Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
MANY a good man leaves an inheritance
in the Mutual Life, of Chicago.
THE London Spectator declares that
nothing can be made absolutely safe from
fire.
"STR, you have the advantage of me-"
"Quite right; you are quite right, sir. AL
most everybody of common sense has"
GREAT BRITAIN spends as much in two
days on liquors as she does in year on
foreign missions.
PARIS, KY, boasts of a horse which,
having cast shoe, jumped out of his en-
closure, went to a blacksmith shop and
had himself shod.
To destroy ants, the best plan is proba-
bly, to catch the ant with pair of tweez-
ers, and hit him square on the head with
a sledge-hammer.
A LOUISVILLE physician, who analysed
sample of the "cream candy" sold there,
found that more than one-eighth of the
entire bulk was terra alba
LEGsINGs (sarcastic)-You know lot
about 'osses, don't you; which side do you
generally get up? Boots facetious)-Well,
outside, as rule.-Judy.
A POOR topper, as last resort for more
drink, took his Bible to pawn for liquor,
but the landlady refused to take it.
"Well," said he, if she won't take my
word or Gods word, it's time to give it
up" And he went and signed the pledge
and kept it faithfully.
THE lady who carried off the chemical
prize at the University of Edinburgh
(Scotland) was the highest of 240 candi
dates. Having been declared ineligible to
receive the prize on account of her sex,
Sir Titus Salt sent her e100, but she de-
clined to accept it.
ABOUT year ago child, whose parents
reside in indianapolis, swallowed thimble
having an open top. Ever since it has
subsisted on food in liquid form, chiefly
milk. Everything of solid nature is i'm
mediately thrown up if the child makes
an attempt to swallow it. Eighteen
doctors have unsuccessfully endeavored to
find and remove the obstruction. The
child is healthy and fat.
A FRENCH Canadian, guest at Mon
treal hotel, was greatly alarmed when the
proprietor told him that if he had any
money he would do well TO have it put in
the safe. He felt convinced that the in
tention was to rob and perhaps murder
him, and at night, hearing somebody talk
al lOblll, jump Oub
of his window to the ground, distance
of forty feet. Fortunately he was not
much injured.
IRON telegraph poles have been substi-
tuted for wooden ones on the line between
Berlin and Potsdam, and along the rail-
way from Weissenfels to Gers, with such
satisfactory results that it is now proposed
to introduce them on all Prussian lines.
Tn tlax a1Cp cotfc-
factorily tried. 1t is claimed that they
will last so much longer than wooden ones
that they will be cheaper in the end, while
they are much more pleasing to the eye.
A LADY died two years ago in Troy, and
left her property to her nephew, with the
proviso in the will, that if he ever offered
the farm for sale, the property should be
forfeited to certain church. The place
was offered for sale few months ago, and
the church instituted suit, but the courts
have decided that the conditions of the
will were against "public policy" and
have declared the provision null and void.
JOHN VAN BUREN was dining in a sa-
loon, having just cleared man from some
charge in the court, when the complainant
in the case, angry at the lawyer who had
beaten him, walked up and roundly abused
Prince John. "Could there be any man,
said he, so wicked, so mean, so vile, who
could possibly commit a crime so foul that
you wouldn't defend him for it?" 81
don't know" said the Prince, sucking in
another oyster right from the shell, "what
have you been doing"
A PATRIoTIc FoUR-YEAR-OLD.-Par.
son Thomas, of Dayton, o., ID. ID. OF
good repute and fine quality, has a son OF
sprightly parts and progressive ideas. This
son had been visiting at the house of a fe-
male relation, where he took some prima-
ry lessons in the history of the American
Revolution, and how the Americans whip.
ped the Britishers. The lad returned
home full of his new subject, and at the
tea-table said to his father: "Pa, be you q
British?" "Yes, my son, was born in
England" swell, we whipped you!" re-
torted the patriotic Young American.
THE following is related as an incident
of the sacking of Paris: /" A boy of thir'
teen, found fighting, was taken to be shot
He took silver watch from his pocket
and cried out Captain, do let me take
this first to a friend across the street;
borrowed it. 'Ohl you scamp said the
officer, L understand; you want to ruI
off, My word of honor, l will come
back again. said the boy, and the captain
seeing it was child, was only too glad tC
| get rid of him. In ten minutes the boy
came back, and took his stand with hi:
face to the wall. Here / am; firer Doe:
Roman history tell us anything Drawer
| The captain boxed the little hero's ears
and ordered him never to show his fact
there again. They could not fire on him.
/ HEARD, yesterday, little story which
goes to show that truth can be as strang'
as fiction whenit has its mind made up tC
the result A gentleman, who did not live
very happily with his wife, concluded Il
obtain divorce, and soon after doing Sc
| changed his name, in order to avoid Ger
tain little unpleasantnesses. His wife tool
her maiden name, and the twain became
two flesh as much as it was possible fol
them to be. Afterward he met charm
ing widow from California, and, after {
brief courtship, he violated the principle
of the adage about the burnt child by mar
rying her. One evening she proposed t.
him TO call on her sister, whom she haC
not seen for years, and whose address sh'
had Just ascertained. Smith, as will cal
him, consented, and the visit was made
Smith was slightly taken aback to find tina
the sister was his eXwife, though Mrs. 5
wasiignorant of the fact And there wa
more surprise when it was found that tn
eX-wife had Just been married to the eX
husband of Mrs. Smith No. 2, who wa
only widow by brevet, having been di
vorced in Western State, on account o
"incompatibility of temper" The visi
was brief one, and was never renewed
l-Neto York Letter.