Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-05-24
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honor and honesty; the former, it is said,
''exists among thieves" the latter certain
Iy does not.
A FRENcnNAN, intending to compli.
ment young lady by calling her gentle
smb, said, "She is one mutton as is
small"
WE laugh heartily to see whole flock
Of sheep jump because one does so. Per-
haps superior beings laugh heartily at us
for exactly the same reason.
"WHERE are you going?', asked little
boy Of another who had slipped and fall
len down on the icy pavement. "Going
to get up!" was the blunt reply.
Our of the whole grand army of the
Revolution which fought under Wash
ington and his generals, there are now
living throughout the whole United
States only l65.
"I do not think madam that any man
Of the least sense would approve your
conduct" said an indignant husband
"Sir," retorted lis better half, how can
you Judge what any man Of the least sense
would do"
THERE is a grocer in Philadelphia who
is so mean that he was seen to catch a
flea off his counter, hold him up by his
bind leg, and look into the crack of his
feet, to see if he hadn't been stealing su-
gar.
A village dame was thus heard calling
from her cottage door to a child playing
in the distance, and hearing but not heed
ing her mother. "Lizzie, luvl Liz-a-buth!
E-Liz-er- Bess, you young hussyp'
A MAN was arrested in Verginia, few
days since. and, being informed he was
suspected of having been engaged in the
insurrection at Harper's Ferry, replied
he didn't know Mr.. Harper, nor where
he kept his cussed old ferry. He was
discharged.
An experienced raiser and trainer of
colts, in Maine, says: can important
point in rearing is the practice Of speak
ing to them in gentle voice, and fire.
quently handling them while by the side
of the dam, and after going to grass, TAX
ing care not to throw anything at them,
but allow them to feed from the hand
Treat them kindly and they will become
gentle"
\ BccKEYE SURPRISED IN JAPAx.-A
iscturer on Japan says: Going ashore,
we were met by many, especially small
children, who said, "Ohio, Ohio" mean
ing Good morning." and prove this,
joke is told of one of the officers of the
expedition. On visiting the shore for the
first time, he was saluted with "Ohio,
Ohio" said he, chow did these good peo-
pie know came from Ohio?"
A young lady, being addressed by
gentleman much older than herself, OBJ
served to him that the only objection she
had to union with him, was the proba-
bility of his dying before her and leaving
her to the sorrows of widowhood. To
which he made the apt and delica ely COM
plimenting reply, "Blessed is the man
who hath a virtuous wife, for the num-
Der Of his days shall be doubled"
ON u StlIEI w OeltiH SlCdthUOdt Iuc uou-
al amount of gambling and other expe-
dients for getting rid of time was resort
ed to, and one evening some of the passen-
gers asked the captain if he had any OBJ
iections to their holding a prayer-meet-
ing in the cabin. "Not at all, gentlemen"
was his bland reply, 'amuse yourselves
in any way you like; only remember that
it is the rule of the boat that all games
must cease at ten o'clock"
A popular divine tells a good story as
hit to those kind OF Christians who are
too indolent to pursue the duties required
of them by their faith. He says that one
pious gentleman composed fervent
prayer to the Almighty, wrote it ont legi
bly,, and affixed the manuscript to his
bed-post. Then, on cold nights, he mere
ly pointed to the document, and with the
words, "Oh Lord ? those are my senti-
ments !' blew out the light and nestled
amid the blankets.
Boys, did you ever think that this great
world. with all its wealth and woe, with
all its mines and mountains, its oceans,
seas and rivers, with all its shipping, rail-
roads and magnetic telegraphs, with all
its millions of men, and all its science
and progress of ages, will soon be given
over to the boys of the present age? 1t will
be so. Believe it, and look abroad up
on your Inheritance, and get ready to en- =
ter upon your possessions.
EXERCISE. - Throughout all nature.
want of motion indicates weakness, cor
ruption, inanrion and death, An Illus
trious physician has said. 81 know not
!, which is most necessary to the support
of the human frame. food 0 I motion. -
Abundently satisfied are we that were the
exercise of the body attended to in cor
responding degree with that of the mind
men of great learning would be more
healthy and vigorous, or more generous
talents, of ample practical knowledge,
more happy in their domestic lives, more
entcrprising and more attached to their
duties as men.
A DuIL TowN.-Paducah, Ky, is the
very place for all that class of romantic
quiet seekers who continually long
''For lodge in some vast Wilderness
The editor OF the Commercial of that
town describes it,
The town is so ''irretrievably" reIig-