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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
Mentc0's Revolutions.
1921. The independence of Mexico
declared,

1921. The independence OF Mexico
declared.
1926. First Congress assembled.
1929. Guerrero being President, Bus
tsmento, commanding the army, induces
his soldiers to declare him President, and
compels Guerrero to abdicate. Santa
Anna plays the same game on Busta-
mento, and is himself declared President
by the army. Three Presidents gov
erned, with little fighting, until
1886. State Governments were abol-
ished by revolution and Santa Anna
made President. Same year Bustamento
was recalled. Santa Annals defeat at
San Jacinto having deprived him of
power.
1888. Mexico revolutionized; had an
unpleasantness with the French, who
blockaded Vera Cruz; Santa Anna drives
off the French.
1910. Federalists, led by Urea, revo-
luton.
1S41. Revolution by Santa Anna, who
is made Dictator, and banishes Busta-
mento.
1912. Junta of Mobiles revolution
against Santa Anna and form the Re-
public.
s1S43. New constitution adopted.
Catholic religion and apostolic creed to
exclusion of all other religion,
1874. Revolution by Peredes, Santa
Anna deposed and Herrera made Presi-
dent by Congress.
1S45. Santa Anna banished and Her
rera elected President. Same year
Peredes revolts, and ordering an election,
is elected President.
1846. Santa Anna is recalled, Peredes
deposed, and Salos elected President.
Salos sells out and Santa Anna is made
Provisional President. War with United
States is in progress.
1S47. Americans victorious; Santa
Anna flies and Penas is made President
pro tenn.
1S4S. Peace made with the United
States.
1851. Arista elected President.
1872. General revolution.
1858. Arista resigns and Santa Anna
made Dictator.
1854. Revolution led by Alyerez;
Santa Anna abdicates.
1856. Carrera made President, re-
signs, and Alverez is made Dictator.
1856. Commonfort heads movement
against the Church, is elected President
and sequesters property of the clergy.
1857. Commonfort is deposed.
1858. Zuloaga is made President, but
is obliged to abdicate.
1859. Miramon makes himself Presi-
dent, but is speedily deposed.
1860. Zuloaga again made President.
1860. Revolution headed by Mira
mon.
1861. Juarez elected President and
declares himself Dictator. The French
invasion and Juarez, Lerdo and Diaz
have kept things lively since 1861.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

A railroad incident occurred recently
on one of the East India lines, which was
as startling as it was singular, and may
be said 10 be one of the most miraculous
escapes on record. A train was ap-
preaching a bridge on curve. When
the bridge came within sight, at a dis
tance of three hundred or four hundred
yards, the engine-driver was horror
struck to discover that it was completely
in flames. Finding his break power
totally useless in the emergency, he
jumped off, as did also the fireman, Just
as the train entered upon the burning
bridge. over which it rushed, fortunately
with unabated speed, through continu,
GUS fame that rose furiously above the
height of the railroad cars. The wooden
sleepers were on fire, and parts of the
rails themselves were red-hot. The whole
train, composed of a number of cars
passed safely over, and not a passenger
was injured or scorched.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
A Smart Thing.

How many people are there who really
know how to make a mustard plaster7 7
Not one in hundred at the most, per-
haps, and yet mustard plasters are used
in every family, and physiciansprescribe
the application. The ordinary way is to
mix the mustard with water, tempering
it with a little -four; such plaster
as this makes is simply abominable.
Before it has half done its work it begins
to blister the patient, and leaves him
finally with painful, hayed spot, after
producing far less effect in beneficial
way than was intended. Now, mus
tard plaster should never blister at all.
If blister is wanted, there are other
plasters far better than mustard plasters;
then, use no water, but mix the mustard
with the white of an egg, and the result
will be plaster which will draw" per-
fectly, but will not produce blister on
the skin of an infant, no matter how
! long it is allowed to remain on the part.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
WHOLE NUMBER 52S.
Light Upon Paris Green,

