The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-06-10
Mere Mention.

UT Table-turning is now the rage in the
French Provinces.
ai' The city of Calcutta is about to be lighted
with Gas.
% There are in the United States twenty-five
travelling circus companies.
W More Than seventy sea-going steamships
are now owned by New York companies
OrJudy Down has been appointed Postmaster
at Jefferson, in place of N. X. Prentice remov-
4 ed.
uT siphon for dairymen Is used in Scott and
by means of which the milk Is drawn away
fr rom the cream, instead of skimmng the cream
off the milk.
" There are eight hundred and eighty sew
en- iersons employed in and about the N. York
custom house. There average salary is about
nine hundred dollars.
IT In St. Peterburgh there is an old and ex-
cellent custom requiring every person taken up
drunk, male or female, to sweep the streets the
hext day for a certain number of hours.
u The London anniversaries, this veal, were
attended by large numbers of pickpockets
who levied contributions upon the multitude,
with remarkable success.
,B"A lady, says the Tribune, "favours es-
pecially her clergyman, and her ses-captain is
not the greatest pet of the three"
Ut We cannot but applaud the recent action
of an Ohio Agricultural Society, in offering
premiums, to be awarded at the next Fair, to
to the ladies who display the greatest skin in the
arr eq uesrian.
IT Nearly one hundred tons of specie re-
Gently arrived in London in one ship, from
Mexico Its value was over three millions of
dollars All but half a million of it wos in sill
yer. Il filled twenty specie wagons.
1J' city ed itor, noted for the mildness of
his character and the strength of his language,
observes, that some of the New York importers,
TO avoid paying their duties, would "swear the
head off a bronze llon,"
IL By an application for n summons mado at
| the Lambeth Police court, it became known that
blacksmith, named Turner, lately purchased
a wife, in the person Of Mrs. Huntley, for "a
pot of beer and three penny pie! 4
| u Sixteen hundred dollars has been sub
scribed in the United States for the contempla-
ted monument to Jenner, the dscoverer of vac
cinaticn. This is larger sum than any other
country has yet contributed.
GrThe Commonwealth thinks the moral in
scrption on the Webster monoment will be-
"To the last of the great Wings, by the last of
! the little Wings"
G7The New York Daily Tribune estimate
that the cost of the disaster at Norwak, will be
to the R. R. company as high as 100000. This
must include damages to the sufferers and their
representatives,.
The Wheeling extension of the Cleveland aud
Pittsburgh Railroad was let at Wellsve, {Vp.)
on the 18th inst for $26l ,O00 The estimated
cost was $asI, 900, ...
u A witty writer in tn Boston Transcript
says that if Shakespeare could have foreseen
what wretched work some Of the miner actors
would make with their parts, he would have ar
ranged the play SO that they would have been
dispatched in the first act. I
a. The number of castles Of which there are
existing remains is, in Eng land, four hundred
and sixty -one; Wales, one hundred seven; Scot
land, one hundred and ffty-f Ileland, one
hundred and twenty. Total, eight hundred and
forty three
IL "Why," asks correspondent of the Bal
timore Clipper, "should death and marriage no.
tices be paid for1' TO which the Clipper re-
pes:-"For the very best rensons; one is an
advertisement of copartnershp, and the other IS
a notice of dissolution. Business is business"
G7An eminent German has taken the pains to
count the hairs in the heads of four different col
ors. In blond one, he found 10000; in
brown. l09 ,440; in black, I02 500; and in red
one, SS,740.
DMr. S. w. Jewe't, Of Mddlebury, VT ;has
just imported another fl ocl of fine -wooled sheep
from Franco. Mr.. Jewett is one of the most
importers OF fine stock in the coun-
try. 1t is stated that he has expended $50, 900 in
the importation of sheep from Europe.
D-About half a million of dollars has been
subscribed towards memorial to the late Duke
Of Wellington. The amount will be applied to
lie erection of national monument in the shape
Of school or college bearing his name, for the
yratuitous or nearly gra.uitous education of or
phan children of officers in the army
MARRIED,