The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-27
D.
CURRENT TOPICS.

a WHITE raccoon has been captured In
Michigan.
wNNEPEa has her exciting elections In
December.
JOURNALISTS in India are excused from
jury duty.
Toys that make gestures will be in style
this winter.
DAKOTA brags Of an ear of corn holding
1,742 grains.
Hoe cholera has appeared in the northern
part of Illinois.
PUBLISHERS say children,s books take
the lead this fall.
A FORTUNE teller in Cincinnati claims to
make $500 week.
RHODE ISLAND is now the only State
with two capitals.
AN English actor named Chimney is said
not to draw well.
THE Chinese have large theater in Los
Angeles, Cal. .---
Mr.. GLADSTONE Is fond of raw eggs
beaten up in sherry.
WISCONSIN has fully q thousand cream
cries and cheeseries.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE has never missed
session of his court.
A SCIENTIST says that it is water, and not
food, that makes people fat.
THE fruit crop of the country is esti-
mated to be worth $140, 100000.
VERMONT wants the treasury surplus
divided among the States for school pur.
poses.
GIRLS of a marriageable age are worth
sixteen dollars apiece in Japan, with few
takers.
A NUMBER of German military officers
have been engaged by China to take con-
troll of the army.
AMERICAN young ladies who have been
find an honest count.
THE late Duke of Brunswick was suitor
for the hand of Queen Victoria, but Prince
Albert ''cut him out"
IT is estimated that sixty-five thousand
pounds of paper were used to print the bal
lots used at the late election.
HARRISON, the 'sboy preacher" celebrated
his forty third birthday few days ago.
He is now almost young man.
A POSITION in Paris bank, although
paying salary of about $225 yearly, was
recently applied for by 5000 persons.
MISS M. E. BRADDoN, the prolific English
story writer, is known in private life as
Mrs. Maxwell, and owns up to fifty six
years.
THE income of George Alfred Townsend,
"Gath," from his aggregated newspaper
| work is thought not to fall below $4,000
year.
THE sewing-machine trade is SO dull that
| one company, doing business at Elizabeth
| port, N. j., has discharged nearly all of its
employees.
Mr.. WAIT, of Connecticut, will be the
| oldest member of the next National House
] of Representatives. He lacks four years
| of fourscore.
SIR ERASMUS WILSON, an eminent Eng
| lish physician who died recently ,bequeath-
! 1000, 900 to the Royal College of Sur
| geons, London.
A $75, 900 ROCHESTER girl has eloped with
| 75-cents man. Presently some heiress up
that way will be going off with a man with
a trade dollar.
THE telephone has been introduced in
New Zealand, Van Diemen's Land, Borneo
and Formoso. In Borneo the natives call
it the "hell talker."
| GEN. FREMONT administered an oath to
his men, when famine-stricken on the
Great American Desert, to die rather than
to commit cannibalism.
QUEEN VICTORIA has had the sacred flag
blessed by the Mahdi and presented to her
relegated to the attic, because it was SO
dirty and smelled SO badly.
CONFIDENT applicants are making Their
claims known to Governor Cleveland fol
positions as postmasters and postmistresses
About third are from women.
THE great extra sales of newspapers il
the United States in the last few weeks il
an evidence that there are thousands oi
persons who read only when they are ex.
cited.
| A MEADvILLE (Pa.) girl bet fifty kisses
against winter wrap that Blaine would
carry New York. 1t is needless to remark
that the other party to the bet is gentle
| man.
TORONTO is now lit by electricity. Th
lights are suspended from curved arrange
ments that project over the side walks ant
leave the light little higher than the ga
lamps used to be.
THE National Board of Health calls at
tention Of the Governors of every State u
the Union to the danger from cholera, ant
asks active cooperation to prevent tn
spread of the disease.
CONNECTICUT papers relate that in tw'
instances at least in that State, during tn
recent campaign, young men applied TO
marriage licenses to town clerks, who's
heads were turned by politics, and wer
given first naturalization papers, the mis-
take not being discovered until bride an
groom had presented themselves to tn
clergyman.
ONE-THIRD Of the newspapers publishe
in Italy bear the title of "Gazette," tn
name having been handed down from 1871
when the first gossipy little sheet saw day
light at Venice, and was sold for a sma-
coin, gazetta.
MISS NANCY GOULD, of Portland, Me
who provided in her will that in case of he
death property amounting to about So ,0C
should go to the Government to assist
canceling the outstanding Indebtedness, ha
fulfilled her part of the contract by expiI
ing, and the Government will attend to tn
rest.
DR.. SToEcK Err, the court preacher, {
Berlin, has been elected to the Reichstag.
/, MAY WILKERsoN, who lived most of he
life at Newark, n. j., was Durled 1eW DAY
ago. She was born dumb, and never utter
ed sound until the day before she dice
Then she began to laugh, and laughed cor
tinually until death stopped her.
VIRGINIA policeman. though eatin
heartily, grew weaker and thinner. The
] he threw up lizard and got well. Pt
licemen who wake up and 90 to the mit
night restaurant can not be too careful
see that there are no lizards in the oyster
BARON ALEXANDER vow STIEGLETz, tt
famous banker of Russia, died few day
, ago, leaving fortune of nearly S75, ,0O0, 90
How the average Russian woman mu
rejoice that her husband is unable to 81
cure newspaper in which to bury his fa'
at the breakfast table instaad of deYotir