Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-12

you want cowslips in winter.
a new daily German newspaper
is to commence publication in Cinein-
natl ON the 18th of next month.
The Crawford county court, at its
late session, sentenced five men to the
penitentiary for larceny.
George Schnorr is now selling
piles of groceries and provisions of all
kinds. If you don't believe it, go and
see for yourself.
WHY is electricity like the police
when they are wanted? Because it is
an Invisible force.
why is an eloquent speaker like a
river? Because the greatest at the
mouth.
"A new map of Knox county is
under way. 1t is twenty-six years since
a county map of her territory was last
published.
"A moon-struck youth whom with
a cracked guitar and a worse
cracked voice, was overheard serenading
his Nancy Jane with Put me in my
little bed," by her big brother, was
warned to put distance behind him or
he would g Stand him on his little head"
1t is said the "wicked stand in
slippery placesn but our righteous peo-
pie fearing they cannot, leave the slip
perry sidewalks for the middle of the
less slippery streets, nowadays.
An old writer has quantity, yet
beautifully, called the Twenty-third
Psalm 'the bleating of Messiah's sheep
Weston is still at his old tricks
letting people know what he can do.
See his new advertisement this week.
He is selling great many groceries
and provisions.
The Disciple Mite Society will
meet at the residence of II. II. Robson,
Friday evening, this week.
-Harbor not revenge in your
breast, it will torment your heart, and
discolor its best inclinations.
In the Arctic regions persons can
converse mile distant, when the ther-
mometer is below zero.
Mr.. j. G. La Rue of Mt. Vernon,
while endeavoring to back out of a
bridge over Dry Creek on the Newark
road, accidentally went over the en-
bankment at the end of the bridge and
was seriously injured. The horse was
killed, and the wagon badly broken.
"A ridge of beautiful black mar
BILE, ninety feet high and three-fourths
of a mile long, has recently been dis
covered in Girardeau county, Missouri,
about half mile from the Mississippi
river. 1t is said to be susceptible of the
finest polish.
why do girls kiss each other and
men do not? Because girls have no.
thing better to kiss and men have.
Chicago is modest. At recent
assemblage of its newspaper men a
speaker said that the managing editor
of the greatest newspaper in the world
would yet sit in his chair, in Chicago,
and he believed that the man was among
those who sat before him. London and
New York may take back seat.
An Iowa editor has fallen heir to
s2,950,OOO. We would appreciate a
similar fall.
The Turkey question was peace
fully disposed of last week by thousands
of people of these United States.
DEAREE AND pEARER.
Dear Laura, when you were flirting young
And was your dutiful swain.
Your smiles could exalt TO the summit of bliss,
Your frowns could o'erwhelm me with pain;
You were dear to me then, love, but now you're
my wife,
1t is strange the fond tie should be nearer;
For when am paying your bills. on my life,
You seem to get dedrer and dedrerr'
Miss Highfyer, on being asked if
she was acquainted with any literary
gentlemen, said she was quite intimately
acquainted with one little airy gentle
man.
A Western editor wishes to know
whether the law, recently enacted,
against the carrying of deadly weapons,
applies to doctors, who carry pills in
their pockets. Perhaps some one can
inform him.
"A thrifty wife asks why the men
can't do something useful. Mightn't
they as well amuse themselves in smo-
king hams as in smoking cigars?
Gloves are now made in England
with n pocket on the inside of the palm,
to suit the habit INDUCED in by the fair
sex of carrying money in that position.
The reduction of the tariff of 15
cents pound on tea, IA cents on sugar
and 2 cents on coffee went into effect on
Jan. I'd.
will some learned counsel inform
us what sentence should be passed upon
a young lady, who, when accused of be-
ing heartless fiirt Immediately pleads
--jilty?
The rising generation sage" rapid
ly in Detroit. A mature specimen, eight
years old, was hunting around the po-
lice stations for stray father the other
night. "You see," he remarked, with
filial eXultation, 1.-THE guv'ner's little
wild yet, but he'll grow out of it."
Fatty matters mixed with dough
before baking, form what we term pastry,
the objection to which, in case of weak
digestion, is that during cooking the
starch and oil, combine, and become less
wholesome than when separate from
each other.
"a goat is good as milke---yes,
'ss, w think II Is better rs q butter.