Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-02
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

When are soldiers like writer's for
the press? When they charge by
the column. r. -Ir1rl
What is that nobody wants, vet
nobody likes to lose? A lawsuit.
Dry diet for the Russian Autocrat
Turkey without Greece. fr
SANDER is the revenge of COW
ard, and discrimination his defence.
Many false things have more ap-
pearance of truth than things that
be most true. .-.l 5f. -.,'
Every branch of knowledge which
q good man possess he may apply
to some good purpose. 9ar5m .1-'
Q 1t is the diligent head alone that
maketh rich in self-culture, growth
in wisdom, and also in business.
Evelyn truly remarked, that all is
vanity which is not honest, and
there is no solid wisdom but in real
piety. .r
The blackest adyersity may bear
US to prosperity. The Arctic wan
derer may be floated into a warm
latitude on an island of ice.
Living always in the world makes
one as unfit for living out of it as
always living out of it does for liv-
ing in it. fr ...,-..a-i
The longer we live, and the more
we think, the higher value We learn
to put on the friendship and tender
ness of parents and friends. aT
By looking into physical causes
our minds are opened and enlarged;
and in this pursuit, whether we take
or whether We lose the game, the
chase is certain of service. .g
Those who reprove us are more
valuable friends than those who
flatter us. The progress requires
either candid friends or severe enc
mics. t.r r
How different is the view of past
life in the man who is grown old in
knowledge and wisdom from that of
him who is grown old in Ignorance
and folly. .-..s...
What world Of gossip would be
prevented if it was only remembered
that person who tells you of the
faults Of others, intends to tell
others of your faults. "
knowledge may not be as cour-
texan, for pleasure and vanity only;
or as a bond-woman, to acquire and
gain for her masters use; but as
spouse, for generation, fruit, and
comfort. a..-a
just as well might you expect
sentiments Of Justice from agame-
ster as look fer noble principles in
the man whose hopes and fears are
all suspended on the present mo-
ment, and who stakes his whole hap
pfness in the events of this life.
The "Stern PARENT Daughter:
"Well to tell the truth, ! did not
think much of the close of the ser
mon.' Father: Probably you
were thinking more Of the clothes Of
the congregation" 500 -4H
An old bachelor says that giving
the. ballot to women would not
amount to anything practically, be-
cause they would keep denying that
they were old enough to vote until
they got too old to take any interest
in politics. ' '-.'..' ''
Water is so scarce in Jersey, that
the people don't think of using it
as a beverage. 1t is even reported
that the milkmen have been CON-
PEELED to sell pure milk, as a matter
Of economy. .s..... 1.
Asking a young lady what her ac-
complishments are, is generally
speaking, harmless enough. Still, in
these days, it might in some cases
cause embarrassment to put the
question, ''Do you paintE'
A young clergyman, having buried
three wives was asked by a lady,
how he happened to be SO lucky.
MADAM" replied he, Il knew they
could not live without contradiction,
so 1 let them all have their own
way"
An old lady who lost her purse
short time since, declared, on its be-
ing restored to her, that she would
not attempt to interfere with the re-
ward which was stored up in Heavr
en- for the finder, by offering him
money.
A lady once asked gentleman
what wit was like. To this he re-
piled: "Like your ladyship's bottle
of sal volatile-poignant at the first
opening, but on being too much
handled about, it loses all its flavor
and becomes insipid." @
A Cockney tourist met with a
Scotch lassie going barefoot towards
Glasgow. "Lsssie," said he, Il
should like to know if all the peo-
pie in this part sc barefooted"
''Part on 'em do. and the rest on 'em
mind their own business" was the
rather settling reply.
a man who had been arrested as
vagrant, protested he had regu-
lar trade and calling. To wit, smok
ing glass for total eclipses of the
sun; and as these occur few times
in century, he was not to blame
for being ont Of Unemployment good
deal.
A Barrister, prosecuting a woman
for maltreating her infirm husband,
exclaimed that most of the sex were
devils! Seeing several genteel fe-
males in court, he sought to correct
his slip of the tongue by adding,
"but the rest are angels, and many
of them are present.
a countryman was standing on
one of the wharves the other day
watching the progress of hoisting
an anchor of a schooner, which was
getting under weight and as he saw
the huge iron rise from the water to
the "Yo, heave ohw of the sailors he
remarked: You may heave high
and heaye low, but you will never
oct that crooked fhino through that