The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

BILE farm land in Illinois.
0THE Princess of Wales has taken to pho
Biography as an amusement.
In the Marie-Garrison suit in New York
over 100000 was paid to the lawyers as
fees.
BARTHoLDI modelled his statue of "Liber-
ty" after his mother, who was a beautiful
woman.
SAID that cayenne pepper scattered
about the haunts of sparrows, will drive
them away.
, A BABY two months old and weighing
only five pounds is the latest sensation at
Los Angeles, Cal.
A ATwENTY-YEAR-oLD lad is among those
seeking divorce in Toccoa, Ga. He has
been married two years.
The total product Of coal in 1884 was
106,906, ,295 long tons, with total value of
$143, ,76s,57s at the mines.
A NEW postmaster has been appointed at
Promised Land. Here's a chance for some
smart editor to get off a pun.
In Madrid the people prevent the health
authorities from taking proper steps to
prevent the spread of the cholera.
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD boy at Portland,
Oregon, ate three pounds of Strawberries
in thirteen minutes the other day.
THERE are twenty -one thousand widows
f.old soldiers of the war of 1872 drawing
pensions from the U. S. Government.
The wedding cake to be seen at the mar
riage of the Princess Beatrice will weigh
250 pounds, and will rest on a pedestal of
gold.
Two brothers, farmers in Nottingham, N.
H., aged eighty-eight and eighty -one years
respectively, have done all their own plow-
ing this year.
THE New York Board of Aldermen has
decided to change the name of Bedloe's Is
land, on which the Bartholdi statue is to
stand, to Liberty Island.
Mr.. HAY, assistant Postmaster General,
for the conduct of postmasters appointed
upon their recommendation.
{. THE grand jury of Kansas City recon-
mends the construction of bath-house in
the Jail at that point, and that prisoners be
compelled to bathe once a week.
The rainy season has begun in Demerara.
The sugar crop is expected to be below 100,-
600 tons. In Port Spain the weather is very
favorable, benefting the growing cane.
Gov. IRELAND, of Texas, was arrested
the other day for keeping his carriage
$40 and costs. Texas justice is no respecter
Of persons.
A PARTY of SUBJ -Lieutenants of the navy
at Portsmouth forced an entrance into
the residence of an editor and assaulted
him, in revenge for some published criti-
cism on their conduct.
A TRACT of 100 acres of hilly and WELL
wooded land in Watervliet, N. Y, has
been leased by number of New Workers
and Bostonians, who propose converting it
into park for hunting foxes.
BRooMs and broom brushes in England,
France, Belgium and Denmark are now
generally made from a sort of palm
known in Brazil as piassaud. The fiber of
this palm is also employed in Brazil for
ropes.
SToATs and weasels are still being sent
to New Zealand in large numbers. They
are purchased in England at from ST. to
$1.50 each, and many English farmers, un-
able to realize from the usual crops, have
turned their attention to weasel raising.
vIcroR HUGO has left great fortune
5000, ,000-on deposit with the Rosthchilds
and larger sum with the Bank of Bel
gium, together with real estate in Paris
and Germany and his very valuable copy
rights. He must have been worth at least
$2,oOO,oOo.
CINCINNATI enjoys the honor of having
two Ministers to foreign courts, Hon. Geo.
H. Pendleton, Minister to Germany, and
Hon. j. B. Stallo, Minister to Italy. Sa-
vannah, Ga, has also two-Mr. Lawton,
Minister to Russia, and Mr.. jackson, Min
lister to Mexico.
A PITTSBURGH hen being closely chased
by little dog, made straight for the for
ward truck of a passing street car and
threw herself under it with her neck across
the rail. The head was severed from the
body in twinkling. 1t is thought to be a
deliberate case of suicide.
OREGON has its antiquities as well as the
older States. About hundred years age
an old tree blew down. Recently an eccen-
trio genius followed out the stump, cut a
door and window in it, and made it a cosy
room in which he lives. He estimates that
his house is nearly 800 years old.
The time of day is announced every day
ut Woolwich, England, at p. m. and 9:3(
p. M, by firing off blank charge of pow
der from a nine-pounder bronze gun. Not
withstanding this fact, a courageous little
sparrow has made her nest in one of the
bikes of the carriage on which the CUR
rests, and has hatched out five little spar.
pows.
THERE are twenty large glucose estab'
lishments located in seven different States
with an invested capital of over $40, 100000
and a capacity to consume 61,OOO bushels
of corn day, giving employment to 4,5Ii
working men, paying annually So ,05S, 750 il
wages, consuming $1,3703,OO worth of ma
terials, and yielding product worth $ls,'
10000.
I ABRAHAM HANSON, a negro hoy of Law
renee, Kan, can pick up piece of clay
and mold it in few minutes to almost any
form that suggests itself to his mind, witt
a life-likeness truly astonishing. From thu
common clay there found in abundance
without tools of any kind, without models
OF designs, he forms men and beasts with I
wonderful reality and no inconsiderabl'
artistic talent.
A PHILADELPHIA paper recently ana
Iyzed the list of three hundred names of fe
males attending Normal School, in tina
city, in order to test which was the mos
favorite Christian names. Mary led OF
with 80, closely followed by Anna with q
Elizabeth was third with II and Laura wa
a good fourth with 16. Then came Mar
garet, 10; Katharine. II; Helen, 8; Emma
s; Lillian, 8; Clara, z; Jane, q; Louisa, G
Alice, 6; Caroline, s.; Emily, D; Harriet,
AN Iowa Judge having decided that
husband is bound to tell his wife where
spends his evenings when he is away fror
home, there will be an exodus of marie
men from that inhospitable cline.
ONO has 1,017, 900 head of cattle maxim
24.S to the square mile; Tennessee ha
7s3,674 OF IS to the square mile; Iowa ha
85.S to the mile; Illinois %; New York IL
and Texas 1873. For the United STATES 6