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Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
CUR1osIr1ss OF CoLoR.-An Englis

CURIos1T1Bs OF CoLoR.-An English
magazine writer, writing of colors and
their durability in reference to dress,
gives some interesting particulars of the
infinite diversity of shades. Although
1000 different shades of color can be
dyed at present, this number gives but
faint idea of the effects that might be
produced by continually varying ad-
mixture of one hue with another. Sax
blue counts from 20 to "a shades pro-
duced by manufacturers in printed cot
tons, linen, and silks, and still greater
variety could be furnished if demanded.
In royal blue, there are this season from
"a to % varieties in the light middle
shades. Scarlet has from 80 to 40
shades crimson, the same number.
Yellow has from 40 to so shades. The
writer adds "Scarlet, SO rarely seen
in ladies' dresses, may be termed the
emperor of colors, and is very beautiful
in its light middle, and rich and daz-
zling in its middle shades, and in GER
tain combinations looks elegant in con
nection with silver gray or an olive"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
Burning for a Hundred Years.

The London, Netos says !, One of the
most Curious phenoInena in coheection
with the coal mining is exhibited a1<he
Bank Colliery, near Rotterdam, the
property of Earl EitzwiHiam. This pit
caught fire one hundred years ago, and
the efforts of the workmen at that time
and subsequently, have been quite inef-
fectual to extinguish it. A short time
ago it was ascertained that the flames
were approaching the, bottom3 of the
shaft, and it was then resolved, if possi-
bic, to stay the progress, so that they
might not extend to other parts of the
workings. At length the superintendent
of the collieries, Mr.. T. Cooper, con-
ceived the idea of building wall to
shut in n,the fire, well in order to ascer-
tain the best site. for this wall, several
of the officials crept on their hands and
knees, through the dense sitting smoke,
as far as possible into the workings.
Their efforts were successful, and q wall
is now completed nearly one thousand
yards in length, and varying from
nine inches to five feet IN thickness. At
distances varying from. thirty TO fifty
yards metal pipes hayei been inserted in
this, which are securely plugged at the
end, SO that at any time, by removing
the plugs, the state of the aifrs at the
other side, and even the fire itself, can
be ascertained. So intense is the heat
arising from this fire that people posses
sing gardens above the ,colliery declare
that the growth of plants is materially
affected and that they are enabled to
Sput in two or three crops. every year"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
:" Property Is Robbery"-The Old and
New French Lesson. y.

A, letter, printed in large type, is pub-
lished in the official journal of Paris, in
which the writer points out the equity
and possibility -of-compelling the own
ers of properly in France to bear exclu-
sively the burden of meeting. the Ger
man Indemnity. He divides the popu-
lation into FIVE classes, ranging from
extreme opulence to the lowest poverty,
and sets forth their possessions in due
arithmetical progression. The total va
lue of the entire real and personal
property in France he estimates at 80
milliards. In the possession of the first
class, comprising 100000 households,
and including workmen's clothes and
tools, he reckons 10 milliards, or 400
millions sterling. The second class, OF
8, 100000 households, comprising work
men on their own account and labo rers
with small possessions of land, is cred.
tied with 20 milliards, or 800 millions
sterling. The third class, the smaller
shopkeepers and retail dealers, taken as
representing 100000 families, with g
total property of 40 milhards, or l,60e
millions sterling. The fourth class
the wholesale dealers and upper middle
classes-are assumed to possess property
worth so o milliards, or 5000 millions
sterling; while the fifth class, including
the great landowners and capitalists,
and comprising 100000 families, is rep
resented as possessing property of the
aggregate value, of 160 milliards, OF
6,4OO millions sterling. The writer
concludes from this statement that the
proper course to pursue is " to impose q
tax of 3 or l per cent. upon the for.
tunes of the aforementioned class, which
is comprised in great part of the organ
izers or the faVorites of the Imperial
banditti; and by that means the amount
required to satisfy German rapacity will
be easily raised.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
AGood Wife.

