The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-31
L. G. GOULD ID.
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The heir to the throne Of Holland is q
weakly child not yet in its teens.
LONDON correspondents all dwell upon
the large number of Americans in that city
WnKIE COLLINS, now in full health, has
returned to London, there to pass busy
winter.
ROBINSON CRUsoE has Just had a monu.
nent erected to his memory at Largo,
Scotland.
In single province of Russia three thou.
sand operatives are employed making &C.
cordions.
EDWIN BooTH has never seen any one
play Hamlet since, as a mere boy, he saw
his father.
PRINCE ALExANDER's court is simply a
military household where ceremony is lit
tie thought of.
A PARTY of school teachers left Chicago,
few days ago, on an excursion TO the New
Orleans Exposition.
THERE are 40 policeman in Central Park,
New York, and more than half Of them are
on trial for various charges.
A TELEPHONE line has been run to the
Vanderbilt vault for the convenience of
the guards who are on watch there.
THERE are some $4,000 still wanting to
put the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty En-
lightning the World on its PEDESTAL
SINCE Pasteur's discovery of q cure for
hydrophobia, the number of persons bitten
by mad dogs seems to be increasing.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, is the
only private citizen who has been given the
right to the floor of Congress at all times
A MAN of San Diego, Cal, has written a
pamphlet to prove that the earth is in i'm
minent danger of q second deluge in 1892
M.ADoLpH DUEcHER, at present Vice
President of Switzerland, has been elected
President for the year 1856. He is Rad
icaL
THE total number of varieties of grapes
now raised in this country is not far from
SOo, and now ones are appearing every
year.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has coined
fresh word, ''gynephobia," to cover the
case of men who have ia constitutional
horror of women"
The Pope, who is an expert Latin versi-
fier, has just presented Prince Bismarck
with an elegant bound copy of his latest
volume Of poems.
CANDIDUs, the Philadelphia tenor singer
whom the Germans call Condedoos, has
been hired to sing sixty-five weeks in New
York at 81 900 week.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will on the Sd of Janu-
ary next, should he live, celebrate the
twenty fifth anniversary of his accession to
the throne of Prussia.
COUNT DE LUGIvAL, French nobleman,
aged twenty-six, has just been married to
widow of seventy-two. Her fortune is val
ued at 6,000, 600 francs.
Mr.. VANDERBILT was so rich that he could
have given every man, woman and child
in America a So Christmas present and
have had SIC. COZ, 600 left
THE original told Black Joen is dead, at
the venerable age of 1876 But the song will
be older than that before the last of it is
heard at the minstrels.
THERE is sort of clothes-pin arrange.
ment coming from Paris that makes arti.
hcial dimples in the girl of the periods
cheeks after ono application.
Mrs. GRUaDY remarks i'm the Neto York
Mail and Express, that many u hired girl
has more credit among tradespeopIe and
mOoiSteS tnan hcr mistress.
THERE are indications of a revival of the
sugar-making crazc at the North, and there
are farmers who hope that they can manu-
facture their own ''sweetening."
CHANG, the Chinese giant, has lost S25,-
COO which be made with Barnum. investing
In an Australian coal mine. He now
heaves all his size when he thinks of it.
'1T is absolutely impossible said Lord
Rosebery in a recent address i'm Scotland,
''that in the future war could ever take
place between the United States and Eng
land.n
SouTn DAGoTA pursues the Michigan plan
of getting into the Union. But because the
forcing process was once successful it isn't
necessary to suppose that it will succeed
in this case.
HAMMERED gold-top canes are taking the
placs of the silver tipped ones among Beau
Brunmells, but it is also well to bear in
mini these deceptive days that .'all is not
gold that glitters."
TIE late Marshal Serrano, of Spain, dur
ing his political career saw eighty -four
changes of ministry in that country, forty
rebellions and twelve changes in the head
of the State.
EPApHRus HINsDALE was the first manu-
sacturer of jewelry in the United States. He
commenced business at Newark, N. j., about
179S. The business is now estimated at
~, 600 900 annually.
In Philadelphia the Superintendent OF
the Electrical Department gives notice
chat overhead wires will be cut il not re-
moved, in accordance with law; on or be-
fore January next.
A PORTRAIT of Cleopatra, painted Gu
stone, is offered for sale at the modest
figure of $4,000. The painting dates from
the time of Augustus, and fas taken from
the Villa of Hndrian. SIS
PAsTEUR's treatment for the cure of hy-
drophobia is meeting with success, and the
great scientist is receiving patients suffer-
ing from the dreadful maIady from all sec
tions of the civilized world
AFTER a lapse of many years it has
transpired that the estate of Thaddeus
Stevens remains unsettled. Every now
and then some new claim turns up or some
new relative appears for slice.
SETH KINMAN, the famous and venerable
California hunter, has spent the past thirty
years in manufacturing elk-horn chairs foI
successive Presidents, and is now preparing
one for Grover Cleveland, but most OF the
fncumbents have been sufficiently satisfiet
with the Presidential chair.
ANNAuooTs, chief of the Sitka Indians,
is having a cane carved to present to Presi
dent Cleveland. The wood is of yellow
cedar, most durable and beautiful wood,
peculiar to Alaska, and the designs to be
carved upon it will be legen larry limitations
of the idols worshiped by the devout of his
people.
A SUIT brought by Spiritualists against
the town of Randolph, VT. to obtain a
share of the towns money for the support
of the Gospel, has been decided in favor of
the town by the Supreme Court.
The japanese propose TO establish
fostal banking system to receive deposits