The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-19

lent life. Go to work.
Printers can live on wind, beans and
promises, and wear one shirt two weeks,
but they dislike to be lied about, as much
as anybody else, all the m
We are paying the highest cash price
for Wool, at the Mammoth.
The following conundrum is expressly
for married men-why does your wife's
spring bonnet resemble a snipe? Do you
give it up? Because it's nearly all bill.
Lookout for your doors and windows
when you retire these beautiful evenings.
Pedestrians with no visible means of sup
port will soon be abroad in the land.
The latest social instrument of torture
is the autograph fan, a fan of pure white
parchment on which the ladies ask cele-
brities and nonenities to write something.
Carpets, cheap and good, at the Mann
moth. 3a 7 .
"Ohl the styles arc just elegant, and
so MUCH lower in price than any other
place." The lady was speaking of the
stock of embroideries at the Mammoth.
Old women who get together and make
light remarks about their neighbors for
the purpose of iniuring them, would be
better employed studying the Lords
Prayer. b5a4e9a
How changeful is the mind of man,
Not satisfied two days together;
He curses when too cold to fan,
And when It's warm, still damns the
yH= weather. za}cs;a e asiu
New goods this week at the Mammoth.
LosT-Near Jeferson's grocery, on
Saturday evening last, agold ring with
the initials F. o. F. z. on il. The
finder will be rewarded by leaving it at
the DEMOCRAT office.
WANTED.-Two boarders, at Mrs.
Beall's, three doors north Of city Hall.
The bed-bug killing season is in full
blast. Owing to the past severe winter
the crop is not as large as usual, though
the stock offered is in as good condition
and robust as ever.
Shade and fruit trees setaround house
will enhance the value of property from
two hundred to one thousand dollars.
People in town and country should set
out trees.
Ninety degrees ought to be the conso-
lation of the man who grumbled about
the long winter-but it amt. He grum-
bles just as hard as eve and signs for
the t'irst cold snap
John Harris celebrated "Dock" can be
found at the stable of David Oxer, in Ea-
ton, until the LIST of July next. [a2S-2m
This is the season of the year when the
farmer tells his son John that if he will
sort ten bushels OF potatoes, feed the
stock, repair that fence, and re-shingle
the corn-crib, he may have the rest of
the day to go fishing.
Gossips destroy character by their sly
inuendoes, not by an open attack upon
the reputation of their intended victim.
A bold assault would exhibit the design
and intention, while a covert attack con-
ceals the result sought to be obtained.
Largest, best and cheapest stock of
fringes, satins and silk trimmings at the
Mammoth.
We notice from our exchanges that
quite a number of dogs have been dis
covered to be mad, and as a consequence
they were destroyed 1t would.be well
for everybody to keep an eye on Their
dogs, in order to guard against the ter
rors of hydrophobia.
Every well-regulated family will now
shut up the hens. Their burrowing in
neighbors' gardens is about as objec.
tionable as the work of a small drove Of
city protected pigs under similar cirenm.
stances. Therefore. in the interest O.
protecting good, neighborly feeling, shut
up the hens.
The reports from wheat in Ohio are ex.
~cellent, there being an unusually large
acreage in seed, with encouraging pros,
poets, Tobacco is also said to be adj
vancing finely, and while peaches are
thought be damaged severely, all othel
fruit is u~ninjured. The same state of at
fairs practically exists in other adjoinin.
States, and, o. the whole, showing there
is no a to fear but that there will b.
about the usual crop yields Throughout
the country.
THE hLusTR&TED SCIENTIFIC News 10,
May is before us, looking handsomer, i
possible, than any of the preceding is
sues. Sinceits change of publishers las
January, this magazine has improves
with each succeeding number. The pres
ent issue of the ILLUSTRATED ScIENT1F1,
NEWS is overlooking with handsome en-
cravings and interesting and i~nstructiv
matter. Among the Various subjects il
Illustrated in this issue is a superb speci
men of cut glass ware ; an exhaustive ar
ticle on asphaltum and its use in street
and paEements; a new and ~ingeniou
hand7ear, shown in operation; a ne1
steel steamer for use in shallow rivers
the new Jobert telescope, and an intel
esting paper on physics without appars
tus, also fully illustrated. Every numbe
contains thirty-two pages full Of engra1
ings of novelties in science and the use
full arts. To be had of all news dealers
or by mail of the publishers, MUM
Co., 81 Park Row, New York, at SIS
per annum; single copies 15 cents.
No store in the State can show a bette
assortment of ladies', gents and chile
ren's summer gloves than the Mammoth
The District Court, while holding {
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