The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

The snake-story season will soon be
over. ,TsNs azssss4 -~-s-..
DIo LEWIS speaks out against shoulder
braces.
PENNSYLVANIA reports scarcity of
squirrels.
THE giraffe has never been known to
utter a sound.
The railroads of Pennsylvania employ
seventy Thousand men.
LONG ISLAND farmers have opened
shotgun war on the sparrows.
CoNGREssMEN.are struggling into Wash
ington looking for winter quarters.
NEARLY all the babies that are left on
the door-steps in Brooklyn are girls.
THIRTY-EIGHr years ago the first postage
stamps were used in the United States.
ENo rats, mice or cats in Colorado, but
they say bedbugs and reaches are plentiful.
WE will be spectacled nation in fifty
years, according to the predictions Of ocu-
lists.
A MAN with three wives just died in a
Pennsylvania poor-house. Cause and
effect.
ONE divorce out of every thirty-four
marriages is said to be the average in Phil
adelphia.
KING ALFONSO is losing his hold upon
the Spanish people, and is becoming very
unpopular.
BuFFALoEs are now bred at Goodnight,
Kansas, and buffalo calves readily sell at
$50 head.
WATER, strongly impregnated with tar,
is becoming very popular in Europe as an
insecticide.
THE latest fancy in note paper is of dis
tressingly bright red tint, and it is known
as FL Mahdi.
OsMAN DIeNA was shot by an Arab
while trying to coerce four sheikhs to at
tack Kassala. /.
CENTRAL PARK, New York, is two and
half miles long and half mile wide. 1t
contains s62 acres.
BARON TwIcKEL, of Westphalia, Ger
many, has sent all the way to Oregon for
young forest trees.
A DAKOTA farmer claims to have raised
seventeen bushels of wheat in three years,
from one grain of seed.
LADY BURDETr-CoUTTs owns the small
est pony in the world. He is five years old
and only thirteen inches high.
ANGLERS for trout say they never expe-
rienced a more unfavorable season for the
speckled tribe as the one just closed.
In the matter of "tips," it has been a
very sad summer for walters aud other
servants at the watering place hotels.
FRENCH epicures recently feasted on
damingo tongues. To the old Romans that
delicacy was worth its weight in gold.
THE King of Denmark has a wart on his
chin which he would give 900 to get rid
of, but the doctors are afraid of serious re-
suits.
AN electric railway, now being laid in
Philadelphia is to be opened for travel Oc-
tober l. Its cost is at the rate of $4,000
per mile. 's1ss@
THE gas strikes that are being made all
over the country show that Pittsburgh can
not long monopolize the latest wrinkles in
the fuel line.
THE fattest woman in the country, II not
in the world, Mrs. Emma Markley, died at
Philadelphia few days ago. Her weight
was $50 pounds.
CANADIANS are getting sick of titles and
the Montreal Star suggests parliamentary
address to the Queen requesting her to put
an end to the folly. ..ess .=-~.
A CHICAGO woman who wanted to sui
eide, but didn't want it to hurt much,
wrapped her finger in a rag and pounded
it with a hammer.
A MICA mine from which sheets twenty
feet in length are taken is said to have
been discovered about ninety miles from
Virginia City, New.
IT Is thought that the French quietly en-
couraged the war feeling in Spain against
Germany. They would enjoy a scrimmage
between the two powers.
FAT a British royal banquet the plate on
the tables usually amounts to s., ,250 900 in
value. This is only about quarter of the
amount kept at Windsor.
Two prominent merchant tailors of Ber-
lin pay their girls the extravagant wages
of from twelve to fifteen cents for making
. complete suit of boys clothing.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE M. STOREY, com.
manding the expedition to Alaska, reports
that he is well fitted out for the winter, and
that everything looks bright ahead.
The old Court house at st. Genevieve
Mo-, the oldest in the Mississippi Valley
north of New Orleans, has just been tori
down to make room for new structure.
The Swiss Federal Council has expelled
from the Republic scores of Anarchists
who were detected placarding the streets
of Lausanne with revolutionary manifes.
toes.
AN officer writing from Suakim recently
says the ground burns the feet through the
stoutest boots, the thermometer in tn,
coolest room marks 104, and even the back,
of books curl from the heat.
BURGLARS seem to have shared in tn,
recent hard times. Two of them broke in
to eight houses in New Castle, Pa, th'
other night, before they got enough money
to take them to the next station.
A PRESBYTERIAN church at Carroll, Ia.
has the corners of its auditorium curtainet
off and furnished with cradles and rock
ing-chairs for the convenience of mother
who are unable or unwilling to leave thei
babies at home.
The Ex-Empress Eugenie is making
round of European watering places as tn
Countess de Pierrefonds. The detectiv
police of Carlsbad, learning that the as
sumed title was fictitious, reported her a
an adventures.
SITTING BULL says he expects to live t
see the Indian rise up in his might an
sweep the white race from the Mort
American continent. Well, if we must g
why, we must, but we'll keep the flies o
them while they are doing it.
CONDUCTOR DAVID r. AMBROSE,
Greensburg, Pa, too busy to take ga da
off," was married on his train on the s.
r. R., the other day, to Miss Nancy
Malone. The ceremony was scarcely ov'
before Conductor Ambrose called ou
Tickets, please, tickets" and went c
about his business as if nothing unusu
had happened.
IT IS proposed in Philadelphia to We,
tilate the sewers by connecting them wit
tho furn ces of steau m hoilars along the Lii