The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-10


gress on the Canada reciprocity treaty.
STANLEY Is obliged to abandon his work
in Central Africa on account of i'll health.
TIE Gear of Russia has given 500 600 for
the relief of sufferers in inundated Po-
land.
NEW MEXICO has 5000, 1000 sheep and
100000 cattle on its 75,5s0,0O0 acres of
land.
ToRoSro newspapers and printing offices
contemplate reducing the price of compo-
sition.
WILLIAMS CoLLEeE has conferred the de-
gree of LID. upon United States Senator
Ingalls,. .,..s4
AsFEwcrazy womenin Paris are wearing
straw hats with square corners. They are
anything but pretty.
TEE fifteen days leave of absence to be
granted to the letters-carriers will cost the
Government $4,000.
TIE largest bass ever caught in the Hu1-
son was taken the other day, and weighed
eighty-four pounds.
OEE year of three-cent postage brought
the Government 81, ,o0o, 900, and one year of
two-cent nearly S41 ,0O0, 900.
report that the melon crop in Georgia will
be short is not distressing news.
THIRTY ticket agents of the Manhattan
Elevated Railway, New York, are impli-
Gated in selling counterfeit tickets.
A BILL will soon be introduced in the
Parliament of Holland, dealing with the
question of succession to the throne.
TEE British Government has given an
English firm of shipbuilders an order for
the largest torpedo boat ever built.
MISS MAMIE RIeGs, well-known Balti.
more young lady, has entered Mount De
Sales Convent, near Washington City.
GERMAN official returns show that 5S,173
Germans have emigrated this year, an in
crease of 2,5A over same time last year.
DURING recent thunderstorm in Kan
sas, thfrty-five cattle standing near a
barbsd wire fence were killed by lightning.
NILSSON, Theodore Thomas, the Hen.
schels, Juch and the Wagner Trio, Materna,
Scaria and Winkelmann, have sailed for
Europe.
A LARGE staff of Yale professors are
engaged upon revision of new edition
of Webster's dictionary which will soon
appear.
WHITE stockings are coming once again
into fashion in. London, from the crusade
by the doctors against colored wear as slow
poisoners.
Two bark peelers, at work on Beach
Mountain, near Forestburgh, N. z, day
or two ago. killed fifty-one rattlesnakes,
ranging from eighteen inches to four feet
in length.
THERE was large gathering of old set.
tiers at Wyoming, Pa, the other day, to
commemorate the battle and massacre of
Wyoming.
THE Mayor of Oakland, CAL, has revived
the old-custom of ringing the curfew bell
at nine O'Clock, and all boys under fifteen
who are on the streets after that hour will
be arrested.
A PosroFFIcE is being erected on Mount
Sinai, the Bedouin Arabs having agreed to
allow the mail carrier to pass through
their territories on their being paid a hand
some tribute.
A CATTLE king says that within ten years
Omaha will be the cattle center of the
country. An abattoir is now being built
there which will cover 400 acres, and will
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A .- -. - - ,,,;r,d hec.nse ne an.
--.--...:,,, r.. h..,, made for, tho ,ayr,ent
of their salaries.
An English gardener advises trapping
ants with bones upon which some meat has
been left, and dipping occasionally in hot
water. For s.slugs and wire worms" he
uses pieces of potato or carrot.
CIur is said to be used by some of the
confectioners in making ice-cream. All
the funny papers win now be telling about
the young man who says he has found out
what makes his girl SO 'sstuck upn of late.
Tur breach of promise case of Miss
Fortescte. the actress. against Lord Gar
movie. at London, has been amicably set
tied out of court, Lord Cairns, Garmoyle's
father, having satisfied the young lady's
demands.
In the Commons Lord Edmund Fitzmau-
rice. Under Foreign Secretary, announced
that the whereabouts of Sheldon, the Eng
lishman reported captured by outlaws in
Kansas, and held for ransom, had not been
discovered.
MOUNTED orderlies in the Italian army
now use the bicycle, and in other coun-
tries I'M Europe it is. used by mail car.
r;ers. messengers, telegraph bows and
many others.
N,ss Nr,1n Aaruue- the danpbter of
/. the President, the other afternoon went to
the ton of the Washington monument. and.
under the direction of the principal stone.
srtter. with her own hands set one of the
I, stones in position.
IT has recently been proposed to prevent
petroleum hres by placing a bottle OF am
monia In each barrel Oh tne OIL. on lgnl