The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-26

NATTY LOCKWOOD keeps all kinds
of the best fresh fish in front of W W.
Jefferson's grocery.
WIN. CLAYTON accidentally receiv-
ed a very severe cut in the wrist of
his left arm with a drawing knife,
which will prevent him from doing
much carpenter work for a few
months.
The proper authorities should in
vestigate the sanitary condition of our
alleys and back yards. Some o them
are in a filthy condition and ripe to
spread disease as soon as the hot
weather sets in.
Miss MARY LANDER has opened. in
Commercial Block, a very fancy and
good stock of Ladies' Furnishing
Goods, and we advise the female por-
ton around here to call in and see it
when they want anything in their
line.
A little son of Jas. McCabe, of this
place, while playing on the iron bridge
crossing Seven Mile near Bruce's
mill, on Sabbath last fell off into the
water, a distance of about twenty
feet. He fortunately escaped serious
injury.
Little CHESTER EDISON, who went
to the farm with G. H. EDISON to learn
to be a granger, made chop-feed of
two fingers on his left hand. He now
understands the philosophy of a cut
ting-box better than he did. The fin
gers were spliced on again, but
whether they will grow or have to
come off cannot be told.
A file ofnewspapers, especially your
home paper, is almost invaluable for
reference in corroborating dates, to
say nothing of the pleasure of review-
ing the transactions and incidents
which took place and in which you
were interested in years gone by.
Save your home paper-it will repay
the trouble and care.
Spring comes with a great deal of
d%eliberation. Spring is in no hurry.
People may don spring fashions if
they please, but spring cannot hurry
up=to please them. 1t lisa contestbe-
tween fashion and spring. But be-
ware of spring. Winter may have
gone, but stick awhile to winter gar
ments. There are coughs, colds, con-
sumption, pneumonias, funerals, cof-
fins, and burials in this raw atmos-
phere.
Very soon the sound of the tack
hammer will be heard in the land, and
the sweet and plaintive murmurs also
of the loving wife as she casts a be-
nignant glance upon her hated spouse
and in tones of tenderness exclaims
"a man is nothing but a blamed nui-
sance anyhow. Can't you see for
yourselfthat you've stretched that car
pet two feet more OIL this side than
IN the other, and you can't make it
fit around that chimney any way at
all ?" And then there are tears and
reproaches, and the man swears a wild
and bitter oath, and slips out the back
way.
A French authority recommends
the use of sawdust instead of hair in
mortar to prevent its peeling off. His
own house, exposed to prolonged
storms ON the sea cost, had patches of
mortar 10 be renewed every spring,
and after trying without effect a num-
Der of substitutes, he found sawdust
perfectly satisfactory. 1t IA first
thoroughly dried and sifted through
an ordinary grain sieve TO remove the
larger particles. The mortar was
made by mixing N part cement, two
lime, two sawdust, and five sharp
sand, the sawdust being first we'll
mixed dry with the cement and sand.
Let some of our Eaton plasterers try
the experiment.
The birds are all here-the mud will
"dry up"-little chickens are
'round-Easter has gone-industrious
farmers and mechanics are BUSY
base ball has opened-spring fever
will soon be the prevailing disease
doctors will complain-Hampton is
Governor ofSouth Carolina and Mich
oils will be of Louisiana-a fraudu-
lent President has been inaugurated
fishermen are plenty-old John
Robinson wouldn't bring his ele-
plants into Eaton and had to pay $50
for his foolishness-a good many owe
us for the DEMocRAT-Beecher is still
called by the Lord to admonish the
hayward and wicked-our city Hall
is a nuisance-the Eaton P. M. hangs
on under a "bloody handed" rebel P.
NJ. G.-and the world moves on! Let
US pray.