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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15
.Science occasionally illun

Science Occasionally 1I1uminates
the dark spots of our ignorance with
such effulgence as to completely over
power one. AS case in point we note
the announcement in the Florida Medi-
cal Journal that Southern dentists have
discovered that the peculiar whiteness
of the negro's teeth is due to the ex-
cess of white blood corpuscles.-Medi-
cal Record.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15

Superintendent W. T. Owen, of the
Planters rice mill at Savannah, Ga, has
disappeared, and it is learned that he has
obtained about S2l, 900 from different banks
on bogus warehouse receipts. He belongs
to a well-known Maryland family.
Cattle herds throughout Dewitt County,
ILL.,, have suffered greatly of late through q
disease called "blackleg" which has made
its appearance among the younger class of
stock. 1t invariably proves. fatal. Most
of the calves that have died have been very
high grades.
The village of Waterford, Racine County,
Wis, is stricken with typhoid fever, and
on the Sth fifty persons were down with the
disease. One family of eleven persons
and another of nine were all sick. The
State Board of Health has been ask ed to
investigate the cause.
The Louisiana Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 9th. During the session about
four hundred bills were introduced, of
which number two hundred became laws
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, on the 9th
appointed G. W. Sadler, of Erie County,
Commissioner of Fish and Game for the
unexpired term ending May IL, 1887, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
G. 8. Parker, of Norwalk.
There were heavy rain storms through
out Wisconsin on the 9th and it is be-
lieved the great drought is at an end. In
many parts of the State there has been no
rain since May Is, and crops have suffered
terribly. So far as can be Learned all the
forest fires that have ragged in the northern
part of the State for some days past have
been extinguished.
The Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore,
in its semi-annual review of the industrial
growth of the South, shows that during the
first six months of 1886 the value of the
manufacturing and mining enterprises of
the South have been increased by about
$63, ,61s, 900.
The thirteenth National Conference OF
Charities and Correction will be held in
st. Paul from July 15 to 81. Invitations
have been extended to the Governors of all
the States and Territories to be present
and a number have accepted.
The post-ofice at Minneapolis. Mimi,
was entered by professional burglars on
the night of the 9th, whc picksd the safe
and robbed it of about $4,000 in stamps
and 800 in currency.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15
"A reporter fresh from England was

"A reporter fresh from England was
recently assigned by the city editor of
a Boston paper to report lecture.
This is the way he ''fixed'' quotation
from Tom Moore: "The reverend gen.
tleman announced it as his opinion
that the world is in the nature of fleet
ing show, given for the delusion of man,
and proceeded to remark further that
the smiles of joy. as we'll as the tears
of woe, shine deceitfully in the one
case and flow deceitfully in the other.
There Is. he said, nothing true but
Heaven"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15
Fatal CareIessness.

BUcYRus, O., July 11.-About 2 O'Clock
this afternoon, Sammy Ruhl, aged seven
een, was accidentally shot in the neck by
Fred Flocken, and died in less than two
hours. The boys were fooling with a re-
golver they believed to be unloaded.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15
Died Because of a Sons Death,

BALTIMORE, July 11.-Mrs. Eleanora Cole'
mother of the late Congressman VIM. H.
Cole, who was buried this afternoon, died
shortly before the funeral of her son from
the shock occasioned by his death. She
was sixty-nine years of age and had been
in feeble health for some time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15

"A New York gossip says that un-
signed wills are very common. People
get them made, but are afraid to put
their names to them. Il know one
man." he says, "who has spent $40, 900
in having wills drawn within the last
few years"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15
The task of defeating the ingen,

The task Of defeating the ingenu-
ity of pension wolves is doubtless an
onerous one, but the President is COM
ing out of it with reputation for
quiet humor that, when yoked to
strcng common sense and honesty Of
purpose, Is thoroughly appreciated By
tks AmsrisRn pseplts "a eB{sate Never
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15

-steasnbont business on the Missls.
sippi river Ii steadily dselininE, -eM n
Snfs
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
PERSEVERANCE.