State Assayer Hayes, of Massachusetts,,
publishes a warning against the use of
Paris green for the destruction of potato
bugs. He says that there is danger, in
the common mode of digging potatoes,
that the poisoned earth may adhere to
the tubers, and through lack of careful
washing before using, prove fatal. He
also speaks of the danger attending the
presence of poison in household.
In regard to these cautions Professor
Chandler, President of the Board of
Health, says: There is just as much
danger in having Paris green in house
as there is in having loaded revolver,
or any other deadly weapon. 1t does
not poison the potatoes, but it would i'm
pregnate with poison lettuce or salad
that is to be eaten raw, and therefore too
much care can not be taken in its use,
and every precaution should be taken to
prevent it being deposited by the wind
on other plants. The subject has been
discussed by the Board of Health, and
it has been decided that of the twoievils,
Paris green and potato bugs, the former
is the less, and therefore we have sent
out no warning against its use. We
have, however, strictly prohibited its
sale at retail in the city. do not con-
slider its use so dangerous but that the
unchecked ravages of the bug would be
infinitely more So"
The ordinary Paris or imperial green
which is used in the war against the
bugs, is scientifically an aceto arsenite of
copper. 1t is the same green commonly
supposed to be SO dangerous when used
in coloring wallpaper. In Watts's Chem
ical Dictionary this popular superstition
is treated as follows:
This compound is much used as pig
ment, on account Of its splendid green
color. A great deal of needless alarm
has lately been excited about the sup
posed deleterious effects of this pigment,
1t is extensively used for staining wall
papers, and persons inhabiting rooms
thus prepared are said to have had their
health seriously derangsd by the arsen-
ical fumes evolved from it. Now, it is
utterly impossible that arsenic should
volatilize from such compound at ordi-
nary temperatures. 1t does not decom-
pose at any temperature below redness.
The only way in which danger could
arise from the use of paper stained with
an arsenical color, is that particles Of the
compound might be brushed off in dust
ing the paper, and thus become mixed
with the air of the apartment; but it is
not in this way that the supposed acci-
dents are said to have occurred. The
panic has arisen from mistaken notion
as to the volatility of the arsenic. That
the use of the pigment is not really
dangerous, may be safely inferred from
the fact that no bad effects are expert
enced by the workmen engaged in its
manufacture.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
4 Vfe,U of The Fortress of Glib
rnItar.
IHarper's Magszine.I

The first view of Gibraltar, approach
ing it from the northwest, discovers a
lofty, single-rock mountain, apparently
separated from the land, rising above
the strait some fifteen hundred feet. Its
sides are rugged and broken, here and
there exceedingly precipitous. Around
its base appear Gordon of batteries,
while its SUBMITS are crested with walls
and battlements. 1t forms one side of a
bright and symmetrical bay, and just
below its western cliffs the quaint old
town clings to its base, while on the
east long lines of barracks stretch be-
side the glistening beach. Between the
town and the galleries by which the
rock is assembled are the Alameda, or
public park, and the fruitful and aowery
gardens which are so often mentioned as
fourishing at Gibraltar. The Alameda,
in particular, is one of the most agree
able pleasure-parks in Europe. A por-
tion is used as parade ground for the
troops who garrison the giant fortress;
the rest comprises rich green lawns, SER
pentine walks, with white marble seats
disposed conveniently here and there,
exquisite shrubbery, geraniums in pro-
fuse abundance, and groves of orar ge,
lemon and fig trees. On the upper ter
races cool pavilions covered with vines,
invite the saunterer to grateful repose,
while here and there you observe bust
of Wellington, and statues of General
Elliott and other martial worthless. The
Alameda and other gardens lend bright
ness and beauty to the slopes between the
beetling and overhanging masses of
somber work.
Perhaps the most striking view of the
rock is that from the beach, where it is
to be seen stretched lengthwiss along
the peninsula. Here the portion imme-
diately in front of you is the highest,
and the precipice ascends perpendicularly
for more than quarter of mile to the
summit. The PORTFOLIOS along the gal
leries, far up on the sides, look like pig
eon-holes, while the staff at the Signal
Station seems no larger than pin.
The base is here girt about with bitches,
stockades and batteries, pointing in every
direction toward the land approaching
to the rock. Most of the excavations
have been made during the century and
a half that the English have had posses
sion of Gibraltar. Everywhere among
them you see piles of huge cannon-balls
ready for use on occasion and it is said
that it was good days work for mar
to get one of these balls from the towr
up to its proper place in the galleries
j SINCE that Vermont girl cowhided al
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
Ben. Butler on Sheep Farming.

