Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-05-14

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connected with life Insurance, are dis
cussed in most Of the Eastern papers.
Said an Irish Justice to an obstreper
ous prisoner on trial: ave want moth
ing but silence, and but little of that
All the magazines are stocked witt
articles for months ahead and the del
uge Of manuscript is said to be fearful
The carriage manufactures complain
that business is not driving this spring
They are beginning to be little sulky
A railroad is to be constructed from
the base of Mount Vesnvius to the edge
of the crater. 1t is to he worked by
ropes.
81 never got trusted Tor a hat" said q
spendthrift, "because should then feel
as though we're in debt over head and
ears"
The Alaska Herald talks about "the
cool headed residents of Sitka." In the
name of wonder, how could they be any,
thing else?
4 st. Louis is Dragging that she only
kills twenty in every one thousand per-
sons in one year, while Chicago "gets
away with thirty.
i The latest action for damages is one
against Virginia railway company
for running over a rooster. The jury
gave the plaintiff $25.
1t there is one time more than anoth-
er when woman should be entirely
alone it is when line full of clothes
comes down in the mud.
The Persians believe that the dia-
monds all fell from heaven during the
earliest ages Of the world. and are en-
titled to religious veneration.
The Shah of Persia wants Mrs. Sam
uel Colt to come over there and start a
revolver factory, and has agreed to mar
ry her daughters as an inducement.
Governor Ames, of Mississippi, fol-
lows the commendable example of Pres
ident Grant, and opens no wine at his
Executive receptions.
About two million pounds of snuff
are made annually in this country, the
greater part of which is consumed by
| the wemen of the South.
A big mortgage was that recently
filed in Chicago of Potter Palmer to the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance CON-
pany, for $l,7l4,O0O.
A colored man was found dead in Ar
kansas county, Arkansas, lately, with
three dead wolves lying near him-one
of them still in his grip.
A law court in Iowa has fined farm
er $40, because he made his son turn
grindstOne sixteen consecutive hours,
for going home with an old maid from
singing school.
| A burglar at Fort Smith, Ark, on
leaving house which he had robbed of
5000, stepped into bucket of soft soap
under the window, so that he was easily
tracked and captured.
Some melancholy man with tuin
for arithmetic has calculated that the
people who died in Philadelphia last
year would have made procession one
mile long, marching ten abreast.
They were going to put man out of
San Francisco theater for creating a
disturbance: when voice cried out
"He's all right, he's killed China
man !' and they let the man alone.
Mayor Havemyer, Of New York, OIL
cially states that the East River bridge
is an impractical project. He says the
project was conceived in sin, born, in
iniquity, and must end in disaster.
Strong feelings do not necessarily
make strong character. The strength
Of a man is to be measured by the pow
er of the feelings he subdues mot by the
power of those which subdue him.
A boy in Greenfield, New Hampshire,
told his father that he guessed he could
make that hen quit setting, and his ia
ther told him to go ahead. The boys
plan was to set fire to the nest, and car
rying it out he burned the barn and all
contents.
Snooks' mother and old Mrs. Stubbs
were talking about little babies. why
said Mrs. Snooks, swhen was baby,
they put me into quart pot, and put
the lid over me- 'And did you live?'
was the astonishing inquiry. They tell
me l did, was the peculiar reply. well
did you ever?' and Mrs. Stubbs fell to
knitting like one bewitched.
+. Sleep obtained two hours before mid
night, when the negative forces are in
operation, is the rest which most recu-
perates the system, gives brightness to
the eye and bloom to the cheek. The
difference in the appearance Of per-
son who habitually retires at ten o'clock
and that of one who sits up until twelve
is quite remarkable.
The parents of child are the guard
ians of its moral nature; on their train
ing depends in a great measure the
growth or decline Of this. Their work
of casting out devils begins very soon.
1t is their duty, and ought to be their
interest, to watch the dispositions Of
their children,and with wise and gen.
tie hand to suppress the first rising of
those which are evil.
A gentleman, tile other day, saw his
daughter dipping her doll baby's dress
into tin cup, and inquired:
"What are you doing, my daughter 2"
H'm coloring my doll's dress"
"With what?"
"With beer.''
"What put that foolish notion into
your head, my child? You can't color
red with besr.''
eyes l can, pa, because ma said it
was beer that made your nose red!''
And the man had business that called
him down town.
Nothing SO delights n well-bred man
as the simple but seul-thrilling "thank
y oil, sir" slipped through the lips Of o
well-bred woman to whom he has re-
sign ed his seat In street car.