davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
rnE WEATHER ~ VERSE.

The undersiened desires, in modest sort Of way,
To make the observation, which properly he may,
To-wit: That writing verses on the several solar
Is most uncertain business and for these conclusive
reasoRs
In the middle of the Autumn the subscriber did
A sonnet on November, showing how the spirit
Unhappy and despOndent at the season Of the
When the skies are dull and leaden, and the days
are chill and drear.
Perhaps 70 may yecsll to mind that, when No
No leaden kiesr for chilly days accompanied the
But the weather was as balmy as in Florida you'd
And that sonnet on November was respectfully de-
clined.
With i,audable ambition to prepare worthy
The wriier wrote Christmas song three weeks
ahead Of time;
And there was frequent reference to the sharp and
And likewise to the cold white snow that covered
earth 50 fair.
i scarcely need remind you that the Christmas did
The piercing air and cold white snow of which I
chose 70 sing;
And Of course my frigid verses were with cordial
warmth returned.
This very Spring 1 set to work-twas on an April
And warm as Juue-I set to work and wrote an ode
on Mey;
The inspiration may have come in part from what
owed,
But while sang Of gentle Spring. why then it ur
and snowedl
l - - : d
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
Mr.. sarsaper's Refrigerator.
breakfast Tablet

A couple of weeks ago Mr.. Sarsaper
told his wife one morning that he had
got about tired of buttering his bread
with spoon, and SO that day he sent
home refrigerator. It was beauty,
and he felt proud of it, so much SO that
he had good deal to say about it at the
store.
"I suppose you have to put ice in it,
don't YOU ?'' said one of the clerks.
Certainly" said Mr.. S., but then it
takes very little. It's an Improvement
on all the others ever made. Full of lit
tleboxes and places for all sorts of things.
Keeps every thing separate-meat, vege-
tables, milk, and SO on, without any mix
ing up. It makes hot weather 50 much
more comfortable, Bob, to pull up to the
table and find everything nice, cool and
crisp, instead of limp, sour and slushy.
We wouldn't be without it again for no
money. I wish you'd run in and look
at it, Bob, the first time you're going
by. It's curiosity, and ] know you'll
get one as soon as you see it. Don't
bother about ceremony-run in any
time" Bob said he would.
About two o'clock, one morning last
week, Mr.. Sarsaper was wakened out of
the slumber that always keeps company
with an easy conscience, by his wife
poking him in the ribs, and calling on
him to hustle out and see what the mat
ter was. The door bell was jingling
like all possessed.
Mr.. Sarsaper crawled out of bed, and
after banging his nose on the door-post
till the blood started, giving himself a
black eye against the corner Of the man
tel, and falling down over pretty much
everything in the room, he finally made
his way to the front part of the house,
threw up window and peered out into
the wet and murky gloom.
"Who's there?" he demanded, look
ing down at the top of an umbrella.
"Mep came up in thick voice from
the under side of it.
"Who's mef'
"Bob."
"Oh, it's you, is it7 What's. the mat
ter, Bob? Any body sickp'
"Oh, no. You zee I've been out to
Evansville with some of the boys to
help institute lodge, and Pm just get
ing back. I happened to think about
hat refrigerator of yours as 1 was going
by, and so thought I'd stop in and see
it, without ceremony, as you said. Come
down and let me in. Pm in a hurry to
get home, and can't stop but minute. u
Mr.. Sarsaper said something that
would bend the etypes double if we should
undertake to print it, and slammed
down the window.
He remarked to Bob the next day
that for downright freezing GOODNESS his
refrigerator was bake-oven compared
to the prank practiced on him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
A Race Of Migrants.