The following sentences from Arch
bishop Seekers Wedding Ring, are
worth reading twice:
Hast thou soft heart? 1t is of Gods
breaking. Hast thou a sweet wife
She is of Gods making. The Hebrews
have saying, " He is not man who
hath not woman Though man
alone may be good, yet it is not good
that man should be alone. Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from
above" A wife, though she be not
perfect gift, is good gift, a beam darted
from the sun of mercy. How happy are
those marriages where Christ is at the
wedding. Let noneibut those who have
found favor in Gods eyes find favor in
yours. Husbands should spread a man.
tie of charity over their wives, infirmi-
ties. Do not put out the candle because
of the snuff. Husbands and wives
should provoke one another to love /;
and they should love one another not
withstanding provocations. The tree of
love should grow up in themidst of the
family as the tree of life grew int the gar
den of Eden. Good servants are a great
blessing good children a greater bless
ing; but good wife is the greatest
blessing; and such a help let him seek
for that lacks one; let him sigh that
has lost one let him delight in that en-
Joys one. .,r..--..r. tea.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
~ Life. ( EEEEr.r


BY ELLA WHEELER.
7Ansinfart wailing in nameless fear;
a shadow, perchance, in the quiet room,
Or fhe hum of an insect flying near,
"a or the escreech-owl's cry, in the outer gloom.
A little child on the sun checked floor,
A broken toy, and a. tear stained face,
young life clouded, ayoung heart sore;
And the great clock, time, ticks on apace,
maiden weeping in bitter pain,
Two white hands clasped on an aching brow.
A blightets faith and fond hope slain,
A shattered trust and broken VOW.
A matron holding baby's shoe,
The hot tears gather, and fall at will
On the knotted ribbon of white and blue.
For the foot that wore it is cold and still.
An aged woman upon her bed.
Worn. and wearied, and poor and old.Sa Ira
Longing to rest with the happy dead,
And thus the story of life is told 7'71
Where is the season of careless glee?
Where is the moment that holds no pain?
Life has its crosses from infancy .T-I
Down to the grave; and its hopes are vain.
7- Chimney Corner.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
Humorous.

| 9. The board of health-A plain diet.
. .WHAT's the proper age, for, .parson
The parsonage, of course. ia
WREN is an apple like four figures ?
| When it is given one for to ate Il, a, g.
| 81. 80 aIta a3stg O! sEissE trg
"lBoY, ;" said an m-tempered old fellow
to asnoisy lad "what are. you hollerin'
for when am going by .Humph," !"
returned the boy, what are you going
| by for when I am hollerinf?" 40 'Tl'T
A, NAN lately made application for
I insurance on building situated in a
village where there was no fire engine.
In answer to the the question, g What
are the facilities for extinguishing fres?"
| he wrote g 1t rains sometimes"
AT a school at Newcastle the master
asked class of boys the meaning of
the word 90 appetite.'t After a short
pause, one little boy said, "1 know, sir !;
when I'm eatin' I'm 'appy, and when
I'm done I'm tight"
a FRENcHMAN took a room in Paris,
on condition that the landlady would
wake him up every morning at eight
o'clock, and tell him the day of the
week, the state of the weather., and un-
der what form of government he lived.
/ A LONDON music firm recently sold q
piano and the buyer soon, afterward
wrote to the dealers that he and his
wife couldn't find the place. toTwind it
up ; and they wanted 10 be told at once
how to make the thing go. They. were
told to leave the instrument outside
their Eouse for night or two. sife#
ON certain occasion an editor man
| aged, by a decentralization of words
peculiarly his own, to find place for
the couplet: .sI-s, ~. hs,
There is a divinity that shapes our ends.
Rough heW them how we wiH."t a!iets5
The hero of the types was just. en-
crying from a protracted and unusually
severe period of imbibing, and like the
Immortal Burns, saw double" The
| manuscript was placed in his hands, and
when the article appeared the quotation
read thus :s77..} ftfr g5ffenI Iya9
There is q divinity that shapes GUS ends ROUGH.
| Hew them how we will. 81
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
Love Through q Speaking Tube.

