Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-05-29
NEWS ITEMS.
Give as vel. as I Iresceise. .


Give as wen as receive. . aoa 10
Roasting-ears and collie are with
in the grasp of the happy Texans.
Now you have it. Captain Jack
is troubled with fits of emotional in
sanity. A'L 2-i'-s sei-- 9L5 e" I7--'-
The Congregationalist think that
'the coming woman comes faster and
faster" - - -
A Montreal dentist pulled the
wrong tooth out for patient lately
and had to pay $75 damages. ' 90 g.
& The first postal card mailed from
Washington went to New York, and
bore over l,500 Shorthand words.
Harper's Magazine rejects about
100 miles of poetry per year. Nine,
ty-nine miles of it are devoted to
spring. rGo sszz5 9aoIa d9iLa i6l .sa
Josh Billings is going abroad. He
will endeavor to introduced his Gel
ebrated system Of orthography in
Europe. no. =
The Fairplay Col. Sentinel has
reached the highest point of journal
ism-10,000 feet above the level of
the sea. - -
An Ohio man puts in claim be-
fore Congress for a fifty cent carpet
bag stolen by John Morgan at the
time of his rade. r.5 rsrsi9 .srrat.
According'to Faraday, no man, if
he strictly observes the laws of na-
ture, is entitled to decent burial un-
der the age of 100. ,.s5 - e.. 81
Mrs O'Leary that owned the COW
that upset the lamp that fired the
barn that burned Chicago, has re-
Gently opened millinery store. =.
''One loud yell'' is to be punished
in Baltimore by fine of $5, but one
can utter two loud yellsfor 81. The
liberal discount will make double
yells the most popular. s, ,.r sss,t.
Nine hundred and seyeptyfiye yards
ofrag carpet in ten months, besides
all the housewofk, mas ehsachiev-
ed by an old woman of z2,at Morris
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The New York Times is anxious
to have the remains of the late
President Lincoln transferred to
Mount Vernon to repese by the side
of WashIngton's- 4 ..iaQA slt-iI --eis
The experiment Of running rail-
roads by government agency has
not proved successful in Canada.
exceed the income, and in
crease taxation is likely to ensue. "
Silk handkerchiefs, or any gar
ment dyed with aniline red, should
never be worn in contact with the
skin,as seriousscases of skin-poison-
ing hayeibeen directly traced to this
cause. rsye --4.-. s-if 7,, o,,--- i'd.
The public library built by Will
lam Cullen Bryant at Cummington,
Mass. is completed, and the books
will be moved into it as soon as the
snow drifts have subsidized sufficient
ly t6 permit their transportation. y
The astronomical observations
made at Sherman during the last
summer proved that at this eieyp-
ton, eight thousand three hundred
feet above the level OF. the sea. . tsa-
escope of nine and four-tenths inches
aperture was as effective as one or
twelve inches stationed ut the sea-
level 9.E I! = a7..1ii'3 .isll -f saI- -a O.
Z The international Peace Congress
has resolved to invite the statesmen
and publicists of Europe to a preli
minary meeting to be held in New
York on Saturday 23d, TO consult
upon the best method of preparings 3
code of arbitration and the most
means of procuring Its
adoption by the different nations.
Forty-four acres Of Hong Kong
houses were cleared by fire on the =
22d of March, and five thousand
people made homeless. There was
. terrible fire at Osaka on the 18th
Of March, and many lives were lost
1t ragged all day and night T.
violent shocks of earthquake were
felt at the same place on the 9th of
March. = 'i --1
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Michigan is to have new insane
asylum at d cost of 100000, and
.he State becomes the trustee of the
insane Statistics on the subject Of
are to be gatherd by
special commission, and the whole
question of the causes ofcrime and
prison management is to be
thoroughly investigated.
The population Of Japan is 30,-
BOO, 600 souls, and.s history that
runs back, by tradition over $500
years, with authentic records for
more than 1000; while her neigh
bers in China, from whom japan OBJ
tanned her written language, and
whose civilization Japan adopted
about . thousand years ago, hase
of nearly 400, ,OO0, ,OO0, and
a history covering about 4 600 years.
The horror at Germantown, Ohio,
inv diving a series of cases ofpoison-
ing, in which a woman named Mrs.
aged over seventy years,
figures as principal, is gradually de-
veloplpg into a sensation if possible
more frightful than that in which
Mrs. Grinder figured some years ago
1t is believed that she has succeed
ed in dosing to death eight or nine
persons, including seven members
Of her own family.
Some sewing six, in the manufsc-
ture of which a new substance has
been introduced to give them weight
and lustre, took fire spontaneously
in drawer in dry goods store In
Honesdale, Pa. a few days ago.
Within fifteen minutes the silk had
taken fire, burned through the paper
boxes and into the front of The
drawer, a depth of a quarter OF an
ineh,and for space as large as the
palm of mans hand.
At Baltimore, on Saturday, DIR.
Baird, of the Cumberland Preshy-
terian Church, was introduced to the
General Assembly, and signified the
desire of Cumberland Presbyterians
to effect union with those Of the
North. As this is in secord with the
spirit of the Northern church, il is
k~l,o,.l ,hx& oko,.a x,sll ha 80 l. A. L..