Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
WHEN conscience is awakened nova
days, it don't like to ssy, Is 1t II" half so
well as " 70 is yOu."
A. T. WILLMARTH, Vice President of
the Home, of New York, is policy-hold-
er, stock holder and director of the Wash
ington Life.
A FOREIGNER hoped that if that was
Fourth of July, Heaven would deliver
him from the other three -quarters.-BOst0n
Post.
No man with dependent family is free
from reproach if he fails to insure.-LoRD
LINDHURsT. Insure in the Mutual Life,
of Chicago.
A PRIVATE In the army recently sent
letter to his sweetheart, closing with:
May heaven cherish you and keep you
from yours truly, John Smith"
A JOYOUS damsel rushed into a citizens
arms at Savannah, exclaiming "Oh, you
are my long-lost brother" She soon dis
covered her mistake, and rushed off in
confused manner, accompanied by her
long-lost brothers pocket book.
THIS is the way New York printer ad-
vertises himself: "The poorest printer in
the world. No attention whatever paid
to orders; prices higher than any other
house in the city; II small business cards
for 81 600 in gold; other work in proper
ton. How this world is given to lying"
THERE is a story told of the officers of a
British ship dining with a Mandarin at
Canton. One of the guests wished a sec
ond helping of a savory stew, which he
thought was some sort of duck. Not
knowing a word of Chinese, he held his
plate to the host, saying, with smiling ap-
proval, "Quack, quack, quack." Imagine
how his countenance fell when the host,
pointing to the dish, responded, "Bow,
ow, ow."
SIR WALTER SCOTT, who was a lawyer,
once defended a house breaker at Jed
burgh. After the t ial the prisoner sent
for him, thanked him for his exertions,
and said he was sorry he could not give
him fee, but he would give him two bits
of advice: First, that yelping terrier in
side of house was a better protection
than big dog outside; and, secondly,
that no lock so bothered housebreaker
as an old rusty one.
IT has been ascertained from the statis-
! tics of the General Life Insurance Compa-
ny of London, that if 100000 incorporate
persons be taken, from 10 to 20 years of
age, and an equal number of correspond
ing ages who are not Incorporate, thirty
two of the former will die as often as ten
of the latter. Out of 100000 of each, 49,
907 of the Incorporate will be dead before
| so years of age, but of those who are not
temperate a, ,206 only will be dead.
NE1GHBoR Sis blacksmith; he has
| little four-year-old- s. was at work
at his forge the other day making harrow
u l., IL 1sad hacr dea
the anvil, when Bob came in, and stood
watching the job. "Pa, what's them?"
"Those are harrow-teeth, sonny" s.
worked away, not noticing the boy until
| he heard laugh, when he looked up, and
heard him exclaim to himself, "Ho, no!
what an awful big moufl"
On Sunday morning last, says the New
ton (Mass) Journal, the steam ire-engine
at Newton Corner started off ct the full
speed of the horses to the fire at Newton
vile, operated at the fire, and was about to
return when the engineer heard sort of
subdued cluck, and, upon investigation, a
hen was found perched upon the spring of
the tender attached to the machine, having
rode the whole distance to the fire, and re-
mained clinging to her frail foothold dur
ing the entire time that the machine was
working at the fire. Her cluck appeared
to be one of triumph at the feat she had
persormed, and she seemed to be none the
worse for her rather hasty journey. This
hen had lust before Matched out brood
of chickens, which, in the hurry of de-
parture, she left behind at the engine
| house.
WE read, in a German publication, an
extraordinary account of the explosion of
only ten drops of nitro-glycerine, which
pupil in labaratory had put into small
| iron saucepan, and heated with Bunsen
gas flame. The effect of the explosion
was that the for,y-siX panes OF glass OF the
windows of the laboratory were smashed
| to atoms, the saucepan was hurled through
| a brick wall, the stout iron stand on which
the vessel had been placed was partly
split, partly spirslly twisted, and the tube
| Of the Bunsen burner was split and fiatten-
ed outward. Fortunately, none of the
three persons in the laboratory were
hurt. when nitro-glycerine is caused to
| fall, drop by drop, upon thoroughly red
hot iron pl ate, it burns off as gunpowder
would do under the same conditions; but
| if the iron be not red hot, but yet hot
enough to cause the nitro-glycerlne
to boil suddenly, an explosion taxes
place.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD was once preach
inc 10 a seafaring audience in New YORK,
when, suddenly assuming nautlcal air ana
manner that were irresistible, he broke In
with, Well, my boys, we s.6os have a oEae clear
sky, and are making Ie heaawsy sssn] .OT OSeI wa
shall soon lose sight of land. But what
means this sudden lowering of the heavens,
and that dark cloud arising from beneath
the western horison? Harki dent you
hear distant thuLders Don't you see those
flashes of lightning? There is storm
gatheringl Every man to his dutyi How
the waves rise and dash against the snip!
The air is dark the tempest RACES our
masts are gone THE ship is on her beam
endsl What next?" This appeal instantly
brought the sailors to their iees WIN
shout, "The longboat take 10 me long
boatp