The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-10-04
Little or Nothing.

nothing like mean mans pocket to make a
%pennylwait
AS a man drinks, he generally grows
reckless; in this case the more drains the
fewer scruples.
1.-THE population of Indiana will be but
little short of a million and half, as shown by
the census Of 1860.
why are pen makers very bad per-
sonsf Because they make people steel pens,
and say they do tcrite.
......He who stabs you with q pen would
do the same with a penknife, were he as safe
from detection and law.
I'VE rather think that the most %reluct-
ant slave to rice hat we ever saw was q poor
fellow who had his fingers in one.
THE Bank of Southern Illinois, at
Bolton, ILL.,, has gone up like a balloon. Its
bills will come down like the stick.
Think of a city containing 1000 wild
ows and ID, 900 orphans, and you have an idea
of Beyrout as it was at last accounts,
......A cute Yankee in Kansas sells whisky
in a gun barrel to avoid the law and make it
appear that he is selling it by the barrel.
1.-The following notice may be seen on
n blacksmith's shop in Essex mo horses
shod on Sunday except sickness and death"
......Never fancy a woman's esteem for
your character equal to her admiration of
your whiskers-if you happen to have a nice
pair.
......If the common people cannot discov-
or your virtues, get rich, and they will be
sure to discover all you have, and many
more.
......A woman in Baltimore committed SUI
icide, a few days since, because one of her
daughters married a poor but honest young
man.
......A %Frenchman, intending to compli-
ment a young lady by calling her a gentle
lamb, said; ''She is one mutton as is
email"
......Censure is most e~ffectual when mixed
. with praise. So, when a fault is discovered,
n is well to look up a virtue to bear it COM
pany.
......It does not speak much for the sub
stantial character Of love and beauty that
the goddess of both rose out of the froth of
the sea.
......Never take morning bitters. Morn
ing sweets, from the lips of a pretty little
wife just before leaving the house, are much
better.
W., loJ haitian ,onl n ,oon,,oJ
and helpless into n wilderness of ferocious
wild animals than into the world without ed
u%cation.
There is more light in a pint of ink
than in ten thousand feet of gas, ten thous-
and quarts of oil and ten thousand pounds
oftallow.
......It seems a wonder that all the peni-
tentiaries in the country don't become bank
upt, for none of them ever get a tenth part
oftheir dues.
......A good minister in a country village
lately prayed fervently for those of his con-
gregation "who were too proud to kneel and
too lazy to stand"
1.-The Breckenridge party of Georgia
expected to have the Hon 4. H. Stephens on
its side. But he is in its side-and q long,
sharp thorn at that.
......A printer down South offers to sell
his whole establishment for q clean shirt and
meal of %vituals. He has lived on promi,
ses until his whiskerS have stopped growing
MANY who would not for the world ut
ter q falsehood, are yet eternslly scheminl
TO produce false Impressions on the mind
of others, respecting facts, characters ant
opinions.
......A new stove has been invented 70
travellers. 1t is put under the feet, and
mustard plaster on the head, which draw
the heat through the syStem-Said to be
Yankee invention. Patent rights sell cleV
erly.
......When a house keeper is lost so dee
in thought hat she sprinkles the boilin
clothes with salt, and puts the fat iron in tn
soup, it is time That she paid more a%ttentio
to domestic cookery, and less to the las
novel.
......Mr. JaycockS changed his boardin
house the other day, because his landlor,
would persist in bringing sausages home il
his hat. Mr.. Doyle left because Mr.. Slocun
objected to his driving nails in the bureau t
hang his boots on.
WIFE" said a married man, lookin,
for q boot jack, after she was in bed, II hav
q place for all things and you ought to know
it by this time" Eyes," replied she, &C
ought to know where you keep your lat
hours, but | don't
...... Whatever your profession or employ
ment may be, it is far less offensive. an,
wiser, too, honestly smell of the shop, thai
to cover yourself with odors and essences
which, only half disguise it, make a mos
disagreeable mixture.
......A time of affection is the special sea
son for the peculiar exercise of grace, 70
the soul cannot otherwise support or reliev
itself. God designs by affection to withe
oil the flowers of this world, by discoyerin
their insuficiency to give relief
IA bud is generally a more elegant an
complimentary offering than a full blown o
over blown flower. II you want your ide
to expand do not let the whole process q
expansion take place in your writing or cor
versation: leave part Of it for the mind G
your hearer or reader. .
49,. An old man said "For a lone tim
/ puzzled myself about the difficulties {
Scripture, until at last 1 came to the cor
clusion that reading the Bible was like ca
ing FISH, When l find a difficulty, I lay
aside and call it bone, Why should l chok
on the bone, when there is so much nutrition
meat?"
......Mr JTheophilus Popp, Of PoppviIlc
in Popp county, fancying himself to be yer