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PARIS.
Sarah Rcrnbardt, md Some Neglected
Celebrities Of the French
Stage.
Emilio Brolsat. Sophie Croizottc, and
Jeanne Snmary-..SaraIl and
Sophie. .Conlrasted.
Oroisette's Rise and Deolino---Tho Death
Boene in "Le spbynx "---Her Ono
Great Success.

tTeht Guccea8.
r,..,,, cor.,.,o,64,+. >. y, ~. rs,,n.
hefeea1 eors'hn,,ae"e" " '"s 11o"ne.
FANS, dnnc 4h-lhe 1asn!onable craze which
has lifted ono brilliant 4ctFesa of tho Comsdc
oven Nv the R,rt,rls and Ristnrf,. ha, thrnvnthe
..f.. =, s"u n...s s .,,.. ~ .,.. Wv ~,
!a'e"s ot III o.ner fscoen co'neo'en' ",ao IN
.'le saa'e. INN Is hasa's iaf. sa tan Bern
hors too much Of her: md I think, bstycen
orrscI,e, ~, ho,. hi . ,,c.t a..i I'm rn,trh ~
w.. .,.,a,.. 1,...".e.. 49, ~. 49,. s...,.t 49,.
hare gromn immensc since she landed In En-
glnnd. british "sociaty" seems to havc
uroyclctl nt her t,om,un: ,.,,J 1lkc most women.
Sarah la. mt horn ohIr IN res,at ,hr tennis.
tjon 10 at,uto the prtvilsces Of her supct,or,ty.
,,,,,. ,,r.r,r .,u .vr, ,r.s,,,
for all this excessive and Ridiculous alteration.
The Comcdo Franchise has several actresses
oujlo worthy to be given little OF the supcf-
anou, ,ntc,,.c. N. .av tho 1co,t. 1e.nno
sao'aFy, now: QUE oocs not "1Ae
sllly books In balloons, OF sleep with
her merry 1[.tlo head In coffin;
hut aim ia a most pIounntc and fascinating
o'.lst, no1",..,ssana , !,a na.e'o ~ nas1s.'a nss
brightness, dc!icaey, aud plenty ol power when
she ltsea. Emile Broisatr to my mind, ii, In
certain roles, equal to rava't; and. though not
~ - .r an,st,.., ..s,, 80
t"nAu ~. .Ls.,.s - 49,, w., s,s.. s.ssst.
ie"c!t3. 4a't e"ai LII - 'uso a. itA"i'ef "'.sa'
sarah hefnhafot has 10 tlank 'oe 90 gseas
ahaTe of hcr SUCCESS are toonu ID Enl1sc brolsat.
r to far e n., THIN Sn,'s ha portion aens o1
advertising herself, and she cannot manufacture
inferior groups OF sculpture or "rto gnsh'ae
criticisms for the press. tNcsershelesa, am
rtnI ~ eco hat aho haA hfrn rnnrn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
Virginia Timberlake.

Love rules the camp, the council and
the cloister. Even Caleb Cushing was
in love. His ideal was the beauti
full Virginia Timberlake, daughter of
the famous Mrs. Eaton, to whom he
paid unfagging devotion until one day
he beheld the imperious beauty try on a
pair of gloves, which, not suiting her,
she threw upon the floor. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Courier
Journal relates what happened:
A second pair met with the same fate,
while the third, being more fortunate,
were calmly drawn over her exquisite
hands and fastened with costly brace
lets about her rounded wrists During
the promenade which ensued, Mr.. Cush-
ing automatically asked How many
pairs of gloves young lady required
during the year?" Speaking for my
SELF" replied the spoiled beauty, al
never wear pair but once, and never
once if they don't suit me-" What is
the expense of such gloves as you wear,
for instance?" inquired the cautious
young lawyer. "0h, two or three dol
larsT" was the careless reply. "I could
never marry a woman with such ex-
travagant notions" said Mr.. Gushing,
undoubtedly uttering his thoughts aloud.
Nobody asked you, SIR She said,"
quickly and aptly quoted the naughty
beauty, turning upon her French heels,
and retracing her steps hemeward, leav-
ing the economically inclined barrister
to recover from his disappointment and
chagrin as best he might. Miss Timber
lake afterward married SaupaYo, a
wealthy Frenchman of noble descent,
who was an attache of the legation when
Pageot was Minister here. Nine. Sau.
payo was as noted for hauteur and bril-
liant beauty in the French court as she
was in her native land. Daniel Webster
said: :" Virginia Timberlake is the hand
soonest woman l ever saw" She now
lives in great elegance in Paris (probably
throwing away dozen pairs Of gloves
if she chooses), with hair as white as
the driven snow, making her large, won
derfully dark eyes more luminous by
contrasto
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
Florida Mounds,

