Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-11-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
Is a pawnbroker a man of princi-
pal? Yes; it is his interest to be so.
1t is reported that Sigel will make
ODonovan Rossa Deputy Register.
Milk-baths have been prescribed
for the unfortunate Empress Car
lotta.
"Thunderation Samuel is the
romantic name of Western Indian
fighter. .-.r
Tammany has heretofore been a
caucns; but it is now pronounced
| carcass.
A Louisville negro turned up his
nose to a friend, who promptly bit
it OIL
Three hundred dollars in gold
coin was used in gliding the. ball on
the dome of the California Capitol.
1t is at the approach of dinner
time that we feel most sensibly the
emptiness of things below"
my lord" said the foreman Of
an Irish jury, when giving in the ver-
diet, we find the man who stole the
horse not guilty
An incorrigible bore. wants to
know if Worcester spells
Wooster, why Rochester
don't spell Rooster.
A liquor case has just been decid-
ed at Xenia, in this State, awarding
the plaintiff, Jane Dice, damages to
the amount of ST. $50.
Blankets were first made at Bris-
tol, in England, by a poor weaver
named Thomas Blanket, who gave
his name to his peculiar manufac-
ture of wooden cloths.
A clergyman at Council Bluffs
charges by weight in marrying
couples, the rate being four cents
pound for the groom and two for the
bride.
- Mr.. Cardoza, the colored Secre-
taly of the State of South Carolina,
has resigned to accept Professor
ship in Howard University at Wash
ington.
1t is said that while the Chicago
water works were out of order the
milkmen distributed to their custo-
mers the richest milk ever enjoyed
in that city.
A New York butterfly, giving her
orders to her modiste, said: Il want
all the lace on my dress you can get
on. l want real lace; / do not limit
you in price; Ileave you to select It,
The banner dairy county of the
United States is Herkimer, N. Y,
which ships annually 100000
pounds of cheese and 300, 900 lbs. of
butter.
1t is said that the New Bedford
merchants, who are rolling in wealth,
are greatly amused at the projects
suggested for their pecuniary relief
in consequence of the whaling dis
aster.
Before hanging man in Louisi-
ana, they let from fifteen to forty re-
porters for the newspapers inter
view him for three weeks. The
poor fellow is then not only willing
but anxious to be hanged.
Posted upon the gate leading to
the ground upon which is to rise the
new City Hall of San Francisco, is
the following notice, rerbatim ct lit
eratim: positively no admition
Except on Buiseniss."
A prisoner escaped from the Stell-
vile (Mo.) Jail, by building a fire
against the limestone wall, and when
it was sufficiently heated, throwing
on water, causing the wall to crack
open.
Bridget, l told you to have my
hot water the first thing in the morn
ing 'Shure, Sir replied Bridget,
didn't | bring it up and lave it at
the dure last night, so as to- shave it
in timer
An old lady complaining OF the
Lad quality of a ham to the provis-
ion dealer, the latter. assured her it
was a regular Westphalia. That it
is, indeedp exclaimed the dame,
and the worst failure I ever hadr
Somebody in New Jersey has dis
covered a coloring matter which will
make butter beautiful yellow. He
calls it '1carrotine" But an occa-
,ional carrot in the cows feed would
produce the same effect..in the but
Ter.
A Londoner has invented street
amp, with strips of looking glass
in its roof, somewhat after
he manner of Venetian blind. 1t
IS said to throw three times as much
light upon the street as the ordinssy
amp.
Brigham Young has sent several
East to explain to New
the tenets of Mormon
SIN. 1t is not generally known that
here are churches of the Latter Day
Saints in Providence and several
,ther cities of New England.
The champion snorer lives in Pep
log, Massachusetts. His wife,
waking from sound sleep the
,ther night, began to shake her
lord smartly to make
lin stop snoring. just then came
several very loud rolls OF thunder,
md desisting from her attempt, she
herself quietly to sleep, re-
1T is only laundering, af-
.er all; | thought you were snoringe
About twenty miles from the city
If New York, on the Jersey side,
,ou find this practical advice gray
N on the tombstone of an early
Dutch settler:
YOU'D better go home and dry your tears,
For shall stay here thousand years"
Little girl (inquiringly Mann
M, who are you making all OF these
lice little clothes for? Mamma
feelingly)-I am making them for
poor little baby, who hasn't a rag