The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

TIE army worm has appeared in Berks
County, Pa
AUBURN, N. Y, convicts are now allowed
70 takeweekly papers.
THE Bank of England pays $50, 900 year
IN dinners to its employees.
TIE total ruin of the whortleberry crop
In Connecticut is reported.
The hay fever patient is preparing him
self for his regular summer dose.
THERE was q crop of oats in 1888 In the
United States of 81, ,000, 600 bushels.
Al. Indian burial ground has been dis
covered on the shores of Onondaga Lake.
TEXAS makes highway robbery punisha-
ble by an imprisonment of not less than
tsn years.
SENATOR CHAFFEE has been elected Chair
man Of the Republican National Executive
Committee.
6rExRAGE passage by the European
per passenger.
A Missouri newspaper advertises that
its town would be benefited by a few first
class cremations.
THREE little boys in Kingston, Ont, were
playing burglar, and policeman shot and
killed the youngest.
"A TROUT has just died at Hardwich, Eng,
known to have been living in a well there
Ger the past thirty years.
PnINcx BISMARCK has distributed from his
piscicultural establishment at Friedrich
sruhe fully 10000 young trout this season.
Our Scotch-American millionaire, An
drew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, has become
the victim Of the so-called comic papers of
London.
A BOSTON lady advertises for q kind,
careful man to look after the house and be
company for her dog during her summer
absence in Europe.
TIE most temperate men in New York,
says the mayor of that city, are the whole
sale liquor dealers, because they dare not
drink the stuff they sell.
Mas. QUINCY SHAW, of Boston, has been
compelled to close eight of her thirty-three
kindergarten schools, through depreciation
In the value of her mining stocks.
"A NEW steel cannon, just cast in France
for Spain, is seventeen feet long, weighs
six tons and throws with eighty-four
pounds of powder, a lao pound shot.
HENRY c. WORK, who died recently at
Hartford, Ct, and who was the author of
"Marching through Georgia. and other
popular songs, was a printer before the
war.
CAPTAIN ROBERT ANDREWS, aged ninety
three years, who started to walk from
Sumter, s. c., to Maine, nine weeks ago,
concluded to take the cars at Worcester,
Mass.
DURING the present session Of Congress
the House has passed bills providing for
the forfeiture of nearly 10000, 900 acres of
Land granted to railways.
THE heaviest fleece SO far reported was
taken from the celebrated ram sLane,n
owned by John Bell, Tekonshs, Mich, and
Is Of the almost unparalleled weight of 44H
pounds, at 1854 days. growth.
II is the current belief in some sections
that this country is rapidly becoming Eu.
ropeanized by foreign immigration. In
point OF fact, statistics show that out of
every sixty-six immigrants thirty-four
come from Great Britain OF Ireland.
PRISONS interested in carp culture will
be glad to know that gentleman in Vir-
ginia has been able to send by express
living carp of four pounds weight, packed
In wet moss, which arrived in good health
at the end of journey eight hours long.
A CORDUROY road has been discovered in
Lincolnshire, England, at depth of seven
feet below the surface. 1t lies beneath
Romanroad, and is therefore much older
than 1000 years. Biologists say that its
timbers, which are of oak, were laid down
10000 years ago.
ABRAHAM LEvAN, the noted blind farmer
OF Berks County, Pennsylvania, died the
other morning, aged eighty years. He had
been blind sixty years, but he did all kinds
of farm work. He fed the cattle, husked
corn, bound sheaves of wheat, rye and
oats, and even moved grass by the side of
his brother, who directed his movements.
FoR the third time new head has just
been put upon the figure of Major John An
DIRE in the beautiful fresco upon his tomb in
Westminster Abbey. Exactly six cases of
sacrilege have occurred at this tomb. The
heads of George Washington and of Maj.
Andre, both being prominent in the fresco,
have been three times stolen respectively.
Americans are accused of this vandalism.
STURGEON weighing from twenty to sew
enty pounds are caught in great numbers
in Lake Winnebago, Wis. The Lake Win
nebago sturgeon is highly priced among
the lumbermen and others in the region
Its flesh is finer and of better flavor than
the saltwater surgeons. The fish sells
for six cents q pound at retail. Large
quantities are salted and smoked for use in
the lumber camps.
GENERAL DI CEsNoLA's troubles are not
yet over, it appears. The New York cor
respondent of the Troy Times learns that
the war will soon break out again with all
its former violence, the next attack upon
the Cypriote explorer being based upon the
alleged discovery of modern jewelry among
the collection which Cesnola says he found
in one spot under Cyprus temple cut in
solid rocks. The latest critic says that
some of this jew elry is machine-made and
comes from Newark.
FOURTEEN millions of dollars were re-
moved recently from the United Bank
building to the elegant new structure of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company in Nassau
street, N. Y. First came the colered porter of
the banking concern, carrying peck basket
In either hand. The porter was the Gus
todian of $500, 900. Next came the Office
boy with books and papers representing
push-wagon, on which were piled 81 500 900.
Inese eHectS belonged TO tno labe nrm OF
Grant & Ward.
A NOVEL wedding ceremony is to be per.
formed about the middle of July in Texas.
The bride is ''sweet girl graduate''
graduste from Vassar and her intended
husband is cattle herder. She has
gone all the way to Texas to marry him,
as he can not possibly come North. The
ceremony will be performed in front OF
his cabin. The whole roof of the house
il to be covered with the lovely wild
flowers of the State, while carpet of them
twenty-five feet square will be placed ir
front Of the door, with q canopy at on.
end, under which the young couple will bt
united.