Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-11-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

Unshed tears are never wiped away.
Swine are plenty and pearls are few
If the fruit is bitter the blossom wa
foul.
They little do who always see tht
great.
1t is a bad sign to be skillful in apol-
ogies.
Justice is immutable-but not human
justice.
Any life upon which God smiles is q
success.
Riches. are wings with which even
asses can fly.
Can man who attends to the street
lamps be called light character?
Railroads have three gauges: A broad
gauge, narrow gauge and a mortgage.
Fashionable young ladies, like letters,
require stamps, or the males reject
them.
A Frenchman said of Shakespeare
''Ven you find angling you no UNDER
stand, it is always somezing fine."
OF 40 Ohio counties reporting, Al rep
resent a comparativelyunpromising con-
ditiOn of crops.
Thomas Carlyle, the great English au-
thor, has come out in favor of pro-
hibitory law in England.
Eighty.two mummified Chinamen
were lately shipped from Sacramento to
the Celestial land.
Hereafter the worst you can wish
your enemy will be, that somebody may
pue Mansard roof on him.
Destructive fires have been raging in
the pineries of Clark county, Wiscon-
sin.
Among the worst inflictions caused
by the horse influenza are some of the
names given it.
The febaequobron hiatlharsorsorenos
is draining Vermont and New Hamp-
shire of their oxen, who are playing
horse in the cities.
Hydrophobia is raging to an unparal-
leled extent in the northern counties of
where many men as well as
meet their deaths by it.
A London firm recently imported, by
way of Rotterdam, the first cargo of
Prussian coal ever brought into Eng
land.
Who are the most discontented trades
men? Blacksmiths: for their bellows
and blows are always going, and they
are striking for wages all the year
around.
Iron shingles have been lately paten-
ted and are said to be less expensive
than slate. They are made about six
inches by thirteen inches in size, and
with headless nails.
ALondon tailor advertises garments
cut not only to fit, and in the best style,
but regulating any disproportions that
may exist, and enhancing the correct
contour of the proportionate."
England has a second Froude worthy
Of mention. Mr.. w. Froude, scien-
,iflc inventor of high rank has invented
IN important and very complicated ap-
paratus for measuring the height, shape
md movement of ocean waves.
A young lady having read about
nan having invented stove which con-
'umed its own smoke, hopes he will de-
rise method whereby tobacco smokers
,an be run on the same economical
principle.
An ignorant woman of great wealth
md pretentiOns said, in response to a
to mutton on her table:
'Oh, yes, my husband always buys the
,est. He isn't stingy, and besides, he is
| great epicac."
\ couple of Hoosiers, one of whom
vas named Trooth, recently had lit
lie quarrel over the division of some
,orn. Trooth was crushed to the earth,
,ut he rose again and vanquished his
and the eternal ears (of CORN
ire his.
Two citizens of Little Rock, Arkan-
las, lately got into Il desperate quarrel
IS to which had put the most money in
o the contribution box at church. The
quarrel eliminated in fight, with dis
Istrous results to one of the combat
Ints.
The New York Mail complains that
he abominable practice of artificial
has become very prevalent
Imong the young ladies of that city,
numbers of whom dye their hair gold
m, freseo their faces, and practice other
oilet deceptions.
Some doctors leave no stone unturned
o cure patient. One gave n woman
ourteen kinds of medicine to cure the
hills. She has been cold ever since;
,ut she has not shaken shake except
when the hearse ran over Il stump on
he way to the grave. The doctor has
moved.
This comes of sleeping with pistol
lnder ones pillow. An Ohio man the
'ther night discharged revolver while
II his sleep, the ball entering the right
high and passing diagonally through
he thigh, lodging near the knee. When
he awoke he was sitting up in bed, with
he revolver in his left hand, and the
,all i'm his right leg
Daring the past winter a British
steamship made two successful trips
rom the chesapeake to London, load
ii exclusively with Baltimore oysters.
so great was the success attending the
that it is now learned that
hree large vessels are now on their
way to this country from European
)orts under charter to take eargoes of
Baltimore oysters to London.
A Neat Puzzle.