The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-02-26
JOTTINGs AND CLIPPINGS.

The Sultan's palace costs him about
$4,000, 900 a year.
THERE are 1000 Indians still living
in Mississippi.
STICK to those who stand by you,
and go back or a red-hot stove.
SEVERAL gentlemen, especially young
lawyers, of Boston, who live in suburban
towns, ride to business in fair weather
on bicycles.
CHICAGO packed last year 300, 900
hogs, being an increase of 10 per cent.
over 1878, and 70 per cent. over 1877.
Over 10, 900 men are employed.
THE best book reviewers are those
who have the curiosity to read a book
and see if it is anything like the notice
they have already written and published
about it.
FRAEK E. BRowNELL is to have re-
turned to him the musket with which
he shot jackson, who had just shot Col.
Ellsworth, near Alexandria, Va, in
1861.
A CORRESPONDENT at Alexandria,
Egypt, says a large and profitable sale
might be made there of American
-four, which commands the highest
price.
IT is estimated that so. 600 men and
women are employed in Philadelphia in
the manufacture of clothing, making
10000, 900 suits a year.
TIE Burlington Hdaukeye says that a
man never feels more forclbly how true
it is that "kind words never die" than
when his love letters are read out, to
the absorbing interest of all present, in
a bleach-of-pron i.e suis.
a MEMBER of a school board near Bos-
ton visited a school under his
jurisdiction. When asked to make
some remark, he said: "Well, chill
dren, you spells well and reads well, but
you haint sot still"
FIVE or six thousand years from now
some Schliemann of the future will dig
up a cigar store Indian, and show by it
the wonderful progress we of this age
a a In art, just as we now do with
the Venus de Milo.
AN loHa man who left one wife be.
cause she dressed too finely, now sues
for a divorce from his second helpmeci
on the ground that she a do nothing
put drink tea and write poetry.
REMARKS by a Texas maiden to hel
%peridious lover: 81 amt got nc
brother, and dad too old to fight, bu,
II you will just take one of these here
pistols and step Oft a few PAGES, I'll line
In the duet, and misses won't count
The Lacrosse Democrat remarks tina
there are several successful cases O.
nose-grafting; but if surgical scieuc,
viii discover some way to graft a mani
nose on to his W business exclusively
it will call it a scheme.
Gov. ROBERTS, of Texas. is more tina,
seventy years old, yet at a recent lea,
year bail he danced, dressed in nome
} spun, with seven young ladies. Th,
next DAY he committed two death sen
fences.
GEN. R. E. LEE had apew in the oil,
Christ Church in Alexandria wher
: washington once worshipped; an,
, every button has been taken by curl
osity-hunters off tie cushions in tina
pew.
was compelled, while
loaded pistol was leveled at him. t
marry Miss Moore. at Leavenworth
Kansas. He contested the legality O
! the marriage, and the courts declare
: it null and void. Then he voluntaril
had the ceremony repeated.
I a GHOST was captured in a New Ems
. land village last month, thrown over
Z fence rail, and vigorously thrasheG
= The remarks of the spirit, while thes
proceedings were going on, are said t
: ave surpassed any language recorde
in profane history.
. TIE New York Commercial think
n Congressmen should cut down thei
. edltorlally constructed speeches /
= paragraphs. Condensation is VIII.
= Congress wants" Yes, why not ru
! some OF the paragraphers for Congress
q No doubt they would fill their posilio1
y well; they're always pretty dry, yo
IL know. -
. A READING society has been esta1
n llshed in Deckertown, Sussex Count,
e ~ members are required to employ
certain number of hours each week
v reading some work previously desi
e mated, and then meet once a week an
discuss what has been read.
e THE population of Memphis, accor,
n ing to the latest Directory, shows a fal
ing of of 1850 during the last year.
i Is now placed at 40,957. Its trade b,
= greatly increased, the single item of co
ton being $4,000 bales greater than f,
the same time last year, and 6,O(
" greater than in 1877.
r, JHE late DIR. J. W. Taylor, of Blu
lington, n. j., has left a large sum fl
the establishment heal %Philadelphia
a college for the higher education
young women. Quaker doctrines wi
be taught therein, and it will be und
Is the care of Quaker trustees.
10 The quinine manufacturers want Il
y. duties removed or greatly reduced {
the materials which enter into Il
manufacture of the drug, includil
., freedom for East India bark VIII,
bought in Europe, now exposed to
discriminating duty of 10 per cent.
at Mr.. RUsKIN is quoted as sayin
You fancy you are sorry for the pa
OF others. Now, 1 tell you Just tn:
az that II the usual course of war, inste
OF %unrooing peasants houses and rava
af ing peasants fields, merely broke t
I'd china upon your own drawing roc
ID tables, no war in civilized countri
n. would last a week"