Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-05-22
Egotistic Takers.

Almost every circle Is blessed with
the egotist who exercises kind of die
tatorship over it. Are you in mistake
as to a matter of fact? He cannot suf-
fer you to proceed till you are correc-
ted. Have you word on the end OF
your tongue? He at once comes to your
relief. Do nou talk bad grammar? He
quotes rules and gives examples like a
pedagogue. Does he discover that there
is link wanting in the chain of your
argument. He bids you stay till he has
supplied. Do you drop word in
which he has DEVOTED much research? !?
He asks you whether you know its prim-
tive Specification, and straightway in
flicts upon the circle long pathological
disquistion. When you relate an incl
dent which you suppose new and affec-
tive, your friend listens without emo
tion. When you have done he observes
that he heard that long ago, and adds a
very material circumstance which you
omitted. He is never taken or surpris-
ed and it is impossible to give him any
information. And yet he never takes
the lead in conversation, nor advances
an original thought. 1t is his business
to come after, and pick up the words
which others let slip in running talk,
or to check their impetuosity, that he
may point out to them their misstep.
Had he lived in the days of Solomon, he
would have flattered the royal sage with
an intimation that some of his proverbs
were but plagiarisms; or, had he been
contemporary of Solomon's father
would have felt himself bound to give
the slayer of Goliah some lessons on the
use of the sling, and limited to the sweet
singer of Israel his private opinion that
the shepherd bard did not perfectly un-
derstand the use of the harp.
An En- glish female witness promptly
defined courtship to be ''looking at each
other, taking hold of each others hands
and all those kind of things. Exactly
So.
When Baltimore woman shoots at
her drunken husband and misses him
the newspaper says: "Another bullet
wasted"
To clothe the naked and feed the hun
CRY is good ito each men how to toprovide
for themselves is much better.
Where the mouth is sweet and the
eyes intelligent, there is always the look
of beauty, with right heart.
He who treats men ingenlously, and
kindly with them, gains a
good esteem with expense.
Too much reservations gives
ground of suspicion. Truth and homes
ty have no need of loud protestations.
Genius is the gift of the Deity; it dis
covers itself without effort, and is un-
known to the possessor.
Can a son be said to take after his
father, when the father leaves nothing
to take?
Baron Liebig, Napoleon III, ,Paez John
Stuart Mill, Bishop McIlvaine, Geary,
Candy, Orr and Chase are among the
illustrious dead of the first five months
of 1873.
The Ohio Senate was a satirical body.
It passed some three or four resolutions
given vent to its pent up Indignation on
the salary steal, and spent its closing
hours In voting back pay to every officer
of that body from clerks down to pages.
A late newspaper poem commenced.
"What is glory!' Ask the dew-drop.
We are willing to try. Dew-drop-oh,
dew-drop! what is glory? The dog
goned little chap won't answer.-Edn-
sas Chief. Then dew-drop the subject
and don't dew it any more.
Adams nativity has at last been dis
covered. He was, according to Darwin,
n germ man.
"Well, wife, you cannot say ever
contracted bad habits" "No, sir, you
generally expand them"
Mrs. Gubbins says her husband is
like tallow candle, because he always
will smoke when he is going out.