The countless dogs of Constantinople
are under the protection of the general
public, but, being pronounced unclean
animals by the Koran, are not allowed
to enter the Turkish houses, and are
consequently without masters. They,
therefore, form great free vagabond
republic, collarless, nameless, houseless,
and lawless. The street is their abode ;
there they dig little dens, where they
sleep, eat, are born, brought up, and die !;
and no one, at least in Stamboul, ever
thinks of disturbing their occupations or
their repose. They are masters of the
public highways. In our cities it is the
dog that makes way for the horseman, or
foot passenger. There it is the people,
the horses, the camels, the donkeys, that
make way for the dogs. They are lazy
animals, and sleep most of the time
neither rain, snow, heat nor cold dis
turbs them. They wake when they are
hungry, not before, and sleep almost al
ways in the same spots. The canine
population is divided in quarters. OF
wards. Every quarter, every street is
inhabited or rather possessed by Ger.
tain number of dogs, who never 40 away
from it, and never, allow strangers to re.
side in it. They exercise sort of ser.
vice of police. Woe to any dog of an.
other quarter who, pushed by hunger,
shall risk himself within the territory oi
his neighbors! A crowd of ours fall
upon him at once: and, if they catch
him, they chase him as far his own do
main-that is, to the confines of it, fol
the enemy's country is ever feared and
respected. So fierce are these engage
ments, and so numerous, that many Of
their number are reduced to pitiable
condition-crippled, with broken tails
one-eyed and SCARED. AS for the tail, i
may be said to be an immense luxury
for it is rare for Constantinople dog tx
wear his tail entire for more than two
months OF public life. Yet, notwith
standing their ugliness, laziness ant
perpetual howlings, the Turks love thes
dogs, and would not Danish them if the,
could.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
English Appreciation Of American

The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Week writes as follows concern
ing Americas contribution to the
fine arts department Of the Paris ex-
hibiti0n: .,a...-.
The Americans have been SO deter
mined to avoid another failure in art
that they have erred on the side of rigor
in Judging the productions of that kind
sent in. At Philadelphia they were too
easy with their own people; here they
are too hard. Of the many artists, resi-
dents in Europe and others, who fancied
themselves called, but few are chosen,
and it was pitiable before the opening to
see them hanging about the art gallery
to ask for news. There is an industrious
old gentleman over here who paints
portraits by the square mile in the course
of year, and who courts and is courted
in the colony to great extent, and
even he has known what it is to receive
check. There is another painter Ga
young one, who has sent in the portrait
of well-known actress) in the like
plight. He, think, has been cruelty
dealt with. His work is good above all,
promising ; he ought to have had place
it is not for Young" America to rob
youth of its chances. Do not let me
even seem to be unjust to the judges
principally Mr.. Maitland Armstrong and
Mr.. st. Gaudens. l am sure they are
upright and conscientious; l could only
wish they had not been conscientious to q
fault. What they do exhibit is very good,
only there is but too little of it. There is
some wonderful strong painting, head
of youth, for instance, by J. P. Vinton,
which, if it had been done by pupil OF
Velasquez, might have earned the mas
ter's praise. There is also a superb
moonlit sea by Mr.. w. P. w. Dana
Many of the subjects, 1 rejoice to see,
are home scenes, though they are treated
as they should be, in the style of the
foreign schools in which, as yet, the
art is best learned. The "New Eng
land Cedars" of Mr.. Clifford looks like
work by Corot; Mr.. Bunce's cap
proach to Venice" is full of knowledge
sincerity and manly strength, and there
are fine works, landscape and other, by
Hart, by Quartly-" The North River
New York." by Wyatt Eaton; "Tht
Harvesters by Bolton Jones. "Tht
Laugh" by Hamilton Of Philadelphia
| is, not to mince matters, study of ,
cocotte, but is very well done. Bridg
man sends his Funeral on the Nile ?
Shirlaw, "Sheep-shearing in the Bavar
ian Highlands" English artists mus
not miss this gallery; it will tend t
open their eyes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
Instinct in Birds.