From an Interview in the New York SUM-
"Turned sheep farmer to get into the
United States Senate! That is new
kind of political scheme. Of all the
ludicrous stories told about me, 1 believe
this is the I don't know. though"
as though his mind recurred to other
stories that eclipsed it in grotesqueness.
az don't know. No, somebody must
have dreadfully needed paragraph" :"
he said, seriously. "I don't own an
inch of land in Colorado, and don't ex-
pect to. l have never negotiated for
any land there, and never expect to
represent Colorado in the Senate. My
son-in-law, Mr.. Ames, is, and has been
for some years, in business in Min
nesota that I think is perfectly salts
factory to him; at least, never have
seen any indication on his part of wish
to lean upon his father.in-law for sup.
port"
"Not even when he was Governor Of
Mississippi, General?"
Ben. Butler smiled and went on
Colonel Craig has never won, for he
never had any lawsuit about Colorado
lands. He acquired lands there by
purchase, and lent him money on bono
and mortgage on them, or advanced
money, and that, presume, is how tht
story originated. No, 1 shall not become
a sheep farmer until"
Here two harps and violin on thu
sidewalk opposite the open window
struck up "The Sweet By and By" ant
General Butler left his sentence un
| finished
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
THE DRUDGE.

From the way in which he was trained up
His feet departed not. He toiled and moiled,
Poor muckworm through his threescore years and
ten;
And when the earth shall now be shoveled on him,
If that which served him for soul were still
Within its husk, 'twould still be dirt to dirt.
BURLINGTON HaUk-Eye: "What," asks
an exchange, "are the causes of drunk
ennessT Well, we can't answer for all
of them, but we believe whisky causes
great deal of it; whisky, sir, resolutely
stuck to, will cause about as large a
drunk as anything we known of; al
though a judicious mixing up of various
drinks will accelerate matters if a man is
in a hurry, -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
Cossacks i'm the Russian Army.

lLondon Daily News Galatz Correspondence
The Cossack is not very savory
gentleman, and Galatz is a fine place
for taking the edge off ones sensibili-
ties regarding the smells, and we can
get to windward of the Oossack we wish
to inspect, which is more than we can
do in regard to the Galatz drains.
Friend Cossack is little chap, about
five feet five, even on his high heels, but
at once sturdy and wiry. His weather.
beaten face is shrewd, knowing and
merry. His eyes are small, but keen;
his mouth large, and between it and his
pug nose-rather redder than the rest of
his facets tuft or wisp of straw-colored
mustache. His long, thick, straight
hair matches his mustache, in color, and
is cut sheer round by the nape of his
neck. He wears round oilskin peak
less shake with a knowing cock to the
right, to maintain which angle there is
strap around his chubby chin.
Below the neck the Cossack is all
boots and great-coat exteriorly. The
great-coat, which is of thick, gray
blanketing, comes down below his
knees; his boots come up to them. He
is more armed than any man of his inches
in Europe, is our little Cossack friend
and could afford to lose weapon or two
and yet be an averagely dangerous Gus
toner. Weapon number one is the long,
black, fagless lance, with its venomous
head that seems itching to make day
light through somebody. He carries q
carbine, slung in an oilcloth cover, on
his back, the stock downward. In his
belt is long and well-made revolver in
a leather case, and from the belt hangs a
curved sword with no guard over its hilt.
Through the chinks in his great-coat
are visible glimpses of sheepskin under
coat with the hair worn inside (to-day,
at noon, the thermometer was over
seventy in the sun). His whip COM
pletes his personal appurtenances; he
wears no spurs. He rides cooked up on
a high saddle, with a leather band
strapped over it, wiry little rat of a
pony, with no middle-piece to speak of,
with eve neck and gaunt, projecting
head, with ragged fanks, loose hooks,
limp fetlocks, shelly feet and a general
aspect of knackerism-the sort of animal,
in fine, for which a costermonger would
think twice before he offered "three
quid" for it at the northern Tattersall's
on the outskirts of the metropolitan
cattle market on Friday afternoon.
But the screw is of indomitable game
ness and toughness-lives where mos
other horses would starve-is fresh wher
most other horses are knocked up-anc
is fit to carry its rider across Europe, a
Cossack ponies have done before to-day
MANNERS are the shadows of virtues
the momeDtary display of those quail
ties which our fellow creatures love ant
respect. If we strive to become the1
what we strive to appear, manners woul'
often be rendered useful guides to tn
performances of our duties.-Si Sidne!
Smith.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
MY ZIG - BOX.

