The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-12-27
WAITS AND wHIMs.

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ARMY literature-MagaziHes and re
views.
How to find a girl out-Call when
she isn't in.
BETTER break thy word than do worse
in keeping it.
C1vILITy is always safe, but pride
creates enemies.
THE Lick Monuments column Of
Christmas candy.
WORDS that burn-The contents Of
our waste-basket.
IT was backward debtor who said,
"The dues you say"
ALWAYS leave home with loving
words, for they may be the last. ~
THE heart, like watchman, should
confine itself to its regular beat.
CRoFFUT of the Graphic is lecturing
with excellent success this winter.
WHEN does the wind deserve reproof
When it whistles through the house.
A SUFFERING professor says, "The
dog star is no star at all; it is a r-p-pup
planet"
THE survivor Of the Davenport
Brothers, Spiritualists, is living in
Southern California.
Who is thy friend7 The men of truth and trust,
In gladness near, in sorrow nearer still;
To thy faults generous to thy merits Just,
Thy help to every good from every ill,
Whose love fof the worlds hate might make
amends?
Alas for i'll this life hath few such friends.
SELF-REsPEcTl Why, it's the ballast
of the ship; without it let the craft be
what she will, she's but coffin at the
best.
& THE best brushes in the world are
made in America, but the bristles are
imported chiefly from Germany and
Russia.
NOTWITHSTANDING the high tone of
morality said to exist among the Russian
generals, it must be admitted that some
Of them bear very hard names.
SHIPPERS should be felt; not heard
in the sick-room. But naHghty little
boys prefer that they should be heard
rather than felt-in the nursery.
HALL ye small sweet courtesies Of
life, for smooth do ye make the road OF
it, like grace and beauty which beget
inclinatiohs to love at first sighti
Asa rule, the theaters in announcing
new play, speak of its being produced
with "great cast" This latter, how
ever, is generally all in your eye.
CROOKS, an English engineer, while
surveying the Isthmus of Darien, had
his blood sucked during sleep by YAM
pire bat, and died from exhaustion:
Mr.. CoNGER, of Michigan, fairly
wriggles when he laughs. That's the
kind of a Conger eel he is, says the
pastry cook of the New York Herald.
IT is singular coincidence that all OF
the national ships lost in the last decade
were named after Indian tribes, viz.
the Saranac; Saginaw, Idaho, and HUI
ron.
JOSHUA ID. STANBURY is the name oi
the latest of the " Six Hundred of Bala.
klaya" who has been gathered to his
fathers. He lived in st. Augustine,
Florida.
An observing politician says that the
difference between those going in and
those going out of Office is mainly this:
the former are sworn in, and the latter
go out Swearing,
GATHERED ROSES.
Only bee made prisoner,
Caught in agathered rose!
Was he not ware, flower so fair
For the first gathered grows?
Only a heart made prisoner,
Going out free no morel
was he not tsarey a face 30 tair
Must have been gathered beforss
A CORRESPONDENT of the Vient1s
Neue Freie Presse, writing from London
says that the fog is often so thick thai
he feels inclined to drive a nail into il
and hang himself.
A CLOTH made from the down of birds
is coming greatly into favor in Paris
1t is waterproof, and estimated to bt
five times lighter and three times
warmer than wool.
In Greece it is known by the way {
woman wears her hair whether she Ii
married or not. In America it is known
that a man is married if he doesen't
wear any hair at all.
The Chicago Colonization and Agri
cultural Industry Company has pur
chased one hundred thousand acres o.
land in Cullman County, Alabama, upot
which to locate colony.
The Moffat bell-punch, in use in Vir
ginia bar-rooms, is good collector O
statistics for the temperance reformers
The Richmond bell-punches registered
! in seventeen days 255, 900 drinks.
For centuries hydrophobia has beel
an almost chronic subject of discussion
among medical men, and they dom
seem to know much more now thai
when the subject was first discussed.
THE man who will invent machin
that will rid chestnuts of their inhab
itants, will receive the everlasting thank
of people who partake of that kink
fruit in the darkness of the night time.
WHEN the rector of the Episcopa
church at Corpus Christi, Texas, opene
the Bible in the pulpit few Sunday
ago, he found between the leaves fiv
playing cards representing a euch1
hand.
Mrs FRANCES KELLOGG, of SheffieF
Connecticut, was so shocked at the sigh
of the bodies of two murdered person
IQdb Sic ldlHlcu, anu lCluoiiSo -
semi-conscious state day or two, whe
she died.
A PRoDIGAL son, who had stolen on
hundred dollars from his father in Ne
York, returned home recently, and, afte
discussing the sweet-breads for two day
disappeared with two hundred and fift
dollars more.
THE Turks are nearly all armed wit
the Peabody-Henry rifle, which is sal
to be an extraordinarily well-balance
arm, and highly effective; a few, hoy
ever, still have the Snider. Their fiel
, guns are Krupp's steel breech leaders.
BALTIMORE american: In the presel
/ condition of society and the advanc,
ideas which men and women enterta
as to the mode of rearing families, it
worth the study of sociologists to i
quire into the cause why we find
many cases of family estrangement, wi
we are continually being met by j
stances of dark shadow of grief restil
upon once happy home; and why ma
istrates and judges are daily being pc
a toned by parents whose children ha
become incorrigible and beyond thu
control. We would naturally imagi