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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

= "A Boston f1irt, on receiving an offer
of marriage, rushed into the hall and
called up stairs, 'Mother, am engaged
to anybody nowP"
-Metamorphosis extraordinary: Al
young man who was supposed to be un-
commonly soft, has been found running
away from his tailor as hard as possible.
The Judge. {
That's lovely necktie you have
on, she remarked. "Glad you like it;
1 thought it rather neat myself" Eyes,
it would look so well in the silk patch.
Raitrodd Journal diigit2 i9g0gH5
/. a. The mushroom crop is so seant this
fall that gatherers think there is mush-
room for improvement. Meanwhile
hasty pudding is safer thing to put ON
your table. Hungry children have lots
Of mush room.-Pitts6urgh Telegraph.
-"How can 1 keep the cattle from
breaking down the fence to get into my
garden at nightpn said an Austin man
to neighbor. t.That's easy enough" !"
s.But how. can I keep the cattle from
breaking down the fencep'' ''By leavl
ing the gate open."-Teras SiJ5fngs.
The sting of bee, it is said, when
compared with the point of a fine needle
under powerful magnifying glass, is
scarcely discernable. But the trouble is
that when a man gets a bee sting, he
forgets to compare it with needle;
hence it always is discernable, and by q
large majority y.-Bostors Transcript.
-"'Tis poor rule that does not
work both ways. Yesterday was at
dinner party, when glass of wine was
spilled on the table. Herr Meier put
some salt on it and no one said q word.
Subsequently the salt-dish was capsized,
and I poured grass of wine on it,
| whereupon / came near being thrown
out of the house. FPiegende Blatter.
The smallest county in Pennsylvania
| is the most modest. Its strong point is
| its Lack-o' -wannaty. The most evenly
balanced county in its profit and loss ac-
! count is Lose-earn. The rag-pickers'
county is Alley-gainy, The most stall
wart county is Armstrong. The most
disreputable county is Snider. The
deadest county for education is Schuya-
kill.-PhiLadelphi Bulletin.
An humble Sausage thus Addressed
naughty Seal Skin sack: .'How does 1t
Happen, my Friend, that you do not
hecoSnlle me, Wnen ~ was Ouiy I"o
Months ago that you Used to Skin up q
Tree whenever IapproachedP'' To this
the Seal Skin Sack saucily Replied:
.sYou had None the Better of Me then,
Mr.. Sausage, for while I was Skinning
up the Tree, you forsooth We're Sailing
down the Street with Tin can tied TO
your Tail. ."-Denver Tribune Fables.
Then you are thinking of build
| ing a residence next season." sug-
gested Flub to one of our heavy
pockets. eyes thought I should get
up something in that line. ~ '.Whas
style of archftecture-Gothic, or Doric,
or Corinthian, or-p'' 30. q little of
everything. My wife inclines to tho
Mary Ann style; but guess I'll put up
genuine Betsy Jane cottage, with q
pizarro all around it. That'n suit me
we'll enough. Chicago Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21
Superstitions About Love.

