The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-05-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

IT Is denied that e1-secrstary Frsling-
auysen Is insane. =
A NIECE of ex-President Van Buren, Is an
applicant for Post-of1ce.
TEE tenement house system in New
York has fallen into disfavor.
GEN. GRANRw was unanimously reelected
commander of the Army of the Potomac.
BRICK PoMERoY has finally secured con-
troll of the United States Democrat at
W Washington.
A NEW ORLEANS editor has discovered
THAT young lawyer is the ,smartest thing
tn the world except q young widow.
s'EvHRY.navy yard in the country is to
be vigorously overhauled, }" is the edict chat
has gone forth from Secretary Whitney.
THE pendulum of the clock in DR.. Tyng's
church in New York has not stopped since
1t was first started, nearly twenty six years
ago.
AN Indian doctor in Utah was stoned to
death recently by his tribe for having
failed to cure patient placed under his
charge. -
JAS. d. FISH has acknowledged that Sal
lie Reber Laing, whose recent mysterious
death has created so much comment, was
his wife.
IT is said that Princess Beatrice is the
mistress of five tongues. Goodness
graciousl Does her intended husband
know it?
y IT is said that the electric lights at Sac
ramento can be seen from the high land
near jackson, Amador County, a distance
of sixty miles.
PHmADELPHA's claim to be called the
City of Brotherly Love is endangered by
the existence within her borders of 26s
base ball clubs.
THE Cascade tunnel of the Northern Pacific
viii be 300 feet long-one of the longest in
the country. The material and machinery
for construction will cost about 500, 900.
i THE current of Lake Erie has an effect
upon the adjacent shores sufficient to make
the spring season from two to four weeks
earlier In and around Toledo than at Buff
falo.
J. M. RICE, of Austin, ILL.,, has been
awarded the contract for the stone and
brick work of the superstructure of the
Jefferson City tMo.) public buildings at
$4,000. X
Ar Ash Ford, station on the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway, in Northern Arizona,
the water supply is brought by rail dis
tance of sixty miles and sold for fifty cents
per barrel.
TIE Archduchess Maria valeria, Of
Austria, a charming girl of seventeen, is
being taught matchmaking and the manu-
facture of jewelry in the shop of a Tyro-
iese worker.
GERMANY contemplates grand exhibi
tion of German industry in 1883 as an in
termediate link between the Exhibition OF
1879 and future Worlds Exhibition in the
Prussian capital.
on railways in Great Britain was 1,134 Gas
The number of injured was 4, 100 (as COM
pared with 4,1s7 in 1889.
MISS HADDIR ROGERS, dashing young
woman of Erie, Pa, is in jail for horse
stealing. She has passion for equestrian
sports. She hired horse for an hour and
took a glorious dash across the country.
ACCORDING to writer in the London
Lancet a consumptiye patient is in better
condition for recovery if he hes on e couch
in judiciously selected spot in the open
air, evenin winter, than in a shut-up room.
The richest colored man in Philadelphia
is John Mckee, a real estate dealer, who is
estimated to be worth between 5000, 900 and
100000. There are two or three others in
the same city whose fortunes run up into
the hundred thousands.
ONE of the new laws of Nebraska pro-
hibits theismarriage of divorced persons
within six months after the granting of
the decree, in order to allow time to be
given for setting aside said decree by
proper legal proceedings.
QUEEN VICTORIA is attended during her
excursions by George Brown, brother of
the late j. B., who was taken into the royal
service after the death of his relative. He
attracts much attention, as he is invariably
clad in the Highland garb.
AwoMAN in Boone, Iowa, who was sup
ported by charity during the past winter,
says the Chicago Times, is showing her
gratitude by public spirited effort to aid
in the improvement of the town by build
ing herself fine residence.
= Mrs. ELLA R. BRAoKErT, is Register of
Deeds for Franklin County, Maine. She was
appointed by Governor Robbie to succeed
her husband, who died last fall, when only
two of the four years. term for which he
had been elected had expired.
A SUPERFICIAL examination of the
Goethe papers, left by the poets grandson
to the Grand Duchess of Weimar, has
brought to light two precious treasures
the last manuscript of 'Gotz Won Berlich-
ingen" and of the "Roman Elegies-"
THE farmer king of Alabama is Bragg B.
Conner, of Barbour County. He raised
2,250 bales of cotton last year, besides a
large amount Of corn. He has from eight
to ten Thousand acres in cotton and corn
this ear, and says crop prospects were
never better.
THE King Of Denmark is father-in-law
of both the Czar of Russia and the Prince
of Wales. There never can be any rest in
this world for the father of girl babies
An Indiana salesman was mean enough
to strike, with stave, the panier of a lady
who had been stealing grocery eggs and
concealing them in two big rear pockets.
If the eggs were no fresher than a. good
many that are sold in groceries, the friends
of the Lady ought to take the law on him.
TEE house or sobbing wren is bird pecu-
liar to Southwestern Texas. Its melancholy
note is described as very impressive. 1t
begins in high, clear key, hkethe tinkline
of silver bells, and descending gradually
from one sweet chime to another still
sweeter, it suddenly falters, breaks of and
sobs like child-the song dying away in a
gasp. The song is heard only in the open
ing Hight Of dawn, and is repeated but
few times. The handsome little singer is
rarely seen during the day.
THERE Is large demand at Portland,
Oregon, for good servant girls to take the
places now occupied by Cinnamon.
TEE granite quarries of Southeast Mis-
souri,, are being developed very rapidly.
-Four quarries are now in active operation
in the neighborhood of Piedmont.
RRRoY RIDGwAY. of the Smithsonian In