Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-07

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dies are said to be Reproductions Of the
styles worn for the last hundred years w
the women of the Swiss cantons. n
A FIRM, in Union Square, New York,
received $50 for the use of their three
eeond-story windows by a party who
wished to view the reception of the Grand
Duke sA -i7.i -laJl afo3 {"
Az epitaph on a tombstone.reads: :;nr ID
oh, fatal gun, why was il him r.-,.. ,,f r-
That yon must XIII SO dead. --' +li' 81
s Why could you ilUt hare missed your aim
% 20 And fired above his head?
A GEsTIEMAN nwasJ introduced to- a
young lady recently, and addressed her
as follows Where do YOU live when
you are at homesp to which sie,prnaailpi- :
ly replied, ''When-I am at home i live
there
LAST year s., 900, in round numbers, Of
indictable offences, known to the police,
were committed in England and Wales
There were 101 murders, sixty-twe at
tempts to murder, and 219 acts of man
slaughter.
A NEW YORK young man gets one hun
dred dollars from his father every time he
breaks off an Objectionable engagement.
be IS doing a thriving business. -----
IL a French court, recently, as witness
was about to give his testimony, the adj
vocate said: 81 wish to remark TO
the Court that this witness is entitled to
entire confidence, as he has not had time
to consult his lawyer."
A MAN named Tangler was lately
married at Detroit, Mich, to a widow,
and the same evening his son married the
widows daughter. A day or two after
the widows son married his daughter,
and the family are now all provided for.
A Swiss geologist lately met his death
in singular way, while geologiZing over
the Alps He stopped to pat a tame kid.
which bounded of, and as he stopped to
resume his work, dislodsed a pile of rocks
upon him from a ledge above, killing him
instantly. r.- ID, .l.--....--. % .-.., -.- g.
AT recent meeting of the New York
City Children's Aid Society, it was re-
ported that the Organization had provided
2, ,10S boys with homes within a few years.
Some 5000 persons have been provided
with homes in the West. The associa-
ton is now suffering for want of funds.
SMALL change is so scarce in Paris that
the workmen and employers inHthe city
and suburbs now use fractional currency,
made by the heads of the workshops, and
redeemed when they amount, all together,
to such sums as can be repaid by the
paper money now issued.
In provincial town in France this
epitaph may be read: Here sleeps HOr-
tense B., regretted by her mother and her
father n. Bits advisedly her mother
is placed before her father; because
mothers is always very much greater than
a fathers grief
A WEALTHY young farmer in an adjoinJ
ing county, says the Zanesyille( (O.) Courier,
L., 4,
that he would plant forty peach or apple
trees for each child born during the first
ten years of his welded life. He's been
married seven years, and has about 500
trees. He talks about going back ON his
VOW He hasn't the land to spare.
SHERIDAN's solicitor calling one day
found his wife alone, and walking about in
a state of violent excitements He asked
what was the matter Her only reply
was " that her husband was "a .villainF
After some time she added, with some
hesitation, "Why, l have discovered that
all the love letters he sent me were the
very same as those he sent to his first
wife" .l Dg it.H E-ia1--5 Tr
E The roof of house in Bristol County,
r. l., has lately been renewed for the first
time since the house was built, seventy
seven years ago. A large part of the old
! shingles are but little worn. They are of
! Southern cedar, aud the nails were AL
made by hand. The west side of the
; roof, which is less exposed to storms,
viii apparently last many years longer. -
A PARTY of mischieyous boys near
Kankakee, Ill, stuffed an old suit of
clothes with straw with sticks of wood
I for legs, and buried it in the ground.
They then killed couple of chickens and
/ sprinkled the blood plenteously over and
in the vicinity of the grave. As they ex-
pected, the grave and the blood were dis
covered, suspicious of murder were raised,
jury empaneled, and an inquest prepared
for. Coroner, jury, and bystanders all
acknowledged themselves sold" when
the straw dummy was exhumed.
A CALIFORNIA paper of a recent date
says that two years ago a man was shot
in the region of the heart in bar-room
difficulty in San Juan. The surgeon
/ probed the wound unsuccessfully, and
failed to extract the ball. The wounded
man recovered, and until recently has suf-
. fered no inconvenience from the wound
Feeling an unaccountable sensation under
I his right arm, he underwent medical
I examination, and the missing ball was
: found Immediately in the rear of the up
per arm Joint The bullet had traversed
the body underneath the skin, making an
almost complete circuit of the body, and
lodged in the neighborhood of the right
arm-pit.
THE following incident-which comes
to us from private source-illustrates
the spirit of many of the carmen during
the fatal fire in Chicago. \ law publish
er, finding that his stereotype plates were
in danger, succeeded in getting them out
Il l. Oh
two cart-loads He offered carman five
hundred dollars a load to take them to
place of safety. The publishers name
was well known, and he was perfectly
good for the amount promised. But the
carman refused TO take the loads unless
the money was paid down at the time
and as the publisher did not carry thou
sand-dollar bills in his pocket, the plates
melted on the sidewalk. -Haiper's Weekly.
ONE of the painful results of not read
ing the newspapers is reported in Saratoga
County. 1t appears that at a recent fire
property was DESTROYED, on which there
was an insurance of S2,5O0 The owner
tripped lightly into the Office where his
policy was drawn, and, producing the
document, said he guessed he would take
that money. The agent looked at it, ex-
perforated quantity of tobacco juice on
tne CalleTS nlSn DOOI, anu IneH eACldlHtu.
why don't you read the papers? gave
notice fortnight since in the public
press that that company had went down
flat busted-when Chicago went up.
Had you read the papers you could have
renewed your policy in a company that
hadn't exploded, and been so much in. As
1t is you are so much out. -Aetc York
Express. 10 .l1 vs...s-...T .-l-.
Foul WATER AND MuK.-Out of 40
families supplied with milk from dairy
in Islington, England, 20 suffered from
typhoid fever; 156 cases occurred within
ten weeks, and 80 persons died. An in
vestigation showed that the cows drank
water from an old underground tank,
built of wood and much decayed. The
milk cans were washed in the same water,
and in all probability the water was also
mixed with the milk As the fever at
tackled only such parties in that district, as
used the milk, the water in the rotten
tank must have been the cause This is
only one more evidence of the danger. of
using foul water, and giving it to animals.
II has been shown that stagnant water