The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

ACCORDING to a recent census Greenland
contains population of 1000.
THE site of the city of Boston was sold In !
16So by John Blackstone for f20.
BosToN has no confidence in her recent |
census, and 30 will take another.
MRS. Scorr, the widow of the railroad
manager, is credited with $3,000,000.
M. BARrHoLDI, the sculptor of the statue
of Liberty, is coming to this country.
The Canadian Government spent over
$3.50, 900 last year in assisting emigration.
THE window glass factories of Pittsburgh
are resuming after six months idleness.
THE three daughters Of Banker Drexel, of
Philadelphia, are set down at $6,e00,00O
each.
The professional actors In America have
nearly doubled in number the last five
years.
In New York, German potatoes, no big
ger than walnuts, are selling at five cents a
pound.
IT is said that successful experiments
have been made to convert petroleum into
whisky.
THE circus business this season has been
the worst for several years, from financial
standpoint.
II. g. SHAW (Josh Billings) is said to
have saved 100000 as the results of his
bad photography.
THE "black leg," or anthrax fever, has
been discovered among herd of cattle at
Greenfield, Mass.
A STRONG, bold man is placed at the door,
of Austrian theaters to keep out all females
wearing high hats.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND, Pawnee boy at
Carlisle, Pa, edits the little paper called
The Indian Helper.
MRS. MORGAN, widow of the x-Governor
and Senator, draws her check for from
$4,000 900 to $12 100000.
ELDER JOHN MORGAN says Mormonism
has increased greatly in the South, where
sixty elders are now proselyting.
NJ. GREvY's term as President of the
French Republic will expire in December.
Who will be the next French President?
SPRNeFIELD, MASS, possesses curious
guide-stone on State street, near the head
of Walnut, which was placed there in 1868.
-TBE Prince of Wales is reported to have
cleared $22, 800 in single day on a specu-
lation in 100000 barrels of oil. in New
York.
The 500 English lords are said TO nave an
average income OF $120,oO0 each. The land
titles are falling into fewer and fewer
hands.
"A MEXICAN lake, six miles long, has just
disappeared, with ga subterranean rumble.
low and sullen. which shook the hills
around"
THE real name OF the Russian Nihilist
writer, "Stepniak," is Dragamanoff. If
there is anything in name. he should be
policeman.
MASSACHUSETTS courts no longer open or
close with the absurd rigmarole which so
many American courts have copied from
the English.
mousiy decided to proceed speedily with
the work of building railways throughout
the Empire.
ARcHDEAcoN FARRAR seems profoundly
impressed with what he has seen of Amer
ica and the kindness with which he has
been received.
A GREAT majority Of heroines of novels
are said to be blondes. This is all very
proper, says the Courier journal Novels
are always light reading.
CANON FARRAR, in his lecture on Dante,
declares the 'Divine Comedy" superior to
all the epics,of Virgil or Milton, not ex-
cepting paradise Lost"
FERDINAND Wards baby, which was
called Ferdinand Grant Ward just before
the failure, has been given a new name.
and is now Clarence Ward.
A TREE at Java, N. Y, has produced this
season fifty bushels Of apples, and vine
at Santa Barbara, CAL, in the neighbor-
hood Of two tons of grapes.
+; A wIDowER at Whitehall, N. Y, had his
dead wife's gold teeth made into an en-
gagement ring, which he gave to a woman
whom he was about to marry.
A DAsHY girl at one of the Saratoga ho-
tells wore white silk ball dress on the folds
of which were hand-painted scenes "from
our country seat in California"
WILD dogs have become so fierce ana 81
numerous in section of Wyoming as t.
seriously interfere with stock raising ant
to be as dangerous as wild animals.
AT Homewood, Pa, is well six Thousand
feet deep, and boring still proceeds. Th'
managers of the enterprise are bound to ge
at the bottom truth if they have to bor
'nIo0eA w 'Ao '0A '.Ne'
SoocEssFoL experiments nave iaIei.
oeeh maze at ooDien1z III tne trainl1g
ravens as carrier oiros IN tne piace Oh pig
cons. Inc ia,ter are more suo1ec' 10 IN
attack OF oiras on prey .nan ravens. In
0aineo ravens were inaue 70 ny uis'anc
Oh Ior'y nnes, anu 'nei pefioi inances eaV
mucn sat'siaction.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER has expressed hi
intention of giving his whole private libra