The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-13
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A TEXAS woman has given birth to a boy
covered with scales like a fish.
A SOCIETY has been formed in Pittsburgh
to suppress vicious literature.
Miss PALM, with whom Senator Jones
was infatuated, is to be married.
TEE total expenditures from the Senate
for Senator Miller's funeral were $3.50.
THERE are now in force in this country
more than 225, 900 patents for inventions.
THERE is more undeveloped land in the
State of Maine than in any Western State.
A VICIOUS horse bit off the upper lip of
Michael Christopher, living near Tuscola,
Ill.
HUeeINe sociables at so much q hug,
ministers free, are very popular in Bite,
II. T.
A TUNNEL under the Irish Channel is now
talked of. The distance is twenty-five
miles.
ment have the eight-hour day for public
work.
CHIcAeo's big and costly new courthouse
Is being pulled down to keep it from falling
down.
LEYDEN UNIVERSITY is the richest in the
world, with real estate which is valued at
100000.
The cooperative society of Trenton, N.
j., has declared a quarterly dividend of ten
per cent.
SENATOR HAwLEY is said by stem
~ographers to be the most rapid speaker in
Congress.
LABoRERs are advised to keep away from
the Panama canal by United States Consul
Adamson.
IT is reported that the great Lick Observ-
atory In California will be completely
equipped by 1888.
The gentle oyster will now lay him down
in his little bed and peacefully lumber till
September comes.
A~co-oPERArIvs stove factory has been
started at P~hillipsburg, N. T., by the
knights of Labor.
The Broadway Doodle paid to New York
aldermen in 1884 is said to have amounted
to $4,000 per man.
Or the forty-seven men arrested in New
York the other day for boycotting not one
was American born.
CHINoH bugs are reported to have ap-
peared in the wheat fields neal Centralia,
Ill, in enormous numbers.
The old Senate House in Kingston, NY,
of historical renown, was sold at mortgage
sale a few days ago for %, 100.
THE mayor Of Burlington, N. j., issued a
proclamation forbidding the public wear
ing of Mother Hubbard dresses.
THERE are 234 divorce cases on the docket
of the Supreme Court for Suffolk County,
Mass, to be tried at the Nay term.
THERE is said to Do moro money in the
small hard CLAIMS now caught in Oyster
Bay, L. L, harbors than In oysters.
FLORIDA watermelons have appeared in
the New York market, and $1.5O and So
each is considered the proper quid pro quo.
LITTLE bees so made that they tremble
with the slightest motion of the wearer,
are among the new things in French jew
elry.
THE rooms that John Brown occupied at
Windsor Castle lave been kept strictly
closed since the death of that faithful
servant
CERTAIN portions of New York City are
represented as overrun with rats of mon
strous size that gnaw through lead-pipes
and tin-lined cellars.
THs average daily attendance in the
common schools of the United States, &C
cording to the last report of the Bureau Of
Education, is $3.50, $50.
MICHIGAN parties are experimenting with
mineral wax from Utah mines. 1t is
claimed to be the best material for insulat-
ing wires yet discovered.
- $500
said to be the Decapo, built last year by
the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Phila-
delphia. 1t weighs 144,0OO pounds.
IT is said that the new Washington sewer
is the largest in the world. 1t is large
enough for a team of horses and load of
hay to be drawn through the entrance.
ADAM A. GosLow, Of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
hal written to the superintendent of Castle
Garden, New York, for a wife. He is twenty
years old, a farmer. and well to do, and
prefers a widow or spinster.
BROADER GENERAL THOMAS b. RueER
has been assigned to the command of the
department of Dakota, and Brigadier Gen
eral j. b. Potter to the command of the
department Of the Missouri.
EIeHrY girls employed in G~wernaud's ink
mill in Union Hill, N. Y, struck for a
reduction OF their working hours, and, to
lend emphasis to their protest, they threw
the foreman out of the window.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES A. LouT1Tr, OF the
Second California district, boasts that he
was born In a stable in New Orleans, was
brought up in g blacksmith shop, and was
educated in a common school. He is now
. lawyer, but can still strike a good blow
on the anvil.
THE prisoners In the Jail at Helena, M.
T., dug out through a brick wall one night,
went to a saloon, captured a lot of whisky,
returned to the Jail, and were found safe in
the morning, but all very drunk.
CHARLES GREER, of Brooklyn, separated
from his young wife sometime ago because
she was in the habit of using morphine.
They met by appointment a.few days since,
and were reconciled, when she fell lead in
his arms.
IT il said that Russia Is about to under.
take the growth of cotton on a large scale.
The south Of Russia has a similar climate
to that of the Southern American States,
and is supposed to be adapted to the cot.
ton crop.
ABOUT 81, 0O0, 900 worth of bristles are i'm.
ported annually, consisting largely OF
those found in Russia and the colder lati
tudes, where they are coarser and longer
thar those upon American-bred hogs.
JOHN MuzzY, of Portland, Me-, who is
nov ninety-eight years old, is the owner
of a piece of property, and he is awaiting
the expiration Of the present lease, which
has five years to run, in order to build the
handsomest block In Portland.
TIE theory that the Indians are decreas
ing in number Is not sustained by informa.
ton from Sitting Bulls people. During
the o OF February among those en-.
rolled at Standing Rock, D.. T., there were
seventeen deaths and twenty-one births.
Two colored girls in Georgia recently
fought a duel for the possession of q certain
young colored man, of whom they were
both enamored. The fellow took up with