The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-25
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lhE MOriiiOn hrSeuHi mas Jusb tuTuou oub
10000 new muskets.
THE Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon smokes and says
he is not ashamed of it.
Mr.. BLAME has eight gold canes
as mementoes of his canvass.
JOSH BILLINGS suffers from catarrh. Il
Is not known how he spells it.
A FONDA IN. W woman committed sui
eide rather than dress a turkey.
THE Spanish treaty will, apparently, mot
begin to treat for many moons.
A NUMBER of Western farmers are trying
to organize gigantic potato pool.
THE Corcoran Art Gallery in Washing
ton has an annual income Of 500 900.
BERRIEN, Mich, farmers are feeding
their wheat to stock, having no better out
let.
P. T. BARNUM says that the receipts of
his show for the season of 1884 were 81, ,4O0,-
900.
MISS Lucy STONE believes there will
some day be woman President of the
United States.
Four thousand iron workers Of Milan,
Italy, will shortly be discharged because
Of no business.
STANLEY, the Pathfinder of the Dark
Continent, is now about the biggest
American abroad.
ALL space for exhibitors at New Orleans
has been taken, and 100 applicants are yet
to be provided for.
MISS PAYNE, q granddaughter of George
Peabody, has been declared to be the hand
soonest woman in Boston.
THE Tichborne claimant has been engage
ed to appear at an entertainment in Edin-
burgh for one week for f200.
THERE are thirty mine professors and in
structors in Princeton College and 519 un-
dergraduates in various departments.
WORTH, of Paris, will furnish bridal
outfit for lady for 0,000, but she must
expect everything win be very common.
UNEMpLoYED workmen at Turin the other
day smashed the windows of the Mayor
because he refused to receive deputation.
MEXICO appears likely to greet the New
Year with another revolution The aver
age greaser would much rather fight than
work.
A CUBAN lighthouse was lately sur
rounded by such cloud of red insects that
mariners reported thelight at a distance as
being red.
HOOPS and bustles viii be all the fashion
again next spring, and six fashionable
women will once more manage to occupy
all the room in street car.
IT is the man who sees no possible hope
of getting there who is now calmly assur
ing the public that he has no idea of enter
ing upon Congressional life again.
ExPERrMENT at certain school centers of
London have proved that a penny is suffi-
cient to pay all expenses for substantial
and nutritious dinner for school children.
PRESIDENT ARTHuR's son is said to be
over six feet in height and weighs only
about 135 pounds. He can hardly be called q
ys.chip of the old block;n he is only splin-
ter.
THE reason women, as class, don't
smoke Is because they can't keep their
mouths shut long enough to prevent
cigar from going out, says an old married
man.
FoRTY-FIvE seconds for message from
New York to London and answer is what
was done by the new Mackay Bennett
cable the other day, the first direct mes
sage.
CURR1ER,s band, of Cincinnati, fifty.
pieces, have the award to play for the
Worlds Exposition at New Orleans during
its continuance, for which they receive
52,400.
MRS. j. w. SCHULTZ, wife of miller and
farmer at Thornburg, Ia, while her husband
was out doing the chores the other morn
49, lx;Ilad ba,- %..,, ob;Idrar .,d barsalF
with razor.
Four masked burglars got into an office
in Cleveland, few nights ago, and, after
pinioning the watchman and blowing open
the safe, found much to their SURF Fise' only
sixteen cents.
"a NOVEL election bet" is the way the
New York papers speak of bet the pro-
ceeds of which go to the Bartholdi pedes-
tai fund. The novelty is in giving any
thing to the pedestal.
THE wife of Baltimore millionaire has
packed her little satchel and skipped with
q street car conductor, and now she can
ride up and down the line without paying
blessed cent Of fare.
MRS. SUSAN HowLErT, venerable and
respected lady of Amelia County, Va,
aged eighty three years, has recently cut
ael 49, sse - s ex+a,t 80 ~ -e-
sieno ~ . "one'e' IL, "a
JHE:number OF persons Killed In India
last year amounted to 22,soo, while as many
as 47,47S cattle were destroyed-in both
cases principally by snakes, but also by
tigers, wolves and leopards.
THERE is on exhibition in window on
School street, Boston, a squash which girts
7x6 1-2 feet and weighs 166 pounds. 1t was
grown in Nova Scotia, and the owner of it
last year raised one that turned the scales
Ut 299 pounds.
BosroN postoffice authorities have in
operation, experimentally, machine for
cancelling and postmarkiDg letters. In a
recent trial letters were put through the
machine at the rate of one hundred and
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