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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
An Electric Fire TeII-Tale.

. There are several devices for enabling
the rise of temperature accompanying
an outbreak of fire at a particular place
in a building to ring an alarm-bell by
means of an electric current. There is
the mercurial thermometer, in which the
mercury column, on expanding by the
increased temperature, makes contact
between two platinum electrodes fused
into the tube, and completes the circuit;
and there is an arrangement in which
the bimetallic spring, fixed at one end,
is free to curve under the unequal ex-
pansion of the two metals, and close a
circuit in that way. A still simpler plan
has been recently contrived by M. G.
Dupre, in which the contents of the
automatic Beys are kept apart by a piece
of suet or tallow, which on melting by
the heat allows them to come together
through the operation of a small weight
attached to the uppermost contact bar.
The tallows is not of course placed i'm
mediately between the contacts, for in
that case the fat would act as an in
s%ulator, and prevent the flow of the cur
rent. The apparatus is r~eadjusted after
an alarm by charging it with fresh tai
low.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
The ~Headrest' Abolished.

What is known as the instantaneous
process is by no means new, and I be-
ieve that the most remarkable result, in
the way of taking horses under full trot,
has been brought to its greatest perfec-
ton in California; but it has never been
widely used here until now. I saw last
night some wonderful photographs Of
men and animals in motion, which makes
a painters work easy. The new plates
are made of gelatine instead of collodion.
The gelatine covering makes SO sensitive
plate that new methods of opening and
closing the aperture of the Gamers have
had to be devised, because the hand is
too slow. A pneumatic rubber bulb is
nov used to throw up and bring down
| again a disc of black velvet placed over
| the lens Of the camera. Attached to this
bulb is q long tube, which allows the
operator to walk about the room, and
when the sitter least expects it, to get a
good picture in the fraction of a second.
Taking children is the easiest thing in
the world; it is not even necessary for
them to keep still. Out of doors the
photographer has taken horses trotting,
ships under sail, with each wave showing
as if the water had frozen at that partic-
ular second. Children at play make
capital pictures; people talking, laugh
ing, .yawning; in a word, this new pro-
cess does away with the stiff, unnatural
expression which most people put on
when in front of a camera. The new
pictures look as if the person represented
could almost talk. A sculptor, whose
terra Gotta groups arc known widely, goi
some pictures OF wrestlers from which he
could work. The athletes came and
went to wrestling without regard to the
presence of the photographer. Theil
instructions were simply to wrestle as il
in a match. The sculptor held the rub
Der bulb in his hand, and when he liked
the position that the men we're in he
squeezed the bulb and the picture was
taken. At the end of the bout he had 6
dozen excellent pictures, which could be
taken by no other process. Painters
have within tho last month had pictures
taken of cows grazing or walking, and o
pigs feeding from troughs. Photograph
ers say that the old process OF taking
pictures is doomed. This Photographic
has already sold his head-rests for ole
iron. 1t is no longer necessary to keel
stll.-NeW TLrk Letter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
Pms and

