Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-14
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pany holds the best of securities and gives
insurance at cost.
A SIOUX CITY dispenser of liquid light
ming recently took mans only pair OF
boots for a drink of whisky.
TON, who did you say our fried Is.
married?" "Well, he married forty thou
sand dollars-I forget her other name
THE quantity of beer manufactured in
New Jersey last year gives two and one
half barrels to every man, woman and
child in the Commonwealth.
AN eminent physician says that a good
coat of gum-arabic mucilage applied every
night to corns will, in a short time, cause
the pests to take their final departure.
THERE are 26 blind people in Colorado,
159 in New Mexico, and ? Wyoming.
There are also IL lHnatics in Colorado, 80
in New Mexico, 2 in Nevada, and none in
Wyoming.
e. HI. DERBY, of Boston, statistician,
gives it as his opinion that China and
Japan will take from us 30, COO tons, or
100, 0O0, 900 pounds of butter and cheese
per annum, whenever we shall be able TO
deliver it.
AN exchange says the new style of col
lar for gentlemen is simply terrific. They
are an economical article, however, as,
with moderately long pantaloons, they do
away with all necessity for shirt.
Miss ELEANOR VoNDY, a young lady in
San Francisco, took little strychnine on
the point of pocket-knife blade, having
heard that it would improve the complex
ion She died after two hours of intense
agony. ra
| DIR. WILLARD PARKER, of New York,
stated recently that one-third of all the
deaths in New York city were the result,
directly or indirectly, of the use of alco-
hol, and in the last thirty-eight years 190,-
900 persons in the city have died from its
| use. et
| AN unprecedented case of somnambu-
| lism occurred a few nights ago in New
! Haven, the subject being a little child
| about three years old, that went out in
rain-storm twice in single evening to
meet its parents, and was brought back
each time and put to bed without being
awakened.
| A HARTFORD lady screamed little at
the supper-table few evenings ago, when
a mouse popped out of ''doughnut'
which she was conveying to her mouth,
and scampered over her shoulders and
neck. The lady was about to cat the
mouse out OF house and home, which it
had Just eaten itself into
IT has been discovered that, by care
less drafting of the law granting a pen
sion to the soldiers of 1912, each man
that receives pension is obliged to take
an oath that he will support the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and the sur
viving widows of such officers and enlist
ed and drafted men as took part in that
| war"
In thawing out your ink-bottles this
cold weather, don't set them on the stove,
or near the stove, tightly corked. The
Iowa City Press says that the librarian of
the State Historical Society, MIR. Silas
Foster, had an explosion of an ink-bottle
under such circumstances, a few days
since, scalding him, and for some time Sc
rieusly threatening his sight.
DR. BURG, in reviewing the statistics of
deaths from cholera, finds that out of
about 81, 900 artisans in copper, brass and
bronze, employed in Paris and other cities
during the last outbreak of the cholera,
only sixteen deaths resulted from that dis
ease. Another interesting fact bearing on
this question is that the city of Mio-Tinto,
surrounded as it is by copper mines, has
never been visited by that epidemic
How TO ROAST TuRKEY.-The RuTdl
Home says this is the way to do it: To
roast turkey, it should first be " killed +"
at least two days in advance. Make a
force-meat of grated bread crumbs, pep
I per, salt, sweet marjOrum, minced suet,
and beaten yolk of egg. Chop the liver,
gizard and heart for the gravy. Stuff the
craw and the body and sew up the open
ings. Dredge with -four and put the bird
into the bake-pan, with the bottom well
covered with butter.
WATER-PRooF BooT SoLEs.-An ex-
change says: If hot taris applied to boot
l. al -D<~F
Let it be quite hot, apply with
a swab, and dry in before the
fire. The operation may be repeated two
or three times during the winter if neccssa-
ry. 1t makes the surface of the leather
! quite hard, so that it wears longer, as
| well as keeps the water out. 1t is good
plan to provide boots for winter during
the summer, and prepare the sOles by tar
| ing, as they will then become, before they
are wanted to wear, almost as firm as
/ horn, and wear twice as long as those un-
prepared.
/ UNDER the head of ''novel cure for
! consumption" the Indianapolis EUeniRg
| Journal publishes the following: Sc A
young lady of this city, sick with dis
/ ease of the lungs, was told that IL she
would get young puppy and raise it, the
dog would take the consumption off her
| so, and as the dog grew it was noticed
that the animal acquired hacking cough,
while the young lady grew rapidly better.
In the meantime, however, she had be-
come very much attached to her canine
| benefactor, and did everything that could
| be done for him. 1t was of no use, how
ever, consumption, the fell destroyer, had
fastened upon poor Jacks vitals, and a
few days since he passed in his checks.
/ The young lady is in robust health and
| firmly believes that the dog saved her
life"
In trial in London the other day, a
witness described himself as of a profes
! sion or trade of the existence of which
neither his lordship nor the barristers in
court seemed to be aware. The witness
said, Il am an early caller" WHAT"
''Why," replied the man, Il calls differ
ent tradesmen at early hours, from one till
half-past five in the morning, and that is
how makes my living. | get up between
12 and l. | goes to bed at 6 and | sleeps
till the afternoon" "But surely you don't
call any person as early as 1 o'clock. "
Eyes calls bakers between 1 and ? but
| amt had no bakers on my lists for the
last two months. The bakers is the earli-
est of all" What view of life in Lon
don What ways there are of making
money in that vast city! Only think of
the trade of early caller" and man of
about tive-and-twenty settling down to it,
LEATHER BITs-The Milne Farmer
says SAT the North Kennebec Fair we
saw colt exhibited, guided by bride in
which was pair of leather bits. The gen,
tleman stated to us that he had used them
: for some time, and would have no Other
kind, especially in winter He was salts
fed pair would last with safety three
years, unless the animal was unusually
vicious, and gave the opinion of quite EN-
inent horsemen as to their value, who sait
they would last year, even with the mos
j., unmanageable horses. Made of green hide
i or undressed leather, they would he mucl
more durable, and would perhaps bette
serve the purpose, although those to which
: we refer as having seen, were of common