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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
Soothing Repose.

Theday emphatically belongs to earth;
we yield it without reluctance to care
and labor. We toll, we drudge, we pant,
we play the hack-horse /; we do things
smilingly from which we recoil in secret;
we pass by sweet spots and rare faces
that u very heart yearns for, without
b%etraying the effect it costs; and thus
we drag through the twelve long hours,
disguised almost, but gladdened withal,
that the mask will have an end, and the
tedious game be over, and our visor and
our weapons are laid aside. But the
night brings freedom and repose; its in
iuence falls cody and gratefully upon
the mind as well as the body and when
drops the extinguisher upon the light
which giimmers upon the round, un-
touched pillow. we, at the same time,
put out a world of care and perplexities.
Leigh Hunt says: "It is a delicious
moment certainly, that of being well
nestled in bed, and feeling that you
shall drop gently to sleep. The good is
to come, not past the limbs have just
been tired enough to render the remain
ing in one posture delightful the labor
of the day is done. A gentle failure of
the perceptions comes creeping over one /;
the spirit of consciousness disengages
itself more and more, with slow and
hushing degrees, like a mother detaching
her hand from her sleeping child (; the
mind seems to have a balmy lid over it,
like the eye ; tits closing-more closing
tits closed. The mysterious spirit has
gone to make its airy rounds"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
The Rnssian Peasants.

The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Standard gives some illus
trations of the peculiar ideas at present
agitating the minds of peasants in the
interior of Russia. He says: In n
province the peasants went in a body to
a large landowner and informed him
that his land would shortly be divided
among them. The proprietor induced
several Of the chief men to go with him
to a neighboring town in order to dis
cuss the matter further, and on arrival
there the peasants were taken to the po-
lice station, and there treated to a round
number of strokes with a rod. They
were then allowed to go home. and no
doubt succeeded in convincing their
comrades that the idea of a speedy re-
distribution of lands was a mistaken one.
In another province the peasants in
formed their employer, a large proprie
tor of land and manufactures, that they
had received q ukase from the Gar, or
dering them to wreck his property. The
employer asked and obtained two days
grace, and meantime he informed the
authorities. The peasants were made
to produce the ukase, which proved to
be forged, and, after being impressed
with the falsity of the order, the peas.
ants were allowed to dispense. From
the above and many other instances, il
seems clear that the revolutionists are
not idle In turning the times to account
by raising false hopes in the minds o.
the ignorant masses.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
Paper Making.

The most ancient form of paper known
was made from the papyrus seed. The
inner cuticle of the stalk was separated
into thin layers by ii sharp point, the
slips laid side by side and covered by
another layer placed at right angles,
made to adhere by pressure and then
dried. The sheets were afterward beaten
smooth with a mallet and polished with a
piece of shell or ivory. Parchment and
vellum-dressed skins-began to be used
in place of papyrus in the seventh CEN
fury, and shortly after the art of making
paper from vegetable fibre was introduced
into Europe from China. It was made
from cotton. The Spaniards appear to
be the first to use rags for its manufac-
ture, and the Oldest specimen of linen
paper having a date is a treaty between
the kings of Aragon and CASTLE in 1177.
The Germans attempted the use of straw
in 1756. Paper has been made of many
different substances-potato vines, grass,
bark, oakum, silk, tobacco, thistles, will
low, cork, corn-stalks, Eastwood aud ban
tam being only a small part of the list.
The first paper-mill in America was es-
tablished in 1890, nea Philadelphia.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

SOME MEXICAN STATISTICS.
ANeiRhboring Republic OF which We
Know Little.