The words wit and humor are often, I
think, strangely misapplied, many per
sons using them as synonyms, whilst
they are totally different. Wit should
be quick and instantaneous like the fash
ing of gunpowder, bright and sparkling
as champagne, and alasl sharp and in
cisive as a scalpel, though its keen blade
renders it rather repellant, and, for its
keenness, it appears to me an unsafe
tool for general use.
Humor, for the most part is placid and
kindly, attractive and winning, and pours
from q warm, generous, sympathizing
heart. Wit produces upon its hearers q
sort of fascinating, though evanescent,
thrill; whilst humor calls forth q full and
hearty response from every bosom.
When they are united, and the sharp
ness of wit is softened by the gentleness
of humor, the combination becomes a
powerful weapon in the hands of a mas
ter. When thus joined in a pun the eff
feet is irresistible.
The genial, gentle Ella, he Of stroast
pig" fame, was won't to say that .'the
worst puns are the best" But how
would it apply to this? At O dinner
party, on n occasion, o wager was Of
fered hat none of the guests could make
a pun of the three choral syllables, di-
do-dum. Ben johnson, 'trare old Ben"
as his b~iographer called him, accepted
and Immediately gave this:
"when Dido found that Eneas would not come,
She wept in silence, and was Dido dumb"
Could anything be worse(?) than
Hoods reply to Campbell, who lived in
o garnet at the head of three flights Of
steep stairs, when going to visit him one
evening, after dinner, in that happy con.
dition in which he often would be at that
hour of the day? Hood had struggled
nearly to the desired height, when, max.
ing a misstep, he rolled helplessly down,
and Campbell, disturbed by the u
wonted noise, rushed out upon the land.
ing, exclaiming, "Who's that?" Hood,
nearly at the foot of the stairs, promptly
responded:
"'Tis I, sir. rolling rapidly" IA
Hood had not his superior in the de
velopment of the capabilities of our YER
nacular. One other illustration thereof
taken from. his Faithless Sally Brown.
She deserted her sailor lover Ben, who,
upon returning from q voyage and find
ing Salie the wife of some other Ben
sickened and died. Hood chronicles hi
death in this wise:
Hisdelth, which happened in his berth,
At forty-odd befel
They went out and told the sexton, and
The sexton tolled the bell.
Somewhere, in one of the old cemeter.
les, perhaps in Trinity churchyard, New
York, there lies half buried in the gray
sodden moss and dank grass, a broad
flat old slab fast c%rumbling with age, or
which is inscribed: "Here lies (wel
say John Smith, who died A. D. 1724
Aetas Q3 vears - and underneath som,
ancient wit had carved in the rudest O
character:
L long on him good mother earth, for he
Lied long enough, God knows, on thee"
And on another stone may be fount
this
Here lies the body of poor John Mound,
Who was lost at sea and never found"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
Concerning Bedrooms.

A physician was called to prescribe
for a young lady who lives IN one OF the
most charming villas in Learnedville.
Nothing the matter with her." she
declared, nothing but terrible head
aches." Every morning she walked with
q headache and it lasted nearly half the
day. 1t had been going on for months
ever since they moved into their new
house. The doctor tried all the old
remedies and they all failed. Riding
and archery were faithfully tested, study
and practice were cheerfully given up.
Nothing did any good.
Will you let me see your bedroom p
asked the doctor one day, and he was
shown up into the prettiest little nest
imaginable.
Nothing wrong about the ventilation.
The windows were high and broad, AND
were left open every night, the patient
against the wall.
Chow do you sleep?" said the doc
tor.
Son my right side, at the back of the
bed, with my face to the wall. Lou ike'
the front best"
"The dickens she does I" a Y til,
doctor, $50 do I. Will you do me TIL,
favor to wheel tnat bed into the middl,
of the room and sleep SO for o week
Then let me know about the headache.
Doctors are SO absurd? The middle
of the room, indeed And there wer,
the windows on n side, and the tive
doors on the two other sides, and tn
mantel with its Macrame lambrequin OF
the fourth side. There was no place TO
the bed but just where it stood, in tn
corner.
"Never mind I! Sacrifice your lam
brequin," urged the doctor" just for
week you know"
The lsmbrequin was sacrificed, tn,
bed moved where,i it had free air on boil
sides, and the headaches disappeared.
It may be only an exceptionally del
icate system that would be induced t
actual headache by breathing all nigh
the reflected air from a wall. Yet pos
sibly some of the morning dullness W
know of may be traceable to a like cause
At any rate, plenty of breathing spac
around a bed can only be an adyantag
to everybody.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10


