Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-24
Brevities.

Fanny Fern is worth $4,000 in
her own right. g. -l
What is home without a piano? I?
Very quiet. l7F - 81
1t is said that alum water will
draw the sting out of burn.
Punchinello insists that mufled
drums are dead beats.
A text book for shoemaker
Locke on the Understanding.
Twin sister in Winona, Mimi,
lately gave birth to twin boys.
Florida has gained in population
about 10000 since the census of
1860. .. ...
Kalamazoo, Mich. has a dog afflict-
ed with the genuine shaking ague.
The Shakers and Quakers received
large accessions during the earth
quake.
A new comet, moving from the
whale" toward the "bear." has been
discovered.
Wild game of all sorts is said to
be unusually plentiful through the
country.
India rubber rats which squeal and
kick, are now given to poodle dogs
to play with. f ~
An old Roman law was that no
couple should be engaged for more
than two years
There is only one county in Massa-
chusetts where but a single yoke of
oxen is owned.
A Rhode Island mother has saved
money enough by washing to buy
her stylish daughter piano.
A Kentucky man shot himself the
other day to get rid of the typhoid
fever. The remedy was specific.
Some European oracle says: "It
is all over with Roman Catholicism
and the supremacy of Paris fashions
"Do you see anything ridiculous
N my wig?" said brother judge to
Curran. Nothing but the head"
ne replied.
A paper which wishes to avoid
'lang, delicately advises its belliger-
mt neighbor to "imitate the exam
,le of the rivulet in a time of
lrought."
An elaborate statement of the
of free matter passing
through the mails is being pre-
jared at Washington.
A block of coal. square and com
'act, and weighing II, 900 pounds,is
he product of MarshaPs mine
q Colorado.
Upward of twenty young women
re studying theology in the United
tates, with the view of becoming
reachers.
= When a Montana man gets to
hankering for Office right smart"
hey elect him sheriff, and he lives
nst two days.
At Portsmouth, n. j., a man
AIMED Jones is sentenced to be
ung soon, just because his wife
led spell ago. And Jones assist
d her about it, too.
TheaNew York World says: The
sev. Mrs. Van Cott is about to fight
be devil in Chicago. Her motto
8, ''attack the enemy in his capital"
There is solid white oak tree in
arahville Noble Co. o., which
,easures twenty feet around the
tump, and is over 100 feet in height
In San Francisco. recently. an
pothecary was mobbed by crowd
indignant Cinnamon for selling
hem molasses for opium.
During the past year nearly $4,000
oung cottonwood trees have been
lanted in the thoroughfares of
enver City Colorado.
A man in New Jersey was recent.
: thrown from his buggy and kill
| on the very spot where his father
ct similar fate half a century
20.
There are now ten establishments
Missouri engaged in making pig
on, with capacity of making 300
ms of iron per day.
A wood sawyer in Lebanon sub
;ribed $50 and a colored washer
oman 800 for the proposed rail
'ad through that town from
incinnati to Springfield. Men
orth thousands of dollars don't
lbscribe anything.
The Clinton Repu6licau says that
young lady in that county the
her day went out ofthe house to
ing in some wood, and after stand
g at the wood pile and looking at
going on near the depot
e stopped down to pick up some
bod, still looking up the railroad.
he stick ofwood she had grasped
cling soft and cold, she glanced
'wn at it and found she had grasp
a large black snake, which was
rting his fiery, red tongue at her
a threatening manner. She did
It take the wood.
Kansas has bettered its record,
nning its majority of little over
900 in 1868 up to $4,000. The
have but one fifth of the
.gislature and only one solitary
diyidual in the Senate.
0UTWITTING a DOCTOR