Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-20
CURRENT ITEMS.


Doors blacked inside" is New York
sign.
A. T. STEWART is credited with an in
come of 81 1,537, ,595 last year.
THE Mutual Life, of Chicago, issues
policies upon all approved plans.
CALIFORNIA papers report a recent mar
riage on the highest peak of Mount
Helena.
Two brothers named Smalltubs, recent
| ly married in Maine, took the names of
| their wives.
SEE the sack open before you buy what
is in it, for he who trades in the dark asks
to be cheated.-SpurgeOn.
| THE Directors of the Washington Life
are some of our best and most reliable
men in the city. THOMAS CARLTON,
Methodist Book Concern, New York.
IT is reported that William NJ Tibbetts,
of Milton, Mass, recently killed COW,
| in which he found near the heart, a pitch
fork-tine seven inches long.
| A CONNECTICUT woman was lately the
recipient of $4,000 legacy, which so
overjoyed her that she died within fort
night thereafter.
KEEP out of debt, out of quarrels, out
of damp clothes, out OF reach of liquors,
out of thin clothes, and out of doors all
you can in good weather.
| JASPER MORGAN, of Middletown, Con-
necticut, never called doctor until he was
in his eighty-eighth year. Then he called
one, and is gathered to his fathers.
GAMBETTA's S funeral Grafton over Kuss
late Mayor of Strasbourg, wound up:
Happy NJ. Kuss, to have the privilege of,
entering your agonized country only as
dead man"
A NEW YORK paper, on the morning
| after the Connecticut election, stunned its
readers with the announcement that at
this late hour no news arrives from the
towns yet unheard from"
| A BALTIMORE man has patented sort
| OF electric machine, which connected to
| store doors and windows at night, para
lyzes and retains the hold of any person
who TOUGHER the latch or knob.
In Rhode Island, by law recently en-
acted, all petroleum and its products must
be inspected and branded with the degree
at which they flash or are infiamable.
Fine or imprisonment is the penalty of
putting oils not inspected into packages
previously used and branded.
A CHARLEsTowN, Mass, State Prison
convict, who has done considerable literary
work while in confinement, has written a
letter to the Warden, suggesting that the
convicts be allowed to edit and publish
a magazine, giving the public an inside
view of the institution.
DURING the marriage ceremony which
united Miss Nettie Chase and Mr.. William
Sprague Hoyt, when the ring was about to
be placed upon the brides finger, she her
self removed her glove, her first bride-maid
holding her bouquet. Henceforth all brides
may consider themselves authorized to
perform this little service for themselves.
BOTH French and German medical
writers on hydrophobia express the opinion,
that where the symptoms of the disease
have fairly developed themselves, the case
is absolutely hopeless. Under such cir
cumstances, they advise placing the pa
tiert under the influence of anSesthetics till
death supervenes.
: AN old negress who was on exhibition
in New England, as "the Oldest living
person" rather overdid her part the other
day, when asked if she had ever seen
, Washington, by saying, 80 yes; he used
to come where lived in New Hampshire
every year, to the Fourth of July celebra-
tions, and we always made heap of him,
: which was the reason he liked to come. VI
A FOOLISH fellow called at the house OF
J a neighbor who was cutting up and salt
: ing hog he had killed the day before.
e The fellow stood with mouth open and
/, hands in his pockets, looking on with a
vacant stare until the job was nearly done
1 when he said: Nam told me not to ask
: you for any pork, but if you offered me
S some to take it." He got the pork.
I THE Milk Inspector of Providence, R
I l.. is credited with the statement that
c there is less difference in the nutritive
r qualities of milk and meat than is general
ly supposed. He believes that a greater
D use of milk would be advantageous and
; economical. Milk at fifteen cents he con
}, siders as economical as corned beef at sew
q enteen cents, and milk at ten or twelve
e cents the cheapest food that can be used
= A DoTING mother in Poughkeepsie ex
!, pended $2S in dressing up her little baby
= of which of course she thought the world
. and sent the bill to her husband, who il
+ independently rich and independently
- mean. He made out check for tht
!. amount, and added these words, "This il
A for child few months old. Fools still
j live" To which the bank clerk added
g $50 do hogs"
n THE New York Ecening Post says: "
, is curious fact, among our hat and cal
O manufacturers, that different localities us
l. different sizes of hats and caps as STANDARD
:. sizes. Boston and the Eastern States US
n the smallest sizes; New York and tn
e Middle States use the medium to larges
a sizes, and Chicago and the Western State
,r require the largest sizes. Goods mapufaC
e. tured for one market cannot be sold TO
s. the other, only in exceptional cases. TIL
is South use shape peculiar to themselves
er and of large size"
10 IT is worth while to bear in mind that
f person had swallowed poison, and H
to recognized antidOte is at hand, the beS
I'd thing to do Is to give warm or cold waite
b. as fast as possible Tepid water is th
K best, as that opens the pores of the ski
es and causes vomiting, but, if that is not {
u hand, do not wait, but give cold until
ge physician arrives. While this will NJ
b. cure all cases of poisoning, it will cul
some, and benefit in all instances. But a
m ways produce vomiting as soon as possibl
re ACTIVITY AND HEALTH.-All observi
er ton attests that the healthiest persons
ol the world are those most actively emplo,
ed. The fact is true with regard to W.
men as well as men, and in respect I
mental as well as physical labor. TIL
adage, +" 1t is better to aoedr out than I
he ruSt out" is true in the ordinary sense
in which it is quoted, but it should also /
ar, remembered that ruSting out is mol
ne rapid process than aoedring out. tt
on CHASTITY goddess of illhealth and disea.
delights in sluggish blood and indolel
he muscles.
re- A MIsER recently died at Lewiston, Ne
Ol- who had for many years denied himse
NJ everything that was not actually indispel
of sable. The administrator found amor
Of his effects an old chest of unplaned WOO
or the top of which was held in place by
mt couple of wooden pins. Removing Il
IS cover, a lot of old rags was all that WI
nd visible. Further Investigation unearthe
or four or five bags full of old Spanish al
re- English silver dollars, and other col
ne, There was also in the box $3.50 in silve
Ii. and 1856 in gold, while the estate is valu,
ot at nearly $4,000, besides quite an amou
e; of notes
on A CLERGYMAN in the village of Badt
lol recently made himself so obnoxious to h