Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-11-16
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n FAIR OF lIGHTS-IWO drllnkarJlS
WHAT dress is most durable. A habit
A PAPER THAT TAKEs-A sheriff-s war
rant.
AUTUMN LEAvEs-When winter comes
in. .t
The BEST PLACE FOR THE BIIND-Thc
see-side.
RAILROAD "SLEErERsr-The night pat
rons of palace cars. +.
Nor BAD NAME FOR 4 FEMALE For
TUNE-TELLER-Progno
THE MosT LIKELY THING To BECOME A
WoMAN-Why, Il little girl.
THE Russians are going to try another
Worlds Fair in Moscow next year
IT is all very well to say "Take things
as they come" but suppose they don't
come?
WHY are birds melancholy in the morn
ing? Because their little bills are all
over dew.
Cincinnati is to have a union de-
pot that will be used by six railroad COM
panies
If duck goes into the water for divers
reasons, does he come on land for sun-dry
purposes?
If three feet will make a yard, how
many hands need you employ to build a
wash-house in it
WHY does B precede in the alphabets
Because you must be before you can see
Do you observe.
JUDY says she has heard that money
is the root of all evil, but she has no
objection to having trunk of it.
1T looks funny to see a young lady
with both hands i'm soft dough, and a
mosquito on the end of her nose
1T is announced among the fall fash
ions that long trains of admirers are
considered desirable.
ONE Buffalo paper calls the editor of
another Buffalo paper the "best i'm
promptu liar in America"
IT isn't by any means the best way to
settle an account to let it stand, nor, for
that matter, to let it run either.
A CoNsIDERATE organ grinder played
Hear Me, Norma" before the Hartford
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, during a whole
afternoon.
\ CORRESPONDENT wants to know
whether, considering the great utility
of the ocean, poets are not wrong in
in calling it waste of water"
A NEW YORK dispatch states that the
assassin of the late Lord Chief-Justice of
India has been hanged and his body
burned by natives.
THE fashionable bonnets are now worn
so high that ladies have to get up on a
step to hold parasol over them.-[New
Bedford Mercury.
AN ill-natured contemporary says that
Rhode Island goes for narrow gauge rail
roads because she wants both rails to lie
within her territory.
AN enthusiastic editor, speaking of
new prima donna, says: "Her voice is
as soft as Il roll of velvet, and as tender
as a pair of slop-shop pantaloops."
THE National Republican Committee is
to be formally asked by the Massachu-
sets State Central Committee to hold the
National Convention in 1872 in Boston.
THE judge of Texas court, wishing
TO sentence a prisoner, had TO throw cold
water in his face to wake him up. The
culprit "didn't take no interest in the
vu,v.
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred in the
Trimble Opera House, Rochester, n. Y,
the other evening. The gauze dress of a
ballet girl caught fire, and she was ter
ribly burned before the flames were ex-
I tinguished. The hair was entirely burned
I from her head.
AT Newark, n. J., recently in tearing
down an old building, the worlmen found
between the ceiling and the floor of the
second story the petrified remains of a cat
! in a state of good preservation Even the
whiskers" of the cat remain. 1t is hard
as stone, and hollow.
| A BOOK TO INvALIDs.-We are happy to
| say that we have found out the only thing
4 to take for the prevention of sea-sickness
| We hasten to give our readers the benefit
| of il. 1t is a solemn vow never TO 20 on
.1z & a.. =. =. l.. fill <.
last for lifetime and is an infallible pre-
ventive.
THE Columbus (Ohio) Journal saws
"a deformed chicken of common breed,
the deformity resulting from broken
back, was entered at the AIuskingum
County Fair as a Hungarian cock of the
'Slavi Magyar breed just imported; and
the sapient judges, after gravely inspect
ing it, awarded il the first premium over
one of the finest poultry shows ever seen
in the country"
A CASE of rattlesnake poison has lately
been cured by hydrate of chlOral at Point
Pleasant, n. ]. A young man bitten by
the rattlesnake, and exhibiting the usual
violent and alarming symptoms, was treat
ed with the hydTate, five doses of twenty
grains each being administered, when
sleep followed, and the patient awoke
the poisoning gone.
A KANSAS CITY (Io) book-keeper re-
ceived a note stating that he had been
selected by ballot from 333 persons as a
sacrifice to some spirit which required hu
man food. Supposing it joke, he pocket
ed the note, but a couple of hours after
ward bullet came crashing through the
window and struck the desk few inches
from his head. Probably the work of d
maniac.
FRIDAY afternoon a young lady sitting
at a front window, tossing in her hand
what might have been ball of white yarn
attracted the attention of a middle-aget
chap on the street, whose gallantry prompt
ed him to hold up his hand for a catch
The interest she displayed in hurting i
down to him was no deeper than what III
showed in catching il, although, as severa
who saw the performance charitably re
marked, no one could have known the egs
,, was bad one Danbury News.
A SCIENTIFIC gentleman who was recent
ly making geological researches at Hell
Gate made also a curious chronological
discovery On breaking piece of rocl
! bv blow of his hammer, out from thu
very heart of the solid mass came spider
He did not seem in any wise shocked al
his sudden release from his dark prison
but apparently delighted, and began TO rur
. away as fast as ever he could. The geolo
, gist, however, had no notion of losing
such prize, and impaled him on pin
, The spider had better have remained in hi:
, rocky dungeon.
I THE Oskaloosa Qowa) Herald says
John birth, of Farley, concluded ht
would commit suicide the other day-hi.
father-in-law was not kind enough TO him
He went to a drug store and purchased
arsenic went home and-took il, and in {
, few moments was rolling on the floor il
, mortal agony. The doctor was sent for
: He came, and brought the druggist along
) who spoiled the whole sensation by letting
, il out that he had suspected the young
! mans intention, and had sold him chall
J.. instead of arsenic. The young man wa
, well in a minute"
4 YOUNG man named William Jaspers
employed on a farm near st. Paul, MINI.
was recently leading huge bull to waite
by rope fastened lin the bulls nose
While thus ENGAGED the rome by SOM