Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-23
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Passports are no longer needed bv
travellers between Germany aad Its.
ly.
A Charleston paper, am on2 its
fashionable gossip, gives q descrip-
ton of the latest stylse in cofiins.
The first female graduate Of the
University Of Michigan has married
one of her classmates.
Minnesota psys out more money
in proportion, for school purposes,
than any other State in the Union.
Her per capita is $3.50.
A Galesburg barber advertises
himself as a professor Of crinicul-
tural abcission and genealogical
tripsis." :"
San Francisco has captured .
whale seventy feet long, and is ma
king corresponding amount Of
bones over it.
An ingenious Kentuckian has in
vented a gate fastening that sur
passes anything of the kind ever be-
fore conceived. 1t will latch and
chain the gate without touching it.
Fifteen inches is the length of .
porter's feet in Reading, Pa. As
the ordinary foot is only twelve
inches this individual may be said
to be sur-feited.
Jane Green, an inmate Of Phil
adelphia aims house, was green en-
ough to jump from . third stsry
window and make work for the
Coroner.
; The only break in the line of tel
egra ohic cables to encircle the world
is which it is now proposed to sup
ply by the line from San Francisco
to Japan.
The champion" pumpkin raiser
so far this season belongs to Shaef-
fertown, Lebanon county, Pa. He
raised 13 pumpkins on three stalks.
averaging from lao to 160 pounds-
One of them measured 79} inches.
Does agriculture pay? An old
Green Mountain farmer unhesita-
tingly asserts that from the nrst eet-
tlement of Vermont to this day, AZ
riculture has paid better than eny
other pursuit within its borders.
A glass goldfish globe, filed with
water, set fire to the sleeve of . ladys
dress in New Haven, the other day,
by. concentrating the rays Of the
sun. Quite large hole was burned
before the fire was found.
The declared convalescenoe Of
Plus TX puts check, for ths pres
ent, to the numerous speculatioas
representing the election of his sue
cessor, who will be the two hum
dred an3 fifty-eighth pope from st.
Peter.4
Said Mrs. jerks on her return
from church, "When l sec the shaHls
of those Johnsons and then think of
what have to wear, if it was not
for the consolation of religion, /
don't know what would do"
A man who had been sitting on
wasp, arose partly to his feet, as the
wasp Just noticed it, and with pa
,hetic tenderness remarked 'Ouchp
ust at the time when the lecturer
nte nded to have the people laugh.
The value of advertising was new
n better shown than in recent case
It Montreal, where, while compos-
tor on the Witness was setting up
IN advertisement for q lost canary,
he bird flew in at the Office win
low.
sMother, you mustn't whip me for
.unning away from school any
nore." "Why noti" "Cos my
school book says that ants are the
most Industrious beings in the
world; and amt / truant?"
The plan of correcting the echo
N public halls by stretching wire
.cross them from wall to wall, he's
ately had q practical trial in the
Cathedral at Cork, and is said to
lave given satisfactory results.
A plan has been recommended in
school children to let
,ach child read paragraph from .
current newspaper, and afterward to
explain the illusions to events or
PERSONS it may contain.
There is nc sort of wrong deed Of
which q man can bear the punish
nent alone; youf can't isolate your
;elf, and say that the evil which il
n YOU shall not spread. Mems lives
are as thoroughly blended with each
,ther as the air they breathe, evil
,preads as necessarily IS disease.
The American Association for the
Cure of Inebriates will hold its
ourth annual session in New York
his week. The proceedings oil this
,ody are of special interest, because
n its practical work it is acting up
IN hypothesis much in need OF
PRACTICAL demonstration
1t is amusing to hear the conver-
alton of men who probably have
ever had over one hundred dollars
t one time in any bank nowadays.
They have complete systems which
would obviate all the present finan-
ial difficulties. They cast blame
lere and there with utter reckless
less.
Many colleges through the coun-
ry are making themselves apes in
the vicious rowdylsm OF
ale College. At 8 arush" in the
University of Rochester, few days
ince one of the Sophomores receiv-
d perhaps fatal injuries. His spine
vas badly injured and some OF his
lbs broken.
A huge lobster measuring more
han three feet from the tips Of the
laws to the end of the tail, and
Weighing fifteen pounds, was rec0t-
v brought up in q net in Plymouth
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