Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-30
CURRENT ITEMS.

CthhENG ITEMS.
A WATER-SPoUT-A teetotal speech.
CAPITAL BUsINEss-Lending money.
A CHEST PROTECTOR A good pad
lock
AWELcoME SHIP AT ANY TME-Friend.
ship.
CATS are taxed three cents apiece in
Paris.
SANGUINARY REvoLUTIoN-Circulati
of the blood.
OUGHT not a hermit to call his house
man-shun?
WHAT is higher when the head is off I:
The pillow.
MIXING IN SoCIETY-Taking your grog
with your friends.
SCHooI. boys hear with pleasure of the
decline in the whaling business.
RELATIVES of the killed Cinnamon at
Los Angeles are suing that city for dam
age.
THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE-Taking
shelter from the rain in an umbrella
shop.
SEcURE-The Washington Life Insur-
ancc Company has CASH ASSETS more than
sufficient to reinsure every risk
To LAwYERs-Can you make blind
man liable for his bill, if it is payable at
sight?
THE lighting of one of the public gas
burners in the streets of Paris by flash
of lightning is authoritatively reported.
Liberal advertisers are the men who
mean business" Those who don't ad-
vertise only do a mean business.
AN indignant gas consumer says that
there's no use in abusing the gas COM
panies, for they've always a vile retort
ready.
PUMPERNICKLE says that a woman's
heart is the most sweetest thing in the
world; in fact a perfect honeycomb-full
of cells. Bee-ware.
IT has been estimated by Senator
Carpenter that the number of
! lives lost in Wisconsin during the late
conflagration was from twelve to eighteen
hundred.
CRUDE sign-boards aud curious signs
were improvised after the Chicago fire,
announcing whittier various establish
ments had fled. The following is a spec
linen: "Owing to the recent warm snap,
Jones & Smith have removed to"
, AT Dubuque, the other day, & horse
, disappeared in the ground where a leak in
the water main had washed away the soil
| underneath, leaving the astonished rider
astride of where the horse should have
BEEN
BEFORE hanging a man in Louisiana,
they let from fifteen to forty reporters for
the newspapers " interview" him for three
weeks. The poor fellow is then not only
willing but anxious to be hung.
THE Africans consider the white ant as
a rare delicacy. Mr.. Smeathams, an Eng
lish traveller, pronounces them to be 'deli-
cate, nourishing and wholesome, resem-
bling in taste sugared cream or sweet-al-
e mOnd paste.
e A MARRIED gentleman of Elizabeth, n.
j., lost a valuable diamond pin, which he
advertised in the Herald, leaving fifteen
dollars with the book-keeper as a reward
r TO the finder. His wife was the lucky per-
: son. She took the pin to the Herald Of
flee and got the money.
f THE poet of the Chicago Post gets of
4 the following:
p A tinker and tailor,
A soldier and sailor
u newspaper reporter who couldn't get his
!, back pay,
;. Bank messengers and tellers,
And a host of other fellers,
/ Are now carpenters and masons at S5 a day,
d HERE is a neat sample of a personal
n item from a local journal in India: "We
k are very glad to learn that the marriage oi
L Mr.. Rughoonathdas Madhowdas, a Ku
pola Bunia merchant of Bombay, will
Dhuncoorbal, the daughter of Shet Gud
|, hurdas Mohundas, and the widow of Luch
l. michand Dhurumsey, was celebrated al
C Chinchpoogly."
+ A LETTER to the Universe contains
e story of a remarkably bulky taper having
been sent to the Vatican-no one knew
by whom-accompanied by a request thai
IS it should be placed in the Pope's privat,
n chapel, and lit during his mass. The re
;. quest was complied with, and the Pope
seeing it burning in a corner of the chapel
ordered it to be Immediately extinguished
y 1t was opened after mass in his presence
l. and found OF contain a small Orsini shell
\ MEMBER of family in Germantown
(Pa) was awakened few nights since b,
N singular noise, and arose on the lookou
g for burglars, but was surprised to fine
his alarm occasioned by two rats, VIII,
had evidently formed partnership. On
rat was on the attic floor, rolling walnut
e to the top of the stairway, and theI
? throwing them off the top step, whence
they would roll down to the story below
where his partner took charge of them
e and rolled them into hole in the vicinit,
g of the stairway, where they were de
Is posted.
THE New Albany Qnd. Ledger of a re
10 cent date says This afternoon highl'
o. romantic marriage took place in this city
g James A. Reasor, an old Kentuckian, o
u some fame as a stock raiser, and autho
ie of work on hog cholera, and Margare
d Cleveland, of this county, were married
a in the street, in front of the residence o
II the Rev. c. Hutchinson, the loving coupl
rising in a wagon, with an umbrella owe
IL them, while the genial, good-naturet
N clergyman leaned against his fence, and
p with the rain of heaven scattering in hi
h face, pronounced the words which mad
s. the couple happy"
{. ONE of the drollest occurrences in tn
70 annals of gallantry is related of Gibbon
the historian, who was short in stature
and very fat. One day, being alone witt
y the beautiful Madame de Cronzas, h
te dropped on his knees before her an
made declaration of love in the mos
:, passionate terms. The astonished lad
: rejected his suit, and requested him L
IL rise The abashed historian remained o.
IN his knees. Rise, Mr.. Gibbon, beseec
ne you, rise" g Alas madame" faltere
e. the unlucky lover, a cannot" He wa
too fat to regain his feet without assist
ance. Madame de Cronzas rang the bel
e. and said to her servant, Lift up MI
TX Gibbon.r
"
81 Pray doctor, give me, if you please,
Some medicine for my disease:
NV health and courage are all gone,
IS And / am weak and feeble grown"
NC The doctor felt her pulse, and said,
e. There is no cause for fear or dread
he You've no disease, be not distressed
You need no medicine, but rest"
er "rve no disease why, how you talk
Just see my tongue it's white as chalk
III Look at it, doctor-look, indeed
And say, in truth, what does it need 2"
"a If you will keep il still and quiet,
ne 'Tis all it needs; pray, madam, try it.
You overtask il at the best,
And, like the body, it needs rest"
ch The way Mark Twain introduced hin
-s self to Boston audience, few evening
since, is told by the Advertiser 'Th
tall, well-made man, with a serious and a
most severe cast of countenance, who a.