Lieut.. A. W. Vogels contributes some
notes on lost race of this continent, to
the January number of the Naturalist,
basing his remarks on the discoveries
made in the mounds at Tampa, Fla.
Excavation of the Fort Brook mound
revealed the position of the original fire.
places, and a large proportion of the
animal remains consisted of human
bones, the larger of which were charred
and split. The human bones were inter-
mixed with the bones of the dog and
the deer, with burned oyster shells and
portions of the shells of the common
edible sea-crab. The race was undoubt-
edly a cannibal one, and the explorers
had evidently come on the debris of the
kitchen. The pottery and implements
found were of very primitive kind,
and indicated only low stage of civili-
zation. From what has been CLEANED
respecting this lost race, the author in
fers that the habits, ceremonies, and
manner of interment were parallel with
those of the ancient Danes, who con.
structed artificial mounds for the sepul
cher of their Kings, and that the canni
balistic characteristics are similar to
those of the Troglodytes of the cavern:
of Mount Chauvaux, in the Province oi
Namur, Belgium.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
A Wildcat Olio.
iGold Hill (Nevada) News j

There was fight advertised to come
off at the Alhambra Theater Sunday af-
ternoon between an Eastern fighting
bulldog named Turk and forty-two-
pound wildcat, vicious brute, for 800
a side-that is, the cat and dog were to
fight for their lives, and men bet 800
a side on the result. The fight was to
be followed by grand olio on the stage.
1t was an immense bill, and
itdrew. In due time the cat
was introduced upon the stage,
and was Immediately followed by Turk !;
but at the nrst kiss of the dog the cat
took to the audience, and the olio, in
stead of being performed by the troupe,
was done by the spectators, tooth and
toenail accompaniment The first bound
of the cat took it upon the piano of
the orchestra. The pawer of ivory left
the swelling strain unf1nished, and
turned back handspring over among
the audience. The next leap of the
"varmint" was at the contrabass, and
both player and instrument went down
instanter with broken heads. The cat
fingered lovingly m )ment among the
strings as if to test their quality, and
then sprang out among the audience.
Then began an olio in dead earnest, but
not the one advertised. although the
fight was over. 1t consisted of ground
and lofty tumbling, leap-frog and SUCH
like feats of dexterity, all having a
single object-to amuse the audience by
a glimpse of sunlight out of doors and
under the free light of heaven once
more. 1t was perfectly satisfactory as a
whole, and each player did his best.
Time-shortest on record-1.69 Every
thing went off well, especially the
audience. The cat was found a few
moments later looking out of one of the
boxes and waiting for an audience.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
The COnsOnants in Canada.

A Toronto correspondent writes to
the Cleveland Herald: Cupid has not
been idle either in high or low life dur
ing the last three months, and the con-
sequence is an array of marriage no.
tices that contain conundrums for the
wise and learned. Therewas time not
long since when the authorizations
placed after the names of our new-made
husbands and papas-in-law inspired us
with wholesome awe, but we are not
to be impoged" upon now. Reading
an eight-line marriage notice, in which
most of the letters of the alphabet were
used as titles, we came upon 2. L. S.
What might those mysterious capitals
stand for? Who could say? 1t might
mean Prince of Long Stockings, in con-
nection with "Knight of the Gar
ter" At any rate, l determined that
this should not confound me as its pre-
decessors had. I betook myself to one
mighty in these things, and was told it
was Provincial Land Surveyor. And 1
have been assured by those who know,
you know, that we can't have any titles
in Yankeedoml What is there to pre-
vent Michael in the United States to
have his name put in the paper as F. F.
P. (fresh fish peddler), and married to
Bridget, daughter of Mr.. Rooney, G. G..
(green grocer), and niece of Mr.. O'Riley,
B. S. NJ. (bologna sausage maker)? 1t
gives an air of gentilitY and grandeur
which otherwise is entirely lost.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
Kossuth,s Presence Of Mind.

