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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
English and American Ladies' Dress.


Mrs. Scott -Siddons is quoted as bav-
ing said "An American servant viii
tie on her veil in natty, graceful way
that an English duchess knows nothing
about" Mrs. Siddons will not be charged
with an oyer-strained regard for the
Yankee, or wish 20 favor them at the
expense of her own countrywomen. In
thus placing the servant and the duchess
in contrast she was simply emphasizing
a truism which was less q fact at that
time than it is at the present hour. For
among all civilized people the English
seem to lack the natural gifts, the self
reliance and ability of choice and selec-
tion which are the inborn attributed Of
American women. An English nursery
set of against nursery in this country
may be taken as type in miniature OF
the taste in dress and all that the term
terizes the women of the two nations.
In this country little girls find constant
satisfaction and congenial employment
in arranging and adorning their dolls
apparel. Left to their own intuitions,
from their elders, it must be owned that
play are often simply wonderful. An
English lady who passed thirty years of
her life in her native land, and who has
lived In this city half of that time, once
said:-"The homes of American girls,
SO far as am familiar with them, are
schools of art in dress adornment, and
whether their taste and skill are natural
gifts, or acquired by observation, / do
not pretend to say, but there is nothing
to compare with it in our homes in Eng
land" Consistent with this admission
is the almost universal tone of the
English press and of most travellers who
visit our shores from other lands. That
English women study comfort and
provide themselves with rich fabrics and
costly adornment in dress is past dis
pute. A dowager or duchess arrayed In
gorgeous silk, satin or velvet attire,
with the complement of green gloves
and yellow ribbons, and shod with
broad, heavy, loose fitting boots, is
hardly pleasant, though it is a con-
stantly recurring, picture OF taste In
dress among the wealthy classes in Eng
lish life. If the wearer has any idea OF
the contrast Of colors, any perception OF
the shocking incongruities which the
IOtfL S1tSCUtOtC VI ucI CObbul14O PAOcSh -
to cultivated eye, nothing is seen OF it
in the ease and self-satisfaction of her
demeanor. While the fact remains that
American women are the best dressed
ladies in the world, it is also to be re-
membered that while they, with vast
majority of their sex, yield to the cur
rent of prevalent fashion, it is not q
blind or slavish submission !; they think
for themselves, and stoulty, ON occa-
sion, assert their own individuality, and
refuse to succumb to the dictates OF
fashion, modiste or milliner. Their
natural or cultivated good taste, which
includes the lines of beauty, which Mr..
Beecher made himself merry over re-
Gently, is generally all-sufficient in doubt
and emergency. Their "glory" is to
dress tastefully and becomingly. Their
"hallejuah is the acclaim of sue
cessfully consummated purpose.-Neso
York EUe1ing Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Faoes have teeth in the upper jaw.

FRoas have teeth in the upper jaw.
The white ant lays 80, 600 eggs in the
course of day.
SCIPIo AFRIcANUs the Elder is said to
have first made the sardonyx fashionable
in Rome.
The islands of the Pacific Ocean have
been planted with cocoanut palm by
ocean currents.
An ANT, watched from six o'clock In
the morning to quarter of ten at night,
worked incessantiy.
MIaRAToRY birds, when flying by
night, are at an elevation of from one to
four miles above the earth's surface.
CoUNTNa night and day, allowing NO
time for rest or refreshment, it would
take over four days to count a million.
TIE workmen on railroad near Dem
yer, Col, have come upon petrifed
forest at q depth of from ten to twenty
feet
TIE Japanese, having no cattle, sheep
or pigs, but few horses and fowl. depend
on the sewage Of towns for the fertilizing
of their farms.
PERFECT quartz crystals are known as
Cornish diamonds, Irish or Bristol dia-
monds, according to the locality in which
they are found. e5ei
DURING the hot season in Australia
snakes are far brighter in tint, and more
active and poisonous than when the tenn
perature is low.
ZoonoaIsrs admire the dissected body
of fox, because there is never anything
unhealthy to be found in its organs.
Hence, foxes are long-hved.
Ar THE zenith of her grandeur, Rome
had eleven aqueducts, whose aggregate
discharge was equivalent to q stream
twenty feet wide by six feet deep.
TIE diamond is highly electric, at
tracing light substances when rubbed,
and, after long exposure to the sums
i rays, becomes phosphorescent IN the
| dark. -
BEFORE the Norman Conquest most
English buildings were of wood, and to
timber minister" was the common
expression used to signify to build q
church.
IT Is observed that trees in the peach
gardens of France, grated on plum
stock, ripen their fruit at least ten days
earlier than the same variety grated on
peach stock.
THE ripe seed Of the mangrove is not
scattered, but remains attached to the
capsule, still hanging on the mother
plant. The seeds germinate, the root
seeks the mud, and the plant is growing
before its mother deserts it.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
LATER NEWS.

