Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-27
CURRENT ITEMS.
: A Coop BIRTHDAY PREsENT.-A policy
in the Mutual Life, of Chicago.

A GOOD BIRTHDAY PRESENT!-A pOuCy
in the Mutual Life, of Chicago.
COMMON sense is valuable in all kinds |
of business except love-making.
POLICIES become self-sustaining in the |
Washington Life Insurance Company, of
New York,
No wonder that the female sex are so
obstinate The Latin word for woman
is muller"
Two railroad accidents which recently
occurred in Massachusetts, were caused by
the expansion of the rails by heat.
A WESTERN editor consoled man who
complained that justice had not been done
him, by the remark that it "was very
ucky for him."
A CANADA man "April fooled" his
butcher by paying debt nineteen years
old. The butcher is waiting for several
others to do the same.
The Empress of Germany said the
other day, to an Austrian journalist, that
she had never slept more than four hours
day since the breaking out of the war
with France.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has awarded $4,000 damages against the
town of Ashfield, Mass, in favor of ]. III.
Dyer for personal injuries to plaintiffs
wife, caused by defect in highway.
AT Bath, N Y, recently, man suffer
| ing from catarrh and sore throat had ex-
| tracted from his nose plum stone, which
he insisted had been inserted there twenty
three years before.
| Hon. ZADoCK PRATT, who died in New
York, the other day, leaves very large
| fortune. He was married recently to
young lady who wrote wrappers In one
of the newspapers offices of New York.
THE late John Tappan, of Boston, once
gave Professor in theological seminary
$50 for his tobacco-boX, on condition that
he should no more roll the weed "as a
sweet morsel under his tongue"
THE New London (Wis.) Times reports
that girl in that place, thirteen years OF
age, committed to memory 100 verses of
the Bible in single week Another child,
still younger, committed 400 in four
weeks.
| AMONG those who went to see the Car
diff Giant in New Haven was middle
aged man who had lost his brother by a
mysterious disappearance, and was heard
to murmur, as he stepped away, "'Taint
himp
A WEALTHY Virginian recently killed
a man whose life was heavily insured in a
New York company, and it is said the
COMPANY Is dDCub W d SulJ III
ages against the murderer for destroying
its property.
A FRIEND relates the following; A
mile or two from town he met boy on
horseback, crying with cold. "Why
don't you get down and lead him? That
is the way to keep warm" NO." said
the boy, dts a b-b-borrowed horse and
I'll ride him if freeze"
THE CLEvEAND Plaindealer publishes
the following, addressed to railroad
official in that city:
MICHIGAN EXCHANGE, DETROIT, April 1, 1871.
DR.. Sir enclose s2. 90 for ride once taken OF
press and cheat te people on your watered stock
but have no biznez with it, SO you got it nov
yourself and you make SO much you can,
sign JOHN SMITT.
THE German imperial crown is foo
high, of 81 carat gold, and heavily set witt
pearls. The sceptre is of silver gilt, ant
two feet long. The globe carried in the
hand is of the finest gold, 31s inches il
diameter, and encircled by two rings il
perpendicular, and half covered will
, Jewels, and the other horizontal and en-
7 tirely crusted with gems. On top is
/ cross which fairly blazes with precious
stones.
7 A PRACTICAL ExPLANATIoN.-
? ''charleyl what is osculationf"
"Osculation, Jenny, dear,
/, Is a learned expression, queer,
For q nice sensation.
Iput my arm, thus, round your waist,
! This is approximations;
! You need not fear
There's no one here
Your lips quite near
them
. "Oh, dearr,
= Jenny, that's osculation.'
RECENTLY, thief said to the Judg
9 quite confidently: My lord, I really as
! sure you committed the theft in a weal
moment; quite, indeed, against my owl
will, quite" "Ohl very WELL" said hi
: lordship, Z" it is only right that you shoul
have no cause for Complaint. The offens
! will be met in a proper spirit. AS yo
: committed the act against your own viii
: you will be punished against your ow
will"
!; A NEW YORK paper says: There is
story going around about a New Orlean
;, printer who declined to go out and drin
: when asked, but placed the money b
: would have spent had he gone out with tn
:, boys in savings bank, and how in fiv
J years it had amounted to untold millions
Then he didn't have any wife. We trie
that once for year, quitting smoking, an
placing money that would have been use
in bureau-drawer. One day we wante
to go out with the boys, and went for tn
ulOuCy, dDu IL was SOAC, duu III Dlcl
e was some new dress patterns, and bonnet
q and things. She looked calm enough, br
l. we began to smoke again"
INDUsTRY-Man must have occupatio
. or be miserable. Toll is the price of slee
y and appetite-of health and enjoymen
u The very necessity which overcomes OF
= natural sloth is a blessing The who
Ii world does not contain even a briar or
= thorn which nature could have spare
u We are happier with the sterility, whic
> we can overcome by industry, than v
e could have been with spontaneous plent
IL and unbounded profusion. The body al
g the mind are improved by the toll tn
u fatigues them. The toll is a thousan
+ times rewarded by the pleasure which
r bestows. Its enjoyments are peculiar. \
:, wealth can purchase them-no indolen
Is can taste them. They flow only from tt
Is exertions which repay the laborer.
II STERNE being one day in coffee hous
" observed spruce young fellow at the III
,f side who was speaking of the clergy as
u body of disciplined imposters. Sterne g
- 70 up while the young man was speakin
O. and approached the fire, patting and Goa
a ing favorite little dog. Coming
~ .S length close to the gentleman, he sal
81 ''Sir, this would be the prettiest little al
# NAL in the world, had he not one disorder
~ "What disorder is that?" asked the f,
3, s. low. "Why, sir" replied Sterne, "ol
m m1o that always makes him bark when he sc
as as a gentleman in black" "That is sing
av ov lar disorder" replied the young fello1
~ ~ "pray, how long has he had IT," "Si
be replied Sterne, looking at him with affe,
~. ed gentleness, lever since he was
n Ie. puppyr'
es HEART disease is the dread of ma
he who spend their lives from youth to Q
re- age in misery with their fears. More Fl
re, quently than in regard to any other COZ
re. plaint, perhaps, do the fatal results of IL
10 appear in the papers, not because of any
;et great frequency, as because of the su
for denness which attracts attention. tt
of tends to keep needless anxiety on t
ess strain. Probably few persons live W
ar have not at some time conceived the he,
Ike to be diseased, as the symptoms which a
,,.d usually taken to indicate such cOnditi