Prof. w. K. Brooks writes it st. Mich-
olas for July: No subject connected
with the history of birds furnishes more
interesting material for study than that
of instinct. Young birds of different
species show that they have very differ
ent degrees Of instructive knowledge.
Some are able to take entire care of,
themselves, and do not need a mother to
watch over them; others, on the con-
trary, are perfectly helpless, and need
teaching before they can do any thing for
themselves, except breathe, and swallow
what is put into their mouths. The
young chicken, short time after it
leaves the egg, knows how to take care
Of itself nearly as well as does the year
old bird. 1t can run after its mother,
use its eyes, pick UP food, and answer
the call of the old hen; and it dses all
this without instruction. How different
tits in all these respects from the young
barn-swallowl Thisis blind and unable
to run, or even stand, knowing only
enough to open its mouth when it hears
the old bird return to its nest, and to
swallow the food placed in its open bill.
Far from knowing by instinct how to use
its wings, as the young chick does its
legs, it does not learn this until well
grown, and has had several lessons in fly
ing; and even then it flies badly, and
improves only after long practice. After
it mas learned to fly, it is still very help
less and baby-ike, and very different
from the active, bright-eyed, indepen-
dent little chick of the barn -yard-and,
indeed the young of all the Rasores, OF
scratching birds, such as the hen, the
quail, the partridge, the pheasant and
the turkey. 90 31i' i,i'4
The scratching birds are not the only
ones which,take care of themselves at ar
early age. This is true of the running
birds, such as the ostrich; and the same
is the case with many of the wadine
birds, such as the woodcock; and among
the swimming birds, there are severa
kinds that take full care of themselve'
soon after leaving the shell.
Far from standing in need of instruc
ton, young ducks take to the water BY
instinct, even when they have beer
brought up by hen; and they know
that they are perfectly safe upon it
although the anxious hen tries in ever,
way to restrain them and to call then
back. r
There are. many ways in which SOM
of our young birds show their reall.
wonderful instincts, but there is nothing
more curious in this respect than tn
habits of the little chickens, which mos
of us have opportunities of noticing
we choose to take trouble. These littl
creatures, almost as soon as they ar
born, understand what their mothe
"clucks to them; they know that the,
must hide when hawk is about; the,
often scratch the ground for food befor
they see their mother or any othe
chicken do SO; they are careful not t
catch bees instead of flies; and the,
show their early smartness in man,
ways which are well worth watching.
| But, sometimes, brood Of thes
youngsters find something that puzzle
them, as when they meet with a hard
shelled beetle, who looks too big to ca
and yet too small for playmate.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
The Dead Young queen.
New York Graphic.I

Many a man has felt the anguish
which the young King of Spain is suf-
fering to-day, as he mourns over the
corpse of his girl-wife; but no man, per-
haps, suffered more keenly from such a
bereavement than he is suffering. For
snce at least royal marriage had been
true love match. The Princess, Mer-
cedes was only in her eighteenth year
when, six months ago, she was married
TO her cousin, with whom, as q child,
she had always been in love. We hap
pen to know, from an American GIL
who was oneof her school companiens,
how amiaple, sweet, buoyant and low
able was the Princess, :, as regarded by
her own sex. From other sources we
know also how captivating and charm-,
ing she appeared TO masculine eyes A
more perfect creature than this young.
lady at the time of her marriage has
seldom trod this planet. Behind the
soft and sacred veil of her girhsh in
nccence and abandon, one saw the .fascine'
ating and irresistible woman, Her eyes,
soft and somewhat pensive, we're shaded
with Jet black lashes; at certain moments
flashes like lightning shone from these
mild luminaries. Her person was rather
tall, 1.-the. wellshapedi and exquisitely
developed. In repose she was charming;
in conversation or in action she was fas-
cinating. Her husband was passionately
in love with her before their marriage; /;
after the union, as sometimes happens,
/ his devotion to and admiration of her
increased with every day. She opened
to him the gates of Paradise, and the
Young pair wandered in their garden of
Eden. King Alphonso had led chaste
almost an austere life; he had studied,
travelled, read, and acquired his knowl-
edge of manly sports and of military
evOlutions, always under the eyes OF
careful, conscientious and scrupulous
tutors, who never left him. He came to
his young wife with as pure body and
perhaps as pure soul as hers; and their
union, while it lasted, was filed with
those inefable and Incompatible joys
with which love crowns youth, innocence,
health and lawful desire.
What seems to be most harsh, cruel
and disastrous fate has interposed to cut
short the charming idyl. The skill Of
physicians, the tender care Of father and
mother, the incessant watchfuness oi
the devoted husband, the prayers of the
people, and even the masses said il
every church in Madrid at every houl
in the morning, we're all unavailing, and
the poor young Queen, after few days
illness, expired in the arms of her hus
band-pressing to her lips, as one of thu
dispatches says, "a precious crucih'
containing fragment of the wood o
the true cross" which she held in he
left hand, clasping her husbands hant
in her right" So the sweet younI
Queen of Spain expired-and the hear
of her husband is crushed. Simila
tragedies happen every day; and tn
grief in the cottage is, doubtless, as grea
and as keen as it is in the palace. Blu
it can not we'll be greater.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11

