Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

WILL SHIRK, OF Newcastle, Ind, has
whitfield out a wooden clock with a pen
knife. -F
EVERY member of the Mutual Life, of
Chicago, is equally interested in its sue
cess. ...
THE water from the salt well at Terre
Haute, Ind, will completely dissolve tin
cup in twenty-four hours.
A DRoMEDARY race lately took place at
Cairo, Egypt, the winner making mile
in 1 :43 - a.
DIVIDENDS are applied to keep the pol
icy in force in the Washington Life, of
New York ~
DODGE clubs are becoming fashionable
their creditors.
JOHN BRENNAN, conductor on the
Sandusky & Dayton road, has Travelled
$40, ,4S0 miles in the past 1S years.
THE inhabitants of Alaska don't think
much of ornamenting their walls, but
they're very proud of their sealing,
A LETTER for Thomas Whockende-
moffeschauferponsky is advertised as be-
ing in the postoffice at Nashua, n. ii.
In 45 years the Western Pennsylvania
prison has contained 1890 prisoners, 2l6
of whom were taken from it only to be
executed.
THE engine which drew the unfor-
tunate New Hamburg train has been four
times thrown from the track into the
river.
A MAN and wife in Allentown, Pa, re-
Gently became insane-she from religious
excitement, and he from consequent grief
A MAN died at st. Louis recently, and
in his will, after stating that he never
forgot a favor" left $1,000 to an individu-
al who ten years before ran away with his
wife.
AT New Bedford, Mass, q lady adver-
tises to give instruction in cooking, an
nouncing that Especial attention is given
to bread making and pure, good yeast"
AT Waterbury, Conn, recently, a num-
ber of photographs of burning building
were taken at midnight, when the flames
were fiercest, by the use of the magnesium
light.
TIE laboring classes of Massachusetts,
have laid up against rainy day, in the
savings banks, the sum of one hundred
and forty millions of dollars. .
THE coinage of twenty thousand and
twenty y-seven dollars worth of gold bars
results in loss by tolerance and abra-
sion" of little over sixty-four dol
lars.
Two $40 bills of the old Beverly Mass. }
Bank, of the issue of 1929, and looking
almost as good as new, were recently PFC
sented for redemption at the Beverly Ma
tional Bank.
In ten years 163,411 Philadelphians
have died. There were in the city 17s, ,615
births and 62,S24 marriages during the
same time. Three sets of triplets and 140
twins are reported.
| SOME philosopher has struck the follow
ing brilliant idea he says: How wonder
full are the laws governing human exist
encei Were it not for tight lacing all
civilized nations would be oyerrun with
| women. -.-... .
A BOX of prize candy was analyzed in
this city some time ago, and found to
contain sufficient amount of poison to
kill child three months old. But the
people must be poisoned, you know
Lafayette (Ind.) Courier. .a.. .n
A COUPLE were married the other day
in Plainfield, Otsego County, N. Y, par
took of their wedding dinner in Winfield,
Herkimer County, took tea in Bridge.
water, Oneida County, and were all the
time under the same roof The house
stands "across the lines" .- F...
THE New York Herald says There
are now seventy-two Postmistresses in
the United States who receive salaries ol
81, ,OOO and upward, besides women in
minor Post Offices. The Postmistress al
Louisville, KY. receives $4,000; at Rich
mond, Va, $4,000; at Springfield, Ohio
$1,000.
| A LIVE cat was found in the mail bag at
a town in Maine one day lately. The
postmaster made diligent search through
all the United States postage laws to as
certain the amount Of postage on the
animal, but found nothing touching the
case.
| A NEW HAMPSHIRE man, when asked
to give his consent to the marriage of his
daughter, turned with beaming counte.
nance to the applicant and answered
frankly: Yes, yes; and don't you know
some likely young man who will take
the other?"
THE Public Health Committee of the
city of Dublin recently analyZed 1913 diff
ferent kinds of confectionery, mostly col
ored, with startling results. Lead, mer
curry, arsenic, Prussian blue, cochineal
and other poisons, were found among the
ingredients of the colored samples; anC
plaster of Paris and insoluble white clay
entered largely into the uncolored prepar
ations.
THE other night, two countrymen wen
into the telegraph office at hroostook
Maine, for the purpose of sending dis
patch. The message was taken by thu
operator, and the pair proceeded down
stairs. They had just reached the side
walk, when the gong at the "Snel
House was sounded for tea. Whereupon