I stood by the Bake Trznsmitter,"
For the telephone bell had rung,
And over the wire q sound came
As though q maiden sung
A musical tone quite familiar,
Her voice I had often heard,
For In anSwering daily telephone calls
We hs1 i~dtercnanged many 9 word.
Have you never received q letter,
And paused ere breaking thu seal,
As you thought concernln3 the tidinQ
That the contents might reveal
Dia not . longing posses you
To nov was really within.
Aud yet to avail of that knouledgs
In some such manner / tarried
At the end Of our telephone wire,
Then at last, mastering courage sufhcient,
Began at once to inquire :
Well. halloo I well, what 10 wanted Z"
Jt seemed at least all l could do;
When quick in return came the message,
"Halioo ! well, hallJo, Who are you 7"
"why, 1 am 'forty-eight'" I responded,
you called only = moment or two"
"sForty-eight,'" she repeated In answer,
"Well, surely / don't wish for you.n
1 was giving my telephone number,
Asfound on the company's page.
But Ifear, from her hasty answer,
She thought I was giving my age.
Alas. that the blow came % sudden;
received Il b~ewildered, alone
As the consciousness daWned there upon me,
Rejected by telephone.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
A Lecture on Oyster Opening.

There is a Frenchman who has lived
in New York for twenty-six years who
is loud in his complaints of the bar
barous ann in which oyster-openers
in this country do their work. He says
"The way to open an oyster 80 as to
saw all the liquor, which, to connois-
seurs is a valuable part, is not to smash
it and murder it, as most of your oyster
openers do, nor to stab it, al they do in
Boston, Baltimore, Washington and
other places. And then your oyster
openers always lay out the oyster on the
fiat or convex shell, 80 that by the time
your plate of raw on the half SHELF
comes to you what little juice that was
not spilled in the slaughtering has all
run away. The live oyster opens and
closes its shell at will by mean of q
tough little membrane, or 'hinge,'
about a quarter or O third of an inch in
length. This hinge is at the small or
narrow end Of the oyster. It follows
that all that is needed to be done to sep
arate the two shells, whether the oyster
is alive or dead, is to sever this little
hinge. It is invisible when the shells
are closed, but those who understand
the business land any n can learn it in
five minutes) know exactly how and
where to find it." He contends that q
man working in the proper way can
open two oysters while another man is
pursuing his barbarous practice with
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PEFToNIzED BEEF Tonic, th,
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and DEMONSTRATING prop
critics; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
%tration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
well, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
The Match Tax.

The cent-a-bunch tax on matches
Yields the Government a daily income of
nearly $40, 900. Any one who desires
can figure from this, approximately, how
many matches are used per day. On
the insignificant little bunch of matches
is levied by far the heaviest tax known
to civilized governments. Your grocer
will charge SO cents for a quarter gross
package. Of this sum 36 cents stands
for the tax of a penny a bunch, while
Il cents represents the first cost and the
manufacturers, iobbef's and retailers
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

WI do not often speak of any proprietary
medicine, but from what we have read and
heard of Aliens Lung Balsam, We shall take
the liberty-of saying to those who are troubled
: with a Cold, Cough, or any Throat or Lung AZ
lection, that from the testimony afforded, we
have such confidence in this article, that were
we afflicted in that way, we would make a trial
Of its virtues. Beware of the fatal consequent
ces Of neglecting this timely warning. Now,
before it is too late, use Aliens Lung Balsam,
/ which will cure the disease. Every druggist in
the land sells it. ,yffrps-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
HeaYenlY Bliss.

CANCELS, my dear children" said a
Galveston Sunday-school teacher, medi-
~tatively, care disembodied spirits"
"Does that mean they don't have any
bodies2 ?" asked Johnny.
"Angels have no bodies, replied the
teacher, emphatically.
Sand will pa and ma be there, too?"
Certainly"
"Then they won't have nc use for me
there if I haven't got a body for them to
spank and he took to munching an
apple he had picked up on o fruit stand
when the proprietor was looking the
other way.-GdiUe8tOn Ne1Os.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
King and SchooI.Master.