Writing in the Midwinter Scribner
of parsons, and especially of the elo-
quence of the sailor preacher Father
Taylor, Edward Eggleston tells the fol-
lowing anecdote of Kossuth:
Mr.. Emerson compares Taylor with
Kossuth in this gift of natural and
unchecked oratory. remember an in
cident that happened during the great
Hungarian's progress through this coun-
try. In Madison, Indiana, he spoke in
the church of which my step-father was
the pastor. After his address in Eng
lish the Americans were all turned out
to make room for the Germans, but I
climbed, boy like, from the parsonage
yard through the church window, and
got place on the steps of the high,
old-fashioned pulpit, where, hanging
over the balusters, I saw, rather than
understood, the wonderful oratory of
Kossuth. The Germans were wrought
into frenzy of excitement, but Just as
the speaker, depicting the coming lib
erty of Germany, had reached the sum-
nit of his tremendous defamation, and
while the throng of Germans crowding
every inch of floor and galleries was
swayed to and fro in excitement as by
wind, child held in the arms of
woman in the middle of the church,
took fright at the applause and began
to scream so frantically as to render
any further speaking impossible. 1t
took some minutes to get the mother
and child out of the jam; the break
was depressing, and l felt very sure the.
speech was spoiled. As the child's
voice at length went out into the open
air, the disappointed and depressed au-
dience turned to the orator, who swept
his hand through the air and said vehe-
mently in German:
"He may cry now for Germany, but
when he is old he will laughp'
The lost ground was recovered by
this single dash, and the audience was at
white heat again.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30

JOHN WREN, of Cleveland, Ohio, has
Just recovered from four thousand mile
drunk. He went to London, England,
some weeks ago to visit son, got very
drunk at wine party and vanished.
When next heard of it was at the depot
in Cleveland, where he was found, under
the influence of liquor, and armed with
two big bottles of whisky. They took
him to the hospital, where after some
days delirium he recovered his senses,
abused his English friends for deserting
him in strange place, and asked for
paper to write home to Cleveland for
money with which to return to America.
"My God have crossed the Atlantic
Ocean drunkp he exclaimed, when at
last they convinced him that he was in
Ohio, not in England.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
The Inventor of Gas-Lighting.


The inventor of gas-lights is said to
have been a Frenchman, Phillippa lie
Bon, an engineer of roads and bridges,
who in 1772 adopted the idea of using,
for the purpose Of illumination, the
gases distilled during the combustion of
wood. He labored for a long time in
the attempt to perfect his crude inven-
ton, and it was not until 1899 that he
confded his discovery to the Institute.
In September, 1900, he took out pat
ent, and in 1901 published memorial
containing the result of his researches.
LIE Bon commenced by distilling wood
in order to obtain from it gas, oil, pitch
and pyroligneous acid; but his work in
dicated the possibility of obtaining gas
by distillation from fatty or oily sub
stances. From 1899 to 1902 LIE Bon made
numerous experiments. He established
at Havre his first thero lamps; but the
gas which he obtained, being mixture
of carburetted hydrogen oxid of carbon,
but imperfectly freed from its impuri-
ties, gave only a feeble light and
evolved an insupportable odor, and the
result was that but little favor was
shown to the new discovery. The
inventor died, ruined by his expert
ment.
The English soon put in practice the
crude ideas of LIE Bon. In 1904 one
Winsor patented and claimed the credit
of inventing the process of lighting by
gas. In 1906 several shops in Birming.
ham were illuminated by gas manu-
factured by the process of Winsor and
Murdoch. Among those who first used
this new light was James Watt. Ii
1916 the first use of gas was made in
London, and it was not until 1918 that
this invention, really of French origin
was applied in France.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
COnstancy in Men and Women.

Mrs. Mack was convicted of murder
ing her husband in GAINESVILLE, Wis, in
order that she might marry lover
named Dickinson, who helped to COM
NIT the crime, and it was Dickinson's
testimony on which the verdict was
obtained. Mrs. Cobb was accused of
numbering her husband in Norwich,
Ct, that she might marry a lover
named Bishop, and was convicted on
Bishops testimony. These strikingly
similar cases naturally excite the re-
mark that women are more constant
than men in murder as we'll as in love.
But the hanging of Thomas Dowd, in
st. Andrews, n. B., furnishes con.
trary instance. Dowd and Mrs. Ward
murdered Mr.. Ward. Neither turned
States evidence, and both were con-
victed. Dowd maintained to the last,
in the face of the most convincing
proof, that he alone was guilty. Al
though few believed him, his persistency
gave pretext for avoiding the hanging
of a woman, and her death-sentence
was committed to Imprisonment So
Dowd died with the consciousness that
he had saved his criminal partner from
the gallows.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
Fashionable Poisoning

