Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-24
The feature of our age-Cheek.

Fashion prescribes short dresses TO
walking. /.
A criminal court-Sparking anoth
er mans wife.
Trim your trees, clean your yards
and premises.
The trees will soon bloom, the grass
is green and growing beautiful
Look up your traps, the assessor
viii soon be around. i.
A. II. Stephens one of the heavy
men of the next Congress, weighs 81.
Too much interest in the affairs of
your neighbors is wrong.
On our fourth page will always be
found the Cincinnati, Chicago, and
other markets.
John Smith purchased a farm in
this county last week, and proposes
to settle down.
The friends of Colfax say that he is
likely to die of a broken heart. He
is more likely to die of a broken ring.
One of the most eventful epochs in
a boys history is when he addresses
his father as the cold man."
The son of his father is to be attach
ed to Sheridan's staff. Soft thing,
very.
Good news for husbands-Ladies
wear their dresses longer than they
used to do.
The recent rains and warm sunshine
has started the grass, and the lawns
and hillsides around begin to look
lovely with Natures vernal carpet.
The same man has swept the side
walk in front of the White House for
twenty-seven years without raising
his salary.
Purity in thought and action is
right, but professions of purity while
we are back biting our neighbors is a
little too thin.
The street cleaning brigade COM
menced their work on Monday morn
ing last, and we hope our town will
soon be as clean and bright looking
Gas a new pin"
Delinquent subscribers should not
permit their daughters to wear this
paper for a hustle. There being so
much DUE on it there is danger of a
cold.
Last year about this time we had a
smelling committee" to find out who
imbibed our villainous whisky. We
suggest one now for our alleys and
back yards. Oh
A Kansas liquor dealer tacks up his
business cards in the pews of the
churches, inserts them in the hymn
books, and generally "places them
where they will do most good-p |
A prophet has been travelling in
announcing the destruction
of the world in 1878. He pays his
own expenses, and asks for no contri-
buttons. |
When any of our friends drop into
Camden and want a warm cup of cof-
fee, a boiled egg, a glass of beer OF
ale, or a good cigar, they can always
be accommodated by calling at the
establishment of Jos. CARVER.
A young married man does not be-
lieve "a thing of beauty is a joy for
He says the author of that
ought to see his pretty wife
when she's "got her dander up"
A Connecticut doctor deludes peo-
pie to the belief that he has an i'm
.ense practice by practising on a
the sounds from which cause
passers. by to think they are the groans
of a victim under the surgeons knife.
Husbands are just d little crabid
and uneasy now, that wives are MAX
ing active preparations for the usual
amount of Spring cleaning and reit-
ting. This, that and the other addi-
ton must be made to the household
you know.
1t is unlawful for tobacco chewers
to beg or give a chew, as the United
States Internal Revenue Law requires
all persons to pay a license of five dol
lars before they can dispose of tobacco
in any form, no matter how small or
great the quantity. That is hard on
old tobacco spongers.
If you have occasion to stop your
team while in town, always make it a
point to stop it on the street crossing.
In this way you afford pedestrians an
excellent opportunity to walk around
you and your team, and take the cor
rect soundings of the mud, in gaining
the opposite side of the street.
We feel sorry for Somers and Wash
ington Township, to think that here
after they will have no voice in our
county elections. Dixon had better
be careful also. Only five of a ma
jority will bring her under the dis
pleasure of the Ring.