The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-02-19
JorTISes AND CLIPPINGS.

JVI1lNGS AND
A GIRL may smile and smile and be
unwilling sill.
Norman cares to have his worth under
rated except by the tax assessors.
THE total debt of France, national
and local, is estimated at 5000, 000, 600.
THERE has been no issue OF silver five
cent and copper two cent pieces since
1872.
GROWN from the New Orleans Plea
yune: Gin q way of his own it is the
smooth bore that rifles your pockets"
BosToN will be $50 years old in Sep
TENDER next. Her culture is a growth
Of a thousand years-and perfection is
not reached yet.
Observation-Disclosures gospel to a FAM
lily that are hungry will do more to
pocketful of New Testaments.-Ihe Col
den Rale.
GEESE are raised for their feathers in
Texas. One goose rancho in Western
Texas has three hundred geese, whose
feathers are plucked every two months,
each averaging a pound and a half q
year.
Iowa has ninety-fve lakes, covering
an area of sixty-two thousand acres.
Should these lakes dry up, as some OF
them are doing, the land will belong to
the Government.
EUREKA, New, boasts Of a one-armed
man who makes a living by chopping
wood. The fellow is a good chopper,
and wields his axe with as much dexter.
ity as the best woodman in the country
THE telephone is only about two year.
old, but some of the jokes about it sound
as though they were ragged when the
pyramids were young. = Burlington
HaUkeye.
WILLIAM w. AsToR, who owns twenty
thousand houses in New York City, anc
an income of $500, 900 a year, is tn,
smallest man in the New York Senate
He shows a studious devotion to his bust
ness.
THE editors of Scribner's Magazine arr
said to have on hand manuscripts TO,
which $15,172.55 have been paid, ant
the editors of 81. Nicholas manuscript
for which 49, 45 have been paid.
THERE are about 300, 900 head of cat
tie in California and 5000, 900 sheep
This stock breeding was begun in 176!
bySpanish friars at San Diego, who wen
there from Lower California with 20t
head of cattle and 100 sheep, besides
few horses and some hogs.
Mr.. FRoUDE, the historian, to til,
members of the Edinburg Philosophi
cal Institution: eve have Just beef
killing about 10000 people in Soutl
Africa-people who had done us N
harm. We only feared that perhaps the,
might do us harm"
The Ponca Indian, Woodworker, sSy
ne has never see q gray-haired 1ndial
in his life. There are men in his trib
over ninety years old and their hair j
jet black, and bald heads are never seel
among the red men.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany are about to erect a fine buildin
at Baltimore, which will be occupied b
the officers of the company. 1t vii
have a front of about 80 feet by Is
feet deep, and five stories high. 1t vii
be built of marble and will cost $3.50,
600.
THERE are three hundred and eight
theatres in the United States, and NOR
building. And churches are building 8
the same rate. The devil is workin
hard to keep pace with the times. Yo'
can take this either way. It is a regula
double header, as it were.-Jersey Cit
journal.
THE -PrincesssWinnemucca, after tel
ing a Nevada audience of the wron
that the white nan had done by intro
ducing firewater among her people
gave a practical example of its effects b
getting drunk. This is the Indian ide
Of object teaching.
On the 18th of December two convict
in the Jail at Teresina, Brazil, fought
duel with knives, in the dark, havin
purposely extinguished the light to pr,
vent the interference of the other col
victs, who hoisted themselves by th
window gratings to get themselves out {
danger. When the guard arrived bot
men we're found riddled with stabs an
dead.
SOME modern model definitions: R
morse-the pillory OF the past. Coz
science burr in the bosom. Voice
the bellman of brain. Ear-the sent
mel of sound. Eyelid-the drop seer
of death. Time-the plaything of Il
prodigal. Sneer-a lancer in the lip Sc
vice. Nun-a dried fruit of divlnit
Laugn-an exclusive possession of Il
animal man. Sorrow makes wrinkles
dimples.
MAKING announcements from the pu
pit has become an integral part of Il
morning and evening service in mar
churches. 1t is a convenient method
communicating a fact to hundreds
, people, but a preacher in Sharon said I
did not propose to turn his pulpit into
bulletin board, as there were three new
papers in the town, and in accordan'
with that declaration refused to give o,
the notices handed to him by the sexto
THE railroads are making the QUITO
the-way lands of New Mexico about
well known as the belt Of Territori
that run straight across to San Fra
cisco. When Gen. Kearney's army brol
its way from Las Vegas to Santa Fe,
! l846-a distance of 1000 miles-a sta
|, coach line was established on the line
march. Gradually the 1000 mil
shortened as the railroads were put dow
, and on the morning of January 25 Il
last of the coaches passed over the rout
, having only fifteen miles to go.