Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-11-16
ODDS AND ENDS

Arooted sorrow-The toothache
Indian girls weighing less thar
It's are called Sissy.
Archbishop Spaulding, of Mary
land, is seriously i'll.
'Pantaloonatics' is what the wick
ed New York Star call the women's
Fighters. '9- ~
To poultry keepers-Is there any
difference between hen stealing and
cock robbin?
Why are lovers like armies? Be
cause they get along well enough
until they are engaged
Some farmers in Indiana have to
drive their stock seven miles to
water. All the streams are dry.
The day to pick your wife is
Chooseday. "Wednesday is the
day to be married on, of course.
This is sweeping catastrophe,
as the the man said when his wife
knocked him down with broom.
A California editor has bought a
mule,and a brother editor chronicles
it is remarkable instance of self
possession
When New York wine merchant
sells you ''old port from the wood"
does he inform you that the wood it
comes from is logwood.
A writer on school discipline says,
without liberal use of the rod it
is nearly impossible to make boys
smart
Josh Billings says: Courage with
out discretion is like a ram with
horns at both ends-he will have
more fights on hand than he can do
justice to-"
A strict temperance man in Con
necticut would not let his horse
drink out of a public trough which
had the word "bitters'' painted up
on it by some peripatetic advertis-
ing agent
An lrishman who was recently
run over by whole train of cars,
got up and asked for his cap the
first thing, and afterwards said he
would not run such another risk for
ten dollars
An Ohio farmer thought the re-
prieve of murderer, the other day,
a 'pesky mean game as he had
grist at the mill, and expected to
have darned good time witnessing
the execution while waiting for it.
An Irishman writing from Phila-
delphia the other day to his friend
in the old country, concluded his
letter thus: IF iver it's my for
chune to live till I dy-and God
nose whether it is so or no-I'll Wis
it ould Ireland afore 1 leave Phila-
madelphy.'
On the outside cover of Bible
iying on the table of Hudson Riv-
er steamboat are written the follow
ing lines:
This holy book neglected lies,
No soul with it communes;
While scores of sous sit round about
With Herald and Tribunes.''
A farmer in the vicinity of Au-
gusta, Maine, made trade, twenty
pears ago, with furniture dealer in |
that place, to bring him a barrel of
apples for looking glass. Nothing
was heard from the farmer until the |
other day, when cart backed up to |
The store and a voice shouted Here's |
yer applesr ..rr-t
A live Thomas cat was lately
'ound in a mailbag in the town off
Dexter, Me-, and after looking him |
Ill over and finding no stamps, the
postmaster concluded to hold him
or postuge, and in order that the
might not lose anything
lie set the arrival at work catching
nice.
Pm not used to begging said
title girl to lady of whom she had
sked for aims, 'cause only two
Teeks ago my father was mer,
hantp 'Why child, how could you
'e reduced to poverty so soonP
My father took a bad two dollar
ill at his peanut stand, and that
uined him. sobbed the child.
MARY, where's the frying pan?'
'Eddie,s got it carting mud and
lamshells up-the ally, with the cat
or a horse
The dear little fellow what a
enius he will make. But go and
et it. We're going to have COM
any, and must fry some fish for
inner
The grave buries every error-
overs every -extinguishes
esentment. From its peaceful bo-
ON spring none but fond regrest
nd tender recollections. Who can
ook down upon the the grave of an
nemy and not feel a compunctious
hrob that he should have warred
nth the poor handful of dust that
es mOuldering before him? l.
A man in Brattleboro was recent
? urged by an insurance agent to
AXE out a. policy for the benefit of
is wife, to the amount of $4,000.
'efore deciding, he asked his wife's
pinion, when she replied, with
harming frankness: 'Why,my dear,
on will of course act according to .
our own Judgment; but, in case of
our decease, it would make me a
lther more desirable widow =
A printer of Erie has sued a t
night of the shaving pot and lath-
r brush for between 81 and SO, and
s an offset the barber has presented {
bill for box rent for shaving mug
2. 1t is to be tried before Alder
ian Buckly next Monday, ,and there
J prospect of some fun in the
ase, as the printer has subpenaed
early all the BARRIERS in town to APP
ear as witnesses, so that he can as
ertain the general charges for
having mug rent.
A stranger from Canada dropped /;
lto an eating house near the Cen ,
ral tiepot Detroit nm 'rhurrJov onl ,