Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-05
In Town and Out,

"A small bug can make great
hum.
-Business has been lively during
the holidays.
ALI the neighboring towns are
lively with fairs and festivals.
Several new postal routes are de-
sired in this county.
The cold weather is facilitating
matrimonial alliances.
The REPUBLICAN office is the place
to get your public sale bills.
Remember the Lecture next
Tuesday night.
w ooster editors are having a little
personal fun for their own amusement,
we presume.
QUERY.-If two watches cost SO each
in New York city, what will they cost a
young man in Millersburg: Somebody
knows!
A masquerade on skates is talked
of here among our young folks, to come
off in a week or two.
80 Neck-tie parties are the rage in
fashionable circles this winter.
-Nasby is searching for the man
of SIM this winter. He hasn't been to
Millersburg yet.
A young lady in Millersburg de-
fines muff-a thing that holds young
lady's hand without squeezing it.
widows are estimated by the
square mile in New Hampshire, twenty
to a mile being thought about fair. In
Millersburg miss is as good as mile.
One of the papers contains as an
advertisement: "Lost, a large black
silk umbrella, belonging to gentleman
with a curiously carved ivory head"
There is not single member in
the National House of Representatives
who was serving when Gen, Schenck
first took his seat in 1885.
Let there be a crowded hall to
listen to the lecture of Prof. Jeffers,
next Tuesday night. He is a good lee
turer, and it will be well worth attend
ing.
j. C. Corbus & Co. are selling
hats, caps, filrs, gloves, &C., at astonish-
ingly low prices, and everybody is find
ing it out. That's why they do their
dealing there.
-Chas. Thompson received the first
invoice of goods shipped by rail to Ok
ford. While VIM. Duncan shipped the
first wagon by rail, from that place.
The R. R. bridge across Killbuck,
at Oxford, is nearly completed. The
work goes bravely on on this road.
The boys, and we might say young
men, tested their lungs pretty thorough
ly on New Years Eve.
Alfred Lewis will sell at public
sale, Jan. 10th, his stock, consisting of
farming utensils and household furni-
ture, preparatory to moving to Kansas.
Though sleighing has not been
very good, it has been made good use OF
by our citizens.
The Massillon American has un-
dergone another change of proprietors.
Messrs McCurdy & Geesaman having
sold to s. & j. J. Hoover. We have
heard these gentlemen very highly spo-
ken of, and wish them plenty of en-
couragement and abundant success.
The country is flooded with New
York counterfeit circulars, proposing to
sell spurious greenbacks at a trifle,
good as the genuine" Some fools
bite, and in turn get badly bitten.
An urchin being rebuked for
wearing out his stockings at the toes,
replied that it couldn't be helped-"toes
"lSSlCu anu HOCis uiuu \.
"A dashing young damsel Of this
place captivated verdant runner for
some eastern house, recently, at first
sight. She got him on her hook and
then flung him. Go home to your ma,
young man.
The other day little shaver was
expiating on the injurious effects of to-
bacco. Said he: "The oil of tobacco
is so poisonous that a single drop of it
on the end of dogs tail will kill man
in minute" The boy had got things
slightly mixed.
The following notice appeared on
the west end of country meeting
house: "Anybody sticking bills against
this church will be prosecuted according
to law or any other nuisance"
"A friend of ours, who has had
some experience, says that if you go to
call on a young lady, and she crochets
diligently all the evening, and only says
"Yes," and "No," you can go away
about nine, or quarter-past, without
breaking any of the rules of etiquette.
Young men who go to see girls
have adopted novel method of obtain
ing kisses. They assert on the authori-
ty of scientific writers, that the concus-
sion produced by kiss will cause the
flame of gas jet to flicker, and easily
induce the girl to experiment in the in
terest of science. The first kiss or two
the parties watch the flame to see it
flicker, but soon become so interested in
the experiments as to let it flicker if it
wants to.