Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-11
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

j. A. IIUBBELL has frescoed til
Hall of the eagle Hotel"
Colored hosiery is said to be be
coming quite fashionable now
Turkeys" says a hungry Bosto,
editor, 'ipre quoted fat"
If any one wants the DEMoCRA'
next year for $3.50, let Linn bring in
new subscriber.
A cigar, with a boy at the end o
it, can be seen OH the streets every
day.
Skates and sleds have made theil
appearance, and the boys and girls
are happy.
For "weakly" reports of the pro-
gress of the Odd Fellows building:
see the Eaton REGISTER.
Last year we had the epizooty.
This year it is the panic. The stock
in both cases were affected.
One of our tc wn boys got trusted
for a hat, and he now feels a con-
Ssciou ness of being in debt over head
and ears.
.Che battlefield of Bull Run, which
was a farm when The famous battle
was fought is now a village with a
bout three hundred inhabitants.
An advertisement for a district
school teacher, in New Hampshire,
concludes i'll this way IN. B.-No
man need apply who wears a shawl
Only five months interviewed be-
tween the last snow of last spring and
the first snow of this fall-which
made but brief the breath of summer.
Ohio stands third State in the Un-
ion in the number of divisions of
Sons of Temperance, and Pennsylva-
mia first in division of spoils.
Conundrum-Said n boy: "That
chap, yonder, is my brother, and this
girl is his sister, and yet she is no re-
lation of nline.' Answer-The boy
lied.
The Oyster Festival, given by the
ladies Of the Christian Church, on
Friday and Saturday evenings last,
met with good success, no~twithstand-
ing the stringency OF the money a
ket about here.
An Iowa newspaper proclaims it
self an "honest newspaper" and in
another paragraph says, "When a
man processes honesty nowadays,
keep your eye peeled for a thief"
An Ohio postmaster insists that the
patrons of his office shall lick their
stamps. That man ought to be Sec
rotary of State now he would doubt
less insist that we should lick Spain.
When n Cincinnati man goes FOR a
drink now, and is asked what he will
have, he says he will take some Gam
lily Fight" and the bar-keeper always
knows what bottle TO hand down.
Tho Hoosier schoolmlster must
have moved away. In a breach of
promise case at Fort Wayne, Ind,
the lover was convicted of writing
hart beets- oanly for the, my dar-
ling huney."
We are in a peck of trouble. Half
the weather prophets declare we are
to have 4 cold winter, and the other
half say that winter is going to draw
it midland so VIC don't know what
is going to be what.
We wish no man or woman evil
fortune, but if anybody loses money
on any article of produce they are
saving up for higher prices, we are
the last one to shed tears over the re-
suit of their greediness.
A lumberman up the Allegheny
proposed to go to Philadelphia,
had a trunk made of half-inch boiler
iron, and inscribed upon it the fol-
touching lines to the baggage
masters "Throw and be d-d!'
We see by an exchange that spiders
kill drummers out in Indiana. Well,
it is a consolation. to know that some
thing will kill them. The world had
heretofore supposed that a drummer
was in~vulnerable.
"And the wicked shall stand upon
slippery places" says the good book,
which was very correctly verified on
Sabbath morning last. We noticed,
however, some very good people in
the same predicament of their erring
brothers.
'.Breathes there q man with soul so
dead, who to himself hath lately said :
I will a weekly paper take, both for
my own and family's sake" If such
there be, let him come in and for
OUR PAPER hand the tin, he then may
pass a happy winter, knowing that
HE has paid THE PRINTER.
A widder wummen writes to us
that "she has a patural mack to rite
for the paypers," and wishes to know
the prise we pay per Kollum." We
regret that the stringency of the mo-
ney market prevents us from indulg-
ino in luxuries: besides.