Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-07
NUMBER 43.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
NATURES TAILoRING.-A potato M,

PROVIDE for your old age with a policy
in the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany, of New York.
THE Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY.
of Chicago, is prudently managed, and It's
claims are promptly met Insure there.
| A MAN and his wife, who had not met
ior eight years, recently found each other
In chicago police court, both charged
with drunkenness.
UNTIL the 1st of July, seven persons
committed suicide this year at German
Waterlng-places, IN consequence of losses
sustained at the gaming table.
|. a NAN in Galveston, the other day, who
| complained of being over heated. affected
a permanent cure by drinking six classes
of ice water, without the aid of a physi-
clan. He was cool when the Coroner
came.
WATERBURY, Conn, has Bachelors
League" whose articles Of association
PUNISH, by heavy fine any member being
| seen twice consecutivelv in company with
the same woman, and with expulsion from
the order for third offence.
RELATED BY MARRIAGE
" As my wife at the window one day,
| stood watching man with a monkey
cart came along with broth of a boy,'
| VINO was driving stout little donkey
TO my wife then spoke, by way Of joke,
To which she replied, as the donkey She suied.
Ah, yes-a relation by marriagei'"
In driving a London underground rail-
road tunnel, we are told that in one part
OF the line the cuttings we're made through
a mass of skulls and bones, sixteen feet in
the ground. In another place forgotten
secret passage, twenty feet wide, was dis
covered, suppos1ng to date from the four
teenth century.
A WOMAN with three lighted candles in
each hand, traversed the streets of New
Bedford on her knees the other evening.
not In payment of an election bet, as might
be readily supposed, but as a religious
penance in fulfillment of a VOW for the
safe return of her husband from sea.
A scHooLMAsTER in Bridgeport. Conn.
who asked small pupil of what the sur
lace OF the earth consists, and was prompt
ly answered, Land and water" varied
the question slightly, that the fact might
be impressed on the boys mind, and
asked, What, then, do land and water
make ?" to which came the immediate re-
sponse. Mud"
As specimen of Berkshire old age, the
Pittsfisld (Mass.) EJgle says that one day
recently, Mr.. Cecil Spring, of WorthiDg-
ton, aged ninety-six, went into the field Of
Horace Spring, in Hinsdale, with his son,
grandson and great grandson, and assisted
in moving field of grass that yields two
tons to the acre. The old gentleman took
the lead OF the four, and the way the grass
went down before these four generations
was caution.
The tomato vine, it is stated by the New
York Ecening Post, is covered with col
orless dust or dye, perfectly undlstln-
guishable by the eye, and only to be
| of IN for
| which il communicates dark green color.
After picking few tomatoes, the hands,
though in contact with the vines, will ap-
pear perfectly clean. If the hands, how
ever, be washed the water, it is stated,
viii exhibit decidedly green shade.
AN aged woman in North Adams,
Mass, relates that many years ago, while
attending social dance, ayoung mechanic
asked her hand for one of the dances. She
Indignantly refused, feeling very much
mortified that he should make such an
offer. Years have passed, and she has
filed an honorable but humble position in
life, while the young man whom she ther
scorned has been Governor of Massachu
setts.
THE ex- Empress Carlotts has recently
in her insanity, caused her guardians enc
relatives a good deal of trouble. She in
|
time, and any attempt to take her back Il
} her apartments brings on frightful psrox
ysIns of rage, in which she refuses to TAX
food for several days in succession. Th
Queen of Belgium passes every day six o
seven hours in the company of the unfor
tunate lady. Carlotta's fayorite lsngusg
is Spanish, and, to crafty her, both tn
king and queen have learned to speak tha
| tongue since her return from Mexico.
: A MAINE paper relates little romance
1t is to the effect that New York mil
lionaire, who was spending the summer witt
his wife and daughter at one of the Dirig'
States most noted watering places, wa
: called away ON business, and before going
gave his daughter some $500 as pin-money
This did the daughter promptly send Il
her lover in New York city, with reques
, that he should present himself forthwith
! Thus advised, so he acted, and on arrivin,
: he and his true love hied them away to
+. clergyman and were made one. And nov
they await the paternal blessing.
! A WOMAN living in Portland, Me-, keep
a brood of ducks, and of one of them tn
Press tells the following: Lately she nc
: ticed that the largest and finest enc of tn
, brood appeared to be ailing She doctore
. it to the best of her knowledge, but Ii
!, vain. The duck finally died. The woman
! being anxious to ascertain the cause of tn
: fowls death, cut it open, when singula
sight presented itself In the crop OF tn
duck was large frog, like any other (e1
= cept that it was covered with very thi
, skin, through which the blood vessel
!, could be plainly seen), completely film
I the crop, thus causing suffocation-
= seems that when the duck was young
! must have swallowed a little poliy-wol
! and this polly-wog had grown and thrive
? in its singular habitation.
d THE st Joseph (Mo.) Gazette says: ".
It day or two ago, gentleman, who ha
o probably been used to eating genuin
d country butter, arrived in the city, and pU
up at one of our hotels. When Dime
n was announced he took his seat at tn
It table, and after gazing with evident dC
e light on the lengthy and attractive bill {
It fare, made his order 1t was prompt
v filled, and he was indulging in the hope {
e a luxurious feast, when, helping himse
It to some butter, along with the unctuou
It mass, long hair, evidently from som
human Uranium, came curling out on hi
IT knife. He held it up, gaZed suspiciousl
Is at il for a moment, ard then motioned fC
e the waiter. The latter individual promp
t. " entered an appearance, when the CUES
q holding the knife up before him, an
n pointing TO the capillary attached to
e. exclaimed in a voice loud enough to /
st heard by the whole table: Look her
Is my friend, have you any bald-headed bu
is ter about the hOuse?"
u THE st. Paul Pioneer says: "A stranl
case of equine affection and solicitude WI
i related to US yesterday. A tesmster ne
le the fair grounds, has for some years drive
a. q certain span of horses about the city.
Is short time since, he turned them out upC
d the prairie to feed during the night, al
N next morning was disappointed at not fix
rs ing them, as usual, near his house. 1
is searched for them in vain for eleven day
IN and had about come to the conclusion tn
they had been stolen, when he discovers
- one of the span, about half way down Il
precipitous river bank "a short distancefro
his stable. Upon approaching the ,sp
of he found the mate lying dead away dow
he at the foot of the bank. ExaminatlC
/ Al. H. l.Nrz hah q