The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

AL attempts to GUST frizzes have proved
onavailing.
CRAZY patchwork bags and reticules are
all the rage.
BEN BUTLER is to get $4,000 for writing
his "reminiscences.
THREE billion wooden tooth picks are
made in this country every year.
TURKEY ACTORS" is the name for those
who only get holiday engagements.
SAMUEL J. RANDALL wears a broadcloth
suit, an unbrushed silk hat and pair of
eyeglasses.
A LIFE insurance man calculates that in
1888 there will be living 1,233 survivors of
our civil war.
KING ALFONSO, of Spain, is again very
I'll. He is going soon upon a cruise on the
Mediterranean.
A NEW scheme in Dakota is to utilize the
blizzard for running windmills to grind up
thar No. hard wheat.
New ORLEANS confidently announces
that the Crescent City has room for every
Tbody-and his pocketbook.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR owns the handsomest
gun in the country. 1t was present from
Victor Bogy, of Belgium.
JOHN G. Emo, the retired Ito Canada)
millionaire, has won a gold medal at Que
bee for proficiency at billiards.
THEY propose to put up at the Paris Ex-
hibition in 1889 an iron tower 1000 feet
high, with a passenger elevator.
CoURTsHIP on roller skates is the latest
rink-le. Skating for a suspended turkey,
blindfolded, is a new amusement.
TIE young Prince of Galatro, whom Miss
Mackey, the American heiress, is to marry,
is twenty seven and good looking.
ONE dollar gold pieces are said to be so
scarce that they bring twenty cents pre-
mium. Bring forth the old stockings.
Hon. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS has con-
sented to deliver the annual address before
the Yale Alumni and the graduating
classes in June next.
As an evidence of the absolute freedom
of suffrage in Washington Territory it is
Rtated that five squaws voted in Chehalis
County at the last election.
AT Territorial fair in the Northwest
an Indian sent a war bonnet fringed with
human scalps as specimen of his skill. He
got the first prize in that line.
AN aged applicant for relief at the JEFF
ferson Market Police Court, New York,
was recognized as Judge who presided
over the Marine Court thirty years ago.
AN internal machine was found on the
Jersey Central Railroad track, near West
field. 1t contained fifty eight cartridges
of dynamite and lot of giant powder.
A TEXAS editor of scientific turn of
n ciz n
man could holler as loud as baby there
would be no telephones needed in this
country"
1T is said that a certain rich New York
man has had professional fancy penman
write his viii on parchment and then in an
ebony box, consigned it to the safe deposit
company.
ETwo ladies of Neenah, Wis, encountered
two burglars in their house the other day
and held them at bay with the stove-poker
until the police arrived and arrested the
two men.
A RAINBOW about twenty five minutes
after sunset was recently witnessed in Ire
land. 1t was evidently caused by the light
rejecting upon the clouds from the glow
ing western sky.
THE Florida orange crop this season is
reported to be SO much larger than the
packing-box manufacturers anticipated
that the shippers now find it difficult to buy
boxes for their fruit.
THE statement is made that four regu-
larly organized military companies of 30
cialists are in existence in Chicago, two of
which are armed with breech-loading
rifles.
A CANVASS of Congress shows that 100
members received the endorsement OF re-
election, which speaks well for their work
either at Washington-or among their con-
stituents.
BEN BUTLER's only son, Paul, is engaged
in the manufacture of percussion caps at
Lowell, Mass. His mind has mechanical
turn, and he has quite record as an in
venter.
All Tt, full-blooded Chinaman, after
working thirty-five years in the Sierras
has accumulated So 100000, and when he
has settled his business will return to the
land from which tine laundryman cometh
ONE of the largest salmon ever known to
have been taken from European river
was netted recently at Tay, near Perth,
Scotland. The weight was about eighty
SECRETARY CHANDLER has notified the
clerks of the, Navy Department that they
must stand off their boarding house keeper:
until Congress gets in the humor to make {
naval appropriation.
Mr.. VEGAN, a ranchman of Texas, il
said to own $40 square miles of land in on'
body on which he has 10000 head of sheep
% 900 head of cattle, and 10000 horses.
is extremely doubtful whether Mrs. Vegal
would consent to wait breakfast while he
hubby went out to feed his stock. Th
buckwheat cakes would certainly be COLI
and heavy before he got through
pans is to have new museum devote'
to the exhibition of objects of every des
cription used in the religious rites of pas
and present peoples in all parts of tn
world, and to a collection of Oriental cera
mics.
GENERAL HAzEN, Chief Signal Officer
has submitted to the Secretary OF wa
charges against Assistant Adjutant Gen
eral McKeever for having made derogator
remarks concerning the management OF Tn
recent Arctic expeditions.
THE total production of cigars i'll, thl
country. as estimated by one Of the larges
manufacturers, is about 5000 ,0o0 600 a yeal
THE exclusive use of tea, as a diet, fc
three weeks, has reduced the weight OF
New York woman thirty pounds sh
formerly weighed two hundred pounds, an
although she resumed herregular diet, ha
not regained the lost flesh.
THE entries to date for the United State
Senatorial stakes of New York are Cheste
A. Arthur, W. NJ. Evarts, o. 7. Mortol
Congressman Hiscock, Attorney Gener'
Russell, Ex-Governor Cornell and Silas
butcher.
A NEwBURG woman received s. 600 for
broken rib, and her husband has figured u
that at this rate she is worth about $4,000
A NEW style of horseshoe has been trie