Few people realize to what extent
fashionable poisoning is carried at the
present day in the use uf the various
stimulants for which the wretched sui
cides have acquired a fondness. Liquor
in its various forms was for long time
the great bane of society. But that is
fast being supplemented by potions, if
not SO stimulating and exciting, far
more deadly in their effects. Opium
eating and laudanum drinking is greatly
on the increase, and more than half of
the deaths that are attributed 10 heart
disease are compassed by these habits
Morphine is but another form of the
drug, and this is also being used to ex-
cess by thousands of people in this
country. Chloral is fast growing into
favor, and is Turing its victims down to
death by the hundreds and thousands. 1t
is time this matter was taken hold of in
earnest by some of the Jealous reform
ers of the day, for there is hardly day
passes but counts its victim to one or
the other of these pernicious drugs. 1t
is the gifted Of the land too who are
most easily led to destruction by means
of these narcotic poisons. The habit is
formed by taking small doses to rest the
overtaxed mind and brain, and the dose
increases from day to day, until mind
and brain are stilled and at rest in the
quiet sleep of death. The news reaches
us of another victim to the use of
chloral in the person of Chauncey K.
Williams, of Rutland, Vermont, who
was one of the first scholars of his ma.
tive State, and a man of unusual moral
excellence except in this oue respect
He took chleral to induce sleep and rest
The sleep came to his eyelids speedily
but it was the sleep from which there ii
no awakening. Where is the Francis
Murphy who will organize crusade
against the growing habit Of fashiona
BILE poisoning2
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
Restoring the Industrial Equilibrium.

A reliable authority states that twenty
million acres of new lands have been
settled during the last year in the States
and Territories of the West and South
west, and that these lands have been oc-
cupied by not less than one hundred
thousand families. These comprise an
unusual proportion of people from the
crowded manufacturing towns and cities
of the Eastern States, who, finding busi-
ness slack and wages unsatisfactory,
have determined to go to farming.
Many of them have been bred to farm
life, and to those who have not, there are
no mysteries in it which should deter
man or woman willing to adopt habits
of industry and simplicity. This tidal
wave of emigration has brought large
passenger traffic to the railroads, some
of which offer special inducements to
those who are going West to settle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
An Interesting Historical Discovery.

A short time ago discovery of sew
eral mounds evidently artifcially con-
structed, and not the handiwork of ra-
ture, was made at what is known as
Sheridan's drive, on range of hills i'm
mediately to the west Of Fort Leaven-
worth. Within these mounds were
traces of stonework as artistic and nearly
perfect as that of the present day. Some
days ago a party went to the mounds,
and found sort of book records, written
or translated rather, upon pieces of
bark, and placed together like the leaves
of book, and tied with smaller pieces
of bark. Among the exploring party
was a gentleman from Boston, who had
made the language of Mexico study,
and who, upon examination of the
records found in the mounds, found a
similarity between the writings in the
records and the ancient language of
Mexico during the time of the Mon
tezumas.
The record is history, chronicle of
events; no dates are given, but from his
torical analogy, it is to be inferred that
it must have been about 1920, during the
reign Oh GH6 MOHleZuuldS III MeAlCO,
when the emperors of that name had it
all their own way, in not only their own
section Of the country, but up this way
as we'll. The records give the details Of
a great battle, probably on the very spot
where the metropolis of Kansas now
stands. According to the records, the
battle ragged for three days, and the
ground was strewn with slain, and a ter
the nfict was over, the victors, with
the prisoners they had taken, reversed
their steps, and went back to Mexico,
where the captives were to be offered up
upon the affairs as sacrifice to their god
of war. The records were evidently
written by the yictors, and placed
by them in the mounds where they were
found.
The records consi.t of ten large pieces
of bark, fattened out about ten or twelve
inches in size, and bound tight together
by thongs of bark cut into long strips
and pressed. They have been sent to
Boston, and are to be placed in the State
Historical Museum there.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
A Bourbon Romance.

