Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-02-02
In Town and Out.


RI r. is now laid several miles below
Oxford, the construction train runnin!
two miles beyond on Tuesday.
Putting a stick of long wood il
a short stove, then taking it out ant
placing it in a wood box and pilin!
shavings on top of it, was the reason ;
man not 1Oo miles from here had to ren
a house next day.
The Disciple Mite Society vii
meet at the residence of Mr.. Johr
Brown, on Friday evening.
| Mr.. Milholland preached an ex.
cellent sermon last Sabbath evening
from the text: "If the righteous scarce.
ly be saved, where shall the ungodly
and sinner appear" The sermon wa:
pointed and practical.
"A character, like a kettle, once
mended, always wants mending.
| DR.. Hill recommends young ladie;
to take more outdoor exercise. This is
matter in which steps should be taken
Persons who are so careless as to
leave their teams standing on the street
without being hitched while they step
into a store, need not be surprised
should their horses run away and leave
them.
We were wakened from our
slumbers about three o'clock Tuesday
morning by few voices singing: Thou
art gone from our gaze On raising the
blind and looking out upon the street,
we saw sled load of young folks pass
ing up through the mud and rain. As
the snow had taken its flight, we con-
cluded they were chanting a requiem
over its departure.
The Methodist Mite Society will
meet at the house of A. Waits, on Fri
day evening.
The law requires supervisors OF
road districts to put up guide boards at
all forks of roads, and inficts penalty
for neglect of duty in this respect,
which is right. In some townships little
attention is paid to the law and travellers
are subjected to frequent annoyance by
taking the wrong road.
Persons having magazines and
books to bind will do we'll by leaving
them at this office. Our arrangements
are such that we can have binding done
in superior style and on short notice.
Most men who complain that they
have nothing to do, are Just about equal
to the task.
why is little man who is always
telling long stories about nothing, like a
certain new kind of rifle? Because hes
a small bore.
1t is reported that a patent has
been obtained at Washington for a newly
invented machine to make haste.
A man stopping his paper wrote
to the editor: 81 think folks ottent to
spend their mummy for payper, mi daddy
didn't and everybody sed he was the in
telligentest man in the country and had
the smartest family of boiz that ever
dugged taturs."
DO nothing in a passion; why wilt
thou put to sea in the violence of a storm
Some disappointed benedict says,
"When you see lady and a gentleman
alone in cab, each looking out of diff
ferent window, be convinced that they
are perfectly harmless, for they have
been married some months, at least.
"A fashionable but ignorant lady,
desirous of purchasing watch, was
shown very beautiful one, the shop
keeper remarking that it went thirty-six
hours. "What! in one day ?" she asked.
A youngster, while perusing a
chapter in Genesis, turning to his moth
er, inquired if the people in those day S
used to do sums on the ground? 1t was
discovered that he had been reading the
passage, "And the sons of men multi
piled upon the face of the earth.''
Not all are ferocious who would
be thought so. There are as many sheep
in Olives clothing as wolves in sleeps.
A Cairo, Illinois, undertaken ad-
vertises his deck burial cases as much
more comfortable than the old fashioned
ones.
We print sale bills at very short
notice and on reasonable terms, at this
Office.
Remember that we are prepared
to do all kinds of printing neatly, eX-
peditiously and at very reasonable rates.
The best Doctors in Millersburg
are DIR. Diet, DIR. Quiet and DR.. Merry
man.
There is grand life-chorus, into
which all human instruments, if in tune,
may come, each in its turn giving in
crease to the harmony.
Never jump at conclusions, or you
may take leap in the dark.
A great author says that the
mountains stand fixed forever. We be-
lieve it is not an uncommon thing for
them to slope.
The popular drink Of some young
men around town is "the same" 1t ev-
identity has the same result.
Can woman keep secret? OF
course she can--keep it a going.
Money is reported close, but not
quite within reach yet.
"A great man is always willing to
be little, but little man generally
wants to be great.
To get rid of mice and rats-read
a German newspaper to them half an
hour each day.
| Some unfeeling wretch describe;
old maids as ''embers from which the
sparks have fed"
Life is beautiful night, in which
not one star goes down but another rise;
to take its place.
"A celebrated wit was asked if ht
knew Theodore Hook, "Yes," replied
he, "Hook and eye are old associates"
When are rogues like old books
When they are bound over.
-" Buy the truth and sell it not" is
very old, but a very good proverb