JAPAN is a country where men never
get mad and smash up the furniture,
and where women and children are al
ways treated as though they were hui
man beings. Even the hod-carriers beg
pardon whenever they happen to drop
brick on each others toes, and door
locks and burglars are unknown. The
Japs are poor miserable heathen,
though, and hard to civilize.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
APHARMAcY. JAR.
rHarper,l. weeklv.l n

aWhere did you find this jug9p in
quired Mr.. Culworthy, with the sudden
animation of tone which betrays the
amateur collector. -- ...,.5.,5.t.i {.
"Ahl You have discovered my
treasure" said the artist.
A treasure indeedl Mr.. Gulworthy
had poked his inquisitive nose into a
corner of the room, where stood a pack
ing case half open, and the glistening
luster of rich colors had attracted his
eye. Without much ceremony he had
taken from the packing case the object
of his interest, which the artist owner
had pronounced his treasure.
It was fat little jug, about hand
high, with the most impertinent green
handle imaginable on one side, like an
intrusive and self-satisfed elbow. The
ground tint was of deep blue, with
scroll patterns of elaborate design in
white and yellow over the whole sur
face, and framing the cable beneath
the handle in large letters IT. DI
CARABE.
tits the maJoliea of Carvaggiola,
you know" pursued the artist, care
lessly. "Oh, yes, picked it up in
Italy last winter. Undoubtedly it is
oneof the pharmacy jars of the Medicean
f in his laboratory of the. IIf;zz; how.
ever as we MIGHT he noisoned by even
, LOOKING at il nown
Thar never was sncb q ;ollv and Of.
tract;ve little inc astbis one II actnallv
seemed to respond intelligently to the
manifest interest of MI. Culworthy as
he held IL in his hands. to wink and meek
at the worthy gentleman. AZ who sbould
say. "Don'f Won wish 7 belonged to
y5urseIf. for example g'' Mr.. Culwortby
was fascinated. speiL-bound. transported /:
the collectors fever burned afresh in
his veins.
"Where did you say YOU found this
iarT; he asked.
at is the maiolica of Caryapgiola y
returned the artist. somewhat dryly.
"Would Won part with it9, -
"No. T can affard TO keen ito
The artist was rearranoino b;s
sketches IN his nortfolio-aIl those
plimpses of Como. the Venetian bridges
and bay-boats Amalf. Sorrento RI.
nan arch. a Tuscan sunset. which repre-
sent a wear Of study and toll M CnI-
worthy had layished, no nraise on the
nictures sucb as he had bestowed nm a
ms Possibly professional nr,de had
something In do with'> the errtness, of
tbis den;sL Res;dess the artist Aid wish
tn retain his ouaint nr;ze M
CulwoTtby renIaced the iar and
soon emitted the stnd;o wh;oh h
was the artists room in . hotel o.
Geneva Once onts;de he smiled | com. ~
placentiy. These artist fellows are
usually i, need of ready money. He in.
tended to buyE that fine specimen If
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11

AMONG the Zulus, a nation of the
Caffres, according to etiquette, the
mother.in-law can not face the son-in-
law, but must hide, or pretend to hide,
when she sees him. In this country the
custom is reversed. 1t is the son-in-law
who does the lodging.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11

A party of English tourists had
lunched at the Etruscan tombs of Vol
terra, and discarded the bottle discoy-
cred later By Giovanni as an antiquity.
Mr.. Culworthy indulged in a peal Of
mirthful laughter, gave Giovanni a
franc for his trouble, and departed.
He did not write home a description
of this trip either to the Misses Cul.
worthy or the county newspaper. II
would be superfuous to add that the ja1
from Volterra has not crowned the col.
lection of Italian majolica in the
museum to which Mr.. Culworthy de
votes so much of his wealth and leisure
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11

The Philadelphia Press says that
silver is getting to be an intelerable
nuisance. Men are loaded down with it.
We make no comment Oh this, but give
the statement for what it is worth.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11

A MARRIAGE at common law is valid,
no matter what the State statutes pro-
vide. At least the United States Su.
preme Court says so.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11
EVERYDAY sPI5jERfEs.e :,

