Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-17
EATON o. THURSDAY, AUGUST IT, 1871.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A reporter of the Enquirer speaks of a
hilarious gentleman from the Capitol of
Indiana as an s'India Napoleon" Isn't
that rather hard on the Hindoos?
The Terre Haute Gazette says croquet
is the leading amusement at present;
scarcely family can be found which
does not possess the necessary phar-
iphanalia (whatever that may be- for a
game.
s'Shut this door-and as soon as you
have done talking business, serve your
mouth in the same way" That is the
way an editor not a thousand miles from
here gently insinuates, by means of a
two-foot poster, that general conversa-
ton can be dispensed with in his sane
tum. Bores wouldn't do a slow thing to
cut it out and paste it in their hats.
What must have been the feelings of
that factory foreman who was aggra-
waited by the action of a new hand, who
failed to perform his duty right, although
repeatedly explained to him, and finally
approached aud let out on him? He told
him what he thought of men who did as
he was doing; mentioned the tOrrid zone,
and dipped to the very roots of the Eng
lish language for vigor of expression, and
then was quietly informed that the anX-
iouS listener was a deaf mute.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says the scheme for the transportation of
Paris Communist prisoners to Arizona is
really to be carried out, and adds: cat
first we were opposed to it, but now we
amt. These blood-thirsty Frenchnlen
will serve an excellent purpose in Ari-
zona. Some time or other they will get
acquainted with the Apaches. A common
instinct will make them friends, till eye
gentle savage" taking advantage there
of, surprises and butchers few hundred
of them, when the Reds will rise and go
for ye dusky children of Arizona, and
that will be the last of the Apaches."
The Boston Transcript gives an account
of Nilsson's arrival at Jefferson, New
Hampshire, ON horseback, on her jour-
ney among the White Mountains. She
was followed by a travelling carriage,
with outriders, and a baggage wagon for
the use of her pet terrier and a trunk or
two. Her habit was dark-blue broad
cloth, turned back to show striped
shirt, and a gray hat with pheasant's
wing. The citizens turned out to see the
fair Swede, and now that she has gone
one of them cherishes bit of bread pur-
loined from her breakfast plate, which
bears the impress of her teeth, and an
other the pack of cards with which she
beguiled the hours in playing California
Jack. ....- ...-'. -
The New York Mail gives this sketch
of Vanderbilt: cones first impression
of Vanderbilt is that he is man of steel
| and there is a steely CLINT in his grayisf
| blue eyes that reinforces the impression
His face is Grecian in its cutting, and as
cold, impassive and fixed as a cameo
and sternness, even TO the climax of the
| imperative, marks every word and mo.
tion-crops out in the put down of the
| foot, as we'll as in the set expression o.
the rather thin lips. Talks very little
walks with firm, elastic gait, setting
down his foot at every step as if he would
say, Stay there till wake you up again.
| Is addicted to whist, and handles the
cards almost with the skill of profes
sional."
| We never could understand heretofore
why it was that most people are NOR
snappish and ill-tempered in hot than il
cold weather. A philosopher has at las
explained it by the most natural theory
thusly: "In very hot weather you may
be as liisagreeable and disobliging to you
friends as you please. If GOODNESS arises
so much the better" If anybody can &C
count more briefly, naturally and easily
OF DY q more COurSG VI TedSOulIl
than this for dog-day irritableness, w
should like to have his views. Some on
has said the acidity of temper was alway
there, and that the heat only caused it t.
"bile over;'' but this explanation lack
philosophical depth and breadth, and w
scorn to accept it. The human heart
not a soda-fountain, any more than
peach-basket is a vinegar-barrel, an
does not act without purpose, howeve
little we may be conscious of it.
A recent writer pointedly and truth
fully remarks that Journalism is the onl
profession which is denied the privileg
Of privacy. The lawyer, doctor an
i preacher do their work in private, an
no weighty personal responsibility al
, taches to them on account of it. But tn
journalist is mark for the public eyt
: and his every movement is as open as til
course of the sun. Moreover, the wor
of the press is continuous, as well as con
stantly public. There is no rest for tn
weary. Space is no more annihilated b
telegraph than time by journalism. Th
evening and morning are not merely tn
first day but all the seven. Night is al
initiated as to all its qualities of repos
Every minnie of every hour of tn
twenty-four is occupied by some worl
ers doing some work that shows itself
s GUG newspapers VI Ndy duu
Repetition is as impossible as rest. Fac
| are ever new. Comments must be
fresh as facts, and the edition is the +,
morseless giant that eats up all the sec
e onds. The making of a newspaper
perpetual motion in thousand fields.
such work, demanding ceaseless effor
l permitting no pause, exacting etern;
, and ever varying exercises, it is imposs
BILE for wheat to be unmixed with cha1
1 for accuracy not to be impaired by mi
/ take, for injustice not occasionally to
done.
e Pressed Coal Dust.
!. The use of pressed coal dust, con
q pressed into solid cakes, convenient fl
stowage and handling, has become qui
} general on board the naval vessels of di
Fl ferent European countries, and the
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