There is a story told of young man
who got into stroubls through his per-
sistent folly in reading the newspapers
1t seems that he saw an account of how
lovers in Seville, when they are for
hidden to visit their hearts delight,
stand under the young ladies' windows
at night, and converse with them
through a hollow tin tube made in. sec
tions, so that it can be shut together
like spy-glass and used as a cane.
This youth loved damsel whose father
inferior kind of nightmare which had
to be shaken off at all hazards. So he
refused to permit the dreamer to come
to his house. Well, this infatuated one
went right down to a timer and pro-
cured about forty feet of tin tubing,
which closed up into the smallest posi-
BILE space. Then he used to go round
in the evening, unreef his speaking
trumpet, and run it up to the second
story back window, where his angel
was, and roost out ON the fence, 7whis-
pering all kinds of sweet things along
through that forty feet of pipe. This
was all very nice as far as it went. But
one evening the eagle-eyed old man
came to the room door with o pitcher
full of hot water in his hand and sent
his daughter off suddenly on an errand.
Then. the despicable old man called
down the pipe in falsettol voice until
the youth had placed his ear against
it, and, ,then--li44T There. was only
about a quart of hot water, but it was
sufficient to make one sidefof the young
lovers face resemble am nndefdone tenr
Ederloin steak. ssWheni his friends ask
him what is the matter he says he has
been down in the country and has been
sunburned; but he is convinced that
Spanish customs-take them as a whole
are abominablel -..f .s....s~
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

DANIEL WEBSTER once penned the fol-
lowing beautiful sentiments: off we
work upon marble, it will perish if we
work upon brass, time will .efface it; if
we rear temples, they will crumble to
the dust; if we work upon the tablets of
the human heart and Undue them with
principles, with the just fear of God
and love of our fellow men, we may en-
grave upon these tables something
which will be frightened for all eternity,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

VINO, when his brother asks for bread,
would give him a serpent2 Yet how of
ten when the sick ask for medicine,
they receive poison Mercury, iodine,
strychnine and prussic acid, are pre-
scribed daily, and the larger the dose
the more heroic the practice ! Shun all
deadly minerals. and concentrated
vegetable poisons. Let DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs be the first resort of
all who suffer from general debility,
indigestion, constipation, biliousness,
intermittent fever or rheumatism. They
will need no other medicine.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

THE LITTLE CORPORAL for May is an
excellent number, full of pleasing and in
structive reading matter for boys and girls,
and older people who have young hearts
Terms, $3.50 a year, Send stamp for speci-
men number and Premium List to John Z.
Miller, Publisher, Chicago, Ill.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
WHOLE NUMBER 219.
Red Hand.

iGsti s1l - Red Hand. F,s.a..
81 Next to her spirit-like faoe- ~ --s e
~ Or I almost would rank it before
, Is my beautiful lady glorious hand. ...
u Beckoning on, like a magic wand,
To Loves own exquisite fairyland q
Upon Phantasy's golden shore, = ;.grn-s
20 VeiI.it, o, never veiI,1 H+-F. , sHS
90, Even with the delicate glove
= > It's beauties unadOrned must be, L. srt o.
-, 2 That I may study my psal mistry,
- And in its whiteHess an emblem seel4CEb
2 g of my lady heart Of lOve'7a adi bua
Garnish with never ring .4nrft s1,r9
- Even OF gems most rare;
: 1Twere to gid the gold from nature smint,
Mans image in place of Gods to print,
The painted lily's hues to tint, tfT
? To bedeok those fingers fair. 4 So .,,.,.
: -1S"sIey' 2 'AaSqs'"e'T >a,sssi ,-sf4 f,.A
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

WE should not hesitate to recommend
to any friend of ours, Parsons PsryatiUe
Pills; they are scientifically prepared
and are adapted to all the purposes OF a
good purgative medicine.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
What Vaccination has Done to Check
the ScOurge of SMALLPOX.
From " Nature

st is well known fact that when per-
sons have once had the smallpox they
seldom or never take it again, and that
the disease known as cow-pox is modi-.
fed form of smallpox, and that persons
who have had this modified form of
smallpox are as little liable to take the
disease as those who have had the
smallpox itself. This was the great
discovery of Jenner, and the discovery
of vaccination has more than realized
the hopes of its discoverer and his
friends. Where vaccination has been
carriedro out with energy and commune
ties by wise laws or Individual action
have seen that every child is duly vac
cinated, there small pox has not spread
1T appears that where eommunities are
all properly vaccinated, there, even if
an isolated case of small-pox does occur,
it has -pabnlurn to feed on, and It
does not spread. 1t is only when the
smallpox contagion is communicated to
unvaccinated persons that the disease is
set up, and has sufficient vitality to
spread through a community. Forty
five millions of persons died in Europe
from smallpox in the century preced-
ing the introduction of vaccination,
while it is calculated that it. has not
killed more than two millions of per
soilS u hsHurope hlnco ilS.s S.s1nsr0uucSioh Vi
vaccination. In London, during the
last century, one death in. every four
teenwa due to small -pox. 3 Up to the
present time in this century not more
than one-fftieth of the persons who
have died in London have died of this
disease. Greater differences than even
these have been observed in some of
the cities and towns of the Continent of
Europe. At Trieste the deaths from
small pox have been sseyenty-fve times
less than before vaccination; in Mara
via, twenty-one times less in Silesia,
twenty nine times less; in Westphalia,
twenty-five times less and in Berlin,
nineteen times less.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

