Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-20


nitro-glycerine with his tomahawk, and
left Immediately, never to return.
About two-thirds of the suits decided
by the female justices of Wyoming are
appealed and the verdicts set aside.
The good people Of Alliance are
moving vigorously in the cause of tenn
perance.
Ohio stands first in the list of wheat
producing states, with 32,G92, ,l27 BUSH
els.
Gentleman Greenback George III.
Pendleton and family are taking in
Paris.
A Danbury man wears a ten-cent
silver piece on his shirt bosom, and calls
it dime and pin, which it certainly Is.
The liquor men say the Adair law
is failure. Why do they wish it re-
pealed-is it because it is a failure?
An unlimited number of Valentines
passed through the Post-office at this
place during the past week.
A girl with $1,000 year advertises
for a husband i'm the London papers.
The trouble is she wants lord, and
they are scarce at that price.
An Omaha bride was married bare
foot because her lovers kinsfolks dress
ed that way, and she did not wish to
seem proud.
The Peoples Monthly is becoming
a great favorite. 1t is only 81 80 year
with beautiful steel engraving. Sub
scriptions taken at the Post-office.
-sTd rather not take a horn with
you," said the loafer to the mad bull )
but the bull insisted on treating him to
two, and the loafer got quite high.
A contest between five pancake
eaters took place at Newton, n. j., re-
Gently. The successful competitor de-
molished sixty-eight, and his nearest
rival sixty. =
An attack of tooth-ache delayed a
Green Bay wedding three hours. The
groom and the clergyman went rabbit
hunting while the bride went jumping
around and yelling, "Oh, my jaw"
Happy be We who have partaken
sparingly of your preserves and canned
fruit this winter. Thirty degrees be-
low zero has knocked the peaches right
out of many an urchin's mouth.
Now is the time to trim your grape
vines. During the cold weather the sap
lies dormant, and if trimmed now they
will not bleed when the gentle rays of
springs sun starts it upward.
Since the buckwheat cake season
opened at Springfield, Illinois, there is
but one man in town who has failed to
come to the scratch, and he lost both
arms in the war.
The recent decline in the price of
coal-oil is q matter of congratulati0n
to the undertakers. They say that folks
don't kindle fires with the stuff when il
gets beyond certain figure. - q I
There are several dogs less in town
now than there were a few days ago.
Some careless person or persons dropped
few buttons where the poor dogs
could get hold of them, which put a
quietus to many of them.
Rev. Fl. S. Snodgrass, of Wooster,
formerly of Lancaster, o., assisted Mr..
Milholland last Sabbath at the Com
munion services. Mr.. Snodgrass preach
ed two or three excellent sermons dur
ing the occasion.
EVERY peach bud in the West is
killed deader than a smelt." ."-AJricul-
taral Paper.
Not one peach bud in ten. is in
jured in the least by the frost. An,
other Agricultural Paper.
| 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 obligations to fulfill the re.
quirements of this provision. c-4e
Chasing mule-eared rabbits is .
favorite sport of the Ssockdale neigh
borhood in Washington county, Texas
The mule-ear and the genuine grey
hound make a beautiful race on the
prairies. Both ladies and gentlemen
join in the sport.
An Oil City boy, one of that clas;
of urchins who seem sent upon the
earth for the sole purpose of bringing
pious grown up people to a recollection
| of the fact that this world is not theii
home, recently put some nitro-glycer-
| inc in his sisters hustle when she was
going out skating.
| John Miller, a farmer of Perry
township, Tuscarawas county, owns
blind eve that is twenty-five years old
and the mother of sixty-twO lambs
This animal gave birth to two lambs
when she was one year old, and three
each year after until she was twenty.
one years old.
Before the election, young lady
agreed to kiss the editor of the Volg,
Valley Qowa) Times once month fol
four years if Grant should be elected
She is keeping her word manfully, bu
is growing thin, her appetite is poor
!, and unless the winner of the bet deO
dorizes his face and quits chewing to
bacco, he will have to announce fu
neral ere long.
"A German Psychologist has discov
cred that tobacco smoking by boys sin
terferes with the molecular changes co
t incident with development of tissues
and makes the blood corpuscle oval ant
irregular at the edge" Any parent cal
thus ascertain if his boy smokes b,
: merely taking out handful of hi
: blood corpuscle and observing thei
, edges.
There is only one hope which, lik
ray of sunshine OH an iceberg, sus
e tains shivering humanity in the though
. that possibly the traditional ground
i hog prophecy may this year prove
; failure after all-that is, that the afore
: said hog Is a religious animal, and re
n mained indoors keeping the Sabbath
3 If SO he did not see his shadow, and W
e may have warm weather in spite of tn
: adage.
!. Hall the peoples Photographer. tt
n We clip the following from til
e Troy n. Y. Whig: "Some three month
= since DIR. r. V. Pierce, of Buffalo,
g Y, commenced advertising I'm the Whis
: an article called "Dr. Sage's Catarr
-t Remedy" We believed at that time
was one of the many catch penny al
rangements to swindle people out {
!, their money, but during the past fe
v weeks have become convinced to I'll
:, contrary. We know of several prom
v inent citizens who have suffered frol
e that loathsome disease "Catarrh," an
+ they pronounce De. Sage's Remedy Il
humbug, and in several instances In,
been entirely cured. We desire to giy
DIR. Pierce the benefit of the same. 80
! -Crayon pictures at Halls Gallery.