The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-06

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a reliable non-alcoholic tonic medicine,
useful at all times, and in all seasons, is
Browns Iron Bitters.
See the new advertisement of DIR.
Webb & Coover in another part of our
paper, and if you want anything in their
line give them a call.
Another fine assortment of Louis
Cooks Buggies at Cox's stable. Call
and examine work, all of which is war
ranted. jun22-tf
The late appearance OF the hustle is
caused from the fact that ladies just
found out that they are minus OF that
much shape.
The Business Mirror" at New Paris,
Preble county, has passed into the hands
of c. M. Hane, who promises to go ahead
with it as usual.
There is M OF the springs at st. Clair
the water of which produces the finest
soda water ever manufactured. If you
don't believe it go to the Drug store of
Webb & Coover and try it.
Be careful of yourself, your horses and
cattle during this torrid term. Don't
drive your horses to town and leave them
hitched all day in the sun without food
or water.
We hear a good deal about labor re-
formers, but there seems to be a greater
need of reforming some of those who
don't labor. There are some about Ea-
ton.
Buy a kellogg Vapor Stove at G. S.
Prices.
A young lady of Eaton "~spooned"
away six saucers of ice cream at the
Band festival the other evening. She
didn't consider it much of an evening
for ice cream either.
A grand-child of Mr.. Bremmerman,
visiting here, was severely bitten by a
dog while at the house of Wash. Dug
gins on Friday evening last. DIR. Small
dressed the wound and the child is do
ing well.
Hot weather has a peculiar influence
of creating a hallucination in the minds
of everybody that everybody else is ig-
norant of the fact that it is hot. And so
when two people meet they invariably
inform each other that cts hot"
The prospects o are that this sec
ton of country will be favored with the
largest crop of early potatoes ever rails
ed. Three weeks hence will see the
price of potatoes decline from $500 per
bushel to less than so cents.
We are ready to receive full accounts
of reaper and mower accidents, snake
stories, falls from cherry trees, or COM
pliments of subscribers in samples of
cherries, apples, w~atermelons, big heads
of early cabbage, large beets, &C., &c.
Egg festivals are the latest. Each
lady brings an egg with her name writ
ten upon it. They are deposited in a
basket and before supper they are pass
ed around and each gentleman takes
one, and the lady whose name he draws
is his partner for supper.
It must be consoling to cigarette smok-
ers to know that this luxury is made of
cigar stumps picked out of filth by the
dirtiest urehins in the %.eities. The addi-
ton of opium helps to cover the filth and
produces the stencil which is one of their
greatest n~uisances.
The Crawford House, corner of Sixth
and Walnut streets, Cincinnati, is a good
place to stop when you are in the city,
Convenient to all places of interest. Lew
is Vanden, the proprietor, invites you to
come and see him when in Cincinnati.-l
Terms 50 per day.
A celebrated preacher makes the re-
commentator of Ayers Pills a matter
of religious duty. When people are bill
ious and dyspeptic, what they need is
the Gospel of Health. In such cases, the
best creed to swallow consists of the
thirty sugar-coated articles in a pill-box.
An exchange trembles with apprehen-
sion since it has been ascertained by a
German chemist that frst-rate brandy
can be made from sawdust. ave are,
friends" it says "of the temperance
movement, and want it to succeed, but
what chance will it have when a man
can take a rip-saw and go out and get
drunk on a fence rail?
1t is q generally conceded fact that the
cost of living is on the increase, without
an immediate prospect of a decline. The
only ,remedy possible to besuggested is
that consumers heed the 9signs of the
times" and live within their means at
all hazards. Life, health and happiness
will be assured the one who dispenses
with useless luxuries of life and uses only
the necessaries. This is far better than
to live high-handed, and when the rainy
day zones have nothing.
The high prices for food cannot last
much longer, unless, perhaps, meats be
excepted. The season throughout has
been unusually propitious for vegetables
and fruits. neutrality-suspicious. have ap-
peared in the markets in such abundance
tnat prices nave become comparatively
cheap, but not until two or three weeks
hence will the great supply from our i'm
mediate neighborhood come in, to bring
down their cost to figures which will
seem very low after the prevailing rates
of the spring and early summer.
The P~ostofice Department has just is
sued a new and peremptory order in re-
gard to box rents, in which the public is
interested. From and after the first of
July box rents must be paid for one quar-
ter in advance, and postmasters are pro-
hibited from placing mail matter in box
es and drawers unless such payments
are made, as directed. A new set of
form books has been furnished, by which
it is proposed to hold postmasters to a