The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-09


dEsG rs another illustration of the
6yHFh of the old proberb that honesty |
is skc best policy A Rhode Island
farmer went to Newport the other day
and confessed TO a grocer with whom he |
had been dealing for years that he had
cheated the latter to the extent of s5 by
short count on eggs. He was rewarded
for his honesty by the groeer's admission
that he also had been cheating, having at |
one lime passed counterfeit SO bill on
the farmer.
Tins IS the nineteenth century, and
this the land where education is free as
air. and where the groundless super
sfitions of the old world are considered
proper subjects for merrinient or de-
srision, bat still the people in the neigh
borhood of Wells Beach, VT, harbor the
2tiotion that any ono who win take q dip
in their river, on June 26, viii be exempt
from sickness for one year, and on that
Adate hundreds of the credulous lave
themselves in the magic waters.
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A eyrrrFm.N in India invited n num.
her, of friends fo, dinner and thew No.
cepted the invitation, but none of them
appeared, and the. dinner. was, spoiled.
AecordingIy he sued them for the value
OF the viahds wasted through their hck
OF courtesy. The lower court gave hinl
Judgment for the amount claimed, but
dhe superior tribunal reversed the dcci-
sion, remarAng that if the principle first
affirmed were correct the risk of accept
ing Lnsatalons would be very serious
indeed s5g
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. A sINGULAR attachment has long ex-
listed between Joseph Hines, of Rock
Wharf, Va, and a valuable horse of
which Hines, who is negro farm hand
has the care. Hines always slept with
the animal, and was unwearying IN his
attention to its comfort Recently this
feeling of love between man and brute
eliminated in an extraordinary manner.
The horse was so badly iniuredby coll
lision with gate that 1t was necessary
to Kill him. The negro protested, and
vowed that II the horse was killed he
would die, too. Without paying atten
ton to the threat, the horse was taken to
the edge of the wharf and shot. At the
discharge of the gun the negro jumped
nto the river, and although aid was IN
tantly thrown to him, he would not
avail himself OF the opportunity to save
his life, and was drowned.
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The x-Presidents of this generation
For the first time in nearly century there
is no ex-President living. Except Fill
more end Buchanan, no one of our Presi-
dents for thirty years has reached the al
lotted threescore and ten. Before Polk
and after Washington not one, except
Harrison, who died aged sixty-eight, left
the world at less than seyenty-three. The
series is noteworthy. Washington died
al sixty-seyen. but John Adams lived to
ninetv.one. Jefferson to eiohtvJbree
.Mu,;son n, e;obtv-fiye Monroe In cow
entv.tbyeo .Jobn Ou;ncv Adams To
e;pbtv-ope- .Jac,sson tn oseyentv-e;obt and
Var. Buren, to eighty. At this point a
signal change occurs. Polk died at fifty
four, TAYLOR at sixty, Fillmore at seven
ty-four, Pierre at sixty-fye, Buchanan at
seyenty-seyen, Lincoln at fifty-six, and
johnson now passes away at siixty-seyen.
The first ten of our Presidents averaged
TS wears of life the next seven aver.
AGE 647years. .'
The recent agitation in the English
Parliament over Plimsolfs shippino hill
WAS oceas;oned by the bold and fearless
manner in which that gentleman made
charges against the British maritime
eommnitv. His persistence is tinaIl,