know Little.
Mexico is q Federal republic, COM
prising twenty-seven States, one Terri
tory and n Federal district, that of the
capital. The total area is 741, 313 square
miles, with a population of 10, 600, 600.
This population is classified, each race
and mixed grade having its own sepa-
rate name and special status. The pure
races are classed under three Spanish
names, as white, Indian and negro. The
various race mixtures furnish the Mexi-
cans with twenty-one separately-named
grades. There are about so, 900 foreign
whites, LOCO, 900 native whites or Gre
oles, 5000, 600 Indians, and the balance
are mixed races, with a few pure me-
groes. One-tenth of the Mexican nation,
occupying chiefly the table lands, and
residing mostly in the cities, own nearly
all the developed mines, lands and other
property. The remaining nine-tenths
are the laboring classes.
With the most favorable results it
must be years before the railroad COM
panies shall reap their full reward, yet
it is not impossible if no financial de-
preston shall interfere, and provided
the Mexican Government proves able to
meet its subsidy promises, that such
roads as shall be economically built and
honestly managed may at least pay ex.
penses from the beginning. In this con-
nection is worth noting the population
of the leading cities to be connected by
each road.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
Didn't Happen to Know Her.

While old Skidmore was passing
through the cemetery he came to what
was evidently a new inclosure, over the
railing of which a bald-headed man was
leaning and gazing with what might be
called lively resignation at a simple mar
BILE slab in the center. This stone bore
the somewhat curt inscription : "Here
lies Jane B. Diffey, aged forty-one."
Relative of yours ?" said old S., paus-
ing sympathetically. "Wife," explained
the widower, with a beaming smile /;
"got her under yesterday week at 4:15
p. M" Skidmore was Disguised at the
mans che~erfulness, SO he said "Well,
if it was my wife seems to me I'd put
more of an inscription over her than
that. A trunk label would contain more
information than that stone" "Dare
say, dare say" replied the surviving
Difey, "but-you don't happen to
know Mrs. D., I reckon, Ell ?" "Had
not the pleasure" Pleasure ! great
scott Well, if you had known her
you'd understand how / feel about
the matter. My friend, the chisel
won't do her any good" And with a
smile like ON electric light ia a fog, the
hereaved party unbuttoned his ulster
and made a break for a passing car
San Francisco Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

TIE weight of an average male adult
is lao pounds.
TIE average man measures about five
feet three and one-half inches.
THE human skeleton consists of more
than 200 distinct bones.
TIE carcharodon (shark), the fore
father of the man-eater of to-day, was
from 100 to 15O feet in length. A good
sized horse and cart could have been
driven into its mouth.
The female spider spins the webs; the
male is a wanderer. In nine cases out
of ten the female eats her husband up.
Eleven skeletons have been found in
n madame's "back yard"
EVERY adult man has 1 400 sauare feet
OF lungs ; or, rather, the mucous mem
brane lining the air-cells of his lungs, if
spread upon a smooth, plane surface,
would cover an extent Of 1,400 square
feet.
ROMAN gladiators received sometimes
as much as s., 900 per year by the sale
of the mixture of oil and sweat, called
strigamenta, which was scraped from
their bodies after their contests. This
mixture was made into pills, which were
sold as a tonic for endowing strength
and prolonging life.
THEMIsTooLEs could call by their
names the 20, 600 citizens of Athens.
Cyrus Is reported to have known the
name of every soldier in. his army. Hor-
tensius (after Cicero, the greatest orator
of Rome), after sitting O whole day at a
public sale, correctly enunciated from
memory all the things sold, their prices
and the names of their purchasers.
THERE was once a. curious saying in
England, when once hempe is spun,
England is DONE" which became. a
prophecy fulfilled when James !. as
cended the throne by the death of those
sovereigns whose initials spelled the IA
tai word, Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip
(Mary's Spanish husband), Elizabeth.
England was done" then, since James
of Scotland was King.
WRITER'S on natural history describe a
hideous reptile known as the fishing
frog, which angles for its game as ex
pertly and with as great success as the
most ad1oit fy-fsher. He is a clumsy,
awkward swimmer, but nature has COM
pensated him for his unwieldiness by
furnishing him with an equivalent for a
rod and line, with bait always ready for
use. Two elongated tentacles spring
from his nose, which taper away like
actual fishing rods. To the end of them
is attached by a slender flament, which
serves the purpose of a line, a bait in the
form of a shiny bit of membrane. The
hooks are set in the mouth of the fisher.
man down below, and in order to induce
the fish to venture within reach OF them
the angler stirs up the mud at the bot.
tom with his fins and tail. This attracts
the fish, and conceals him from Their
observation. He then plies his rod the
glittering bait glows in the water like g
living insect. The dazed fish are taken
in great numbers, perfectly circumvent.
ed by the trick of the crafty angler.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
IOaing.

