Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
Human constancy: fools promising to
! make straight journey over a crooked
, road.
A drunkard, upon hearing that the
earth was round, said that accounted for
his rolling about so much.
In New Mexico, recent vote on es-
tablishing free schools stood 81 for and
5,O76 against.
A Kansas paper tells of an army of
toads which extends three-fourths of a
mile along the road.
Bad habits are thistles of the heart,
and every indulgence of them is seed
from which will spring a new crop of
weeds.
would not give one moment of heav-
en- for all the joys and riches of this
world, even if it lasted for thousands of
years.
A schoolmaster, on being asked what
was meant by the word fortiflcation, an
swered-two twentifications make a for
tification. a.7
We first leave childhood behind us,
then the years ofripened manhood then
the better and more pleasing part of
old age.
Let the simple soul expend, ,unimpeded,
the fire of its energy. The immortal
heart should be the leader, but let all
your eyes look upward. 4s-
A hypocrite may spin so fair thread
that it may deceive his own eye he may
admire the cobweb, and not know him.
self to be the spider.
A thief was lately caught breaking in
to song. He had already got through
the first two bars, when a policeman
came up and hit him with stave.
Reason requires culture to expand it.
1t resembles the fire concealed in the
flint, which only SHOWS, when struck
with the steel.
There are some people that live with
out any design at all, and pass through
the world like straws on river-they
do not go, but are carried.
We should study in all things to con-
ciliate and cherish continually that
charity and fOrgiving spirit which we
would have exercised toward us.
The hot spell continues in Belfast,
and at latest reports the city was under
control of the military. Fighting is 60
ing on everywhere.
Dublin, not to be behind Belfast, is also
indulging in a riot. For the Dublin
riot, however, there is terrible and
telling excuse, scarcity of bread.
An Irish paper publishes the follow
ing: A deaf man named Taft was run
down and killed by a passenger train.
He was injured in similar way about |
a year ago.
Dobson says his friends seem deter
mined to give him the title of DIR. His |
butcher, baker, and all the rest do so
but they put the DIR. after his name |
instead of before it.
How many unfortunates have fallen |
in war;" said spinster to a veteran
general, who was also veteran bachelor.
"Not half so many, madam, as have |
fallen in love- was his testy reply.
Smiggles that in his boyhood he used
to sing with some spirit, 81 want TO be |
an angel" but since he began to play |
base ball, the very thought of going |
"out Oh a fly" makes him shudder.
A misanthropic editor of Western
paper announces: ''The clock of our
courthouse, emulating the example of
some of our ladies, had nice coat of
paint on its face yesterday
A bald eagle at Wabash, Indiana, had
captured about sixty pigs in four weeks,
when he was finally ushered out of the |
pork business by burying his talons in
too big lift for him, and being held
until taken prisoner.
"That whited sepulcher, that grim
ming death's-head, that den of all abom-
nations" were the epithets Horace
Greeley applied to the Democratic party |
in his speech at Ossawatamie, Kansas,
May IA, 1853.
South America is to have its Pacific |
railroad as well as the Northern half Of |
the continent, English capitalists hav-
ing already engaged to supply the funds
necessary for the construction ofa grand |
line IN Brazil.
The reading of novels is said to have
led boy named "Smith" to run away |
from his home in Brooklyn. And the
moral is of course that no parent have
ing boy amed.."Smith'' should allow |
him to read such stuff.
At collection lately made at char
ity fair, a young lady offered the plate
to a rich man who was noted Tor his |
stinginess. have nothing" was his |
curt answer. " Then take something"
she replied. "You know am begging |
for the poor"
Prof. Agassiz says: 81 am satisfied,
since | have examined the Tomacaris |
peircei, that trilobites are not any more
closely related to the phyilopods than
to any other entomostranc9 or to the |
isopods." We always maintained that
theory about the pods and things.
The Danbury Ne,rs says: "we pre-
sumo many of the owners of lots in the
cemetry have no objection to the people
helping themselves to the flowers on the
graves, or digging up hedges, but they
unanimously unite in requesting visitors
to remove their boots and shoes before
climbing tombstones.
A quiet man rang his neighbor's door
bell one night.
sis the gentleman i'm ?" he asked of
the servant
= don't know. Did you wish to see
him partic ularly?'
"Ohno! merely wanted to tell him
his hausa is On fra ,,