The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-12
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

A FAN is indispensable to woman who
can no longer blush. Re
publican.
BoYs are near-sighted. They will yell
Just as loudly at boy playing marbles
in the same ring as at one five blocks
away.
A v1Ra1N1AN has taken much pains to
convince himself that four out of every
five murders are committed when the
wind is in the East.
THE meanest man in the country lives
in Missouri He pleaded in breach OF
Sunday night was not binding.
A KNOWLEDGE of Greek and Latin is Q
great thing in the cure of elaborate and
high priced diseases, but poultice il
the best thing for blind bile.
TIE heroine of recent novel Is quite
versatile in the crying business. In one
place the author says. ..her eyes were
| suffused with salt tears" while In an
| other he tells us that 'sher tears flowed
| fresh"
Dr.. HOLMES says that writing poetry
is not half as easy as some folks imagine.
Don't let him stuff you with any such
nonsense. It's the easiest sort of work,
and poets always get rich.-Detroit Free
Press.
A WISCONSIN, paper discussing the
question of female suffrage, thinks one
of the surest ways to cure a woman OF
the mania would be to 'force her to
baby in her armsp
COUNTRY people pity the denizens of
city who have to use lake or river water,
but when an Ohio farmer cleaned out his
well last week he fshed out two cats, a
paint keg, two old brooms, an old hat, 8
boot and dozen shingles.
Two men in Accomac County, Va,
engaged in quarrel as to whether there
were thirty or forty days in month,
and the thirty-day man had to beat the
other man within an inch of his life be-
fore he could convince him of his error.
A GREAT deal of the religion of nova
days is like that of the Boston clergyman
who was getting up petition to have q
murderer pardoned, when he discovered
that the crime had been committed on Q
Sunday. He said he couldn't stand such
depravity as thas-Sda. Francisco Post
MISS GLADDIs HoMAN, of Mapleton
Illinois, committed suicide rather thar
have to get up in the morning before she
, wanted to. This ought to show parents
how really unpleasant it is for young
folks to practice that execrable maxim
"Early to bed and early to rise, etc.
MEN sometimes say that, though theil
} lives may not be just right, their hearts
are all right. Impossiblei A farmer
} never puts the poorest apples on the tor
of his barrel, nor does the merchant
i place the meanest goods in his show
3 window. The best part of us is our out
r ward ife.-Idlnadge.
l GAMBETTA is the most rapid talkef an6
I writer among European statesmen; II
public speeches he has attimes delivered
3 one hundred and eighty words minute
and when he puts pen to paper-whici
! is rarely-he writes at the rate OF fort,
q words minute. Stenographers find
y no easy matter TO keep up with him.
!, The kind of tea that many person
q q buy is shown by the testimony of
Y Rhode Island lawsuit, In which It az
peared that shop-keeper had only on
II kind Of tea, but sold it to different cul
;, toners for various kinds and at variou
IS prices, suiting the price to the desires
70 the purchaser. His stock was hmitet
le but he wished to make it appear full
and the success with which he accon
y plished his purpose showed how lit
ie knowledge most tea-drinkers have OF tt
ID differences between one brand and qua
10 | ity and another