From the earliest times no event in
human life has been associated with
more extensive folk lore than marriage.
Beginning with love divinations, these
are of every conceivable kind, the anX-
ious maiden apparently having left no
stone unturned in her anxiety to ascer-
tain herlot in the marriage state. Some
cut the common brake or fern just above
the root to ascertain the initials of the
future husbands name. Again, nuts
and apples are very favorite love tests.
The mode of procedure is for a girl to
place on the bars of CRATE nut, re-
peating this incantation:
If he loves rue, pop and fly;
If he hates me, lie and die.
Great is the dismay if the anxious face
of the inquirer gradually perceiyes the
nut, instead of making the heped-for
pop. de and make no sign. One means
is 70 tF5ror r lad lxzhsrd issto
the air, and repeating meanwhile the
subjoined couplet:
Fly away east, aud 6y away west,
Show me where lives the one like best
Should this little insect chance to fly
in the direction of the house where the
loved-one resides, it is regarded as
most favorable omen.
Another species of love divination
once observed consisted in obtaining five
bav leaves, four of which the anxious
maiden pinned at the four corners of her
pillow, and the fifth in the middle. If
she was fortunate enough to dream of
| her lover, it was a sure sign that he
would be married to her in the course of
| the year.
In selecting the time for the marriage
ceremony precautions of every kind
| have generally been taken to avoid an
| unlucky month and day for the knot to
be tied. Indeed, the old Roman notion
that the May marriages are unlucky sur
wives to this day in England. June is a
highly popular month, Friday, on ac-
count of its being regarded as an inau-
spicious and evil day for the commence
ment of any kind of enterprise, is gen.
orally avoided. -,
In days gone by Sunday appears to
have been popular day for marriages.
1t is, above all things, necessary that
the sun should shine on the bride, and it
is deemed absolutely necessary by very
many that she should weep on her We'd
ding day, if it be only a few tears; the
omission of such an act being considered
ominous of her future happiness.
In Sussex, bride on her rreturn home
from church is often robbed of all her
pins about her dress by the single women
present, from the belief that whoever
possesses one of them will be married in
the course of year, and evil fortune
will sooner or later inevitably overtake
the bride who keeps even one pin used
in the marriage toilet.
ssFlinpinp the stockino'' was an old
marriage custom in England. The
young men took the brides stockings,
and the girls those of the bridegroom.
each of whom, sitting at the foot of the
bed, threw the stockings over then
heads, endeavoring to make it fall upor
that of the bride or her spouse. If the
bridegroom's stockings, thrown by the
girls, fell upon the bridegroom's head,
It was sign that they themselves woule
soon be married, and similar luck wa:
derived from the falling of the BRIDE!
stockings thrown by the young men,
Something to Read.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21
The American Mother

The American mother-the mother of
the men who usually become our Presi-
dents-knows nothing of matchmaking,
of laying bats to catch eligible young
men of marrying her girls off. She may
not watch them as European mothers do,
and may trust too implicitly in their
good sense, but, at least, she never tries
to getrid of them.
She is no more averse than the mother
in the Cotters Saturday Night to see
'her BARN respectit like the lave;" to
have gentlemen polite to herr" but
when the respect and s.politeness''
turn into downright counting, and she
sees the danger signals ahead, and some
body comes one day. hat in hand, blush
ing like peony, to mention that ''if she
has no objections, Jane HASN'T she is
mony is a fearful blow. Why, the girl
is her own! The little baby that slept on
her bosom and held her finger tight in
its crumpled rose leaf hand was all hers.
The child that toddled after her, copying
her in miniature as she went about her
household duties, and who must have a
toy broom, and tea kettle that held a
tablespoonful of water, and the scraps of
dough to make a tiny loaf of bread with,
and doll to be treated in all respects as
mother treated the new baby, was more
and more her own little Janey. y.
The bigger, Janey, who grew SO fast and
helped SO with the little children, and
was her mothers right hand always,
was her very own, morning noon and
night And now, the pretty young lady,
so capable and bright, so 'tstylish" in
her sbest things" who has stopped
taking lessons, and plays on the pretty,
upright piano in the parlor, who can cut
and make everything for the younger
ones, who helps her, and of whom she is
proud, is she not also her very own, to
love and boast little aboutP Jane, hel
daughter, her one grown-up daughter
shall young Smith, or young Jones, OF
middle-aged Tomlinson, take her for his
own, and carry her off to live elsewhere,
and faye other interestsp
The mother can not bear the thought,
and when that happens which does hap
pen to most pretty girls, though she
cannot wish her daughter to "be an old
maid" her heart almost breaks and she
feels sorely injured. People congratu.
late her, but she can only sigh.
Mothers like these, often nice, plain.
country mothers, are not given to much
reading of fashionable foreign news
but if they should, by chance, take to il
in despair after all their girls are mar
ried, I think they would be astonisheG
by the glimpses' of the mothers forever
plotting and planning to get their daugh
ters off their hands, marrying them ts
anybody who has money, and always i,
hurry to get the eldest off that tht
youngest may follow in her steps. Tha
Is phase of domestic life of which thu
faithful American, mother knows moth
| inp-N y Led0er. .a
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21
Didn't Know His Wife's Name.

The pretty custom of parents address
ing each other as '.papa'' or ..mama" in
the presence of their children soon bc /,
comes a confirmed habit, even when the
youngsters are not around. Some time
ago well-known New York journalist,
with his wife, acted as sponsors at the
christening of a child, and at the con-
hesitated, stammered, and then turned to
his helpmeet, saying, 'tMama, what j
your first namep" OF course everybod
laughed; but when that journalist 60
home his wife gave him blessing minus
the bsnediction.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21
A Reasonable Request.

