Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
TIE STONE TO DO A GooD TURN-The
grind stone.
BEER fifls many bottle, and the bottle
many bier.
BY the payment of annual dividends the
Mutual Life, of Chicago, supplies insur-
ance at cost. Insure there.
DETROIT has post-office clerk named
Oliver Bedient. One of his commenda-
tions is that he is always o. Bedient.
MAKE friends with life insurance, that
when you are old it may comfort you.
Remember the Washington Life.
TIE hair of the ex.Empress Charlotte
of Mexico has turned entirely white She
is only thirty-one years of age.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Hartford
C0ur ant who has been sailing along the
Massachusetts coast, wonders WY Glou-
cester is spelled the way it is; and if that
is right, why shouldn't lobster be spelled
"lobcester ?"
THE ex.King of Naples lives in the
same palace with his wife, Queen Maria,
but he has not exchanged word with her
for several years. The Pope some time
since refused to divorce them.
A SPRING looking exceedingly clear and
tempting, but strongly impregnated with
arsensic, was recently discovered in
Nevada. A number of persons were
poisoned before its dangerous character
was known.
A JERSEY mother spread her shawl on
the beach, laid her infant on it, and then
went shell hunting; meantime the tide
rose, and when mamma looked around she
beheld baby and shawl floating. She
bounded after them, and saved both the
precious articles.
THE Postmaster of Boston cautions
business men against the practice of open
ing letters in the area of the Post Office
and throwing the envelopes OF. the floor.
Sharpers turn the practice to their advan-
tage, thus learning the numbers OF the
boxes of the firms, and demanding their
letters.
THE following is the inscription on the
tombstone of Mary Jane, aged IL years s
months " in the Cape May Cemetery:
sShe was not smart, she was not fair,
But hearts with grief for her are swellin';
And empty stands her little chair
She died Of eatin' watermelin."
Avoid gentleman took huge volume of
history of a thousand pages, with maps and
illustrations, into bookstore, few days
ago, and, saying he wished another copy,
offered to lend it to them as long as they
needed it to print another by.
In the cemetery at North Chichester, N.
H, may be seen ten marble slabs in row,
all of the same size, and sll bearing the
name of Lake, whose ages, as recorded, are
as follows: so, IS, SO, So, SO, SO, 6S, 81, 73
and 81 years. Aggregate, 7l5 years aver
age. 711a years.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania,
has freshman eighteen years old, who
has secured means, by buying and work
ing with his own hands a farm of eighty
acres near Omaha, to take him through
the course and have his capital left when
he finishes. After that he will return and
show the world what he knows about
farming.
A SINGULAR and beautiful incident oc.
Cured at funeral in Cape Ann the Other
day. Just at the conclusion of the ser
vices over the remains, a white dove sud
denly made its appearance, and after max.
ing the circuit of the apartment, alighted
upon the head of the rector who had con
Quoted the exercises. There it quietly re.
manned until removed and properly cared
for. 1t did not belong to the family, but
was the property of neighbor who re
sided on the same street.
1T appears from statements made il
Parliament, short time ago, that thu
present system of shilling kilograms adopt
ed by the British Government, when i
took charge of the telegraph lines of tn
kingdom, is working finely. The line
are crowded with messages, and from
10000 to $1,000 more are being nov
earned than during the corresponding
weeks last year. The question of sixpen
ny tele grams is under consideration, to b.
tried as soon as there is a sufficient exten
sion of the lines to accommodate the ex
pected increase of business.
THE Corinne Journal asserts that, by
recent chemical analysis, it has been ascer
tanned that the water of Great Salt Lake
losing its saline properties at rate tina
if it continues in the same ratio as the
last ten years have shown, will freshen /
altogether within the present century.
theory is advanced by one of the 1al
men that the salt in the lake has not beel
deposited there more than three hundre'
and fifty years, and that the changes il
the lake from fresh to salt occurs at period
of five to ten centuries 1t is also state
that alkslies and salts of the basin will il
time give place to another condition
governed by the atmosphere, out Of whicl
irop.c luxuriance and giant growth of tim
. Der are to come.
APooR woman named Lalanne, of Epar
ras village, Upper Pyrenees County
France, hearing that her son, private II
an artillery regiment, made prisoner II
Sedan, had fallen ill at Custrine, Prussia
determined to go to see him, and, if pos
sible, bring him home. She set out ol
foot, snd, despite fatigue and trial of al
sorts, she succeeded in reaching her chile
/ IL 49, r.-,@h hnr Hn
neighbors could not easily express the ad
miration and sympathy felt for her. Th
/ Minister of War, upon hearing of thes
circumstances, gave furlough to her Sol
and sent her money enough to procur
medical assistance and medicines for he
boy.
A FIRM that had agreed to furnish twt
huu dred tons of coal for the Albany Capi
, tol, after they had finished drawing, pre-
T sented their bill to Colonel Cassidy, tn
keeper of the building. "That will be al
ripht.n said the Colonel, "when you deliye
twenty. six tons more" "What twenty
| six tons ?" asked the contractors, in aston
, isbment "Why. it is just that amour
| short" said the Colonel, "for I've takel
{ the pains to weigh it." Neither coaxinl
: nor bullying could change the Colonel
; determination, and after the delivery of tn
= TIVE enty-six additional tons, the receipt wa
: signed.
VIGNERoN, a man greatly renowned TO
his strength, was recently killed at Bou
. logpe while performing before larg
l audience, in a building erected on tn
9 sands at the back of the Casino. Hi
1 great feat was the sustaining on III
5 shoulder of six-cwt cannon, while j
was being fired by his assistant. On thi
d occasion the assistant applied the matcl
: too SON. Vigneron had not time to settl
Y himself into his usual position, aud, whel
i the discharge took place, the cannon jerke
J. violently aside, instead of recoiling in tn
t usual way. The conclusion felled the un
r fortunate cannon-holder, and inf1icte
s frightful injuries on the right side of hi
1 head, from which he died in very shol
q ime.
: THE smallest steam engine in the worl
l is in possession of John Penn, Greenwich
Z England 1t will stand on a three penn
: piece Its base plate measures three-eighth