The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-12
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Winter still fingers.
Mud roads are bad.
White vests are sprouting.
Look weR-theg grain fields.
Get your fishing tackle ready.
Decoration day will come next.
You will soon hear of fishing par
ties.
The voice ofthe turtle is heard il
the land.
Our new Council took the oath o.
allegiance.
Get your war paint on, the Assess
or is around.
The winter has been very favorable
for fruit trees.
It is about time to advertise the
e first picnic.
The trees will soon be brilliant in
their spring foliage.
Sunday was a disagreeable day.
Churches slim.
We had April fools now we are
having April showers.
The Assessor is around to see how
poor you are. Be ready.
Paper-hangers and white-washers
are on the march.
Spring flowers, are postponed on
account of the weather.
Young man, stop loafng on the
streets and learn q trade.
Some of the tramps are organizing
themselves into glee. clubs.
The oyster season will end at the
close Of the present month:
Young man. economy is wealth.
Get married and save postage.
Our merchants are doing a good bu-
siness considering the hard times.
The woman question now agitating
Eaton is-@what did she have ONT"
Spring chickens have commenced
to aapeep' out of their temporary hab-
-itationse
Mules are becoming frisky-abstain
from the immediate vicinity of their
business end.
A man should always live within
his income, even if he has to borrow
to do it.
Little drops of water, little grains
of corn, make the festive Bourbon and
the morning horn.
A contemporary calls his items
s'Nits," to show that he gets them out
of his own head.
The girls of q courteous turn of
mind will soon begin to grease the
hinges of the garden gates.
Levin Siler, the President of the
Preble County Teachers Association,
has entered Antioch College.
The price of walkingcanes has been
reduced. This will be good news to
young men studying economy
There is one advantage in being a
mule. He don't have to tie his tail in
hard knot to keep it out ofthe mud.
Farmers, look to your interests.
Buy the Nishwitz Pulverizer and raise
big crops. See adv. of W. L. Mitch
ell.
Tie old saying of seven rainy Sum
days following a showery Easter may
be tested now. The second one done
well.
"Gentlemen of leisure taking sun
baths,n is the title by which corner
loafers are to be henceforth distin-
guished.
March, throughout, has sustained
the reputation of the month for
stormy, variable. and thoroughly dis
agreeable weather.
A New York woman hanged her
self because she was @afraid of the
dsviI." That was a very orthodox
way of getting rid of him.
Remember, this will be the last op-
~portunity to hear Carl Beck. in Gin
cinnati, as he reurns to Europe LIST of
May. See excursion rates.
Gently, darling, touch with caire,
Each sooty length of stovepipeaire;
Please do suppress that naughty swair
And don't spill dirt upon the Stare!
Church, theater, and public hall
doors are required by law to be hung
to swing outward. Some of our
"showy city Hall" doors need looking
after.
The fruit tree peddler now peram-
bulateth and bamboozleth ye unsus-
pecting granger with gorgeous chro-
mos of the latest style of boss goose
berries.
An exchange says: "For summer
wear NOTHING is cooler than thread
gloyes."~ That may be SO, but such a
style of going about wouldn't be al
lowed in Eaton.
Do not whistle before you are out
of your ulster. An cold inhabitant"
says we have had NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and two more to come before April
is out.
This is the time for rural prophets
to sit on the fence and chew plug to-
bacco, and lie about the early springs
they used to have when they were
boys.