Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-19
Variety.

which grows upon the tree OF love.
IF woman does not speak her secrets
with her lips, she is sure to tell them in
her letters. Her pen is sure to split.
1F husband and wife are fast couple,
there is danger in their case, as in that OF
a fast team, that the coupling will break.
HE who seeks to increase ihc quanti-
ty of his lands by prosecuting groundless
claims, will probably coon find himself
groundless as his claims.
A quarulous barber happening to be
called upon to shave celebrated wit, 4,
asked him, Glow shall | shave you, sir?
"In silence" was the reply.
CARE you not afraid your wife will get
married again when you die?" 81 hope
she may, as there will be one man in the
world who will know how to pity me-"
The true lover, If he SO far forgets him
self as to indulge Joy when alone, will
feel as if he were guilty of robbipg his
partner.
A retired schoolmaster excuses his pas.
sion for angling by saying that from con
slant habit, he never feels quite himself
unless he is handling the rod.
IF the world knocks you down and
jos,es by you in its great race, don't sit
whining under peoples feet, but get up,
rub your elbows and begin again.
A GENTLEMAN whose father had been
hanged, was accustomed to say Of him:
he died upon platform at large pub
lie meeting"
A MAN in Wisconsin, while bathing in
the river last week, discovered after an
hour. pair of drawers which he had lost
about two years before.
A smile may be bright when the heat
is sad. The rainbow may be beautiful in
the air, while beneath is the moaning of
the sea-
a weak mind sinks under prosperity
and adver,ity alike. A strong and deep
mind has two highest tides-when the
moon is at the lull, and when there is no
moon.
lie that envies, makes another man s
virtue his vice; another's happiness his
torment. Whereas he that reioices at
the prosperity of another, is partaker
OF the same.
WHILE his mother lives, a man has
one friend on earth who will not desert
him when he is needy. Her affections
flow from n pure fountain, and cease only
at the ocean Of eternity.
WITH double vigilance should we
yatpb nm ,,,bn "A IL
good and bad ones are never chillIess, and
that, in both cases, the off, pring goes be.
yond the parcnt-every good begetting a
better, every bad worse.
Every map ought to aim at eminence,
not by pulling Others down. but by Iais.
ing hun self; AMI enjoying the pie sures of
his own superiority, whether imaginary
or TEA without interrupting others in the
'ame felicity.
IHE man who needs n law to keep him
from abusing an inferior animal, needs a
prison to keep him from violating the
man from erueli = that the objects OF it
cannot speak for themselves, cannot bear
witness against him, are dumb.
lT is useless to talk about love in a cot
tnge. The little rascal always runs away
when there is no bread and butter on the
table. there is more love in full lour
barrel than in all the roses and posies that
ever grew.
a boy fllN his pipe, aud secs only the
tobacco but | SEQ going into that pipe
brains, books. time. health, money, pros.
poets. The pipe is filled at last, lighl
struck, and the things which are priceless
carelesSIy pulled away.
An old bachelor geologist was once
boaNling that every rock was as familiar
to HIM as the alphabet. a lady who was
present declared that she knew rock OF
which he was wholly ignorant. Name
It, malam!" said Coerbn in rage. "lt
is rock the cradle. sir. ""rcplied tho lai,.
A simple fellow once said of a fam ous
beauty: Il could have counted and mar.
rled her easy enough, il I'd wanted to-"
"And, pray, why didn't you" asked hi,
friend. "Oh when began to spark her
YOU see, she took me on one side and po-
litely asked to be excused, and SO ex.
ousod her."
lN tho legend of tho "Trce of Life"
published in New Yo,k in l775, occur,
til" following Trees and wood have
twice saved; first by the ark, then by the
cross; mahing full amends for that evil
INIT OF the tree Of Paradise. by M0t
which was born on the tree of Gulgotha
"A woman is worth great deal. or she
Is worth nothing. / cool for nothing,
she is not worth getting Jealous for; if she
Is true woman. she will give no cause
for jealousy. a man is a brute to be ical
Gus of good womau--a fool to be ical.
ous OF a worthless one but he is greater
fool to cut his throat for either of them.
An cdi,ov. whose wife had Just present.
eel him with twins, and who for this rca.
son was obliged to neglect his paper Tor
one day, wrote the day after the follow =.
lnS excuse. 1--WE were unable to issue
our paper yesterday. in consequence OF
the arrival Of two extra males"
a LITTLE boy and girl of tender years
were dlSputing ns to what their m others
could do. Getting impatient, the little
damsel blurted out, by way of clincher,
We'll. there's one thing my mother can
do that yours can't; my mother can take
out ~ one Of her teeth at once"