The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-02-07
wAIrs AND wHIMs.

OF tlcKetS, anu lOuI tlWes tHdL Hduy
people.
THE Atlanta Constitution claims that
Georgia will be the great sheep State of
the future.
A PAPER at Columbus, Ind, advises
people not to call man liar when the
ground is frozen 49,.
UPWARD of $250,000 has been ex-
pended in the efforts to manufacture silk
plush in America.
Mrs. LUCY, of Houlton, Me-, is one
hundred and two years old. She has
sister three years older.
PARIS eats thousand horses every
month. This is what we should call
galioping consumption. % M
PENNSYLVANIA supplies one-ffth of
the rye product in this country, or 3,577,-
641 bushels out of 16,9lS,795.
A NEVADA man calling himself
teetotaler takes drink occasionally to
show that he is " not bigoted."
SOME colored men in Augusta, Ga,
are moving to start cotton factory
there, with a capital stock of 500, 900.
The sermon moved dozen men,
Their briry tears fos ed ihick and fast;
They bow d their h-ads a. cl sed their eyes,
Until the inCney-tox had passed
PIT. BARNUM has cattle ranch in
Colorado on which are four thousand
cattle and occasionally stone man or
two.
THE New York saloons have probably
adopted the cash system. The Com
mercial Advertiser asks, "Where shall we
trader"
A WAsH1SGToN correspondent says
the President is certainly growing fat,
as his coat wrinkles horizontally across
the back.
WHEN a tramp arrives at Dallas,
Texas, he is taken in charge and put to
work on farm which the city has bought
for the purpose.
"SMoKED geese legs" is the latest
dainty announced for the epicures. They
are prepared at Hamburg and shipped
to this country.
IT may serve as comfort to US in all
our calamities and affections that he
that lo,es anything and gets wisdom by
it is gamer by the loss.
AN ebony coffin, lined with white
satin, with lot in Pere la Chaise, was
one of the gifts profered to popular
actress in Paris this month.
The gold product of the Black Hills
for 1877, is thus estimated: From
quartz, $1,5n0,000; placer mining, ST.
600, 900; total, $2,500,000.
PRIDE is like the beautiful acacia,
that lifts its head proudly above its
neighbor plants, forgetting that it too,
like them, has its root in the dirt.
In 1877 there were 1880 inselvents in
Canada with $25,00O,G0U liabilities, be-
ing three millions less than in 1876,
when 1868 merchants failed.
AN Albany lawyer, who wanted
po.tponement, appealed to the Judge to
"let the broadax of justice be swung by
the hand of mercy" Itwas swung.
THIRTY thousand people are engaged
in the oyster trade at Baltimore, and
more than seven hundred schooners and
ponies form its Chesapeake oyster feet.
SAID friend to bookseller, "The
book trade is affected, l suppose, by the
general depression. What kind of books
feel it most7" Pocket-books," was the
lac0nic reply.
A New YORK clearinghouse keeper
wants to go into bankruptcy because her
assets are fifteen cents and her liabilities
twenty cents. Creditors are willing to
extend their notes.
LAST year Chicago dealer failed,
among his assets being $6ii0 worth Of
ice. The marshal kept watch over the
estate till it melted away, and then
brought in bill of 1914 for doing SO.
A NEw-FAsHIoNED temperance man
at Pittsburg says drunkenness in this
country is mainly due to bad cooking.
A demoralized stomach, starving for
well prepared food, is the very worst of
tempters.
FROM trustworthy figures just. COM
piled regarding the liquor traffic, it ap-
pears that there are nearly twice as
many drinking saloons in New York as
in any other State. The exact number
is %, ,934. re
They are making fine gold jewelry
now so you can't tell it from brass, and
it comes about as cheap, too. We make
tion, but then we are not very good
judge of gold. e
Love blooms like the roses,
With beSuty untold;
| Though tried in the FIRE,
| CLOVIS friendship like gold.
| The ros 8 are scattered
By first and by, blast;
lower In the TEMPEST,
/ Friends Zip stands fast.
] DEAN STANLEY says that when he and
| Gladstone were at school together near
| ~ -, bot 81, ,otoJ g., y; :,
dullness at figures The Dean adds
that he never improved, but that Glad.
stJne has become one of the best mathe-
maticians in Europe. 5
THE late NJ. Theirs particularly de
sired the absence of s eccentric ole
father from the celebration of his mar
riage with rich lady of Paris, and st
he engaged for three weeks all the seats
in all the diligences running to Pari
from the paternal neighborhood. Tht
plan succeeded.
THE fashionable bracelet in Paris il
Pesclardge-slavery. 1t is fetter O.
! gold worn on the arm above the elbow
, and is riveted and soldered by th'
, jeweler in the presence of the donor, tt
be worn till death, or divorce, or sepa
, ration. The jeweler, when the opera
ton is over, bids the lady call next da.
to see that the rivet holds firmly. Sh,
) comes-without her friend, bien entend'
, and the treacherous goldsmith con
) fdes to her the secret. of conceale'
spring, by means of which she can re
move the fetter at will.
) A Den Of Serpents.
The following snaky story is publishes
: by the st. Joe Herald: A few days age
< Andrew Ogden was out in a ravine O
4 the farm of o. A. Jennings, a mil
/, northwest of Salem, Neb., and while i
S the act of drinking out of spring, saw
= large snake and killed it. A day or tw
| afterwards J. NJ. Graves went to tn
r same spring to drink, and saw lot Q
i snakes heads sticking out Of the bluff b
e the spring. He went into Salem and re
ported what he saw, and in compan
with Mr.. Jennings and others went ou
l. with picks and shovels to dig out th
), nest. A few minutes work let thel
e into den of real live snakes of nearl
n all kinds usually found in that countr