Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-08-24
variety.

Qullp ana MS vile had DIT oil contention
the other day. ~ own you have more
have the better judgment. " Yes" said
Quilp, "our choice in marriage shows thatl"
Quip was informed that he was n brute.
Ifyou have a secret confde, il to o negro,
he is sure to keep it dark.
A householder inquiries whether, if he
finds fire in his house, he can legally put
Il out without an action tor ejec,ment p
We should say he would be greatly put out
himself if he did not.
To know how to listen is a great art it is
to know how to gain instruction from every
one.
If you can live free from want and have
wherewithal to do good, be content--the
rest is but vanity.
The Richmond papers are commenting on
the progress of liberalism in Austra"-
They have little enough Of such progress at
home.
That convenient individual, Attorney
General Speed, who is as ready with his
"opinions" as Jack Bunsby, and Invariably
makes them to correspond with the wishes
of his masters, has just promulgated three
hour and a. half document, affirming the en-
tire con,ttutionality of military tribunals in
the trial Of citizens As he is Sir Oracle
we have nothing further to offer.
The New York World announces that the
hop crop in this country will be almost an
entire failure this year. 1t has been killed
by lice. In England and Germany, how
ever, the prospects are fair for an abundant
yield.
/ The Louisville Press says the structures
Of the Cincinnati Commercial upon the re-
cent military outrages at the Kentucky
election have 'the true copper tingc." So
has anything that has truth in it.
/ The radical temperance people arc cir
culatng petition to congress demanding
that all civil and military officers of the
United States shall be required to take an
oath of total abstinence before being per-
mitted to qualify.
Some the WisconsnrepuIlcan journals
charge that the state treasurer Of that state
ha, been aiding the government in novel
way-that Is, by purchasing federal bonds
/, with state money, holding them as state
funds, and finally selling the bonds in season
to make his quarterly accounts balance,
cutting Oft the coupons and pocketing the
proceeds as some slight reward for his self
. sacrificing patriotism.
\ \ gentleman and lady" incarccrated in
the Albany jail for passing counterfeit postal
; currency, concluded to get married, after
/ which the two were separated by the unrO-
! mantle iailcr and locked up in separate cells
e Discharged soldiers at Springfield, ILL.,,
are paying off old scores when mustered
out, by thra,hing officer, against whom they
have treasured up spite.
Sax, Of sax. horn celebrity, has just finished
. another extraordinary invention by which
the sound Of all brass wind instruments can
be increased to marvellous extent 50 that
a band ofsix instruments can make as much
noise as sixty
The two great commandments Of Lord
, Byron system Of ethics. was TO hate
your neighbor and love your ncighbor's
, wife.
= Among the graduates of a collegiate
, school Of Sacramento, California. this year,
2 was pure blood Indian He is well red
man.
: Man doubles all the evils Of his fate By
pondering over them. \ scratch becomes
wound, slight an injury, lest an insult,
: small peril great danger, and slight sick
e ness often ends in death By the hrooding ap-
e prehcnsiOn of the sick. We should always
n look on the bright side Of life : picture.
4 Hoosier having taken home a locking
Il glas. IN his trunk. one Of his hopeful of
~ spring was curious to see the contents Of the
ll0 mysterious box. Tie mirror was on the TOP
: when the youngster opened It, and he gave
- one hasty bok, popped the lid down, and
- with terror depicted IN every feature ex-
= c,aime |, 'Oh, mother mother. faith + has
q brought home young bear; | seed him.'
Anthony sought happiness in love; Bru-
tus, in glory Ca>sr indomiuion The first
found disgrace; the second, disgust; the
last, ingratitude-and all destruction.
r Sue your nighbor as seldom as possible
0 Most writs are writs Of error
a You cant do too much for your en-
n ployers, my man, said some one to big
a listed man Of all work, on the wharf, one
h day.
r ,.Arrah, be jabers, replied Pat, neither
? will l.
4 A Yankee, who was boasting ola visit to
George III, and Of his familiarity with the
4 royal family, said his majesty would have
invited him 10 dinner if it had not been
washing day.
Ii you would improve your disposition,
: watch your diet. Men who live on beef run
as naturally to surliness as Germans to flute
=, playing Ii the English fed as constantly
on garden sas" as the French do it is prob
! able that they would be equally effabie and
. obliging.