TIE balmy zephyrs and moist atmos-
phere of the past two diurnal periods
have gently dissipated the .crystallized
liquid formations which have of late
rendered locomotion hazardous in our
thoroughfares. That's the short Boston
style of saving the mud is driving up.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

DECIDEDLY the best remedy that mas
ever been discovered for rheumatism,
swoolen or stiff joints, flesh wounds,
sprains, bruises, cuts, and burns, is
Johnson's Anodyne Lininaerit. We use it,
and always recommend it to our friends.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

BLUEBIRD's-'Tis said the little birds
feel blue, because their bills are over
dew.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

IF YOUR house is mortgaged, insure
your life in The Mutual Life of Chicago
for a sufficient amount to cover the
mortgage.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

THE weather in England is favorable
to the growing crops.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
Shall Women Speak in Meeting 3

This is one of the questions continu-
ally agitated, never settled, and talk
about it calls to the mind of the L1sde-
pendent an incident which took place in
the lecture room of an eminent Baptist
minister of New England, whose repu-
tation for conservatism is in all the
churches At the weekly prayer meet
ing good woman present, who did not
happen to know that it was not the GUS
tom for women to open their mouths in
that lecture room, knelt down and lifted
up her voice in fervant and touching
petition. The breath of warmer cline
filed the room where they were sitting
the ice of the meeting was thawed, and
the courtly doctor himself, whose opin-
| ions were well known to- be quite ad-
| verse to such practices, was on his feet
in a moment after the prayer had
| closed. 1 am sure, my friends" he
said, that we have all been greatly de-
| lighted and profted by what we have
heard. 1t is true that st. Paul says
something about its being shame for a
woman to speak in the church; but
Paul has no reference to anything OF
this sort. What Paul referred to was
this: Paul was speaking of-Paul meant
the fact is, brethren and sisters,
don't know what Paul did mean" That
was the last time Paul was ever quoted
on this subject in that lecture. Several
of the brethren who lately spoke in 6
conference in Brooklyn confessed thai
they had strong prejudices against the
practice; but that these prejudices hac
always yielded when the experiment o
allowing women to speak had had a fail
tears at the sound of a woman's voice il
| -, n,1ltiuotipn
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

A DIRTY FL1NG.-A preacher at a
camp-meeting in the West delivered a
discourse which chiefly turned upon the
affectionate regard of Naaman for the
land where he was cleansed from his
leprosy. Abiding to Naaman's request
to be permitted to take two mule-loads
of the earth back to his own country,
of course he applied to his own conver-
sion. Warming to his subject, he re-
marked that if he could go back to Old
England he could point out the spot
where he knelt when he was converted.
"And," said he," al often feel like
eNaaman, IF could get two pints OF
that dirt would not give it for all that
have eaten at the boarding-tent since
came upon this ground"
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04

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The New York herald., 1871-11-23
MY MARYLAND'S JOY.
BALTIMORE, N

BALTIMORE, Nov. %, 1871.
The special train from New York conveying the
Grand Duke Alexis and party passed through the
city this evening. leaving Camden station for
Washington few minutes after six O'Clock. Not.
withstandlng the latencss Of the hour a crowd Of
several hundred persons had assembled at the Pha-
dephla depot. and the arrival Of the train they
broke forth in hearty cheers, In acknowledgment Of
which the Grand Duke
APPEARED ON THE PLATFORM
OF the car and lifted his cap several imes. Al Cam
den street depot still larger numbers were gathered.
The Grand Duke appeared on the rear platform OF
the car and was received by the throng with three
hearly cheers and q tiger which was gracefully
recognized bv the Russian Prince.
Count Catacazy said here tnat Alexis took great
interest in everything along the line OF the road,
asking numerous questions and frequently express.
Ing wonder and admiration regarding the people
aad country. 1t Is tue general expectation that
Alexis Will pay visit to the Wlnans family, the
Russian railway contractors and miilonnalres, now
residing In Baltimore but there as yet no definite
arran. emcntS made.
The New York herald., 1871-11-23
At PHILADELPHIA.

