The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-10-25
Little or Nothing.


The medical light of other days
Rush.
..;!..NOne knows the weight Of another's
-..!..W When is q sailor not q sailor2 When
he is q board.
......A shot that hits is better than a broad.
side that misses.
......Beauty un%accompanicd by virtue, isa
flower without perfume.
......It is less painful to learn In youth
than to be ignorant in age.
1.-THE world makes us takers, but soil
tude makes us thinkers.
......"You don't pass here as the count
or said to the bad shilling.
...... Gilded roofs and silver door locks
cannot shut out sleeplcss nights.
1.-The three great conqucrors Of the
word, Fashion, Love and Death.
......Good works will never save you, but
you can never be saved without them.
1.-THE rose has its thorns, the diamond
its specks, and the best man his failings.
HE that has never known adversely is
but half acquainted with others, or with him
self
IAN English manufacturer invites the
public to come and see his invisible wire
fences.
......A wag states that he always looks I'M
der the marriage head for the news of the
weak"
......A movement is on &St at Mobile,
Ala, to erect q monument to General Walk
er's memory.
There is Spanish and a French prov
erb which says: "a melon and a women are
hard to choose"
......A fascinating sight it is to see a
young lady walking as though n flea was
biting her on each hip,
......If only the good that men do is re-
membcred after death, it is no wonder most
Of the race is soon forgotten.
ITO married men We would strongly
recommend one piece of thrift let them get
good quarters for their halves.
Amy thing Midas touched turned into
gold. In these days, touch men with gold,
and they'll turn into any thing,
when q cunning man seems the most
humble and submissive he is often the most
dangerous. Look out for the crouching
tiger.
Fun is worth more than physic, and
whoever %invents or discovers n new source
Of supply deserves the name of public bene-
factor.
......A bachelor has left q boarding house in
which there were q number of old maids, on
account of the miserable fair set before him
ut the table.
THE most attentive man to his business
we ever knew was he who wrote on his shop
door: "Gone to bury my wife; return in
half an hour"
1.-The Duke of Argyle does not approve
Of a woman appearing on a platform in pub
lie unless she is going to be hanged, when it
is unavoidable.
......A person being asked why he had
given his daughter in marriage to n man with
whom he was at cnmity, answered: u did it
out of pure revenge"
......Write your name By kindness, love
and mercy on the hearts of the people you
come in contact with year by year, and you
will never be forgotten,
INHERIT is never so conspicuous as when
coupled with an obscure origin just as the
moon never appears so luStrouS as when it
energies from a cloud.
...... Chauncy Jerome, the c~lockmaker, has
written a history of American ~clockmaking,
including his own life and Barnum's connec-
ton with the great failure.
......An Exchange calls John C.. Breckin.
ridge a 'straight-out' Democrat. He part
~ deserves the title. He certainly has gone
straight out Of the party.
There are forty two periodicals pub
lishcd in San Francisco-thirty one in En-
glish, five in French, four in German, one in
Spanish, and one in Italian.
1.-The ancient cooks carried their art to
the most whimsical perfection. They were
able to serve up a whole pig boiled on one
side and roasted on the other.
......A woman sometimes attempts to win
the man Of her choice by playing off before
him with n fellow she cares nothing about
She angels for a big fish with a worm.
......A Sewing Girls Library" is estab-
lished in New Noteworthy but not veal.
thy seamstresseS and shop girls can take out
any number of books BY paying a dollar a
year.
......An experienced old stager SAYS if YOU
make love to a widow who has a daughter
twenty years younger than herself begin BY
declaring that you thought they were sis
tiers.
......Richard II. Dana, Jun, has arrived at
Boston after a tour around the world, during
which he had some narrow escapes, and has
visited some of the most remarkable countries
Of the earth.
......A printer out in Arkansas, whose Of
flee is twenty miles from any other building.
and who hangs his sign on a limb of a tree,
advertises for an apprentice. he says "A
boy from the country preferred"
."Vanig Fair has the following
"Why is J. B. a greater man than Abe
Lincoln?'
Because the former split a party, while
the latter only split a rail"
......"Why John you don't like liver"
30, yes" said John, Il like it very we'll for
fifty or sixty meals; but | don't like it as q
steady diet" The old lady cooked some
thing else for the next meal.
......A young girl, scarcely yet awake to
the mysteries of her nature, and auttering
over the first demonstration OF love, is like a
child sporting on the ripling sand of the sea,