Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-11
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A SETTLED 1HlNd-A SuP oA Sooa
coffee.
CAN man eating dates be said to con-
sumo time?
SoNe OF THE BILLIARD Lob,
carom me back!
A COUSIN of the poet N. P. Willis is
policeman in New York city. He is 7S
years old.
FIVE hundred applications week is
about the average filed in the Patent Office
at Washington.
THE policies of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, of Chicago, are not loaded |
with unjust restrictions. rr
A MAN in the Bangor Jail refused to see |
his wife because he didn't want his hap |
piness broken in upon
Mr. D. APPLETON, the New York pub |
Usher, has given $4,000 to the town of
Appleton, Mo-, to be used in building a
school house.
OF the 100000 deaths recorded in
England and Wales from 1870, nearly
100000 were those of children under
years of age.
CALIFORNIA is introducing one, two,
three and five-cent pieces for the first time
in her history. Hitherto a Bit" has been
the smallest change.
leave your family indedendent of charitys
Insure in the Washington Life Insurance
Company, of New York.
In New York, recently, woman got
into dispute with a man, which ended in
her picking him up bodily and throwing
him out of two-story window.
THE failures in the United States, dur
ing 1870, it is reported, amounted to 3,551,
involving liabilities of $SS, pa, 900, against
failures during 1869 amounting to 2,799,
involving liabilities of $75,O54,000.
A FUND of $4,000 has been raised in
Georgia for a monument to the Confeder
ate dead, the cornerstone of which is to
be laid on the Fourth of July.
A MAN in New York gave a woman his
note for $4,000 to marry him. She did
so, but he got possession of the document
and refuses to pay. She has sued to re-
cover, but it is doubtful if she can.
A CITIZEN of Montreal who refused to
unmarried daughters are, has been fined
six dollars and costs, with the alternative
of going to Jail for thirty days.
THE latest style at dinner party is to
have fan placed at each ladys plate, on
which is printed the bill of fare, and on
the side of which is small looking glass,
so that she is able to survey herself and
keep COOL
"THIs little fellow" said Martin Luther
of bird going to roost, has chosen his
shelter, and is quietly rocking himself to
sleep, without a care for to-morrow's
lodging, calmly holding by his little twig,
and leaving God alone to think of him."
THERE is great deal of theology in
the idea of the little girl who wished she
could be good without obeying her grand
mother. She said it was easy enough to
read books and pray, but pretty hard work
to mind grandmother.
A Boston lawyer, who unsuccessfully
defended two counterfeiters, received from
them as part of his fee counterfeit $40
bill To them then straightway did he
write thus: You must not pass counter
felt money to counsel. / shall be obliged
if you will settle" They, being in prison,
felt obliged to decline to settle at present.
MORE than two years ago a vein of
coal at Yatesville, Luzerne County, Penn
sylvania, took fire, and it has been burn
ing ever since. Recently the fire has
seemed to be increasing in extent and in
tensity, and the volume of smoke rising
from it has been very large and heavy,
Two fine COWS had fight in Forsyth
! County, Ga, the other day. One was
killed, and the other died two days after.
! When found, they were locked together,
one having her horn through her oppo-
| nent's neck. The other had stuck her
horn under the jaw, proceeding upward to
the brain 1t took two men to extricate
, them.
PRINCE PUcKLER-M -MUsKAw, who re.
Gently died at his superb estate in the
Province of Brandenburg, near Kottlus
had this passage in his will: =" have very
little cash left, l think; but my heirs will
: honor my memory if they will use part Oi
my money in buying all the copies of my
: works which they can find, and destroy
ing them at once"
A CLERGYMAN of Cairo, Ill, expressed
lately, his contempt of nickles in his Sun
6 day collection, and positively forbade any
, of his congregation from contributing any
thing under the denomination of five cents
= "Save your cents" said he, until yol
: have five before you putyour hands in thii
? box. The widows mite is not here"
t Two oelegantly-dressed lady shop-lifter
v were arrested by the Syracuse, N. Y, po
j lice the other day. On examination i
v was found that each of them had TIVE
large linen sacks suspended under he
skirts by ropes tied around the waist. IL
these sacks were found five pieces of heav,
% twenty yards.
T A SINGULAR suit has been commence,
in Cincinnati court by one Michael Lau
II fer, who seeks to recover $4,000 for inju
e ries resulting from croton oil mixed wit
is beer and administered by his bar-keepel
e John Maley, few months ago. The IT
J. suit OF the dose was such as to render tn
(, plaintiff sick for ten days, disable hir
l. from work for two months, and cause pei
e manent partial blindness Of the right ey,
e THE following is an instance of tn
3 "ruling passion strong in DEATH" Squir
8 W was very fastidious in his notion
le of propriefy. At weddings and funeral
k he was quite officious, and very particula
n that everything should be done decent
,e and in order. In due time he was take
or ill, fatally SO, and relatives and friend
r were gathered around his bed, sad an
" weeping. One of these, more thoughtft
IN than the rest, asked the departing squil
20 if he would like to have clergyma
called in to pray with him, to which
replied. Well, yes; think it would b
appropriate"
A DOCTOR recently possessed pet ma.
" pie, which constantly hearing his master
he advice gratis patients repeat, in answer [
he the solicitous inquiries of valet, al
| IOAi LII NCly III! GuC phrase u
as heart, so as to speak it with surprising di
as tinctness; it was, in fact, his unique for
of expression. The magpie escaped I
10 the neighboring rural district, and W,
ut shot by sporting peasant. The latt'
y ran to pick up his prize. The dying BIZ
I'll opened his eyes, and said, looking up dol
ct fully at his murderer, "Ah, Henry, T.
ed very I'LL" The PEASANTS name was Henr
"a ~ He dropped his victim and his gun, an
LII took to his heels.
ui ui PROFESSOR ToRREY made balloon a
=, cension from Dayton, Ohio, few da,
a ae since, initiating his balloon with hot a
=, from a furnace set in the ground. Just
,is ie the air-ship rose from the earth, the low
lis part of it caught fire, unknown to Il
= aeronaut, who went through a number
~ evolutions on the trapeze suspended
ropes from the car. At the height of 1 on
feet the fire blazed around the balloo