Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-11-15
Melange Of Good Things.
lie must be q strong general who can
storm and carry fortress.

He must be strong general who can
storm and carry fortress.
A LADY being asked the place Of her
nativity, replied II am so unfortunate
as to have no native place; l am the
daughter OF Methodist clergyman.
The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says:
For long time Kansas was bleeding
Now she is starving She finds this de-
cidedly the worst of the two.
81 keep an excellent table," said lady
disputing with one Of her boarders.
That may be true ma am" says he,
"but you put very little upon it,"
PUTnD SORE THRoAr.--An exchan 20
has ascertained, by experiment, that 20 cd
fresh yeast, taken internally, is q sov err
eign remedy for the putrid sore throat
1t gives almost instant relief.
A petrifed fish. over sixteen feet in
length, and very perfectly pr served, it's
scales and fms being distinctly marked,
has been taken from the coal mine at Blue
Mound, Kansas.
AN Arkansas traveller saws that he
knew young fellow down South, who
was so fond of a young woman that he
rubbed off his nose kissing her shadow on
the wall
The man that beat Abe Lincoln for
the office Of constable, many years ago, is
now citizen of Tehama county, Calfor-
MIA. His name is E. o. Gasland, and he
believes, if nominated, he would beat
Lincoln for President
The Democrats of Coshocton and Ros-
coe celebrated the election Of Col. NUoEN,
on Thursday night, with splendid
Torch light procession, amid the roar of
cannon. Mr. Thomas of Roscoe, carried
a burning tar barrel on bis head, in front
OF the procession.
ToRcHLrGHT professions were designed
more than two thousand years ago. See
l Maccabees ". %, wherein an account IL
given Of the highpriest Jason, who escort
ed King Antochus into Jerusalem, with
"torchlight and great shoutings." Jason
lived in the fourth century B. G..
WooD and stone pavements, the mate
rials laid in alternate rows, have been
laid in England, with much success
They give good foot-hold to the horses,
and are much less noisy than stone, and
less slippery than is the wood or stone
separately.
a Washington correspondent says that
the proprietors of the principal gambling
hells in Washington City are making ex-
teusive preparations for the coming wint-
er The reasons assigned is-there will
be more Republicans in Washington City
this winter than usual.
The Mayor Of Kingston, Jamaica, was
recently made companion of the order
Of Bath England, an order of which the
Prince of Wales is member. Samuel
Cockburn, another neg; o, OF the Island
of Granada. has been appointed admins
traitor Of the government of Montserrat.
OyE day lase week gentleman and lady
went shopping in Lockport; on leaving.
the salesman wanted the lady to pur-
chase one or more of his tasteful hats
for boys. He was struck dumb by the
lady replying: Sir, l have been mar
ried about twenty minutes. I have no
boys yeti
A LITTLE son of of John L. Hersey.
recently fell through the scuttle of sta
bic in Lincoln, Me-, and was so seriously
injured that but little hope was intertain-
ed of his recovery. His mother when in
formed of the accident, said it was no
news to her, for she saw Ter boy When he
fell, although she was seventy miles dis
tant
AMAssA TANNER, a negro having mar.
ried white woman of loose character
in Troy, New York, took otfense at the
censures expressed by widow, who liv-
ed next door, with a reference to the
amalgamation. Amasa called upon her
to obtain satisfaction for opprobrious
language, and failing in that, pitched in
to the poor widow with his fist, aud
was committed for the assault.
Amassa shouldn't tau-er.
WILD COTTON in Florida is found
growing in various places along the bay
coast-usually on shell or limestone land.
1t has this popularity: the cotton adheres
to the seed, and the bolls seldom or ever
have more than three pods to the boll.-
Perhaps if some of the scientific planters
of the State would give this wild cotton
a trial, it might be made Weld, in few
years, cotton plant peculiar to the Car
olina coast.
Throughout Missouri total failure Of
the bees to swarm during the summer just
past, is said to have been observed and
excites much speculation. In some To-
caities, farmers who have had hundred
stands; and who watch closely the move
NETS of the bees. report that, although
the little insects have worked all through
the summer, with their accustomed indus
try, and have multiplied largely, not a
single swarm has been observed.
THE Smithsonian Institute is preparing,
by order Of Congress, most interesting
report on Agricultural Meteorology,
which will be welcome boon to our
farmers, besides meteorological statistics
collected during the last ten years, at
nearly four hundred stations. 1t will
contain the arrivals and departures of
birds fishes and migratory animals, and
also the time Of planting and harvesting
of crops, &C., at different points Of the
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