Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-03-21
BREvITIEs.

Tnr man who was ''bchind the times, +"
proposes to get round in front. .sI ...
CAMpnoR has been discovered TO be an
antidote to that terrible poison, strych-
nine.i "a. 20 tiot ri .it tl.. rta..
WE cannot control the tongues of
others, but good life enables us to de-
spise calumnies.
.'Can't we make your lover jealous
Miss?" "Oh yes, sir think we can,
il we put our heads fogether." .. ~.
A man who commits suicide does rash
act; but he who eats bacon for breakfast
does rssher. 49, .a
THE second daughter OF Gen. IIarney
has Just been married, in Paris, to Count
du'Noue, an officer in the guard.
Coon ApvIsE.-Husband- Mary, my
love, this apple dumpling is not half
DONE Wife-'Well, finish it then, my
dear"
TIE peevisb, the niggard, the dissa'is.
fed, the passionate, the suspicious, and
those who live upon Others means, are
forever unhappy. ... e.
"WouIDN'r you know this youth to
be my SOM" "Why, ahem ! yes, the
makers name is stamped on the blade
In law terms, proof positive"
PLEASURE is sometimes only change
of pain. A man who has had the gout,
feels frst-rato when he gets down to only
rheumatism.
The half-famished victim Of cheap
bill, refused to settle until his coffee
showed the example.
IT is a bad thing to have your path be.
set by enemies--but is doubly hard to
in tho dark, but too cowardly to face you
fairly.
a FELLOW charged in an indictment,
with stealing hoe, was discharged upon
trial, il being proved that the article
taken was an axe. The matter was a
regular hoax.
A NUMBER of new vessels arc being
built at Chicago the present winter in an
ticipation OF the increased grain trade at
the opening of spring.
THOMAS Hoop died composing-and
that too, very numerous poem. He is
said to have remarked that he was dying
out of charity to the undertaken, who
wished Ito urn lively Hood"
ADJorRNED.-Ou Legislature adjourn
ed on Friday. 1t would have been belts
lift had never convened. 24 4 Z
We predict it will be the most IA d
lar legislature that ever. Aeeo1
Chicago Democrat, a Rep,.bicd
The revenues of the church b y
are set down at twenty millions. and t|I1
of the government at fifteen. millions q
dollars per annum. No wohdcr Il }s
country Of revolutions.
CURRAN, when opposed to Lord QlAfo
said that he reminded him of chimney
sweep who had raised himself by darl
and dusky ways and then called aloud tC
tho neighborhood to witness his dirty
elevation! ..-~r ...--.f.-+.f
s.aN..| ...N ~ .'N ...
A gentleman standing by sewing
machine at which a young lady was al
work. looking alternately at the machine
and its fair operator, at length gave vent
to his admiration thus
"By golly its mighty purity specially
the part covered with calikor." r..
A gentleman wishing to get rid of al
unwelcome visitor, and not liking to tel
him, "there's the door" qualified it thus
"Elevate your golgotha to the summit
of your pericranium, and allow me tc
present to your ocular demonstration the
scientific piece of mechanism which forms
the egress portion of this apartment.
ORANGE or lemon juice left upon knife
or other piece Of iron, will in q few days
produce stain so nearly resembling ths
caused by blood as to deceive the moel
careful observer; and not many years ago
in Paris, man was nearly convicted 81
murder, owing to knife being found Il
his possession with what was pronounca{
by several witnesses to be blood. but 81
terward discovered to be lemon julpc,