Does the young man who persists in
being a loafer ever reflect how much less
j. would costto be a decent, respectable
man? Does he imagine that loaferism
is more economical than gentility? Any
body al be a gentleman, if he chooses
to be, without much cost, but it is mighty
expensive being a loafer. 1t costs time,
in the first place, days, weeks and months
of it; intact, about all the time he has,
for no man can be a first-class loafer with
out d~evoting his whole time to it. The
occupation. well followed, hardly affords
time for eating, sleeping, dr. we
had almost said drinking, but on refec-
ton we will except that. The loafer
finds time to drink whenever invited, at
the cost OF friends. Once fully embarked
on the sea of loaferdom, and you bid
farewell to every friendly sail hat sails
under an honest and legitimate flag.
Your consorts will only be the bucca-
neers of society. 1t costs money, for,
though the loafer may not earn a cent
or have n for months, the time lost
might have procured him much money,
if devoted to industry instead of sIoth
It costs health, vigor, comfort, all the
true pleasures of living, honor, dignity,
self-respect, and the respect of the world
when living, and, finally, all right of con-
sideration when dead. Be a gentleman,
then ; it is far cheaper.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
MExIoaN cENrRAI-LENerH, 1880 MILLS.

Of these, Tampico and Minatitlan are
Atlantic, coast towns, and Guaymas,
Alfalfa, San Bias, Manzanillo and Te-
hauntepec are on the Pacific coast. The
others in the interior are with few ex-
captions at an elevation of from 1000
to 1000 feet above the sea, and enjoy a
which accounts in part for their greater
population. The mineral wealth of
Mexico is generally estimated at greater
than that of any other country. Since
the Spanish conquest, 300 years ago, the
only large Mexican exports have been
gold and silver. About 5000 mines
have been developed, and some that
were worked by the Aztecs, before the
days of Cortez, are still yielding rich re-
turns to their English and German own
ers. Rich mines exist throughout nearly
the entire length of the country, and
quite two-thirds of its breadth among
the CordiIlera valleys, table-lands and
spurs or ridges. In fact, it is the mines
that have built the ancient inland cities
of Mexico, and IN nearly every city
there is a Government mint. In har-
bors and rivers Mexico is wanting.
With the single exception of Guaymas,
there is not a decent harbor on either
coast, and there is no navigable river.
Americans will find this picturesque
neighbor of ours well worth closer ac-
quaintance, and there is little doubt
that, with the completion of these roads,
there will be a very large crowd of WIS.,
itors to that country, many Of whom
will go to stay.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
fFrom he H~ousshold.I

To REMOVE RUsT FROM A STovEPRE.
Rub with inseed oil "a little goes a
great way); build a slow fire till tits dry.
Oil in the spring to prevent it from rust
ing
To CLEAN BRAss.-Immerse or wash
it several times in sour milk or whey.
This viii brighten it without securing.
It. may then be secured with q WOODEN
cloth dipped in ashes.
To PRESERVE Eaas.-Take a patent
pailful of spring water, pour it into q
stone jar, take one pound of lime, n
pint of salt; let it stand for three days,
stir it every day, then pour it off and put
in your eggs.
To REMOVE Ink STAINS FROM PRINTED
BooKa-Procure q pennyworth OF oxalic
acid, which dissolve in a small quantity
of warm water, then slightly wet the
stain with it, when it will disappear,
leaving the leaf uninjured.
To CUT GLAss.-Lay the glass on q
piece Of Irvine or whipcord; heat an iron
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
A srIni.teri.1 statement.

