The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-03-20
PERSONAL TOPICS.
CAMERON is eighty years old.

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The report that Mr.. Cough has said
he has done lecturing is interpreted by
the Chicago Tribune: :" Done good deal
of it.
MIR. GLADSTONE Is sixty.nine years
old, and can cut cord of wood day, and
Beaconsfeld is seventy-three and never
smokes.
A GERMAN socialist in Chicago pub
licly asserts that the shell which is to
explode the despotism of Bismarck has
already been cast, and during the present
year will fulfill its benefcent mission.
IT is quite time that the cross-examin-
ing insolence which displays the COM
bined qualities of the clown, bully and
coward should cease to disgrace our tri-
bunals of justice and to reflect upon our
civilization.-New York Herald.
THE Scotch, though only numbering
some four million spend seventy-fve
million year on drink, which proves
how unfounded are the charges Of Mig
gardliness SO often brought up against
them.
SENATOR BAYARD, of Delaware, is six
feet two, and has nine children. His
Oldest son, about nineteen, is q student
in the University of Virginia. His wife
has very little inclination for society
life, and passes her time with her chill
dren.
MRS. FoLz, San Francisco's female
lawyer, is bright, fair-haired, rosy,
cheerful, matronly, woman. She says:
" I originated from the cradle, the wash
tub, the sewing machine, and the cook
ing stove have educated myself, and
am now trying to earn living for my
self and my little ones"
A YOUNG man who has tried every.
thing else and failed, writes the Vicks-
burg Herald to inquire the requisites for
a good reporter, and gets for answer
"A bottle of whisky, a lead pencil, a
cast-iron constitution and rhinoceros
hide" One quality ought to be added
two handfuls of cheek.
The Emperor of Brazil keeps up a
regular correspondence with the savants,
artists, and literary men of of the princi.
pal European centers. He compliments
any notable work by asking for copy
of it, and in this way he has secured at
Rio quite collection of books and pic
lures, compensating the donors, in re-
turn, with jewels and orders.
WoMAN's Words" has this para
graph on skilled labor: After all, i.
doesn't so much signify what you do, as
thatyou do it we'll. The value of skilled
labor is estimated on democratic basis
nowadays. President Eliot, of Har-
ward University, the cook in the Parker
House restaurant, and Mary L. Booth,
editor of Hdrper's Boar, each receives
four thousand dollars.
TIE late Joseph Gillot, the steel-pen
manufacturer, after he became rich, had
a mania for collecting old Italian instru.
ments, and although he knew nothing
whatever about music, became the owner
of over five hundred violins and violon.
cellos, many of them valuable. After
his death they were found lying in dusty
heaps or thrust away in boxes.
CONGRESSMAN WATSON, of Pennsyl.
vania, owns twenty-five thousand acres
of Northern Pacific lands in Dakota, and
Senator Spencer has ffty-thousand
acre farm, and will make Deadwood hii
home. His Aurora mines in the BLACK
Hills, in which Senator Conkling owns
share, yield nine thousand dollars s
menth. President Hayes also owns :
farm of many thousand acres of North
ern Pacific land near Bismarck.
IT is related of Talleyrand that hi
pulse, which rolled astream of tremend
GUS volume, would intermit and paus,
at every sixth beat. This he pointed ou
triumphantly as rest of nature, giving
him superiority over other men
i" Thus" he said, Gall the missing pulsa
tions are added to the sum total of m.
life," and his longevity and strength ap
pear to support this theory.
A CURIOUS illustration of the sarcasm
of time's 3 reEenges is found in the condi
tion of John g. Sake, now confined to hi
room in Brooklyn by chronic meian
choly. He is we'll known to the publ
4 as humorous poet and lecturer, and t.
personal acquaintances as a man of gen
ial, joyous disposition, ever looking a
the bright side of things, and advocat
ing cheerfulness as the sum of all philos
ophy. He is, in fact, about the las
man in the world who would be selecte
as likely victim of melancholy.-Bo
ton Post.