The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-07
CURRENT TOPICS.


AGroReIA colored woman is gradually
turning white.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER will be sixty-ssx
years old in November.
txAberdeen, d. T., artesian flowing wells
are used to run grist mills.
AT Calcutta, India, there is a temple
devoted to the goddess of cholera.
TIE Cuban Government is bankrupt and
unable to pay soldiers their wages.
A MAN named C. S. nedrunk lectured ON
temperance in Saratoga the other day.
IT is said 10000 women are steering canal
boats in South1fn and Middle England.
A HOG weighing $50 pounds has been ON
exhibition in Philadelphia for some time
past 80. 80 s 80
LIEgzENANr GREELx is to be provided
vita . comfortable position In the Signal
Copps. p
A CHINAMAN was baptised into the
Methodist Church at White Plains, N. Y,
recently.
No negroes are allowed in the British
navy without specisl sanction from the
admiralty.
MozARr's monument at Vienna will cost
more than the great composer got for all
hfs work, $4,000
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ss...11 rl ooD nsneri men nave oeen unususaiiy
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N,n. enousana i've looseefs formed part
oL tne cargo OF schooner which arrived In
'''. s'.s olner uu
laE saiue OF manufactures IN tne United
saess IN icoo was so,oou'ooo,oVo, ana In
1ngiana S4,vio,ooo,OOo.
H.l4 nELPHIA has z6l public schools ana
.ssss ~ .eo,ooo scnoiars. mere are Oh male
=. -'-so is'1A'e sesens1s.
Two Americans have been thrown into
s.s ss4 I. ,at As1lco LOT ee1a ming .nea character
sAe 11eA''an !. fesiueh'.
TIE ceieorated evangelist, D. l. Moody,
mas re.urned 70 America after most sue
8 =, -.'.s'' - - ~
Y twESI1-osE Thousand WIDOWS OF the War
2. lolz are stated s.Ns TO be stu drawing PEN
SONS lro1n sne eovernmene.
e,ss ooa ssus1..sn s "a snls country pay over
=. .sS,e0s -. Jsel- lor p9ssass on hattsI,
hoss ol Wnicn goes 70 farmers.
1t Is said that fifty Canadian newspapers
lave ueciarea IN Iavor OF independence.
Ass'on mus pus y" Auvoca'es.
a srhciAL oeeaii Oh picked poiceinen has
oeen sofaered 70 nunt down ana bring In,
..Ae. u aiise' Tue suos' Nv l shtoi'' y. y.
aoh cream manniacturers and beer brew
ers- report that the consumption OF their
wares Is almost as large In winter as in
su.'in'el
AN ola sea captain confcnds that water
dongtY lmpregnstec with lime Is SOW
ere,5n preventive, and an almost sure cure
:.
he SINKING Fana commission OF New
ork mas appropriated S2,oV0sO90 Tor build
ne new Rrmorles IN the city for the ma
1- seaa1.
1T Is said that Gladstone and Queen Vic~
eoria are SO cool towards each other that
foreigners occasionally mistake them for
man and wife.
A WASHINGTON Cry man claims TO be
able to tell the disposition Of horse and
the condition of irs health by the express
sion of its eyes.
The Georgia magnetic girl has been bay-
ing marked success in New York. She
should now go to Philadelphia and tackle
the Keely motor.
II rs reported that a ruby found in Clav
County, n. G., was sold by the finder for SIS
then for $4,000, and after being cut by q
lapfdary, for SIS, 600.
TIE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
refuses to rescind the order disseminating
tho collection of the tax on whisky by Is.
sessment after September.
TIE proposed worlds fair at Rome has
been postponed until 1894, as France has
set its heart on having one in 1889, the cen.
tennial of the revolution.
THr feei;ncr ia e-rovv;no th.t A.
ready to hand out pistol ON the least n,o.
vocation is q coward in comparison with
the common bully who fights with his fists.
In the ninetv-e;obt vears of lie eristsncss
the American Bible Society has issusd M
less than 1852 o3f volumes. incl,d;no
Fibles. tastaments and nortions ~ The .,os,
pels.
tTHERK are q, ,9s5 paper mills in the world.
which turn out annually .904. 900. 900 pounds
of paper. half of this is used.in printing
generally. while 900. .000. 600 pounds are used
for nevsnana,s : =
r.crosv for Nh. nrod,c.;o,, >, .r.,.
ac;., tsath e h, =. s.t. h1;.h.d 81 Jf,;,a n
z, where mnsticators will be turned out
ut the rate of 5000 sets per day, for the low
price of 81 so per set.
MRS. HARRIET BExcHER Srowr. who i
now in failing health. at her home in Fer.
nandina. Fla. il having her life and Iabors
noted by her SON, for publication after he,
death, in autobiographical form.