Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-11-08
News Items.

NEW HtfWss
He who is tiger in his own family is
generally sheep in society.
A fashionable dressed woman, like
ship in motion, has graceful swell be-
hind.
THEORY may be all very well, but
young doctors and lawyers always PIE
fer practice.
THE Lyons IN. W Republican an
nounces that Mr.. Seward is a candidate
for re election to the United States Senate.
A monument on magnificent scale to
Luther is to be erected at Worms. 1t is
to cost eli 600.
SiuNaLEp roofs, whitewashed with
lime, last neasly twice as long as roofs
which receive no treatment to render
them durable. .... .....
a Mrs. Davidson, of Tiffin. while walk
ing in Broadway, New York, few days
since, was robbed of wallet containing
1882 in gold and paper.
AN Irish journal asserts that after the
Prince of Wales returns from this coun-
try he will take up his residence in Dub
lin, and that no other Viceroy will be APP
pointed for Ireland until he ascends the
throne.
Two gentlemen arrived at New Orleans,
on the 4th, all the way from Honduras,
to fight duel. Weapons-riAes; dist
ance--forty PAGES; result--two harmless
shots exchanged, and then they left.
Those men who talk most are in the
greatest mental darkness-frogs cease
their croaling when light is brought to
the waterside.
SoRRow comes soon enough without
despondence. 1t does man no good to
carry around with him lightningrod to
attract trouble.
"I'm afraid" said a lady to her hus-
band, "that Pm going to have a stiff
neck Not at all improbahly, my dear, "
replied the spouse, "pve seen strong sym
toms of it ever since we were first mar
ried."
Why, Sambo, how black you are!"
said gentleman, the other day, to- a ne
gro waiter at a hotel: chow in the world
did you get so black?" "Why, look-a-
here, massa, de reason am dis--de day
dis child was born dar was an eclipse"
A negress, speaking of her children
said of one who was lighter than
the rest; Il nebber could bear that ar
brat, kase he show dirt SO easy"
The Pekin Visitor says Coming home
a few mornings since, we met man at
tempting to walk on both sides Of the
street. By a skillful maneuver we pass
ed between him.
A young fop, about starting down tc
New Orleans, proposed to purchase life
preserver. ooh! you'llnot wantt," sug
gested the clerk, "bags Of wind dom
sink.
If the common people can't dscov-
err your virtues, get rich, and then they
will he sure to discover all you have, an,
many more.
The American missionaries who lately
visited the Chinese camp, at Loo Choo
report that the tents were made of Massa
chusetts drills, and bore the stamp of tn
manufacturer.
The greatest bore of any Artesian wei
in the world is that just completed in Bir
mingham, England. The diameter tixe,
was the unprecedented one of twenty-si9
inches, and was accomplished by new ant
improved machinery.
Mary Elizabeth, negress, who wa
cmancipated hy the will of the late VIM
Miller, Sr,, Of Roclibridge county, Va.
voluntarily enslavcd herself at the las
session of the Circuit Court Of Rockbridg
under the statue which authorizes such
: course.
THE London Commercial Record states
that the Great Eastern is SO shaken NJ
and weakened, that she is no longer sea
worthy.
Mrs Elizabeth Blount, aged sixty eight
was married at kinston, N. c., last week
to A. Y. Bulger, aged twenty-five. Th
fair widow had $4,000 to counterac
the Summers" which hbvo passed owe
her head. -..
A correspondent Of the New Yorl
Herald writing from Northern Mexico
says that there is stsong feeling spring
ing up among the people in favor Of an
nexation to tho United States.
The Rev Mr., Blunt, at meeting helC
in London recently, said: "Not long ago
~ woman had taken him in with pteou
story that her husband had not had day
work for six months" 1t was true, 10
he was u night watchman. ....
A living turtle was seen last week a
| liunterdon. N. D., with inscriptions OF
his back as follows Tobias Nevins, l73
, and "Joseph Hagaman, l777," lie i
, said to have been seen dozen times
+ year every year since the last date.
THE PoTATo CRoP IN IRELANp.-Th
latest Irish papers which have come t
hand are unfavorabe to the potato hai
harvest a Limerick paper says the az
counts from every district are dishearten
ing. and the price per stone for sound pc
tatoes has nearly doubled within ie
i! days.