The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-29
CURRENT hoPIcs.

The pay roll of the Public Printer is stat
I'D to be over 5000 per day.
The motto of Keely, the motionless motor
ruan should be $50 mote it be-"
PRESIDENT GARFIELp's portrait has
soeen hung in the House library.
A CONNECTICUT paper offers village lot
among its premiums to subscribers.
The Gear of Russia gets $S, ,216, 600 year,
with an occasional dynamite boom thrown
in.
OVER 81, ,O0o, 900 has been invested in shoe
manufacturing in New Hampshire in two
years
Mrs. APPHIA FISHER, of Salem, N. H.,
ninety seven years old, reads without
glasses.
CASTLES in Spain are more shaky than
-eyer the everlasting hills themselves are
slipping.
EDMUND YATES, the London journalist,
sentenced for hbeling Lord Lonsdale, is
now in jail.
A YOUNG English lady has been arrested,
in Holland for wearing felt hat and hav-
ing short hair.
If the Grant Relief bill passes it is said
law without signing it.
A NINETY-YEAR-oLD Fair Haven woman
ssshucks oysters with the rest of the girls" !"
and beats mcst of them.
The Duke Of Marlborough has proposed
marriage again to his divorced Duchess,
and she has refused him. r--
MYRA CLARK GAINES probably knew
more about law than any woman in the
world during the last decade.
= A WASHINGTON girl answers the current
conundrum, "Will the coming man work."
thus: "He will if get him."
CHELLIs SARGENT, of Tilton, N. H.,
'eighty-six years old, has just read the
Bible through in thirty days.
LYNN apz Haverhill together made near
ly. shees enough in 1884 to shoe half the
population of the United States.
JOHN EDWARDS, who began to set type
on the Portland Advertiser in 1916. claims
to be the oldest printer in Maine.
The Empress Eugenie ownes several
houses in New York City which give her q
handsome income from the rents.
O In the present Maine Legislature there
are thirty six farmers, nineteen merchants,
fifteen lawyers and eleven manufacturers.
BISMARCK is said to drink more beer than
wine, and absolutely refuses to wear a
blue ribbon. He still eats sausage on the
sly.
The cut in ocean steamships to $40 for
the passage from Europe bids fair to swell
the tide of immigration to unusual proper
tions.
CALIFORNIA has no asylum for the blind,
but the State Legislature, sat its coming
session, will consider the project of build
ing one.
Two ladies were baptized in a mill-pond
at Gagetown, Tuscola County, Mich, re-
Gently, with the mercury twenty degrees
below zero.
Some New York ladies, who give Sunday
evening receptions, have been requested
by clergymen to discontinue for the sake of
social morality.
Mr.. PHILETUs SAWYER, with one excep-
tion the richest man in the United States
Senate, is dis inguished for never having
made a speech there.
MISS CLEVELAND, the future mistress of
the White House, is said to possess the rare
faculty of never forgetting face or the
name that goes with it.
A WASHINGTON writer says that Presi-
dent Cleveland is regular in his sleeping
and can not sit up all night. This may ex-
plain why Mr.. Cleveland is still single
man.
- FLOATING sawmills are common on the
lower Mississippi. They pick up the
drifting logs, turn them into lumber, and
sell the product to planters along the
shore.
BY her marriage the Princess Beatrice
viii become sister r-in-law to her own niece,
the daughter of the Princess Alice, who
married the elder brother of Beatrice's be.
trothed.
A cHIN-HoLDER has been invented for
violin players. If it can be applied to the
fellow who is always Cabling during a the
atrical performance the inventor will make
a fortune.
A TYPE-sETTER's business is always
picking up, except when he is s'throwing
in" Then he exemplifies the ancient
adage, "There is that scattereth and yet
increaseth."
LARGE numbers of colored people, who
emigrated to Kansas year OF two ago,
now find the climate too severe, and are re-
ported to be leaving for New Mexico and
: other points-in the Southwest.
To illustrate the changes in New Hamp-
shire. weather, the Dover Republican says
that NJ. V. Falker plowed on the 1st day
of January with pair of nine hundred
pound horses, doing the work as easily as
in May, the ground being in fine condition.
The next day the mercury was below zero.
wit fl,oi,. Il fa,
lilies in Atlanta recently ornamented the
graves of their dead children with bottles
containing what remained of the medi-
cines prescribed by the attending physi-
clans. The bottles bore the druggists la
bells, the prescriptions and names of the
physicians.
AT the surgical clinics at Florida Uni
versity few days ago, a tumor weighing
over five pounds was taken from the back
of colored boy, eight years old. The re-
moval of the tumor reduced the boys
weight fifth.
NEITHER New Hampshire nor Rhode
Island built mile of railroad during 1884
AN Illinois farmer gives his hogs red pep.
per tea on their showing symptoms of chol.
era, and claims that this has always
proved an effectual cure, and that he has
never lost porker SO treated, while hi;
neighbors have suffered several very heavy
losses.
THREE young men in Pittsburgh
passed a woman on the street, the other day
when one OF them made an Insulting re-
mark about her, which she overheard
She asked him to repeat it, and on doing Sc
she knocked him down with her fist. Sh,
then kicked him about the head and fact
until he cried for help. Those Pittsburgh
women are not to be fooled with.
REPRESENTATIVE HoBLITZELL, of Mary
land, was the recipient of a magnificent
floral harp the other day, composed O
violets, roses and ferns, which was placed
~, hio daeH in tho HouSa A card tI1ckef