The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-09-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

scum business
THE Argentine Republic has this year
shipped about 300, 900 bales of wool.
CHINA proposes to adopt postal cards on
and after January 1, 1885.
THE cost of the public printing now
amounts to $3,0O0,0O0 annually.
TWENTY States and Territories have
adopted compulsory education.
THE Garibaldi monument at Washington
Is to be completed by the year 1885.
THIs years crops in the United States ars
estimated to be worth $1,000, ,O00O 600.
THERE are e09,6S1 Germans in Chicago,
and only 143,o0o native-born Americans.
A PRAYER hospital for the performances
OF faith cures has been established in Erie,
Pa.
TEE Queen of Madagascar has ordered
her subjects to prepare for war with the
French.
EDISON, the inventor, is very deaf, and
thinks he escapes many Of the ills of earth
by the same.
A CALIFORNIA vinesgrower gathered
seven tons of zinfandel grapes from an
acre Of vines this season.
SEvENTY-NINE fires have been caused in
New York City during twelve years by
rats and mice nibbling matches.
De. DAVID s. HART, of stonington, is said
to be the oldest school teacher in Connecti.
cut, having been born in Middlebury in
I79o.
TIE death Of Senator Anthony leaves
only Sherman, Edmunds and Morrill, Of
those who were in the Senate in the time Of
Lincoln.
A GRAPE vine near Santa Barbara, CAL,
Is twenty Ave years old, is over foot in
diameter, and in 1882 bore owe. three. tons
of fruit.
A DESTRUCTIVE enemy to the beet-roos
has appeared in Germany. It is black
bug, immense swarms of which soon ruin
acres of beets.
HAN-QUA, Chinese banker, of Canton,
is said to be worth fourteen hundred million
dollars. he pays taxes on four hundred
and fifty million.
RosERr BONNER paid s227 7,o6o for eight
trotters: Joe Elliott, Edwin Forrest, Ed
ward Everett, Startle, Pocahontas, Dexter,
Rarus and Maud s.
TIE soft feathers of poultry are being
used in Lyons, France, to make a new
kind of cloth which is said to take all
cclors, and to be waterproof.
A MILWAUKEE, druggist advertises that
the way porous plaster acts is to retain
the back firmly in place while the pain
crswls out between the holes.
A RocHEsTER girl came down rope
ladder to fly with her Alphonso, the other
day, and lit in her papa's arms, who was
waiting patiently in the rain.
A Pennsylvania farmer shot a crow
which he supposed was pulling up his corn.
The crows crop contained twenty -oneI
cutworms and four kernels of corn.
The Wisconsin tobacco crop is reported
. to be 20 much heavier than was anticipated
that most growers find that Itheir sheds
are far too small to accomodate it. ,
SARGENT, our late Minister to Berlin, was
enc Of the fastest speakers ever in the
United States Senate. He could speak for
two hours, averaging 200 words a minute
A LITTLE girl residing on the outskirts of
Saratoga has nstted fifty dollars from the
sale Of sweet pea blossoms, which she
raised and peddled in nosegays about the
hotels.
THE young King Alfonso is in delicate
health, due, it is intimated, to a frequent
habit of painting Madrid red. That is a
sort of s'painter's colic'' that is unfortu-
nately too common.
PRESIDENT J. j HUI, of the st. Paul
and Manitoba Railroad, has presented to
the farmers along the road twenty-nine
clooded bulls for the encouragement and
improvement Of stock-raising.
WHAT becomes of all the watches, There
are nine establishments in the United
States producing 1850 watches day, one
establishment alone turning out watch a
minute for ten hours each day.
THE city of Paris has acquired lease of
27,o00 acres of the low-lying forest or st.
Germain and the adjoining meadows, upon
which it proposes to experiment upon util.
izing the sewage of the capital.
PATTI will not sing in Paris until after
her divorce suit is settled, because the
rascally Marquis she was induced to marry
by imperial influence during the Empire,
can demand and obtain her earnings.
STRONG carbolic acid is powerful poison
when externally applied. A m an recently
while carrying pound of it in bottle in
his pocket broke the glass. The acid ran
over the surface of one leg. He experi.
enced little pain, but died two hours after
the accident. The acid paralyzed his
nerves.
The largest dam in the world has been
projected by a French engineer in Brazil.
It win be $40 feet long and fifty-eight feet
high. It will back the water over 1900
acres, and irrigate 5000 acres of bottom
land.
A NEW method of finding husband has
been tried by young lady of Albany.
She sent mp a toy balloon, to which she
attached a card bearing her name and the
further inscription: ''If any good looking
young bachelor or widower finds this, will
he please return it?" After weeks alb.
sence the balloon was found by a youne
farmer, who returned it with his compli.
ments and photograph.
TEE late Mrs. Caroline e. Brown. OF
Waterford, Maine, left $500 to be expended
in the erection of monument to her SON
Charles F. Brown, the whole worlds Arte
mus Ward. The little grave is now mark
ed by Q bit of a moss-covered slab
HARPER's FERRY, which the Government
has owned for nearly hundred years, the
water power Of which is held to be the bes-
In the country, spot more valuable in q
historic way than can be well told, is to be
sold ito the highest bidder" on October 81
KEELY, the inventor, is notable figur,
with his long, black locks and quick, nerv
Gus step, which causes people to turn thsi,
heads to gaze at him as he rushes alont
Broad street in Philadelphia every morn
ing.
THE colored race in the United States il
estimated at 100000 strong, and thei
property holdings exceed S10o, 900, 900.
DE- PRATT, of London, states in lectur
that in 1000 married men, between the age
Of twenty-five and thirty, there are 81,
deaths; in the same number of bachelor
there are ten deaths; the widows numbe
twenty-five.