The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-08
Personal TOPICS.

CAPT BoYToN intends to swim the
St Lawrence from Kingston to Quebec
this summer.
Mr.. JOHN KEATS, the poets nephew,
is a civil engineer in Missouri.
AMAssAcHUsETTs paper alleges that
the farmers turned out by the State
Agricultural College cost 81, 900 apiece.
IT was because George Washington
could not tell lie that his father never
sent him to town with fresh eggs.
THE United States is the greatest
raisin consuming country in the world
and uses annually more raisins than the
whole of Europe.
WHEN you observe family sitting
about the dinner-table, each member
bathed in tears, remember that the
horseradish season is upon us.
EDWARD 8. STOKES, the slayer of
Fiske, has taken, up his abode in San
Francisco. He is now the chief owner
of valuable Nevada mine.
The Crown Prince of Germany is re-
ported to have said to Herr Delbruck,
the eminent German statesman: Bis
marck excites the peasants and the citi-
zens of the towns to mutual enmity."
YOUNG man, in the hurry of life, do.
not forget that money is not manhood,
and that in the next life we will be re-
warded for what is in the-h head and
heart, not for what is in the pocket or
stomach.
A MAN infexibly good seems all the
better for living in the midst of bad
men--just as roses and yiolets are said
to spring more fragrant near garlic and
onions, the latter imbibing all the i'll
odor of the earth.
81 REMEMBER the late Sir Henry Bull
wer telling me that if wished to be the
most popular maa in England / had
only to get some one to kick me down
Regent-street every consecutive morning
for month. London Truth.
A WESTERN Senator wrote home a
short time ago that he was only able to
get a. four hours of sleep out of the
twenty-four, and that during chat
period candidate for Office sat by his
bedside and watched him as he slept"
| A MAN died Of apoplexy, the other
day, ir Michigan. The next morning
! the coroner held an inquest, when the
following verdict was returned: "Died
| from visitation of one beefsteak, eight
cold potatoes, and fried pie" Sensi-
| BILE Jury, that. - iii 80
MONSIEUR V. comes to police head
quarters in alarm. His daughter has
| been missing some DAYS, and he wants
search made for her. What's her de-
scription:s' asks an officer. "TalI,
blonde; three or four years younger
than she looksP'
"THIs is Neptune" said the professor,
placing his finger ION the outside ball Of
! the system, "and we are now two thou.
sand seven hundred and fifty millions
of miles from the sum-" Rheumatic
student on the back seat turns up his
collar and shivers perceptibly.
TENNYsoN's ode to the dead princess
and his defense of Lucknow" one
hundred and twenty-seven lines in all
brought him 81 800, or about $12 a line
The Boston Post is of the opinion tina
a man can af;nd to take nations grie
upon his shoulders, and belch martha
Ere to boot, upon such terms.
The Baltimore Bonapartes now living
are Madame Bonapirte, the daughter-in
law of the late Madame Patterson Bona
parte, Mr.. Charles j.. Bonaparte, ant
Col. Jerome Bonaparte, his wife, Caro-
line Appleton Bonaparte, and thei
children, Louise Eugene, a six-year-old
and Jerome, child of two.
PROFESSOR GOODWIN SMITH writiul
to the Toronto AUl, concerning th,
Andre memorial, says that the best 0
all inscriptions for it is-oblivion.
any monument" he says, beyond
mere stone to mark historic spot is t
be placed on the grave Andre, let it b
| monument in honor of concord.
THERE is in the Island of Cyprus
journal called the Cyprus that IS cor
Quoted in a.queer way. 1t is in charg
of two editors, one an Englishman an
one Greek. The English editor doe
not understand the Greek languag
though the Greek understands the En-,
! lish. They have opposite politics
; opinions. The Englishman writes art
!, cfes favorable to the English policy, an
q the Greek editor puts them into Gree
= but at the same time he prints his ow
articles attacking the new English ma
tiers of the ancient Greek island.