The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-06-05
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KIT CARSON, son of the famous scout,
and very witty and intelligent person,
it is reported, is making temperance
speeches. es9.
| GARIBALDI who was dying in red
shirt to slow music few weeks ago, has
decided to remain permanently in Rome.
Baltimore Gazette. 4
ALFRED TENNYsoN' brother Charles,
recently died In England. Poor fellow +
He would never have been heard of if
it hadn't been for Alfred. v5F
SENATOR MATT. CARPENTER,, of Wis
consin, forty.five years ago was q boy
doing chores for his board in the house.
of Governor Dillingham;, of Vermont.
The grave of Gen. Walker, the fill
buster, is on the beach at Truxillo,
where he was shot. Visitors, says the
New Orleans Picayune;; leave a stick in
the sand near his grave as mark of re-
spect.
Mrs. SARAH ]. HALE wrote "Mary
had Little Lamb" for the amusement
Of her children, and when she found it
was to survive all her more ambitious eff
forts, and was to constitute her sole title
to enduring fame, she was very much
disgusted. 80
once of the West End tailors was de-
ploring with friend the depression of
trade. depend upon it," he said,
"when eminent bankers in Lombard
street come to me to have their trowsers
reseated, there must be something very
wrong with the money market. ."-Lon-
don Truth.
AS regularly as new moons come,
Northern papers state regularly that
Paul Morphy is reported insane. Mr..
Morphy is quiet little gentleman, en-
gagged in minding his own business,
which fact is perhaps sufficient reason
for meddling correspondents to call HIM
crazy.-M o. Picayune.
OIL this wicked, wicked worldl The
other day we lifted couple of Bridge.
porters into fame by noting the fact that
they went to Stepney and caught six
teen fine trout. Now we learn that
they met a Monroe man on the stream
and bought all but two of the lot Are
all our dolls. stuffed with sawdust p
Bridgeport Standard.
DR.. RUSSELL, who, at the opening of
the war of the rebellion, visited this
country as correspondent of the London
Times, and is popularity known here as
" Bull Run RUSSELL is to be knighted
and to receive valuable appointment.
This has been effected through the in
fuence of the Prince of Wales and Duke
of Sutherland, who are attached friends
of DIR. Russell.
A SNOWMAN in New England adver-
tises his evening performances by es-
Gaping from the village Jail every after
noon. He permits committee to tie
him firmly with ropes, handcuff him,
and lock him in a cell, only stipulating
that the lock shall be within his reach.
Usually he emerges in ten minutes, but
sometimes is at work an hour, and once
was unable to get out at all.
PRESIDENT HAYES received q very
remarkable card from caller at the
White House the other day. It ran thus: ::
{" Rev. James Patterson, from England,
Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium,
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark,
Sweden, Finland, Russia, European and
Asiatic Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Ara
bia, Egypt, Persia; India, Cashmere,
Burmab, China, Japan, Australia, Tas-
mania, New Zealand and Canada"
THE ice mountain below the Ameri-
can fall at Niagara has been lessened
but little by the hot weather, and still
looms up some seventy feet in the air.
1t is yet quite an effort to climb to the
summit, and a few weeks ago too fool
hardy young ladies, fearing to trust
their shoes on the ice, deliberately took
/ off their shoes and stockings and scaled
the mountain in their bare feet
| Iruthteller. t=
MANY anecdotes are told of the &C.
centric Prindle whose advent in DAN
bury we recently recorded. One time
he got into a neighbor's pantry and
helped himself freely to what he be-
lieved were some new kind of cookies,
but which proved to be yeast-cakes-
a very successful variety at that. He
heaved and foamed to such degree that
for some time his native village thought
it was seaside town.-Danbsry Ne,us.
The death is announced by the foreign
mails, of Mr.. Robert Thompson Craw-
shay, of Cyfarthfa Castle, "the Iron
King of Wales" in his sixty-third year.
When the last great strike occurred
among his men he argued the matter
with them and showed them that unless
they met him with reduction of wages
he would be unable to conduct business
save at loss. They refused to make
any concessions, and he closed his works
and never reopened them.
In an out-of-the-way town in New
Hampshire lives an eccentric old farmer
named Greeley-an own cousin of the
lamented Horace, by the way-who
found his cellar stairs hard to climb on
account of the height of the steps. At
ter careful consideration, he hit upon
the device of mailing piece of two inch
plank on each, in order, as he said, to
"bring 'em nearer together" and con-
tended that he noticed ga leetle fetch of
improvement" Advertiser.
Miss IRISH is a young lady only
twenty years old, who has been en-
ployed as Assistant Librarian in the
Department of the Interior, and has
been doing the foreign correspondence
in that department. She knows Ger
man, Spanish and italian, and is
credited with uncommon tact and discre-
ton in conducting the correspondence.
When her father-now Chief of the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
was connected with a legation abroad,
Miss Irish, then a child, was much
petted by Auerbach, the novelist, and,
since she has grown up, sne has made a
translation of one of his novels, which
pleased him so greatly that he wished
her to translate all his later works.