The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-03-19
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IT is estimated that that there are 1900
people on roller skates in New York every
night.
ENGLrsH lovers of eats are introducing
variety from Russia. They are of rich
mouse colon.
A MACoN man is trying to devise O
metdod Of saving wood by electricity, of
which he dreamed.
ABOUT fifty species Of wild birds make
themselves at home in the city of Paris and
find their living there.
SOME of the Japanese almost worship
cats. A feline funeral of great style is re.
ported by correspondent.
HENRY BEReH is opposed to Scotch ter
riers kissing ladies on the cheeks, because
cosmetics have deleterious effect.
"A MAN in Michigan placed in his lawn,
which laid under three feet of snow, the
solemn warning, "keep off the grass"
EIGHTEEN or twenty years ago Judge
Endicott, the new Secretary of War, was
proud expert in amateur photography.
MISS ALICE e. FREEMAN, the President
OF Wellesley College. was graduated there
La 1875, and is only twenty eight years Of
age.
IMPORTATION has reached Kingston,
Ont, that thirty five hundred Fenians are
drilling in Buffalo, in preparation for a raid
INTO Canada
1t Is reported that sixty per cent. of the
cattle on the great pasture in the Usage
country, Arkansas, have perished from the
severity Of the winter.
THE University of Cairo, in Egypt, said
to be 600 years older than Oxford, has TO-
900 students, who are being educated as
Mohammedan missionaries.
THE college which has the largest mum.
Der OF graduates in the Forty ninth Con-
gress Is the University of Virginia. Har-
ward stands second, Yale third.
MARTHA BRYAN, colored, of Annapolis
Junction, Nd, died few days since from
an attack of involuntary laughter. All
efforts to stop it failed and the woman
died in about twenty minutes.
It is stated that ex-President Arthur is
going to Europe in July, and that he will
remain abroad for several months. He
will spend several weeks in England before
proceeding to the continent for lengthen-
ed tour.
A WIDOW and former resident of New
Haven, Conn.,, who recently died out West,
found herself at one period of her life suf-
fering actual poverty on the day that R. B.
Hayes, whom she had Tilted, was inaugu-
rated President.
Four years ago the Mahdi was unknown.
Three years ago he was perceived as kind
of speck upon the horison. A little later
it was discovered that he was certain
Mohammed Achmet, though even then he
was considered a myth.
A CHICAGO clergyman startled his parish
not long ago with the following singular
announcement: Remember our COM
munion service next Sunday forenoon.
The Lord will be with us during the morn
ing services and the bishop in the evening"
THE latest discovery about Daniel Web
ster is that he never used profane word.
His greatness was what his contempora-
ries admired, but Boston scoffer opines
that his goodness is what the next genera
tion will be asked to reverence for him.
THE professional sword swallower does
mot pursue his business, as is supposed,
with impunity. A sword swallower lately
died of hemorrhage in an English hospital,
and the medical opinion seems to be that
all of these men trife with and shorten
their lives.
y The President and Faculty of Harvard
College refused the petition of two hundred
graduates, asking that attendance at morn
ing prayers be voluntary for undergradu-
ates of twenty lone years and over, and
optional with parents and guardians for
undergraduates under twenty-one years.
A NEW and exceedingly important use for
hydrochlorate of cocoaine is reported to
have been discovered by one DR.. Fleischl,
of Vienna. Administered hypodermically
in doses of from one-twelfth to one-fourth
of a grain it is said to cure alcoholism and
morphinism within ten days.
RACE PAIL, the gypsy vioiinist, who re-
Gently died at Pesth, was the husband of
four wives and !the father of thirty -four
children, and his funeral was attended by
more than 10, 600 people; but it is not men,
toned whether this popular outpouring was
a afeeling tribute to his superiority as q
fiddler or q father.
ONE of the strangest peoples with whom
the missionary has to do are the Falashas
of Ethiopia. They are black Hebrews,
about 10000 in number, living west Of Jor-
dan, who have as their holy writings the
Old Testament in an Ethiopic version
and who still rigidly adhere to the Mosaic
ceremonies ana law.
DIR. JAMES KENNEDY, OF Chambersburg
Pa, is the owner and possessor OF a Gordon
setter dog which, when ne wants TO get II
tnehouse' 1aKes 'he knop oi 'ne uoor DOL
between his paws and gives the bell ring
and patiently waits until somebody
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for si,tv-seven Years has KENT close ac,
count Of the cost and places the amount a,
som ON which he mioht have nov had to
his credit had he invested every six months
and nlaced at command interest the sum
he a1nended in cigars.