Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-12-25
The amount of timber annually con-
sumed in the form of tonthnicks NAV be

The amount of timber annually con-
sumed in the form of toothpicks may be
Judged by the fact that toethpick fac
| tory at Canton, Me-, recently bought
600 cords of wood for making into
toothpicks.
The styles in ladies' dresses have now
got back as far as the days of Catharine
de Medici. At this rate we shall soon
have reached the styles prevalent in the
garden of Eden.
The Philadelphia Centennial will be
fopened ON the 10Th of April, the anni-
versary of the battle of Lexington, and
continue open until the 18th Of October,
the anniversary of the surrender at
Yorktown.
Sad summary of the Mexican Expe-
dition-Maxmilian shot; Carlotta in q
mad house; Napoleon dead in exile;
Bazaine degraded and condemned to
die.
1t is mortifying to hear that Vice
President Wilson will visit Harriet
Beecher's toe in Florida. What busi-
ness has man of that age, says Mrs.
Pari'ngton, looking at other wamen's
feet .,----.,s
"And the flood was forty days upon
the earth; and the waters increased. :"
IN. B.-This current is not very fresh;
but then, you know, neither is it very
dry.l
Economy is said to be carried to such
an extent in town in Michigan that
the paper mills have been compelled to
suspend operations for want of rags.
A bunch of shingles fell from a wag-
on on the Troy ferry-boat recently, and
struck fairly upon the head of color
ed woman, who said, ''Y' oughter b.
shame to muss a cullud woman's har
dat way. wish dem shingles fell over
| board"
OF all the birds that please US
with their lays, the most popular is
the hen.
In N. Y. the quack medicine men
consume most of the postal cards.
An Erie canal boat plods along
under the name of "Polly Wiggle-
Waggle."
Life is made up of little things,
and in New Jersey they're chiefly
mosquito bites.
The feet that are covered with
bunions may not be stylish, but
they are certainly mobby.
Advice to lovers: When you can
not catch the last car at night, take
a "buss" instead.
Why is a lovers heart like whale?
Because it is secreter (sea creatur)
of great sighs.
A Mormon paper speaks oftheiv-
ing in the outskirts" which may be
interprcted"picking the ladies pock-
ets."
@Talk about the jaws of DEATH"
exclaimed a hen-pecked husband,
'they are nothing compared to the
jaws of life"
After long litigation in Webs
ster county, Kentucky, one of the
parties to ''sheep" suit, in which
the value of the animal involved was
three dollars, has concluded to close
it by paying costs. The bill was
$500.
This is rough. A western editor
SAYS he saw a maiden in the street
'swho had what seemed to be stake
and rider fence of lace around her
sloping neckso she was compelled TO
stand on tipsoe in order SO see over
it,
The st. Louis Christian Advo-
cate has no ear for music, and says
that a church choir is sacreligious
when the line 'We are going home
to die no more" is rendered"
"We're gong home to Dinah, More
to Dinah More, to Dinah More"
A speaker at recent woman suf-
frage meeting in New York, said:
"The serpent who tempted Eve had
agreed within himself that if he
tempted man first the woman might
not follow, while if he tempted the
woman first the man would surely
follow"
Tweed was a member of Congress
for the term commencing in Decem-
ber, 1858. 1t took the great Estates
man" twenty years more to get to
the penitentiary, and only county
institution at that.
A worthy Quaker thus wrote: Il
expect to pass through this world but
once. If, therefore, there be any
kindness l can show, or any good
thing can do to my fellow human
being, let me do it now. Let me not
defer nor neglect it, for 1 will not
pass this way again.
A genius was expatiating upon the
utility of an India rubber ship which
he was inventing, when an old sail
or exclaimed: NO. no! 1t will
never do. An India rubber ship
would rub out all the lines of lati-
tude and longitude,to say nothing Of
the equatorr'
In Peoria lady teacher in one of
the public schools was amazed the
other day by seeing a perfect forest
Of juvenile hands fly up in the air
and shake and gesticulate with vio-
lent agitation. 'What do you want"
queried the puzzled instructor. Cho-
rus-aYer hairs falling off"
A Troy editor took his wife to
New York, Friday. The conductor,
when he came along, recognized our
Troy brother as entitled to free pas
sage, but not knowing the lady,
whispered to him: "Is the lady q