The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-16
L. G. GOULD.
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
MES. RAxDoLra cauachuL wears a sta,
In her bang. s..--
SANKEx has bought himself q home II
Massachusetts.
AMERICANS have $l95, 900 900 invested in
Mexican railways.
MICHIGAN has, by actual count, over SOC
small inland lakes. -,
The next orange crop in Florida il ex-
pected to be worth 90, 100000.
THE death rate from cholera in Spain ID
rising to alarming proportions.
Ar Zurich the police do not allow the
Salvation Army to parade the streets.
MRS. CHARLOTTE WoHLABER, q Brook
lyn woman, is cutting teeth ct the age Of
eighty-two.
NINETEEN years ago Lord Salisbury was
an editorial writer on q London daily
newspaper. - -
TwENrY-Nr.SE murderers from the Indian
Territory aye confined in the United States
jail at Fyrt Smith.
The young volcano discovered about one
year ago ten miles south of Santa Maria,
CAL, is still burning.
MORE than forty years ago the manufac-
fture Of molasses from melons was carried
son in Central Illinois.
By its conservative policy, the Cabinet
of Lord Salisbury is rapidly winning the
confidence Of the people.
THE Egyptian Treasury contains only
sufficient money to pay the expenses Of the
Government until September.
THERE is q plague of rats at the Invent.
ors' Exhibition in London. What is the
matter with therat-trap inventors?
England, brought e., 100 ($S, ,500) this sea-
Son. in spite of great damage by frost.
: ACCORDING to the statistics in Philadel.
phia every third house in that city contains
and maintains q nuisance prejudicial to
health.
MDDLErosS N. H., has no doctor, lawyer,
nor clergyman. The last physician lived
there in, 1855, and the last clergyman
moved away two years ago.
AN iowa girl has an album in which she
keeps picture OF all the young mon who
have fiirted with her without coming to the
point She calls it her rogue's gallery.
) F. 8. CosNwALLIs, a youthful descend.
ant of. the British General of the Revolu-
tion, has recently, through the death of an
aunt, come into an estate of $50, 900 a year.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, the author of
the "Uncle Remus" papers, is described as
modest, retiring man, very much like
Nathazliel Hawthorne, though his hair is
inclIned to red.
The number of children in San Francisco
under age, according to the last census,
just completed, is 67,775. of which 33,S23 are
girls Sixteen thousand of this number
do Zot attend school.
;. . AN acute observer says that trying to do
business without advertising is like wink
ing at a pretty girl through pair of green
goggles. You may know what you are do
ing, but nobody else does.
CURLED maple is only an accidental
form of sugar maple, in which the grain is
beautifully contorted. This form is highly
priced by cabinet-makers and $1,000 has
been given for single tree.
Ar Kaskaskia, the oldest town in Illinois,
there is hanging in a rickety old church a
bell which has hung there for one hundred
and forty years. 1t was sent from France,
and is said to be older than the Philadel-
I
pb2a Liberty Bell.
y The first two sentences of the preface to
General Grants forthcoming book are Us
follows: "Man proposes and God dis
poses. There are but few important events
in the affairs of men brought about bv
their own choice"
The bridge over the Suir at Water
ford, Ireland, was built by Lemuel Cox, q
native of Boston. Mass, who built several
other notable bridges in that country. 1t
is Of American oak.
BAKERS are said to have always exper-
ience great difficulty in observing the pro-
Eress of baking. FThis has been sur
mounted recently in London by lighting
ovens with electricity and providing them
with plate glass doors.
PLASTER mixed with newly Stacked lime
In the proportion of six parts Of plaster to
one Of lime, and afterwnrd treated to a So
trtion of sulphate of zinc or iron, is rem
dered very hard. Itmakes beautiful glossy
flooring, like polished oak.
!, j. L. BUrToLPH, of Middleburg, VT, at a
recent sheep-shearing at that place, carried
of the honor of producing the heaviest
fleece. A three-year-old ram yielded a
fleece weighing SO pounds and 13 ounces,
with a growth of 364 days.
Com abrade1 or effaced by natural use
is redeemabie at the U. s. Treasury. 1t is
good for its facs value SO long as it can be
recognized. Punching or cutting, ever so
slight, destroys the face value. There are
Treasury rules on the subject.
AN author, whose book has just been pub
Iished in England, states that the subject
of kissing is mentioned no fewer than fifty
times in the Bible, and sets himself to prove
that kissing, to be scriptural, must be be-
tween members of the same sex.
A RECENT report of the French Minister
of Public Instruction shows that in January
last 23,222 schools had school savings
bank, and that ASS, ,624 schoolboys were de-
positors in these banks, and possessed there
the sum total of IL ,2s5 ,046 francs.
ANY official attempt to suppress fire.
works on the Fourth must end in failure
They mean liberty and a good time. Take
these from the small boy and his reverence
for republic will dry up and blow away
and leave him a cynic or ademagogue.
"A REMARKABLE case of violation of the
Civil Rights bill comes from Chicago in
the advertisement VI an excursion, tickets
for which will be sold "to colored people
only" Will discrimination like this against
white man be tolerated in free country
No time is lost by the Russian Govern
ment in the work Of fortifying Sebastopol
Immensely powerful guns arc being
mounted on strong earthworks along tn,
shore looking seaward, and about tn,
town commanding the ground which wa
tho scenes Of the terrific struggles Of tn
siege.
MR. WIDOWS. who used to manage Oh
Bull, says that thirty years ago the grea
violinist took an active part in our Ameri
can political campaigns, and that Patti
who in those days belonged to his company
was an imperious and snappy little witcl