Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-03-14

Justice consists in doing no injury to
men; decency in giving them no Of
fence.
Adam was very good, peaceable
man till he got married. Then he
raised Cain.
Few can be assiduous without servil-
ty, and none can be servile without
corruption.
Heavy freshets are predicted by the
oldest inhabitant for this spring. He
says we have had them in the spring of
1922, 1882, 1912, 1852, and 1862. Now
for 1872?
Eight out Of every ten tobacco chew
ers in the regions where the plant
is raised use the natural leaf twisted up
into hanks and free of honey, liquorice
juice, or other modern adulteration.
In condemning late hours for dinner
a medical journal says that withing 400
years the dinner hour was gradually
moved through II hours of the day
from o A. NJ. to 8 P. NJ.
What can be wetter than a woman
with cataract in her eye, waterfall
on her head, creek in her back, forty
springs in her skirt, and high-tied shoes !?
sWhy, one with notion in her head,
and swimming in tears"
Mr.. Justice Blackburn, Court of
Queens Bench, in recent case, re-
marked that ''there can be no doubt
that an actor is open to fair and legiti-
mate criticism, and it Is equally certain
that it must not be exceeded, or an
action for libel will lie."
A farmer at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has
a herd of nine elk, that he is training
and breaking in to farm work. He now
is able to drive them a little, keeps
them in pasture, and generally they
submit to currying as well as any ami
mails. He has refused 81 400 for the
herd.
The handsome young girls in the Kali
amazoo, Mich, churches, are deputed
to take up the collections. The scheme
is said to have worked very successfully
Some of the very attractive collectors
are frequently called back by young
men to receive second contribution.
A gentleman in search ofa man to do
some work met on his way highly re-
spectacle lady, not so young as she once
was, and asked her, "Can you tell me
where can find MANI" ''No, l can
not" she replied, "for have been look
ing these twenty years for one my
SELF"
An Eastern paper has it that a poor
little Sunday-school scholar in Wiscon-
sin was deluded into learning 1920
verses of the Bible in four weeks by
promise of book. They gave him
"Hitchcock's Analysis of the Bible"
He swapped it for three-bladed knife
and peck of hickory nuts.
A little boy was recently presented
with toy trumpet, to which he be-
came greatly attached. One night
when he was about to be put in his 'lit-
tie bed,' and was ready to say his pray
ers, he handed the trumpet to his grand
mother, saying, Here gran'ma, you
blow while 1 pray
There is no difference between knowl-
edge and temperance; for he who
knows what is good and embraces it,
who knows what is bad and avoids it,
is learned and temperate. But those
who know very well what ought to be
done, and yet do otherwise, are ignor-
ant and stupid.
Society men are taking wonderfully
good care of their health this winter,
says the New York Mail. A silk hand
kerchief about the neck is an indispen-
sable adjunct to street costume, and the
"swell" overcoat for evening wear is
the heavy "Ulster frock," which rem
ders taking cold "lost art"
A correspondent of the Calhoun
county, Ia, Pioneer writes to the editor
of that paper that she don't want it any
longer To which the editor responds
that he regrets that his friend objects
to the lengthening of his paper, for he
had arranged to make it about six
inches longer in the course of few
weeks.
The other Sunday Mr.. Spurgeon, in
the course of his sermon, ''came down"
on the fashionable congregations who
take no part in the praise of God, but
leave it all to be done by few voices,
or by paid choirs. 'It is wretched, it is
horrible" said Mr.. Spurgeon, ''to sit in
a church where such a custom is OBJ
served"
A clerk in Lexington, KY, traced
train of cars on frosty plate-glass
window recently, and though the WIN
dow was several times washed after
ward, the next time the frost came it
traced the train as clearly as it was first
drawn. Lexingtonians regard the phe-
nomena as first-class conundrum, and
ask for a solution.
A wild goose was shot at Cedar Lake,
CAL, in the body of which the head OF
an Indian arrow was found, just back
and under his wings, the ends projecting
on either side. The arrow head is of
bone, six and II half inches in length.
The wound caused by the arrow head
had entirely healed, and it was firmly
embedded in the goose.
A Mr.. Fuss, of Minosha, Wisconsin,
died recently, and his friends made
ready for the burial, when an unexpect-
ed fuss in the coffin drew their attention
to the fact that the man was still alive,
and further proceedings were suspen-
6ed. Mrs. Fuss made an apology to
her friends and said she was sorry the
fuss was all for nothing.
The physician attending Miss Hattie
Thomas, who had her entire scalp Ia
ken off by the machinery in button
factory at Naugatuck, Connecticut,
year ago, is replacing the skin by
transplanting pieces from other parts
of her body and from other persons.
Three -fifths of the wounded surface is
already very successfully covered.