The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-20


leaving him. -
IT is curious fact that since the dark
ages Lord Salisbury is the first bearded
Prime Minister.
A PHILADELPHIA chemist says that the
American style of kissing is what plays
hob with the teeth.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND says that no
building in Washington can compare with
the Capitol Of New York.
PRoF. MARIA MITCHELL, the astronomer
of Vassar College, is sixty y-seven years old.
She passes the summer at Lynn.
A GALEsBURG QI.) editor, who has been
publishing scurrilous articles on Grant. was
hung in efigy by indignant citizens.
THE herdso of swine in South Essex, Ont,
are being deoimated by hog cholera. The
disease is resisting all attempts to arrest its
ravages.
IRELAND is still greatly superior to other
countries in its capacity for manufacturing
linen. Her spindles number S74, ,78S. France
comes with 100000.
In Saline County, Neb., recently a wo-
man closed her husbands eyes on Monday,
buried him on Wednesday and married his
successor on Friday.
OSHKOSH, one of the sprightliest cities Of
Wisconsin, now has a population of 21,945,
as shown by q recent census-an increase
of 6,199 in five years.
JAPAN has 1927 postoffices; but as the
postal card is not in use in that country,
there is no real literary pleasure in being
Japanese Postmaster.
The New YoRK Star has again been sold
to a syndicate of which Ex-Congressman
Dorsheimer is chief. A Washington jour-
nalist will be made ciJy editor.
Mr.. GLADSTONE recently meditated q
visit to America, instead of cruising in the
yacht Sunbeam, but he found that he would
not be able to cross the Atlantic.
AUGUST is the month of all others for
vacations, and a census of the cities taken
between this and September would show
quit decrease in the population. .
GERONIMO, the renegade Indian, is now
in the southern part of the Sierra Madres,
three hundred miles below the border,
with two commands following him.
In China, when one citizen kills another
by accident, the decree is that the survivor
shall pay the heirs of the deceased sum
THE town of Quebec is to have q school
of art and design having been giving lot
of land, $2, 800 worth of building material,
and So 900 in cash toward that purpose.
THE ex-Empress Eugenie is erecting a
magnificent mausoleum on her grounds at
Farnborough, England, to receive the re-
mains of her husband, her son and herself.
A MISSOURI editor, soliciting subscrip-
tions to his paper, declares that a neglect
to take interest in reading the news Of the
day is an infallible symptoms of early
death.
TIE first coffee ever produced in the
United States is said to have been grown
bv Mrs Aizeroth, near Manatee, Fla, in
1880. She has twenty-five coffee trees on
her plantation.
AUCKLAND is said by the local newspa-
pers to be -eminently the land Of small
farmers. Out of $500 places of over. an
acre in extent $500 belong in fee simple
to the occupants.
A TENNESSEE negro who died of general
debility was turned over to the doctors.
and post mortem revealed a score OF shirt
buttons in the stomach. He was q great
lover of ice cream.
THE Prince of Wales goes to more ball.
and dances than any married man of hi!
time Of life in London. Indeed, there il
scarcely any bachelor over forty who doei
SO much in this line.
THE quarantine officers at Baltimore ant
at the Delaware Breakwater have beel
notified to look out for three vessels whicl
have sailed from Genoa for those place
without proper bills of health.
WHILE the publication of cheap book
may add to the number of readers, it has
SO it is claimed, lowered the standard o
literary taste q good many pegs. The sale
of standard works are falling off ever,
month.
A CoLoRED woman named Jennie White
died in st. Joseph, a few days ago, age
100 years. She was not a servant Q
General Washington, but was cook 70
Captain Waterfall, of Washington's staf
during the Revolutionary War.
FoUR arctic expeditions win set %
from Germany in the autumn. The hig
latitude mark set by Americans gave u
the championship, which, however, may b
hotly, or rather coldly, disputed by th
phlegmatic and persistent Teutons.
HERE are some comforting figures an
estimates from the reports of the twenty
five savings banks in New York for the 81
months just ended: Deposits, $3.50, ,0O0, ,00'
surplus, $4,000, 900; depositors, 629,91'
average deposit, $500; average surplus, 81
A KENTUCKY postmistress, who was r.
moved, delivered the following pathet
valedictory: s'To the four or five hyp
critics, slanderers and perjurers who pr
cured my removal only desire to say tn
a day of reckoning will come"
EDWARD STRAUSS, musician from Vie
ma, now playing in London, must be grea
ly affected by his own music, for, accor
ing to a London paper. he twirls his viol
in ting air, dances to his own music, n
rushes to and fro; he menaces a mu,
cian to the right with his bow, to the Il
with his fiddle. He smiles, he weeps;
is, particularly to the English mind, qu
absurd.
AN exquisite Partisan toilet, recon,
forwarded to a wealthy lady summer
at Saratoga, was made of the most de
cate blush-rose satin, embroidered w
pale blue velvet and silver blossoms a
leaves, this magnificent fabric combin
with pale blue satin and white duche
lace.
THE New York World having raised ,
100000 required for the pedestal of I
Bartholdi statue, announces its purp
''to devote its energies to forwarding wi
should be an equally popular and patrio
work of erecting monument over the
mains of General Grant at Rivers
Park"