A curious proof of the persistence of
royalty to the elder branch of the Bour-
bons, writes Paris correspondent, has
just come to light. Thirteen years ago
an old Legitimist, without family, wish
ing to make the Count de Chambord his
heir, and not knowing how to transmit
his fortune to the Count without danger
of its being seized or otherwise taken
possession of by the powers that were,
hit on the curious expedientof confding
his wealth (some 90, ,2OO) to his servant,
as thorough a devotee of Henry V as
himself, directing her to put the money
into a basket, to carry it to the Count
as soon as he himself should be dead
and buried.
The old servant promised her master
to do as he enjoined, and, accordingly,
on the morrow after the funeral of the
latter, she set out on her journey, car
rying the money with her in little
basket, and, having reached Frohsdorff
in safety, was admitted to the Princes
presence and executed her commission.
The Prince, greatly touched by the in
cident, endeavored to get the old wo-
man to accept the money for herself,
but she utterly refused TO do SO, or to
accept any pecuniary remuneration for
her trouble. Is there nothing l can
do for your exclaimed the Count, dis
appointed at her repeated refusals
"Yes, Your Majesty" returned the old
woman, "let me kiss youW The prof
fered kiss having been received and re-
paid by the Count, to the old servants
intense delight and glorifcation, the
latter returned to Paris, where she has
since resided, and where she died
short time ago.
After her death her relatives discov-
cred, to their utter amazement and
equal satisfaction, sum of over three
thousand pounds in bank notes, the
notes being rolled up in dozen little
parcels and placed in little basket
under the bed This astonishing wind
fall was forthwith taken possession of
by the sister of the deceased, a poor old
soul of eighty-fve years of age, with next
to nothing to live upon, and 10 whom
the sum thus found appeared sort of
California and Golconda rolled into one,
when, to the dismay of the heiress and
other relatives, they came upon paper
which proved to be the will of the de-
ceased, bequeathing the whole to the
Count de Paris.
1t was soon ascertained, through the
revelations of the postman, that the de-
ceased had received, every Christmas,
from the Count de Chambord hand
some present of money in the form Of a
check. The postman had thus been the
medium through whom the Counts gifts
had reached the old servant; she had
regularly ,cashed the checks sent her,
but had never touched a penny of the
money, the whole of which was found
in the basket. The sister, Mile. Conord,
has sent letter to the Count de Cham
bord, informing him of the affair. There
is little doubt but the Count will au-
thorize the poor old woman to take pos
session of the whole.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30
Tomatoes First Eaten in America.

Seaweed," Newport correspondent
of the Boston Transcript, asks for further
information concerning the first eating
of tomatoes in America. The CORES
pondent says: 1t is Newport tradition
that tomatoes were first eaten in
this country in about 1928. in house
still standing on the corner of Corne
and Millstreets. About that time there
came here an eccentric italian painter.
Michele Felice Corne. He bought
stable on the street now called for him,
fashioned it into a dwelling house, and
there lived and died. Previous to his
coming, and long after, tomatoes, then
called love apples," were thought to
be poisonous. A gentleman told me to-
day that in 1919 he brought them from
South Carolina and planted them in his
yard, where they were looked upon as
curiosities, and priced for their beauty.
They became later, however, a very un-
pleasant missile in the hands of the
small boy. A charming old lady also
told me to-day that in 1924 she was sit
ting with sick person when some one
brought the invalid as tempting deli
cacy some tomatoes. Would you
poison herW was the exclamation of the
astonished attendants; and yet Corne in
his section of the town had been serving
them for year previous. As late "a
1885 they were regarded as poisonous
throughout Connecticut. Corne lived
between the time of his coming to
America and his settling in Newport in
Salem and in Boston, and, though New
porters cling to the tradition that toma-
toes where first eaten here, he may have
introduced them as vegetable in
either or both of those cities. He prided
himself on having set the fashion of eat
ing them here.
"There," he said, sis that potato; he
grows in the dark or in the damp cellar,
with his pale lank roots; he has no
favor he lives under ground. But the
tomato, he grows in sunshine; he has
fine rosy color, an exquisite flavor; he is
wholesome, and when he is put in the
soup you relish him"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30

OF those who indulge in the delights
Of meerschaum pipe, few, perhaps,
know what meerschaum is, or where it
comes from. The word meerschaum :"
literally translated, means seafoam," :"
and the substance which this word rep
resents received its name from its re-
semblance to the froth of the sea.
Meerschaum is a mineral substance
which in chemical parlance is called a
hydrouA silicate of magnesia, silicon
and water. This mineral is found in
Moravia, in Spain, and in Asia Minor.
Many pipes, however, are carved from
artificial, and not from genuine ma.
terial. The artificial is material com.
posed of the waste from the genuine, tc
which linseed oil and alum are added