Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-14
Editorial Brevities.
By pride angels have fallen.

Squealing cats which disturb the
midnight slumbers should be included
in the CATE-gory of nuisances.
If time is money, we know a good
many around here that are in mighty
easy circumstances!
The sagacity of the Ground Hog as
a weather witch, we hope will never
be disputed again.
The firm of Edison Sc DeGroot have
purchased over three hundred "skunk''
skins this season. Whew!
We want about twenty-five more
tenant houses in Eaton! You that
have the means, buildl build! Moth
ing will pay you better.
Let the youth who stands with a
glass of liquor in his hand consider
which he had better throw away, the
liquor or himself.
A celebrated clergyman recently
said that he found o good in bad
people, and more bad i'll good people
than he ever expected.
The minister who divides his dis
course into too many heads will find
it difficult tc procure attentive ears to
all of them.
sing are about the first ones to rush to
the editor when they get into a scrape,
TO get him not to mention it.
Hair manure" is what a young lady
inquired for il one Of our drug stores
the other day, when she wanted a bot
tie of hair
with "bugles." Her husband blew
them all to - smash when he saw
the bill
Who was the "nice young man"
that took the wrong lady from the NJ.
e. Church the ether evening, and did
not discover his faux pas until he
had walked q couple of squares? 1t
IS q Eacti
Tickets for the Township elections
to be held Oil the first of April, prompt
~ printed at this office. Get out your
candidates and bring on your tickets.
Cheaper TO get them printed than
write them
Eli Thompson, of this place, who
was arrested and taken to Dayton for
violating the revenue laws, by manu-
featuring and selling cigars without
a license, was examined by Commits
sioner Davies, and discharged.
The new style of collar for gentle
men is simply terrific. They are an
economical article, however, as with
moderately long pantaloons they do
away with all necessity for a shirt.
Tobacco chewers should find some
other place than the ailse of a church
to deposit their "cud." Some of them
are too high to step over, and the aisle
is too narrow to get around them
SO says a young lady.
Do not denounce everybody who
does not agree with you, as being old
"foggy." Look yer the faults of 9th
ers, praise their virtues, encourage
them in their well doing, and assist
them in every laudable enterprise.
Show us the individual who knows
anything these days, and we will show
you a curiosity. The ghost or photo
graph of an item would be gobbled
up just 10Y with a gusto, by a hungry
newspaper editor.
The trouble with the girls of the
present day is that they run too much
to extremes. Their chignons are too
big, and their feet are too little they
wear too much silk in their trains and
too little in their corsages they know
too much at fifteen and too little at
fifty.
We know of several individuals i'll
this town who think they can run q
newspaper far better than anybody
else. They are continually making
suggestions, which if followed by a
publisher would ruin him in less than
six weeks. About two weeks work
on a paper would exhaust such chaps
completely.
A horrible and shocking murder
was perpetrated Il few miles from the
city of Dayton ON last Sunday morn
ing. a man and wife deliberately
drowned their three children, and then
the man checked his wife to death.
The details are too sickening TO pub
Iisl. Tie mai is supposed to be in
sane.
The Cincinnati Commercial and En-
quirer are heaving an immense mount
of ''dirt" at one another. From pre-
sent indications we are inclined to the
opinion that the "Bully" of that Gin
dependent" Gin a horn) journal is get
ting the worst of it. Go it Cooke i'll !
Citizens of Eaton and Preble county
you should %patronise your county seat.
Let your money stay at home. Gin
cinnati merchants do not help to pay
your taxes; do not help to build your
rail roads, nor do they assist i'll any OF