The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-15

respectively thirteen, fourteen and fifteen
years.
THREE thousand women are connected
with the different trades unions of Phila-
delphia.
farmers in Fayette County, Pa, are
offering to give away all the apples anyone
win take.
WELL diggers in Dakota hunt for ant
hills. The wise insects always locate over
q vein of water. szfN
THE Postmaster General has decided
that there shall be no special postal deliv-
cries on Sundays. a<sAs
AN exchange asks: If toabcco is an
evil, why does Providence permit such
humping big crops?
EDGAR FIRE THUNDER is the lurid name
of a'young Indian blacksmith who is to be
sent out from Carlisle.
BURLINGTON COUNTY, N. j., is exercised
over an alleged headless ghost seen at the
roadside near Ellisdale.
BELvA LOCKWOOD is said to have cleared
5000 from her lecturing tour since she
wasn't elected President.
IT is officially denied that Germany and
Spain have reached an agreement concern
ling the Caroline Islands.
IuA PHILADELPHIA halter claims that the
heads of Americans are gradually but
surely decreasing in size. .
IT is said that pretty woman marries a
homely man simply to give her own beauty
the benefit of the contrast.
The spire of the Cathedral on Fifth Az
.enue, New York, is to be carried up to
three hundred and fifty feet.
THERE is an increased demand at the
Treasury for small currency, which is in
Iterpreted as sign of business revivA.
A MONTANA half-breed who began stock
raising with two or three head of cattle a
few years ago, recently sold his herd for
$4,000.
The oldest living ex-member of the ver-
mont Legislature is Eli Chamberlain, of
Albany, "a years old. He served in the ses-
sion of 1922.
INQUIRIES are being made by Congress
sional committee regarding statue of La.
fayette to be placed in Washington at
cost of $4,000. --i
Our Signal Service costs ST ,OOO, 900
year, and that of Great Britain, with full
ly as many stations and fully as efficient,
costs only $4,000.
The grand jury reported no indictments
against the sixteen persons in custody
charged with killing Chinese at Rock
Springs, Wyoming.
1T is said that forty five millions of eggs
are consumed every day in the United
States. New York City alone consumes
4S0, 900 900 annually.
1T is claimed that the cultivation of carp
is bound to be great industry in time.
More meat can be produced with an acre of
water than five acres of land.
A NEW York paper seriously doubts if a
pretty woman can be convicted of murder
in the courts of that city, no matter how
strong the evidence against her.
THE Austrian Government has invited the
nations to send delegates to conference
to be held in Vienna, at the end of October,
to establish a standard musical pitch.
AMERICANS of means, and who are am
bilious are notified that several old palaces
are for sale in Italy. Their impecunious
owners have no further use for them.
making piano from musical stones. The
hints are suspended by wires from a board
and are played upon by two other flints.
The growing of the sunflower for its
seed to feed is rapidly increasing in many
sections of the country. Sunfiower seed
is said to be one of the very best poultry
feeds. NA-7
The new Pennsylvania marriage law
levies tax on bridegrooms, and compels
them to answer under oath about twenty
questions as to themselves and intended
brides.
THERE is young lady in Orangeburg
s. c., who runs farm and makes from
thirty to forty bales of cotton a year, be.
sides other crops. She doesn't want tt
marry.
GOLDSMITH MAID, the famous trotter
which died recently, earned during he,
lifetime of twenty-eight and one-third
years, nearly quarter of a million of dol.
lars, it is stated.
PAPER is made in France from hop vines
and it is claimed that the fiber secured i.
the best substitute for rags yet obtained
as it possesses great length, strength, hex
ibilfty and delicacy.
The President has received an elegan
framed photograph of Prince Bismarck
1t was a present from Prince Bismarcl
himself, and bore his personal autograph
1t will be hung in the Presidents cham
ber.
BUDpENsIcK, the New York builder O
mud-mortar infamy, found the walls of tn
Tombs prison of pretty sodnd construction
and succeeded in digging out only & fey
days ago through the aid of satisfactor,
bondsmen.
THE harp used by Tom Moore is owne
by George w. Childs, proprietor of tn
Philadelphia Ledger, into whose possessio
it came by bequest.
The increasing musculinity of Englis
girls is a topic for many London essayist
In dress, talk and manners it is the fash
ion with daughters of wealth and refine
ment, to be as much like their brothers q
decorum will allow.
The British Imperial Government hay
presented to Ottawa, Ont, thirteen siz
pound bronze cannon for statute of tt
Indian chief Joseph Brant, an English all
during the war of the Revolution.
To KEEP postage stamps in the pocket {
memorandum book without sticking, a pos
office clerk advises people to rub the stick
side over the hair two or three tim es. I'll
oil of the hair coats the mucilage and Or,
vents 1t from sticking.
MRS. MARK HOPKINS, who lives at Gre
Darlington, Mass. and left California Of
Of fear OF Dennis Ksarney and bis foiiey
eYs, has at least $50, ,o0o, 900 TO manage. Hi
makes good interest on shrswd inyesttusp
lad careful rranAs smsnt