George III. is said to have related
with great gusto o tale of a Scotch
school-master who accompanied him to
the door of the school-room with his hat
on, and when outside the door he said to
the uncovered monarch, who, by the
way, was then only Prince of Wales /:
"You will not think me wanting in
courtesy, I hope, but the fact is this
that if the boys thought there was any
one else as important as myself, Ishonld
never get any obedience again. Bel.
0raViG.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
Il Neema ImpoaaibIe

That a remedy made Of such common, simple
plants as Hops, 'Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion,
&C., should make so many and such marvellous
and wonderful cures as Hop Bitters do, but
Doctor, Lawyer and Editor, all testify to hay
ing been cured by them, you must believe and
try them yourself, and doubt no longer, Gee
other column,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
Garry the News

Mr.. John E~tzensperger, manufacturing
Jeweler, of North Attleboro', Mass,
lately communicated to us the following:
I suffered SO much with pains in my arm,
that at times I was completely helpless.
I used that Incompatible remedy St.
Jacobs Oil and was completely cured az
If by magic.-Ahle6oro Chronicle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
From the household

Pres FooT CHEESE. Boil the hooks
and feet of equal quantity loose in a pot
till the meat will fall freely from the
bones; season well with pepper and salt;
put into a pan while hot and press it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

The most wonderful and marvellous success,
in cases where persons are sick or pining away
from q condition of miserableness, that no one
knows.what ails them, (proftable patients for
DOCTORS is obtained by the use of Hop Bitters.
They begin to cure from the first dose. and
keep it up until perfect health and strength is
restored. Whoever is afflicted in this way need
not suffer, when they can get Hop Bitters. See
Truths" and Proverbs" in another column,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

I LAVE q little girl, said Mr.. Henry
Dole, of this city, in a conversation, who
was troubled with a severe lameness in
her legs, pronounced by some Erysipelas,
by others rheumatism. I had tried
several remedies without effect, when I
was induced to apply st. Jacobs Oil and
L am happyto say that the use of but one
bottle cured her, and she is now able to
go to- school again.-Detroit Post. and
Tribune. a.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

SCARCELY has the warm breath of summer
died away, when Coughs and Colds, those avant
~couriers of dangerous disease show themselves.
DIR. Bulrs Cough Syrup always cures them, and
most quickly, too.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

EVERY man has three characters; that
which he exhibits, that which he has,
and that which he thinks he has.-A.
Ko,1-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

ToOdIcA Always Kept = Comm
In his house.. Had he lived now he would have
kept Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

IT does not improve a potato to have
specks on its eyes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

If we should leave out Of conversation
scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity
what silence.-Mme. Bache.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
As AN Ex2EcToRANT IT HAS NO EQUAL.
IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM in ANY FORM.

For all Diseases of TN I. throat, LunEs and
Ptiinnarary srgaus. ft Will be found n
most excellent kemcry
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

DR.. J. B. TURNER, Brownsville, Ala, a practicing
physician of twenty five years, writes: fIt is the best
preparation for Consumption in the world"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10

>. N. HARRIS & CO., Proprietors,
>NATI. o.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

CALIFORNIA may boast the biggest
lawsuit on record at present. There is
now pending in the superior. court OF
San Francisco. a suit on behalf of the
stockholders of the Consolidated Min
ing Company against James G. Flood,
John w. Mackay, James G. Fair and
the executors of the late William S.
OBrien, to recover $40, 9,6OS, the
value Of stocks which it is claimed the
defendants have illegally issued to them
selves. This, however, is only side IS
sue in the case, for there is another suit
soon to be brought to trial to recover
s26, ,O15,O 900, claimed to have been real
ned by the defendants in milling the
ores of the company under contracts
which they made with themselves
while trustees Of the company; and
still another suit involves Sc, ,499, 400 fol-
illegal profits realized in refining and
selling the building of the company
and in furnishing lumber and other
supplies to the company upon contracts
made with themselves as trustees
The total amount involved in these
cases, known as the Bonanza suits, i
So, ,944, ,06S-a sum worth litigatine
about. AS the defendants did not form
their ring to control this gigantic cor
poration until 1872. some idea of the
immense profits Of the concern per an
mum may be inferred.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03

