Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-03
Brevities.

I AAe War Detter-a line OF DatLle.
/, The alderman to their dinner
l George US.
Doing a heavy business-The iron
dealers
! The latest picture of the war is
| done in MetzOtInt.
A contemporary says Eve was the
first bonepart.
The Napoleonic conundrum-
Does heavy cannonading produce
reign?
A liberal translation of .1Tempus
Fagit" is STEW get time"
+ An Indiana paper says its hopes
have ''gone where the mole dwell
leth."
If Bazaine can't defeat the Prus-
slams, Can-robert?
A Boston radical clergyman calls
cricket game of wickedness.
The 18th of August was not a
fete day for Napoleon this year, as
+ usual, but fate day.
Ready for another heat-the
horses of PhGbus.
Giving man hard name-calI
ing him brick.
/ OF course the beseiged Parisians
are like common tea and coffee-pots.
when they are block'd in.
Why does the fool who never
laughs remind you of the wisest
man? Because he is solem'un.
! BY the present generation, as u
class, Poor Richards maxims are
considered Richards poor maxims.
To prevent beer going sour-in-
troduce two printers into your eel
lar and give them the key of the
cask.
The emigrant need not 90 west
for farm; the moment he touches
Castle Garden wharf he's a landed
man.
A New York judge committed Il
cross-eyed woman for contempt of
court because she didn't look at him
when told to.
Yale and Harvard boating crews
are reminded that the trial between
the hare and tortoise is the first
shell race on record.
Hundreds of acres of cabbage in
Pennsylvania have been eaten up by
new worm Matched from the eggs
of the yellow butterfly.
The "useless" people who are ex-
PEELED from Paris are not exactly
angry with the authorities-they are
only put out" that's all.
1t is remarked that the Princess
of Prussia makes her own bonnets,
and even King William has lately
put feather in his cap.
Quite superfuous is the advice of
mothers to children: Don't eat too
fast" Nobody eats to fast; quite
contrary, Madame.
Milk dealers not only theorize that
they ought to have hundred per
cent. profit on the quart, but they
make pint of it practically.
The excursions of the bees to col
lect honey are variously estimated
at from one to three miles each, and
they make about ten trips day.
The forest trees are dying out in
some parts of Virginia, and the
farmers have to dig out roots by the
acre, just as dentists dig out achers
by the roots.
A little girl at Newport, seeing
the willow phaetons for the first
time, exclaimed: 'Why, mamma,
everybody rides out in their clothes
baskets.
Capt. E. P. Wells, near Linneus,
Mo-, has a field of corn which will
Weld 150 bushels to the acre. 1t
was sown broadcast the 10th of June
and narrowed in.
Apples are so plentiful in Connee-
ticut that many farmers are feeding
them to their cows, with the result
oftentimes of nearly doubling the
quantity of milk.
Gardeners mind their peas, actors
mind their cues, but churchwardens,
instead of minding their p's and qs
very often give their attention TO
their pews and keys.
Lady - -Four of those chairs
which l so lately purchased of you
are broken" Upholsterer-''Indeed,
madame, the only way in which l
can account for that is, that some
one must have been sitting on
them"
Brigham Young grows wrathier
every day he lives, and is swearing
mad at the courts which have been
taken from his control. He and the
Pope ahd Napoleon III will have to
go off and keep bachelors hall some
where together.
"Will yer honor take cab?" said
4 London cab driver to a gentleman.
No. thank you, l am able to walk
said the gentleman. May yer honor
long be able, but seldom willin'."
was the witty reply.
In the recent trial of cause in
neighboring county for assault and
battery. the counsel said: Il will
now introduce an eyewitness of the
affair, Samnel Smith" What is
your occupation, sirT' Blind beg
gar"
When a steady, well behaved
young man is seen shaking hands
with u pump, and bidding it an al
fectionate good night, or saying
''Poor Old Corbison Robscroe,"
there may be faint apprehensions
that he has beer" taking something"
A poor fellow was brought before
one of the police justices, recently,
charged with being intoxicated
'.Well. why did you get drunk:"
"See here" was the reply, uttered in