The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
hA has had four Presidents since

IHE people of British Columbia declare
that the Chinese must go.
Mrs. PALMELKA, of Chatsfield, MINI. has
reached the age of 1O5 years.
In the United States last year there were
manufactured 7oS, 137 900 pounds of nails.
DRUNKENNESS is greatly on the increase
IN Mexico, according to a statement in the
Itoo Republics of that city.
A NOVELTY in Long Island farming the
present year will be the extensive cultiva-
aon OF peanuts as an experiment.
II said To have been a rule with Ninon de
pEncios, whose skin was the admiration of
oehoiders, to use rain-water exclusively.
SECRETARY ESDICoTT has issued an order
That al clerks in the War Department must
pay their just debts or be subject to dis
charge.
The British Columbia militia are drilling
twice week in anticipation that their
services may be required by the mother
country.
i-EUGENE SCHUYLER has given Cornell
University 500 volumes, mainly the author
tiles which he used in writing his "Peter
the Great"
VACCINATION with the microbe of leprosy
is about to be undertaken in Honolulu,
where the disease is spreading to an alarm
ing extent.
The wheat pi respects in Kansas this year
Is reported to be very poor, and many
farmers are already ploupbinp mn their
wheat crops.
The largest prune orchard in the world
Is situated one mile from Saratoga, CAL,
and contains 16, 900 trees. II was recently
sold for S72 900.
EL MAKKr. a rival of the False Pronbet
in the Soudan. is now said to he Larry
Mackey. who used to keen a shoe store in
Donegal. Ireland.
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ance at Queen Victoria,s last ssdraw WING.
roomp was Mrs. Cowasiue Tebaniue Raadv
Money, wife of an Indian embassador
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ias Mon'peiier Medtcas thinks that
canse of cancer. the use of tobacco often
preserves people from contao o;ons d;sor.
ders.
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vaors &c :. 10. "no s's''eu Anerica some
and under bis sn,,arr,;s;o,, +h. pnss;o
naval estnblisbn,a,,t has ha.,, ;,,,,,a-,soI-,
improved
Tzppp .,. u;a.,
Texas. which is one milo ~ isurth y, sg,
miles in circumference, and from three to
four feet deep. Its bed consists of crystals
OF pure salt.
TIE opinion of the homeopathic nbvsi-
cians is that camphor is a good remedy
for cholera, and acts also as n nreventive
wnen worn about the person. This is worth
remembering.
! In giving his daughter $3.50, ,0OO the Duke
of Bedford gives her about half a years
income. His rural property Yields that
sum, and he owns an immense district in
London as well.
= JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Oregon, possesses a
natural curiosity in the shape of a subter-
ranean cavern. 1t is situated in the noun
tairs south of Grants Pass, and has never
been thoroughly explored.
THERE are twenty persons whose gifts to
colleges in this country aggregate over
$23 900. Three of these rich mem
Stephen Girard, John Hopkins and Asa
Packer gave over $14, ,OOO, goo.
M:pE ouARrRErrAaEs stated recentlv
at a. meeting of the Academic des Sciences
that in Seneeambia the incubation of cat
tie against pleuro- pneumonia and small.
pox had been practiced for centuries.
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1T was Napoleon Bonaparte who said
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p,SsN ps- " - =, o "a w i'"ny u
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IHE new sun neater, Ior houses, Is OF
course only auxiliary to more reliable
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pnoaaon ~. ~ 'ne pi.n,ple VI one green
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iHE cui1iVa.ion Oh eucalyptus trees Ior
iuei mas peen regun at Los Angeios, Cai.
IL Is SAID tnat an acre OF them, after
lapse OF iouf OF nVe years, Will yleld as
A'u0A .Ao % On aie VI grapes
the oooy oi MISS Aaoe ohiuisey' Iouno tna1
she came TO her death from consumption.
They found no evidence OF starvation,
which is uggestive that the nine months
fast was wholly OF the imagination.
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