Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-02-22
IN TOWN AND OUT.
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Why is a salt herring like an un
brella? Because it keeps one dry.
Already there are some indication
of springs approach.
How is March to come i'm this year
Is the lion, or the lamb to hold sway?
Local items of news are almost q
scarce as hen-teeth this week.
The Canton BARRIERS have been OF
dered 10 close their shops OH Sundays.
A man conducts himself abroad a
he was taught at home.
There is a pretty piece of music OH
entitled-"Father, Pray with me To
night
The First National Bank of Coshoc
ton commenced business on Monday
the 18th inst.
The Chess Club occasionally enjoy
some fine games of that interesting an(
instructive amusement.
-"Did you get valentine?" was tn,
familiar question last week among tn,
young lads and lassies.
What is the difference between :
soldier and bomb-shell? One goes tt
war; the other goes to pieces (peace-es.,
Why is the present year synony-
nous to the year 1902 Because it is
1870 t,co.
The NJ. z. Church, at Salineville
closed a revival meeting with one hun
dred and two accessiOns.
Most of our ice-men have secured a
good supply OF congealed GOODNESS for
the strawberry and ice-cream season.
There is nothing like the leap year,
| To make complete our joys;
The girls will 90 sleighing-
That Is, they'll slay the boys.
When it freezes nights and thaws
day-times you can depend ont therell
be right smart run of sap" So says
all inhabitaTt from the country.
See advertisement of Mark Twain's
new book, entitled "Roughing It." Send
for it, all you who have laughed over
'InnOcents Abroad"
| The manner in which chicken
thieves" silence the cackle is by light
ing a match and placing it under the
victim 'SnOse.
-"Where have you been since the
COW kicked?" is delicate way the
Chicagoans have of referring to the
late calamity.
Diamonds in Arazona have ad-
vanced in price. You can not now
purchase really good ones short Of 60
cents bushel.
Bear in mind there will be grand
literary entertainment i'm Redett's Hall,
Fredericksburg, on the evening of the
22nd.
We warn our readers to have moth
ing to do with the "BrOken Tea Leaf
Company" of Philadelphia, as they are
a set of swindlers.
And now people are beginning to
wonder if March will "come in like a
lion," Or glide along with the gentle
ness of a roast lamb coming to dinner,
that is an hour late.
1t is stated that several warehouses
for unclaimed goods are to be designa-
as part of radical change in the Cen
eral Order business.
An arrangement is soon to he made
by which the morning train over the
Massillon and Clinton road for Cleve-
land will start from Canton instead of
Massillon.
An exchange says: "The less q man
knows the wider he wears his mouth
open. 1t is rs impossible for a fool to
keep his jaws shut as it is for sick
oyster to keep his shell closed.''
"A young woman who had just lost
her husband, writes TO her husbands
friends in the following consOling man
ner: "Poor John is dead. Loss wholly
covered by insurance"
Some compositor has compiled G6S |
legitimate English words from the let |
tiers forming the words-Prince Alex |
is. He ought to print them in book,
and call it AleXicon.
After the items are written about |
st. Valentines Day, then attention will |
be paid to the dawning of March, as to
whether it will come in like lion or a
lamb. In advance, We prophecy it soiH.
An English clergyman recently |
said, sit is difficult to overestimate the |
value of a real good hymn" A great
many old maids are of precisely the
same opinion.
We are still willing to receive pay
ment from any of our kind friends who
may owe us for subscription, advertis-
ing or job printing. We expect to con-
tinue in this frame of mind for some
time.
The Salem Republican says that
about one hundred and twenty-five
persons have united with the N. Z.
church since the beginning of the pro-
tracted meeting, which still continues
in that town.
"A lad out West became afflicted
with mania for poetizing. Believing
that any sacrifice ef rhetoric was ad-
missible for the sake of ryhme, he
wrote the following:
'sThe wind blew down daddy's well sweep,
And Jake and put it up again!- sheep"
"A wedding train consisting of sew
en- buggies passed through town on
Tuesday, and stopped at the residence
of one of our ministers, where one of
the couples were united in bonds of
and were sent on their way
rejoicing. We didn't learn the names
of the couple.
While rather affected young lady
was conffding to her admirer how ethe-
real her appetite was, and the sensitive
delicateness of her organization, the
too matter-of-fact help bawled out,
'Say! will ye have yer billed pork and
beans now or wait till yer feller's
gomez" The "feller" has been gone
ever since.
Justice is not so tardy rs one would
think for woman that has to wear a
rag over her eyes, and go around bare
footed in winter time carrying pair of
apothecary's scales. For instance; a
man gruffly refused to sub
scribe for the REPUBLICAN, but before
he got home his team ran away break
ing things generally, and costing him
more than five times the price of sub
scriptiOn.
A Connecticut clergyman recently
from the pulpit that he had
heard a man say that he had read the
Bible through in sixty hours. Deter
mined to ascertained whether the indi-
vidual told the truth, he set about it
and read the whole of it aloud
to his wife in fifty-nine hours and some
thing over thirty minutes. He read
one and sometimes two hours
a day, keeping the exact time with the
result indicated.