A robin once came to our yard, in quest
Of something with which to build his nest
And, looking about him, tho little thing
Beheld in the pathway tiny string.
Delighted, he hoped on the dewy grass
To capture the coveted prize--but aasl
The string to post was fastened tight,
And he couldn't remove it with all his might.
He futtered and struggled, and dropped It,
and then
stopped moment to breathe, and tried it
II again.
aeThis string must havel' he seemed to say,
As he bobbed his head in a comical way.
"Perhaps to obtain 1T may cost me some
trouble,
But the beautiful string is much nicer than
stubble,
And better than any thing else can be
20 fasten my house to the apple tree;
And so,, thus he chirped, as he stood on his
toes,
UI think / will carry it off and-here goesl"
But had he been given the strength and
might
| Of all the robins on Bernor Hight,
| And had they all pulled to their very utmost,
| They couldn't have broken the string from
the post.
| And hence, in tugging away at the string
| And trying to do an impossible thing,
| The robin was foolish, perhaps you will say;
| For though he had will, he was wanting
| way.
| But still he kept trying, again and again.
| At last, after twenty odd failures, just then
| An unseen friend, who happened to be
At hand near the lattice, cut loose and Sc
| free
The string from the post, and up to the skie
The robin arose with his coveted prize.
If the moral to this simple story is plain.
These verses will not have been written Il
vain.
e. Richardson, IN ". Y. Independents
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10
STORY OF A SONG.
History of the Composition of the Simple
But Pleasing Russian National Hymn.

History of the Composition of the Simple
But Pleasing Russian National Hymn.
The Russian national hymn, a simple
but noble strain, well known in Eng
land, was composed by General Alexis
Lwoff. The melody, without possess
ing any of the characteristics peculiar
to Russian popular music, is eminently
fitted for its purpose, and has, like the
Austrian national air, been frequently
used as hymn-tune. In his ..Mem-
oirs,n General Lwoff thus relates the
history of it's composition:
s'In 1888, l accompanied the EN-
peror Nicholas to Prussia and Austria.
On our return to Russia, l was in
formed by Count de Benkendolff that
our sovereign, regretting that we Rus
slams had no national hymn, requested
me to try and write such compost
tion. The problem struck me as ex-
tremely difficult and serious. Recol-
lecting the imposing British hymn,
God save the King;' the French hymn,
so full of originality; and the Austrian
hymn, with its touching music, l felt
and comprehended the necessity Of
producing something vigorous, grand,
moving and national, fit to be heard in
church, in the ranks of the army or
in the midst of popular gathering,
and within the reach of every one,
from the scholar to the person of no
education at all. One evening, on re-
| turning home very late, j composed
| and wrote down the melody of the
hymn. The next day called ON Jou-
vosky to ask him for the words; but he
| was not a musician and could moi
adapt them to the finale in the minor
| key of the first cadence OF the melody
informed Bengendorff that the hymn
was ready. The emperor said he would
hear it, and on the 23d of November
1888, cam, 70 the chapel of the imperi
al choristers. / had summoned the
whole body of the latter; and backed
them up with two full bands. TIL,
Emperor had the hymn repeated sever
al times, then sung without accompani
ment, and then performed by all tn,
executants combined. He said to M
in French, 1T is superbr and then ant
there ordered the Minister of War b
have the hymn adopted for the Who'll
army. The decree was promulgate,
on the 4th of December, and the hymn
was heard publicly for the first time ol
the 11th of December, 1888, at Mos
cow.n T.,
4 The Emperor presented the compose
with gold snuff-box set with dis
monds, as a testimony of his satisfac
tion, and ordered that the words, "Go
protect the Czar,'' should be intro
duced in the armorial bearings of th
Lwoff family. Lwoff died in 1870 hay
ing suffered for many years from a yer
s.t, l.
hasring.- CGsselrs Foani1g Mdgdziae-
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10
Willing to Be Translated.


a man was crushed by having well
cave in ON him in Fargo, D. T., one
day recently and died few hours after
being rescued. Some of his neighbors
were talking about it the next day.
"Well," said Colonel Bentley, Jones
was a good fellow, and I'm sorry he's
gone. Did you help rescue him, Cap
tainp"
'.Yes. and Major Powers and Judge
Alexander took him out, and stayed
with him till he died. AS was just
saying to Senator Gloomy, it was a
touching sightpn
'sBut they say he was resignedP"
eyes, he was.n
''What seemed to be the greatest con-
ISOLATION of his dying momentsp"
"Well, he seemed to get some COM
fort from religion, but he said that what
really made him resigned to death
was the fact that he was the
only man in Fargo without a title.
He said he guessed it was better that
he should 60 .''-Estetline ID. IT, Bell.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10
A Liberal Reward.

