The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-08
WATTS AND wH1ms.

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conceit.
THE first book read, and the last bool
laid aside by every child, is the conduc
of its parents.
LOUISIANA has either the larges
snake or the biggest liar in America
| Odds is the difference.
| AMAN can sleep in church now with
out that everlasting fly disarranginl
his Sunday frame of mind.
MARSHAL MAcMAHoN was the six
teenth of seventeen children of hi
parents. He was born june 13, 1908.
HE who would acquire fame must no
show himself afraid of csnsure. TIL,
dread of censure is the death of genius
IT is safer to affront some people thar
to oblige them; for the better man de
serves the worse they will speak of him
As dyed in blood, the streaming vines appear,
While long and low the wind about them grieves;
| The heart of Autumn must have broken here,
And poured its treasures out upon the leaves.
-Caarlone F. Bates,i N Scribner.
Hon. ARTEMAs HALE, of Bridgewater
Massachusetts,, is the oldest ex-membel
of Congress. His age is ninety-fve, and
| ne is dale OLD man.
AN English woman, to whom tract
was handed by street missionary the
other day, sweetly replied: I" Thank you,
but am already saved"
A GRAND exhibition of butter, cheese
and eggs is to be held in Chicago, De
cember Is and 20, and the dairymer Of
the world are expected to compete.
The name of the potato bug, in Ger
many, Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures. This is
what makes it SO hard to kill them.
A SAILOR, who jumped overheard to
save another; was asked if he was fit to
die. :" / could not be more fit" he re-
piled, by declining to do my duty"
DoN'T moralize to fnat1 who Is on
his back. Help him up, set him firmly
on his feet, and then give him advice
and means. The means, by all means.
PHOTOGRAPHER" Now, sir, if you'll
look little less as though you had a bill
to meet, little more as though you'd
been left legacy, you'll get picture"
SEEK not to know to-morrow's doom
That is not ours which is to come,
The present moments all our store;
The next, should heaven allow
Then this will BE no more;
So all our life is but 0te instant now.
-Corgrecs.
THE passing years drink portion of
the light from our eyes, and leave their
traces on our cheeks, as birds that drink
at lakes leave leave their footprints at
the margin.
THERE is scarcity of roots In the
West this year, and the Digger indiana
believe that some of them may be driven
to eat rabbits and quails before the
winter is over.
IT was Boston man who went home
early in the morning, and, meeting the
sad, reproachful eyes of his wife, apollo
gized, "My darling, l think you'll be
sorry for this when you get sober"
A NEBRASKA Judge decided to gve a
horse-thief one ttlote chance to reform
AS the fellow left the neighbofhood to
begin a new and better life, he took
along the Judges horse to help him.
JOHN LOOMS, formerly editor of the
Brooklyn Daily Advertiser and Washing
ton correspondent of the Herald, fol
which paper he reported the speeches oi
Clay, Calhoun and Webster, died latel,
in Brooklyn hospital, aged seventy
years.
A FRUIT stand in Providence, Rhode
Island, has the following sign in prom
inent place: "Notice-Please do moi
thumb this fruit. Should anybody hav'
special weakness for such pastime h,
will find a small quantity inside for tina
purpose.'
BLoND1N has returned to England anc
is exhibiting on a rope seventy feet from
the ground, standing on his head, lynn
on his back, feinting to fall, sitting Oh
the back of chair balanced on tw,
legs on the rope, and riding velociped
along it backward and forward.
B. F. ESTES, of Alton, shot quee
bird few days since. 1t is described a
having a large, chunked head, which re
sembles that of cat, and legs like
rabbit, and feet armed with long, shar
circular claws over one and half in
ches in length. 1t weighed four pounds
A MINISTER of West Anstruther ar
pealed to Sir Robert Anstruther, VIII
was an extensive landowner in tina
parish, to assist in placing stove in tn
church, which he said the congregatio
found very cold. "Claud, sir, cauld
Sir Robert exclaimed, then warm ther
with your doctrine, sir. John Kno
never asked for stove in his kirk"
"This it is to. be rich enough not t
depend on ones self to do do the work
exclaimed a Chicago lady, the ether da.
as she came in from mornings shoI
ping at twelve M, to find the breakfai
crockery not washed, and her sixtee
year old help in her bedroom with
dream-book, three fresh bouquets, an
the pictures of two nice young me
| hanging on the walls-one of whom ha
Just got out of the Reform School. an
the other not quite old enough to sen
to the Penitentiary.
, THERE were 10, ,773 births, I, ,553 of thel
males, in Boston last year, or 247 le
than in 1875, and 944 less than in 1874
a diminution of over 8 per cent in tN
years. With 42l still-births, the rat
' of births to population was one in 3l.1
|. Only 1896 were native born, and
usual the Irish fathers were ahead, beir
/ 1886 per cent. of the whole numbe
There was one marriage in 5S.91 person
the average S.17 weddings a day, and Il
whole number. 2, ,9S1, or 435 less than
1876, and LOGS less than il, 1874. II
native born grooms diminished III p
cent. and the native born brides LOG p
y cent, while the Irish grooms increas'
r 1.79 per cent. and the Irish brides 2.
i per cent. There was also large d
), crease in the number of marriages
e minors, and only three cases in whi
e both parties were under age. In 2
n cases the brides were older than t
), grooms, while two minors married wom
y between thirty and forty years old. 81
N entecn negroes married white women.
u No MoCKERY in this world sounds
: : me so hollow as that of being told