Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-16
CURRENT ITEMS.
HARD TO BEAT-A boiled egg.

HARD TO BEAT-A boiled egg.
Ready-m made clothes.
WHAT is the sun by trade? A tanner
An IMAGINARY QUANTITY lady's
age. ,i7i ~s,-s' = = ~ -
OF what trade are the beess Comb
makers.
A PITCHED BATTLE-A fight between
two tars.
MEAN TME-The time when ones note
falls due.
A COMMON DFFERENCE-A matfi-
monial squabble.
WEsToN's friends kindly advise him NOT
to walk again until he walks the plank.
ONE of the cheapest things in Maine is
board. Lodging is not so cheap.
WHY do draughtsmen like cold weather?
Because they can draW round the fire.
A POLICY issued by the Washington in
1861, for $4,000, in 1866 had increased to
81, 1870.
1t is estimated that nine inches of dry
snow on the ground is equal to one inch of
water.
THE ladies give as reason for marrying
for money, that they now seldom find any
thing else in man worth having.
A KALAMAZOO, Mich, chap was arrested
for forgery the other day, and offered
forged checks as security for his appear
ance on the day of trial. ----
If your house is mortgaged, insure your
life in the Mutual Life of Chicago fer
sufficient amount to cover the mortgage.
THE Jail at Keene, n. H, being tenant
less, the local paper suggests that =" as the
rogues seem to be all outside, it might be
utilized as safe retreat for few honest
people of retiring disposition"
WOMAN is delusion, madam" ex-
claimed a crusty old bachelor to a witty
young lady. And man is always hug
ging some delusion or other" was the
quick reply.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE man, who was ar
rested for selling liquor, has revenged him
self upon the man who complained
against him by cutting off the tail of his
horse. ..---
JOHN BURNS, San Francisco, has been
declared insane for threatening to shoot
his wife and set fire to his house. A local
paper says that as the former is very
homely, and the latter fully insured, the
evidence is weak.
THE Boston Post prints the story of the
agile Dakota belle, who can put her hand
on the back of horse and jump clean
over him without touching a hair" and
incredulously remarks, horse, per-
haps."
A COUNTRY auditor in New Hampshire
mas nau presented 10 mm, 1or allowance IN
q aM-s9ll, Dill, winch Ieaos: 10 aolng
sd; J 'no, 100, SUI ~ .I- q InoPih "oou anu 1
drnnL sSi 'ne "e'AS "iiite 1ou lay
Oi aiA' P~i'
WooDMAN recently felled a tree, In
owen Souhty, lno-, In an opening OF
winch, % Ieet lrom the pase, was lo9no
sne sHeieoon % OF pear, mucn oecayea, Inc ,i
rppndings ;nd;cated that II nonst have
been there for nearly a century,
AN ingenious ponce lawyer suggests, as
.elIlng lncldent lor a SENSATIONAL novel
ISL 10 Work up, tne 1oliowing: our nero
stam5 which he sends her in . note ge-
ouesting an answer and gets the eyidanca
of his g1ilt into his hands again hv return
mail >' -
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1e1 ese hO VI ps EuniIss k,;J Ion'alns ans nom' on
200 Uin D1Iu '1Ipes, TI oesiues suuut s1' oo,-
wv pampnie I II: oPeiauon ~. VI tne I! new
lsI. ~ Jaw nas ineIeaseu ~ tne ilpLaLy,
duIins the Pasl year 70 an nna Unusually iaTge
num- hulnoer. Upward Oh o,UoV Copyrights
during less than six months, -' O---O
Co
20 60 b;s 80 Ii, bIaoI, -
~ GUoafa. rio Ponu ;,'; 80 .fa 1,aon 49, @ Hf
tI,,, ~ H. ~ L;Iodrn-lI ;LdnS .no " pii
@ @tneh. my piiiIoeopnoi ,epiieu Dy aii
nleans, SCI .ne eggs unher ooutndown
men. but you want Dass ior eatlng, the
pesl pian Is 10 set out an orcharu OF pass-
woou ,rees, anu PLUCK the lrult as II ma
tuies- -oos'0t I0St'
a MAN In the vicinity OF Moodstock,
VI, mas peen SO severely poisoned and
paralyzed by drinking cider that had been
conducted through lead pipe into his eel
his hnad taas @ or 20 a,,anS ~ ~ Ia. oi;norr h,,s;
nass s The ,,;ne ~ wss @ not licensed or
-;rsa5 ont tba At year b,,t 1oid o,.-oT~ cd
nSad lost fall yv;tbo;,t cIean;nT
a CHARMING young wldow OF RerTy
County, lnd, oeng unable, or unwilling,
to decide which OF TWO lovers 10 bless
with her hand, induced them to settle the
question by cards" Old sledge, best two
In three. Accordingly, the candidates met
at the ladys residence one DAY lately, and
In the most amca6le manner played the
momentous rubber, the loser reurlng
with a oenedlcton on ms successful riVal
"AAN sA~ PAoSP~~ o--'
THE other morning a bridal party entered
palace car at the New jersey railroad
depot in Jersey City, and after being
seated short time, the bridegroom left the
train for a few minutes only to lind on his
return that he had been LETT behind. In
his desparation al being separated from his
bride, he hurried to the superintendent s
office, and offered Mr.. Jackson 800 if he
would enable him to overtake the train in
which his better-half was passenger. Mr..
Jackson agreed TO the proposal and or
dered special engine to follow. The
anxious groom overlook his spouse at
Railway, after run of thirty minutes
AN amusing anecdote rela,ive to Gem
era1 Washington IS fonnd among the old
records of t5e Pension Office. :" AT the
siege of Boston in 1735 then occupied by
the British troorsl. one extremely cold
night in December. detachment of 500
men was ordered 10 fortify Barrel Hill.
General Washington came on the ground.
and while unohtrusiyelv inspecting the
onerations n soldier by the name of
Wilder not then r cOnniZing the Com