Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A LITTLE SHORT-General Tom
Thumb.
A CURE FOR D1ssIPATIoN.-Stay-at-
homeopathy.
WHAT is the worst kind of fare soldiers
can live onP-Warfare.
WHY is the crow a brave bird Be
cause he never shows the white feather.
THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany Is one Of the strongest, safest, most
succe sful and best managed corporations
in New York.
THE new postal rates commence in
England october 5. A letter weis hing
one ounce goes for one penny.
Liberal and equitable in all its trans
actions, tie Mutual Life, of Chicago, is
not excelled by any company in the
country.
A HARTFORD man suggests, in note to
the Cour0nt, that the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum ought, for the benefit of the in
mates, to be removed to a more quiet
place.
A PHYSICIAN of Washington estimates
the number of cases of cancer now under
treatment in the United States at 100000,
with an average of 1000 deaths week.
EIGHTEEN copies of the first edition of
ence. They We're printed at Metz, Ee-
tween the years 144U AID 1445. MIR. James
Lenox, OF New York, owns one of the
copies, having purchased it at cost OF
5000.
THE Juniata County Jail, in Pennsylva-
mia, has Iallen into a state of dilapidation
through want of use. Recently a man was
confined in it for some trit1ing ofense, but
he found his situation SO lonesome that
he made use of his curved forefneer as a
key, unlocked the door and left the place
in disgust.
xLOUIS NAPOLEON, now that the cares
of state trouble him no more, is develop
ing into numerous old gent. On re-
cent visit to Holly Lodge College, the boys
met to cheer him as he left, when he ad-
dressed them, saying that he could not
| understsnd how Engiist men could call
| the climate of Great Britain variable
when it rains all the time.
A SINGULAR illustration of the mutabil-
| ity of human affairs is mentioned in the
Massachusetts papers. A gentleman, some
years ago, in his prosperous days, gave
his town tract of land for a public
square. The square still bears his name,
while he, pennlless and friendless, is an
| inmate of the town almshouse.
| A CURIOUS medical experiment was
tried in Russia not long since, which illus
trates the IL fiuen ce of the mind On the
body. Some murderers were placed, with.
out knowing it, in four beds where fouI
persons had died. of the cholera. They
did not take the d sease. Afterward they
were told that they were to sleep in beds
where some persons had died of malig.
nant cholera; but the beds were, in fact
new, aud had not been used at all. New.
ertheless, three of them died of the dis
ease within four hours.
A WEDDING Gift
All that have this day is thine,
| heart whose faith has never falter'd,
A love that knew no other shrine,
| And through all changes lived unalter'd.
Had a thousand hearts to give,
Thine all their love and faith should be,
Had a thousand years to live
| I'd gladly spend them all with thee.
There's not Joy in all the world
Like that of love beyond dece wing,
Though bolt on bolt be at it hurled
The heart will triumph-when believing.
This day my joy hath sovereign sway
joy which but with thee know,
| The rapture of a first fond love
Which, welded, makes a heaven below.
THE French have a story that Si
Walter Scott once offered his younges
daughter her choice between a dowry O
100000 francs or "Quentin Durward.
She asked to read the MS. took it sur
reptitiously to q publisher, found that b,
would give her 10000 francs, and duti
fully and meekly told her father that sh,
would rather have the MS. than tn,
money. Sir Walter was deeply touched
by this mark of flial devotion. Th
Paris journal which tells the story say
that a French girl would never have don,
; such a thing as that She would simply
have taken the 100000 francs, sDd-shI
would have found some way to have got
ten the romance also.
"MURDER will out is and old adage
and with rare exceptions has proved true
Often it is very little thing, and on,
most unlikely to be thought of, which af
fords a clew to the crime, and fastens i
upon the guilty party. The fact that re
Gently certain dentistry work upon tn,
teeth of young woman found dead helped
prove the identity of the body suggests
case which many years ago greatly exciteC
the public mind. A professor of Bostor
literary institution murdered DR.. Park
man, practicing physician. IN variou
ways, by knife and fire, the murderer be
lieved he had destroyed all trace of hi
victim. But the ashes of the furnace il
the building were examined by the detec
tives, and there appeared the evidence o
identity and guilt-a set of falsh teeth, OF
the gold of which was imprinted the name
"Parkman." A city dentist recognized
his own work, and this, with other cir
cumstsnces, convicted the murderer.