Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-05-31
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a man went to Judge to be qualified
for an eitice. Said the Judge, Hold MP
your handi I'll swear you, but all crea-
tion could not qualify you"
Mrs. FANTADtING says, "If it were not
intended that woman should drive the
husbands, why are they put through the
6Ttdte ceremonyP'
"YoU would not take me Tor twenty?"
said nice girl to her partner, while dane
ing few evenings ago; what would
You take ine for?" "For better, or for
wore" replied he.
"SiR, do you mean to say that sneak
falsely?" said a person to a French gem
tleman. "No, sare, say not dat; but sare,
say yon walk round about the truth,
very much"
SoME atrocious cynic says that going
to be married is very much like going to
be hanged, and observes that there is on
" the difference Of an aspieate between
the alter and the halter.
"FATHER," said coblcr's lad as he was
pegging away at an old shoe, "they say
that trout bite good now.
"Well, WELL" replied the old gentle
man, "you stick to your work and they
won't lite you."
II, in instructing a child, you are vex-
ed with it for want of adroitness, try, if
you have never tried before, to write with
your left hand, and remember that child
is all left hand.
An eminent artist Of the city is about
getting up panorama ola lawsuit. -
1t opens in the year one and closes with
doomsday.
a petition was recently read and 'sent
down" to the New Haven city council
meeting, "that all the sidewalks of the
city be lowered six inches; because they
were so high that ladies' dresses drag
thereon, to the great damage of their hus-
bands, parents, and guardians"
A Scotch girl was converted under the
preaching of Whitefeld. When asked
If her heart was changed, her true and
beautiful answer was: Something know
is changed; it may be the world, it may
be MY heart; there is great change some
where, I'm sure; for everything is differ
ent from what it was"
Truth does not embrace the world like
the great tidal wave, sweeping along in
majesty, calmness of power, and filing
every creek and estuary; it rather descends
in many fertiizing rills, from the noun
tain side; and it is better that it should
moi +ptu lrool
arid desert over all the land, save on its
immediate banks.
INTERCOURSE with persons Of decided
virtue and excellence is Of great import
ance in the formation of good character
The force of example is powerful. We
are creatures of imitation, and by a nee
essary influence, our habits and tempers
are very much formed on the model of
those with whom we familiarly associate.
"Do you know the prisoner, Mr..
jones'"
"les, to the bone
"What is his character?"
Didn't know he had any"
docs he live near you?"
$50 near that he has spent only five
shillings for irewood in eight years"
"WHAT keeps our friend D. away
from church," asked clergyman of his
clerk. Il hope he has not tendency to
socialism or deism." "No, sir, it is
something worse than that" replied the
clerk. Worse! I trust you do not mean
atheism? "No, sir, worse still. l mean
\ FEMALE SP1RITUAIIsTs.-A day or
two since man and woman wele az
raigned in the criminal Court at Boston
on charge of adultery. The man plead
not guilty, and the woman responded,
''ln the sight ofmy God and my con-
science | am not guilty, but in the sight
Of the law am guilty" The council for
the woman stated that she was laboring
under delusion induced by spirtualism;
a plea of not guilty was entered, and the
case was set down for trial.
MRs. PARr1NGToN says, that inst before
the last war with England, "circumstan-
ces were seen around the moon nightly;
shooting stars perambulated the earth,
the desk of the sun was covered with
black spots of ink; and comments swept
the earth with their operic tails. Every
body said it prohigated war, and sure
enough, it did come. Its costiveness was
felt throughout the land, but the bravery
of General jackson expiated the Ameri-
can citizens, and foreign domineers soon
became byeword,"
A REMEDY FOR FREcKLEs.-"Take a
nutmeg CRATER and rub the skin-rub it
all off nice and clean then take hot
as blazes-and make the sur
face smooth; rub thoroughly with vitrol
three times day, or as often as you feel
like it. At night cover your head up
with onions. The next skin will be
white, and have nary fteckle."
We give this receipt that indefatigable
gatherers of such items may paste in their
scrap books beside the certain cure for
toothache of which they may have heard:
Boil your head half an hour, and then
shake out all the bad teeth"
CHARITY. embraces the wide
circle Of all possible kindness. Every
good act is charity; your smiling in your
brothers face is charity; and exhortation
of your fellow man to virtuous deeds Is
equal to almsgivng; your putting wan
derer in the RIGHT road. is charity; your