Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-12-05
BRIEF GATHERINGS.

it's o-fre.
Don't Judge by one view of person oil
thing.
The young lady who gives herself away
loses her self possession
Women never truly command till they
have given their promise to obey.
Can man be said to be in stew when
YOU make his blood boil
The kiss with which girl seeks TO catch
her beau is fishing smack.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the
sail. and mankind the vessel.
Practice flows from principle for as II
man thinks, so he will act.
A good man is kinder to his enemy than
bad men are to their friends.
Dress plainly the thnnest soap bub-
bles wear the grandcst colors.
A wise book is a true friend its author,
q public beneiactor,
HoSEsrY sometimes keeps man from
CROWN rich, and civiltY from being witty
Az inebriated man can weigh nothing
correctly; he is always losing his banance'
"yyuEN the wicked rule the people
mourn" That's what's the matter now.
WE pass our lives in regretting the
past, complaining of the present, and in
dulging false hopes for the future.
4 MAN who was lost in slumber is said
to have found his way out again on a
nightmare
\ FRrNcHNAS wishing to compliment
a girl as "little lamb" called her a
"small mutton"
Ir requires less philosophy to take
things as they come than to part with
things as thep go.
THE borrower ties rope around his
neck and puts the end Of it in the hand
ST his neighbor.
WOMAN is at the bottom Of all mis-
chief Yes said Frank, and when !
used to get into mischief, my mother
would soon be at my bottom
MAGNANMous repentance never waits
for tho spur of remorse before it bounds
toward the injured one with confes.
sions and reconciliation.
a MAN often thinks that he knows more
than he does, never that he knows less
A sleeping man dreams he is awake,
waking man never dreams he sleeps.
LET any lady paint who chooses.
she raises hue upon her cheek. that's II
reason why you should raise hue and cry
SOME persons seem to obey LITERAL
the Injunction, "hold fast 70 the truth; !;
they never allow it to escape them.
To say of n gentleman that he is a yer
domestic man, and makes good HUSBAND
is only more polite way of saying tht
he is hen n-pecked.
WHEN the hay-day oflifc is over, oI
age may be sunny and chirping; merr
heart may nestle in a tottering frame, iii
swallow that builds in a ruined chime
HONESTY is not only the best poll,
but the highest wisdom. However diff
cult it may be for integrity to get on,
Is thousand times more difficult for kni
very to get off.
lr seems strange that we Of the presor
day are constantly praising that past az
which our fathers abused and as constant
abusing the present age which our chi
dren will praise.
a GENTLEMAN inquired of carpenter
boy: My lad, when will the job you
master has now on hand be completed!
Il can't say, sir, said the honest boy, art
lessly; It's n DAY Job, and will depen
upon how soon the old man has anoth,
order
WHAT we call wisdom is the result, n,
tho resi- uum, of all the wisdom of pa
ages. ON best institutions are like youn
trees growing upon the roots of old trunl
that have crumbled away.
The shadows of the mind are like tho,
Of the body. In the morning of life the
all lie behind us; at noon we tramp
them under foot; and in the the evcniu
they stretch long and deepening before II
WIsK at small injuries rather thu
avenge them. If to destroy single be
you throw down the hive, instead of o
enomy you make thousand.
IT is convenient to be sick when bu
ness is dull. We have been told of 20
man who has lived six months on sprai
ed ankle. He belongs to three or ro
benevolent societies, and draws three
four dollars weekly from each.
FILE right" said an offer to his COZ
pany, "BedaG," said an Irishman, wi
stood near by, sharping his saw, "it's II
property. aud III be afthor doin' lust
iplaze wild it,"
AN exchange-says another exchany
comes to us with tho notice that '1rnt
is crowded out this issue. This is almo
as bad as the upper country editor, wi
said, For the evil effects of intoxicatin
drink, see our inside
Nor long since premium wa, ofiero
by an agricultural society ior the be,
mode OF irrigation, and the latter word. b
mistake Of the printer having been char
Sed to 'nrilation,' a farmer sent his vii
to gain the prize.
SAL cried girl looking out the up
per story OF small grocery, addrcssin,
another 8irl who was trying to enter th
front door, we've all been converted. ),
when YOU want to get milk on Sunla,
Sou'l have to come in at the back door
Man who cheats in short measure
measu'elcss rogue, II in whi,key. the
~ Is rogue in spirit. 1.-The gives n ba
ti',e to land then he is a rogue in deco