The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-02-27
EVERYDAY spICERIEs.

EVERYDAY SPICERIES.
NEW YORK has q rife association.
Are they savings bank directors9
A CLASSICAL man in Venice, Ill, has
christened his cat "Ohello, the emewer of
Venice"
HAVE the courage to speak your
mind when it is necessary to do 80, and
hold your tongue when it is prudent
that you should do SO.
The object of all ambition should be
to be happy at home. Ii we are not
happy there, we cannot be happy else
where.
How many men there are who think
they are making themselves popular,
when they are making themselves
ridiculous.
WHAT difference between ciyilities
and acts of real friendship; how easy to
obtain the former, and at times how
hard to get the latter.
TRuTHFULNEss is q corner stone In
character, and if it be not firmly laidin
youth there will always be a weak spot
in the foundation.
The undertaken smiled serene. Be-
cause he knew she would aspire. 10
light with blazing kerosene. The slow,
delinquent kitchen fire.
AROUND this section the tramps have
already begun to palm themselves of as
Afghan sufferers, drivenaway from their
homes by the British army.-Phitddes-
phia Chronicle Herald.
THESE are terrible hard times. It is
an actual fact that there are IN Phlla-
delphia several families toe poor to pay
three dollars for an opera ticket
Chronicle.
ONE of the meanest things on earth Is
| to get mans signature to q petition to
open lateral sewer and then use his
name to certify to the virtues of some
ones cough syrup.-Detroit Free Press
The jackson (Miss.) Cornet remarks
sententiously that there cannot be too
much gratitude to the North and West
for aid given the yellow fever sufferers,
but there can be far too much poetry
on the subject.
Ir is all very we'll to talk about
economy. but the difficulty is to get any
thing to economic. The little baby
who puts his toes in his mouth is almost
the only person who in these times man.
ages to make both ends meet.
"MY dearest Maria, wrote recently
married husband to his wife. She wrote
back: sDearest, let me correct either
your grammar or your morals. You adj
dress me, my dearest Maria" Am /
to suppose you have other dear MariasT
/ A MAN at Vandalia, ILL.,, has taken
out writ to repleVin his arm, which is
i in the possession Of the doctor who am
| putated it. He desires to INTRODUCES 1t
in evidence in an action to recover dam
ages for alleged malpractice.
4 KING GEoRGE III had fancy,
amounting almost to a mania, for apple
dumplings. The two fons of the Prince
of Wales, who are being made sailors Of,
have crayings-Victor for lump sugar
and George for nutmegs.
A YOUNG Chinaman at the Andover
(Mass.) Academy is in trouble. Being
backward in his studies the school fac
ulty notified the Chinese government,
by whom he is being educated, when
. | DdCk Calls tuc Icply LCnN ILL AAo-AAS1
and we will behead him."
IT must be very comforting to those
, who doubt the colored mans aptitude
| for the higher culchah to know that the
, little niggers have taken to reading dime
novels and have become infatuated with
the desire to 20 West and scalp Indians.
, -New York Commercial.
"THE fact is my papa did not know
what to do with the men, and so he had
them poisoned" the son of Moorish
, officer told an English consul who wished
to know what had become of two visitors
J of whom the official was rather jealous
and who had disappeared mysteriously.
: Color your meerschaums and color them care
Earnestly, longing y. hopefully, prayerfully,
. | All the day long smoking pipes without number,
. Lessening for this the hours given to slumber.
!. | See as you smoke, the tobacco-flled chamber,
Llly-white clay changing to amber;
Wife may complain, but in peariy smoke drown
her.
a Lo, the good bowl, 1t grows browner and browner
Q A CALIFORNIA paper, in an article
, headed /" Pacific Slope Items" contains
). three murders, seven desperate encoun'
b ters with reyolvers, three stage coach
J. robberies, two cases of arson, and five
0 of wives sIope-ing from their husbands
f Now, If all these things are called pacific
b what do they do out there when they
l. get mads
t A BOY, after hearing Wendell
+ Phillips lecture, asked his father: Pa
Q why don't they give him an officef Hs
IS seems to know all about everything
II /" He can make more lecturing," said thu
:, father, absent-mindedly. This was thu
II youths first lesson in patriotism.- =
> Rochester Express
+ JUDGE" LOCKWOOD, of Washing
q ton, is evidently not student Of human
: nature. She placed flowers upon th,
u desks of Senator'S who procured her ad
mission to the barof the Supreme Court
She ought to have presented them witt
= cork.screws.-Now York Commercia
Advertiser.
: THE pedestrian fever has broken ou
It terribly in the Bowery, and the Ne,
ar York Times states that nothing short Q
n the total annihilation of one or two o
h the more prominent walkers, and rigi
,r quarantine of the infected region, ca
,r prevent the rapid spreading of tn
Is disease.
D. SHE figured up: "Two cans at 2
it cents, 40 0cents-that is $50 oysters mill
is butter and sundries, 81 50-that il. Is
N stews; at 25 cents will be $40. A ne
80 profit of over $a5." Then she smile
If sweetly, and the oyster-man knew tha
If she was the refreshment committee {
the Church festival.