A rock weighing over a ton fell on
the track of the Derby railroad, and
was seen by two twelve-year-old New
Haven boys. One of them, Willie
Kehoe, at once began stripping to get
off his red undershirt, but the other,
Christie Holton, ran to some boys on
the bank and got red handkerchief.
This was vigorously waved as train
came around the curve. The engineer
Stacked up, but, seeing that the flag
was waved by small boys. started on
again. The boys made such frantic
signals that he decided to stop, and
brought his locomotive to halt a
hundred feet from the bowlder. 1t
took nearly half an hour to remove it.
The passengers were SO pleased at be-
ing rescued from danger that they gave
four dollars and twenty cents to the
boys, which is considered good deal
in some portions of Connecticut
Hartford COurant.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10
A eIBL.s PROTEST.


we're getting Fery tired of the silly things
Abort the "gscd old-fashioned girl" and her
The highest point of nonsense they havo
And weIirhe glrlsPadeoide that it is really
time they stopped"
Our dear old grandmas-b them!-never
mean to lead astray
Young Ned orTom, when, with loving smile
"Ah. boys, the girls are different from what
But we think they've forgotten all the fun
they had, you see!
They remember all the spinning, but the
dancing they forget;
They can recollect the baking-not the way
they used to fret
When they had to stay at home sometimes,
-, to dust the parlor clean,
When lots OF other girls and boys were
dancing on the green"
Why should a girl sit down and spin from
With SO much & machlnery-do you think
it would be right2
And modern girls can make good pies, and
And just as we'll, we'i wager, as the old ones
used to do.
Were more sedate, industrious-but how
about the men?
We think our grandpa just too nice when
sometimes he will say:
"Oh, girls the boys are not SO fine as in my
old-time dayp'
But, seriously, we should think that older
folks would know
That times are very different from fifty years
agol
'The girls" must follow with the world, which
surely has advanced
r,,< 40. =
fectly entrRnced
When she said that she was noted once for a
minuet she danced.
-DuDUG Morgan Smith, n, No'ristoiUn Herald.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10
ANXIOUS TO PLEASE.
Unsuccessful Efforts of a Swiss Landlord tt
Humor American Tastes.

Unsuccessful Efforts of Swiss Landlord to
Humor American Tastes.
We were staying at hotel in Genevs
kept by a former head waiter at Del
monico's, who was elaborately anxious
to satisfy the American palate. 1t was
in August and he gave us green corn on
the cob, which we ate at once with rel
ish, and to the abiding amazement of
the English party at the next table.
He asked us if we would like corn
bread OF buckwheat cakes, and the
next day. at breakfast he came up
smiling and told us he had ordered
buckwheat cakes to be made for our
luncheon. He had imported his griddle.
and his buckwheat, and his maple
syrup; it was pity that he had not
also imported some one to mix the bat
ter and to bake the cakes, for when the
brown disks were placed before us,
hot, he saw at once that all
wss not as it should be. Something
was wrong and we were justly punished
for willingness to risk buckwheat
cakes in August.
Were these really buckwheat cakes-p
That was the question. They were quise
stiff and very brittle, even the maple
syrup did not make them taste as
buckwheat cakes ought to taste. While
we were doubling and debating the
landlord came up smiling again and
asked us how we liked the corn bread.
Then was the mystery explained; il
was corn bread which the French cook
had baked on cake griddle and which
vie had been trying to eat with maple
syrup.-Des Moines Register.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10

4 Most people have heard great
deal about marriage customs in France,
but not many foreigners are probably
awsre that a French officer is not al
lowed to marry unless the lady of his
choice possesses sufficient capital to
guarantee an annual income of
twelve hundred francs (two hun
dred and forty dollars) a year.
This is the minimum value that the
Ministry of War sets upon an officer in
the matrimonial market Another con-
dition is that the lady shall be of un-
blemished character. There is a pro-
bositionunder consideration to increase
the minimum income on which an ofi-
Ger is allowed to marry.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10

