Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-29
BREvITIEs.

London has nearly 5000 police.
lightning over the Rhine-two
children with o watermelon. u5H
The Methodists control forty
nine colleges in the United States.
The experiment of raising silk
worms at Placer and other places in
California, is proving successful.
Quill pens were first used 553, "A. D.
Metallic pens came into use in 1880.
A French paper asserts that seven
per cent. of lunatics are made so by
the employment of hair dyes.
Jupiter is the largest planet known
to revolve around the sun; and next
to Venus it is the brightest.
The number of buoys and beacons
in the United States is between five
and six thousand.
A tigress was killed in the Madras
presidency by the quill of a porcu-
pine piercing her throat while eat
ing the animal.
All the elegance in the world will
not make home; and spoonful of
real, hearty love is of more value
than ship loads of furniture.
Take things always by their
smooth handle.
Great Britain has 100000 miles
of Macadamized roads.
He that shows his passion, tells
his enemy where to hit him.
Wise men learn more by fools
than fools do by wise men.
Say little, and do the purposes,
and you will pass for somebody.
Let us beware of judging ourselves
by what others think of us.
The horn pout grunts like q hog,
a queer sound for fish to utter.
The Chinese only pay their physi-
clans when they are in perfect health.
1t is not cowardice to yield TO
necessity, nor courage to stand out
against it.
Iti is estimated that there are $780,,
100000 deposited in the savings
banks of this country.
1t is not what people eat, but what
they digest that makes them strong.
1t is not what they read, but what
they remember, that makes them
learned. 1t is not what they profess,
but what they practice, that makes
them righteous.
A new gold mining district is re-
ported discovered in Wyoming Ter
ritory, near the headwaters of Green
river.
A letter from Springville, Utah,
says the skull of one of the lake
monsters, or serpents has been found
at a place near Utah Lake.
A correspondent at Jacksonville,
ILL.,, writes that in the three coun-
ties of Sangamon, Morgan and Ma
coupin, ILL.,, there are, in the aggre-
gate, over three hundred thousand
acres of corn, which good judges es-
innate will yield fifty bushels to the
acre, or an aggregate of fifteen mil
lion bushels.
The author of sStone Edge" and
"Lettice Lile," is said to be the sis
ter of Florence Nightingale and the
wife of an English nobleman.
1t is not until the flower has fallen
off that the fruit begins to ripen.
So in life when the romance is past
the practical usefulness begins.
Queen Mary Stuart's watch was
made in the shape of skull and
adorned with precious stones.
Law is like seive, you may see
through it, but you must be consider
ably reduced before yon can get
through it.
There is a bird in the islands of
the Indian Ocean which has upon
it's head a beautiful tuft sof feathers
shaped like a spoon. 1t is called
the queens pigeon.
Printers ink is always exposing.
A printer at Bay City, Michigan,
smeared his hand with ink and
grabbed one of the spiritual hands
that appeared through the aperture
of the cabinet, at seance by the
Davenport Brothers. When the
brothers came out, one of them bore
the marks of the ink on his hand.