty of his
rashness with his head. s5
The Chinese must go ahead. An at
tache of the Embassy at Paris, Ma by
name, has passed his examination for
the degree of Bachelor of Letters,
though he had only been year in
France, and did not know the language
when he arrived in the country.
A, GERMAN named William Henry,
living in Washington, commenced to COM
nit suicide in the presence of his wife,
hanging himself with leather strap.
She let him hang until he became black
in the face, when she called for help.
William was cut down a sadder and
wiser man.
SEVEN Of the ten children of Mr..
Charles Morse, of Plainfeld, VT, died of
diphtheria within two weeks. Their
ages range from one to thirteen years.
The disease is believed to have been
taken from some clothes given them by
friend who had recently lost two chill
dren from diphtheria.
AN English bridegroom, residing at
Plymouth, had very eventful honey
moon. He quarreled with and thrashed
his wife the second hour after marriage,
thrashed her again at night, after club
bing the wedding guests out of the house,
and on the second day sold allhis clothes,
excepting his trowsers, for rum, and
wound up in Jail on the third day.
KING LUDWIG, of Bavaria, is not only
extravagant in music. He has begun to
build magnificent chateau at Herren-
Chiemsee on the plan of that of Yer
sailles. 1t will take fifteen years to fin.
ish it, and the cost of it is estimated at
$l0,000,000. Three hundred workmen
are now at work upon it, who are lodged
in barracks temporarily erected for their
accommodation. ..# -.sa
PRINCE LEOPOLD, Queen Victoria's s
youngest son, is said to be the most re-
fined and to most resemble his father in
mental qualities of the whole family.
The latest rumor is that he desires to
turn his powers to the esinging of anthems,
and is pressing his mother to allow him
to take orders. Some of his brothers and
sisters are averse to this, ard from his
High Church views he might go further
than they wish.
BEAVER COUNTY, Penn, has rival
to Miss Fancher, Of Brooklyn, in the
parsonage of Mary Beaver, aged twenty
two years, who, when attacked by what
is supposed to be the ear-ache, falls into
trance, lasting for twenty-four hours,
and suffers intensely under this condi-
ton. At times she is wild with terror,
Fand her screams and piteous appeals for
help are terrible. Remedies have been
applied, but without avail.
"JULEs VERNE's voyage round the
world in eighty days" says Gaignani,
has now been surpassed by Mr.. Hars,
American Consul at Alexandria, Egypt,
who has done the journey in sixty eight
days. It took him twenty days to go
from Alexandria to San Francisco, by
Brindisi, Paris, London, Liverpool and
New York; twenty days also to go from
San Francisco to Yokohama, six days
to reach Hong Kong, ten days to travel
from this latter place to Ceylon, and
twelve days more to go from Ceylon to
Suez, when he got back to Alexandra
in few days.
Two Lakeport, N. Y, boys aged thir.
teen and seventeen years, started hunt.
ing last week, and stopping at cider.
mill purchased two gallons of old apple
juice. AS they did not return, search
was made, which resulted in finding
their bodie'. One had fallen over q
ledge, and had apparently not stirred
after striking. The other was lying
upon his back, his gun being thrust
muzzle downward, into the mud. 1t wal
plain both had died from the effects ol
drinking the cider. A neighborins
judge and jury had on the previous da!
declared that hard cider is Intoxicating