The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-11-26
L. G. GOULD.
CURRENT TOPICS.


PACIFIC oysters grow as large as Atlantic
oysters.
CREMATION grows popular slowly in
England.
BoNNETs made of leather have been in
troduced.
Four seats in the next Congress will be
contested.
FARRAR made $4,5 800 by his lectures in
New York.
FROZEN bluefish will be among the win
ter delicacies.-
THERE are 2S,0O0 men in the United
States Army.
SECRETARY BAYARD is said to be aycapl.
tal amateur boxer.
FRENCH Canadians are zea1ously advo-
eating annexation.
ILLINOIS newspapers complain Of fnef.
dcient mail service.
ST. LOUIS objects to the Worlds Fair be.
ing held in Chicago.
/ PROFESSOR AGAssIz is the wealthiest of
American scientists.
A MlwAuKEE girl earns $40 month
tending switch there. -
lPITsBURaHERs get natural gas for ten
cents a thousand feet.
LONDON vehicles killed one hundred ana
thirty people last year.
TIE trade in breadstuffs in Europe is GO
ing from bad to worse.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY puts his Thansgiv-
ing proclamation into ten lines.
SAN FRANCISCO has $1,000 children of
school age who are not in school.
A FINE Bengal tigress, bought by New
York for Central Park, cost only $500.
The Postoffice Department of Japan
is modelled after that of the United States.
! BURMAH has a population of 5000, 900
scattered over territory of 19O,5OO square
miles.
: IT is said that fashionable Boston cpl
cures repudiate any fondness for baked
beans.
great men in jail than any other common
wealth.
= ST. PAUL will have this W inter an ice pal
ace, built by private subscription, and cost.
ingt$1O, 900.
PENNIES now circulate in Texas, business
men being unable longer to get along
without them.
The next man who meditates getting up
a rebellion in the Northwest will think
twice about it,
SEVEN thousand Chinese have wandered
from the Canadian Pacific line into the
United States.
II EASTER will fall on the 25th of next
April, the first on that date since 1874, and
the last until 1913.
The Servians have gained decided ad-
vantage in their preliminary skirmishes
with the Bulgarians.
The gold and silver souvenirs presented
to the late John Mccullough during his ca
reer have been stolen.
NEW York people laugh at an equestrian
snob who has his family crest stamped on
the side of his saddle.
TIE President is taking extraordinary
precautions to prevent premature publi-
cation of his message.
QUEEN MARGUERITE, of Italy, despite a
tendency toward stoutness, is one of the
loveliest women in Europe.
The richest man in the wcrld is Han
Qua, a Chinese banker of Canton China.
His fortune is 81, 400, 100000.
AN authority on music says there are
100000 professional and amateur piano
players in the United States.
A NEW YORK man claims to have dis
covered the Garden of Eden, and offers to
cell the information for $4,000.
THE report that four thousand, boomer,
are in Oklahoma is an exaggeration. Not
over four hundred are trespassing.
oBsERvANT people predict that the roller
rinks will be the under dog in the fight fol-
patronage with the theaters this winter.
, GENERAL HoRvATovITCH, of the Servian
army, may not easily drag his name
through those narrow defiles in Bulgaria.
A FIRE in a colliery at Lost Creek, Pa.
has been burning for three months, anG
threatens the total destruction of the mine
In New York, Philadelphia and Brook
lyn, thousands of children are shut ou
from the schools for lack of accommoda
tions.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York to build railroads in China. Promi
nent people are said to be interested in tn
matter.
In the last six months work on the nev
'Croton aqueduct in New York, twenty
mine men have been killed and sixt,
wounded.
VIM. HUNTER, Second Assistant Secre
tary of State, is the Oldest Office holder il
lthe United States, having been in ofic
since 1929.
A CHIcAeoAN has just invented canno
which he says can be fred sixty times
minute without heating, by two mer
isepdinp a ball five miles
REPREsENTATIvE-EL ELECT w. h. GRAIN, {
the Galveston District, is the first nativ
Texan elected to Congress. His district
as large as all New England.
THERE is a law in the Argentine RepublI
making it an offense, punishable by i'm
prisonment, to offer for sale the photograph
of beauties, professional or otherwise.
A NUMBER of Boston women have forme
an organization for the study of polite
The President has selected Captain S. \
Mills, of the Fifth Artillery, as second O.
fcer to visit Europe, to witness the milits
ry display of the British army in India.
A SHORT time ago New Work man III
expectedly came into the possession of $15
900. At the end of three weeks he w,
pc niless and an inmate of an asylum fl
ineJriates.
MARQUIS TsENG, Chinese Ambassador ,
London, says his country will abrogate IL
treaty with the United States, and decla
war if Chinese citizens in this country al
not better protected.
THE Government has started travelIr
expense account reform. Hereafter officia
on public business will buy papers, t
walters and pay for drinks, boot -blackin
ETC., at their own expense.
ONE of four tramps arrested at Ottaw
H., few days ago, was found to be Lu'
Griffin, a girl, who had donned boy
clothing the bitter to walk home from Oh
cago, where she had been visiting friend
MRS. KATE HOWE, who claims to ha