Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-05-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

A Connecticut editor offers to vacci-
nate, free of charge all the pre-paying
subscribers to his paper.
The salary of the Governor of Cali
fornia is ten thousand dollars per an
num-the largest in the Union.
A man is usually refused credit for
one of two reasons-either because we
don't know him, or because we do.
A country editor complains that his
bank note detector will be of little use
unless his subscribers pay their bills.
The King of Denmark has offered a
prize of 81 900 for the best history of
the United States since the civil war.
Billings says: "a Newfoundland
dog is good thing to have, only one
must get two or three children and q
pond before he will be of any use."
An Iowa husband is after divorce
because one of his brides old lovers
kissed her during the honeymoon. lie
considered it too cheeky.
China boasts of newspaper which
has just entered upon its two thousandth
volume. We are not surprised to learn
that all its original staff are dead.
Temperance and labor are the two
best physicians of man; labor sharpens
the appetite, and temperance prevents
him from indulging in excess.
In Boston, a total abstinence society
has been started, which announces as
it object, total abstinence from med
ding in other peoples affairs
1t is noteworthy fact that during
the last thirty years New York has
never reelected United States Sena-
tor, with one solitary exception, Will
lam ii. Seward.
As wife was holding her husbands
aching head in her hands, one morning,
she asked, care man and his wife
one 2" tsI suppose 81, said the husband.
''Then," rejoined the wife, 81 came
home drunk last night, and ought to be
ashamed of myself
\ farmer should never be ashamed
of his calling; We know that no man
can be entirely independent, yet the
farmer should remember that if any
one is said to possess that enviable dis
tinction, he is the man.
Good manners are not learned from
arbitrary teaching so much rs acquired
from habit. They grow upon us by
use. A coarse, rough nature at home,
begets habit of roughness which can
not be laid aside among strangers.
Brickdust obtained by rubbing two
soft bricks together, is the best remedy
for lice on stock, says correspondent
of the Western Rural, that he ever
tried. Sift the dust evenly over the
animal, and work it well into and
among the hairs.
Stove luster, when mixed with tur-
pentine, and applied in the usual man
ner, is blacker,more glossy and durable
than when mixed with any other liq-
uid. The turpentine prevents rust,
and when put on an old rusty stove,
will make it look as well as new.
"Do you execute this deed without
any fear or compulsion of your hus-
band ?" asked a Commissioner of Deeds
of woman whose acknowledgment of
a deed he was taking. "Fear of my
husband!" exclaimed the irate lady.
"He-eompel-me, You're 4 foolr'
And she swept Indignantly from the
Commissioners office.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips has not yet
written any letter to the Tribune con-
graduating Mr.. Greeley OH his nomin-
alton. If we may trust the report of a
recent interviewer, he is not likely to
send any. When asked whom he would
prefer, Greeley or Grant, the venerable
agitator answered with great good
sense: "Oh, Grant, by all means. /
would prefer Grant to either Greeley
or Adams. Greeley is not a whit better
than Andrew Johnson. He is of about
the same stripe, and his administration
would not be bit better"