Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-09
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Gone courting-the lawyers.

nine thousand dollars.
| Short hair for women is advocated
| by the Coming Woman's Journal
published at Chicago.
| Philadelphia has 205 carpet fac
tories.
Some slandering bachelor says i
is much joy when you first get mar
ried, but it is more jawy after a veal
or so. rs
| A good farmer will n ever be sat
isfh with his farming until he is
confdenfhis land grows better every
year.
| A wit once asked a peasant wha,
part he performed in the great drama
of ifes 4 mind my own business,
was the reply.
4 A Norwich, Conn, woman, who
ran needle into her foot, year ago,
BY accidentally stepping upon it, re,
Gently had it pulled out from be-
tween her shoulders.
A young lady at party the other
evening, yielding to persuasion to
favor the company with The Maid
ems Prayer went to the piano and
struck up Mother, may l go out to
swim" in very animated manner
A far western paper recently APP
peared with two columns blank, with
the exception of this note: by Tel
egraph-Special Dispatches to the
Pacific Tribune. This is where the
telegraphic news ought to be; but
as we didn't receive any we can't put
it here
New Jersey is the luckiest State
in the Union, financially. 1t is out
of debt, the receipts cover the expen-
ses, and there are no taxes on the
people.
Says Emerson: The one event
which never loses its romance is the
encounter with superior persons on
terms allowing the happiest inter
course
The Prince of Wales is stated to
be mending his ways on account of
the strong Republican tendencies of
British mind. The greater the free
dom of the community the less free
dom there is in his morals.
The total number of hogs packed
this season in Chicago up to date, is
SS6, 1863, and the packers still at work.
In Mobile Alabama, man married
recently his seventh wife, Mexican,
having previously been united re
spectively to German, French, Eng
lish, Dutch, Irish and American wo-
man, all of whom died.
Christ's Church. (Episcopal) in
New York, circulates cards in hotels
and other public places notifying
strangers that seats are reserved"
for them at that church.
1t is said that Albert Barnes wrote
his commentary on the Bible, com
prising, about twenty volumes, be-
fore nine o'clock in the morning, to
avoid trespassing ON the daily pro-
fessional pursuits of the author.
A wealthy bishop congratulated
poor priest upon the good air which
he breathed in his parish, to which
the latter replied-'Yes, my lord,
the air would be good enough, if I
could only live upon it.
1t was an English satirist, but |
might have been native of Boston,
who stated that 'Fanuel Hall is sup
posed to have been the original Sol
omon's temple, and Boston Common
is known to be the Garden of Eden
with modern Improvements
Madam" said an ill-tempered |
physician to lady patient, ''if we-
men were admitted to Paradise their
tongues would make it purgatory."
"And if some doctors were al
lowed to practice there" retorted |
the lady "they would make it a des
ert."
An eccentric minister in large |
parish had seventeen couples to
marry at once in grand common
service at church. In the course of
the wedding he asked one of the
men to pledge himself to the wrong
The man naturally pro-
tested, but was told, "Hold your
1 will marry you all now
and here; you can sort yourselves
going home"
A little boy who went to church was
cautioned to remember the text,
which was: why stand We all the
lay idle? Go into'my vineyard, and
is right 1 will pay thee
Johnny came home and was asked
10 repeat the text. He thought
over it awhile, and then cried out:
What dye stand round here doing
luffin for; go into my barnyard and
work; I'll make it all right with
-ou.'
As to who fired the first gun of
he rebellion on Virginia soil, the
Petersburg Inder says: For the
benefit of some future historian who
nay record the valiant deeds of the
defenders of the Lost Cause, we
tate, upon reliable information,
hat DR.. Prosise fired the first gun
rom Virginia soil, on Craney Island,
It one of Pendegrast's fleet. The
Doctor, at that time, was a member
If the Petersburg Artillery, Captain
!. n. Nicholas.
An old fellow who took part in
he late rebellion, was one day blow
ng in the village tavern to crowd
# listeners, and hoasting of his
many exploits, when he was inter
upted by the question: Il say, old i
Zoe. how many rebels did you kill ,
Turing the warT How many rebels ,
lid l kill, sir? how many did kill?
Veil, don't know just 'zactly how
many; but l know this much-I
Tiled as many of them as they did
# me. ,
The Useful Needle.
"How little notice is ever taken of {
'ou in the world" said a pin to 4
eedle. "You are always about your
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