The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

THINGS past may be repented, but not
recalled.
PREDOMINANT opinions are generally
the opinions of the generation that is
vanishing.
THE farmers in Nebraska have COM
menced the domestication of the buffalo.
In some respects the buffalo is safer for
parlor pet than the Spitz.
WHILE a young lady at a recent
evening party was talking about the
psychological significance of dress, and
maintaining that a persons character
could, to considerable extent, be in
ferred from his attire, a foppish young
Englishman, wearing a blue coat and
brass buttons, inquired, with a super
cilious air, what that kind of coat indi-
Gated, to which the young lady instantly
responded, "The blue is indicative OF
the wearer's feelings-the brass, Of his
manners.
And have loved thee, JessieI and have seen
Tbv mind and form expanding with thy years,
From timid eight to ravishing eighteen,
Have shared thy joys, thy woes, thy hopes, thy
fears.
Possessed of all that pleases and endears
Vert thou and sweet the captiye's chain 1 wore,
But now, alasl that love, thy charms, my tears
OF grief that thou vert wed, alike are Ger,
Fer thou art seventy and am seventy-four.
-Brica-a-Brac Scribner's Monthly.
THE cash system is steadily growing
in favor with nearly every class of trades
people, and it isn't half so hard to refuse
people credit as it used to be, while they
don't dare get mad about it nova days,
either. Formerly, if a lady was told she
could not have goods unless she paid for
them, she would flush up, leave the store,
and not enter it again for six months,
at least. Now she is pretty sure to get
over her anger in twenty-four hours, at
the most, and come back, take the goods,
and pay for them too.
"SALr" was the subject of the speech
of a solemn and spare-faced clergyman
on an anniversary occasion, the text
being. aye are the salt of the earth.
He explained to his youthful hearers the
preseryative qualities of salt, and e.
pecially its power to keep eatables from
decaying. Then he told them how
Christians. and especially ministers, were
of advantage to the werld as purifying
influence against the corruptions OF mod
ern society. Then he asked few ques-
tions. To "What are ministers useful
for in this world?" lively youngster
gave the ready answer, "To keep whites
from spilin' p
A Boston correspondent tells this
story: Signor Bertolotto is exhlbltlng
: his wonderful educated feas,- which
Canton lady has reason to remember as
she saw them the other day. While In
tently gazing upon the exhibition she
suddenly gave scream, which attracted
| the attention of all TO her. With
wonderful agility she sprang from mel
, seat, gave resounding slap exclalming
"Signor, here is one of your feasF sig
l nor Bartolotto seized the insect from
r the lady's grasp. gazed upon it for a mo.
ment, and then Indignantly returned II
to the lady with, "That is not one O.
mine, madam! you must have brought II
with you!"
MANY years ago, aScotchman, named
Feyerston, settled among some Germah'
in the western part of the State OF Ne"
York. They translated his name by tn
sound into the German Feurstein. vi
his return to an English neighborhood
his new acquaintances discovered Feur
stein in German means Flint In English
They retrapslated his name, and tn
family name became Flint. One OF tn
! grandsons settled on the Arcadian coas
of the Mississippi, and with the common
fate of his family, his name OF Flint Dc
came translated by the French INT
Pierre-a-Fusil. His son went north, an
the last transformation was a retransls
tjon, and Pierre-a-Fusil, his son, becam
'' Peter Gun.