The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-03-04
CURRENT topics.

NO QUARTERS or hayes have been coined
since 1878
IILrSo1s wants to lease her surplus CON
Sict labor.
THE London police constitute an army Of
1900 men
PAPER slippers are a novelty in the world
ofinvention
THE Bell Telephone Company cleared
u 1,00e, ,442 last year.
kocuLArloN is suggested as preventive
Tor the alcohol habit.
TIE English factory girls are prohibited
from wearing "bangs.n
NEW HAMPsHIRE Is about to put .up a
statue Of Daniel Webster.
VIRGINIA doctor treats neuralgia sue
cessful with sassafras oil.
Az Augusta, Me-, lady has ordered set
OF false teeth for her old pony.
Ar Adm, Cal, lately, fifteen hunters
killed 40 rabbits in . few hours.
30 SCARCE have wild elephants become in
India that they are now protected by law.
TIE new Boston directory contains 1.soo
Sulliyans, 1000 .Murphys and 700 Nc
: Cartbys.
RICE pudding was received among the
third-class mail matter at the Brooklyn
postof1ce.
The contract to build g, ,ooo, 900 railway
bridge in Australia has been awarded a
Buffalo firm.
REPRESENTATIVE Mills, of Texas, is the
fastest talker in Congress, delivering 2l5
words minute.
The Legislature of Connecticut has ap-
proprlated $4,000 to build monument to
General Israel Putnam.
TIE latest freak of nature is reported
from Rockdale, Ga, where chicken with
one wing has been Matched.
PHILADELPHIA citizens are taking active
steps toward the erection of monument
70 General George B. Mcclellan.
ToBAcco is said to be a remedy for hog
cholera An infusion Is made of the weed
and given to the hogs In buttermilk.
A SELECT club of West India Island
cricketers will Witt the United States in
August and play in.the principle cities.
IN one month Sonoma County, Cal;
hunter killed twenty-five wildcats, forty
coons, eight foxes, four eagles and six wild
hogs.
THE value of the contents of barrel of
crude petroleum ranges from eighty-six
itself is $3.50
TIE New York Legislature has before it
bill to prohibit girls from marrying be-
fore they arrive at the age Of sixteen and
boys before eighteen.
The first coinage made by authority of
the United State was of copper and bears
date 1877. One of the inscriptionsis is "Mind
a LONDON correspondent describes Queen
victoria, as she appeared when opening
!. N .;,,sa., :, y' - ss.., = - Aoim
J - .
RUDOLPH, the Crown Prince OF Austria,
mas aiieady mastered ten languages. He
As aiso tne autnor OF scientinc work which
~ = - /" =. sAeo'e
EXPERIMENTS are now being made with
Ramie grass which may yet give us a cloth
almost as cheap as cotton, while as durable
and beautiful as damask or fine velvet.
Ii Zanzibar. the leaves of snecies Of
Zig are used for polishing wood. lust as we
employ sand-paper, and are said to give
finish which sand paper can not impart-
rur .xta,r - p;,n,.,
measure against the Poles can be under
stood when it is estimated that there are
2.454 900 of them in Prussia whom he will
expel.
THr revisad st.ter,.nt ~ ,,,,,,,,.t,o, -
sex in Massachusetts,, just sent out shows
that there were at the date of the census
9S2.8 8S4 male and 1,009, ,257 females in the
State.
OSr of the institutions at sonor. r.,
is curfew bell, and when it rings at night
all minors under eighteen wears of ape are
forced to leave the streets or to undergo
arrest
A supsrrrurr for onin;ne descr;had .s
being even superior Tn that remedy bas
been obtained from Peruvian plant
known to botanists as Lantana Bra
xilieuse.
A HORSESHOE has been invented that
comes on and OF like mans shoe. A rim
at the bottom and a buckle at the back hold
1t IN place, A pad protects the bottom of
1ne hoof =-s
BurTERrLY-a creature supposed to live
at most only two or three days-was last
year kept alive in glass cage in England
for 121 days, its age at confinement being
unknown.
WHfrrrrR savs that vsl,ov IL his Sano,.;t.
color. because he can alwavs dist;npnisb r.
wniie the ree- apples and green leaves on
tree all look .saike to him, as far as color is
concerned.
In Clark Couptv Kas duriro thse late
storm. a flock Of Sheen crowded close to-
petber flur-ino tbe blizzard and tho snopv
melting for while and then freezing after
ward, fastened the entire hock together
Hrprrruc y o,v,,,lcxzoe, s<r;ras h.ro- b.
come SO common in New York of late that
the people of that city can not be certain
when they get down townin the morning
that they can ride back again in the after
noon.