Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-16
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good old rye.
Tnr following is said TO be the recipe
for making a Rochester aderman's S sand
wich. Branly at tho bottom, gin at the
Ton. and water between the latter as thin
as it can be spread.
Az old definition to the word watch
man was: ~ man employe by the cor
poration to sleep in the open air"
A reeen. writer called bowie knives the
long tlioins put forth by the human crab
apple tree before it is reclaimed to sweet |
ness by cultivation"
Mr.. Punch suggests that the new wa
ter-proof paper should be used for lining
milk pals.
Tue trials of life are the tests which
ascertain how much gold there is in us.
The man who made an impfeasion on
the heart OF coquette has taken out a.
patent for stone cutting.
AN exchange in modest little dun to
its patrons, says: "Suifer little sums to
PoMPEY said he once worked for man
who raised his wages SO high that he
could only reach them once in two years.
"Msther, are you the gentleman as is
the nate?" asked a steerage Of the Off
GERS af a New York packet. "No," said
the man addressed, "but am the gintle-
man as cooks the mate"
THERE is but one passage in the Bible
where girls are commanded TO kiss the
men, and that Is the golden rule; "what-
soever ye would that men should do unto
you, do ye even 80 unto them"
"Miss Brown" said young fellow to
n brisk brunette, 81 have been to learn to
tell fortunes. just let me have yourhand,
if you please" "Lal Mr. White, how
sudden you are! Woll, go and ask faith
er."
Many poor woman thinks she can do
nothing without hus band and when she
gets one, finds she can do nothing with
him.
We were amused at hearing the story
of an old lady whose only exclamation OF
hearing Of the execution Of man who
had once lived in the neghborhood, was
"Well / knowed he'd come to the ga
lows at last, for the knot in his handker
chief was always slipped round unde.
his left ear.
AS poor as jobs turkey" is a phras,
that troubles antquarians, but they d,
not give up the hunt for its origin, ano
one Of them says he has found out tha
the turkey had but one,feathcr in his tail
and was SO poor he had to lean agains
a fence to gobble
AN Ingenious English inventor proposes
30 remedy the want of bust in ladies o
"a given thickness" by Jacket to bC
inflated by the wearer to the proper shape,
and, as Willis would say, "plumtitude. >
In most quarrels, there is fault on
both sides. Both flint and steel are nee.
essary to the production of spark; eli
ther of them may hammer on wood for
ever, and no fire will follow.
To dispel innocent but erroneous dreamt
merely to find useless reality, is to imi
tate the philosopher who sees nothing il
a flower but the chemical elements o
which it is composed
Mn. JouN STRANGE has been married t,
Miss Mary Strange. Strange. indeed
The next ann ouncoment may be u little
stranger.
MANY heart that would have com,
back like dove to tho ark after its trans
erosion has been frightened beyond ro
call by the savage charity OF an unior
giving spirit
LA, ma, what are you beating Johl
SO early for?'
Cause know he'll deserve it to nigh
and have got to attend mcetin them
A retired schoolmastcr excuses his pas
sion for angling by saying that he move
feels quite himsel unless he is handling
tho rod
READING makes learned man; writing
correct man; speaking ready man
thinking great man and praying goo
man.
A LADY in Albany drowned herself be
cause her big ugly man would not Civ
her some money. She served him right
KEEP your temper, if you can, for on
angry man is as good as another. Trea
bad men exactly as if they were insane
IHERE's Il Quaker out West so tender
hearted that he always chloroforms hi,
hogs before he kills them.
Machinery like some great pcrsonages
aud good many thieves, often travel
around incog.
"l'M a gone sucker as an Illinoi
child said when his mother weaned him
WHAr is tho most difficult punhuation
Putting stop TO woman's tongue.
PCr your money into box ifyou liL
but not a dice box.
WHES wo asked man a few day
since what induced him to maksa La
student OF bis son, he replied: %. he II
ways was lying little cuss, and tho
I'd humor his leading propensity
TALooSY, the celebrated trotter, viii,
beat Flora Temple fhrec times, has be,
sold to Mr.. Train Of Cincinnati for i 90
A few years ago the same horse was SO
.or 81, 200.
An Zoo Chow. China, there is a bridl
mile and a half long, spanning the ri
81 between tho foreign and native settl