Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-25
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a BIRD OF ILL OAEN-A SWALLOW Oh
brandy.
THE Washington Life avoids the faults
of both mutual and stock companies.
MAY not a turkey be said to be ghost
when he's a-goblin?
WHY is donkey which cannot hold up
its head like next Monday? Because its
neck's weak.
THE Mexican Congress sits forty
minutes day, for which each member
draws $40.
THE Directors of the Mutual Life, of
Chicago, are among the best men in the
Northwest.
THE town of Holyoke, Mass, has lately
voted to dispense with policemen as being
unnecessary"
The workmen in Massachusetts, paper
mill have found $50 in money among the
rags during the past month.
He that studies books alone will know
how things ought to be; and he that
studies men will know how things are.
A KENDALLvILLK, Ind, grocer bought
a magnificent roll of butter a few days
ago, and, upon cutting it, found about
seven pounds of good dairy salt slowed
away in the center of it
A CONTEMPORARY says of very promi-
nent militia general, that his sword was
never drawn but once-and then in a
rattle"
In Pottsville, Pa, magistrate with the
love of justice before his eyes, has sent a
fellow to Jail for eight months for soiling
lady's dress with tobacco juice.
A CHICAGO paper generously remarks
of contemporary that " it has doubled its
circulation" but qualified the statement
materially by adding, Another man
takes copy now"
A FOND mother in Kingston, n. Y
keeps an old-fashioned rocking chair
standing in corner as an ornament, be-
cause in it she had rocked ten babies, all
of whom grew up to be men, and are now
living and married.
A NEW YORK letter says: "The la'est
bridal present appeared atarecent wedding
in novel style, for guests were attracted TO
a piece of paper pasted on the wall, and
when examined it was found to be marked,
From papa 1t was check for SO, coo,
which the bride feared might not be seen
and, therefore, escape the usual discussion,
considered enchanting by all young ladies
of similar calibre."
THERE is a man who often comes to
Hamilton, Nevada, whose nose is of such
extraordinary length that he can only
take liquids through a straw or glass tube
he carries with him-the straw or tube
has to be inserted in the corner of his
mouth. as his nose will not allow II to go
in the middle. He must be a cousin to
the man who had to hire boy to lead his
nose around corners.
A MAN who attempted to commit sui
eide at Elmira, n. Y, explains the cause
of the act by asserting that, some seven
or eight years ago, in May, at Corning, he
was bitten by dog, which he says was
mad, and every year, between the 4th and
9th of May, he is visited by spells of in
sanity. For days he knows nothing as to
his doings, and while under the influence
of one of these crazy fits he attempted
suicide the other day.
SOME of the Massachusetts, towns which
voted recently on the question of local IL
censes are uncertain now whether they
voted yes or no, and must call in the
schoolmaster to parse their ballots. The
town of Russell used the following form
"To see if the town will vote that no per
son be allowed to sell ale, porter, ETC." The
vote stood II yeas against 23 nays, and
the moderator decided that the town had
prohibited the sale, but the decision is OBJ
jected to, the Springfield Republican
thinks, very properly.
A AFRENCHwoMAN named Cross, living
in Burlington, VT, who for several months
has suffered from tumor in the throat,
so large that for nine weeks she was una
BILE to take solid food, and, at times, even
liquids, had it removed a few days ago
She refused to take ether, placed herself
on the operating table, assisted the sur
geon in dressing the wounds, and then got
up and walked TO her bed, unassisted. She
had been accustomed TO work out doors
chopping wood, and was very masculine
in her strength and habits.
DURING the past winter friend of ours
employed hard-working woman to dc
jobs of scrubbing, etc, about the house
He was accustomed, when he saw her, to
ask kindly questions as to her family and
general welfare. Her answer invariably
comprised a complaint that her husband's
business was very dull. Noticing the fact
our friend asked her, one of the coldes'
days in January, what her husbands busi
ness was. Hes a strawberry picker
the woman replied Our friend had nc
difficulty afterward in understanding why
her husbands business was dull.
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