The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
IT takes 144,ooo watch screws to weigh .
pound.
HARvAsD's s5oth anniversary occurs next
October.
THERE Is q movement to mako two states
out Of Kansas. ~
BISMARCK was seventy-one years old on
April FOOLS day.
Tue arrests in Belgium during tho recent
riots numbered 2,500.
PHILADELPHIA has twenty-five Thousand
more women than men.
'USoLE RsMus" often receives $50 a page
for bis magazine articles.
IT has cost Canada thus far "a, l29,237 to
put down the Riel rebellion.
The BARRIERS Of Washington city will
close their shops on Sunday.
NEW YORK swells are stricken suddenly
with a single eye-glass epidemic.
ONE Of London,s swell clubs, the Empire,
has collapsed, with $40, 900 in debts
Rev. San JONES has agreed to spend sew
eral weeks in Boston next fall in evangel-
ical work.
Mrs. A. T. STEWART and Mrs. Mark Hop
kins are said to be the W. richest women
in the world.
TIE month just closed is reported to have
been the coolest March England has had y
seventy years.
VENUS, the planet rises an hour before
the sun now and is at its greatest brilliancy
as morning star.
A WRITER in the Louisville Post says Sal
vini is al Irishman and that his real name
is Tom Sullivan.
ONE of the most extensive chicken farm
ers in Pennsylvania is named Hatch. His
first name is Henry.
INDIANS comprise thirty-ive per cent. Of
the population of Mexico. They lead q
wild, half savage life.
MAYoR O'BRIEN, of Boston, vetoed a bill
passed by the council m g eight hours .
day for all city employees.
SWITZERLAND is about to regulate by law
the amount of corset pressure the ladies
may put upon themselves.
D. T.. JEwErr, of 81. Louis, is said to be
the only man who ever served q zone day
term" in the o. 8. Senate.
MIoHIeAs is to have . se-mi-centennial
celebration in June, at which Judge Cooley
will read q historical sketch.
A BOY at Gera, Germany, died Of blood
poisoning in consequence of playing with .
cat which had just killed Q rat
THE time seems drawing near when there
will be a quorum of the New York board of
aldermen in Ludlow street jail.
The girls in the public schools Of Brook
lyn are compelled to commit to memory
the Constitution Of the United States.
IT was recently decided in o Cincinnati
debating society that a man is not neces-
sarily an Irishman because he wears q cork
leg.
STATISTICS show that in the whole of Eu-
rope the women have q majority Of 4,579,-
600. All the old maid are not in Massa-
chusetts.
VIcs PRESIDENT HENDRICKS counter
ance is to adorn the new $40 silver certif-
cate soon TO be issued by the United States
Treasury. 100
.LrvINs OR DEADp, is the very appropri-
ate title of one of the recently published
stories alleged to have been written by the
late MI. Conway. s
THE explored coal beds of Ireland, ac-
cording to the latest ! q book, contain
about 200, 900, 900 tons Of workable coal,
chiefly anthracite.
MRS. HANCOCK will receive the largest
pension. $4,000 per year, paid to the widow
of any soldier. Mrs. Shields, widow of the
General, receives $1,000.
Ar his own request General Crook has
been relieved from command Of the De-
partment of Arizona, which has been en-
trusted to General Miles.
AFTER much mental pulling and hauling,
authorities in Maine, including the Histor-
lea Society, have settled on Mount Desert
as the proper pronunciation.
NEARLY half q pound of three-inch nails
were found in the stomach of q cow, butch
cred recently on the Pacific Coast. They
were all, it is said. nicely polished.
EpwARp puNxoRE and Mrs. Eliza Wilson
were married at Avondale, Pa, q few days
ago. The groom is 100 years old, and the
blushing bride just turning eighty years.
MISS LOUISE DE KovsN is the wealthiest
heiress in Chicago, her fortune being esti-
mated at nearly $40, 0,000. But there is
no show, as she is engaged to q young New
Yorker.
IT is claimed that a lady in Oshkosh has
a coffin for q bedstead, and every night
lies down to rest in it with as much seren-
ity as those who retire in the conventional
manner.
TIE only widow of a civilian drawing a
pension is Mrs. A. B. Meachem, whose hus-
band was chief of the Modoc peace com
mission and was crippled for life in the
massacre of 1873.
TIE trouble with Geronimo, the cheerful
Apache cut-throat of the Southwest, is
that he doesn't stay surrendered long
enough to enable the authorities to put
handouts on him. 3
SAN FRANCISCO house-keepers are exer
cised over the discovery that a large pro
from q mixture of nitrate of potash, glycer.
inc and other chemicals.
A YOUNG Swede makes a living in Boston
by washing dogs. He goes from house to
house in the fashionable quarters, and 70,
fifty or seventy-ive cents, according to the
size of the dog, give the pets thorough
baths. EHf
THERE has been SO much marrying Of
girls and boys of n age around Boston
lately that parents have taken to fling TIE
ages of their children with all the neighbol
ing magistrates and clergymen.
MExIoANs hav a passion for mirrors, ant
a traveller says that the interior of some o
tho city houses looks like steamboat cal
ms. He remarks also that mirrors ar
among the commonest articles in the pawn
shops there.
PowDERLY began his working life as
switch-tender; Hoxie, manager Of tn
Gould system of railways, was at on
time hostler in q hotel near Des Moinef
and Mr.. Gould himself earned his frs
money as a map peddler.
A YOUTH living near Champaign, Ill, pu
on his fathers summer pantaloons an
went to a dance the other night. Acolon.
of wasps, which had located in the lone