Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-26

What he won foully he did freely spend,
He plundered no one knows how much wear
But chaneery oertook him in the end
| No further seek his frailties to disclose,
For many of his sins should share the load
While he kept rising, who asked how he rose2
While we could reap, what cared We how h,
| sowed? Punch.
An Irishman's description of making 6
cannon "Take long hole and pour brass
around it"
"See what 1 ann not "See what nv
father was" is an old and excellent Arabic
saying.
"John, did You find any eggs in the old
hens nest this morning!" "No, Sir. Il
the old hen laid any, she mislaid them."
The science of getting on well with {
woman is like violin playing. 1t depend:
principally on the beauing.
DooBs says he has noticed that as g
general rule good looking women believe in
the resurrection of the body, while the
homely ones discard it in toto.
Swimming is a passion with the ladies
of Paris-and a sensible one. too. The
Partisan bellies are all diving-belles.
"Why did Adam bite the appleg' asked
a sehoolmaster of one of his pupils. "Be-
cause he had no knife to cut it," replied
the hopeful biblical student.
"Mr. Jones, you said you were connect
ed with the fine arts. Do you mean by
that YOU are sculptor?" "No, sir don't
sculp myself, but furnish stone to man
that does"
Stern used to say: ''The most accom-
plished way of using books, is to serve
them as most people do lords-learn their
titles, then brag of their acquaintances~
Pompey," said good natured gentle
man to his colored man, 81 did not know
till to-day that you had been whipped last
week."
"Didn't You NASSAU" replied Pompey,
81 knowed it at the time"
Oh that my governor were seized with a
"remittant fever" is sometimes the until
ial wish of medical student.
An axiom now circulating in newspapers
says "Speak well of your friends, and let
them speak well of you" capital motto,
it strikes us, for a mutual Admiration So
ciety.
A scholar at one of the district schools,
at Southbridge, was absent sor several days,
and the teacher on writing his father to
ask the reason, received the following re-
ply; "Kepttehumsortin taters."
'Look here, map said young lady Just
commencing to take lessons in painting,
"see my painting, can you tell me what it
is9" Ma, after looking at it sometime, an
swered: "Well, it is either a cow or a rose
bud. I'm sure l can't tell which"
A Western editor (what fellows those
"western editors" are in dunning bis sub
seribers, says he has had responsibilities
thrown upon him, which he is obliged to
meat. His wife had presented him with a
pair of twins
From the tenth t. the twelfth of last
month: inclusive, there was no revolution
in Mexico. One old Mexican gentleman
hung himself in consequence of this state
of affairs on the eleventh. He left note
intimating that he had been accustomed
to his revolution every morning after break
fast for the last forty years, and that he
couldn't live to see his country degenerate,
etc.
A WRoNGED WoMAN's REPLY.-Re-
Gently a man died at tavern in this coun-
ty, that he had long frequented, negle, t
ing his family. The tavern keeper sent
his wife word that he was dead and inquir-
ed her will. She replied: "In life he was
with you-he gave you his money, and
drank your liquor, which undoubtedly caus-
ed his death; l now leave him with you
to bury."-Ne'cburyport Herald.
The Boston Adoertiser has the following
hit at Gov. Gardner's veto of an appropria-
ton for the State School for Idiots:
"what teach the fools: the Gallant Governor CRIED
"Theyd leave 10y party for the other side."
A serious attorney walking through
Hand Court, in Holburn, set his foot upon
a piece of orange-peel, slipped, and had
made eleven involuntary affidavits before
he providentially recollected that he could
not charge for them and ceased.
As George lay in bed wandering at the
moon one night, he asked his father, with
no little emphasis: "Pa, who put that
moon up there" "God did, my son"
"But, pa, how did God get down again 2"
YANKEE PoErRY.-A down-east poet
thus immortalizes the beautiful river Con
necticut:
"Roll on, loved Connecticut. long hast
thou ran, giving shad to old Hartford, and
Freedom to mani
A hard hit at the medical fraternity is
given in Marks Gospel, w., g. relating to
a "certain woman" who 'had suffered ma
ny things of many physicians, and had
spent all that she had, and was nothing
bettered, but rather grew worsew
10, Mary, Mary my heart is breakingr
ais it, indeed, Mr.. Closefst7 so much
the better for you, sir"
"Why so, my idol?"
because, when it is broken out-and-out,
you can sell the pieces for gun-flints.'
A Dutchman thus describes the New
Yorkers;
"Fine peoples" says he, "dey go about
der sthreets all day, scheating each odder
and dey call that business"
H1sroRY OF OUR ABUSED CREDr.-We
present the history of our abused credit
during the past week: