Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-07-23
IN TOWN AND OUT.

"A good square meal - soda
cracker.
The vexatious house-hy is swarm
ing again.
The late rains have revived vegeta
ton very much.
Are you making any preparation
for the county fair
The "dog days" are hot enough t
make any dog mad.
Some Of the corn is as high as
mans head and out in tassel-
The harvest is cut and the whea
Is quite shocked in consequence.
Get ready to 60 TO the State FaiI
at Columbus, early IN September.
Strawberries and Cream is tb
title Of new piece of vocal music.
The mosquitoes sing upper-attic air
to their victims these warm nights.
The Ashland Times hoists Gen. Ed
F. Noyes' names for Governor in 1875
There are over l0, 600, 900 women il
America. Bachelors, don't be discour
aged.
The mud hole In the gutter on thu
corner Of Main and Grant streets is
nuisance.
/ Why is an angry printer like fiftynin
minutes past twelve? He's ready Il
strike one.
Tickling a mules left-hand leg witt
q tooth-pick is said to be a sure cur,
for dyspepsia.
Sending prettily worked, comforta
bic slippers to single gentleman is :
slippery trick.
| The attention of the Town Council
Is directed to the mud hole near tn,
railroad bridge.
The farmers seldom have bettel
weather for harvesting than they hav,
had this season.
Who is the straightest man men.
toned in the Bibie?-Joseph, becaus,
Pharoah made ruler Of him.
What has DIR. Cowan been doins
that is so wicked, that his best friends
want to send him to Congress?
The wave that has carried of many
a poor fellow, is the graceful wave of :
lace-edged cambric handkerchief.
"A dog that is sick and restless is an
object of suspicion. This is the earliest
peculiar symptom of hydrophobia.
Not to be outdone by the explosive
mince-pie of Ohio, an Indiana sweet
potato exploded and scalded an infant.
"A kind word spoken to husband
will 60 farther than a broomstick or a
flatiron, says woman of experience.
"A clergyman in neighboring town
who recently had donation party, has
beans enough to last him twenty years
All the salo0n-keepers, brewers
liquor manufacturers and drinkers, and
their friends will vote for license. MARI
that.
| Church festivals now put up large
cake to be given to the man guessing
nearest to its weight, at ten cents a
guess.
! He went back on his own true love
because she ate onions, and the iury
gave her So, 200 damages--to buy more
onions!
The story about a woman being
chained In a cellar, in Kansas by her
husband was a sell. The mans name
was A. w. Fullie-awful lie.
"A young miller has come to town.
He is stopping with G. Fahrenbach and
will board with the family till such
I times as he can do for himself.
"A Florida paper says that sswater-
melons as large as nail-kegs go begging
in Tampa market at fifteen cents
apiece" Oh, water melancholy fact.
-"Change cars," is whata Cleveland
boot-black said to one of our citizens
who went to the S9ngerfest when he
had finished backing one of his bro
gans.
Don Piatt says the proper thing to
do when your horse is running away is
to "hold fast to your seat and say your
prayers; anyhow, hold fast to your
seat"
If you want to find out mans real
disposition, take him when he is wet
and hungry. If he is amiable then, dry
him and fill him up, and you have an
angel.
He has it now. He put up sign,
'stick no bills here" in front of his
bed, and then arrested every mosquito
that violated the ordinance. He had
several prisoners the first night.
Subscribers who have paid for their
papers need have NO fear OF the comet.
"Them uner fellows" had better look
out though.
We are pleased to see that some OF
our streets are being cleaned up. This
is right. Let the good work continue
until every. part of the city is put in
good order.
Look over our advertising columns
before you come to town and see who
are the liberal, enterprisIng dealers OF
the city. They are the men to buy from
The comet is none of your tame
tagged out and scared animals. 1t goes
whisking through the heavens with
tail erect, and an air as bold as if il
really was bound to smash up planet
or two on its trip.
We very much dislike to dun, bul
we need the money that is due US fol
subscription, job work and advertising
and will be exceedingly obliged If al
indebted to us will call and settle, Of
remit the amount by mail.
The old gent who spent fortune
in endeavoring to hatch colts from
horse chestnuts, is now cultivating tht
legg plant with a view to raising chick
ems from it.
Wars, comets, pestilence, and top.
lpling dynasties may fill the world witt
fear or wonder; but nothing goes dowI
to the marrow of q mans soul so mucf
as the announcement of his baby's frs
tooth.
Some wag stuck up board neal
the railroad bridge last Saturday, OF
which was given the price of butter ant
eggs at figures several cents above tn,
current price, and signed atom Col
Inns" name to it. Several peopl,
. were enquiring where Tom could b.
found.
Each particle of matter which com
poses the comets tail is supposed t,
move in a hyperbolic orbit, with tn
sun IN the focus of the opposite branch
under the influence of a repulsive fore
! emanating from the sun, and decreas
ing by the law of the inverse square o
the distance"
"A man in an adjoining county die,
recently, who had taken his county pa
per for twelve years without payinI
for it. Upon the day of his burial, tn
/ kind-hearted, forgiving editor called t.
see him for the last time, and stuffed
linen duster and couple of palm-lea
: fans info his coffin