The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-12
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Pick your apples.
Shoot the straw hat.
Good coon weather.
Button up your coat.
Put on your fannels.
Base ball is now below par.
Pay your subscription now.
Pay your State and county tax.
Gather your herbs for winter use.
Celery is once more in the market.
Good weather for overcoats to peep
out.
Bring your wood now on subscrip-
ton.
The mosquito has entirely rested
from his labors.
Straw hats and linen busters have
been called in.
The sqneal of the porker is now
heard in the land.
Prophecies on the grain crop ofnext
year are being put forth.
Our merchants are laying in their
fall supply of goods.
Red silk petticoats will be a feature
of winter promenades.
People live on less money than they
did q few years ago.
The season of innumerable indis-
cribable ailments is now at hand.
Corner loafers hunt the sunny side
of the streets these cool mornings.
The plug hat worn fourteen years
ago is to be the fashion this winter.
Farmers are now engaged in pick
ing and securing their winter apples.
Don't inquire into other peoples
business-when it is none of your bu-
siness.
This is the season when mothers
put up pickles, and their daughters
put them down.
Leap year is going fast, and the
timid young mems chances are daily
becoming Simmer.
Notwithstanding that cool weather
has set in the centennial fever" does
not appear to diminish.
There is an "R' in October, and in
oyster, and in raw, and in fry, and in
broil, and in roast.
A good. test OF a mans piety is TO
avoid using hard words when he puts
up stove pipe in a hurry.
The &C )nomical vest pocket is
deep enough to hide the mate of the
cigar you are smoking.
Love of the Almighty dollar is
keeping many well-to-do people from
going to the Centennial.
1t is the wife who has the making
of a mans home, and now and then
she makes his wigwam, too.
Fractional currency is growing
scsrce, and silver seems to disappear
as fast IS II is put in circulation.
Gentlcmen's trousers are 10 be cut
"straight and full" Gentlemen will
please keep straight and not get full.
Our farmers are now busy saving
the fodder crop, and exasperatcd en-
ployees are chopping each other up
with the corr knife.
An exchange says: "a hard winter
is predicted" That's the same win
Ter that was predicted last f~all--only
it is one year late in getting around.
That was a splendid parade made in
Eaton on last Friday night in honor
OF a Southern carpet-bagger and thief,
that dare not show his body in Mis-
sissippi.
One Of the greatest peculiarities of
centennial visitors is that they are
never able to tell you anything they
saw. They always give some indei-
mite answer
The Graphic calls upon the friends
of HAYES and Wheeler to "charge
along the whole line" That's just
what they are doing-charging two
per cent.
Energy will do anything that can
be done in this world ; and no talents,
no circumstances, no opportunities,
will make atwo-legged animal a mar
without it.
Turkeys arc already beginning to
inquire around an%xiously for alma
macs, with a view to a%scertaining the
precise date of the last Thursday in
November this year.
A little ~ffe-year-old somewhat sur
prised his mother a few days since
with the remark: "God is every
where; he is all owe me; and when
you spank me you spank God"
The time of sunlight is fast shrink
ing the evening shadows fall at an
earlier hour, and and not cleared a.
way by the suns broad beams until
late each morning.
Already the foliage begins to show
sigus of decay. The golden tints
may be seen here and there, and ere
long the magniicence of summer will
have given place to the glories of au-
tumn.
1t is not believed that there is an
artist in the world who can catch the
expression of a woman's face as she
puts her nose into the milk jug and