Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-01-29
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Next Monday will be grounding
day"
There's many a slip betwixt now
and next spring.
The sign of the moon is now right
for paying subscriptions.
No other living thing can go so
slow as boy on an errand.
Talk up your town as though you
were the sole owner and held it for
sale.
Scarlet fever can be prevented many
times by keeping warm and well clothed
with flannel.
Ask yeur neighbor to subscribe for
the REPUBLICAN,, and thus assist in
building up your home press.
Dead men never advertise. If You
want to do a live business, use printers
ink freely. 1t pays.
-"Felt slippers" advertised in the
shoe stores, are thought to be those felt
by boys in their rude young days.
An "Old Folks''concert will be Civ
en- in two or three weeks, in which the
HSongs our fathers sang' will be rem
dered in the costume of fifty years ago.
The roads during the past week
have been in horrible condition, max
ling it almost impossible for farmers to
get to town with loaded teams.
The breadth of wheat sown in Ohio
last fall is said to be an increase of ten
and half per cent. over that of last
year. r
The new NJ. Z. Church at Oxford,
Holmes Co., Ohio, will be dedicated
Sabbath, Feb. sth.
Dear little boys take our advice,
And don't go on the rotton ice;
For many a boy has fell chncki in,
And thus has caught his final duckin.
Umbrellas for the fashionable
young women of the period are of navy
blue serge silk with ivory handles cut
in the form Of cross. They are not Or
namented In any way.
Never read your home paper and
lay it aside without consulting the ad-
vertising columns. More OF less changes
are made every week, and besides this,
they will be found very Interesting.
The wrecking car on the Atlantic
& Great Western Railroad has not been
called out this winter. This is a fact
which speaks volumes for the present
able management.
There is one good thing about ba-
bies says traveller, they never change.
We have girls of the period, men of the
world, but the baby is the same self
possessed, fearless, laughing, voracious
little heather in all ages and countries.
Sit in the front hall with the door
open, put your feet in a pail of ice-wa-
ter, and get your little boy to jingle
string of sleigh-bells, and you have all
the sensations of sleighing with none
of the expense. sE
1t is now announced on the author
ity OF an "eminent physician" that it
is not considered healthy to rise before
eight O'Clock in the morning. This ap-
plies only to men. Wives can rise at
seven and start the fire as heretofore.
"A man living near .Killbuck read in
an almanac that his feet could be kept
warm by lining his boots with cayenne
pepper. He don't feel much like walk
ing now, but he says he "would like to
find the man what put that in the al
manac."
Somebody tells us that if a lamp
chimney is placed in a vessel of cold
water and the water heated until it boils,
the chimney won't break from the eff
fects of heat. The experiment is worth
trying notwithstanding the fact that
dealers in this article don't believe it.
"A prospective son-in-law, while re-
lating the cold, old story" to his charm
er, at the old folks home, sat down on
bent pin, the other evening. He sprang
about three feet into the air, and while
coming down was heard to- whisper
softly, 81 think it is too cold near this
window, love-" His smile was sweet,
but sad.