Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-03-13

A little girl in Dubuque amended
the Lords Prayer by asking for her
daily gingerbread.
Godfrey Frankenstein a Landscape
painter died in Springfield Monday the
24thinst. -0sffh5t 90 I
The REPUBLICAN office is the place
to get your sale bills printed neatly.
Our prices are reasonable.
1t is said that the earth during the
past winter has been frozen to the
depth Of two feet.
Never relate your family affairs to
your neighbor, unless you wish to fur
nish subject for gossip.
Brigham Young's one hundred and
seventeenth child "has arisen to call
him blessed"
The experiment is to be tried of
raising oysters in the salt lakes of Ne
braska.
"A swan weighing nineteen pounds
was shot at Rochester Center, Lorain
county, few days ago. -+--.a
-Cherryholmes is now giving good
bargains in the Boot and Shoe business
preparatory to going into his new store
room.
john A. Leopold will soon move
his business into the room lately occu-i
pied by E. II. Hull as Sewing Machine
room.
A Scranton boy got out his little
pistol to shoot cat. The doctor says
that the wound through the boys LETT
leg is troublesome, but not dangerous.
We are again in receipt of fine
assortment of new Job Type-plain and
fancy; also large stock of stationery.
Give US your orders for Job Work.
About one hundred and fifty per-
sons have been converted during the
progress of the religious. revival at La
Grange, Lorain cOunty.-----------------
Pound parties are the fashion in
Kenton. Each person attending brings
whatever is convenient weighing one
pound.
DIR. Pierce has removed his office to
the room lately occupied by A. Waits,
in Commercial Block. The Doctor is a
skillful workman, and is prompt in his
engagements.
A Richmond man carried home pho
tograph of an actress which he had
drawn in lottery, and his wife put out
one Of his eyes under the impression
that it was local affair. NE
A German in Buffalo fell into beer
vat the other day and was drowned.
He drank as hard as he could to save
himself, and would have succeeded had
not a floating cork choked him.
An amateur farmer wonders 'swhy,
on all this fair earth, the ground is bot
tom side up, so that it must be turned
over with a plow before corn can be
raised?'
Chickens have at last realized the
situation, gave up the strike and gone
to work at twenty cents per dozen, for
eggs, with prospects of working for
still less in short time. te
Cleveland had small bank failure
sensation. Parties = Price Bros.
liabilities, $175,000; assets, $l25,O00 to
$l30, 900; cause, stock speculation.
That's all.
"A washerwoman, finding in let
of dirty clothes fashioned shirt
opening at the back, sewed it up, cut
open the bosom and sewed on buttons,
to the intense disgust of her customer.
The General has issued
\ advertisements for bids for the new
penny postal cards. 1t is the intentio
of the department to have the cards
ready for issue by the 1st of May.
Brighter days are coming-just
think of it. Blue-birds, dandelions,
caravans, scissor-grinders, artichokes,
violtts and hand-organs, will soon sing,
shine, show, sharpen, scent and show,
sharpen, scent and shrek that Spring
has come.
"A rural gentleman standing over a
register in one of our stores, attracted
general attention to himself by observ-
ing to his wife: s'Mariar, 1 guess I'm
goin' to have fever, l feel such hot
streaks runnin' up my legs
Always keep to the right! Driving
in the street, walking on the sidewalk,
or wherever you chance to navigate,
keep to the right and avoid collisions.
! Some there are who think it etiquette
to give lady the inside of the walk.
This is not etiquette, nor safe custom.
Some of our young men indulge in
three or four ten cent cigars, dimes
worth of tobacco, five or six glasses of
lager beer,a dish of oysters, and couple
of games of billiards or pih-pool pei
day, and then wonder why they can't
save anything ''for wet day"
An Irishman was employed to trim
some fruit trees. He went out in the
morning, and on returning at noon, was
asked if he had completed his work
No, was the reply, but he had cut them
all down, and was going to trim them
in the afternoon.
An Irishman was once indulgins
. in the very intellectual occupation OF
sucking eggs and reading a newspaper
By misciance he contriycd to bolt q
chicken. The poor bird chirped as il
e went down his throat, and he very po.
. litely observed, "By the powers, Inc
friend, you spake leetle too late"
5 "A Pennsylvania Dutchman pro.
: lposes posthumous joke. He has 9
S goose more than sixty years old, ant
q he proposes that this goose shall bt
e KILLED and eaten at his funeral dinner
n If there are to be many poor relation:
at that dinner they will petition the ole
man to drop off as speedy as possible.
"A Michigan clergyman wrote to
: lottery agent: 81 do not approve o
lotteries; | regard them as no bette
than gambling schemes. My son bough
ticket No. D, in your drawing, but il i
r. drew anything don't send the money t,
Z him-send it to me-" The clergyman
:, !. will probably feel relieved to learn tina
: the ticket didn't draw anything.
u "A stingy man who pretended to b
e very fond of his horse, but kept hin
nearly starved, said to friend, "Yo
don't know how much we all think O
that horse. l shall have Him stuffed
so as to preserve him when he dies.
ssVou'd better stuff him nOwp rptOrta