Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-01-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

, Guatemala is to have q railroad.
Burlington,Ta., is soon to have street
railway.
Moscow, of fiery memory, is to have
an industrial exposition next spring.
Agricultur liz the muther OF farm
produce; she iz also the step-mother of
garden sass.
Jinks says that wedding-rings ought
to be rechristened suffer-rings. He has
been married years.
Clara asked Tom, what animal
dropped from the clouds? The rain,
DEAR (Reindeer) was the reply.
'Avast there, skipperr exclaims Hor-
ace Greeley in a recent article. A vul
gar writer would have said, Cheese
itr
An Athol millS-boy accounted for the
thinness--of tire milk he peddled, the
other morning, because the cow sweat
so.'
Henry Ward Beecher thinks it a
great privilege for clergymen to have
opportunity during the Summer to wear
old clothes.
A topper sneered at a young man for
wearing spectacles, when the latter said:
1T is better to wear glasses over the
nose as do than hold them. under the
nose as you don
A boy of eight years old having been
told that reptile is an animal that
creeps, and being asked to name one on
examination day, promptly answered
a babyr
Name the longest day in the year,
said teacher to a young hopeful of
5 summers? 'Sundayr responded the
little man.
What is the difference between fool
and lookink-glass?- ?-One speaks with
out rejecting, and the other reflects
without speaking.
A clergyman named Fiddle respect
fully declines the degree ID. D., be-
cause, as he said, he really did not wish
to be known as the Rev. Fiddle D. D.
Frank said fond mother to her son,
you are into that jam again. No. re-
piled the pet you are wrong, ma; the
jam is into me-
Leaves.--A traveller reports that he
has seen plants in South America with
leaves 81 feet long. That leaves all
other foliage in the shade.
An Eastern exchange says the Rus
sian hymn needs only the letter to
make it perfect, viz: hymen. In view
of the number of Alexis's female ad-
mirers, no doubt the change could be
made with e's.
An impetuous and romantic lover
said to his sweetheart. Il am the oak
and you are the vine. l draw you to
me with the cords of love- Not so,'
replied the blushing fair one; if Pm
the vine, l prefer the ordinary twine.'
A negro boy of eight has a picture
primer to teach him his letters. One of
the pictures is that of bull chasing a
boy, which the little darkey watches
from day to day, gleefully exclaiming:
He hasn't cotch'd him yet
A proeocious boy in a public school
out West, who stands high in geogra-
ply, was recently asked by his teacher
where Africa was located. He promptly
answered: All over the United
States.'
The world is looking-glass, and
gives back to every man the reflection
of his own face. Frown at it, and it
will in turn look sourly upon you;
laugh at it and with it, and it is jolly,
kind companion.
The Detroit Free Press says:
\ fellow with bag full of melted
glass, pieces of brick, bits of crockery
and scraps of iron,was here lately, cry
ing for sale. Chicago rel-iesr on the
Campus Martius.
Quilp and his wife had bit of con-
tention the other day. Il own that you
have more brilliancy than L. said the
woman, but L have the better judge
ment, Yes said Quilp, your choice in
marrying shows that!' Quilp was in
formed that he was brute.
What is the difference between an
auction and sea-siekness ?-One is the
sale of effects, the other the effects of
sail. And why do physicians have
greater horror of the sea than anybody
else because they are more liable to
see sickness.
When Albert Barnes sent his father
handsomely bound copy of his COM
mentaries, the old gentleman's only re-
mark was: albert was good boy to
work.
A bar of iron worth So worked into
horseshoes is worth $40 so; made into
needles it is worth $3.50; made into pen
knife bades it is worth S3,2s4; made in
to balance springs OF watches is worth
$25O, 900.
\ knowing traveller out West, who
had chartered half bed at crowded
hotel, and was determined to have the
best half, buckled spur on his heel
before turning in. His unfortunate
sleeping partner bore the ifiiction as
long as he could, and at last roared out,
Say, stranger, if you're gentleman,
you ought to cut your toe nails
Nurses.
1t is almost better for a sick person to