Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-16

frluaE OF next week.
The Silver Cornet Band took a
position on the Public Square Mon
day evening, and gave our citizens a
rich treat of good music, such as they
are capable Of rendering.
If you want nice maple sugar or
molasses, 60 to A. d. Works grocery
and bakery. He has very nice article
of either kind.
The answer to the puzzle in our
last is" The mystery of this circle is
to find the place of beginning" An
swered by Marshall Taylor.
1t must be provoking to the
Ground Hog to remain quietly in his
hole these beautiful days. He ought to
be voted failure.
The Governor of Maine has re-
ceived at Augusta, the capital of the
State, communication addressed, "To
the Guvner, or gusty."
A poem in an agricultural paper,
called Song of the Farmer Boy" very
appropriately commences with, "Ho!
brothers, ho!"
There is said to be hilly county
in East Tennessee, where the chill
dren look up the chimney to see if the
cows are coming home.
The wind is said to blow with
such force in Colorado that when man
loses his hat he has to telegraph to the
next station to have it stopped.
--Mary's little lamb has had dread
full time during the last few months.
The poor thing is little better now.
"A German who went to hear
Nilsson, says he does not like her because
she is so tall and thin. He wants
singer who looks like "fedder bed nit
a string tied round der middle"
An unmarried young man declared
the other day, with an expression of
countenance most lugubrious: 81 never
cared farthing about getting married
until attended an old bachelors funer-
al" s---.
1T has been decided that Post
masters must receive mutilated currency
at its full value for postage stamps.
-" Put me in the Little Church
around the Corner" is the song sung by
the preachers since contributions have
begun to flow into that church so freely.
We would be glad to hear from
our friends in the various townships of
this county as to the prospects for the
coming wheat and fruit crops. Facts
not fancies is what we want.
Recently, g census-taker asked
servant girl in the vicinity of Boston
how many regular steady boarders there
were in the house. She told him there
were fifteen boarders in all, shut not
more'n four of 'em is steady; the rest is
Dimocrats."
We notice the draymen have been
busy for some days past hauling hubs,
felloes, sash and doors, to the warehouse
of Harpster, Rudy & Co. These gentle
men are laying in large stock for a
big trade this spring and summer.
A college professor having re-
quested that some man should go to the
presidents office on an errand, nearly
the whole class arose to their feet. The
professors question, "How many of
you do you think it takes to make a
man?" quickly brought them to their
seats again.
"A material achievement is great
or paltry, according to the length of the
skeleton inside the meat of the specta-
tor-a matter which the achiever can in
no way control.
Brigham Young's wives are un-
happy about the distribution to be made
of the old fellows property after his
death. They know that a wife is enti-
tied to third of the estate, but as there
are sixty or seventy wives, they are
justly apprehensive there may not be
thirds enough to ego round.'
They never will get done abusing
Mr.. Greeley's handwriting. The other
day he wrote puff for "Anna Dicken-
Sop,c 1aotura ON loo, Of Aro =, Tho
compositor set it up ANY Dutchman
can't play a jews-harp." There is no
wonder the good old man gets soured
against humanity, and often speaks out
in meeting,
Base ball has more enemies than
it used to have. There seems to be a
growing respect for long life and whole
limbs, and growing objection of the
congregation of roughs for the purpose
of gambling, all of which is of course
unfavorable to our national game.
"A prominent dry goods merchant
of Boston worked half an hour on the
folloging proposition, and failed to give
the answer: "If fourteen men build a
stone wall in nine days, how long will
it take five men to build like wall in
six dayss"
We are pleased to see that our old
friend DR.. Charles Hunt, of Dixon, ILL.,,
has taken to himself a wife. The Doc
tor has our best wishes for his future
happiness.
w. o. Finn, Fashionable Tailor
of Shreve, Ohio, will come out in the
shape of an advertisement in our next
issue. He understands his business thor
oughly.
Anna, Dickinson will lecmre in
Wooster tonight on "Joan of Are"
Just opened large lot of goods
and more coming at NJ. Bird e. Sons.
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