Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Marshall McMahon dislikes Ameri-
cans. There is probably no love lost.
Ben Butler defends the communists.
''Birds of feather" &c.
Holy Land is English for Heligoland.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that
"Oregon has become religiously disso-
Lutte" Six camp-meetings are in pro-
gress in that State.
Mark Twain is writing 4 humorous
book on frontier life. This and the other
will make teoain.
Bismarck had to kiss sixty handsome
young ladies at a recent reception. 1t Is
well they were not compelled to return
the salute.
Nicholas Halpine, son of the late "Miles
O'Reilley," has been admitted into the
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The Prince Imperial of France, dined
with Prince Arthur, of England re-
Gently, at the rifle brigade mess, at Wool
wich.
The Paris papers announce the death
OF Jean Eugence Robert Houdin, the
famed Frerch prestidigitateur, ut the age
of siXty-five.
A milk journal is to be started in New
York. 1t is likely to be Il milk-and-water
affair, and given to milky ways, astron-
omical or sublimary.
A correspondent of New York paper
says Joaquin Miller is the coming poet.
All right; let him come. Or is the cor
respondent "joakin?"
eff you will only do wrong and be
sorry for it, you will go to Heaven,"
said an Indian who was hanged recently
in California.
Mr.. Greeley's agricultural labors have
done some good. While he has been
showing his countrymen how to culti-
vate the smiling fields, he has supplied
them with laughing stock.
most reliable. II the dispatches sent
over them lie any faster than those over
wooden ones, We do not wish TO see the
experiment tried in this country.
Alexander II. Stephens is already ex
periencing some of the felicities of jour-
nalism. In late copy of his paper he
says: "For beautifully, in our last, read
tearfully."
AS colored cadet Smith was "set back"
to lower class by the Secretary of War,
we may regard this as an admission that
sshis offense was rnak.-N. O. Times.
No matter; he "smells to heaven"
Lo, the poor Indian, is getting very
troublesome again, and determination
is recommended. 1t won't be long be-
fore he will be as scarce as Gaily, the
Troubadour.-[N. Y. Star.
Or Weeping, sad and lonely.
A woman advertises in the London
Times for an accomplished poodle-nurse.
Wages Ell per week. Those who acted in
the capacity of nurses to part of Young
America would be found very capable
of filling the position, if ripe knowledge
of puppies is all that is required.
The Louisville Courier-Jnurnal says,
there is at Least one good reason why the
negro ought not to be educated. When
ever he gets so he can read newspapers,
he will no longer be eligible for a juror.
The Boston Aduertiser says the name of
General Butler in connection with the
Governorship of Massachusetts, is "men-
toned with misapprehension." We be-
lieve ''misappropriation' is the word
most frequently used III connection with
his name in some localities.
AN EDITORS SCRIPTURAL KNowLEDGE.
A Western editor publisher the follow
ing as genuine paraplrase of we'll
known scriptural passage.
.sEsau's ventriloquism enabled him to
initiate Jacobs voice; but the rogue was
detected by his hairy pelt."
We hear that the ex- Emperor Napoleon
is keeping himself awake by writing or
di stating freqent articles for his London
| organ, the Situation. He is one of the
very ablest writers living, and he COM
poses, with equal facility, in English and
French. His style is remarkable for its
incisiveness, terseness and vigor; and
though several OF the French journalists
| tried to initiate it, they were never able
to acquire his peculiar literary character
istics. When he was Emperor, he fire.
quently wrote articles for the MOniteur.
but his tavorite organ, in later times.
was the Petit Journal, a cheap paper
which had an immense circulation among
the working classes of Paris. He wrote
not only on political matters, but ON
social and industrial questions, alw ays
taking care to show that the Emperor
was the particular friend of the masses
and that his ideas or projects were IA
vorable to their interests. Ii he should
ever find himself hard up, he can easily
procure decent living by writing fol
the papers.
Henry p. Seymour, disgusting miser
was unearthed by the Hartford police tht
other day, in state OF filth that beggar!
description. In the midst OF mass o
nastin+ss was a dirty lounge, on which
| tho old mon ho6 Slant u-bila I'm m a1