Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-16
The Omnibus.

ats very odd," says Lovelace. "But
nv opinion is that the third thought of
every woman is, always going to the altar.
It's q crotchet of mine, that every female
baby comes into the world with the whole
marriage-serice ready printed in its little
head, besides all the figures of the qua
drilles, the fashions of the month, the
"Nonsense says l. "And suppose it was
SO, what then! Marriage is nothing to
you creatures. But with weight it is up
on us! You may laugh, Mr.. Lovelace; /;
Pm sure of it. Hymen makes fetters of
adamant-if may be allowed the word
for we women; while, for you men, they're
nothing more than chain of buttercups
and daisies. For it doesn't hold you-and
you know it doesn't" aCan't say" said
Lovelace, stirring his tea; 81 amt mar
red" t -
The Cincinnati Gazette learns that "a
young and handsome girl, residing on Syc-
amore-street attempted on last Sunday
evening to commit suicide by swallowing
laudanum. Soon after taking it she rued
the rash act, told what she had done, and
became exceedingly afraid she would die.
A physician was called IN, used the stom-
ach pump, and yesterday the girl was do
ing well, and not only likely to recover
from the effects of the poison, but also
from a love fit, that it seems induced the
foolish attempt. ''Oh, Doctor!" said she
to her physician, 'wouldn't it have been
horrible to have killed myself for such a
stupid fellow as 49,; why, when he heard
of it he said he always thought was a
blamed fool y
Some gentlemen travelling in a stage
coach, near Austin, Texas, had for fellow
passenger talkative lady, who soon in
formed them that she was on visit to
one of her neighbors to congratulate him
upon having recently killed know moth
ING. Seeing chance for fun, one of the
gentlemen at once begged PERMISSION to in
troduce the other, as lieutenant Topo, the
leading spirit of know nothing lodge
down the country. "a know nothing, is
e?" questioned the irate lady, "Well, if
ever l should catch him in my house, court
ing one of my daughters, I'd run him out
with the dogs, and then send the niggers
to dig the tracks out of the yard @
Among the anecdotes told of Peter Bur
rows, the Irish barrister, is the following
remarkable instance of absence of mind !:
A friend called upon him one morning in
his dressing-room and found him shaving
with his face to the wall. He asked him
why he chose so strange an attitude. The
answer was, to look in the glass, "Why,
(said his friend, there is no glass there! ~
"Bless me! burrows Observed l did not
notice that before" Ringing the bell he
called his servant, and asked him what had
become of his looking glass. "Oh SIR
said the servant, athe mistress had it re
moved six weeks ago" a'@ a.
On the day of the Baptism of the i'm
perial infant in Paris,a number of ladies were
standing behind the ranks of the National
Guard, near the railing of the Park on the
line of the procession, when the guards get
ting tired of the long delay, lit their cigars,
and soon the whole line was in smoke.
Some Of the ladies began to complain of
the smoke. An old soldier turned around,
said with smile: "Then they don't
smoke in your regiment!" A charming lit
tie Parisienne wittily replied: ain our re-
giment? Sometimes; but never in my
company
Of the rapidity with which some por-
tions of the machinery employed in the
manufacture of cotton operate, we may
form an idea from the fact that the very
finest thread which is used in making lace,
is passed through the strong fame of q
lamp, which burns all the fbres without
the thread itself. The velocity with which
the thread moves is so great that mo-
ton cannot be perceived, the lines of
the thread passing off wheel through a
flame looking as if it were perfectly at rest.
The ansende honorable originally had
an entirely different signifcation from the
sense in which it is now used. 1t was first
inflicted in France on traitors and persons
guilty of sacrilege. This was the mode of
procedure THE offender was delivered
into the hands of the hangman; his shirt
was stripped off, rope put about his neck
and taper in his hand; he was then led
into court, and obliged to pray pardon of
of God, the king, and the country. Death
or banishment sometimes followed"
A lady in Albany last week, did the
whole weeks washing for large family,
and got breakfast for them, before seven
O'Clock in the morning; made new dresses
for two of her children, cleaned up the
house, and got dinner before one o'clock;
baked six loaves of bread and two mince
pies before four o'clock in the afternoon,
and promenaded Broadway till six o'clock;
got supper for the family at seven, and in
the evening white-washed three rooms.
A smart women!
A handsome young widow applied to
physician to relieve her of two distressing
complaints with which she was afflicted.
"In the first place." said she, q have little
or no appetite. What shall l take for
thatF "For that, madam, YOU should
take air and exercise" And, doctor, / am
quite fdgetty at night, afraid to lie alone
What shall / take for that?" "For that,
madam, can only recommend that you
take Husband"
A lady who had on her upper lip some
thing approaching moustache, lately call
ed on an officer and his wife, whose
laughing, merry little boy happened to be
present at that time. In the course of