The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-20

interested in School Reports and the
progress of our schools. If he is, VIC
can disabuso his mind very readily.
A Clergyman advanced the idea in
his sermon, last Sunday, that striped
stockings are destructive to female
modesty. "But a little while ago."
said he, "young ladies refused tc go
up stairs in advance of gentlemen.
Now they seem anxious to do sol"
Taxpayers in Chicago are perfect
frantic over their rates, which are six
per cent. on a full valuation for city
and State. Everything of a taxable
nature is taxed in Chicago, and a man
who does business there is kept chron-
ically on the ragged edge.
An itencrant Gospel FOUNDER held
forth on the streets of Eaton last Sat-
urday afternoon, Sunday morning
and afternoon. His hearers we're not
numerous, but he went for the Sunday
christian, the periodical r~evivalist and
church rafiers. His services closed
with the usual religious ceremony-a
collection.
We republish the report of the First
National Bank this week, on account
of several errors which occurred in
it. The Bank don't have on hand
"one hundred and fifty-fve thousand
in fractional currency and nickels-
as we had it-but only "one thousand
five hundred and ffty-six dollors" of
the stuff. A slight differencel
Our old fellow-citizen, L. t. Nc
CABE, made a narrow escape from
drowning on Tuesday afternoon last.
While standing OH the bank of Seven
Mile at the foot of Main street, look
ing into the swollen stream, he be-
came light-headed and fell in and
fioated down the stream some dis
lance when he was rescued by some
persons close by. MI. Nee. was
somewhat bruised from the fall.
Our fellow townsman, DR.. S. D.
FUTILE, has invented several very
useful patents, but we believe his last
invention is THE patent. 1t is an i'm
proved Axle-Skein, which consists in
the employment OF a washer slipped
upon the projecting end of the axle
skein, so that it cannot turn thereon.
1t posseses several advantages over the
ordinary method OF securing a wheel
upon a skein by means of a nut 1t
will certainly become generally used
when the utility of it is tested. They
are now being manufactured in Rich
mond.
Spare your horse. Don't compel
him, after working hard for five and
a half days, to pull or bear you to a
corner grocery, five or six miles away,
on Saturday afternoon, and you and
your family to church on Sunday.
This sort of hing amt right. Horses
need Il day of rest as well as q man.
And then, don't gallop him hard three
or four miles of a cold morning, and
suffer him TO stand afterwa:d in a
piercing wind, uncovered by q blank
ct. Don't let the rain fall upon him
unnecessarily. In other words, put
yourself in his place in every instance.
Something else is necessary to the
longevity and health of horse be-
sides good feeding.
Spring broke last week and the first
furry of snow came TO remind us that
"winter fingered in the lap ~ofspring.'
1t wasn't much, TO be sure, but enough
TO apprise people that rude old blus-
teIing Winter was about, which caus-
ed as much discontinue as a visil
from a mother-in-law during the hon
eymoon. 1t was rough OH the boys
who. deluded by the beautiful weathe!
of the past two weeks. had DOTTED
their heavy clothing, but the concoc,
tiers of shot WHISTLES, ""rom and Jer,
ry" and rum punches" looked a.
bright as the smiles they dispensed,
and the ice-men were happy, but alas
the fickleness of the weather-at the
present writing it looks as five would
have some other kind again!