Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
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DonBs, on being questioned by the Court
as to whether he had ever been extensive
ly engaged in the hotel business. answer
ed that be rather thought he had. as he
had once boarded frigste and two
sloops Of war"
Two brothers Of the name of Rich,
were lately married TO two sisters BY the
name of Wings. and have emigrated-
thus showing that, ''riches take to them.
selves wings and fly away"
When we have good actions q while
they become easy, and when they are
easy, we begin to take pleasure in them;
and when they please us, we do them fre-
quently, and by frequency of act they
| grow into habit.
Nothing sits so gracefully upon children
nothing makes them so lovely, as habitu-
al and dutiful department towards their
friends and superiors 1t makes the
plainest face beautiful, and gives to every
common action a nameless but peculiar
charm.
"My son, hear the instructions of thy
father, and forsake not the law of thy
mother, for they shall be an ornament Of
grace TO thy head, and chains of gold
about thy neck. k."-PRovERBs /, 8,
There are charitable Christians who
are SO drily-barren fig trees, with leaves
only. There are also some whose souls
are narrow, who are charitable by fits,
who will give once or twice and no more.
Let us resemble the olive-let MS bring
forth abundant fruits, the fruits of peace
and mercy.
Observe the beautiful recitation, "pre-
cept must be upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line"
Isa. 2S: 10. Like skiful painters we
must sketch line after line, stroke upon
stroke, till we bring out the picture we
are anxious to produce.
In reply to inquiries addressed to the
| Philadelphia Mint, a statement has been
received in St. Louis, showing that the
quantities of Pixies Peak gold dust for
warded to that establishment since July
last amounts in value to not less than sir
hund'red thousand dollars. This would
probably average six dollars to every en-
igrant in the diggings, and indicates a
better yield than the mines have had cred
it for.
How IT WAS FOUND oUT.-Mr. What
you -call-him, of our place, says his wife
told him, that she has been informed that
Mr.. Stick-in-t the Mud's wife's cousin had
heard how that Mrs. Tattle guessed she
saw somebody go into Mr.. Doubtem's
house, when nobody could have been there
but Mrs. Doubtem! We can hardly cred
it the report, but feel it our duty to circu-
late it.
In one Of the Ohio districts, a man
taking the census arrived at farm house,
and in the absence of the men, proceeded
to ask questions of the ladies' Ladies',
how many male cows have you?" 1--WE
have no male cows" replied young la
dy-a sweet, ETHEREAL creature of some two
hundred pounds weight-.'but we have
gentleman bull calf!'' The census taker
put it down.
MASTER FOR OSoE.-An unfortunate
married man was very i'll used by his
Aantippe-he was even treated to an oc-
casional thrashing. His friends rallied
upon this, and at last spurred him on to
declare that he would IN axe an effort to be
master. One day, not long after. his
better half was SO furious that he found
himself obliged to seek shelter under the
table. Just at this moment The voices of
his friends were heard in the passage
"Come outcome out!' cried the wife
fearful of exposure. "No, mol" cried the
sband, in triumph "come out" "In-
deed-notI. I'll show for once that I
am master"
FAMILIARITY WITH THE GRAvE.--A corr
respondent in Stanleys Life of DIR. Arnold
mentions the following incident in the
history of that eminent man and earnest
Christian: Finding that one of his
children had been greatly shocked and
overcome by the first sight of death, the
father tenderly endeavored to remove the
feeling which had been awakened, and
opened a Bible, pointed to the words
"Ihen cometh Simon Peter following
him, and went into the sepulcher, and
seeth the linen clothes lie, and the napkin
that was about his head, not lying with
the linen clothes, but wrapped together
in place by itself" Nothing, he said.
u his mind afforded so much comfort
when shrinking from the outward ac-
compartment of death-the grave, the
grave clothes, the loneliness-as the
thought that all these had been around
the Lord himself, round him who died,
and l. nouu nli,a Cor aunrr,oro -