The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-01
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and sawdust enter largely into the
nts of the cigarette.
AsToR has the furniture formerly
enie's boudoir at the Tuileries.;
ALICE M. BACON, an American girl,
'ecently won success as pianist in
b.
lone the Esquimaux you can buy
skin sacque for two iron hoops and
tpenny nail.
A LONDON bank has issued an order for
dding clerks whose income is less than
100 a year to marry.
IT is said that there are fully S00females
n the United States who are masquerad-
Ing in masculine garments.
WYOMING ranchmen are complying with
the Governments order, and removing their
fences from the public domain.
A York County (Pa.) grocer swore out
a warrant against his wife for pouring .
gallon of molasses over his head.
BARTLEY CAMPBELL, in five years has
made profit Of $250, 900 out of his plays.
He began life as a newspaper reporter.
THE Niagara Park Commission say that
recommend that New York pay that sum
for it.
/, In an interior county of Pennsylvania is
an unfortunate infant named George VIM
field Scott Hancock Garfield Pattison
Yerks.
: A TRAVELLING Illinois thief, unaware that
his wife had gone to housekeeping in Elgin,
broke in at night and carried off lot of
his own jewelry.
THE most idiotic wager of the campaign
was made at Bridgeport, Conn, the loser
being compelled to shave off his whiskers,
hair and eyebrows.
I THE Queen of Madagascar is beautiful
girl of nineteen, who is married to her Prime
Minister, aged sixty y-nine, who is also the
husband of her mother.
MADAME BAcHMAT1EFF, formerly Miss
Beale, of Washington, and now wife of the
Russian charge d'affairs in Greece, has be-
come . convert to the Greek Church.
THE Brooklyn Orphan Asylum destroyed
by fire the other night, does not seem to
have had a single ire-escape. The penalty
for this neglect was paid by a score of lives
there.
AT Oskaloosa, Iowa, there is spring OF
water which will tan skins, either with the
fur of or on, in from twenty -four to forty
eight hours, according to the size Of the
hides.
CINCINNATI steamboat owners and the
Board of Trade of that city protest against
the passage of the bill pending in Congress
granting the right to light rivers by cleo
tricity.
,ad tv, nrn 4
Britain last year to make a lake a mile long,
q mile wide and thirty five feet deep.
What lake Of fire that would make if
lighted.
THE position of chaplain to the United
States Senate has become shameful sine
cure. The prayers are usually said in the
presence Of beggarly army of empty
benches.
A MEMBER of the Vermont legislature
charges $40 for signing certificate of
the benefits of cough medicine or corn
cure, and has managed to rake in about 500
this winter.
IT is estimated by the New York World
that the Vanderbilts have altogether
dropped 900 in Wall street specula-
tions. Still they had enough left to pay for
a good Christmas dinner.
HARRISBURG, PA, is forming an associa-
tion for insurance against losses by theft,
to be called the Pennsylvania Protective
Society. A robbed member is reimbursed
by assessments on others.
GIRL grape-pickers in California vine-
yards ere tempting Providence by putting
their names and addresses in the boxes
which are shipped east. Their idea is
doubtless to catch husband.
SERGEANT BATES, who was fond of car
rying the banner into former hostile terri
tory, is in destitute circumstances, and his
sabre, being unattached to his patriotic
hips, has been seized for debt.
A Boston girl is going to marry Prof.
Edmunds, of Cambridge Observatory, who
was one of the devisers of zone standard
time. She will probably set the hour for
his arrival home every evening.
WHITE gauze wells are now quite fashion
able for evening wear on every kind of
hats, at the opera or theater.- They pro-
duce a very pleasing effect and make the
plainest woman's face look soft and pretty.
A HALF ounce of ground quassia steeped
in pint of vinegar Ia small teaspoonful of
the decoction to be drunk in a little water
every time the thirst comes on) affords, it
is alleged, a certain cure for the alcoholic
habit.
A AMARKET-woMAN of Peoria, H., avoids
paying an election bet because she had read
of the Shylock performances. She was to
wheel man round the public square, but
declares there was nothing in the bond
about wheeling his clothes, and that he will
have to go without them OF not at ALL
SISTER MARY JOSEPHINE, the nun who
had charge of the sick children in the
burned orphan asylum, Brooklyn, and who
lost her life in trying to save those under
her charge, is a heroine indeed. But if the
building had been supplyed with frees.
capes, no doubt her life and her heroisn
would have been spared to a world that
needs them.
RICHARD A. PROCTOR, the noted lecture
on the science of the stars, thus puts t1ea
in the worlds ear: "The fears expressed
by some astronomers that our earth viii
be damaged by comets are not altogether
groundless. 1t is possible that a comet
may whisk is tail over this world and
brush us of into space"
Mr.. AND MRS. SETH THOMPSON, residing
in East Bridgewater, Mass, are believed tt
County. New Years Day they will have
been married seventy years. Mr.. Thomp
son is ninety three and Mrs. Thompson
ninety two years old.
FANNY ELLsLER left a million of franc
in bank with the Rothschilds, and this sun
now goes to one Of her cousins and her owl
grandchild. A long time ago she wrote he
memoirs, but after she had read them care
fully over she burned them.
THE pastor of General IWashington's ole
church in Alexandria has been invited t.
make the opening prayer at the dedication
of the Washington monument. Olive
Wendell Holmes has been asked to compos,
poem.
IT is said that one tree marks the corne
of three counties in Ohio, Wood Hancocl
and Seneca, and a COW rubbing her side
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