The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-24
PERSONAL TOPICS.

THE Empress of Austria likes Ireland,
and the Irish like the Empress. She
has taken Lord Langford's mansion of
Sommerhill for next years hunting
season.
Pope LEO XIII has ordered the
private chamberlains of the Vatican to
leave off the picturesque costumes of the
sixteenth century and to adopt one more
modern.
CONTRIBUTIONS toward erecting a
school-house somewhere in the Sonth
have ceased in Brattleboro, VT, since
the eloquent lecturer got drunk with the
money that he had obta ned.
CoMMANDANT DEBBERLY, said to be
the last survivor of Austerlitz, has Just
died near Bordeaux, in his ninety-ffth
year. He entered the army ia 1902,
and was pensioned in 1888.
IT'S pity, and pity tits tits true, as
Puck remarks, that we fatter ourselves
we are extremely liberal when we say a
thousand dollars worth of good of a
man after his death, to whom, living, we
would not have loaned "V."
OF Herr Krupp. the famous maker of
guns and cannon, the London WorLf
says that he is tall, fne-looking old
man, of remarkably commanding pres
ence. 1t must be remarked, however,
that he turned out an awfully numerous
family of big bores.
The low grade of civilization of the
Australian aborigines is attributed to
the total absence from the continent of
ferocious and powerful animals, the ease
with which the poor and limited guam
| tity of their food is obtained, and their
national isolation.
AN exchange says young lady in
Hartford, Conn /, has been badly poisoned
by the analine dye in new blue veil
that she wore. If she was a homely
girl she has our sympathy, but if she
was handsome and wore eolored veil
it served her right Peck's Sun.
Mr.. MARLtTT, a member of the
Methodist Church in Avoca, stood up
at the close Of a meeting and asked per-
mission to address the congregation from
the pulpit. The pastor readily assented,
and the brother read a confession that
he had for years been stealing from his
employers.
| A GREAT many persons wonder why
they have SO little to show for their
time and labor, and how it is that some
| people can manage to get 81 much done.
The secret, If there is any secret, lies in
the fact that those who accomplish a
great deal work according to a well de-
finad opd t1niforu r1an
ENGLISH newspapers very rarely con-
tain in the obituary column notice of
funeral, because, except.in the case of
an eminent public person, it is not
desired that any but near relatives or
very intimate friends should attend, and
men worth million 60 to their graves
| with less pomp and parade thar New
York car driver.
4 ERRATIc ESRIoUE is noted for his
readiness of repartee and his ability to
fire off Jokes at the shortest notice.
"Make pun instantly, Erratic," said
Coates to him one day. ga pun what?'
he replied. "Oh, anything" "But ]
DON'T" responded Erratic. Don't
what?n "Owe anything-no, not even
for Coates. ."-B Boston Trauel,er.
The greatest man is he who chooses
the right with invincible resolution
who resists the sorest temptation from
within and from without; who bears
the heaviest burdens chserfully; who is
calmest in storms, and most fearless
under menaces and frowns; whose re-
lance on truth, on virtue, on Providence,
ia most unfaltering,
IN her recent narrative of travel Mrs.
Burton, wife of the explorer, says that
there is an extraordinary resemblance
between the Magyar and the southern
Irish. The Hungarian magnate still
lives like the Squireen and Buckeen oi
Mr.. Levers novels, and no Galway
land owner Of the last generation was
less fitted by nature and nurture tC
, manage his affairs.
ON the death of the Duke of yelling
ton the bells of Trim, near DangaI
! Castle, his fathers seat in Ireland, fol
: which, when young man, Wellington
) had sat in the Irish Parliament, rang ,
muf1ed peal, when the tenor, a beauti
: fully toned bell, suddenly broke. Itwa
: found by curious coincidence TO hav
S been cast in 1889, the year of the Duke
f birth.
$ WHEN Queen Victoria sailed on tn
l royal yacht for France it was on one o
q the stormiest and most disagreeabl
Saturdays of the whole year. A write
; in London paper, commenting on this
!, shows that Saturday is an unlucky da
for the royal house. William III, Quee
l. Anne, the four Georges, the Duchess @
r Kent, the Prince Consortand the Princes
!; Alice all died on Saturday.
> THE editor of Virginia City (Nev
paper was asked, the other day, why b
: never wore an overcoat. "Overcoat?
y said he. Chow could run fast in a
4 4 overcoat? If you were chased to an
4 from your Office every day by some il
- dignant citizen or other with club, 20
. wouldn't need an overcoat, bet yor
- Life! A linen duster would be too heav,
\ \ even. 1 generally make the home-ru
re in my shirt sleeves"
WHEN the now famous Zulu, Cetway
was Prince Imperial he gave his faith
great trouble, for, instead of lookir
after the royal cattle, his special dut
,t he passed nearly all his time at Gre
eft town, the nearest English town. The
AZ he amused himself after his manne
r. drinking brandy, which he could n
in get at home, and smoking pipes, whit
- his dignity prevented his doing amor
pc his own people. He paid court to Il
IS ladies, and had the reputation of goil
ck the pace.
ng JOAQUIN MILLER, when seen at
he evening party, looks as meek as Mos
ng when fshed out Of the bulrushes, Al
as as abstracted as though incubatiRg
he epic in forty cantos. He begins to tal
ad answers three or four questions y
ID, don't ask, tells parts of two or thI
is, stories that don't dovetail, forgets W
cd he is and who he is talking to, and pr
al emily loses himself in descripti
en- which is poetry and painting and e
ed quence inextricably blended, and all
to once he stops, looks scared and fooli
We and as likely as not runs off, Philadeip
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