The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-19
CURRENT TOPICS.


MRS. Tom THUMB is soon to become lit.
tie Rosebud.
THE new Chinese dictionary comprises
forty volumes.
THE Bible has Just been translated into
the Zulu language.
SITTING BULL wants to be made citizen
and allowed to vote.
THERE were nearly u 900 marriages last
year in New York City.
ERNEST RENAN is said to be bulky, short,
fat, rosy and very, very gay.
In Montreal last year more fires occur
red on Friday than any other day.
ALASKA is larger than all of the United
States east of the Mississippi River.
THE Empress of Austria owns the finest
stable of trained horses in the world.
CAPT. JOHN ER1cssoN, the great inventor,
bears his eighty lone years gracefully.
BusIrEss men could stop freight discrim-
-tnation If they would attack it in earnest.
AMERICAN apples sell on London street
stands at from eight to twelve cents each.
ARABI PAsHA, in exile at Ceylon, has de-
veloped into a school teacher and lecturer.
MRS, DupLEY's offer to fight a duel with
O'Donovan Rosa was perfectly saie
bluff.
ITALY can get into Africa easy enough,
but the getting out again may make her
tired.
In Southern California the pomegranaee
fiourishes as it does in Italy or in the Holy
Land.
THE italian Count who is to marry the
widow of Tom Thumb wants but little here
below.
SINCE 1850 the coast of Sweden has been
upheaved on an average nearly fifty six
Inches.
"a NEWSPAPER recently started at Car
bondale, Kan, is named the Astontsher and
Pdralyzer.
PRINCESS TINKIE-1-N-zEE,o of the Sand
wich Islands, it is said, sets her unsuccess-
ful suitors.
4 A cIGARETTE-MAKING m. >hine has peen
invented which will perform the work OF
thirty men.
ON a wager New Yorker drank gal
lon of cider without removing the vessel
from his mouth.
THE aggregate trade of Canada in the
year ending June 80 last, declined in value
nearly $22,000,0O0.
Massachusetts. The most recently lncor-
porated is Waltham.
THn rage just now among book collectors
is for copies of the early American edltlons
of standard authors.
Two daughters of the King of Sweden
were dangerously i'll a few weeks ago from
~All paper poisoning.
How. GEO. w. McCRARY, ex-Secretary
of War, is now president of a large cattle
company in Montana.
TIE United States lSenate, after March
4, will have three gentlemen named Jones,
but not single Smith.
THE British brewers last year paid So4,-
600, 600 In taxes and exported more tnan
S7,500,000 worth of beer.
In Thibet one woman may have two,
three or even four husbands, but never
more than the last number.
SHAVING mugs of hammered brass and
brushes with handles to match are among
the pretty new toilet articles.
AwEsrERN zephyr that blows train off
the track is a thing for the glorious climate
of this great country to boast about.
THE famous Marshalsea Prison, in Lon
don, where Dickens laid many scenes in
.'Ll1Cl6 DOTTlUb, 10 hO" a ShSof ASN0A-6
house.
A BILL is before the Minnesota Legisla-
3ure recurring man to take out license
before he can drink anything stronger than
water.
FORGED deed of 500 acres of land was
the present which an East Saginaw man
made to his intended bride a few days be-
fore marriage.
An eminent civil engineer asserts that a
pair of cast iron shears or scissors for ordi-
nary household work is just as good as one
of forged steel.
AN infant at Port Norris, N. j., was re-
GENTLY bitten behind the ear by large
black spider, from the effects of which 1t
died in three days.
Al Dakota man boasts that in that Terri
tory on a frosty day a conversation can be
carried on with perfect ease between indi-
viduals mile Apart.
Two centuries ago two cousins in the
Mayhew family, Of Massachusetts, were
married, and from them can be traced a
hereditary line of deaf mutes.
The Mexican stage coach always has two
drivers, one to hold the reins and the other
to do the whipping. The latter carries a
Dag OIL SUOuc W tuIoW oo WIG AS-OSAS'
THE Lowell Citizens comical man thinks
the American Indian isn't such fool as he
is made out to be, because in his language
woman is called Observation-Disclosures.
- In twenty pauper lunatic asylums
in England beer as an article OF diet has
been discontinued, with the result that il
mo instance has the apparently important
change led to any sort of physical incon-
venience.
A SCHOOL MISTRESS in Barry County
Mich. was dismissed because she declined
to eat fat pork, the people believing tina
she was attempting to put on "too mucf
STYLE"
ANOTHER evidence that the Cinnamon il
this country are learning the ways of civ
ilization is furnished in the fact that tw'
of them in San Francisco have becom
prize fighters.
THE bell of the public school at Monti.
cello, N. Y, was heard ringing the othe
day at an unusual time, and on investiga
tion it was found the NEW teacher" wa
using the end of the bell-rope to correct
refractory pupil
THE way the doctors of public moral
disagree about the roller-skating rink
enough 10 iuf1ho eho o'cio oSo iAioi - oA01J
Preachers denounce it as 1.-THE vestibule @
the pit of perdition. Other preachers rec
ommend it as place of healthful and un
exceptionable amusement.
AN English astrologer, having predicte
the death of ga high American functionar
about September &c." a great many politi
clans and office holders are giving especie
attention to their health, and refusing t
kick from ths sidewalks mysterious look
ing packages which they happen to On
counter.
Mr.. SALA thinks that four months in ia