Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-23
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doctor.
The new round hat is called the Alexis
THE latest fashionable color for UNI
brellas is bright green.
Merchants who expect to
make money without advertising.
A New YORK farmer killed himself by
lifting barrel of potatoes.
A CANADA man has made ten gallons of
whisky from thistles.
NEW York claims a population of
!, 100000 at noon of any week day.
BLACK lace mittens and low-heeled shoes
are coming into fashion.
A TEXAS man sued a newspaper for
Sl2, 900. Sixty cents was what he got.
FACTS should be put down in black and
white; in another colored ink they might
appear ink-red-ible.
IT is difficult to understand why some
people concern themselves about their
lungs, when their lungs take air of them
selves.
AN opponent of the public school
system insists that if YOU teach a boy to
write he is much less likely to make his
mark in after life.
THE courts now hold that a wife's in
terest in a life insurance policy, issued for
divorce.
\ LONDON court has had case before
it for forty years, and every one con-
cerned in it but the defendant has died
since its commencement
THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany saved its books and papers in the
recent fire in Chicago. Its policies prove
equally safe in the hour of trial.
receipt in full, after much mental effort
produced the following: al ish full. l
wants no more moIiSh. John Swachham-
mer.,'
NARROW paths divide farms in France,
Germany, and Holland Illinois is said
to have ten times as much fence as Ger
NANNY, and Dutchess county, n. Y, more
than all France.
IT is stated in a recent number of
Dingler's Journal that filter formed of
very finely divided iron, or of what is
called iron sponge, will rapidly clear
water of organic impurities.
THE Courier des Etats Unis says that
while England has but little more than
four hundred millions of dollars in specie
in circulation, France has fourteen hun
dred millions in circulation.
gard to grape leaves-namely, that from
them yeast may be made, which in some
respects is superior to hop yeast-the
bread rising sooner, and not possessing
that peculiar taste to which man object in
hop yeast.
A YOUNG man drowned himself at Car
Isle, England, leaving note, in which he
stated that the Darwinian theory had
"proved men to be descended from mon
keys, and, therefore, he did not wish to
live any longer"
ALADY having remarked in company that
she thought there should be tax on the
single state, Yes, madam" rejoined
gentleman who was present, and who was
a most notable specimen of the uncom-
promising old bachelor, ''as on all other
luXuries."
PROFESSOR HENRY says that the OBJ
servations of the Smithsonian Institute,
which extended over period of twenty
years, have as yet failed to confirm the
popular belief that the removal of the for
ests and cultivation of the soil tend to di-
minish the amount of rainfall.
A PITTsFIELD, Mass, clerk, lately mar
ried and moved to North Adams, where he
bought a house and lot. In few days
the tax-collector called on him and pre-
sented so large taN-bill that the young
man says he told him to take his deed of
the property in part payment, and he
would let him have the rest as soon as pos
sible
THE Gar of Russia has appointed a
committee of jurists, for the purpose of
examining the question of corporal pun
| ishment, and it is believed that, upon re-
ceiving their report, he will abolish that
penalty. AT present, any criminal judge
may inflict the punishment of one hun
dred lashes on any prisoner brought before
him.
THERE are about three million eight
hundred thousand head of cattle in Texas,
one-fourth being beeves, one-fourth COWS,
and the other half yearlings and twO-year,
olds. Seven hundred and fifty thousand
calves are raised and branded every year.
All are raised on the great Texas plains
which cover an area of 152 900, 600 acres.
THE Louisville Ledger gives the follow
ing specimen of a Kentucky conversa'
ton: 'Hello, dar, what you AK for dat
old blind mule, hey ?" ''Well, | dunno
guess | mout take thirty-five dollars. '
Thirty-five dollars I'll give you five.
"Well, you may have i'm +; / won't stand
on thirty dollars-in a mule trade"
ALFRED WARNER, of Castine, Me-, hav
ing had a serious disease in his leg the last
forty-five years, began to suspect that II
would not get well right away, and recent
" called upon Dr. Josiah L. Stevens tC
amputate the leg at the hip. The doctor
did so, with triumphant success; the pecu
larity of the case being that the surgeon
was eighty eight years old and the patient
seventy-three.
THE Postmaster-G General, in his forth
coming report, will recommend the passage
of law to punish persons for making
"straw bids" for carrying the mails
Much time labor and expense is wasted
by irresponsible persons putting in bids
who are wholly unable to comply with thu
law and their contracts. This sometimes
makes it necessary to go over the entir'
work of asking for proposals.
NEXT summer several enterprising per
sons in New York city contemplate set
ting up stands for selling water in promi
nent thoroughfares, as they do in Spain ant
Southern Italy. The idea is regarded a
Il good one. A great many people prefe
a glass of cold water to the villainous com
pounds often retailed as soda water, roo
beer, and lemonade, and, at penny o
two a glass, cold water would be in activ
demand
JUDGE CUsH once had a dog case, il
which the ownership of the canine was II
= dispute The evidence was conflicting
and the Judge became confused. Stop!
said he, " stop right therel Wen settl
the matter very shortly. You, Mr.. Plain
tiff, go out into the far corner out there
You, Mr.. Defendant, come into this col
ner up here Now both of you whistle
and, Mr. Clerk, let the dog loose" So said
: so done; but the dog sprang between tn
{ legs of the bystanders and "scooted ou
of the door.
) FISHING for crocodiles ON the Nile
, sport which would have done LA
Walton's heart good 4 big boat is equiv
ped with windlass and a strong line, I
which is added fine goose, with stron
hook under each pinion. The whole
f turned adrift, and before long crocodil
p comes up, seizes the goose, and toWs u
boat rapidly down stream. After he M
wearied himself by dragging the boat IL
4 a while, the line is pulled in, the monster
i head appears on the surface, and buii'
s is adroitly lodged in his eye.