attacked by smallpox, was deserted by
her parents, and had only the attention OF
a loving brother for two days, when death
came to her relief.
BESSIE ADAMS, who has for several years
been employed in the family of w. d
Cooper. Of Indianapolis, as domestic, re-
ceived notice of dismissal for presuminc
upon her position. Arrayng herself ir
her best clothing, she coolly sent Il bullet
through her brain.
THE grand jury at Columbia, S. c., ha:
indicted +. B. C.. Cash for the murder OF
William Shannon in duel. The slargh
ter Of Shannon was one Of the worst ir
the annals of the code, and the verdict ir
the case is awaited with anxiety by intiu
ential South Carolinians who have at
tempted to suppress dueling.
AT indianapolis on the 90 of Feb. while
a deputy sheriff in charge of Chill Sulli
van and Frank Whiting two boys sen.
fenced to the house of refuge, was walk
ing towards the depot crowd ofSullivan's
friends, all juveniles, made "a rush t(
rescue the prisones, who were handcutfel
together. In the confusion Sullivan
slipped the cuffs and escaped. Whiting
belabored the officer with his iron wristlet:
cutting him severely about the head, bu
was finally knocked down and overpower
ed. Young Whiting and Sullivan are
tough citizens, and this is the third es
cape for the latter within the past ter
days.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
VOL. VI
late REPORTS.
A Summary Of Latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.

THE Kansas senate has defeated the
female suffrage resolution.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH will in March
become editor of the atlantic Monthly.
THE Denver council has accepted 4
proposition for lighting the entire city by
electricity, at 100000 per annum.
A COMPANY of Philadelphians has un-
dertaken to reclaim the Everg ladies' Of
Florida by constructing canals.
As the result Of surgical operation for
hemorrhoids, William ii: Vanderbilt has
for ten davs been confined TO his house.
TWENrY-s1x members of the produce
exchange of Boston went IN SPECIAL car
to attend dairymen's conventions IN Iowa.
ANOhio legislator proposes that wife
beaters shall " gwen not less than twen-
ty-fiye laskes on the bare back, we'll laid
on.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has issued a call
for $25, ,OOO, ,OGO in per cents OF 1881, on
which principal and accrued interest will
be paid after May2l.
A Boston company has purchased tor
S4OO, 600 the Dolly Warden mining prop
erty, at Alma Col, which embraces 100
acres of patented ground.
CHARLES IBACH, of indianapolis, is un-
dergoing terrible suffering from trlchlnla-
sis. Being employed in packing house.
he was in the habit of lunching on bits OF
pork but partially cooked.
TwENTY-EIGnT trade societies were rep
resented at workingmen's rally in Gin
cinnati, on the 22nd of Feb. There are in
dications of serious trouble in the shops
and foundries of that city.
THE formal presentation Of the obelisk
to the city OF New York will take place on
Washington's birthday. Secretary Evarts
will be the orator of the day, and Iheo-
dore Thomas will lead the music.
In pigeon-shoot at the Brooklyn driv-
ing park, between DR.. 7. Talbot, of New
York, and j. y Brewer, cf Hammerton,
n. j., the latter killed ninety-siX birds out
of one hundred. This is the best amateur
score on record
THE secretar of state of Wisconsin has
issued certifo&te of incorporation to the
Lake SuperiOrs and Southeastern road,
which proposes to build line from Su-
perior City to hau Claire, and thence to
either La Crosse or the mouth of the Chip
pewa river. The incorporates are we'll
known residents jof the Chippewa valley.
CATTLE-RMsEk rs are unanimous in the
belief that the Ieverity of the winter has
had a marked elect from the Rio Grande
to the British boundary. Some Nebraska
herdsmen predlstFa loss of % to 30 per
cent, with still 9reater damage unless
there shall soon be n marked rise in tenn
perature. About 10000 Texas cattle are
wintering in Indian territory.