An Austin young man has been boring
a young lady with his attentions for
some time past, although on various and
sundry occasions she had given him to
understand that he was distasteful to
her. A few evenings ago he assured
her that he was anxious to fulfill her
every wish.
.'fs it really fact that you will do
whatever 1 ask of you?"
Your slightest wish is law. Com
mand me, and I shall obey" "ua
"Well, then, 1-wish you would see
you can induce my mother to marry
you. Sheis widow, and is pot as par
ticular about whom she marries as
m."-Ieras Sifttnqs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

"A Boston paper energetically pro-
tests against calling new hotel in that
city the Adams House. and advises the
selection OF the Lamb Tavern. 1t says
the first is a fat title and very common
place, and seems to be very much in
earnest
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

"A London newspaper has an article
on The Emotional Language of Bees"
The language of bee is not s.as emo
tional as that of man who is bitten by
the tail end of the insect Nor as en-
phatic and sulphurous, -NorristoUn
Herald 80 "
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

1T has been ascertained that ants
have no ears and are consequently with
out the sense OF hearing. How Is s6sSo
know when the sluggard comes TO con.
slider her ways?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

1t is scar ely possible for types to do
ju tice to the cond ton o; the Republic
an pyramid. 1t is not only upset. but
badly shattered. Its most solid blocks
are seriously cracked, and some are so
much broken that they give to the struct-
ire the appearance of having been
warmly caressed by an earthquake
IstitGRd Si.;,e iS.nttiei,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21
Tho Contrast,


The world has heard much Of Napo-
leon Bonaparte. and among other things,
OF his battle of the Pyramids. 1t was
doubtless a great battle. and before it
began Nap .eon remarked 10 his troops
that ''fortY ntEr e' were looking
down upon them.'' But Napoleon 5
battle of the Pyram dS was not pa, ching
10 the battle of fhe pyramids which took
place in ti.e Uu ted State, of Anne ca
on the eth OF November, 1882. II that
great battle the emocratic pyramid,
upse. the Republ can pyramid. burst it.
and gave it the appe rance of an Iowa
shaaty ter cyclone had embraced it
and g ave it such hug as only clone
can give when out on tear After the
battle til Democratic Repub lean
pyramid, presented about the following
appearances: ..,..-. -. ~.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

Mary Powell was sold in New York
the other day for S150,OO0. This was
not case OF young giH selling heA
self to rich, old man, as might be in
fsrrsd Mary 10 steamboat
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

"A Brooklyn man wants divorce
because his wife writes stories for the
papers. 1t is not a capital offense to
write stories for the papers, but when
the woman introduces rural character
planting potatoes in December and
husking corn on the 1st of March, q
man doesn't want to trammel her phe-
nomenal genius by occasionally asking
her to sew patch on his pantaloons.
-NOTriStOtDn Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

A pew in DR.. John Halls church.
New York, sold the other day for 30.
COO
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21
he epabllcan Party and the Taxes.

Foiathe fiscal year ended June 80,
1880. she Federal revenues from all
sours samounted to about $333, 500. 600.
For fseiiiscal year ended June 80. 1881,
they ahounted In round, numbers to
S3601D. 600. Secretary Folger has an
nounssA in his annual report that the
reveru@ for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1sss amounted to $404, 900. 600, and
excets,M by $4,000, coo even the swollen
estiIi us for the year. For the cur ent
year fS2-83, the Secretary admits that
If ths Sisting Tax and Tariff laws are
left u disturbed the revenues are likely
to ru} eeyond this colossal figure. See
what able this makes: .-es
isex-z s. Z 10l,VUu
1fNTs Il ifcrease in the exactions of
= zs8 ;at !S ysfts On ~.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

I, For the fiscal year ended on June 80,
1882, Secretary Folger. admits that the
expenditures and payments of all kinds
amounted to three hundred and eighteen
millions of dollars, and he predicts for
the current fiscal year an outflow Of
three hundred and seventv-eight mill
ions including forty-six millions for the
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-26
LYTLE,S LIBERALITy.

