Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-02
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Variety.

II you must pick locks, take the auburn,
raven, chestnut, or brown ones.
We are against well-cxecuted countcrfeits,
but for well. executed counterfeiters.
A jest may cut deeper than curse
Every wood-sawyer is Caesar. He comes,
he saws, he conquers.
''Do you believe in second loye?" Oh
yes, there may be second or even ,reek
love, but seldom a month love.
1t is wonder that the women don't take,
cold from standing so continually under wa
ter-falls.
Man has far more beautiful empire than
woman, for his empire is woman's heart.
The hair should be brought over an un-
pleasant female forehead as vines are trailed
over wall
If a man is "a CASE we suppose his wifo
is easement.
Women don't keep secrets now any better
than formerly: Though so well hooped,
they are as leaky as ever.
Every negro soldier is necessarily an Off
ccr-he is color bearer.
A smart man and a silly one are often as
Intimate as the milkman and the pump.
When an authors quill grows dull and
drowsy, it is his nodding plume.
When an old man is angry, he is apt to
shake his staff. We know many General
who ought occasionally to give his staff a
good shaking.
"A live horse is generally better than
ded one, but it ism desirable to have q horse
alive and kicking"
''.'Will you take fine roll this morning."
said breadman to n good d-for-notbinp cred
itor. Certainly" said the CREDITOR
well, lie down and roll to the bottom of
the hill"
Most bards do know nothing of Homer
but his blindness, and their blindness. un-
like his, is in their souls.
Some men can be Influenced by the cud
gel Their consciences are as tough as ali-
gators backs, and their backs as tender as
alligator's S bellies.
The candidate for Office who buys the cor
ruption of moral felons is more contempt
ible object than the statesmen of their own
independence.
Even virtuous women is not attractive
if she makes herself vinegar-cruet, pep
per-box or a mustard-pot.
The bible is Gods gospel n pure and
lovely woman is God S Eve-angel
An eminent writer spcculates as to the
reason why woman is more respected in the
United States than in any other country
lis, we guess, because she deserves to be-
Oppostes often go together. Chills and
fever are generally associated.
Almost every sentimental book worth
reading is an autobiography in disguise.
Beauty may lift the mind to the Creator,
but is quite likely to fix it on creature
All systems, however good, require occa-
sional examining and overhauling. Errors
and and abuses will grow upon them like
barnables upon ship.
The poet says full many flower is born
to blush unseen-and SO is many maiden,
so far as her own observation leads.
| Love and incense are both SO pure that
they will penetrate the heaviest air and the
densest cloud.
Great thoughts are not produced amid
noise and mirth. The mind 5 thunderbots,
like those of the Clouds are forged in silence
and darkness.
There are suspicious men who would search
a pin-cushion for treason and see daggers in
a needle-case
a tree planted by dead parent seems to
have its roots within his grave to strike
one seems almost to violate the other.
he true reader loves poetry and prose,
fiction and history, seriousness and mirth,
because he is thorough human being and
contains portions of all the faculties to which
they appeal
Bless the young girls little filagree hearts!
Before they marry they should perform
quarantine in cotton and serve two or three
years to pies and puddings.
Tho Stnonor IolIon We, Al. ,.. 1 I
from San Francisco with 200 passengers
and 81, 244 900 in treasure for New York,
$3l4, 600 for England So 900 for France,
4 $50, 600 for Central America and SO, ,OO0
for Panama.
An honest German in Philadelphia, lis
tening to an account of married woman $
elopement with another man." the other
\ day, got greatly excited over it, and sprut-
tered forth with great vehemence:
If my wife runs away nit anoder man 5
wife, will shake him out of her preeches,
! If she be mine own tader, mine Got'
You seldom see silly expression among
the Hebrews Gain and the pursuit OF
gain sharpen mans visage. We never
heard Of an idiot being born among them.
Many admire the Jewish female physiogno,
my. We admire it-with trembling. Jae
had those full, dark, inscrutable eyes.
What avails the insight into sorrow wher
! their sources remain? OF what avail to cut
off few streams from the ocean when the
, clouds and pillows still exist?
1 If men do seem devils, it is when mad,
r drunk and callous by the bounty of heaven
, they mock and mortify their fellow men.
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