The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-04-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

April.
NEW industry is the manufacture Of
artificial ivory from bones and scraps of
sheep skin.
IT is said that it is the Presidents inten-
tion to have the cattle grazers driven out of
Oklahoma.
The Swedish Diet has voted to admit
pork (all grades), flour and meat into ports
ofSweden, duty free.
The Inventors Protective Association of
the United States will hold meeting in
Columbus, o., April %.
EDWIN J. PHELPS, Minister to England,
IS prominent lawyer of Burlington, VT,
about sixty years of age.
The Vatican has sent note to France,
requesting her to either denounce the Con-
cordat or maintain it in decided terms.
An Albany lady is to present the Presi-
dent with crazy quilt, made entirely of
Cleveland and Hendricks campaign'badges.
MRS. NELSON, of Brooklyn, foresaw two
funerals at her house. Then she died, and
her husband dropped dead on the same
day.
JOHN LIPP, assistant postmaster at Lin
coin, ILL.,, has been sent to the penitentiary
for three years for embezzling money from
letters.
Two things will come from Europe this
year, for neither of which is the country
prepared-the Bartholdi statute and the
cholera.
SYRACUSE, MY, has a five year-old
girl addicted to the inordinate use of to-
bacco, acquiring the habit when but two
years old.
SEVERAL months ago John Traynor
started across the Atlantic i'm a dory or
small sail boat. He was accompanied by
small dog. They have never been heard
from.
The Indians are beginning to show
traces of the higher civilization. A Sioux
squaw committed suicide, few days ago,
because her warrior ran away with hand
somer woman.
LAWN tennis is said to have brought in,
like roller skating, a new and peculiar dis
ease 1t is a rupture of muscle in the
arm. The ailment has already been digni.
fed by a name.
MARY MODY, Pittsburgh girl who lost
her bangs by the recent gas explosion in
the streets of that. city, has compromised
her suit with the corporation for $25 and
her lawyers fees.
SOME Eastern papers have added a new
and interesting feature to their society
columns by publishing divorce announce
ments along with the record of weddings
and engagements.
MooNsHINING is bv no means confined To
the wilds of the old North State, Georgia,
and mountains. An Illicit still has heen
discovered on East Broadway. New YORK
under a butcher shop,
Experts saw that tho s.no,;.o 90 o,,,, -.
ter republic is rarely ,,,ott,- Or - - :.
be obese when not vet twenty wears old. and
as for her taste in dressing, she hasn't any.
As rule Mexican girl is ugly when
smartly dressed.
Ex-ATToRNEY GENERAL BREWSTER de-
clined a sumptuous dinner rendered him bv
the Judges and leading members of the
bar of Philadelphia because he .sdid not de-
sire to participate in public feast while so
many find it hard to get a mealv
THE Presidents manuscript is said to be
positively painful to decipher. The stvIa
is sharp and decisive. and MANY of tbe
words end in marks that are little more
than nervous shakes of the hand. He
writes with almost a telegrapher's rapidity.
RICH citizen, OF Lemberg, noted for his
eany, .,, uieu iecentiy, ana lett, by his
will, 800 forms to the handsomest woman
in the town. The will says that the Judges
of the fair contestants must ignore tba
question OF morality in rendering their de-
cisions.
KING ALFoNso's big sister, Isabella, who
has been left out in the cold of thirty five
winters, is SO encouraged by the success of
Doa% 'oe 'na' she Is gong 10 9ermany In
one nopes OF catching an lmpecunious
fr,nce wnom ner orotner Will board and
iouee ior ner'
GENERAL VALENTINE BAKER has been
followed numerically by Nemesis, until