Love thou thy neighbor !" lam mute.
He lives across the way,
And plays upon the German flute
Some twenty hours day.
On him 1 do not waste my labor,
Nor even try to love my neighbor.
Love'thou thy neighbor |" am dumb
She lives next door to me;
A single dame, with yelrs o'ercome;
Her age is forty-thrte.
All it were surely foolish labor
For me to try to love my neightor.
"Love thou thy neighborp' Heaven forefendl
He hath of gold galore,
And at usurious rates doth lend
Me small gums OF his stsre.
All wherefore should squander labor
Or waste my love on such neighbor?
Love thou thy neighbor !" Nay, not so;
This were too much to ask
Ny heart with love is all agIoE,
But finds happier task.
All! not in vain my heart hath sought her;
You see lsve my neighbours daughter.
-Net1 York San.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
1cROss THE STREET.

lie
With blush on cheek, she comes and goes;
watch her when she little knows;
Iwonder If she dreams of it.
Sitting and working at my rhymes,
weave into my verse at times
Her sunny hair, or CLEANS Of it.
Upon her window-ledge is set
A box Of towering mignonette
Morning and eve she tends to them
The ssnseless flowers, that do not care
About that loosoned strand Of hair,
As prettily she bends to them.
III.
If 1 could once contrive to get
Into that box of mignonette
Some morning when she tends to them
She comes I see the rich blood rise
4 From throat to cheek Down 60 the eyes
Demurely. as she bends to them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

A FUNNY joke was perpetrated on a
music-loving but anti-dancing Metho-
dist minister of Alexandria, Mimi,
lately. He was at a village hotel dis
playing his skill to number of anna
teur musicians, when a gay party of
young folks in an adjoining parlor, think
ing it too bad to have SO much good
music wasted, formed cotilion and en-
joyed themselves very much, while the
good Methodist brother played away
with all his might, never for moment
suspecting that he played while they
danced.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

WHY is this continent like milk?' Be-
cause it's ours.
WHY is a schoolmistress like the letter
G.? Because she makes classes of lasses.
A TRUE American is too proud to beg
and too honest to steal. He gets trusted.
LANGUAGE is the amber in whicha
thousand precious thoughts have been
safely imbedded.
HAPPY is the deaf man, for he can
hear no evil of himself. And the dumb
man too, for he can. speak no evil of any
one.
Now that girls no longer wear bustles,
what is the poor tramp who strikes
picnic ground going to do for reading
matter?
ONE of the hardest working men in
Danbury earns his bread by the sweat of
other peoples brows. He makes sweat
leather for hats. f5s=.-Tt
BLUE eyes, with few tears in them,
sometimes cure man of the habit of
staying out late nights-and then again
sometimes they don't.
"PM saddest when / sing" said a
Sunday evening warbler. "So's the
whole neighborhood roared an un-
musical voice in the street. ~
TIMES in the country are getting no
better very fast. Farmers complain now
that the tramps even steal the coats and
hats off of the scarecrows.
SAID great Congregational preacher
To hen, =" You're beautiful creature p'
The hen, just for that,
Laid two eggs in his hat;
Thus did the Hen-re-ward Beecher
WHAT an exquisitely delicate precept
is that of the Hindoo law which says:
"Strike not, even with a blossom, a
wife, though she be guilty of hundred
faults"
AN attempt to introduce hippophagy
in the East has failed. The Arabs say
thew can't endure horse for dinner,
though they don't mind a little camel
for their desert.
NORWICH Bulletin: A Norwich man,
who lectured in an adjoining town last
week, came home and reported that he
had a regular ovation. 1t seems they
threw eggs at him.
A NATURALIST claims to have discov-
cred that crows, when in focks, have
regularly organized courts, in which they
sit around and try ofenders-a sort OF
crow bar, SO to speak.
IT has now come to light that Diogenes
hated clean shirt, owed everybody who
would lend or trust, dressed miserably,
lived worse, and differed but little from
modern philosophers.
A MAN was watching balloon sailing
directly overhead, with his mouth open
to undue bigness, when it was suddenly
filed with sand. The tourist of the
heavens saw the open mouth, and threw
out ballast. f..ra
A YOUNG fellow who indulges in the
use of strong drink, says at night he feels
as if he owned all the property in the
world, and in the morning as if he owned
none, and was in arrears for his taxes on
what he owned the night before.
AMAN named Roach proposes to sail
from San Francisco around Cape Horn
to New York in q three-ton boat, twenty
feet long. He wants man and boy
to go with him, SO that the chances OF
there being q survivor may be greater.
A CHANGE of Scene" So you are two
flights higher up now?" Invalid
eyes. The doctor advised change OF
scene; couldn't afford to 60 abroad, so
came up here. Saw nothing but
clothes-lines below; chinneys are re-
lief"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
An AsCTiII Warming.


