Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-10-20

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n expenditure of the Established
O English Church.
: The beer drank in the United
: States in one year costs the drinkers
twenty-one millions.
q The Bowdoin College library at
q Brunswick, Me-, has a copy of the
q New Testament, printed in 14s7.
f The Lowell Courier informs the
a the world that Napoleon has been
shaved. He had his imperial taken
off by the French people.
A man who shows himself too well
q satisfied with himself is seldom
! pleased with others, and they in re-
turn, are little disposed to like him.
: An exchange encourages the
: young by the example of youth
2 who formerly lived in a hoyel; yet
with only his two hands and a crow
bar opened a jewelry store, and is
now living in alarge stone residence
at Sing Sing" ...
An exchange saws that there is a
dog in Oshkosh, Wis, which is said
,, to drink glass of whisky or beer
whenever offered without expert
encing any unpleasant results. We
know other dogs who do the same.
The Hartford Couraat says that
"A smart man in Buffalo is organ
T lzlng divorce excursion to Chicago.
Tickets will be sold cheap to any de-
string divorce That's the way
with the Eastern men-have to come
tothIcago for everything.
Mrs. Partington recently exploded
with the following outburst: IF
there is anybody under the canister
of heaven that l hold in utter exc
cresence, it is the slanderer, going
about like a boyconstructor, circu-
lating his calomel upon honest
folks"
The man who lives by policy is
like sailor in gusty day, or who
has foul wind against him, and
must tack about to reach first this
point and then the other, and makes
but slow progress after all in the di-
rection which he really wishes To
lpursue. But the man VINO has the
life of God, and follows the way of
truth, is like the steam-vessel which
ploughs its way straight on, wind or
tide Notwithstanding. Why needs
it to tack? 1t bears its force within
itself, and is not dependent upon the
extraneous circumstances OF winds
and waves. Happy is that man who
is in this condition.
Porcelain was known to the Chi
nese many centuries before our era,
and was first introduced into Europe
from China, by the Portuguese
Chemists, and manufacturers of
earthenware soon began.
Seventeen hyenas of the battle
field, persons who rob the dead and
wounded, were shot by the Germans
on the 11th of August, at Ehren-
breitstein.
The grain crop of the eastern
provinces of Germany has been
very superb one. The only diff
Guilty is to find hands enough to har-
vest it.
A certain lady is said to rest her
head on a grammar while sleeping,
in order that she may dream cor
rectly.
Miss Eta E. Barstow, a school
teacher in Canton, Mass, died on
Saturday from brutal assault with
stones made upon her, on wednes-
day last, by four of her scholars
named James Cogswell, jeremiah
and Daniel Keilker and John Coffee,
who were arrested for murder.
'Can't YOU manage to give my
son one of the prizes at the exhibit
ton? asked a mother of a teacher
"No, madam" was the reply. ''Your
son will stand no chance: he Obsti-
nately persists in idleness." '.Oh.
but them" exclaimed the fond NAM
ma, IF that's SO, you can give him
prize for perseverance,
AGRICULTURAL MEN.-People are
often allowed to SOW their wild oats;
but nobody ever seems to encourage
the growth of mad corns.
People should mind how they ex-
press themselves at public dinners.
We read, the other day, that the
builder of church now in course of
erection in South London, when the
toast of his health was given, rather
enigmatically replied that he was
more fitted for the scaffold than for
public speaking"
Considerable excitement has been
produced in Gardnerville, n. Y. by
the appearance ofa ball of fire which
has been seen at different times of
night and in different localities. The
superstitiOus atteh much importance
to the occurrence from the fact that
a family in the neighborhood has
been sorely afflicted of late, the
mother, the father, and three daugh-
ters dying within brief period of
each other. The phenomenon, if
such it be, is doubtless susceptible
of ready explanation.
The Chicago Republican, whose
editor has just transferred his ser
vices from the Cincinnati Enquirer
to Chicago, says that the defeat of
the Democrats in Ohio lis but the
natural and legitimate result of
determined effort by the pestilent
hacks of a party to retain supre-
macy and dictate policy and prinei-
pies which are obnoxious to the
people" He says that the ''drunken
dead beats" have possession of the
party in Ohio.
The Secretary of the Northern
Ohio Fair and his assistants have
been hard at work for several days,
making out an official premium list
They have had about as tough
job to get clear and satisfactory
list out of those books as the press
gang" had. The payment of premi-
ums will commence ON Monday or
Tuesday of next week.