A TURKISH transport went ashore IN the
Bosphorus, and fifty soldiers were drowned.
Mrs. GARYIELD has written letter to Sena-
tor Sherman acknowledging the pension
granted her.
A rHREE-YKAR-oI.D child Of John Miller died
at Hagerstown, Ind, from the effects Of impure
virus used In vaccination.
Qu1ET has been restored in Egypt and Q re-
volution averted BY heresignation Of Mahmond
Barondi Of the Presidency Of the Council.
z. E. snn1oNs, New York lottery man, has
obtained Judgment for $56, 4S0 against the
estate Of the late Cornelius ]. Vanderbilt.
An Austrian physician, who visited the Jews
Hospital, at Odessa, states that there are one
hundred and twenty-five horribly mutilated
persons there, the Russians having poured
petroleum into their wounds.
MONROE b. RosENrELD, author Of the song
4ssee That My Graves Kept Green, )" and other
popular music, was sentenced in the United
States Court &C Indianapolis to two years hard
labor in the Northern Prison, for passing
forged postal money order.
DICK RoaERs, q cowboy, and Jim Catron, the
Pagnas stage robber, entered the garrison at
Fort Garland, Col, and ordered soldier to
light his cigar. The desperadoes were on the
point Of firing, when . guard shot and killed
Rogers and mortally wounded Catron.
IT Is announced that the District of Colum-
bia Judges, who have had the exceptions taken
by the lawyers of the assassin Of President
Garfield under adyisement, have decided that
the sentence Of the Court below must be
affirmed. This means that the hanging il to
come on June so.
Mr. JENNINGS writes from London that the
influence Of Parnell, Dillon and Davitt, in Ire
land, is broken, and there is q prominent ele-
ment there rejoicing over the murder Of Lord
Oavendish and Mr.. Burke. At meeting at
Cooper Institute, New York, the other night
three cheers were given for the death Of Caven-
dish, and denunciations of assassination were
disposed of a. "humbug."
Hon. @. @. WAsHBURNE, formerly Major
General United States Volunteers, member Of
Congress, and Governor Of Wisconsin, died at
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, midnight May IL
He was prostrated about one year ago with q
stroke of paralysis, but recovered sufficiently
to take trip to Europe last summer.
About three months ago symptoms
of Bright's disease attacked him and
after that he gradually grew worse until q
week before bis death, when paralysis again set
In. Governor Washburn was born in Liver
more, Maine, in April, 1878, and was conse-
quently sixty-fve years old. He was one OF
four brothers, two Of whom have been Gov
enors of different States, and all Of whom
have represented four different States IN
Congress. Israel washburn, jr., from Maine
Elihu B., from Illinois Oadwallader G., from
/ Wisconsin, and William D., from Minnesota
| Governor Washburn leaves two married daugh
ters, Mrs. A. W. Nelsey and Mrs. Payson, wifi
! of Hon. Charles Payson, late Third Assistan
Secretary Of State, and United States Hiniste
to Denmark. His fortune is estimated at be
tween $4,000, 900 and sS,000,000. The re
mains were inferred at Lacrosse, Wis.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
3 New York World saw. "el.d,tor