Rev. G. A. Harvey, D. D., is the popular f.
nancial secretary of Howard University, and is
specially fitted to judge of merit and demerit.
In a recent letter from Washington to a friend
he said 81 have for two years past been &C
quainted with the remedy known as Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and with its re-
markable curative efficiency in obstinate and
co-called incurable cases of Bright's disease in
this city. In some of these cases, which seemed
to be in the last stages, and which had been
given up by practitioners of both schools, the
speedy change wrought by this remedy seemed
but little less than miraculous. am convinced
that for Bright's Disease in all its stages, in
Guiding the first symptoms, which seem SO
slight, but are SO dangerous, no remedy here
tofore discovered can be held for one moment
in comparison with this"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
K Rid Gloves,

The Troy On. " Times gives q de-
town near Troy as follows:
In this factory nearly all the stock
used is imported from France. The
skins on arriving at the factory are first
put through a process of shaving"
which is done with a broad chisel, and
all the imperfect parts of the leather are
cut off. The skins are then taken to the
table cutting-room, where thirty cutters
are employed in cutting the skins into
oblong pieces, after which they are sent
to the "slitting" room, where the fin
gers are cut and the gloves are ready for
low them to the making room, where
women, are kept busy stitching the
seams, and twenty other women are en-
gagged working button-holes and putting
on buttons. The gloves are now ready
for the "laying off room, where a
number of long-hol.ow forms, like out
stretched hands, are stood upright from
q table. If n were in need of a good
warm shake of the hand, he could be
accommodated hera,i for each of these
hollow forms is filed with steam, and
gives the gloves that peculiar shape they
have before being worn. Another room
is the "sorting-room" where the varl-
GUS colors and sizes are fitted for the
market. In the stretching process is a
peculiar sewing-machine which does the
beautiful overstitching of the seams In
this factory over 200 hands are employed
and about seventy-fve dozen pairs of
gloves made daily. The glove cutters
average from $75 to $50 per month in
wages, and the makers (women) from
$50 to $40 per month. A beautiful
glove is now being made called the
mosquetaire, from imported mocha
skins, but dressed in the village, which is
better than any imported glove, and the
day seems to be coming when American
gloves will be known as superior to all
other makes. The skins used will cut on
average about two pairs of gloves.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
The Many.Leaved Clover.

A gentleman residing at st. John,
sends this Office four small punches of
clover leaves, which are quitea curiosity.
he says: cat the request of Mrs. l..
G. Severance I send the inclosed speci-
men of four, five, six and seven-leaved
clover, which are quite a botanical curl
osity. They we're all plucked from a
small sod not a foot square" One bunch
contains sixteen stalks, each with four
leaves of clover ; a second eight stalks,
with five leaves; a third, eight stalks,
with six leaves: and a fourth six, with
sever leaves.-Porttdnd Oregonian.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
A Thousand Dollars a Minute.

Mr.. Eddy, the veteran patent solicitor
of Boston, is a regular encyclopedia of
incidents referring to inventors. He
tells of a man named Hurd, who be-
longed in Stoneham, who realized $780,
600, and gave to the world one of the
most valuable inventions ever produced
all the result of only about half an
hours thought. His invention was the
machine now everywhere used for ex-
extracting molasses from sugar. When
the idea occurred to him he sketched it
down and gave it to Mr.. Eddy, and au-
thorized him to take out a patent. Re
turning home, he forgot all about the
matter and applied himself to other
affairs. Subsequently q gentleman en-
gagged in the sugar business saw the in
vention in Mr.. Eddy's office, and at ono
appreciated its value. The solicitor was
instructed to purchase the patent, which
he supposed he could do for a moderate
sum. The first offer of 81, 900 was re.
fused, and not until the figure of $780,
600 was reached did Mr.. Hurd surren-
der. The machine is used in all the
sugar countries of the world. MI. Rob-
ertson, who vas the American Consul al
Hague, and the Aspinwalls, of New
York, made millions out of the inven-
tion.-Boston Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

Those languid, tiresome sensations, causing
you to feel scarcely able to'be on your feet that
drain that is taking from your system
all its elasticity driving the bloom from your
cheeks that continual strain upon your vital
forces, rendering you irritable and ~fretful, can
easily be removed by the use of that marvellous
remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregularities and OBJ
structions of your system are relieved at once,
manently removed. Will you heed this Gin
cinndti Saturday Night. roy
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
One Expertence from ,r.,x,

