The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-07
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CURRENT TOPICS.
N. PAsrrus's father was tanner.

SAUER-KRAUT is reported to be an anti
oote for delirum tremens.
ENGLISH workingmen have $40 900 600 in.
vested in cooperative stores.
CHRISTMAS DAY seems to have made a
bloody record all over the country.
SENATOR STANFORD has subscribed 5000
TO the Zion Wesleyan College of North Caro-
lima
SENATOR HALE, it is said, submits drafts
of all speeches to his wife before delivering
them.
TIE Sultan of Turkey, owing to hard
times, has reduced the number of his wives
20 $50.
The eldest daughter of Mrs. Kate Chase
formerly Mrs. Sprague), is preparing for
the stage.
The total amount of mileage paid to
Senators and Representatives in Congress
= s14S, 900.
HERTn RzvIN, Westmoreland County
Pa, giri, sent President Cleveland Christ
mas turkey.
The fruit trees in Santa Barbara are be-
eng dug up and English walnuts planted in
their stead.
No fewer than 150, 900 cattle chew the cud
on ex-senator Dorsey's ranch in Colfax
County, N. NJ.
A NEVADA man has raised three kittens
that he obtained from the nest Of wild cat
that he had killed.
A MORMON who was accidentally killed in
Utah the other day left sixty-seven child
rem to mourn his loss
RECENT discoveries prove that the art of
wood engravings originated with the Arabs
about the ninth century.
From $1,000 to $1,000 people cross the
Brooklyn Bridge every day in the cars,
while about II 900 walk over.
The late John Landon Sibley, Librarian
of Harvard, courted his sweetheart for
twenty years before he married her.
EDITOR CHILDs, of the Philadelphia Led
ger, is estimated to be worth s., ,0O0, 600. And
heis as generous and noble as he is wealthy.
II has been decided to admit the new
words ''bulldozing,n boycott and ''dude''
into the new edition Of Webster's Diction-
sry.
PLAQUES on which is q snow scene, includ-
ing church with a real clock in the'tower,
were among the newest exhibits of the holi-
days.
A RUSTIC visitor to Burlington, VT, spent
Thanksgiving Day on the horse railway,
making the trip Of four miles twenty-five
times.
TEE Illinois militia will be consolidated
into six regiments of infantry, one bat
TALON of cavalry and two batteries of ar
tillery.
sured his life for SIC, 600, the other day, in
Taa1 ~ De fri fhor INIT tod
suicide.
TALL ladies WHO don't like their height
may console themselves with the fact that
nearly seven feet high.
FERDINAND WARD has changed his local.
ity and not his business. He is still en-
gagged in keeping the books-this time for
the Sing Sing contractors.
CoMMopoRE vANDERBnr's sound advice
to his son William was: 'Don't you ever
sell anything you haven't got nor buy
anything you can'tpay for"
TIE demand for copies of the Presidents
message exceeds that for any former Presi-
DENTAL message. A fourth edition has been
printed, and a fifth is contemplated.
THE value of the pig iron produced in
this country during the past year was over
$73, co., 900, or nearly the value of the out
put of both the gold and the silver mines.
IT is common thing among the people
of Dutch Guiana to inocculate themselves
with snake poison to guard against the
bites of poisonous serpents that infest that
country.
CREMATION will soon be practiced in the
Pere La Chaise Cemetery, Paris. The city
has ir,cf orfxy fo,. fho tiar,
of building with apparatus for the in
cineration of bodies.
IT is stated in consequence of the net
Treasury balance increasing by above ST.
100000 in December, Secretary Manning
contemplates making call for three per
cent. bonds in January.
LORD CHARLES THYME, uncle of the
Marquis of Bath, was priest and canon OF
Canterbury Cathedral. He resigned his
preferment in 1852 and now, in his 73d year
has entered the Catholic priesthood.
NINETY cigars in two hours was the test of
a record by an Orlando (Cal.) man who en-
.deavored to smoke himself into fame and
some cash. It is said that he lost only
on the ninetieth cigar, which sickened him
It is understood to be Queen Victoria.
pleasure that the jubilee of her reign should
not be celebrated until the completion o
fifty years from her ascension. Tha,
period will be accomplished on June 20
1857.
IT is believed that in ten years Yankton
D. T., will be an inland town. In front o.
the city, where the river ran twenty fee
deep five years ago, there are now one hun
,dred acres of land six feet above high watal
mark.
EX-SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is reported tt
have prepared a volume of memoirs, to bt
published after his death, in which hi
: makes some interesting revelations regard
ing various public personages in and out O.
Congress.
PRESIDENT SEKLYE, of Amherst College
says that if girls would run every day the,
would never die OF consumption.
MR JAMES II. SHIELDS, formerly con
nected. with the Ford Plate-glass Company
of Jeffersonville, Ind, has organized
company to start plate-glass works a
Butler, Pa. These will be the eighth in tn
United States.
ALASKA is now a civilized country. isitka
its chief town, enjoys all the great ele
ments that go toward building up''
Western town. She enjoys a saloon;
Mongolian going by the euphoneous nam
of All Soto, runs a restaurant; a brewery
and a newspaper called "1he Alaskan
have also made their appearance.
MONTREAL is to have bigger ice paiac
than ever this year. 1t is 152 feet long an
IA feet wide. Thoprincipal feature is th
great donjon tower which rises nearly i
the center. 1t is to be thirty-three feet
diameter and something over 100 feet
height. At each angle of it rise machic,
lated towers, three of eight feet in diam
ter and one of eleven feet.
CoLoREp men have organized an oyste
packing company at Annapolis.
The Wisconsin courts have decided tn,
German who can not read English ca