Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-22
Editorial Brevities.

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Watch your woodpiles and hen
roosts.
a heavy emigration from Europe to
America is anticipated this year.
All the rage-"Bustles" ofmammoth
proportions, with the female sex.
Dry wood is getting very scarce in
this part of the county.
The latest things out. Cats On the
house tops.
A lady says that church socials are
a cross between a Sunday School and
a funeral.
If you want a glass of good cider,
call at Nat. Lockwood's Grocery, I'M
der Minors block.
We are indebted to numerous
friends for their kind visits during the
past week. We thank you one and
all for your encouragement.
When you can't think of what your
wife tells you to bring home on Sat-
uAduy hlShe SCT AdAA pIhS' AhOS dAO
always handy in the house.
Men laugh and pretend to be pleas
ed when women descend to vulgar
jokes, but in seeking wives they look
elsewhere.
We want all correspondents to be
brief and to the point. "Brevity is the
soul of wit" Bear this in mind when
you write for the democrat"
7 Nj. Morgan, the Baptist Minister
who was charged with stealing books,
has made a private confession, and
been reinstated pastor of his flock.
N. B. Stephens will start his "Rocky
Run Dairy" in a few days, where
nothing but the pure "milk of bovine
kindness" will flow from it.
Social family reunions are becom-
ing more general than heretofore, and
ms the custom is a good onc, they
should be encouraged in every house
hold.
A man who drinks half a pint of
whisky just before going to bed, and
then wonders why he has the headache
next morning, is not good at guessing
contndrums.
We are inclined to the opinion that
the Methodist revival will make the
"fine haired" dance on the 22d at the
Town Hall, a slim affair. How is it
boys?
Only a slight "muss" and nothing
more" occurred on Barron street on
Tuesday last, which resulted in a
Fifteenth amendment" being slapped
by. an individual who considers them
equal-to 'tany other man"
Josh Billings says you will alwaze
notis one thing: the devil never offers
to go intew partnership with a bizzy
man, but yu viii often see him offer
tew jine the lazy and furnish all the
capital.
7 valentines day" was poorly patro-
missed in Eaton. The custom of using
it as a day to send obscene and con-
temptible insults to those disliked, is
about played out. 1t is well.
Fisher of the Coshocton Democrat,
says Millersburg girls practice for leap
year by jumping sticks in back yards.
Fisher, you'd had better let the girls
alone. "You know how it is your
self"
The chen" Convention met at Co
lumbus OH last Thursday and Friday.
The same old setting hens that have
been "clucking" all over the country
were present, and scolded their "piec-
es" as usual, and then adjourned to
their roosts, and the world wags on.
A friend of ours whose eye-sight
was not good, was recommended to
try glasses. He says he went and
took four at one of our drinking sa-
looms, and the result was that his sight
was so much improved that he could
see double.
we saw a fellow going along our
side walks on Saturday last, carrying
an ak on his shoulders-it appeared
to tangle his legs and stagger him from
one side to the other-the ak we
meant must have been heavy-the
a1-we wonder where he got 1.-THE
ak, of cours
Nc leap year parties in town yet
Ladies, what are you about? ALLOW
us to advise you to improve the chan
ces. The young men, bashful ant
diffident, + awaiting your advances
Be cautious about it, though, and yol
will save the modest "fellers" a dea
of embarrassment.
A Sheriff broke up a baptism on tn
banks of the Ohio, at Cairo, saying
that the water was too cold, and tina
if the minister persisted he woul
prosecute for murder. The crow
| should have put him in to test tn
temperament of the water.
The religious revival at the M. /