The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-09
PERSONAL TOPICS.

| BAYARD TAYLOR was city editor of
the New York Tribune at one time, with
salary of twelve dollars . week and
one assistant.
The old family carriage of Daniel
Webster is owned by gentleman in
Lawrence, Massachusetts,, who bought
it of Ashburton Webster, grandson of
the statesman.
KING HUMBERT's son, the little
Prince of Naples, has suffered SO much
by vivid dreams since the attempt by
Passanante, that quieter life with his
| books and playmates, remote from state
ceremonials, has been prescribed for
him.
JULIUS II, elected 1903, was the first
Pope who revived the custom, long dis
continued, of letting his beard grow, in
order to give increased solemnity to bis
aspect. Ibis brought boards into fash
| ion again = Francis of France and
Charles V thenceforward encouraging
them.
The New York Times complains that
none of the Astors, Rhinelanders, Goe-
lets, Lorillards, Schermerhorns, or Len
oxes, and other millionaires of the me-
tropolis, who represent the real estate
aggregating not less than $3.50, ,000, 900,
take any concern whatever in municipal
affairs.
M. PAUL BRoCA, the famous anthro-
pologist, is authority for the statement
that the tallest man ever actually meas
ured was Finlander, nine feet three
and seven-tenths inches high, and that
the shortest man known reached a deci-
NAL under seventeen inches in his stock
ing feet.
THE confusion which is always ap-
parent in this country in the matter of
wearing apparel at the changing of the
seasons is obviated by Government su-
pervision in China. A recent decree of
the Governor of Canton gave notice
that the wearing of winter hats would
begin on the 25th of November.
MRS. A. Z. STEWART has removed
from her marble palace, at the corner of
Fifth-avenue and Thirty fourth street,
to her niece's house, on the opposite side
of the avenue. 1t is said that she no
longer dare remain in her own home,
fearing that she may be kidnapped for
the sake of obtaining heavy ransom
Neao York Star.
AN old negress who passed among the
ignorant of her race as soothsayer,
once told Mr.. Calhoun that no one whose
name began with the letter &C" could
ever be President. An Ohio newspaper
recalls this incident, and cites the names
of Clinton, Calhoun, Clay, Crawford,
Cass, Chase, among the dead, and
Conkling among the living, to verify
the prophecy.
MARK ADDY, of Stafford, a well known
English oarsman, has been given the
Albert medal of the first class for his
repeated acts of heroism in saving life.
He has rescued thirty-six drowning
men in the last quarter of century,
and received bronze, silver, and god
medals from humane societies, besides
illuminated addresses and a purse of
two hundred guineas
HORACE GREELEY once called on to
advise young men who wanted to 60
over to Europe and pay their expenses
by writing for the newspapers, said: i
never knew but one of your class,
Bayard Taylor, who achieved a real
success in thus travelling, and he left
home good type setter, with some
knowledge of modern Languages, so that
he stopped and worked at his trade
whenever his funds ran short"
THE New York Sun says, in the mat
ter of his offer to erect stone where
Major Andre was hanged and afterward
buried, that Mr.. Cyrus Field explains
his intention simply to mark that his
toric spot, Just as another stone wa:
raised in the heart of Tarrytown tc
commemorate the exact place where the
young British officer was captured
Field SAYS his offer is not to be construed
either as an expression of sympathy fol
the man or for the act for which he suf
fered death.
EVEN the toadying and hunky Cana
dians object to low-necked court dresses
such as the model queen mother pre-
scribes for St. james, and which tn
daughter obediently follows, and insist
upon others doing likewise in her littl
vice-regal court. But while the Amer
ican press seconds the demurrer of ou
/ Canadian cousins, we are afraid that b.
:, next summer fighty American womel
will take their fashions from Canad
v instead of Paris, and then we may loo
for revival of the nude drama in ou
parlors and upon our streets, as well 8
9 upon the burlesque boards.-Camde
:, Post.
! EDIsoN's sister, very bright an
: entertaining woman, tells story ths
> has not been in print, of Edison's bo,
= hooi. "He tried to sit on eggs" sh
~ said. "What's that =? How? VIII.
h do you mean?" inquired the listene
= "Why, he was about six, l should thin
and he found out how the goose W.
sitting, aud then saw what the surpri
L ing result was. One day we misse
him, called, sent messengers, couldn
3 lind him anywhere. By and by, don
II you think, father found him curled l
$ in nest he had made in the barn al
III filled with goose and hens eggs
. actually sitting on the eggs and tryil
o to hatch them"
IS THE Emperor of Austria is ia
h spare man, of soldierly bearing, WI
does not look much over forty, thou!
st he is nearer fifty; with sandy ha
W cropped close to the head, and turni
n. an iron-gray, with regulation militia
es whiskers and mustache, small, restle
ne gray eyes, and the blunt features a
in heavy lips which distinguish the Hal
O. burg family. He has patience, ta
ii and dogged spirit of hard work.
n is master of six European languag
w and wins the hearts of his subjects
= addressing deputations from Hungal
I'd Bohemia, Austrian Poland and Croa
e. each in their mother tongue. He
rs personally very popular all over
er Empire.
70 Treatment of SMALLPOX in the Old
Time.
,e. A curious old custom fingers in so
rt- of the more secluded parts of the col
De- try of placing patient, suffering fir
ed smallpox, in a bed with red hangin
ee 1t would be interesting to know
origin of this custom. and how long
has been in vogue. The tradition tt
NIX red is good for smallpox is at least
'as centuries and half old, for we re
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