Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-11-20
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"Talk about the jaws of DEATH
said a henpecked husband, 'they arc
nothing to the jaws of life"
The ma who said the panic WASN'T
much of anything is now being look
ed for, but so far without success.
On Thanksgiving day there will be
a general attack made on Turkey by
the citizens of the United States of
America.
The County Commissioners were
in session on Thursday last, but no
action was taken in regard to the
county pest house or the dead Town
Clock.
The difference between n muddy
crossing and the panic is-the crossing
sends dress goods up, and the PAM
sends them down.
"Poor Jim Waynei" remarks an
Indiana paper, che has gone where
b~ar-tenders DOM. scrowl when a man
fills the glass up"
A Western editor met a well-edu-
Gated farmer recently and informed
him that he would like to have some
thing from his pen. The farmersent
linn a pig and charged him 1915 for
it. zEgE
These are the "melancholy days
when the honest farmer piles few
crooked sticks eross-ways i'll bis wag-
and brings it to town-amd sells it
to Hleaverdant city man~for a full
cord.
Any person wanting a cheap and
useful book, should purchase "The
GreatIndustries of the United States"
For sale at MICHAEL & Sous Drug
Store.
Our story ofthe Eaton dead beat
it fer a Cincinnati gentleman,
was all correct, except thatthe amount
of the bill run was $4,s5 instead Of
b4,25. "Squeal' again.
Every subscriber that sends us FIVE
new for the DEMOCRAT, will
a copy of the "Great Indus
of the United Statcs," a work
that rotails at 1915. Send them for
the now year.
An exchange tells US that @Boston
put on clean stockings when
they have their photographs taken,"
but we take no stockin' the remark.
Hose business is it If they do, any
MS s;
Ink is II fthe things in which
science seems to have made
very little Improvement. A recent
of the ink found on a man
uscript of the year DO showed that
its composition was similar to that of
the inks nov in g~eneralsuse.
The Nestorst of the press may just
take. off their hats to Mrs. Sarah j..
Hale, the editor Of "Godey's Lady's5
who is So years old, and is
still vigorous in body and mind. She
has been a widow since-T822.
An Ohio paper says: "Mr. Delano's
friends assert hat he will not under
any circumstances be a candidate for
the United States Senate" Quite
Noycs would have thanked
them if they had asserted so before.
William Meeker, who resides near
CAL, was lately bitten on
one of his fingers by. a tarantula. He
Immediately swallowed three pirts of
raw whisky, and next daSdidn't feel
very well, but remarked that thctar-
wasn't to blame.
An Iowa editor says: "Last season
could get five bushels of good po-
tatoes for one years subscription.
This year we consider ourselves lucky
if we get two bushels for the same
equivalent. Now we ask what en-.
couragement is this for a man with a
growing family?"
A serious charge has been brought
a school teacher in Illinois,
the specifications of which are 81.
Immortality 2, Parshaltyl 3. Keep
ing disordly schoal! 4. Carrying I'M
lafe weping!" The committeeman
who wrote the charge thinks of run
ming the school himself next quarter.
The Dayton Journal predicts agen-
eral religious revival during the COM
ing winter. We hope this prediction
may prove correct if it should be a
revival ofreal religion, bringing with it
truth, honest dealing, and sincere
fear of God and His laws. But if it
is a revival of that sort of religion.
which is practiced in many fashiena-
BILE churches, and exemplifed especi-
ally by so-ealled Christian statesmen
and Christian bankers, the less of it
the better.