The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-05-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

clans in the United States.
THERE are about 100000 commercial
travellers in the United States.
A DEAD-BEAT has been passing himself
off in Louisville, KY, as Frank James.
/ DIR. MARY WALKER is one of the leading
ATTRACTIONS at a dime museums in Chicago.
The American Congress of Churches will
hold its first session May II, II and 13 at
Hartford, Conn.
SAMUEL j. TnDEN has made contracts
for an extensive. conservatory near his
mansion at Yonkers.
MRS. DUDLEY, who tried to kill O'Don-
ovan Rosa, is i'll in prison and would like
to leave it under bail.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, of Kansas, has inn
posed quarantine of ninety days on cattle
coming from Missouri.
EMPEROR Dom PEDRO, of Brazil, has been
on his throne fifty-three years, and was
only six years old when he began his
reign.
The widow Barrios had the reputation
of being the most beautiful girl in Guate-
mala when the General stole her from
convent.
Secretary of War and Lieutenant General
Sheridan Of the army as to the extent of the
latter's powers.
SrR THOMAS GLADSTONE, the Premier's
only brother, is Tory inpolitics, who has
passed his ninetieth year. His only son is
now with the army in Egypt.
THE title of Prince Colonna does not be-
long to the husband of Miss Mackey, as it
is given only to thu eldest of the many
branches of that famous old house.
IT IS believed by everybody, except the
stockholders, that the prices charged for
the use of the telephone are entirely too
high, and should be lowered to a reasona-
BILE figure.
A CHICAGO barber has such small opin-
ion of the silver dollar that he has imbed-
ded four hundred copies of the coin in the
tiled floor Of his shop, on the decorations of
which he has spent $1,000.
MAURICE KINGSLEY the son of Charles
Kingsley, the English writer, is about to
settle in New Haven for the purpose of ed
ucating his children. He takes with him
a large fortune accumulated in Colorado.
HENRY SIGoURNEY, of the well-known
Boston family, has married one of the
coryphees in the ballet of Boston theater.
Mr.. Sigourney is about thirty years old,
and has an income of nearly $50, 600 a year.
THE Government has provided for
weather observations and danger signal
service on the California Coast. On that
coast, however, dangerous storms are SO
rare that the signals will be of little value.
A ScoTcH gelatine manufacturer sends
out with each package of his goods a leaf
from the Bible. A package recently opened
in New York City furnishes the cook with
the interesting story of Abraham and his
wife Sarah.
THE following conundrum, apropos of the
situation. on the Afghan frontier, is pro-
pounded from st. Petersburg: If you go
up within one inch of a bear and look him
full in the face, what do you get? Paws
for a reply.
THE Queens wreath, sent by Victoria to
the funeral of President Garfield, has
been handsomely framed in a specially
carved oaken frame, and presented to the
Western Reserve Horticultural Society, by
which it will be kept.
HUNGARY has found it expedient to re-
form its Upper House of Parliament, and a
bill has been introduced by which 240
counts and 300 mobiles of lower rank will be
excluded, because they pay in taxes less
than specified sum every year.
A QUAINT fancy at dinner parties is to
have Ia silver bowl in the center of the
table filed with as many rare flowers as
there are guests. Just after rising from
the table the host holds the bowl and each
guest takes flower with his eyes shut.
EDWARD J. BARTLETT, of Concord, Mass,
has in his possession the sign of Libby
Prison, which he took from its place on the
building on the morning of the first occu-
patton of Richmond by the Union troops.
1t is small tin sign and bears simply the
words Libby & Co."
A NUMBER of railway managers interest
ed in several lines of western railway have
suggested that national congress, to con-
slider the subject of railway interests as
connected with the general business of the
country, shall be held about the 4th of July
next, in Philadelphia.
A LADY who makes good rhubarb pies,
says she always puts in just as much sugar
as her conscience will allow and then shuts
up her eyes and puts in another handful.
There is no such thing as economy in the
making Of rhubarb pies, but extravaganza
is stamped all over them.
SIX months in the penitentiarv and a fine
that may run up to- S. 900 is the penalty
fixed by the Montana Territorial laws
against prize-fighting. Sullivan and Ryan
might as well stay in the cultured East.
This is cold country for law-breakers
and it isn't getting any warmer.
THE latest puzzle is: "If man puts
500 in bank the day he is twenty -one
ye,rs of age, what sum must he add to il
yearly to have $4,000 on the day he is fifty
pound interest on his money!" This puz.
zles some of the best arithmeticians.
The original stock of Indians found or
our shores by the Pilgrim Fathers were Of
tho Lenape, who may be traced. in DR.
Brinton's opinion, from the shores of Hud'
sons Bay, where their congeners, tht
Crees, still remain, retaining the languag,
in what is believed to be its earliest form
THE population of Russia, according t,
the census of 1882, is given at 77,S79,521 il
European Russia, of whom IS, ,651 ,377 wer
males and 1927, ,544 females. The tota
population of the entire Empire, including
Finland, was a little over 102, ,000,0 900, o.
about one twelfth of the population of tn
globe.
WHEN the Indiana Legislature fixed tn
price of the telephone service at three dol
lars per month it seized gigantic monop
oily by the throat. No doubt before
twelve-month rolls round other States Wi
follow the example, unless, like Crockett
coon, the telephone people come down with
out being fired at.
IT will take good many "arbor days
to repair the damage done by fire in th
woods of New Jersey. The Governor wi
have to see to this, and he should also desig
nate certain days for cranberry bush day
There is already scarcity of this fruit i
the market, and measures should be take
to provide larger supply for the next tn,
key season.
AN instance of the Southern fmmigrs
ton movement is found in the action of