Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-04-20

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As Bellona is the goddess Of war. the bea,
sausage.
Miss, HELEN Holland says there are 80
many bad marriages, that a young lady
might do well TO keep out Of the ring.
A safe. prediction-that gold will never
see double again.
How TO keep on good terms with creditors
pay them.
A man with a curved spine should be a
shepherd; He would be saved the sr-
pense OF buying crook
The. ocean is Quaker; it rejoicos In A
broad brim.
A beautiful belle should never be expos-
ed in thnnder storm; she is too attractive.
In hail storm we are discomGtted BY
frozen comforts.
There is a sex in glass; there are Jop win.
dows and bell glasses
The sugar-maker saps live trees; wood.
pecker dead ones.
He who is swallowed by the roaring surge
is generally beyond all surgery.
If you have good dorg, don't LOSE him;
but, If thieves are about, you may LOOSE
him.
The body Of coward is a pin cushion for
terror's pins and needles
Nature furnishes every person with two
drums for other folks to play upon.
Go into the busy world, and you will find
vaulting ambition. Go into the lonely
church-yard, and you will find vaulted am
bition.
Society always has scum fit only to be
taken off by the Devils ladle.
The liver makes the complexion. So we
wear the'liver's livery.
Proverbial philosophy--looking out for
number one.
A great many interests, like truth, lie
at the bottom of a well-we mean an "Oil
Well"
Sue your neighbor as seldom as possible.
Most writs are writs Of error.
OF all kinds of property, money loaned on
good security in hard times is the most in
teresting.
Never get married till you have lost heart.
A lawyers mouth is pretty much like a
turnpike gate-hardly ever opened except
for pay.
Manya man who is proud to be quarter
master has a wife at home who is whole
master.
A rose on the cheek of one beauty is Of
ten thorn in the bosom of another.
have a pocketful Of mint drops saws A.
Yes, replied B, but you owe them all-your
mint drops are due drops,
A mosquito is a customer who tries 10
get inside the bar and take nip" without
paying for it.
In the waves of life, man breaks and
crinkles as the staff hickers in the water, but
the essential being stands nevertheless firm
as the staff.
Many Of our youth are stuffed 50 full in
the beginning, By their philanthrophic
teachers, with the fruits of knowledge, that
they come soon to desire only the honey
thick extracts, then the cider and perry
thereof until at last they ruin themselves
with the brandy made of that.
The moon seems pure and bright. bur.
like many mortal beings, she casts long
shadow up toward heaven.
a continued smile on mems faces bnt
notion maiden :, is often the title vignette
Of falsehood.
The moon is the beautiful lilly which the
earth wears on her BOSOM
Everything weighty may, like rock, be
placed on point, whereupon child's fin
ger can sit it in rotation.
Truth is sometimes exposed BY the yerv
:tfort: and artifces designed to conceal it:
Ike clocks which point the time right, but
trikes the hour wrong.
Why i;;a spider good correspondent /?
5ecause he leaves a line at every post.
Sidney Smith wrote to friend. "I have
even or eight complaints, but in all other
expects l am perfectly well "
w by is washer-woman ike grief? Be-
ause she wrings mems bosoms.
Why is man with the iaundice unpop.
Ilarin Ireland ? Because he is an Orange
nan.
Why may the exercise of skating serve
$ an excellent introduction to society p
because when the ice is broken you may of.
en- drop in.
When the rich Quaker was asked the Sc.
ret OF his success in life he answered, ''Civ.
lity, friend, Civility,"
A young lady from the country being in
-ited to party, was told by her city cousin
o fix up and put her best foot foremost, in
rider to catch beau, 'she looked so green
n her country attire" The country lass
ooked comically into the face of her rather
AIDED relative and replied Better green
han withered''
The negroes of Rhode Island have nom.
,ated Edward Harris of Wonsocket. for