Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.
To make hens lay-chop their heads

To make hens lay-chop their heads of
Croquet, coquette, cadet and etiquett
u are much affected at the watering-place
e this season.
:, Lydia Thompson has gone to England
The New York Times calls this ga mud
departure"
A foreigner hoped that if that was
t Fourth of July, Heaven would delive
o him from the other three-quarters.-
ton Post.
Ben DeBar, the St. Louis manager
will make his debut next season as Fal
staff. Is there no power that will deba
him from numbering hearty Jack?
Professor John B. Muller will not teacl
music any more. He weighed three hun
l dred pounds, and fell from third-story
window at Baltimore last Wednesday
night.
sGod made him therefore, let him pas:
for a man." is the pious way in which
the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution heads al
article in regard to fellow who passed
one-dollar counterfeit bill on child il
that city.
FL The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decides that the s'dust produced in the
manufacture of smoking tobacco, anC
!, which cannot be used as tobacco or snuff
may be sold by the tobacco manufactur-
ers to the farmers as fertilizer for the
land" How generous!
Some fool with a filthy imagination
has started story of ibidinous conduct
on the part of JEFF. Davis and lady. the
scene being sleeping-car ON Southern
railroad. OF course it is false, and we
only wonder that any newspaper pub
Usher would permit the dirty falsehood
to disgrace his columns.
A Portland, Maine, lover, who was
told by his friends that he had engaged
to marry fool, said to them that the
girl he had chosen chad certainly some
qualities to shine in fashionable circle.
She had plenty of apathy, was tolera-
bly, illiterate, was brilliantly vain and
fertilely capricious. acquiesced with ev-
cry one, and diffused universal smiles"
| A couple of sailors were wandering
about the Toledo docks a few days since,
when one of them was attracted by the
appearance of a tombstone that lay on
the dock, awaiting transportation. Upon
a close examination, he exclaimed /:
sHello, Bill, come here!" and pointing g
| to the stone, as his companion came to
his side, added: 'There, that is the first
timeI have heard from my father for fif-
teen years.1A
A German newspaper carrier was cry
| ing his paper &c VolESblattr' along the
street on Sunday morning. Old Squire
A, from the country, was at some dis
tance, and starting up excitedlv, asked if
| that was the way epidemics were always
| uncle ?' asked a nephew. "Why, don't
you hear ?'' he replied; "that mans hol-
lerin' small-poXn'
A So,,tbar,, io,,r,a1 roy,iyoc on ap;co5a
in the career of the rebel General Cor
dor, ,swho was almost as ubiquitous as
Stuart in the late war. When the war
broke out the General had, it seems, but
recently married, and his wife with per-
sistent devotion accompanied him to the
field. She followed the army in a roomy
barouche with her two young boys, and
rendered every office within the ability
of tender, high-souled lady. Once, at
the Confederate defeat near Winchester,
when her husband thought her safely in
the rear, the spirited lady came upon the
disastrous field, and, infuriated by the
complete route of the Southerners, she
descended from her carriage. and, heed
less OF the flying missiles and the confu-
sion of the retreat, confronted the flee
ing officers and commanded and i'm
plored them to face about and redeem
the day. She succeeded in rallying a
strong force, but the disaster was beyond
remedy.
Some shallow-headed gosling writes to
an Eastern paper an account of how nat
urally the ladies assume control of ev-l
erything at the seaside hotels, and how
very meekly the so-called s1ords of Gre
ation' submit to it. You will see tho
ladies at the hotels rushing about as pro-
miscuously and independently as the gen.
tlemen-now in the Office inquiring for
fri dc oh
now in the luggage-room bullying the
porters, then in the barber shop under |
going the manipulations of the sable |
head centers, or drinking lemonades sscol- |
ored" in the salon, slipping that cooling
beverage through straws of extraordinary
length. In short, the ladies delight in |
their independence and absolute freedom
from restraint, and so take pleasure in |
doing those things which, if perpetrated |
in town, would shock Mrs. Grundy out |
of seven years. growth. All of which |
he says is pleasant" So it may be, to |
the eye of the bldse libertine, but how it |
may appear to that of the high-hearted |
father, brother or lover, is quite another |
matter. We suspect they do not always
view these things with the most pleas |
urable emotions Imaginable.
A great deal of fuss is made over Jim
Fisk's wound, received in the New York
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Long Branch, whittier he was conveyed,
has placed half dozen rooms at his dis
posal; hourly bulletins of ''the Colo
nel's'' condition are telegraphed over
the land, and from the amount of
noise made about it one would suppose
the future safety of the entire country
depended on the symptoms of sprained
probably was received in
falling from his horse, as nobody but HIM
self seems to know just how he egas in
jured. Such flunkyism is disgrace to
the country. Thousands of better,
Drawer, and honester men fill unknown
graves, or their bones lie bleaching in the
woods and fields from the Schuylkill to
the Rio Grande, and no row is made
over it, or over their starving widows
and orphans. If Fisk possesses any
merit beyond his wealth and insufferable
vanity and egotism, we do not know
what it is, and the sham sympathy mani
tested for him is simply disgusting.
An old farmer in Allen county, In
diana, has a well-stocked smoke-house
which was repeatedly broken into, and
many cheice ham carried away. Losing
faith in the efficiency of locks and still