The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-10-11
Little or Nothing.

diligence is a fair fortune. and indus
try a good estate.
......It is the last ostrich-feather that
breaks the husbands back.
......A man is obliged to keep his word
when no one will take it.
livery few persons have sense enough
to despise the praise of a fool.
.....What goes most against a farmers
grain? His reaping machine.
Life is a beautiful night in which as
some stars 60 down others rise.
1.-The best way to humble a proud man
is not to take any notice of him.
......Mr. Everett is said to be engaged to
be married to a fashionable Southern wild
ow.
....According to a bachelor horticulture,
the genuine domestic evergreen is-a hus-
band.
....Japanese Tommy expects to return to
this country and study English and Naviga-
ton.
......lt is said that parsons "help us to
die" but perhaps dOctOrsdo quite al much in
that line.
......Be careful how you jest. The richest
joke Of the season may be a very unseasona-
bic one.
1.-THE lack of money is o weight upon
the bosom; the possession Of it q heaviness
in the chest.
1.-THE lightning burntthe undershirt of
ola man named Allen, near Iowa City, late
ly leaveing him unhurt.
"....Those women who are most loved BY
their W sex are precisely those who arc
most loved by the other.
....Lola Montez is rapidly nearing her
end, at the residence Off friend, at Astoria,
l.. l., near New York city.
"....Men talk of educating the eye. Why
should the eye not be q desirable scholar p
Because it is very refractory.
1.-The girl who succeeds in winning tn.
true love of a true mar makes q lucky hit,
and is herself a lucky miss.
IA San Salvador paper says thatmore
than fifty shocks eff earthquake were expert
enced there in one day in the month of July.
"....An Eastern religiousjourn estimates
that, at the present rate of decrease, in TWEEN.
ty years there will not be a Quaker in the
world.
....Don't live in hope with your arms
folded; fortune smiles on those who roll up
their sleeves and put their shoulders to the
wheel
.....A telescope Of Extraordinary power is
in course of erection at the Paris Observato.
ry. 1t is said to have q magnifying power of
twenty thousand.
1.-THE forenoon is the best time to have
n photograph taken, as the morning sun pro-
duces better effects than can be obtained af.
ter twelve o'clock.
......A dcbateing club lately discussed the
important question, whether a ROSTERS
knowledge of day.break is the result of OBJ
servation or instinct"
1.-THE ladies ought never to be Abolition
lists. The abolition of slavery would destroy
the cotton culture, and we know that cotton
is very neal their hearts.
......Hon. Edward Everett is to open the
course of lectures which will be delivered
before the Mercantile Library Associa-
ton of Boston, this winter.
......Itis generally only in great minds
that we see great inconsistencies of charac-
ter; the rest are more of a price, and one
quality seems to drag another after it.
......A medical journal says that single
women have the headache more than mar
ried ones, That may be: but don't married
men have the headache oftener than single
ones.
"....There are fifty seven cities in the
world which contain from 100, 600 to 200, 900
inhabitants, twenty three from zoo, 900 to
SOC, 900, and twelve which contain above
5000 boo
my dear julia" said one pretty girl
to another, can you make up your mind to
marry that odious Mr.. Snuff "Why my
dear Mary" replied Julia, II believe l could
take him at a pinch!"
.....Some of the working tailors of Buffalo
are on q strike for higher wages. 1t is stat
ed that at present prices q man with the as
siStance Of his wife can onlymake from three
to four dollars o week.
......A Mr.. Richardson, of Ireland, lately
attempted to get off the cars of the Dublin
and Kingston Railway when in motion. The
railway company prosecuted him, and had
him fined E2, as a warning to others.
There was a small explosion in the
Boston Post Office on Saturday, occasioned
by the stamping Of o letter in which one of
the famous burglars. alarms was inelos-
ed. The envelope was torn TO pieces, and
the clerks thought ofinfernal machines; but
the damage was confined TO the burst letter.
1.-THE latest Boston excitement is about
''the railroad conductor NTH the flower in
his mouth" Il appears that this pleasant
fellow has a conservatory of his own, and
that he never enters a car at morning, noon,
or night, in summer or any other season,
having between his lips q flower
from his own bower.