Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-07-27
variety.

wife is good prize.
She who is born handsome is born mar
ried. That's what's the matter
To abandon a friend for a single error
evinces cold heart and weak judgment.
An arch girl should always be an archer,
for she can bend her bow as she pleas
es.
To kill ants, hit your uncle's wife on the
head with a hammer.
My good name is the food on which !
banquet Let no man therefore, with fcnd-
like malice attempt to taint or rob me OF
that which would bring famine unto my
door, and yet not fatten him.
Nothing is sofalliblc as human judgment,
but nothing so piticss The one black spot
in our hearsts-the devils share in us-is
that the general impulse is to believe
the worst.
There is an observing man about town
who says he always took notice that, when
ever he lived through the month of May,
he always lived through the year.
We must look downwards as well as up
wards in human life Though many have
passed you in the race, there are many you
have left behind.
He who spares and puts armor upon his
feelings preserves them most sensitive,
even as the tenderest skin lies beneath the
finger. nails.
Old horses should be driven by old peo-
pie. Till you have had the rheumatism
yourself, you cannot properly sympathize
with the spavins Of others.
A Kansas paper, sneering at the stupidi-
ty of a cotemporary, says The best
thing he has got off this week is dirty
shirt.
A writer out in Posey county, Indiana,
speaking of girls says "a girl is a
frshing rod; the eyes are the hooks, the
smile the bait, the lover the gudgeon, and
marriage the batter in which it is fried.
More than sixteen thousand prisoners
have been given quarters in the New ork
City prison during the past six months.
The wickedest liar is he who lies for an
object, the greatest liar be who lies without
one.
Docs cheese belong to animate or iuani-
mate nature?
We admire thunder, but, as for lightning,
were never struck by it -?
If when you are scourged, the rod is in
the image OF Il pretty woman, kiss 1t rcll-
giously.
Time is swift, but that S no reason for a
man being behind time.
while we We live let US live" seems to
be thought by a good many to mean let US
sobblc while we eat and guzzle while we
drink
Prosperity in early life is often potent of
i'll. A rainbow in the morning is the omen
of an evening storm.
Don mind an ulcer in the side; it is only
a side issue.
Beautiful young girls and good cork
screws are very insinuatlng
We come nearest to looking into the fu-
ture when we look into the past.
BE true to all. We may be true to the
bad without being false to the good.
Many man is perfect stranger to hu-
manity. lie has never had an introduction
at all.
Many persons complain that they cannot
find words fop their thoughts, when the real
trouble is that they cannot find thoughts
for their words.
Lovers generally WOO their swccthearts
in wretched verse, and This is probably the
reason why SO many are Tilted.
Men scratch their heads for IDEAS. Hence
speakers are generally bald.
Artists may not be guilty Of direct false
hoods, but they give things Il coloring.
IF man cant argue without swearing,
al urn
An eloquent speaker is like rivcr-grcat-
est at the mouth.
When two opposite extremes are prescn-
ted to you, it is generally safe as well as hon
orable to play the part Of go-betwecn.
A man will have no fine springs in hi
body if he seldom or never drinks at one
OF all the dust thrown in mems eyes
gold dust is the most binding.
As everything else grows dear, promise
generally grow cheap.
Women are complained of by men n
raising great fuss in the world. They Ger
tainly raise great deal of dust when the,
sweep where dirty husbands and children
have been.
Emotion will dissolve the gcntlest spiri
III the flame OF JOY, aS the most dcllcat
flower in the yoluptuous summers s nigh
throws out the electric spark
Undoubtedly it is necessary that the whiI
should be as thick as the skin.
In darkness and silence rest the dead chill
dren in the arms of the cold mother, but n
last, when the sun of eternity rises they
shall arise, and she too shall bloom again.
We can often best learn manners from th,
unmanncry
The soul goes highest when tho body
knecls lowest.
4 census Of the city of Providence, Il
J., has just been completed, and the resul
shows population Of fifty-iour thousan
Ave hundred and nncty-eight.
The Boston Post says in that state apotl
ecarics are forbidden to sell medicine Satui
day evening that will work on Sunday.
A newspaper correspondent from Cairo
Ill., says ''rhc season here is usual
opened with great eciat by small poS, cor
tinucd spiritcdly by cholera, and closed u
brilliantly with yellow fever.
A street railroad will soon be laid I
Memphis. Tenn.
There isl young lady out in Henry cour