ne New York World says: "Gladstone
el 'enged Ireland and got his answer. These
aers will be taken to mean that the time
ha Pome when England must choose whether
sn--flil go on as she has for centuries gone on,
70 &oyern Ireland by force, or whether she will
ntke up her mind to leave Ireland free to gov
srn perseh virtually to-day ~ an integral part
O ,r1tish realm, and to govern herself abso-
luf<.F at q day not distant as an independent
na<Hn. There is, there can be, no middle
grind. Either the English or the Irish must
rue IN Ireland. Upon this issue, invited by
d<rstone, it seems plain, British politics will
b4<enodeled and British parties reorganized."
be New York Herald says: "The murder
cc4ld not have happened at q more inauspi-
cio7s moment for Ireland. She was enjoying
great victory. She had obtained moro at q
stf1ke than she had expected to obtain in the
cQTrse of years. The crisis has now come.
Ff#re can be no more temporziDg, no more
Issuance. Coercion, violence, martial law,
wiltall be useless"
The New York Sun says: There is something
q n s{inq In the folly of the crime which was
81 &: s. Ii glt IN Dublin, and by which
thebearers of a message of peace and good
will were UNANIMOUSLY done to death. The
calamitous consequences of the tragedy We can
not as yet begin to measure. But when We
think of the huge power for evil which circum-
STANCES have given the authors of tho bloody
deed, it seems to us that something like curse
has overhadowed Ireland.
The New York Times says: It Ii in every light
aterrible misfortune to the Irish people. There
is in this horrible event one suggestion which
Americans can not regard without shame. 1t
is that the brutal assassination which disgraces
ireland, and endangers the best interests of
the Irish, is in harmony with the teachings of
certain residents Of this country, who have
steadily advocated it in order to fill their own
pockets. For this the laws Of the United
States furnish no preventive and no penalty.
But they ought to be reached by public SEM
timent of contempt and adherence 80 deep
and universal that even 0'Donovan Rossa
should feel it."
The Cincinnati Commercial says: "The
messengers Of peace and good will from Eng
land to ireland have been assassinated, with
circumstances of savagery Of the most frightful
and horrible character. Certainly England will
not give up her grip upon Ireland. She is the
strongest, and will for seven hundred other
years hold her sister island in subjection. The
only question is as to the means. II the
copious shedding of blood Ii Q part Of the
needful policy, the blood will be shed. 1t was
the Irish pleasure to exaggerate the surrender
Of Gladstone, and the theory entertained was,
that the appointment Of Cayendish to be Sec
retary meant that the revolutionists were not
to reap the fruits Of their victory. It was at
this point that the resentment arose that re-
suited in murder. Mr.. Parnell, however, had
confidence in Cavendsh, and his language i'm.
plies that he is as enc who mourns without
hope:"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
eu ano Ine FeniAns-

Parnen will probably come to an open rup-
ture with the Fenian members Of the Land
League. His outspoken denuneiation of the
Russian policy and his own placatory attitude
have brought down flood Of rather angry
reproaches from the infammatory wing Of his
party. Dayitt, however, stays by Parnell in
any case, and is even more eonciliatory in his
general attitude
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
The Au,i.Chin.se aiu.

The ePresidentsigne the Chinese immigration
bill. 1t does not meet all the objections
urged against the other one which was vetoed,
but the important modification of the suspen-
sion Of immigration from twenty to ten years
and the decided opinion in its favor Of Congress,
caused the President to give it his approval.
The news that the President had signed the
measure met with feeling of general satis-
faction in California, and great exultation il
reported over the ast. - ~ z
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
rhe ren.Ion Appropriation n,l1.


The pension appropriation bill is completed.
It appropriates 800. .000, 900 the exact amount
recommended in the estimates. The appropria-
hons for the current fiscal year are $50, 900, ,000
and it is estimated that further appropriation
of s20, ,0OO, 900 will be necessary for that period
The new bill appropriates for army pensions
as follows: Invalids, s74, 900, 900; widows,
children and dependent relatives, $40, ,0OO 600;
survivors and widows of the War of 1912,
$3, $40, 900; in all $97, ,0O0, 900. For navy PEN
sions: Invalids, 5000, 900; widows, children and
dependent relatives, $500, 600; in all 81, 800 OOO
It provides that the appropriations for navy
pensions shall be paid from the income of the
navy pension fund, SO far as may be sufficient
for the purpose. Additional items are: For
fees and expenses of Examining Surgeons,
5000; for pay and allowances of pension
agents, for salary, fees, preparing vouchers,
rent, fuel, lights, and postage on letters to the
Executive Departments and to pension
ers, S275, 900; and for the contingent
expenses Of pension agents, $40, 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Sergeant lIason's Case.

