Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-26
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Treat man like dog, and You make
him one.
Pride requires very costly food-its
keepers happiness.
Whatever you dislike in another, take
care to correct in yourself
Let pleasures be ever so innocent the
excess is always criminal.
Applause is the spur of able minds, the
end and aim of weak ones.
Where love is, there is no labor, and if
there is, labor is loved.
Wisdom is better without an inheritance,
than an inheritance without wisdom.
A seasonable gathering, and reasona-
bic spending, make good house keeping.
If you spend the day profitable, you
will have cause to rejoice in the evening.
As many days as we pass without doing
some good, are so many days entirely lost.
Aristippus said he liked no pleasure but
that which concerned mans true happi-
ness.
Keep your soul always in state to de-
sire that their be God; and you will nev-
er doupt it.
Friendship is silent gentleman that
makes no parade; the true heart dances no
hornpipe on the tongue.
We complain of the ungrateful. Let us
and initiate nature, who gives everything
to man expects nothing from him;
Neither men nor women become what
they were intended to be by .earpeting
their progress with velvet; real strength is
tested by difficulties.
Death is the end of all combats; it is
the moment in which the good man may
say: "At length my virtues belong to me !;
it is death which saves me from the greatest
of all dangers-that of becoming wicked"
Grain is treated like infants. When the
head becomes heavy, it is cradled'
"Doctor, do you think tight-lacing is
bad for consumption?" "Not at ALT is
what it lives on"
'.Patrick Maloney, what do you say to
the Indictment you guilty or not
guilty?" "Arrah! musha, yer worship,
how can I tell till I hear the ividenceg'
Leigh Hunt was asked by lady, at
dessert, if he would not venture on an Or
ange: "Madame, / should be very happy
to do so, but l am afraid l should tumble
off.
Six young men were fined s25 each, in
the Court Of Quarter Sessions of Chester
county, Pa, for disturbing newly married
couple by "calithumpian" serenade.
A German blacksmith in Cincinnati laid
was that he would drink two gallons of
lager beer at once-and he did it. But
violent spasms Immediately ensued, and
had not stomach pump come to his res
cue, he would have paid dearly for his folly.
In Manchester, N H., two women, nam
ed Hennessey and Coughlin, got into a
quarrel about piece of cheese, during
which the former threw the latter upon the
floor, and beat her so badly that she died
shortly afterwards.
A bill has been introduced into the SEN
ate of New York, to exempt libraries of
editors, authors, and clergymen from execu-
ton which strikes us favorably. A work
ing man should not be deprived of his
tools.
At Edinburgh, Scotland, Mr.. Dionisius
Wielobyoke, homeopathic physician of
considerable eminence, whose income from
his profession was from $4,000 to $4,000
per annum, has been convicted of forging a
will, and sertenced to fourteen years trans
portation.
The frozen body of a little girl, evident
ly about eight years of age, was found in
the woods in Ballard county, KY, by a
negro man, while hunting. The little crea-
ture had, it seems, lost herself in the woods,
and to avoid freezing had nestled closely
beside large log, first having cleared away
the snow and gathered few dry leaves
and sticks to lie down upon.
Two weeks ago, as five men-four black
and one white-were being let down into
coal pit in Chesterfield county, Va, the
cage which contained the men became de-
tached from the rope by which it was sus-
pended, and was precipitated distance of
three hundred feet, killing all five of the
men.