Fifteen Hundred Dollars of Diamonds
Jewelry, Silverware, ETC., Given AVA,
Yesterday.
Z. Lyle, Al Jackson street, had his an
nual Christmas distribution yesterday to
his patrons of diamonds, watches, iewelry
silverware, etc. The value of the articles
distributed yesterday was $3.50, and con-
sisted of diamond ear drops, $500; gold
watch, chain and charm, 1926; gold brace
lets, $165; nine pieces of silverware, 800
doh, with diamond ear drops, 300; Punch
and Jndy, 800. The tickets for the distri-
button are given out with sales made dur.
ing the year. For the first articles men.
toned above, total of 2,7O5 tickets were
given out; for the doll, $50; and for Punch
and Judy, 524. In the distribution neither
MIR. Lyle or any of his employees we're in
any way interested, the matter being
placed in the hands of committee of four
newspaper men, who adopted the plan of
having one of their number call on some
gentleman passing the store who would
mark some one number of the total OF
tickets sold, which should take the o rize
commencing with the highest prize, diff
ferent gentleman being called in for each
PriAe. Tor tne diamond ear drops, Mr..
Burke was calle d in and marked rs; fol
the gold watch, chain and charm, Mr.. Geo
K. Barnes marked 999; for the bracelets Mr.
VIM. D. Rogers marked 2,7O4; for the silver
wareMr.W.S.Kemp marked 8O7; for the doll
Col. j. L. Fisk marked 337; and for Punch
and Judy W. S. Johnson marked 524. The
holder of ticket 2,704 which drew the
bracelets, Mr.. W. A. johnson, residing al
the corner of Dayton and Western avenues
entered the store just as the drawing was
being made, and received his prize. as the
holders of the other lucky numbers giyeu
above can do by presenting or sending The
same to the store, Al jackson street.
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"a Pleasing Announcement,

The Women's Industrial society, at the
new Relief society building, Ninth be.
tween jackson and Robert streets, an
nounce that they will place on file at thei,
rooms, the latest and best art periodicals
namely: The Art Amateur, Art .Jousnu
and Art Interchange, and all interested are
invitei to examine and consult them
freely.
This society, although but recently e.
tablished, has already secured the fayora
BILE recognition of our most cultured and
intelligent people. Every day has added
to the number of interested visitors and
to the society's collection of choice, arc
beautiful needlework, embroid cred panels
screens, etc., etc. Many sales have beer
made, yet rare and entirely unique col
lection remains. As new articles of choice
design and exquisite Workmanship arr
coming in daily. the rooms are gaining
constantly in attractiveness.
The design of the society is as simple
rs il is admirable. It aims to furnish 81
Medium between the public and all womer
20 wish to dispose of their handiwork O;
whatever kind, from articles of decorative
art to pickles and plain sewing;" in Other
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Denied tie. o.c.serss.e.

A dignifed old gentleman entered a
Paris railway station, laid down a. bnlky
valise while he bought |, ticket, ard passed
on to the train, forgetting his luggage a
young fellow who noticed the oversight
seized the valise and made Of with it. Z, Hs
was arrested and The contents 81 the vaiise
examined. 1t appeared tha5 me owner
was a wealthy landowner who lived at St.
Germain with his wife and children. He
was telegraphed for, and came. The car
pet-bagFwas opened before him IN court.
It contained $500 IN gold, some bills and q
package of love-letters from a weH-known
Vaudeville actress. with hcr portrait. The
old gentleman stoutly denied having ever
seen the valise or The loye-letters before
There was nothing 10 do but release the
lucky thief, and permit hum to keep the
bag and its contents.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-26
CITY GLOBULES.

