The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-22
wAIFs AND wHIMs.


Our of $4,000, 900 of people in Great
Britain, $4,000, 900 live upon imported
food
OHIO has 37I,00O acres of apple or
chards, and raised this year $4,000, ,000
bushels of apples. &
ARTEMUs WARD said of the Mormon
ties" Their religion is singular, but
their wives are plural"
SHARPEN your teethl Big crop of
chestnuts coming. Bile 'em before
eating-the worms taste sweeter. a.
Brown says he's been so often de-
ceived by the chicken at his boarding
house that he now calls it the mocking
bird.
ROUND skirts, or nearly round-and
in this latter case raised in the back by
means of three tabs-are becoming
general. ,s
Ara recent fashionable wedding the
couple stood beneath large horseshoe
of flowers instead of the old-time mar
riage bell. -r
MORE than million feet of white
birch wood will be exported this year
from New Hampshire to England, to be
made into thread spools.
The managers of the Philadelphia
Permanent Exhibition say that, unless
the people rally in its support, it will
necessarily be closed very soon.
In reading a hymn to be sung, one
Sunday afternoon, New York minister
recently said, " You may omit the fourth
verse; don't believe it's true"
THE decrease of the number of buffa-
loes on the Plain threatens the trade
of the Hudson Bay Company, whose
voyagers feed on buffalo pemmican.
MINNESOTA widower went to church
to marry second wife, but forgot to
take from his hat the mourning band
that he was wearing for his first wife.
MRS. j. w. KINNEY of Alden, Iowa,
upon breaking an egg the other day,
found within. the shell living snake
four inches long. 1t lived several days.
In Virginia and North Carolina, the
acreage planted in tobacco is fifty per
cent. larger than last year; the yield
promises to be better in the same ratio.
RANCID butter is liked in Iceland,
and commission of Icelanders is in this
country to establish an agency for for
warding the article in large quantities.
THE widow sits by the vacant chair
combing her strands of yellow hair,
While her soul by thought is vexed,
Not OF the man who sat there last,
Not Of the Joys Of the buried past,
But OF who would sit there next.
WE are informed by cable that Mr..
Zaph Napah Pooner Obadiah Nico-
demus Francis Edward Clark was a her
ring merchant in England, but he is
dead. .s-...s-ss5 -s,r .s-..
CORK is coming into use in Germany
as filling for winter bed coverlets, in
place of feathers. 1t is said to be not
only lighter and cheaper, but decidedly
warmer. t.H
SEVEN wears ago Methodism was first
introduced into the dominions of
Brigham Young. Now there are six
Methodist churches and fifteen Sunday
schools in Utah.
The liquor dealers in Virginia have
sent out twenty thousand circulars as a
preliminary step to an organization
for the purpose of doing away with the
Mofett bell-punch.
AN undertaken in Berrien County,
Michigan, has taken legal advice to as
certain if he could not disinter body
to recover the unpaid for coffin. The
lawyer is still thinking about it.
SENATOR DOUGLASS monument in
Chicago is to be pushed rapidly to. com
pletion. 1t is sixteen years since the
Little Giant of the West" died in
Chicago at the early age of forty-fye.
A JoNT-sToCK company is forming in
Versailles, KY, to build a fish-pond six
hundred feet long, fifteen feet wide, and
from twelve to twenty deep, to be fed by
a big spring on the farm of Chas Alex.
ander. ~
DURING the recent State Fair at At
lanta,, Ga, when the city was over.
crowded, a clever hotel keeper made Q
considerable sum by renting three rail
road sleeping cars, and putting his guests
in them.
IT is all very well to be humble, but il
is possible to boast of your humility un
til it sours into the worst kind of self
pride. There is hardly virtue, in thu
calendar which man will not lose i
he talks much about it.
AN expedition is being organized il
New York city to find six million dollar
in treasure sunk near the island of Qua
qua, where the Spanish man-of-war Sal
Pedro Alcantara was burned during
wild revel of the crew in 1915.
A SOUTHERN paper has the news tina
the base balls will be delivered from
small cannon next year, and that tn
catchers will be. iron-clad. Thus in ou
sports do we progress backward to tn
.. Middle Ages, when the players wor
armor.
A GOOD story is told of Gen. Butler
sarcastic retort upon Massachusett
Judge, whom he was teasing for rulin
favorable to cause he was defending i
court. The judge got out of patience q
last, and somewhat testify exclaimed
"Mr. Butler, what do you think l 81
here forT' The general quietly shrugge
his shoulders, and replied, "The coul
has got me now."
A PARTY of emigrants from Pittsbur
to Arkansas are going to their new home
in cheap and novel manner. The
have built themselves a large boat, Q
which they intend to place all the
! household goods, and to float by the wa
! of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
l the mouth of the White River, fro
which latter point they will have the
e boat towed up that river to the lands
:, Arkansas upon which they intend
settle.
AT public dinner in Boston, the la
u Justice Story, of the United Stat
Supreme Court, and Mr.. Everett we
present, the former presiding. In O
e of those felicitous little speeches
II which he was distinguished, he CO
cluded by calling Mr.. Everett up al
|, saying, Fame travels where Ever-t
e goes" Mr.. Everetts remarks, brig
u u and scholarly, as was always the cs
r.