The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-05-28
CURRENT TOPICS.


KoMARoYF has been presented with Q
richly mounted sword by the Gar.
THE smaller postofices In the country are
being filed at the rate of one hundred per
day.
THE so-called horse-hair snake is q para
site of the cricket, and only becomes active
under water.
SENATOR DoN CAMERON sold his Wash
tngton residence to D. P. Morgan, of New
York, for $3.50
PALM tree, said to be one hundred
years old, is in the conservatory of Nor
wich (Conn.) man.
RUSSIA has issued orders that only the
Russian language shall be taught in her
German provinces and in Poland.
HARRY A. GARFIELD, son of the late
President, has accepted a position as
teacher in st. Paul's School, Concord, NH.
THE fashionable dissipation in Brooklyn
now is a round "trip ride on the "L." Ten
miles for ten cents is cheap enough for any
one.
MAD. KUKI, wife of the japanese Minis
ter at Washington, has presented her lord
with an heir-a beautiful boy. All doing
well.
BARTHoLDI, the sculptor will come to
this country to see his statue of 'Liberty
Enlightening the World" properly placed
on its pedestal.
THE engineers on the Delaware and Hud-
SON lines have sensibly concluded to SUBJ
init to examination for color blindness, and
the tests are now going on.
= DIR. GIBSON, of Jamestown, Mercer Coun-
ty, Pa, is building $lO0.09 mausoleum as
last resting place for himself and wife.
The material used is granite.
A FOREIGNER answering to the name of
Skiziwinoughkezenolowsid OFT was up be-
fore justice in San Francisco, the other
day, for some trivial offense.
AMERICAN silks are said to be exceeding
1y durable, and their luster and softness are
unsurpassed; yet they are sold for one
half the price of foreign silks.
THE longest word used in Eliott's Indisn
Bible is esittukgussunookweh-
tunkquoh." 1t is found in st. Marks Cos
pei, l., 40, and means ,"Kneeling down to
him."
THERE is no fear of an annoyance from
potato bugs this summer, is the opinion ex-
pressed by large potato grower of Mill
ford, Conn.,, who claims that the protracted
cold weather las destroyed the pests.
2 The new woman's pursuit in London
giving advice in household decoration-is
practiced by going to the house of newly
rich man and telling him what he requires
to make his establishment CONNIE IL fdut.
A CoLoRED man is steward of the
White House at 81 300 per annum, and the
l<,,n scr ,afI civ
servants are paid at the rate of $1.25 day.
All the help are colored, even to the boy
who dusts the parlors.
Two girls out in Sacramento, CAL, who
Thought it would be fun to black their faces,
unfortunately got coloring preparation
that won't wash off. 1t acts like dye on
the skin, and chemists say it will probably
mot wear off for months.
By q photograph of her which he held in
lhis hand-now giving a look at it then at
the arriving emigrants-a man at Castle
Garden succeeded in picking out from q
ship load of passengers his sister, whom he
had not seen for ten years.
! THE average strength of the Europe an
troops in India 1888 was %, ,525, among whom
the death rate was but IL. IS per /, 900. The
NATIVE army showed an average strength
OF ia, $50, with death rate of 14.31. The
lInost fatal disease for the Indian troops
fwere those of the respiratory organs.
THIRTEEN must be lucky number. John
Bennett, of West Fairland, Pa, died OF
consumption at the age of sixty, leaving a
family. of thirteen children. ALI are alive
and well to-day, the oldest being eighty
seven and the youngest sixty. Sickness has
never troubled the family.
MARRIAGE on the installment plan is an
ingenious scheme, for the invention OF
(which Massachusetts town claims the
honor. A Weymouth couple that didn't
have enough money for the parsons fee
agreed to pay installments of 81 week for
five weeks. Under this agreement the knot
was tied.
THIRTY different styles of weaving are
seen in the new thin woolen goods for sum-
mer wear, and there will be women who
will remember the names of all of them
but most of them will be content to vex g
salesman's soul until they find something
to suit them, and will wear it, caring moth
ing at all for its name.
THE Ameer Of Afghanistan has at last
made pretty good sword out of the re-
cent negotiations. The weapon is mounted
Win uianionos anu cose .'''oo rs' Inc IN
scripsion on tne scaooara 1T runs mus: inis
SWORD was presented 10 MS hignness Ap-
our hnaman man. Ameer Oh AIghanistai
and It's Dependencies, by MS friend, the
Earl of Duferin, Viceroy OF India-Rawa
Pindi, 1885.
In anticipation of clean sweep, the
postmaster of Golden, COL, has posted W
the following notice on the door of his of
hce: II have to get out OF this shebane
about the 1st OF August coming, and
want to close out all of this store truck be-
fore that time, and if any of you have thu
welfare of fellow-being at heart and ar