Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-17
Brief Locals

The business houses will be closed
on Thanksgiving day, Nov. "a.
We give the following sentence for
our young friends to parse: That that
that that that boy mentioned, was that
that that that teacher referred to, we do
not pretend to say.
1t required years to build Jeru-
salem, but it fell in day-so with many
hard-earned good character.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation held State Convention in Gin
cinnati last week.
Why is Gillotte bad man? Be
cause he makes people steel pens, and
says they do write.
"A lovely young lady of our town
says that males are Of no account from
the time that ladies stop kissing them as
infants, until they kiss them as lovers.
How is it?
Mr.. Ralston brought to our office
cutting from squash which weighed,
when taken from the vine, one hundred
pounds. The shell was nearly five
inches in thickness. 1t is called the
.French Mammoth"
IF your hair is coming out or
turning grey, do not murmur over a
misfortune you can SO easily avert.
Ayers Hair Vigor will remove the cause
of your grief by restoring your hair to
its natural color and Herewith your
good looks and good nature.
He that watcheth for an oppor-
tunity of revenge, Ieth in wait against
himself, and draweth down mischief on
his own head. t ste
why are the fish along the line of
the Atlantic Cable better posted on the
news than we are? Because they knows
(nose) the news before it reaches either
side.
AN old bachelor in a neighboring
town, anxious to enter the matrimonial
state, but too timid to propose to any one
of the fair sex, seeing the words: "Fam-
lilies supplied over the door of shop,
stepped in and said he would take wife
and two children.
T--Ayoung man in town was asked
the other ayifhewasgoing to keep Lent.
He replied, that nobody had borrowed
him yet that he knew of.
If the young could remember
that they may be old, and the old that
they have been young, the world would
be happier.
-"Vill you dake .sumdings" said
a German teetotaler to friend, II don't
care if do," was the reply. Veil, den 2,
let us dake walk"
Persons desiring work will please
call on the Railroad Contractors west of
Napoleon.
Royal Gem--the best 5 cent cigar
ever sold in Millersburg at Weston's.
The surest way of governing both
aprivate family and Kingdom is for a
hisbandman and a prince to yield at Ger
tain times something of their preroga-
tive.
NO man honors God, no man just
ifies God at so high rate, as he who
lays his hand upon his mouth when the
rod of God is upon his back.
Get your bill-heads, letter-heads,
note-heads, cards, envelops, &C., printed
at the REPUBLICAN Office. We have a
splendid assortment. Latest style type,
good presses and fine inks. Orders from
abroad solicited.
Is-A Grecian Bend foot-race Is an
nounced among the novelties of the
Virginia State Fair. The ladies will
run bend foremost, and the prize will be
a silver hustle. Twenty-six entries
have been recorded. There'n be a
rumpus. NJ g
To learn to climb, we keep our
eyes not on the hills that lie behind, but
on the mountains that rise before us.
The streams thatrun most rapidly
do not run most smoothly; water puri-
fies itself by flowing calmly. ls.T
The Methodist Church are going
to give a Festival in the course of two OF
three weeks.
A greater amount of swearing we
suppose was never done in Millersburg
than during the Races last week.
The English critics have had a
terrible time about Mark Twain. The
astute wiseacres of the Atheneum and
Saturday Rerie,o took his fun in dead
earnest, and pronounced him a born
fool.
There will be fifty-three Sundays
in the year 1871, the year beginning and
ending on Sunday. 1t ought to be q
good year and happy one.
1t is common remark, that those
men talk most who think least; just as
frogs cease their croaking when light
is brought to the water side.
Somebody says a baby laughing
in its sleep converses with angels. Per-
haps so; but we have seen them cry in
their waking hours as though they were
having spat with the devil.
Half the truth may be lie in the
absence of the other half.
"A fool may be good company for
himself, but he seldom is to others, un-
less they be of the same calibre.
Good fields have an ingram car
pet. A'- go
Tho man who would wound your
feelings with jest in company, is NO
friend.
TO make us happy, we require not
much less than every thing; to make us
miserable, not much more than nothing
will suffice. 'r'f.-..
when little man grows jealous
we know of nothing to compare him to
unless it is bottle of ginger pop in q
state of rebellion. tf1 --#-