Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
THE DEAR DEPARTED-Venison.

"queues."
The CHEAPEST AND LONGEST CONVEY
ANCE-A train of thought.
Now is the time to insure in the Mutual
Life, Of Chicago.
THE st. Louis Herald wants "a real good
boy to make devil Of"
OTuELLo was not lawyer, although he
was tawny-general of Venice.
A GENTLEMAN of Medford, Mass, is now
repairing his house, which was built 237
years ago.
FIVE hundred and twenty-five thousand
six hundred trains leave London in the
course of one year.
A GRAVEYARD inscription in Kenne-
bunk, Me-, reads thus: Poor joel his
head is level now, if it never was before"
JAKE BLIFFKINs says: "My wife's the
most poetical woman alive; leastways,
she's always Uerse to me, you bet"
A WIDOW holding a policy on her de-
ceased husband in the Washington gets
the money herself. 1t cannot be taken for
his debts.
"SALT" is the subject of the school
boys latest composition: "The salt is a
spice which spoils the potatoes, if you
forget to put it on"
THE Governor of the District of Colum-
bia received one thousand applications for
one hundred and thirty-siz offices at his
disposal in Washington.
WHENEVER preacher haz preached a
sermon that pleazes the whole congre-
gashun, he probably has preached one that
the Lord won't inderse.-Biuings.
A CURIOUS fact about book publishing
in the kingdom of Greece is, that, of every
book published at Athens, nearly three
times as many copies are sold out of the
country as in Greece itself
A CLEVELAND merchant lately received
a package labeled, al box Tom. Cats" II
took him some time to decipher the fact
that the inscription meant box of tomato
catsup."
No less than two hundred and twenty.
four life insurance companies have been
wound up in Great Britain within the last
twenty-six years. This is twice as many
as now exist there.
THE landlord of tenement house in
Boston actually called on the person who
rented it, the other day, and asked him
what repairs he wanted made, and what
makes the matter stranger, the landlor
was perfectly sane.
IN,New York, clearinghouse land,
lady recently claimed S75 damages against
the property of an ex-boarder because ol
his dying in her house, and thereby injur.
ing her business. The jury would not
grant the claim.
A YOUNG gentleman of Pittsfield, Mass.
has recently involved himself in difficulty
by stealing empty bottles from the back
door of drug store, and then carrying
them round to the front door and selling
them to the owner.
THE appearance of Mr.. Darwin's book
on "The Descent of Man" has been fol
lowed, the London papers say, by a great
increase in the number of visitors to the
monkey. house in the Geological Gardens
Regents Park.
A SHOEMAKER in Fond du Lac, Wis.
whose wife recently presented him with
an heir, has run a wire from his bench
nd attached it to the cradle in the mex
-ooy, and, when the baby cries, the fathel
| Ieens stem with his foot to the music o.
the lap stone.
Eliot, of Harvard College, IS so,zyU, anC
of the chief cook OF the Parh~- ho9se
$4,000. "There is nothing very alariA- VI
in this statement" says the Boston Trace
Ter; sit only suggests that there are more
men fitted for the presidential chair OF
colleges than are capable of taking charge
of the kitchen of first-class hotel"
MANY tenement houses in New York
are built now with stairways reaching to
the roof, so that tenants have only to open
a door, instead of raising a scuttle, when
they want to visit the house-top. The Gu
rious triangular coverings of these stairs
-,,;h nf oitU hrrtlH-
ings.
A GENTLEMAN addicted to scientific in.
quiry has discovered that 33 days complete
the cycle of the potato bug generation
that seven hundred of the critters are the
average product of one female, from which
the family grows in the second generation
to 245, 900, and in the third to S5, 600
There are not ciphers enough in any exist
ing type foundry to express the number IN
the tenth generation.
A FUNNY limb of the law had an office
next door TO doctors shop. One day an
elderly gentleman of the fogy school blum,
dered into the shop. ais the doctor in 2
"Don't live here" said the lawyer, who
was in full scribble over some old legal
documents. "Oh, thought this was his
office" "Next door," pray, sir, car
YOU tell me has the doctor many patients 2
" Not living" The old gentleman told the
story in the vicinity, and the doctor threat
ened the lawyer with libel.
An enthusiastic lady who takes part in
the religious exercises in the st. Louis
Central Police Stations, Sunday mornings
told one of the parties she found there, on
a recent Sabbath, that she was glad to see
him sober once, as she could see by his
looks that he was then so; and after she
had spent some little time in urging him
TO reform and lead different life, closed
her discourse on being informed that the
subject of her solicitude was minister who
had been invited to assist in the exercises
of the day.
A GENTLEMAN in Canada gives history
of a battle between two swarms of bees
recently. One swarm, he says, took forci
BILE possession of their neighbors barracks
and as the attacked defended their rights
furious fight commenced, and the battle
ragged from AZ till o p. m. Next morning
as the sun appeared, the battle was resum
ed, the marauders appearing not in gooC
condition, yet showing great pluck Th'
carnage continued without intermissioI
till 10 a. m, when hundreds of dead boaiel
Law ON the plain. At II the battle ended
when there was not one of the attacking
party left to tell the tale.
PROFESSOR MORSE tells an anecdote o
his early struggles When he was II
Washington, employing all his energies t.
obtain an appropriation from the govern
ment 10 erect a line from Baltimore Il
Washington, he had his instruments a
each end of the Capitol to demonstrate Z
the members of Congress the feasibility o
the plan. He says: " talked to them, ex
plained the working of the instrumen
hour after hour. gained many adher
ents: still saw that many were incredu
Ions. and many even secuted at the ide
as preposterous, and pronounced my in
strument as the toy of a crack Drained en-
thusiast. 1t was toward the close of tn
session, and there were still about two o
three hundred bills yet to be passed befor
they came to mine. 1t was late at might
and, finally, gave up in absolute despair
and left the Capitol building with sa
heart. was bankrupt, having expende
ali that had on my discovery. i wake
down the Capitol steps with exactly tift