"A quaint phrase which a CORE.
spondent has found in Pennsylvania
and Virginia is .'gimber-jawed.n On
seeing portrait. of George Elliot a
Pennsylvania lady exclaimed: "How
gimber-jawed she wasl"
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10

Half million wild ducks are an.
nually killed in Southern Louisiana and
sent to the New Orleans market.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10

Vermont proposes to establish a
State institution for the criminally in.
sane.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10

A FIVE and one-half pound sun.
flower, measuring thirteen inches in
diameter, is Florida production.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-09-10

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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-19
prove of any cOnsO-

proceeding prove of any consO-
quenceP"
''Land Iubbers fail to see a great
many things, but we old tars know our
| business. Why don't you ask me about
your own superStitiOns? You won t
walk under a ladder or a string; YOU
have a dread of any thing that numbers
| thirteen; you won't cross the line of a
funeral procession; you won't look at
| the new moon over the left shoulder,
and all that kind of thing. A fisher
man cares nothing for such childish
whlms, and yet you call US superstiti-
Gus. I've got you here, my lad, this
time. You ask any fisherman if the
hatch falling upside down is not a sign
of the very worst kind of luck, and if
he says no, why, I'll eat my hat. That
| is one of the surest signs of them all.
and the fellow who does it is signaled
out as unlucky, and I'll bet drinks for
| the crowd that the skipper of any sail
ing craft from Il full-rigged ship down
to a smack would swear like trooper
should he hear of it. "
After a few minutes pause the old
fisherman went on: 4 dare say you
would laugh at me if l told YOU that l
got a good drubbing from a skipper
NtilNiNL W AiOAlA L NetllNtA Wi1SlA Il Aet'is bC-
cause l showed the dory off the side of
the ship with her head pointing toward
the sun.
''What did that signifv?''
''It means simply defying the ele-
ments, and whenever YOU do that take
my word that nothing good comes of
it,
GLOW is it you are so certain in your
storm predictions?'
"Oh, that is simple Year i'll and
year out from our boyhood we study
the signs in the heavens, which are
very accurate. Certain stars, bright
or dull, mean certain things. The
wind from a given quarter in a certain
month is almost sure to bring stormy,
fair, dry or wet weather as the case
may be. The moon gives us a great
deal of information; if she is on her
back then look out for a storm; if her
horns are well pointed then you may
expect cool or cold weather according
to the season of the year. If there is
large, haZY circle around the moon
then you may look out for a good rain
storm or a steady rainfall Then the
big and little bears give US some useful
knowledge according to the different
positions they assume. | want YOU to
understand one thing, that it is mis-
take to think fishermen superstitiOus."
N. 7. HaI and Express.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-19
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

ZELNA p. GORDON, the oldest telegraph
operator in the United States, died at Cas-
| tile, n. y, on the 14th, aged - years.
THE London Observer has it that Glad,
stones measures for home government
for Ireland, if persisted in, viii result 10
tho disruption Of the Cabinet.
THOMAS A. EDISON has filed an applica-
tion for a patent for his invention Of tele-
graphing from a moving train.
THE strike in the soft coal regions of
Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia IS now general, and be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 men are idle.
THE remains of Ford and Murphy, who
were executed at New Orleans on the 18th
were buried in Greenwood Cemetary., No
religious services were held. About 15o
persons were present.
IT is reported that arrangements are
about perfect for making Lookout Noun
tain summer garrison for q. S. troops.
A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted a. Hot
Springs, Ark, on the 18th. George Williams,
clerk at the hotel, shot and killed Mrs.
Norris, guest Of the house and attempted
to Kill hiuiself.
THE frei hit brakemen on the Chesa-
peake, Ohio and Southwestern road struck
on the 18Th for an advance of wages.
THE exports of gold TO Europe during
the week ending on the 18th ere S1SI, ,SS3;
Of silver Sl27 ,220; to Havana, sold, Sl21,-
600; silver, 81 200. The imports OF specie
aggregated S2OT ,T99.
LOUISIANA wants an appropriation of
$1,000, eco from the government to provide
two machines for the manufacturo of
sorghum sugar Ly the diffusion process.
THERE were no developments concerning
the strike at Little Rock, Ark, on the Il. b,
beyond the disabling of the last engine in
the possession of the company.
TIE lower house Of the Mississippi Leg
islaure on the 18th passed bin restrict
ing the holding of the office Of Governor
TO one term.
Two members Of the British government
have resigned ueeause they were unwilling
10 support Mr. Giadstone's Irish policy.
TIE peniteutiary couvicts of Mississippi
nave been leased TO the Gulf and Ship
island Railroad Company fer 10000 per
year.
a BOY named John Davis, "A years old,
aas been sentenced to tie Georgia peniteu-
.iasy for life.
RUGBY colony, the colony planted by
Tom Hughes in East Tennessee, is expe-
-iencug revival.
THIS issue of standard silver dollars from
.hc mis,s dur.ng the week ending March
ls, was S4lI.7So. The issue during the
corresponding period OF last year was
.4ts,s97.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-19

