Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-31
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in the streets of London one hundred
and forty persons were killed. 1t is es-
timated that the orange peel on London
pavements kills more people than all the
English railroads.
a Detroit druggist has on exhibition
the hand and part of the arm of a man
perfectly petrified, but still showing
every wrinkle of the flesh. the nails on
the fingers, and the joints. The cords
and muscles can be distinctly traced in
the stone. 1t was found near q Mis-
souri, battle field, and it is believed to be
a relic of surgical work, the arm
having the appearance of being un-
jointed at the elbow. The druggist calls
it EFstrange curiosity"
| EXPENSES OF AMERICAN TRAVELLERS.
1t is estimated that since the 1st of jan
uary not less than forty thousand of our
citizens have sailed from the city of New
York as European tourists. Estimating
| that the expenses of each one of these
will average one thousand dollars-and
that is a small estimate-we have the
fact staring us in the face that, in this
one item of pleasure travel alone, we
spend forty millions of dollars, in gold,
for mere pleasure and recreation. The
| question at once arises whether these
tourists would not profit far more in
personal pleasure and instruction-to
the country, both financially and in a
higher standard of citizenship-if this
money were expended in domestic travel
The first pastime indulged in by the
versallllsts, after overthrowing the
Commune, was to 60 out cunning after
journalists. The sport proved to be very
enlivening, about one thousand being
popped over in less than forty-ei
hours. 1t is earnestly to be hoped that
this practice of making game of journal
lists Will not extend; they are already
surrounded with tribulations and annoy
ances enough, without the certainty of
becoming targets for crazy soldiers, in
the event of an insurrection.-N. O.
| Times.
CLEANSE THE SKN.-It is curious
fact, illustrating the necessity of cleanli-
ness and of keeping the pores of the skin
open, that if a coat of varnish or other
substance impervious to moisture be
applied to the exterior of the body, death
| will ensue in about six hours. The ex-
pertinent was once tried on child at
Florence. On the occasion of Pope Leo
the Tenth's accession to the papaI chair,
| it was desired to have living figure to
represent the Golden Age, and so child
| was gilded all over with Varnish and
gold leaf. The child died in few
| hours. If the fur of a rabbit or the skin
| of pig be covered with a solution or
India rubber in naptha, the animal
ceases to breath in couple of hours.
COOPERATION OF THE -WME.2Thare
is much good sense and truth in the re-
marks of a modern author, that no man
ever prospered in the world without the
| cooperation ofhis wife. If she unites in
mutual endeavors, or rewards his labor
with an endearing smile, with what con-
fidence will he resort to his merchandise
or his farm, fly over lands, sail upon the
seas, meet difficulty and encounter dan
| ger, if he knows he is not spending his
strength in vain, but that his labor will
be rewarded by the sweets of home.
| Solitude and disappointment enter the
| history of mans life; and he is but half
provided for his voyage who finds but an
associate for happy hours, while for his;
months of darkness and distress no SYM
| pathiZing partner is prepared. -...
ONLY AN IDEA.-Bulwer says poverty
| is only an idea in nine cases out of ten
Some men with ten thousand dollars a
year suffer more for want of means than
others with five hundred dollars. The
reason is, the richer man has artificial
wants. His income is ten thousand dol
lars year, and he suffers enough in
| being dunned for unpaid debts to kill a
sensitive man., A man who earns dol
lar day and does not 60 in debt Is the
happier of the two. Very few people
who have never been rich will believe
this; but it is true. There are thousands
and thousands with princely incomes
There is really more happiness among
the workingmen in the world than
among those who are called rich.
| GOOD BOoKS.-A good book is a
treasury of gold. Macaulay says of good
books: ''These are old friends who are
never seen with new faces, who are the
same in wealth and in poverty, in glory
and in obscurity. In the dead there is
no change. Plato is never sullen. Ger
vantes is never petulant. Demosthenes
never comes unreasonably. Dante never
| stays too long. No difference of political
opinion can ALLEVIATE Cicero. No heresy
can excite the horror of Bossuet.''
Thanks to God for good books. They
afford joy and comfort without stint.
There is one book we cannot read too
often or too much. Gods word is above
all others. 1t is living fountain of
everlasting peace. Study the Scriptures,
for they are able to make you wise unto
salvation.
In the United States there are eight
cities of over two hundred thousand in
habitants each, namely, New York, Phil
adelphia, Brooklyn, st. Louis, Chicago,
Baltimore, Boston and Cincinnati. The
combined population of these cities is
three million three hundred thousand in
round numbers-less actually than that
of the city of London. Most of our cities,
however, are comparatively in their in
fancy, while London is two thousand
years old. Forty years ago the popula-
ton of London was a million and half
| and for the last hundred years its annual
growth has been very uniformly limited
to about sixteen per cent, while our
cities have been advancing at rates vary
ing from fifteen to one hundred and
eighty five per cent.
A horrid Ku-KluX band near Dublin,
Georgia, visited an old man and his tvs
sons, who are able-dodied men, but so
miserably lazy that their little coming
crop had disappeared i'll tall grass and
weeds, and they had become a burden to
the community. Calling the father out,
the chief, in husky tones, announced to
him that their mission on earth was to
instruct him to plow his land. The old
man and his sons, all trembling at the
sight of the unearthly visitors and their
direful tones, asked with what must they
plough; would an OK do?" eyes," an
swered the chief demon, "anything,"
and so the dreadful company withdrew.
The school-boys in passing by the grass