The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-30
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Winter is "sot."
Court is in session.
Hurrah for -, that's him.
Politics and not prayer are upper
most now.
Now is the winter of discon-
tent.
That hat We won on the election
don't fit yet.
Thanks for the serenade on Tues
day evening last.
"Chris Kinglc" will soon appear in
the shop windows.
Thank you Cesar Grant, we've had
our thanksgiving a week ago.
There is a slight change in our
Rail Road Table. See it.
Geo. Lockwood has had a bay win
dow put in his meat residence.
Thomas and Jeremiah are mixed
drinks. So is the election mixed.
The "beautiful snow" arrived IN
this latitud Q on Sunday night last.
Did yo1 promise us some wood,
reader? If you did, bring it along.
Ice houses will soon begin to yawn
for their winter mead ofcrystal blocks.
The pool-box and the ballot-box
are not near as sure as the bonnet
box.
There will be q masquerade ball on
Thursday evening at the city Hall.
Go to it.
All persons interested in the cause
of education should attend Teachers
Associations.
1t don't make any difference who is
elected President, we will continue to
take "back pay" due us.
Have you got an almanac for 1877?
They are out and predict rain on the
4th OF July. Too bad: ain'tit?
Each teacher should bring his best
thoughts and questions for the meet
ing, December 9th.
Prebly county prefers to take her
Bourbon straight. The Prohibition
candidate for President only received
81 votes.
This is the time of year for a man to
look along the midnight shelf, and
wonder which bottle holds the whis-
ky and which the ketchup.
During the month ending Nov.
oath, 4So pupils were enrolled in the
Eaton schools. An increase of .
over the corresponding month oflS75
Harbaugh and Wilson viii have at
their Restaurant, on Barron street,
lots of splendid oysters, celery and
other fixins for Thanksgiving. Go
and see them.
An exchange newspaper thinks that
when a Republican woman refuses to
use a Democratic journal for curl-pa-
per, it is time for the country to pause
in its mad career of political discus
sion.
Nature shudders when she sees a
woman throw a stone; but when a
woman attempts % split wood, nature
covers her head aud retires TO a dark
and moldcring cave in temporary des-
pair.
The following notice is posted con-
spicuously in a Scotch Office, and is a
mighty sensible one: "Shut the door,
and when You have done talking on
business, serve your mouth the same
way"
The man who owns seven dogs, and
can't afford to buy shoes for his child
rem, is about this time making inquir-
les whether the relief societies are go
ing to begin soon to dispense charl-
ties. He secs starvation ahead.
An enthusiastic lover who was told
by the loved one that she would mar
nv him if they had to live on bread
and water, suggested to her that II
she furnished the bread he would
skirmish around for the water.
The man who would undertake to
disturb the domestic peace and hap
piness of . family without just cause
or provocation, 10 call him a coward
ly dog, would be q SANDER on that
fTthful and honorable brute.
1t is a singular fact that when men
bet hats on election, the winner al
ways understands that it was a $40
tile, while the loser claims it was only
a 81 one. Ours was only a So, if we
can ever get il.
The hens i'll this section OF The coun-
try are not behaving themselves well f;
they will not lay and are ioating about
doing nothing, in the face of advanc-
ing rates for It's foul proceed
ing and disgraceful to the fowls. As
an old lady once remarked, when
eggs get cheap the pesky things will
begin to lay"
An exchange wants ladies to take
off their hats in church, but as long as
half the ladies go to church for the
purpose of displaying their hats, it is
hardly possible that the suggestion
will be adopted unless q glass case
is placed alongside of the pulpit for
- ,.o~modat and the name