on the morning of the 10th a fire broke
out In the tar works of NJ. Ehret G5 Co., at
the Point Breeze (Phiiadelphia) gas works,
caused by the explosion of a still. That
/ part of the works is a total loss.
A FIRE on the 10Th at McKeesport, Pa,
| destroyed divers tailoring establishment,
| Carr's cigar store, Brooks butcher shop
and the Times Office. Loss, $4,000; fully
\ insured
| on the night OF the 9th P. N. Pitman, an
employe Of G.. w. Moore, insurance agency
/ OF Detroit, Mich, was arrested in Kala-
mazoo on 4 charge OF embezzling $1,000
from the New York Life Insurance Com
pany.
OK the 10th the largest fire in Montreal
for long time occurred, and destroyed a
large number of business places, principal
ly wholesalers. The aggregate loss viii
reach $500, 900; well insured. One fremen
is missing.
OK the 1lth three young men, stealing
a ride in a box car on the Decatur &
Evansville railroad, engaged in fight,
which resulted in the fatal shooting of
Edward Ivey, one of the party.
On the 18th the two great powder mills
Of the Gambo Powder Company, eleven
miles from Portland, Me-, blew up. There
was large stock of material on hand, and
the explosion was terrific. Clarence Clary,
! of Gorham, was killed and Henry Hooper
was terribly and fatally mangled.
TIE custom-h hcuse az Cetalinas, South
America, was burned on the 11th; loss,
$1,000, 900.
A FIRe at a railway station at Oldham,
England, on the 18th, destroyed $500
worth of cotton.
BY the burning of the Orphanage for
boys in the town of VOerde, Germany, on
the 18th, five inmates lost their lives.
on the 18th, while Sarah Hassett, a cook
at LOgausport (Ind.) restaurant, was
filling the tank on a gasoline stove the
fluid took fire and the tank exploded The
Hassett woman and a bystander named
Joseph HeiTner were horribly and fatally
burned.
THE station master at Monte Carlo who
caused the recent railway collision was ar
rested on the 18th and committed suicide
EDWARD CLAPPER, living seven miles
from Fremont, Neb., was burned to death
in his house, which was destroyed by fire
on the 18th. He was unmarried and a
farmer. There is no explanation of the
affair, but the supposition is that it was
accidental
EARLY on the morning of the 18th the
Cunard line steamer Oregon came in
collision with a schooner off Fire Island
and sunk in twelve fathoms of water. The
passengers were an rescued by the Bremen
steamer Fulda and carried TO New York
The schooner sank with all on board.
Thus the Cunard record is broken.
on the 18th the House Of Refuge at To-
ledo, o., was fired by an incendiary, and
was totally destroyed.
THE recent Michigan railroad wreck
near Marshall was wore than first re-
ported, several persons being probably fa-
tally injured.
ON the 18th George Croc1er, a retired
Boston business man, father of aptan
Crocker, of the yacht Puritan, was found
hanging dead from his bed-pOst suspended
by two houdkerchiefs tied together with
a slip moose at each end.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-19
REGRET.

Could we recall years that have fed.
How quickly from the tongue
Would fan the kind words left unssid,
The sweet songs left unsung!
How many cares, that long ago
Dark shadows DER us cast,
Would fade like faces in the snow,
Could we recall the past!
How firmly, steadfastly we'd keep
Those paths we should have trOdi
How true we'd prove to friends who sleep
Now meath the churchyaTd sod!
o years. deep marked with FOlly's stains
And torn by Passions blast,
How soon we'd free thee from thy chains,
Could we recall abe past!
r. Z. AuTTdy an Detroit Free Press.