Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-04-12
Fun and Sentiment.

To be deprived Of the person we lovei is
happiness in comparison Of living with
one we hate.
Men and women are never more fire.
quently outwitted than when they are try
ing to outwt others.
RAILROADS and steamboats, annihilate
space and time, to say nothing Of multi
tude Of passengers.
IT is a current belief that wolf is never
more dangerous than when be feels sheep
ISL.
WHOLESOME sentiment is like rain
whick makes the fields OF daily life fresh
and odorous.
The bornds OF mans knowledge.
even though narrow. are easily concealed.
if he has but prudence.
II is said that Yankee, who was a.
the point Of death, whitfield it off with his
jack knife and got we'll
IT ia better to be born with disposi-
ton to see things on the favorable side
than to all estate Of ten thousand year.
RED-HAlRED men ought to make the
best troops because they always carry
their hre-iocks on their shoulders.
PHYSICIANS are the nut-crackers used
by angels to get our souls out Of the shell <
which surrounds them.
The girl who succeeds in winning the
true love Of true man makes lucky
hi:, and is herself lucky miss.
IT has been satisfactorily ascertained
that ducks enter the water for divers
reasons, and come out for sun-dry motives.
SUSPICIOUS among thoughts are like
bats among birds, that ever fly by twi-
light They are defects, not in the heart,
but in the brain.
a wag said; Il loved my wife at first.
For the first two months felt at if could
eat her mp; ever since have been sorry
didn't"
y reliable swell declares that he lately
danced one evening with three young la
dies, the united circumference Of whose
dresses amounted to hundred yards.
TIE miser who gives quarter of
dollar in ostentatious charity evidently
looks to M0t quarter for character here, ii
not for salvation hereafter.
"Mr. s., is your customer B
a man to be trusted" Il know Of none
more so. He is to be trusted forever; he
never pays"
The human heart is like feather-be bed,
must be roughly handled, well shaken,
and exposed to a variety Of turns to pre-
vent it from getting hard,
A short time ago man become so
completely wrapped in thought, that he
was tied up, labelled, and sent off Oh
the first train Of ideas.
4 SAILOR, in attempting to kiss pretty
girl, got a violent box on his ear
There" he exclaiped, ''just my luck
always wrecked on the coral reefp'
MADAM. you never confess yourself in
the wrong" NO, sir, but if | ha I'd ever
been in the wrong, am sure | should
have taken great pleasure in acknowledge
ing it."
He who wishes to comprehend the
present, and understand the future, must
take his lesson from the past. for it is
there that he finds the roots of the present,
and the germs OF the future.
Ir is said that the men engaged in our
shipping interests have not been very
prosperous during the past season, though
some of them have been doing "a whaling
business"
DID you save yonr 6aggage?' asked
some sympathizing friends OF a gentle
man who had just escaped from a wreck
ed steamer on the Mississippi. oh, yes
said he, pointing to his vile.
A NAN in our State who attempted to
hing beautiful young woman, Miss Lem
on, has sued her for striking him in the
eye. Why should fellow squeeze Lem
on unless be wants punch?
"WiFE, I must insist upon having
soused hogs feet for breakfast every morn
ing" "Well, husband. you can easily
have them By sousing your feet in water
when you get out Of bed"
The woman who made pound Of
butter out of the cream of a joke. and
cheese from the milk Of human kindness.
has since washed the close of the year
and hung 'em to dry on Mason & Dix
on'e line
A STUDENT went into bookstore and
inquired of the proprietor if he had any
pocket testaments in Greek. In Greek?'
echoed our good friend, hesitatingly; 4
believe not, sir, but have lot of elegant
ones in morocco
'TIs not because the hypoorite despises
good character, that he is not one him
self, but because he thinks he can purchase
it at cheaper rate than the practice OF it,
and thus obtain all the applause of good
man by merely pretending to be one.
IL comedies the best actor generally
plays the drol, while some scrub is made
the line gentleman or hero. Thus it is
in the farce of life; wise men spend much
of their time in mirth---'tis only the fools
who are always grave.
NOBLE THoUoHTs. never found pride
| in noble nature nor humility in an un-
worthy mind. OF all trees, ] observe
that God hath chosen the vine--a low
J L.. ,pnn tho helnful wall: