Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23

Gasche & Co., for 81 900.
| "A pumpkin pie ten feet In diameter
and four feet deep was the chief feature
OF California dinner recently.
We hear some OF our best citizens
speak in complimentary terms of the
lpresent condition of our Union School.
"A Wayne county teacher was fined
$25- for persuading a boy to study by
means of four-foot pole.
The State Agricultural College will
be formally opened for pupils on Sep
tember lst.
Ashland rejoices over the fact that
there has not been fire there for over
three years.
The Huron county farmers have
been obliged to melt ice and snow to
provide water for their stock.
Spotted Tail will lecture the balance
of the season for $40 a night and his
board.
-Nitro-glycerine is said to be better
than kerosene to kindle fire, because
you never know what 'ails you.
-Contentment is the great secret OF
happiness. He who has few desires
needs not ample means.
Regulate your expenses by your in
come. Rather wear a seedy coat, than
a new one unpaid for.
Seek not SO much the applause of
the world, as the approval of your con-
science.
! Trust rather the friend who kindly
tells you Of your faults, than the one
who always sings your praises.
All things may be recovered, but
lost time, that can never be brought
back.
Stark county mines over three mill
ions more bushels of coal than any
other county in Ohio.
"A word of kindness spoken to the
sorrowful, is often q shining thread
woven In their woOf of life.
| When you talk about your neigh
boris faults, does it ever occur to you
that you might improve a little i'm your
own life and conduct.
"A young man who was crossed i'm
love attempted suicide recently bv Ia
king dose OF yeast powder. He i'm
mediately rose above his troubles.
-Forty-two counties in Ohio pay in
to the State Treasury more school mon
eys than they draw out, and forty-s
draw out more than they pay in.
Two men in Norwalk can only
count up eighteen fingers between them
after fooling around the gentle straw
cutter. ~
-Buchtel College, Akron, has hun
dred and fifty students and wants two
new buildings to accommodate the in
ereasing number of applicants.
-Four hundred dogs chawed up 1872
sheep in Lake county last year. In
Huron county the dogs average a sheep
apiece.
Boston has smoking ears upon its
street railways, and contemplates put
ting on few hog cars for those that
chew.
Our patrons assure us that adver-
tishg in the REPUBLICAN is paying
investment. Let Others make 4 note of
this.
MIR. Caleb Hudson left few samples
OF coal with us the other day taken
from his bank. 1t is very fine qualit
of coal.
Daniel Baughman, Esq, has been
sick for few days past. He lost the
use OF speech for several days, but is
now recovering.
Ohio has law by which any hus-
band who opens his wife's letters can
be made to pay right smart for it. 1t
isn't good State for jealous man to
live in.
The bell on the new tower of the
Lutheran church again peals forth its in
vitation to come to worship. 1t sounds
like old times. The church looks much
better since the tower has been finished.
Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets and his pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how it will
come out. Good luck is a man with
pluck, with his sleeves rolled up, and
working to make it come right.
Mary" 1t seems cruel to kill so
many animals for their fur; thirty-six
poor squirrels put to death to make a
muff for u.s." Emily-"Yes, it is cruel.
Why didn't the monsters take their
skins off without killing them:"
An Ohio statute makes it "the duty
of school directors to visit the schools of
the sub-district at least twice during
each term" Directors are bound by
their official obligation to fulfill the re-
quirements of this provision.
"A Pennsylvania man who walked,
bare-footed, two miles through the snow,
on wager of seven dollars, won the
money. He has since paid forty dollars
for the amputation of one of his feet,
which was frozen beyond recovery.
Adam Urmson says he isn't much
of shot on the wing. He says that
three quail is the greatest number he
has ever killed on the wing at one shot,
Among Nimrods we believe this is con-
sidered pretty good shot.
Sheriff VIM. o. Porter, OF Ashland
county, retires from his second term of
office with the satisfaction of knowing
that his record is equal to that of any
officer who has ever filed the position.
He goes back to his farm near Hayes
vile.
When a Springfield girl gets Tilted
she doesn't NOPE and eat slate pencils.
and write verses telling how sweet it is
to die, and be buried in the silent tomb
but she gets her faithless lovers head
in clancery and leaves him with pair
of ee-ulean n frin Ua1 optics
Some of our merchants offer special
inducements for the purpose of closing
out their winter stock, preparatory to
opening out early in the spring with
large display of seasonable goods. The
columns of the REPUBLICAN from time
to time will never fail to tell you who
these parties are.
The devotion of Mary's little lamb,
which FOLLOWED her to school one day."
Is equaled by that of duck at Athol,
which Is so much attached to young
lady who feeds it that it attends her to
church, or wherever she goes. At re-
cent entertainment ut Music Hall, the
duck waited below until the young lady
came down stairs, and then escorted her
home with many cOmplaisant quack.
An exchange remarks that the char
acteristic of the umbrella is its power
of changing shapes. You can leave
brand-new silk with an ivory and rose.
wood handle at any public gathering,
and within three hours it will trans
form itself into light blue or faded
brown cotton, somewhat less in size
than circus tent, with handle like
! telegraph poie and five fractured ribs.