Mrs. Baker, wife of Mr.. B. Baker, of the
Exchange hotel, was thrown from her
sleigh, on the corner of Fourth and Cedar
streets, yesterday, and considerably
injured.
VIM. Kean, the cashier who was sent to
Saltwater for six years for embezzlement
from the Northwestern National bank at
Minneapolis, has been pardoned by Gov.
Hubbard. He had served about four
years.
Officer Mitchell yesterday found an ug-
ly niger on Minnesota street who was
fiourishing a revolver and threatening to
shoot some one, but before he did that
the officer gathered him in and put him in
the lock up.
4 man named Stoddart was arrested
yesterday and locked up on a charge OF
having committed an assault and battery
upon man named Hamilton. The assault
grew Out Of a little too much freedom
of the flowing bowl. The case will have a
Judicial airing this morning.
Anoisy and boisterous fellow who gave
his.nane as Lynch was arrested and locked
UP Yesterday for creating disturbance
by attempting to force his way into a
boarding house on Seventh street. Of
course, the man was partially under lie
influence of liquor, and was very rough
and exceedingly offensive.
Officer Cook did a pretty good piece Of
business yesterday. complaint was
made to him that valise, an overccat and
Bible had been stolen from parties in
the American house. He proceeded to in
vestigate the matter, and in doing so took
a fellow who gave his name first as Fox
and afterwards as Murphy, into custody.
The fellow stoutly denied the theft, but
Officer Cook became satisfied that he had
the right man and kept at work on the
case till he finally recovered all the arti-
Giles stolen, and then locked up the Fox.
The upper end of Dayton avenue pre-
scented very lively scene yesterday after
noon, that location having been chosen for
road drivers to speed their fasthsteppers,
Fifty or more taking part. There were any
number of contests, but Lucy N. and
Charles S. Radcliff, with black mare, had
the choice of road when they desired it.
Lucy N. though handicapped by drawing
two generally managed to get the best of
the black through the latter being unsteady.
With little more work and care in hand
ling, look out for her, as the horse to beat
her Will have to be very speedy.
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81 Q lid agree. A pole and curtain should
be placed in each room, when connect
ing doorway is made, and apparently gen
erous width may be gained by the poles
being long enough to admit of the cur
tains extending beyond each jam of the
doorway. Double curtains afford effectual
warmth end GOODNESS, and when partly
Withdrawn or looped back with thick
worsted or silken cords, allow a partial
view of either. room, fascinating in its
look of comfort Doorway curtains or
portieres, should of course, look we'll when
seen from either side. Portiers look we'll
made of serge, or serge cloth, in soft
greens or peacock blues, and may be deco
rated most simply with an ornamental
stitch worked in silken cord all round tho
edges, harmonizing or contrasting gently
with the chosen color. Silk with stamp
ed velvet pattern and silken lining would
make rich-looking portiers.
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PERSONAL.

John Mitchell, Grafton, spent his Christ
mas at the Merchants.
T. Nj. Arnold and A. L. Teile, Grand
Forks, are at the Merchants.
Among the arrivals at the Metropolitan
yesterday were Fl. B. Cleveland, Philadel-
phia; J. u. Hunter, Toronto; Rev. Hart
Winnipeg; A. O. Hersey, Montreal.
At the Merchants: John Barnes, Long
Prairie; NJ. II. Merrill G. w. Goddard, De-
corah, a.; Fred Bartholomew, Medford,
MIMI; I. h. Wolford, P. McMahon, Eau
Claire; T. D. Dibble, S. G. Fulton, Fargo;
R. A. Way, F. S. Robbins. w. S. Hooker
Duluth.
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words to enable those who have talent in
any particular direction to utilize that
A visit to these rooms can hardly
fail to please every one, for
if the art work, on the one side,
fails in interest, the array of mince-
meat, pickles and jellies, on the other,
must commend itself to the most practical
of visitors.
Orders for fine artistic work are taken,
or if plain sewing only is desired, those
who wish 1t can learn at the rooms of those
ready to do it.
This society asks and should receive the
interested support of all our ladies, not
only the lovers of the beautiful in art, but
also of all who desire to encourage home
| talent among women.
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DIED.

GEABE-In st. Paul, Dec. "A, at II noon, at
residence of her father, Josephine, daughter of
+. II. Gembe, aged eight years and six months.
Funeral from residence, $50 Broadway and
Twelfth, at p. m. to-day. Friends are invited.
Mrs. Adelaide Allen, sister Of the late Nelson
Robert, aged forty mine years.
Funeral from the residence, 81 West Tenth
street. Wednesday morning at O'Clock at the
Cathedral. st. Louis papers please copy.
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P. F. LYONS,
4 HOrpe II s. A
To-DAY's WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. &c, l a. H.
Indications for the upper Mississippi and
Missouri valleys, clearing and fair. or cold
weather, northwest to southwest winds
higher barometer, followed in the north,
ern portions by falling barometer. The
rivers will change slightly.
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For rooms fitted in chintz or ccetonne
and for country house use, have been re
vived those delightful old curtains of tam
boured muslin; with this difEererace that
where monstrous flowers, and vines with
grapes, once formed tae design, We now
have small conventional patterns pow
oered over the curtains, and border to
match, to finish them.