Tho Grand Duke Thanks the Herald.
The special train containing the Grand Duke
Alexis and suite arrived at West Philadelphia at
twenty four minutes past two TINS afternoon. Your
representative-having secured q letter from Mr..
Core OF the Camden and Annoy Railroad-entered
the Grand Dukes car and was presented by Mr..
Stewart 10 Minister Catacazy who in turn presented
him TO the DuEe. The Duke was seated at table,
smoking, after his lunch. he arose and greeted me
very kindly, and
WARMLY THANKED THE HERALD.
l presented ITS congratulations and INDUCED In
the nope that his visit to washington would be
happy one. On behalf or Mr.. NJ. Hall stanton,
President OF the Board OF Education OF this city,
presented the compliments OF the Board and the
pupils OF the schools and asked he would visit
Philadelphia.
"Wil we nave timer" he inquired Of the Russian
Minister.
.'No, no; we win have no tlmen said Catacazy.
The Duke turned to me and saiu,
81 would like TO visit Philadelphia, but fear we
will nave no time."
AS the train reached Gray's Ferry road took my
leave. The Grand Duke when shaking hands,
sad,
81 thank you and the HERALD Goodby.,
The party Will reach Philadelphia at ten minutes
past four on Friday afternoon, en- route to New
York.
The New York herald., 1871-11-23
Everybody was impressed with his One YET simple
appearance.

Al Trenton.
Fully three thousand Trent0nans were ~ the
Trenton depot yesterday afternoon to witness the
arrival OF the Russian Grand Duke. The train
reached the depot at half past O'Clock and soon
the Grand Duke stepped on TO the rear platform OF
the front passenger OF the rran and In response
to the repeated plaudits OF the assembagc lifted his
hat and bowed. He remained on the platform OF
the car about two minutes then retired. The Tren-
tonlans had not seen sufficient OF His Royal
hignness, and pressed against the car
riage windows for fuller sight. The Prince good
naturedly came on TO the platform agaln aud bowed
his congratulations. The ladies' were very Loyal In
Their deInonstratI0ns Of applause, and the Prince
repeatedly acknowledged the salutatons OF the fair.
The citizens OF Trenton wele highly pleased with
the looks Of the Prince. He passed muster here as
o splendid specimen OF o man, and even those
who talked about the equality Of men and
how stupid tt was to maze such fuss
about Prince were free TO admit that
AL that Is manly and noble in appearance the re-
preventative OF the royal family OF Russia exceeded
their expectations.
The crown at the depot was SO dense that 1t was
feared some accident would occur when the tram
began to n 9vc, which 1t did alter some Eve or six
minutes stay. Those IN charge OF the tram were,
however, very careful. The Oell wGs rung, the
whistle blew. the train moved 80 Wy that Its
going was scarcely perceptibc, and this plan was
pursued until all danger was passed, when lightning
speed was resumed and the Prince went on his way
to Washington.
The New York herald., 1871-11-23
THE HERALD AND THE GEAR
IRON tho Commercial Advertlser.l

we are pleased 10 notice again In the columns Of
a morning journal the frequent association OF the
names OF the NEW YORK HERALD and the Gear OF
Russia. Thls IL what that distinguished philosopher,
known IA the veracious history Of "rom Jonesu by
tho name OF square, would denomlnate 10 be ac-
cording TO the ''eernal fitness Of things.n
AS HIS Migntiness Of Russia Is the most
enierprlsng OF all the monarchs OF the
world, so is the NEW YORK HsRALD the most
enterprisng or all the newspapers Of the
world. Nevertheless His Majesty VIII pardon us II
we assert AZ 10 he our heef that the associate herd
alluded TO confers more honor upon Ills Majesty
than upon the great metropolitan Journai Mnicn
was the nrst to announce The arrivdl oil MS uarhn9
boy. II we had been asked TO bestoW the Iichess
boon that could be conferred upon the impeiia TO
penito. OF Alexis we should nave Without hesilduons
elected 70 have placed on his breakfast table yessv,
day morning copy OF THIS same NEW LUZ n.rs
HERALD confident that the royal parent wouiu hava
regarded such a giit as more precious IMAM ths
most precious Jewel IN his crown.