81 had been sick and miserable SO long and
had caused my husband so much trouble and
expense, no one seemed to know what allied me,
tina 1 was completely disheartened and dis
couraged. In this frame of mind I got a bottle
of Hop Ritters and used them unknown to my
family. T%soon began to improve and gained
SO fast that my husband and family thought it
strange and unnatural, but when / told them
what had helped me-, they said, "Hurrah for
Hop Bitters! long may they prosper, for they
have made mother well and us happy,"-Th
Mother.-Home Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostranon
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PEPToNIzEp BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and life-sustaining prop
critics; is Invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
t~ration, 6Serwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
well, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
THE height of the earth,s atmosphe.

The height of the earth's atmosphere,
according TO the result arrived at by NJ.
Lauder from his various investigations,
is %. 600 miles, instead of $50, as pre-
Hiouslyi named. He cofroborates this
calculation by showing that the height
at which meteoric matter becomes. iu-
candescent, on approaching the earth, is
far beyond the distance heretofore as
signed to it, and therefore there must be
an atmosphere of that greater distance,
to produce the incandescence. He also
accounts for the spectrum of the aurora
borealis showing a marked coincidence
with that of the zodiacal light, by the
theory that, since the earth travels in
the zodiacal nebulosity from September
to May, the rarefied atmosphere beyond
the earth's heavy envelope of air must
absorb some of the constituents elements
of the zodiacal ~nebulosity, and thus
these elements make their presence APP
parent in the spectrum of the aurora.
which phenomenon occurs in the rarified
outer envelope.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

If Eve had possessed patenr bangs,
and false hair, and a dozen modern
dresses, she would have been busy, ana
have had no time to bother with the ser
pept,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

SEE advertisement of P. o. vickery for Agents
in another column. Mr.. Vickery is Mayor Of
the City of Augusta, Maine, which is o sure
guarantee that all will be fairly dealt with.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
now 10 sECURE HEALTH.

1t is strange any one will suffer from arrangements
brought on by impure blood, when sCovILL's sARsA-
PARILLA AND sTILLINGIA, or BLOOD AND LIVER
SYRUP will restore health 10 the physical organization.
It Isl Strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, andthe BEST
BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered, curing %scrofuia,
Syphilitic disorders, Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipe-
las, Malaria, Nervous disorders, Debility, Bilious COM
plants and Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys,
Stomach, Skin, etc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

ONLY the genuine axle grease has the name
of Frazer on every package, and wears longer
than any other.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

"SEILERs' LIVER PILLS" have been the
standard remedy for malaria, liver complaint,
costiveness, etc., for fifty years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

MRS. DUKES, of Colfax, Indiana, had running
sore on her ankle for two years. "Lindsey's
Blood Searcher" cured 1t.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
5000 Agents Wanted for life OF
GARFTETD

It contains the full history OF his very eventful life anu the
dastardly attempt to assassinate him. Millions of people
are waiting tor this book. The best chance of your life to
make money. Beware Of "catchpenny" limitations.
This is the only authentic and fully Illustrated life OF
Garfield. Send for circulars and extra terms TO agents.
Address NATIONAL PUBLISHING Co., Philadelphia, Pa
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

NOBODY loves heartily unless people
take pains to prevent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
Invest Your EARNINGS

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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

Since Lady Saffelk-tratted a mile-in
2:264, and Flora Temple in 2:19a, aston
ishing reductions in time have been
made. the official record of horses that
have gone below the time which made
Dexter famous being as follows:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

CHILDREN are cured of bed-wetting by Kid
ney. Wort. Sold by all druggists. '
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01
Ans. LYDIA 6. PINKHIM. Of LYNN. MAsS.,

THE proportion of men to ONE who
commit suicide is as four to one.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

BAKERS PAIN PANACEA cures pain in Man and
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-01

DR.. ROGER woRM SYRUP instantly destroys
WORMS.