The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-03-05

On Wednesday morning of last week
on awakening up Mr.. and Mrs. George
Brouse found their six months old child
dead. Supposed to have smothered du-
ring the night.
We were absent from home during the
Farmers Institute Convention in Eaton,
and the proceedings not being furnish
ed, is the reason why no mention was
made of it.
5000 Oak Fence Posts, cut
from good timber, for sale cheap
at Frunl, Markley 81 Alexan-
der's mill, Eaton, O..
The most unfortunate hour of a young
mans life is hat in which he first be-
comes possessed of the idea that there is
an easier and better way of acquiring
money than by fairly earning it.
If some people only understood the art
OF managing their W affairs as well as
they do their neighbors' business, their
neighbors would have a better opinion
of them.
If you watch a woman's mouth closely
when she dresses the children for Sun
dav school, says an exchange, you'll find
out where all the pins come from and, of
course, it must be where they all go.
A professional roller skate loafer in
Pennsylvania has mashed the hearts of
twenty different girls, and might have
done better had not some one exposed
him as a State prison convict.
The ministers in many places are la
boring hard to convince their erring list
ners that hades has not been abolished
for all who play progressive euchre and
frequent skating Kinks.
1t is said an Eaton woman borrowed
50 from a gentleman to purchase the
necessaries of life for the family, and
then invested the whole amountin apair
of roller skates for her daughter.
A bill was introduced in the Ohio Sem
ate early in the week which will provide,
if it becomes a law, hat all physicians
will have to have their diplomas recorded
in the Recorders Office OF the county in
which they may be practicing.
The best thing to give your enemy is
forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance (;
to a friend, your heart: to a child, a good
example; to a father, Difference to your
mother, conduct that will make her proud
Of you; to all men, charity.
The Knights of Honor had simply pro-
grams printed. They couldn't be divi-
ded. The Farmers Institute had pro-
grams and posters both printed-they
could have been divided. The differ
ence is easily seen.
Reader, if You should ever visit the
battlefield Of Gettysburg, and want a
good place to put up at with good grub
and a genial landlord to greet you, drop
in at the Mcclellan House, kept by ST.
mon J. Diller.
1t is said that a flannel cloth saturated
with coal oil, and applied at night to the
throat and over the lungs will inyaria-
bly, break up the worst cold and cough,
if taken in time, and a few days care
will complete the cure.
Business is opening and business men
will want envelopes, letter heads, note
heads, bill heads, statements and sta
tionery of that kind. We extend to all
in need of such to come to the DEMOCRAT
Office and get just what they want in
prices that will surely suit them.
DR.. Ben Gaines took into himself a
crib" on Thursday evening of last week,
in the presence of q large ~oncourse of
our best citizens. The presents were
numerous. Ben never changed '~'color''
in his trying ordeal, but it is said was
very shaky.
Charley Markley while superintend-
ing the cutting of some timber north Of
Eaton on Saturday last, in his efforts to
get out of the way of a falling tree, ran
into a saw inficting a we're and painful
cut in the cap of his knee, which will re-
quire careful nursing to save the limb.
A Wisconsin farmer claims to have
found a sure cure for potato bugs. His
plan is to put n or two flax seeds in
each hill of potatoes. He says that the
bugs will shun it every time, and for ten
years he has been successful in growing
potatoes while others have failed.
A contention exists among our Local
exchanges as to which is the longest
word in the language. One gives "dis.
propyrtionableness, one "incomprehen'
sibility," another Observation-Disclosures
tutibusque," alleging that it occurs il
Shakespeare. Can some one of our boys
and girls down any or all of the above
At a Troy, N. Y, skating rink, anoth'
er girl got up a Irritation and succeeded
in being run away with. The fellow stait
with her a couple OF days and then aban
doned her. 1t won't be long till all the
fast men will be regular attendants a
roller Kinks, looking out for susceptible
girls. .
"No," said a Vermont deacon, GO.
don't approve of horse %racin', but wher
another member of the church become.
SO goddess as to try to pass me on thu
road comm home from meetin', 1 feel i
my duty to let out a little on the reins
just to keep him from putin his trust il
earthly things"
John and Oliver Cotterman have soil
: their house and lots on east Main street
to II. Hoague-consideration 100000
The prospects are when spring open
there will be a number of transfers G
property, as we hear of several negotia
2 tons that are now under way. But VIII
wants to buy or build while the thel