Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-16
would she be President Logan or Pres
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would she be President Logan or Presi
dent Perkins ?"
REV. ]. II. K. was, several years since,
pastor of Methodist Episcopal Church
in Western New York. During his ser
mon. on a hot summers Sunday morning,
Brother Austen, one of the official mem
bers of the church, fell fast asleep. Mr..
X. suddenly paused and called out /;
brother Austen, will you please open the
window there little? Physicians say 1t
is Gerry unhealtty' to sleep IN a close room. !"
The brother was awakened, and complied.
To PROTECT THE SLEEVES OF A DRESS
1t often is necessary to make biscuit for
tea, or to wash er-dishes in a very
nice dress. protect the sleeves of mine,
at such times, as follows: Take pair of
worn out stockings. Cut them off at the
ankle. Hem them, if you wish. When
you want to use them, draw them on to
the arms top end first. They are so elas-
tic that, if care is used in drawing them
on, they will not crush the slecves.-Er-
change.
THE fortune bequeathed by Mr. Brassey,
the railway builder, is, probably, the
London Observer says, the largest which
ever passed the Court of Probate in Lon
don-for the very few estates which ex-
SCC0 LIS LII NtluC arc USUALLY
by settlement. This fortune is believed to
exceed seven millions sterling, the person.
atty alone having been sworn under six
and half millions. With the possible
exception of the Rothschild family, this
was the largest amount of money ever ac-
cumulated by one man in Europe by in
dustry and enterprise.
A MILKMAN, in Bangor, Maine, boasts
of his horse and dog. He procures part of
his milk about half mile from his house,
and every evening" he says, he harnesses
his horse into the milk wagon, puts in the
cans, and throws the reins over the dasher.
His large Newfoundland dog then gravely
steps in, and the horse, under the direction
of the canine driver alone, proceeds to the
place where the milk is procured, and
stops. The dog announces their arrival,
the cans are filled, the dog resumes his
seat in the vehicle, and the horse carefully
turns and trots home.
SEVENTY years ago, Democratic poll
tician named Cameron, in one of the
Scotch settlements in Vermont, greatly
disappointed that his children were all
girls, declared on one occasion that his
next baby, whatever might be its sex,
should be named Thomas Jefferson. 1t
proved to be girl, and he was as good as
his word, the child was familiarly called
Jeff1sina "for short" She married the
late Colonel Jacob Blanchard, of Peacham,
Vermont. On her tombstone in that
town are inscribed the initials ct j." in
place of her full Christian name
PROF. F. GRACE CALVERT, of England
has discovered that the carbonates of pot.
| ash and soda possess the same property oi
| protecting iron and steel from rust as dc
| those alkalies in caustic state. If an
iron blade is half immersed in solution OF
| either of the above-named carbonates, il
exerts so protective an action that that
portion of the iron which is exposed to the
influence of the damp atmospheric all
does not oxidize, even after period o.
two years. Similar results have been OBJ
| tanned with sea water, to which have beer
added the carbonates of potash or soda
The applications of this fact are numerou.
and important.
| THE gentlemen mentioned in the fol
lowing anecdote might have served as al
original for Dickens Mr.. Wrinkle: "Once
when Mr.. Buxton was staying with Mr.,
Coke, at Holkham, a well-known Pro
fessor was also one of the visitors. Tht
venerable historian had never had gur
in his hand, but on this occasion Mr.
Coke persuaded him to accompany thu
SHootIHS party Care, however, was tdkeI
to place him at the corner of the covert
where it was thought the other sportsmer
would be out of his reach. When tht
rest of the company came up to the spo
where he was standing, Mr.. Coke said tt
him: We'll, what sport? You have beer
firing pretty often?' Hush said the
Professor, there it goes again. and hi
was just raising the gun to his shoulder
when a man walked very quietly from the
bushes about seventy yards in front of him
1t was one of the beaters who had beer
sent to stop the peasants, and his leather
CATERS, dimly seen through the bushes
had been mistaken for hare by the Pro
fessor, who, much surprised at its tenacity
of life, had been firing at it whenever ht
he saw it move. But said Mr.. Buxton
the man had never discovered that thu
Professor was shooting at him."