Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A LIGHT DnnK-Benzine. :.

IHE RAW mAT6H1AL = OA0OAHO-o
steak.
THE DRAUeHTsMAN's PARADnEre]
Pencil-vauia.
APrTcHED BArTLE-A fight between
two tars.
Col. FISK spent $3.50. 900 pocket money
last year. 44
A MorTo FoR AN ARAB TRIBE-Up
A BIRD on the roast is worth two ON
the roost.
DR1NKNe men, like drowning men,
catch at straws,g ..,-.f--. Il
RUSSIA Furnishes drunkards by making
them sweep the streets. fT3 400
LORD PALMERsToN once defined dirt as
matter in the wrong place" ~
THE Grand Jury of Baltimore re-
ported base ball as +" one Of the gradations
of crime
OF What feminine creature are you re-
minded ON the completion ofa building ?
A house-made.
UP to the 1st ofSeptember nearly I, 600
persons had visited the summit of Mount
Washington, this year.
SoMEBoDY has discovered that in forty
years snuf-taker devotes twenty-four
months to blowing his nose. '1l '!it
THREE young couutrymen were fined
.
ing upon the sidewalks at Boston. tid
WAITRR, this bit of turbot is not as
good as that you gave us last week"
Waiter" Beg pardon, sir, it's ofathe
very same lsh." NOS
TIE Lewiston, Me-, Journal says there
isa little boy attending grammar school
in that city, thirteen years of age, who
weighs 1856 pounds.
3 PATIENCE Ia exemnIified in the man
who left his wagon while the horse
baked, and sat on stump and read the
Bible till the animal was hungry enough
to go home.
A JOURNAL asks what Is the difference
between q soldier and q fashionable young
lady and replies, One faces the pow
der, and the other powders the face.n y
'TT is a curious fact" says some ento.
mologist, ''that it Is the. female mosquito
It Is not at all curious. $500,
CHRYENNE Is three years old, and for
its 1000 inhabitants has Methodist, q
Congregational, an Episcopalian, Pres
byterian and q Roman Catholic churchu o
THE Boston B0& Is responsible for the
statement that the mosquitoes now caus-
ing the English people so much discom-i
fort are marked and branded New
Jersey" OF 4
TIE State Prison at Auburn, NJ z.
has 900 cells, and there Is new extension
now being built, which viii contain an
additional 300. The prison was founded
IN 1917. .tHa iCi Igtiiso. h3Zfi
TIE Louisville 0ourier says there is q
Servian Prince in the Prussiah army
whose name - 80, long That acQmpany of
engineers have been ordered To- lsvel
down the consonants and use itas 9 pom;
toon-bridge. se.,c-, . ? -
PROF.. KING, Of Poughkeepsie, recently
made q tripTto Westport, Conn, in his
balloon The distance 4sixty miies-was
passed over in one hour and forty min,
iutes. The highest point he STAINED was
half mile. h~i't.'
FROM the returns made to the United
States Marshall it would seem that Ten
nessee Is the healthiest country on the hace
of the globe, and the most remarkable of
any for longevity. fsef Nter
A BOX containing q black bear was re-
ceived at an express o1ace IN San Fran
cisco, the other day, with this inscription:
"Black Bare. Eff yew don't want Co get
bit, kepe yer fingers outen the cra4.
ONE fthe amusements at Long Branch
is to watch the New Jersey mosquitoes
open CLAIMS with their bills, on the shore.
Several of these useful insects are being
domesticated and taught to punch riFet
holes in am!bOilers. l.f5itoi g-t.,l-.
A RURAL EnglishWoman had the right
idea when, finding herself unable to whip
her husband, she shouted TO her son who
was up stairs in bed aBin come down
stairs and lick thi feyther, or else he'll be
the maisster o. th'Whole housep 49,.
TIE Bricksbutg On J.) Times counsels
moderation in the use of fruit. It says;
''Three Watermelons and Q dozen large
punches Of grapes form q dessert ample
for any civilized man, and anything be-
yond that is not to be thought OF, if you
care for your health.
A NEWARK merchant got up q lot of
fans with his business card printed there
on, which he gave to deacon to be dis
tributed at camp meeting, but that gentle
man turned an honest penny by hiring
boys to sell them at ave cents apiece.
An apprentices one day, sfter dinner,
deliberately stepped up TO his master, and
asked him what ne valued 91s ssd se5y,eeS ne as
ter. "WeIl, them" said the boy, putting
his hand into his pocket and drawing out
some coppers, "here's threepence Tn
off on the spree" 80 az
In the Third District of New Orleans
resides Jules Padre, SO years of age, who
for more than thirty years has not had q
tooth in his he'd. Some six weeks ago,
however, his gums began TO itch and
swell, and very soon he began to cut some
teeth. He has now q full mouth OF young
teeth, which are growing finely. vdts0r
A WOMAN in Cincinnati raises forty
eight inches Of hair on her head every
three years, and then sells it. 6upposing
that she lives to be 20 years of age, she
will raise, allowing her ffty-one years of
the seventy to do this business In, seven
teen Of these crops of hair, amounting in
all to sixty-eight feet Of hirsute adorn-
ment.
A BANKER lent graceless scamp fifty
dollars IN the hope Of getting nd of him ;
but, to his surprise, the fellow paid the
money punctually on the day agreed
upon, and a short time afterwaId applied
to him for another loan. "No," said the
banker; "you have deceived me once,
and l am resolved you shan't do II
second time" if rn
THE mortality returns OF Engian9 aoF 19F
1868 record the death of 175 men ana ooo
womeIi registered as 90 years olo sno - W.
ward when they died; IL Oh tnese men =.
had reached 100 or upward, and one AZ
Coeltenham was III; 52 OF the women
mad also completed century OF NE, OF
I more. and one in the district OF MONMOUTH
and South Wales had attained the greab
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