The Supreme Court Of the United States
denied the petition for writ of habeas corpus
in Sergeant Mason's case; the Court decided
the Court-mrrtial had full Jurisdiction to try
Mason for the offense charged; that its pro-
ceedings were all within its proper Jurisdiction,
and the sentence pronounced was not in excess
of its power
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

Fifty-eight mutual assessment insurance
companies have been dissolved by the Dauphin
County Pa.) Court. The Insurance Commits
sioner alleges that 213 companies have been
found doing business in violation Of their
chartered privileges, against all of which pro-
ceedings have been begun, with view to their
dissolution.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

Senator Hawley, on the 9th inst, offered in
the Senate resolution instructing the Senate
Committee on the District of Columbia to in
quire into the management Of the District
Jail, the treatment of prisoners and the regu-
lations regarding the admission Of visitors.
In explanation Of this resolution Senator
Hawley said that it was a notorious fact that
one prisoner had lately escaped from the Jail,
and that another was holding daily public
levees, which was attended by from one hum
dred to one hundred and fifty visitors, and
that he was doing thriving business and max
ing money. He considered such action out
ragged public deoency, and he consequently
offered this resolution. The resolution was
adopted without dissenting vote. In conse-
quence Of this action the Warden Of the Jail
has already begun the exclusion Of visitors,
and henceforth the Presidents assassin will be
left undisturbed to prepare for the jumping
Of place.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
indiana Repuhl,eans

The Republican State Central Committee Of
Indiana has decided to hold the State Con-
vention August 9. and the basis of representa-
ton was decided upon being one delegate to
every 200 votes and fraction over 100 cast for
Albert G. Porter for Governor in 1880.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Dianatroua Ntrike.

Five thousand men in the employ Of the
Cleveland CO.. Furnace Rolling Mill Company,
are on q strike, aud the indications point to .
protracted suspension of those extensive mills
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
national Frohibition1.t..

Rev. n. A. Thompson, of westerville, Ohio,
President of the National Prohibition Alliance,
has prepared call for q conference Of the Al
lance at Chicago, August %, the day preceding
the National Prohibition Convention.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

Business card, nf ave lines or s. So PR aunuun.
LocAl uoties, 10 cenis II ne each insertion.
Simple announcements OF mnrriag's aud deates,
md church and benevolent society no ices Inserted
,ree. Auy additions to ob:tr7ry notices vii. be
charged q We cents per line.
Favors must be han1ed in as early as Tuesdiy
morning to insure insertion the sumo week.
Communications upon subjects of general or local
interest solicited AK 5s5l
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
New Translation OF tn. Bible sssxe.ssd.

A New Translation Of the Bible suEEested.
A convention of Baptists at Greencastle,
South Carolina, adopted resolution providing
for committee to confer with other Baptists
with view to cooperating for the production
of new translation of the Bible, and giving to
the nations of the earth, in their own language,
the pure word of God.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
The Colored MEN of Kentucky.

The colored men of Kentucky will hold
State Convention at Lexington, June IS, with
the ultimate object in view of securing equal
taxation, equal educational facilities and the
right to sit upon juries.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

Attorney General Nash, OF Ohio. has decided
that the Liquor Dealers Associations of Gin
cinnati, formed for mutual protection against
infractions of State Law, cannot legally become
incorporated
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

Vaccination has been made compulsory at
Atlanta, Georgia, and any one refusing to COM
ply is fined $500 and imprisoned for thirty
days.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Penn.yivania Republic.n stat. Conven.

ttOu.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Conven-
ton, at Harrisburg, nominated the following
ticket: For Governor, James A. Beaver; Lieu
tenant Governor, A. J. Davis Congressman
at-Large, Thomas Marshall; Supreme Court
Judge, William Henry Rawle Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, Senator Greer. The entire
ticket, with the exception Of Marshall for Con-
gressman-at-Large, ia Of Don Oameron's pick
ing
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Another Ixan.a. Cyclone.

