The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-12
PENC.L AND SCISSORS.

circus business.
No man can be provident of his time
who is not provident in the choice of his
company.
He who reigng within himself, and
rules his passions, desires, and fears, is
more than king.
ENVY is passion so full of cowardice
and shame that nobody ever had the con-
fidence to own to it.
THE spring style of the nhand-
organ has only one stop. 1t begins in
the morning and stops at night.
Two sisters-twins-hav to be told
every thing together, because they are
so exactly alike they can't be told apart.
AFTER ponderlng for six years on the
query, Why do animals fear fre?"a
Southern professor answers, because
fire is hot"
MOODY, speaking on the duty of
waking the sleepy fellows who slumber
in Church, says: ga hunch from the
elbow may save soul.
The battle cries of the Turkish army
must be very enthusing. Think of a
General in bag trousers shouting along
the line: Remember Bjuna Djunee."
ANGER in dispute is like an unquiet
horse in dusty way-it raises such
cloud in the eye of the understanding
that it obscures the vision and impedes
its operation.
STRENGTH for to-day is all that we need,
As there never will be tomorrow
For tomorrow will prove but another to-day,
With its measures of joy and sorrow.
Then why forecast the trials of life
With such sad and grave persistence,
And watch and wait for crowd of ills
That as yet has no existence.
ETERNITY, past and future, flashed
before my eyes," he said, "and saw
where the crack of doom began and
ended" This was his experience the
first time a baseball struck him in the
stomach.
"SALLY, what have you done with the
cream? These children cannot eat skim
milk for breakfast" "Sure, ma'am, it
isn't mesilf that would be afther giving
the scum to yez. l TUX that and gave it
to the cats"
CHILDREN must have love inside the
house, and fresh air, and good play and
some good ompanionship outside-oth-
erwise young life runs the greatest dam
ger in the world of withering or growing
stunted, or at best prematurely old and
turned inward on itself.
A NEW feature has been introduced
into some of the country schools When
one of the girls misses word, the boy
who spells it,gets kiss from her. Sey-
eral girls are fast forgetting all they ever
knew about spelling, while the boys are
improving with unexampled rapidity.
GATHER up the fragments. In every
human life there are sure to be some.
Every one of us has secret chamber
somewhere, filled with inhabitants whom
none but himself can see; it rests with
himself alone whether they shall be de-
caying corpses, or only beautiful ghosts.
YOUNG lady" 1t was a stylish din
nerl" Learned uncle" Stylish ! are
you using the word correctly Do you
know the derivation of stylish ?" Young
lady" Certainly, from sty, a pig.pen,
and lish, the noise made by the ho--
animals when eating" Learned uncle
in despair.
A LADY writer desires to be informed
"why there are no female tramps." She
refers to an accepted fact, that there are
more women than men in the country,
| and cannot understand how it is all of
them manage to make living without
devastating the country. If any gentle
man feels like vindicating his sex, here's
a chance.
IT was remarked by Cicero, when
speaking of the early period at which
children commence talking, that they
seem to recall language which they
had learned in another world. Provi-
dence appears to develop this precoc!ous
intelligence in them, in order that these
tender and diminutive beings may make
early advances in knowledge, and COM
pensate by their drollery, their compan-
ionship and amusement, for the cares
and responsibilities infancy demands.
CAPT. BoGARDUs, the famous bird
shooter, has just given remarkable evil
dence of his powers as marksman and
unrivaled skill in handling gun. At
Gilmore's Garden, in New York city. he
undertook to break one thousand glass
globes, three inches in diameter, thrown
into the air from three traps, firing at
them from distance of eighteen yards,
in one hour and forty minutes. He ac-
complished his task in the extraordinary
time of one hour, seventeen minutes and
forty seconds, having missed only twen-
ty-eight globes. This was at the rate of
one shot every four and half seconds,
which seems almost impossible.
IT has been ascertained that the heart
of an OK beats seventy-eight times per
minute. If any body wants to do any
, thing about it, now's their time.