is With odors o7erfowing. 4 5Sa, 7fGi
=" Brso-d-Broo;" !" sev'orsr for Jsay,
- :. e y
11a EVERYDAY SPICEREiEESsg ael
+ i ts------ = ....,ss..s.as J.
"To Greece we give our shining
blades now that butter is only sixteen
cents a pound. - Berkshire Courier. =
The weather is favorable for man
to earn his bread by the sweat of his 5.
brow. ~ Boston Post. y 4 &C. sis {
! CHICAGO has a new directory. It is
published under the fascinating title,
Free Press. - -, ' 49, "a
THE Boston papers have nearly all
deserted Joseph Cook. They are giving
their entire attention to prize fights +
now.-Bufalo Erpress. .ss.
ID D., 5r,,;.s .u,, ,,e,,. .f;cts s,es ,,,,,t3,s,
.yni,rcs re- of ly;nc INIT hed.4;cis Ibave-,,not !.
tSs M ain of erconrag;ny hand-shakinc to !,
answer for Reu,oi idsvills Eus. I: ? y''
-. .a...s...;. e..v,-,,
uNI ol 1asPei q so9n I scese - -SS .!e
enough TO reply:s QOan Know Wne0-s
der Ize got religun or notify me wid,,
I.lS -, =. - H.. lo.s...stsss "a ~,
cnicAuhs 1,eefose M = ~ = 'ees'
IHE return o. oranges ION. tne loI7i
i9a groves elis yeaI WIN Ploye uuusu
the hottom of tbis9--G Gh;eaoo .Journozr
~ 'sS'-f {, ''s''s Z
THE great Journaiists are rapidly
dropping OF. RAYMOND bennett, Gree
10y, all nyw - y ~, 80 w. = &C.;
a.s.. nas Fl UssJ .s.J 70 y 'Ae 80 s M :.
'o~'' 4A0,o
sy,1 '--s II. 49,
mark: "When Emerson recKleSsiy Wiote
6 Every natural action ia GRACEFUL had
.o,, ~, aro,-ss s.,o,nan tbrov
stone at COW +,
SCHENECTADY is SAID 70 nave mve nun Z
dred and forty three WIDOWS lhey are {
Of the grass pattern, undouniediy, as
the place has peen gong tnas way ior
the last nfty years,-IIdnoury !N Nesos. ~
TIE pilot Of Lake Michigan pleas
ure boat is Milwaukee man, who had
his lett ear carried away IN = thusuSl
storm. ne uses ms 1.nel one ior e = uecA '"1
awning.-Anereacs DozaI.
azas assss.1s ses,,es s1ssi'sa .isss Kim Slm'
And modified his tiny lit lie system;
j@5i Then other measles followed,
And tss s ho% fi,ae haepensd Hs thst We missed
Philadelphia Ledger.
AGooD listener Enthusiastic young
lady" You are fond OF music, Col-s
1 onelp Colonel F." Musicf Aw.yes,
think ! may say l hke-aw morse OF
E-of any kind 'ScsaonerNs 3 lhonfafy'
THE BROOKLYN Union Zrous feels as
nroud as if it were Mr.. Edison. 1t has
discovered the difference between the
weather and the baby" One never
rains but it pours; the other never pains
| but it roars. ~ Buffalo Ezprsss. q is,s,i
IA ,irp1 r maid of soma eiyht or n;ns
s,,nomars nc while eating. .ice-cream ,+on a
yeranda On Cbesnut-street last evening.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-11

UNEASY rests the head that has no
tidy on the back of the rocking-chair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-14
NREEN & WISE,
" Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers.

By virtue of decree Of the Circuit Court of the
city of Alexandria, Virginia. rendered at the Sep
ts ten term 1871 In the sui. Of T: Ring against
Pany and Others, the undersigned, commissioners
therein named, win proceed on SATURDAY, the
sell by public auction, front Of the Market Build
ing, Royal street, In the said city of Alexandria
Va, the whole of the Alexandria and Fredericks.
burg Railway, extending from the southern end OF
the Long Bridge in Ais1andria county Virginia
gether with all and singular its franchises rights,
Interests, privileges, property and estate real per-
sonal and mixed, wheresOever situate and by whom.
soever held. The rolling stock of said railway con-
Four a. Locomotive Engines.
Five (5) Passenger Cars.
Two ca Combined Passenger and Baggage Cars.
Two (2) Baggage Cars.
Twenty one l2D GOndola Cars (freght.)
Terms of sale: Ten per eentum Of the purchase
money to be paid In cash, and the residue in three
equal annual payments from the day Of sale the
ferred payments to be evidenced the bonds the
purchaser bearing interest, with security satisfac
tory to said commissioners Of Sae the title to said
property to be retained until the purchase money is
fully paid the purchaser not to be let into possess
sion until the sale shall have been confirmed BY said
court. nj. II. WELLS,
FRANCIS L. SMITH, JR.,
d17-2awU Commissioners Of Sale.