Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-28
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

ODD--tlatrivers should be SO full Just
where they empty themselves.
WHAT axles on railroad train are
m ost likely to be broke? The tender ak
les.
THE man that throws backing-bo
ties at squalling cats pays a tribute to the
Mews.
The lash that man does not object to
having laid on his shoulder--the eye lash
Of pretty girl
A practical joker ought TO be an auc-
tioneer-judging by his success in selling
his friends.
THERE are six or seven generations o {
gnats in summer, and each lays two
hundred and fifty eggs.
ONE-HALF penny day will buy food
in China sufficient to enable man to live
comfortably.
NEVER fear man who threatens you
with an injury; the silent enemy is the
most dangerous.
MEN can better philosophize on the hu-
man heart, but women can read it better.
-Roasseau.
The idle man is the devils hireling;
whose livery is rags, whose diet and wages
are famine and disgrace.
The new State House at Columbus,
Ohio, will be completed by the first of
October next, at a cost of 1850, 900.
LAUGHEG after dinner is a better "stom-
achc" to promote digestion, than cheese,
champagne, or pills.
Why is the first chicken Of a brood
like the foremast of a ship? Because it's
little for ard OF the main hatch.
Why is the Emperor of Russia like a
half-starved fox" Because he has got
Hungary, and wants Turkey.
Why is a man, who spoils his chill
dren like another who builds castles in
the air? Because he INDUCES in fancy
(infancy) too much.
"WHY does father call mother honey?"
asked boy of his elder brother. Cant
think, except it's cause she wears large
comb in her head"
IT would be great advantage to some
school-masters if they would steal two
hours day from their pupils, and give
their own minds the benefit of the rob-
berry.
THE most amusing in the world is a
Frenchman in passion. "By gar you
call my wife woman two three several
times once more an will call you the
wasch-horse and blow out your brains
like a candle
Hon. JOIN Minor Boris, upon being
asked the other day which was the most
thought of Hon. w. c. Rivers or H. H.
Stuart, answered that he thought Mr..
Stuart was, as he was always thinking
of himself, and Mr.. Rivers occasionally
thought of Others.
a lady at her marriage requested the
clergyman to announce to be sung by the
choir the hymn commencing:
"Ths is the way long have sought,
And mourned because found it not"
A down east editor says he has seen
the contrivance our lawyers use when
they "warm up with the subject" He
says it is glass concern, and holds about
pint.
THERE are waters even in the desert:
here and there well-here and there a
sequestered valley, whose bosom, watered
by the refreshing stream, preserves amid
summers drought perennial freshness
and verdure. There the weary caravan
pitch their tents beneath the shady palms
and the thirsty camels stray at large
amid the luxuriaut herbage. 1t is even
so also in the spiritual desert. There, too,
there are blessed, favored spots-quiet
and hallowed hooks in the midst of the
wide wilderness, where perennial life and
beauty dwell
A HEROIC FmEMAS.-An exploit by
man named Davies is thus described by an
Edinburg paper as having been perform
ed at the burning of the Sailors Home:
GA tall ladder is placed against the Home,
reaching against the ledge; still it is too
short to be available in rescuing the men
who are scorching. Davies ascends, car
rying a lamp-lighter's ladder to piece the
former-too short still. Standing ON
the ledge, two feet broad, he held up the
ladder with one hand, maintaining his
balance with the other, and five men-all
the number in eminent danger--scramble
down Davies shoulders and are saved"
TENAcIrY OF A DEATH GRIP-The body
of the boy Smith, who, with his brother.
was drowned at Albany on Sunday. was
recovered opposite this city yesterday
six miles up the stream. AS some men
employed on board of one of the tow
boats We're engaged hauling up the hauser
the body of the little fellow was found.
both hands clinging to the rope with all
the tenacitv that has ever been ascribeG to
the death grip. 1t is supposed that he
as he was sinking gra ped the rope, bat
WAS too far gone to pull himself up to the
surface. By this g-sp the corpse was
fasteded to the rope for forty eight hours
and its tenacity was SO great that even
the very strong curr, MT necessarily met
with in dragging the body six miles mp
the stream had not force enough to loosen
it.-Iroy Times.
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