News has been received Of cyclone at
Cherokee City by which two persons were killed
and thirteen others wounded. Cherokee is q
small watering place on the Territorial line
south of Marysland, and was nearly demolished,
losing forty houses.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

Ths man McHugh, sentenced to death at
Cincinnati for stabbing his wife to death on
the street without moments warning, through
jealousy, has been granted . new trial by the
Supreme Court of Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
avecul.t,on on the Assassinatiou.

The police and people Of Dublin are begin
ming to discredit the theory that Irish
Americans were imported to commit the mur-
der of Cavendish and Burke, leading further
to the deduction that some ribbon lodge was
implicated in the crime.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Heavy Loss of Life.

Aterrible explosion is reported to have oc-
CURED from fredamps in Pluto Mine, town
of Bochurn, Westphalia. Fifty-six dead bodies
have been recovered
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

At Canton, Ohio, fourteen persons-nine of
them boarders-werep poisoned by eating corned
beef purchased at grocery. Three Of the
victims the report says are dangerously i'll.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
rhe Guiteau Case.

Argument upon the bill of exceptions in the
case Of President Garfeld's murderer was
begun in Washington, May 8, before the Judges
Of the Supreme Court Of the District, sitting
fr,h lar
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

the land act bill. In fact, had the rulers Of
England followed his timely advice, all the
present troubles would have been averted, for
all the influence he could bring to bear he
threw into the liberal tide of political and
economic al readjustment."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
Tourists Who Infest Egypt.

The Bladder, quoting correspondent
OF the Deb1ts, censures the conduct of
certain tourists who infests 2ypt. They
increase IN numbers every year; reports
OF revolution, insubordination In the
army, and cholera are powerless to him
der them; and those easy means of COM
munication, the steamers that now run
frequently up and down the Nile, bring
In larger numbers than ever the strangers
to see the ruins. Their presence, how
ever, is, We are sorry to hear, deeply re-
gretted by the genuine archRologist
In the thirty years that Egypt has been
thus visited, more harm has been done
to its old buildings than In the centuries
Of 80 much abused neglect which have
passed over the country. The destruc-
ton caused by the tourists Is really
serious; piece by piece the inscriptions
and the wall paintings have been Clipped
away to supply 'mementoes.' M.
Charmes describes how, on visiting a
few days previously the Valley of the
Kings, he found most barbarously
mutilated the famous tomb of Seti /,
which was discovered by Belzoni; the
alabaster sarcophagus is, it will be re-
membered, at present in Sir John Soane's
Museum. When Belzoni and Champol-
lion entered the tomb it was intact; not q
word of the inscribed text was wanting;
the wall paintings were as fresh in color
as if painted the day before; now the
tomb Is nearly ruin, and in few years
the destruction will be complete. We
may add to the remonstrances of our
contemporary the questions, How is it
possible to censure this wanton and
petty mischief when the removal OF
noble obelisks to London and New York
is thought worthy of public applause
and national honors? What is the diff
ference in stupidity between knocking
off the nose of statue, defacing tomb,
or rayaging an inscription and carrying
away one or more of the few obelisks
left?-London Atheneun1.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

The tendency of Senator Blair's testimony
before the Foreign Relations Committee in the
Chili-Peru investigation, is to e1onerate Mr..
RlAine and leave the load on Shepherds back.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

TWELVE thousand shovels and 5000
spades are turned out every week in the
United States, and yet the man who
wants to borrow one won't believe that
a single factory is running.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

Rev. Mr. LYON, of Bridgeport,
preached Sunday night on the national
sin. There was universal exchange of
umbrellas the next morning. g.-Dan6ury
NeaDS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
ThI. Mean. Ru.ine.

Two attempts have been made at Northfeld,
Minnesota, to blow up buildings with Internal
machines
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
"DId You Ever3n

A saloon firm in Columbus, Ohio, bent on
making money despite the Smith Sunday
closing law, kept open house on Sunday and
coiued about 1880 profits. While the city
officials we're getting ready to arrest them on
Monday a constable served q warrant and took
them before magistrate, where they pleaded
guilty, were fined $40 and costs, and remanded
to Jail where to serve six hours. Very neat
and very cute, that.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

The Government has issued warrants for the
arrest of John W. Dorsey, Star Reuter-.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18

WHATEVER you are undertaking to do
can not be done in your own strength.