The insanity of DR.. J. @. Aver of Low
ell affords a terrible warning to adver-
tisers. He was man engaged in the
manufacture of pill, not differing from
a hundred other pills which may be
obtained at any drug store. In an un-
guarded moment he made up his mind
that he would advertise, not in the
picayune style of the common dealer,
but in a comprehensive sort of way, by
which he could reach every possible pur-
chaser of pills. He started with the idea
of devoting half of his profits each year
to advertising. The result might have
been foreseen. He accumulated money
so rapidly that he did not know what to
do with it. When he had rolled together
fifteen millions dollars and had vainly
striven to find some outlet to his ever
increasing profits, his mind gave way
under the absorbing cares of his vast
business, and he is now patient at an
asylum for the insane. How easily this
calamity might have been averted; If
he had stuck to the conservative methods
of many of our merchants and refrained
from advertising, he might have been
passing quietly through bankruptcy now
instead of being loaded down with his
uncounted millions. 1t is dangerous
experiment for man who does not want
to become rich to advertise. Or if he
advertises at all he must grudgingly
and at long intervals, lest his profits
should grow out of proportion to his re-
quirements, and he should find himself
burdened with wealth. Advertising,
conducted on the principle of devoting
half the profits of business to it, is, we
repeat, dangerous experiment. Itpre-
cipitates fortune upon the advertiser so
suddenly that the chances are even that
he will not know what to do with his
money. The multitudinous pleasures Of
bankruptcy, insolvency and shining
around" for the wherewithal to meet 8
note are permanently denied to the man
who advertises. There never was in
Europe or America great advertiser
who did not accumulate great fortune
Let those who desire to live unburdened
by the cares of wealth take warning.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Mrs. MERCY STUDLEY, of Brewer,
Maine, aged one hundred and three
years, does the family washing every
Monday,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

THEY are getting so that they do not
"manage these things much better in
France in murder cases. Moyaux, the
champion criminal of the year. who
killed his wife and child under circum-
stances ofpeculiar atrocity, has been let
off by the jury with a life sentence.
Thereupon one of the Partisan papers
says: cit is now established in law that
husband has the right, if his wife visits
Philadelphia in company with young
and passionate lover, to pitch into well
at Bsgneux, upon the theory of just re-
prisals, her little girl aged five. He,
further, has the right to mention tran
gully to twelve philanthropists, en-
lightened enemies of the death penalty
that he heard the unfortunate little
thing believing like a bull for thret
hours The poor child was covered
with flies before her death, which haC
already begun to feed on her innocen
flesh. This probably was one of the ex
tenuating circumstances"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

INDIA is the third wheat producing
country in the world.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

THF French Ministry have brought
their reactionary policy to bear upon the
Pa lsian newsboys, who are henceforth
to sell none but truly good Legitimist
sheets.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

SINCE that Vermont girl cowhided an
editor the newspapers have ceased asking
"What can woman doW
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
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Business cards Of ive lines or less, s. por annum.
Local notices 10 cents per line oach Insertion.
Simple announcements Of marriages and destha
md church and benevolent society notices inssrtod
free. ANY additions to obituary notices WIN be
aharged cents per line.
Fsyors MUST be handed in q early TuesdAF
morning TO insure insertion the same week
Communications upon subjects ef general % 10
cal interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

MANNERS are the shadows of virtues,
the momeDtary display of those quail
ties which our fellow creatures love and
respect. If we strive to become then
what we strive to appear, manners would
often be rendered useful guides to the
performances of our duties Sidney
Sy,;fb