Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-30
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a CRATE No1sE.-The one you make
putting on the Goals.
THE gr atest nutmeg ever known met
with crater.
AT last accounts poor Mrs. Partington
was complaining of chill brains.
PARoDox-The greatest bores are al
ways persons of the smallest calibre.
THE stockholders in the Washington
only receive the interest their own money
earns.
AN afflicted mother living in Dresden
has lost in the war five sons and six sons
in.law.
A TENNEssEEAN uses as cane cab
bage stalk cut by his father while q soldier
Of 1912, in Florida
IF people would be comparatively safe
from kerosene lamp explosions they
should fill their lamps by daylight.
WHEN base ball clubs are victorious. of
what mountain range should they remind
yous-Appe-nin
BIsMARK's second son, who was SO Sc
verely wounded in the early part of the
wal, will remain cripple for life.
AT Peterborough, N. H., at recent
birth, the great grandmother of the child
acted as head nurse. The grandmother
was also present.
AT Pembroke, Mass, Mrs. Robert Park
er and Mrs. n G. Randall have been
elected overseers of the poor, and Mrs.
Sarah j. Brown one of the school COM
mittee.
A NAN in St. Louis has been guilty of
one of the most utterly reckless acts ON
record. He has defiantly throw wn tempta-
tion in the way of his heirs by insuring
his life for $4,000 0.
ut is forty years, my old friend John,
since we were boys together" SIS it?-
we'll, don't speak SO loud, there's that
young widow in the next room."
An old peddler, who has travelled over
New Hampsh re for thirty years past, last
winter, for the first time, kept his cart
upon wheels never putting it on runners
for single day.
A BOY in Detroit has killed sixty-seyen
of his neighbors' cats to get money to buy
his mother set of false teeth. He has
made quiet neighborhood where once
was bowling wilderness.
PROFESSOR d. D. SMITH, at the late an
nual commencement of the Philadelphia
Dental College, stated that artificial teeth
were in use among the ancient Romans
before the time of Augustus.
A POOR woman in Savannah, Ga, lately
put over the grave of loved son slate
on which was written his name and age,
with a pane of glass on the top of it,
which was stolen by some candidate for
the penitentiary or gallows.
In Troy, N. Y, a number of profession.
al burglars were recently sentenced to three
years Imprisonment, whilst poor outcast
who stole some food to prevent sarvation
was at the same time sentenced to five years.
As the workmen were tearing down an
old wall in Reading, Pa, the other day,
which had been built thirty seven years
ago, they found lemon imbedded in the
mortar which had been there for that Pc
riod of time.
GRAMMAR class, stand up and recite
Tom, parse girls. Girls is a particu
lar noun, of the lovely gender, lively per-
son, double number, kissing mood. in the
Immediate tense, and in the expectation
case to matrimony, according to general
rule"
a KNOXVILLE, Iowa, physician was
called, one day recently, to attend an in.
fant whose mother had dislocated its
shoulder by lifting it up suddenly by one
arm. The doctor remarked tn 1T this was
the fourth case of that kind which he had
met in his practice.
THE Crown Princess Victoria of Prus-
sia, has declared her readiness to devote
two thirds of her whole income during the
years 1871 and 1879 to the relief of wild
ows and orphans of German sol5iers killed
during the war with. France.
Fpox stat;stics co+bered fror, re,;ob1o
sonrces # annears that the loco of cattle
from, foot and mouth d;saasa o,,d ~, .S' AZ
sasa i, Enclo,,S =, ~ IT, ia oi;,
K kAo 1sn tha raIne of ,I;oS ;e sy -. y 'aSar'
&c ast;m,..a a ;s n,,t dor, ~ m sa1o a. noa osn
ooe ee''no'o' 70 pus oo"n al %fio'oo4'S'o
Col. BURR PORTER, of Newark, N. J..
who was killed in one of the battles in
France, nad ,aRen ms pace at the heao OF
@ nls colnuLanu, ola"n ms SWORD, anu was
uIsllg nis lnen 70 lne iatai enarge' saying
-. ), wln Snon you nvw we Hgns u Ahief'
ica "nen ne was hi' ny outlet.
That full occupation for the mind
without overtaxing it, is a good preventive
Of suicide, has long been held by investi
gators. In corroboration of this is the
fact now stated that only five suicides were
committed in Paris during the seige-ar
unparalleled falling off of self murder il
that city.
Ar recent woman suffrage meeting il
New York, one of the female speaker
proposed that the thirty five thousand oil,
maids in New England should 90 Yves
and buy farms. This proposition wa
commented upon and the opinion give
that, if they should, there would be fift.
thousand men after them.
A FEW days since. a couple of brakeme,
on the Fitchburg (Mass.) Railroad. wer
talking on the subject of eggs. when on
bet his watch against that Of the other AM
five dollars that he would eat two doze
eggs within five minutes. The bet wa
taken and the eggs brought on. In les
than five minutes he ale the twenty -fou
adding that '.for one dollar more" he woul
eat the shells.
AN eccentric man in Massachusetts hs
made and nnhl;shed bia will nc e,;ve
his body after his death to Professor Aga
siz and DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to t
placed in the museum at Cambridge, bl
directs that two drum heads shall be mad
of his skin, on which Yankee Doodle
shall be beaten at the base of Bunkt