Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-03-14
ssFis-, SsE Vol. II, No. 30.
ODDS AND ENDS.

Floridians are gathering mUlberries
Stokes is called ''the dandy assassin
Preferred creditors--those who don'i
dun.
Preferred stock-Alderneys and Dur
hams.
A lovers meter-Meet her by moon
light.
New potatoes have appeared in Cali
fornia.
A leading merchant at Seattle, W. t.
is young lady.
The Thomas orchestra is footing in
the sunny South.
Assaults with intent to become insane
are highly common.
The strawberry season at Santa Bra
bara opened Jan. "a.
England is afflicted with ''Prince OF
Wales Recovery Polka"
''Where did your manly form secumh
last?" is the latest salute.
The Lowell Courier calls a dog and
gun "Boone companions.
DIR. Medlicott, the Kansas poisoner
won't hang till March %.
Etiquette-If you pay visit, it is not
necessary to take a receipt.
A bad book to read-A naughty BIZ
ography (an autobiography.
When is small baby like big bank
er? When he is a wroth-child.
Contentment is of so great value that
it can never be dear purchased.
A hop in your walk is halt; but a
dance upon nothing is a halter.
The cheapest, longest and swiftest
conveyance-A train of thought.
The Cleveland coroner wears little
gold kerosene can as breast-pin.
Wachtel irrigates his throat behind
the scenes with hot water straight.
Come in out of the wet,' as the alli-
gator said to the little colored boy.
A Boston paper thinks Wachtel too
high toned to quarrel with Brignoli.
Why is spider good correspondent ?
because he drops line by every post.
Brown writes to learn if policeman
has any legal right to take up a note.
A Wyandotte, Ill. journalist save
time and ink by dating his letter ''Y & -
We should not retain the remem-
brance of faults we have once forgiven.
Let the slandered take comfort; it is
only at fruit trees that thieves throw
stones.
Montesquieu wrote: "Happy is that
people whose annals are written in
sandr
To what color does fogging change
a boys complexion? 1t makes him
yell o!
Boston Corbett, the man who once
enjoyed notoriety as the killer of Booth,
is dead.
The Boston Journal of Commerce says
the price of kid gloves is to be reduced
next season.
The chains of habit are generally too
small to be felt until they are too strong
to be broken.
A young man in Syracuse lately
eloped with his step-mother, who is
about his own age.
Pay your little outstanding earthly
bills, and don't romance about the fall
ing dues of heaven.
Austria is not inclined to permit the
meeting of the Ecumenical Council
within her territory.
A st. Louis flour store has this novel
sign over the door, III. C. Cole, Sons and
Daughters.
There is in Boston a young woman
who acts as engineer at manufacture
ing establishment.
is not Horace Greeley Collegebred
man. asks correspondent. NO, sir;
he is Graham bread man.
Two females are said to be training
for prize fight for one thousand dol
lars a side near Akron, Ohio.
Why are fashionable young ladiesilike
letters? Because, unless they have
stamps the males reject them.
The Southern States have thus far
subscribed $40, ,932.11 toward monu-
ment to General Robert E. Lee.
When the young fawns of zoologi-
cal garden retire to their evening
couches, their song is, 'call us early
mother DEAR
A hen-pecked husband who had mar
ried his wife because she was handsome,
declared that "a thing of beauty was
jaw forever
A swell in drawing room wanting
his servant called out, Where is that
blockhead of mine?' A wit replied,
'On your shoulders, sir
An exchange wants to know, since
work is pronounced wirk, why pork
is not pronounced pirk? The questions
are very irksome.
If hair of dog is good for his
bite, that explains why sulphur, which
comes from Vesuvius, is good for erIp-
tions.
The Ohio Democratic State Centr NJ
Committee decided not to cali State
Convention at present.
Strasburg University, where Goethe
took his doctors degree one hundred
years ago, is reopened.
A couple of chairs belonging to Ben
edict Arnold were recently sold at St.
John, n. B., for l,275 each.
Thomas A. Scott's salaries from the
various railroads with which he is con-
nected, amounts to $15O,OOO annually.
Chief Justice Chase is said to have al
ready purchased five acres of Rhode Is
land, and that he has his eye on the
other fifteen.
"A basket of champagne." exclaimed
country dame. "Why, de clare now
1 always thought champagne was wa
terry stuff, like; l never kn owed YOU