Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-04-23
IN TOWN AND OUT.



Tuesday the wind was on high.
Spring time has come, gentle Annie
Boys are hunting ''fish worms
these days.
-Soberuess puts money in every
body's pocket.
The Court House yard is putting OF
is coat of green.
The martins are here and spring i
actually upon US.
Don't nurse your wrath. Better
let it die of neglect.
"A life properly seasoned with grac,
has uniform flavor.
4 The concert in Paint Valley las
week, vas good one. ---
Our township assessors are abou
commencing their work.
| club" is a very pretty name for :
wife to call her husband.
| --Corner loafers again bloom in the
balmy air of spring time.
Spring fever threatens to disable
its usual number of victims.
\ Farmers are busy sowing their oats
and plowing their corn ground.
job work done neatly and with dis
patch at the REPUBLICAN office.
Don't sponge a newspaper. Dry
Jokes are better than wet sheets.
Two Thousand school children al
Springfield have signed the pledge.
1t is said that heating The water in
which steel is 20 be tempered prevents
the development Of flaws and cracks.
-Beefsteak is like a locomotive, it
isn't of much account without its ten
der.
There will be a concert given in
benefit of the NJ. E. church in week
or two. ~ 5iaA 1
A Kansas man has been hung by 4
mob for merely killing his mother-in-
law.
| DIR. A. c. Miller and wife of Orr
vile, will spend the coming season in
Europe. i'li 1'ii 81 Etlt
Gardens and garden seeds now en-
gross the attention of the frugal hus-
bandman.
The color of the wind was discov-
cred by the man who went out and
found 1t blew.
I'm pocket-picking, as in almost
everything else, man never succeeds
until he gets his hand in.
There is large demand for extra
copies of the REPUBLICAN every week,
and much interest continues to be tax
on in Temperance literature.
We desire our readers to distinctly
understand, that we are not RESPONSE
BILE for the sentiments of our cores
pondents.
The man that forgets good deal
that has happened has better memory
than he who remembers a great deal
that never happened.
-Kenton, O., has tried the new mu-
nicipal administration, and likes it
muehly. Her people breathe more
freely r.sA4A-as4 Il L-A-
"A general cleaning up Of streets
and sidewalks would be advisable, not
only as sanitary precaution, but rs
feature of cleanliness, that our town
demands.
A boy sixteen years of age left Dam
bury eight years ago with the loftiest
aspirations. He said he would make
people open their mouths. He is now
a dentist in Wisconsin.
The Pefsians believe that the dia-
monds all tell from heaven during the
earliest ages ofthe world, and are enri
tied to religious veneration.
1t Is one of the beautiful compensa-
tions OF this life, that no man can sim
cerely try to help another without help
ng himself.
A young man calls at the POstoffice,
after every mail. If there is none for
him, he takes out an old one from his
pockets and reads it as lie passes along
the street. This has an air of business.
The editor of the Farmer would
better attend the Temperance Mass
Meetings himself, or send some one
who could furnish him correct report
of the proceedings He would not then
be charged, in all probability, with is
suing malicious falsehoeds.
The editor requests the fanatic who
wants to whip him to call between the
hours of and IL A. NJ, and l and 8 PM.
Former. He does not want to be
obliged to stay in his dry cistern all
the time.
Court has adjourned. The liquor
trials were postponed till next term.
Judge Reed was not well, and wanted
weeks rest before holding court in
Coshocton.
"A saloon keeper recently at Cincin-
natl boosted what kind of = reception
he was going to give the ladies, but he
took the delerium tremens, and the
devil has probably given hin similar
reception ere this.
The House of Representatives at
Washington has passed bill by a two
thirds vote allowing free circulation of
Exchanges between newspapers and
tree circulations of papers in county
where published.
Hear the voices of the cats, the
merry eats. Those fiery little animals
unmolested leave the rats; while their
cries at the dead of night wake the
sleepers in alright, who CRATE their
teeth, wish the cats were the victims Of
good brick bats, or anything to silence
the noises of the brats, the herrid ulula-
ton of the cats.
The editor of the Farmer is-very
particular to name the hours during
which he wants the man who was 60
ing to whip him, to call. We presume
he wants to know when to run for the
lcistern.
The editor of the Farmer says we
called him ''natural born christian
liar" We deny the assertion. We
never said any such thing, although we
do not doubt the "natural born" part
of it.
Marin, may l go fshing?" said a
little fiaXen-haired urchin. ''Yes, SON
ny, but don't go near the water. And
remember, if you're drowned, l shall
skin you, as sure as you're alive"
We sec it stated in fashion notes
that suits are to be worn much this
spring. We are exceedingly glad that
our much worn suit will come again
into fashion, it having been out of style
for several years.
That sad period-house-cleaning
time-has come, and shaking carpets,
moving furniture and taking down
stovepipes, makes life n burden to the
weak and weary sojOurner.
| A newspaper imp is responsible foi
the following cure for bed-bugs with
salt water. This will make the bugs
dry, and while they are after q drink