The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-12
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ganized in January.
The cornerstone of Baptist Church
was laid in Saltillo, Mexico.
COLONEL BURNABY, slain at Abu-Klea,
could speak we'll in seventeen languages.
OF the young ladies in the. Normal Col
egein.New York, ,25 per cent. are Jewesses.
The New York Board of Health has be-
gun crusade against adulterated drugs.
AFTER being made Major General by
the Queen, Stewart will recover, if it is in
the wood.
THE United States Government has in its
employ 400 John Smiths and 800 Joneses
and Johnsons.
In certain cases of aggravated offense,
Bombay husbands cut off their wives noses
as means of punishment.
QUEEN VICTORIA leaves Windsor for
'aermany on March 30, and will remain on
the Continent three weeks
THEATER prices are submitting to the
downward tendency of the times, but rents
siil roost on the top perch.
A COW, properly labeled, was among the
bridal presents received at a wedding in
SuDivan County, New York.
day, boasts of having been imprisoned as
wagrant in 1874 different jails
THE Morosini concert-tour was a dismal
failure. Victoria should make her hubby
hunt up job and go to work again.
ALTHOUGH General Stewards forces
have succeeded in again reaching the Nile,
1t VIII hardly be proper to term them Nile
its.
The late Ex-Vice-P President Colfax was
honored in having no less than nine rail-
way stations in the United States named
after him.
THE oldest tree known in the world, at
Mount Etna, is hollow, and large enough to
admit two carriages driving abreast
through it.
THE body of Robert A. Wallace, of Buffa-
10, N. Y, was exhumed after eight years
interment, and his will found betwe cen his
vestand shirt.
DURING the recent run on the New Haven
Savings Bank a servant girl drew out her
entire savings for two years, and invested
them in sealskin sacque.
RIx RUDE owns farm in Preston, Conn,
which has been in the Rude family since
1852, when the Indian sachem, Oneco, gave
the original deed to John Rude.
7 PRINCE MURAT is erecting upon the
Champs de Mars, in Paris, commemora-
tive chapel in honor of the late Prince I'm
perial, which is to cost $4,000.
An obituary notice in a San Francisco
paper referred to deceased citing as hav-
ing "gone to happier home" This seem
TO be an unnecessary exposure of family
affairs.
PORTUGAL thinks of sending a man-of-
war to Congo to enforce her rights. Before
that threatening display of power all the
rest of Europe will be apt to lie right down
and howl.
sneezed out of his nose the other day bull
Ilet that had been embedded there for
Twenty years. He had seen many breeze
before, but never such blow.
VERY small folks wear this winter plain
close fitting hoods crocheted from white
Angora wool and edged with a band of
swans down, which are justly pronounced
just too perfectly sweet for anything"
A MAN in Rome, Ga, holds note drawn
in 1S4S, which was made payable when
Lewis Cass should be elected President of
the United States. As he never became
president, the note has never been paid.
THE poet Gosse has brought down upon
himself no little dislike in Philadelphia by
calling the white elephant city hall there
f'oneof the paltriest and most grotesque
structures ever foisted upon a modern
town."
MR.. CLEVELAND has been presented with
one cane which he intends to keep. 1t was
made from a tree which was planted al
Ellicott City, Nd, the day General Jack.
son was inaugurated President. The donor
lis Mr.. James Cartwright, of that place.
THE game of whist is regaining it's popu-
larity in Philadelphia. Thus will the in.
ihabitants of that rather dull town have
something with which to while away the
time in their bereavement during the alb
sence in New Orleans of the Liberty Bell.
WHILE a Rock Island train was leaving
Chicago, a few days ago, a meteor fel
close to the rear car, causing such cur
rent of air that W. H. Hutchins, a brake
man, was knocked off the car. Portions o.
the meteor as large asa bucket, were found
some time ago Mr.. Alexander McGil
died and in his will provided for a $50. .0OC
bequest to the first Democratic President
As Mr.. Cleveland is the first since the tes
tator's death, Grover would come in for the
bequest. The will provides that Mrs
Isabella Steele, of Allegheny, Pa, shoul6
get the money and after her death go tt
the Democratic executive. 1t now trans
pires that Mr.. McGill had no money at hi:
command when he was called away, but
on the contrary, left some $4,000 debts tc
be cancelled. Mrs. Steele is annoyed won.
derfully by callers and letter writers claim
ing relationship to Mr.. McGill, thinking
thereby to get a share of the $50, ,O0C
bequest.
A LADY whose husband had contracted ,
club fever hit upon brilliant scheme re
Gently. She procured a partly-worn gen
tleman's glove and left it on the parlol
sofa when she retired, after sitting VI
until II O'Clock for her absent lord. H,
does not go out in the evenings now.
THE celebrated chemist, Prof. Hoffman
estimated that from twenty to thirt,
grains of arsenic per hour were shaken ou
into the air of a ball room, in the shape o
dust from an ordinary green tarlatan dress
1t is said that the result of home expert
ments will show that Foulard cambri
(navy blue) and tulle dresses are fully a
dangerous.
A GREAT religious wave is sweeping owe
some of the villages of Berks County, Pa
and many hundreds have been converted
In Morgantown, a small village, over eight,
persons have professed religion. There i
only one person in the place who is uncon
verted, and he is an Infidel. At Joann
about sixty persons were converted in on
night. At Lebanon nearly one hundre
conversions were made in few days.
FITz JOHN PORTER appeals to the Presi
ment bill.
MANY musical instruments are now mad
of paper.