Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-21

millers, but generally they are mealy-
m mouthed set.
AN avaricious man is like a sandy des-
ert that suck in all the rain but yields no
fruitful herbs TO the inhabitants.
a short time ago a man became SO
completely wrapped in thosght," that
he was tied up, labeled, and sent off on
the "train Of ideas"
A sailor, in attempting to kiss pretty
grid; got violent box on his ears
There" he exclaimed, 'just my luck
always wrecked on the coral reef"
Beautiful.-As winds the ivy around
the tree, as to the crag the moss patch
roots, so clings my constant soul to theel
my own, my beautiiul--MY BOOTS!
A young man 20 years has been releas-
ell from the debtors prison in London,
where he had been imprisoned for two
years, who had, scince he had attained
the age Of q, spent a fortune of $780,
600.
What makes all these apothecsry shop
have stone hoors?' said Billy to Sam, as
they stood at the counter. Don't you
know Billy? It's SO that if feller drops
his bottle he'll be sure to break it,
Dip you ever know woman who
didn't think it was Outrageous" for an
other woman to travel with baby, or
who didn't regard it as "cruel and barba-
rous" if any one objected to the crying
OF her baby?
"OLD ABE" LINCOLN once remarked
that he bad rather be living dog than
dead lion" The remark he can now
apply to Nj. Seward, when contrasting
his success at Chicago with that distin-
guished New Yorker.
HERE is a sterling picture of mischief
maker: A tall ladder leaning against the
house, Niger at the top. and a hog
scratching himself against the bottom
"G'way; g'way dar! You'm maxim mis-
chieiw
Two or three years ago, in one Of the
French criminal tribunals wretch con-
victed OF having assasinated his own
mother, when asked if be had anything
to say before sentence of death should
be passed upon him; piteously exclaimed
II hope the Court will have mercy on a
poor orphan"
owe &c underscribed darkies, bein'
krunor Juray OBJ disgust, to sit on the
body Of the niger Sambo, now dead and
gone before us, ad been sttin' on the said
nigger aforesaid, did on the night of the
fusteenth OBJ November came to his fate
by fallin' from the said riber, whar we
find he was drowned, and afterward was
washed on de riber side whar we spose he
froze to def"
JuDGE 3. was once obi iged to "double"
with an Irishman in a crowded hotel
when thefollowing conversation ensued
''Pst, you would have remained long
time in the old country before you would
have slept with a Judge, would you not?'
"Yis, yer Honor" said Pat, "and l
think yer Honor would have been long
time in the 'ould counthry' before yell
been Judge, too
INTERESTING TO LEsEEs.-The old legal
rule that tenant was bound to continue
to pay rent to the end of his lease, not
withstanding the premises might be de-
stroyed by fire, has been reversed by act
of the New York Legislature. and in case
of the destruction of the building, or its
injury so as to be untenantable, 'by the
elements or any other cause" without
fault of the tenant, he may surrender pos
session.
CURE FOR TooTHAcHE.-Mr. James
Beatson, of Airdrie, says-"Gum Copal,
when dissolved in Chloroform, forms an
excellent compound for stuffing the holes
of decayed teeth. l have used it very
frequently, and the benefits which my pa
tients have derived from it are truly as
tonishing. The application is simple
and easy. clean out the hole, and
moisten little cotton with the solution.
| introduce this into the decayed part; and
in all instances the relief is almost instan
taneous.
| A Minister who lost his wife and had
become weary of a second edition of the
siugle state, was once instructing a con-
gregation from the passage "Use this
world as not abusing it," &c. In the
course of his remarks he took occasion to
mention some things which Christian
could dispense with in this world. In the
category he placed wife. He had, how
ever, scarcely said, "A man may do with
out wife," when his own experience
stoutly protested, and he finished this
branch of the subject by saying, in the
simplicity of his heart, "but, my breth-
ren. it's mighty hard!'
SOME years since poor boy III
county, Virginia, named Timberlake, was
sent to school gratuitously, by gentle
man named Starke. This boy was plow
ing one day with a one horse team, and
his horse being disposed to turn aside
from the true course, he bawls out to him
: "Why don't you come hither, l tell'
: you?" A gentleman, happening to b'
: near, and overhearing the exclamation
! calls out to him and says: II though
Starke sent you to school to lean gram
MARI "Humph!" retorts the boy; "dC
Tyou think that ! am such a fool as to tall
D grammar to horse?"
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