The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
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lstraishss "A1 'au''si0n-'' my hat on
6FoR the 218tofcial places in the land de.
Partmens there are said to be 1000 an.
Plicants.
MISS F,ATE FIELD believes in cremation,
and is'a member of the New York Crema-
tionISociety.
BLIND Tom, the pianist, has a rival in
another colorded man who calls himself
blind Boone.
SENATOR EvARTs in the Hoyt viii con-
test said: "Death may be, for all we know,
mans most rational State.n
In Germany teachers employed by the
Government travel from place to place and
give instruction in bee-keeping. =
; CALIFORNIA railroads have reduced their
passenger rates from five to four cents per
mile, IN accordance with the State law.
By July Is the grand Niagara cataract
and surroundings on the American side
will be grand park, free to the public.
LIL1ANH. CUsHMAN is spoken of az the
coming poet of Connecticut. She is still
young and fair, and has graceful figure.
The management of the New Orleans
Exposition request the privilege of keeping
tAhe Government exhibit there another
year.
A BIDDEFoRD (Me.) liveryman bought
horse six years ago for $40, and the beast
has since netted his owner $1,000 in clean
money.
The King of Denmark has issued proc
lamation prohibiting the possession of fire.
arms by any person without special per-
mission.
IT has been suggested that the Govern
ment provide a permanent Exposition et
Washington, similar to that at New
Orleans.
Mr.. SNYDER, New York man who has
long been drawing pension, has relin-
quished 1t upon the groundIthat he was not
really disabled.
PERRY DAVIS, the originator of the
,Pain-killer," has for the past fifteen
years been an inmate of the Mercer County
pa Aims -house.
/, AFTER trying many methods for driving
away or killing grasshoppers, Californian
finally resorted to sulphur smoke, and it
proved decided success.
ABOUT fifteen per cent. more corsets are
sold in winter than in summer. 1t is said
IN explanation that the long winter even
1ngs are very hard on corsets.
A New HAVEN (Conn.) man has SUBJ
scribede one cent to the Bartholdi pedestal
fund, which, he says, is the last cent he has
and;the last one he ever expects to see.
FRANCES E. TowNLEY, a woman, has
been formally ordained in Nebraska as a
Baptist clergyman. This is said to be the
first instance of the kind in modern times.
THERE are children now attending the
public schools who will live to see, in all
probability, a population of between 6O0,-
100000 and zoe, 900 600 in the United States.
Our of the 1000 books counted as pub
lished in the United States in 1884, it is said
not more than 800 or $50 could be called
contributions to pure American literature.
THE oldest resident in Manorville, L. l.,
rs Mr.. William Ross, aged ninety-one
years. He says that he never drank a
glass OF liquor or used tobacco in any form
in his life.
An Arizona man has stopped taking an
agricultural paper. He wrote to the editor
asking how to get rid of gnats. The an
swer came in the next issue OF the paper,
'Kn them.n
V1CroR HUGO, who survived to such old
age, was, when born, such a tiny, frail and
grotesquely hideous bit of humanity that
the doctors declared he could not possibly
live to grow up.
1.-THE best monument to my husband, %
says Mad. Barrios, "would be man who
can take his place." As Mad. Barrios is
young, pretty, and has $4,000, 900, this
ought not to be a hopeless task.
7.fHE funeral ritessof Victor Hugo were
unaccompanied by bloodshed and Paris
breathes again. The Communists have
Is at discount in republican France.
ANobserving man writes to an exchange
that "an ordinary woman's waist is thirty
inches around. An ordinary mans arm is
about thirty inches long" If the above is
correct, how admirable are thy works,
Naturei
a ROPE that sounds whistle by con-
meeting with compressed air-pipes will
soon be substituted by the Pennsylvania
Railroad for the old bell rope running
along the top of the cars. 1t will be out of
the reach Of passengers.
SoME forty or fifty clergymen, under the
leadership of Rev. Sylvanns Stall, of Lam
caster, Pa, will start for bicycle tour oi
Canada, it is stated, on August '5. 1t lis
said there are about three hundred clerical
wheelmen in the United States.
THE great red spot on Jupiter is disap.
pearing in a curious way. An oval white
spot now covers all its central portion
leaving only narrow ring of the red sub
stance visible around its edge. The whole
spot is quite regular in form, and very
nearly concentric with the red spot, which
1T appears to be gradually covering up.
THE way in which Victor Hugo insisted
upon getting sick is thus described in
Paris letter: ''The poet has always enjoy
ed the most robust health, and even in hi
old age has disdained many of the hygeni,
precautions which are rendered NOR
necessary than ever when the blood ha
become chilled by years. He never put OF
an overcoat, and, even when the snow wa,
on the ground, persisted in wearing clothe
only at for spring or summer"
Ar Cornwall, N. Y, the other day,
woman went to the station with her bab,
in its carriage. The little cherub becoming
troublesome, she took it in her arms. Whel
the lightning express flashed by the sue
lticn from the current of wind Iproduced b,
the rapid motion drew the baby -carriag
under the train and it was demolished int
the smallest fragments. The mother a
well as the spectators were Mortified t
think what might have been the corse
quence had the child been left in the car
riage. -
SEVERAL prisoners were publicl.
whipped at Wilmington, Del, recently.
MAJOR PETERS, editor of the Watsek
Republican, and Republican member of tn
Legislature from Iroquois County, whe
assured of Logan's election, telegraphe
the boys from Springfield: 'Logan
elected. Paint my old home red" Th
boys took him at his word, and, shown
the message to Mrs. Peters, gained her cor
~.uk and forthwith the entire male popu