Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-08-25

the use OF 1ute switches. Inc autopsy
revealed the fact that the skull had been
perforated by vermin, and the brain par
tally eaten away.
AwoArAN of Troy was lately brought
before justice, charged with stealing
sum of money from her husband. She
was dismissed on the ground that q wife
could not steal from her husband.
EDWIN FORREST, at tho age of sixty
four, has recently concluded an eight
months season, in which he has travelled
over six thousand miles, played in fifty
two towns, and averaged five perform
ances week.
Or six hundred and twenty-five muir
ders committed in New York during
perpetrators of one hundred and fifty-five,
or one-quarter ofthe whole number, have
| never been discovered.
THE champion shoemakers live at Lynn,
SO far as length of service is concerned.
Edmund Lewis and James Barney have
| worked at the trade seventy one and sew
enty years respectively, and now work
every day.
ALADY recently deceased In New Hamp-
| for young women, wherein they shall be
taught all the higher branches of educa-
ton enjoyed by male students in other
establishments.
TIE English papers report that in an
action brought against the proprietors of
Lloyd's paper for damages for not insert
| ing a newspaper advertisement correctly,
the verdict was for the defendant, with
costs, on account of the inegibility of the
| writing.
"WHAT is the chief use of bread 81
asked an examiner at q school exhibition.
"The chief use of bread ?" answered the
urchin, apparently astonished at the sim.
plicity of the inquiry. "Why, to spread
butter and molasses on"
CARE you not ashamed to begp" said
the philosopher Montague to a strong,
"you are certainly able to work. ;" o,
sir" was the knave's rejoinder, if you
only knew how lazy amp
| A YOUNG italian, by the name of Brado,
| who is a clerk at Indianapolis, has lately
fallen heir to $1,000,O00, rich Italian
having left his fortune Of $2,O00,000 in
| gold to his two nephews, who proved to
be Brado and his brother.
A RowBz intending to he witty, thus
aecosted lady in the street: Madam,
| can you inform me where can see the
| elephant?" "No, but if / had a looking.
| glass could show you very large mon
key" The rowdy sloped.
A ROBUST hod- carrier in New Hamp-
shire, recently, carried barrel of -four
| from the sidewalk to the third story of
new building, and retHrned with it upon
his shoulder to the street, where he sold
the flour for eight dollars, and received a
handsome sum from the lookers-on.
TIE old provsrb says, every man is a
physician or fool at forty" Sir Harry
| Halford, distinguished physician, hap
pening 70 quote this old saw to circle Of
| friends, among, whom was Canning, the
latter inquired, !" Sir Harry, mayn't he be
both 2" b 7ess ef
A NAN in Concord, N. H., has in his
possession biscuit which was set upon
| the table at the collation. given on Lafay.
cites visit to that city in 1926. It is OBJ
long in shape, has stamped upon 1t the
words, I" Welcome, General Lafayette
and many of the letters can still be distin'
guished. t.i-sfEsa arlr< 81
/ A STORM LAKE correspondent of the
Fort Dodge Times says: 1--WE had Wis
itor here from the East, q few weeks ago
looking for section Of land he had pur.
chased. Said he paid $3.50 per acre.
Upon inquiry, il was ascertained that he
had bought all of Section 10, which Ites
in the centre Of the lake"
A roLLeATE keeper was recently
brought before magistrate on the charge
of cruelty treating his daughter. he had
discovered that the girl, who was ne
quently left in charge of the gate, used to
allow her sweetheart, young butcher, to
drive his cart through free. She never
tolled her love.
| A SARATOGA tombstone bears this In
| scription: Emma, dau'r of Abraham
and Matilda Cox, and wife of Theodore
Schallehn, died August 10, 1858, aged %
years, leaving five children-msrried toe
women take warning"
| aurrWu mr. ~ 4, oo,,varaa Hon With nr
i johnson, having, to some of the usual ar.
4 guments for drinking, added this, "You
know, sir, drinking drives away care, and
makes us forget whatever is disagreeable
Would you not allow q man to drink toI
that reason 2" "Yes, sir, If he sat next
you," replied DR.. johnson.
AT LIE Roy, Mimi, one hot day, switch
had been opened for the purpose of letting
in a freight train, and when it became
necessary to change the switch back to the
main track the rails had expanded SC
much by the action of the suns rays thai
it could not be done. Cold water wal
poured upon several sections of the track
cooling off the iron and allowing the
switch to be shut.
A CLERGYMAN In Washington county
Me-, driving along a lonely road, overlook
acountryman ON foot, whom he invited
to ride. After the crops had been dis
cussed, the clerical gentleman asked hi
companion " If he was prepared to dtee
whereupon the countryman leaped from
the wagon and fed to place of safety
doubtless considering this question
Synonymous with Your money or you
life?"
!. MEDICAL statisticians Of England and
France have discovered that laborers IL
copper works almost always escape chol
era and diarrhea, only one out of 1871
being attacked during the epidemic IL
1865 in France, while among worker
in iron and steel one out Of every 200 wa
attacked, and of those engaged in othel
metals than copper and iron one out o
1TS.
A ROCHESTER, paper tells romantic
story of young dressmaker who becam'
Infatuated with q young man without nj
knowledge. To make herself worthy
him she took to study, and, after severe
course of French, Italian, and piano, dur
ing which she worked at her occupation
and only slept three hours out OF IN:
twenty-four, the young man marr1ee
another girl. The blow was too mucr
, for the young lady's reason, and she u
, now az inmate of an insane asylum.
r1-E nnl,uoI1a Times saws that George