Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-26
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MANY a good man leaveth an inheritance
in the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany, of New York.
AT Titusville, Pa, the other day, John
Gilpin raised 10-pound dumb bell $3.50
times without stopping.
DEATH will stop all income. Provide
for the change by insuring in the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Chicago.
RICHMOND boasts that, of the 1000 of
her citizens who died in 1870, only one
died of gout and four of intemperance.
In Galveston, Texas, an indignant father
whose daughter had married against his
will sent her for a wedding present a
patent burial case.
THE Supreme Court has decided that
the stamping of note subsequent to its
date, is sufficient where no fraud was in
tended in the omission.
TIE estate of the late Calvin w. Star
buck, of the Cincinnati Times, is declared
to be larger than that of any newspaper
publisher in the West.
SMALL Boy Ito proud friend, with a
weed on his hat)-"Well, you needn't be
so precious uppish about it neither, as if
nobody else's father couldn't die except
yourn"
A PHYSICIAN said of quack that che
was such an ignoramus that, if he could
take a lantern and go down inside his
patients, he couldn't find out what the
matter was"
A MAINE sophomore tried to haze a
freshman, but came off second best. The
fresh tied him into chair and shaved
his head, all but scalp lock on the
crown.
THE Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas at indianapolis, Ind, has determined
that professional jurors-men who hang
around the courtroom for the purpose of
being placed on juries-shall not serve in
his court.
THE Cinnamon in California, whose
means would allow, have all gone home
to celebrate the beginning of new LOCO
years. which comes in February. The
last celebration was in $40.
"TAKE off your bonnet, and spend the
afternoon, my dear Mrs. Slow. We are
going to have tableaux tonight, and am
sure you will enjoy them" Law-sakes,
| thought smelt something good a-cookin'
and guess will stop until after supper"
A LADY who recently died in Boston,
at the age of eighty-seven years and nine
months, had lived in the same house from
her birth, and never heard sermon ex-
cept in the New South Church.
A LITTLE school-boy presented his
teacher the following note from home as
an excuse for tardiness: baby cross Bis
cult to bake had no Baken powder the
dog upset the kaughphy-pot the cat liched
the milk got up hate Excuse"
A CATHOLIC gentleman, who was on
the point of being married, obtained from
his confessor his certificate of confession.
hno o1Ncnr 1,of4
had omitted the usual penance. did
you not tell me-" said the confessor, " that
you were going to be married?"
To GRAMMARIANs.-The verb ais
being singular and care" it's plural, does
it follow that Arabella is the plural of
Isabella, and must the latter necessarily be
as singular in disposition as in number,
and if so, must Arabella always be mar
ried woman, Isabella being single?
A MAN in Covington, KY, made bet
the other day that he could drink a pint
| and a half of Cincinnati whisky in twelve
hours. He won the bet, says the Louis
vile C0urier-Journdl, and his widow re-
marked at the funeral the next day that ii
was the first money he had earned by
hard work in ten years.
A FARMERS wife, in Contra Costa, Cal
cut open turnip, and found a gopher dead
in its center. The little fellow had eaten
its way into the turnip, which had taken
new life and closed the hole, or else he
laid in its way and it grew around him
one of the two-the farmers wife says
At all events, the gopher won't go for any
more turnips.
| THE details of the death of Mr. John
Walter, son of the proprietor of the Londor
Times, shows that it occurred while trying
to save his brother and cousin, who haC
fallen through the ice when skating on 6
lake in front of his fathers residence al
Bearwood, Berkshire. He had only re
turned forty-eight hours before from 6
tour round the world.
THE night editor of daily paper wrote
this head line to one of his cable dis
patches: "The British lion shaking hi.
name" He was unable to eat his break
fast next morning when he found the
printers version of the matter staring hin
in the face thus The British lion skating
in Maine"
A THIEF of strongly religious impulses
but imperfectly educated, made a raiC
upon the premises of a preacher named
Guild, in Nebraska City, the other night
and captured a lot of shirts, sheets, cut
| lery, &c Next morning the bundle wa:
left at the door, with the following: REV
9ild-Diddent no twoas minneisters hou.
or woodent a took theas things. Heal
they is CONSCIENCE"
THE chairman of Western vigilance
committee, who was instructed to duck al
obnoxious citizen, thus reported to hi:
constituents "We took the thief dow1
to the river, made hole in the ice ant
proceeded to duck him; but he Slipped
through our hands and hid under the ice
All our efforts to entice him to come ou
failed, and he has now retained his poin
of advantage some hours"
Mrs. JANE P. THURsToN, the Graz,
woman who sold the State of Maine a
auction, last winter, to satisfy her claims
against it, is at Augusta again, seeking re
lief from the Legislature. She became
monomaniac over real or fancied iniustic
done her in the settlement of her hus
bands estate. Though quite sane on othe
subjects, she commits the wild extrava
gances in relation to her supposed wrongs
In Perry County, Pa, recently, Wash
ington Blair "treed" fox in a hollow
stump about fifteen feet high He CLIMBS
after Reynard, and when on the top of tn
stump, the wood, being rotten, broke fror
his hold, and he fell inside to the bottom
the cunning animal making his escape
and leaving Mr.. Blair in the trap he ha
intended for itself After thirty-six hour
laborious work with pen-knife, the luck
less hunter succeeded in whiting himsel
out.
A FEW days ago the engineer of trai
on the Boston & Albany road, havin
run down a market wagon, stopped tn
train as soon as possible to learn the re
suit of the accident. Upon dismountin
and looking on the platform connecte
with the cow-catcher, he found a maj
well muffied up, with bag of oats and
tub of butter by his side, sitting very con
posedly, apparently on his way to market
He was not hurt in the least, though hi
team was made into kindlingwood.
A SMART girl in Minnesota popped tn
question to her lover, asked the consent c
his parents, procured marriage license
ordered the wedding breakfast, the Cal
riage to convey them to the depot, an
had a private conversation with the pal
son, all on the same day. The young ma
| had Oocunia6 Spvnn uaoro in tho effort z