The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-30

and teachers should not often be
changed.
The almanacs are good enough at
when the sun rises and sets,
but they furnish no information as to
how long a wood pile ought to last if
left out on the street after night.
Give your son a good education
and settled purposes in life, and when
he is a man he will not be content to
sit back of grocery stove and lie
about what he means to do in the
A girl at Bowling Green, Kentucky,
has sued a young mi for breach of
promise, and if successful will appro-
PIRATE the damages for the repairs of
the church she attends. A sensible
girl.
Arumor comes from Paris that bon
nets are to be worn on the head here
1t strikes us the head would
be a good place OF which to veal a
bonnet, but such a departure will look
a little odd at first.
IN. Welsh and family will soon
remove to Eaton, Ohio, where they
formerly resided. They have many
friends here who will regret their de-
parture.-KoKoMo TRIBUNE.
We welcome them back to our city.
In telling a lie it is always best to
look a mar straight in the face. Some
think you can't do this, but
with a little practice you'll find you
can, though your left eye may vince
a little.
"When tempted to kick a man."
says a Scotch philosopher, "stop and
remember that you may some day
want a favor of him." We commend
this to all, but know a particular case
where it may apply real nicely.
Rev. j. c. Deem, all old and highly
esteemed citizen of this place, died on
Tuesday evening of last week, after a
long and painful illness. He was a
kind, good-hearted old man, and was
respected by all who knew him.
If you take anew silver dollar. pour
a little muriatic acid on the figure OF
the eagle, and set in the sun for wen
ty minutes, when you come to look at
it, it will be gone. And the fellow
who took it will be gone, also.
John T. Deem & Sons are putting
into Minors corner room, IL of the
finest and best stocks of ~silverware,
oueensware and notions ever in Ea-
ton, and they will be sold at resump-
ton prices.
The Camden HERALD editor mourns
that several young ladies visiting that
village have "cutely" managed to es-
cane a notice in his weakly. Unfor-
tunate for his readers but creditable
for the girls. The business is getting
mushy.
In its chronology for 1878, the Gin
cinnati Commercial prints a list OF all
the misdeeds of clergymen reported
in the press during the last year, un'
der the head OF Clerical Franks" Il
seems that a good many OF them
pranked.
There is a State law against the car
rying of concealed weapons, with &
maximum penalty of 5000 fine ant
thirty days Imprisonment for the frs
offense, and $500 fine and $500 penal
ty for a repetition, and it ought to b'
vigorously enforced.
Two commercial travellers were late
" fined $50 each for flirting i'll Iowa
If all the commercial travellers WHIT
firt in Eaton could be fined and mad'
to pay $50 each, our city would sool
be out of debt. Let's pass an ordl
nance!
It's all very nice to talk about at
tending prayer meeting. But a nice
cosy parlor, with a sofa hardly bi:
enough for two, catches two-thirds o
the young people quicker than a pray
CIR meeting house, with q whole sea
to themselves.
A religious newspaper will go tn
round of the family circle, and stiI
look bright and clean; but when tn
family story paper makes the circui
it looks as if it had served in the ca
pacity of hustle, and been given
the baby to cut its teeth on.
William Gait an unmarried ma
living with his brother in West Alex
andria, hanged himself in a barn Il
mile south of the town, on Monda
last. Dependency the only caus
known. Coroner Stephens held a
inquest.
Why is it that the average man
trade feels that he may, with impun
ty and impudence, ask a newspap'
man all about the privacies of his bl
~siness, and yet would feel indignal
if you should question him about Il
psrest trife of his own business?
Some one says: "Hold on to you
trade dollars. Congress will NAL
them good for a full dollar" aye
but what's a fellow going to do WHIT
he hasn't any," asks some one els
Get a hold of some n elses and no
on to them.
We had a pleasant visit last we
, to Mt. Carroll Female Seminary,
q HEA HuualI III Ahonf -