Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-11
Editorial Brevities.
Go to Church every Sabbath.

stories, you are quite sure to get a pull.
A California hotel has a vase label
ed 10Th picks"
a Pennsylvania has signed the
temperance pledge 800 times.
Clearing up and identifying yards
is now in order.
The fellow who got the 'mitten" on
| Sunday evening, didn't vaccinate HIM
| self with - shot gun.
The reason the Camden correspon-
dence has not appeared, we have mis-
laid it. Can we have a duplicate?
Everything seems to be adulterated
lately except oysters and eggs, and
they often outlive their usefulness.
Wretched is he that tooteth his own
olfactory bugle perpetually before
him, as the h~ypocrites do.
1fyou want a good fragrant Hava-
ma, go to Brookins s. Son. We have
sampled 'em.
Mr. Jonathan Switzer drew the One
Thousand Dollar prize in the Cincin-
natl Enquirer Lottery. Good for
Jonathan.
The handles on the Parasols for this
summer look like the centre pole un-
der a circus canvass. IEa=
The members of the ..corner Loaf
ing Society" have declared their in
tention of doing cuisines on the
square" during the summer months.
The proclamation by his honor the
Mayor, closing all saloons on the day
of election, was strictly observed in
our city.
Our young friend JOE HA1NEs, hes
embellished a piece of poetry for us.
See it on our outside. Joe is Il genius
in that business.
The Martins are back to their old
quarters again. They have more re-
spect for the Temple of Justice than
our late Treasurer.
Bad colds, influenza, catarrh, Group,
phthisic, asthma, all over the country.
Plenty of people around. shifting,
snufling, the whole day long
A fashionable young lady boosted
of having = dress on which was two
hundred yards of lace trimming. This
is no guide for sensible young ladies.
Limburg cheese and a handful OF
saeurkraut hung around the neck as
an amulet, will, it is said, prevent
small pox. We have a friend upon
whom we would like try this.
We heard of a grocer recently who
had a pound of sugar returned with a
note stating chat it contained too lnucll
sand for table use and not enough for
building purposes.
The Ladies of the Presbyterian
Church, with their well-fllcd baskets
of "good-things," had q social gather
ing at the Parsonage on Thursday eve
ming Of last week.
In many of the windows of private
residences and houses of this town.
we notice the culture Of flowers. It
is an u~nmistakable evidence of good
taste and true refinement to see those
pretty children of Flora carefully
nursed and attended in a household.
Lots Of marriagable damsels in this
region, fair, lovely and winning in
their ways. But few weddings. The
girls, as courtists, amt a success, and
leap-year is emphatically pronounced
a damaging failure!
Horace Greeley is said to be sick
and tired of the ''devilments" that be-
set an editor nowadays, in the way
of politics. He sometimes swears that
he will quit the business and take to
teaching a writing school for a living.
Better go to farming, Horace.
Mr.. Henry Hummel, of Decatur, IL
linois, has in his house a jar of jelly,
given him by his grandfather many
years ago, made by the hands of Mar
tina Washington, who was the wife of
the Father of our country, who cut
down the cherry tree and bought lot
terry tickets, and couldn't tell a lie.
The street cleaners commenced the
work of clearing away the filth and
rubbish from off our public thorough
fares, on Wednesday morning. This
is a step in the right direction, and
the good work should not be stopped
untiievery street and alley within the
limits of the Corporation is properly
cleansed, for nothing can add more to
the health of the entire community,
than clean streets and alleys.
"Revivals" pervaded the whole
country during the past winter. Ea-
ton had a big one. The Elmwood,
Illinois, local paper thus sums up the
results of one in that place: "Five
supposed Converts" sixty-three bad
colds, nineteen young ladies refuse
any longer to obey their mothers, the
morals of fourteen boys o or less
corrupted, and one hundred and TWEEN
ty-three flirtations." The results OF
ours is not positively known vet.