The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-02
PERSONAL TOPICS.

BUFFALO BILL has made about $780,
600 by his stage performances, most of
which he has invested in cattle. He
owns three thousand six hundred head.
TIE Rev. DR.. Mcleod, of Philadel-
phia, is preaching against the wearing of
mourning, which he says is productive
of needless melancholy.
The police of Berlin on the lst of last
August notified the kings of Spain and
of Italy that an International plot was
afoat to kill them.
A CINoINNTI girl, only three feet two
inches high, lacks but half an inch of
measuring seven feet around her waist.
WILLIAM HAssETT, of Newton, Mass,
has been sued for the cost of his own
gravestone, which he ordered year
ago in anticipation of an early death.
SENATOR CHAFFEE, as well as Senator
Jones, has had fortunate summer. A
silver mine, in which Chaffee owns
one-ha,f interest, has been developed
during the last few months SO that it
pays an income of S9, 900 day, of which
he gets half.
In Australia the telegraph wires are
preserved from being tampered with by
having device attached which conveys
an electric current to any one who
touches them. Thousands of miles of
wire are thus protected without watch
ing, the natives being in terror Of the
poles.
The New York Elpress is determined
to tell the truth though the heavens fall.
1t says: 1t isn't overwork that is ruin
ing the young men of this great city by
any means. No, it's waiting on the
street corners for somebody to invite
them into the nearest saloon"
A FOREIGN paper states that the boys
under sixteen, who smoke in the streets
of Coblentz, Saar-Louis and .Trevis, are
fined and imprisoned. Such a law in
Mexico would make a clean sweep of
every thing between the ages of nine
mention, however, that there are no
-"boys" in this city over ten.-Merico
1wo Republics.
Mr. jSPURGEoN writes as follows to
the Baptist Weekly: Going to America
would kill me-. can not bear excite
ment now. must be quiet. l can
keep on at the Tabernacle if my coun-
try friends will only let me have peace.
1t is coming out of hot rooms into the
cold air that knocks me all to pieces,
and to go to America to escape excite
ment would be like visiting the tropical
regions to escape the heat.
JUST when the great bank and grave
robberies are fading into what are called
mysteries of crime, we are reminded of
that greater and far more painful mys-
terry which the efforts of the police and
many of the people throughout the
whole country nave never been able to
dispel. The father of Charlie Ross is
still following clews, still looking, de-
spairing, believing, and-failing. Ger
tainly there is nothing in our recent
annals that will compare in pathos with
this blind and hopeless search, year after
year. for lost child.
DIR. D'UNGER, of Minnesota, who
claims to have discovered a specific cure
for drunkenness, is now in Chicago, and
proposes to prove the value of his dis
covery by an entirely novel experiment.
He will take deer, and in one week SO
affect the animal that it will not only
crave liquor, but beg for it, and refuse
its natural food, and he will then cure
it in three days by the use of his rem
edy. The doctors theory is that love
for strong drink is merely diseased
condition of the nerve cells.
I Poor joaquin Miller finds that our
society is "wofully ignorant" and says
"When came back from England after
my first visit, was invited to dine at a
house on Fifth-avenue. The dinner
was given to me. occupied the post OF
honor-upon the right hand of the host
ess. The other guests were invited to
meet me. Between the courses the lady
of the house turned to me and said,
'Mr. Miller, why do you not gather
your poems into book and publish
| them? Some of your poems are quite
too lovely Volumes of my poems had
already run through several editions"
The Superintendent. of the Hartford
Library Association says that, as rule
boys and girls read too much. Oul
accounts show that one boy has taker
one hundred and two story books in si1
months, and one girl one hundred ane
twelve novels in the same time. Th,
books taken between September anc
November 80 show the average reading
of Young America. They were in thu
following proportion: Fiction, seventy
one per cent; arts and sciences, five ant
one-half; biography, five; history, fou
and one-half; travel, four; poetry ant
drama, two; theology, one; miscellane
Gus, seven.
A PRETTY combination for a littl
girls suit is putty-colored vigogne ant
brown faille. The dress is cut princes
shape, and the back is open. The bacl
for Is, from below the waist. a deel
founce mounted in hollow plaits, witt
the heading lined with faille. Dow
the front is large faille plastron. Ol
either side of the plastron is a piping o
the same goods, and down the middl
are large round buttons in the sam
color. The side pieces of the dress hav
small faille plating on the end. Th
} deep turned down collar and cuffs ar
of vigogne and faille. The iron gra
felt hat falls fiat N front, and turns u
in the back. Around the crown is
trimming Of blue velvet, and down tn
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