The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-03-05
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a CoRN-CoB pipe factory at Washington,
NO., employs fifty men.
? AUSTRALIA has four universities which
rank with Oxford, Cambridge and Har-
ward.
No whipping post for wife beaters in
Pennsylvania. The bill was defeated in
the Legislature.
FISHING through holes in the ice is the
fashion this season among society people
in the towns of the Northwest.
Mr.. FRANK JONES, New Hampshire's
only millionaire, is said to be able to buy
any city in the State except Manchester.
JAY GoULD's holdings of Western Union,
Missouri Pacific and Manhattan Elevated
yield him an income of about So, SOC, 900 a
year.
NANCY CAss WILMoRE, or Auntie Will
more, as she was familiarly called, died at
Wilmington, ILL.,, a few days ago, aged 116
years.
THE Mississippi carries solid matter into
the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 100, ,0OO, 900
tons a year.
A MARBLE bust of Colonel Fred Burnaby,
paid for by popular subscriptions, is to be
placed as a memorial in the new Birming-
ham Art Gallery.
AMONG the fashionable waltzes now
Slouch," "The New York .,umphandle, /"
"The Kensington Crawl" and "The Eng
lish Straight
THE Public Exec utioner of England is a
man named Berry, former assistant Of
Marwood. He employs in his CHASTITY Of
fee a rope of italian silk little over FIVE
eights of an inch in diameter.
MILE. RHEA is said to have made a will
directing her body, at death, to be cremat-
ed, and half the ashes to be deposited in
her native Belgium and half beside the re-
mains of friend buried out in Nebraska.
THE London Standard puts the whole
Egyptian question in a nut shell. "We
must either mash the Madhi," it says, cor
what will England do with Egypt after the
Mahdi is mashed?
A NEW YORK policeman who went down
to Guatemala to organize the police force
there, is now the most powerful man in the
Republic next to President Barrios and
gets salary of $1,000 a ayear, an immense
sum in Guatemala.
THIRTY-oNE years ago the Prince of
Wales saw the Guards start for theCrimea.
He is still occupied in seeing soldiers start
TO the Seat of war, but Wales does not pro-
pose to go in person to make the acquaint-
ance of Ell Mahdi.
CAMERON, the correspondent who was
killed in the Soudan recently, was unmar-
ried, but his aged mother was depend
ent upon him for support. The London
STANDARD, for which he was working, has
granted her handsome life pension.
THE population of London in 1851 was
1852 236; in 1861 it was ,S03, $3.50; in 1871 the
number rose to 1926, ,26O; while the last
census gave 3,s16,4sS; and now it is esti-
mated that the population is 4,0S3, 1928, dat
ing to the middle of the present year.
SPIRIT thermometers. are used for very
cold climates, as mercury congeals at thirty
degrees below zero. They can not be used
to measure extreme heat, as above a GER
tain temperature the liquid expands too
fast. 1t boils at one hundred and sixty de-
grees.
LEoLA TIBBITTs, nine years of age, left
her home at Sheboygan Falls, Wis, in a
state of somnambulism during one of the
coldest nights of the recent Arctic spell
without suffering any serious consequences.
She was discovered while she was on the
way back from the school-house.
A RANoHER in Modoc County, California,
named Colin Anderson, while going home
through the sage brush with a lantern, was
followed by rabbits, attracted by the light.
The Modoc Independent asserts that the
rabbits were so fascinated by the light that
Mr.. Anderson was enabled to catch some
of them by the ears and carry them home.
The only child of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A..
Smith, of Bristol, N. H, has eight grand
mothers living and makes the fifth genera
tion now living in Bristol. The maternal
great eat-grandmother is eighty seven
years of age, and now reads without
glasses and can hear distinctly, though at
fifty years of age she was quite deaf and
obliged to use glasses.
A AwELL-HUsBANDED lady is now residing
in the State of Arkansas. She is sixty-f five
years of age, and living with courageous
man who has assumed the position of being
her fourteenth husband. 1t is said that in
the hall of her house there are thirteen
pegs, upon each of which hangs hat duly
labeled as the property of one of the de-
funct husbands.
GAS is used in few bedrooms in Europe
and in very few upper-class houses. 1t is
being taken out of pretty nearly all the old
houses in England and on the Continent. II
is deemed unhealthy, consuming the fresh
air of the rooms, besides being a very hot
light, having the property of soiling the
ceilings and dimming the paintings
Lamps and candles are taking the place o.
gas in all houses, except possibly in halls
kitchens and like rooms.
AFTER an actress had appeared in tw,
acts of EAST Lynne" at Mobile, the man
ager of the theater told her that he coult
pay only 500 of the 5000 agreed upon. Sh
went directly to the railroad station t,
catch an out t-going train, leaving note t,
say that, SO far as she was concerned, tn,
audience would never know the fate of tn
erring "Isabel."
GOVERNOR HARRISON, of Connecticut
has received as gift from citizen of New
Haven, a cane made of wood taken from
the Benedict Arnold house in that city.
THE body guard of Ell Mahdi should kee
an eye on Mrs. Yseult Dudley.
Ice in Cuba is worth two cents pound.
APOSTLE TEARDEL, in an address to tn
Mormons at Nephi, Utah, counseled tn
children as follows: 81 want to caution tn
children. There's men around asking tn
children how many wives their father
have. If they ask you tell them yon don
know. I'd rather you tell lie to defen
your friends and parents than tell tn
truth that will bring trouble upon them"
1T is not very generally known ths
Queen Victoria was once called Alexandri
Victoria, and that the oaths of allegiant
were in that name.
In some parts of C,sgon the snow hs
Leen nine feet deep this winter.
A REVOLVING story OF the inhuma
treatment of Ida Terry, thirteen years oil
by her guardian, Joseph White and vii
comes from Wallingford, VT, The atroc
ties wele found out by a neighbor, WI
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