The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
ODDS AND ENDS.

IT is said that in Chicago ladies faint
away in church in order that other ladies
may have chance to inspect their jew
elry and make sure that it did not come
from the dollar store.
RHYME, being kind of music, shares
this advantage with music, that it has a
privilege of speaking truth, which all
Philistia is unable to challenge. Music
is the poor mans Parnassus.
THESE are the cold, clustering nights
when the Western miner unhitches his
pistol and bowie knife, and throws HIM
self down in the lurid glare of the log
fire and reads Bessie Turner's novel.
MANY man who would roll up his
eyes in terror at the idea of stealing
nickel, will swoop down on silk UNI
brella worth ten dollars, and march off
with his lips moving peacefully, as If in
prayer.
WHEN a st. Louis gentleman meets
his neighbor in the morning, he looks
surprised and asks, "Hain't you been
indicted yet r The reply is, "No; when
did you get out ?' Then they both laugh
in an imbecile way, as though they both
meant it for joke, and go in and take
a drink of the " crooked"
AN editor gives the following picture
of the local editor, for the benefit OF
young persons who aspire to that posi-
ton: Here is the face of the reporter.
See how jolly he looks; he has just heard
that man has cut his own throat, and
is going for the item. Should you like
to be reporter and get licked on dark
nights, and see dead persons, and climb
up four pair of stairs ?"
IT was like the song of some wonder
full bird, and it made the air shine after
the sound had died away; and yet it
was Just the remark of brave young
man who walked past me one day, arm
in.arm with a companion: depend
upon it, Tom, st. Edmund of Canterbury
was right when he said to somebody,
Work as though you would live forever;
live as though you would die to-day"
POINTED ANswER.-"Wh am l
made of?' asked little girl, fresh from
her first Sunday-school lesson, as she es-
sayed to show off her knowledge to her
Younger sister. 81 don't know" was the
honest answer. "What, does mamma
sweep up from the floor 2" was the first
speakers next trial in the Socratic
method. "Pins, needles, and hairpins," !"
was the prompt but unexpected answer.
MODERN CRITICS OF THE BIBLE.
aYou say 'tis Gods Book, still true and wise
Though you have shorn it of its noblest parts,
| Disparag'd all its great biographies,
And left no nourishment for pining hearts;
But that's foodless river where the fish
Are stolen from the waters, every i'm,
| hay hnr lu.
And spared us scarce enough to freight dish;
So have you stolen away our food for falth-
With Moses disallow'd, and Paul review'd,
And Christ himself by rival pens pursued,
That race each other through His life and death
; 1t irks my soul to see how bland you look,
Giving your foolish blessings to the book"
Charles Tennyson Turner.
THERE are quiet victories and strug-
giles, great sacrifices of self, and noble
acts Of heroism--not the less difficult to
achieve because they have no earthly
chronicle-done every day in hooks and
corners, and in little households, and i'll
mems and women's hearts, any one of
which might reconcile the sternest man
to the world, and fill him with BELIEF
: and hope in it, though two-fourths o.
r the people were at war and another
l fourth at law.-Dickens.
BLESSINGS light on him that first in
vented sleepl It covers man all over,
: thoughts and all, like cloak; it is meal
E for the hungry, drink for the thirsty
! heat for the cold, and cold for the hot
f in short, money that buys everything
: balance and weights that make the shep
: herd equal to the monarch, and the foo!
8 to the wise man; there is only one evil
E in sleep, as 1 have heard, and it is that
e it resembles death, since between deac
a and sleeping man there is but little dit
: ference.
P WHAT blessing to the household is
u merry, cheerful woman-one whose splr
e its are not affected by wet days or littl
o disappointments, or whose milk of human
% kindness does not sour in the sunshine
l. prosperity. Such woman in the dark
a est hours brightens the house like littl
Il piece of sunshiny weather. The childre
d 90 to school with sense of somethln
e great to be achieved; her husband goe
g out into the world in a conqueror'
@ spirit. No matter how he is annoye
It abroad, at home he is sure to lind rest.