Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-26
Foreign Notes.

The Rreatz Zeitmg of Berlin proposes
to build monumental church in that
city to perpetuate the recollections of
the late war, the fund to be raised by
general subscription throughout Ger
many.
BOMBAY papers say that 5000 families
are said to have been carried into
slavery from Meshed by the Turkomans
Supplies have also been cut off from the
district and the distress was widespread.
The remains of twenty-one charred
bodies have been found in the cellars
of two of the houses burnt down at the
corner OF the Faubourg st. Honore in
Paris. They were unrecognizable. The
unfortunate victims had gone down
there for safety from the shells.
LEIPZIG has an institution which would
be of good service in this country name
ly, school of typography. The school
was established several years since, and
its success is already assured. 1t already
educates a number of young artisans,
who are not only instructed in the
technical knowledge relating to their
calling, but also in foreign languages
and other subjects of which an accurate
knowledge is desirable for a typo
grapher.
ENGLISH women are reviving an old
cosmetic used in the time of Queen
Anne, namely, cucumbers stepped in
milk. Venus rose from the foam of the
sea, but modern beauty, remarks an ex-
change, rises majestic from curd hoops
and lettuce beds, with oatmeal plasters
oh14,,la lnoIxC
muth on its fingers, to give pearly ap-
pearance, a steel band for cestus, and
laved with decoction of cucumbers and
blue milk.
AN eccentric Partisan, Narcisse Pier
rot, died recently, leaving the following
remarkable will: at is my will that
any of nv relatives who shall presume
to shed tears at my funeral shall be dis
inherited. He, on the other hand, who
laughs most heartily, shall be my sole
heir. / order that neither the church
nor my hearse shall be hung with black
cloth; but that, on the day of my burial,
the hearse and church shall be deco
rated with flowers. Instead of tolling
bells, | will have drums, fiddles and
flies. All the musicians of Montgaillard
and its environs shall attend the funer-
al. Fifty of them shall open the pro.
cession with hunting tunes, waltzes and
minuets."
THE Paris Omnibus Company has been
sad victim of the war and insured
ton. During the siege 500 of its horses
were taken for the army; 122 were eat
Ell by the soldiers, 1000 by the lnhab-
itants, and 20 were wounded 5000 bus
men and 1000 omnibuses were requisi,
toned for the exclusive service OF the
National Guard, without reckoning 6OC
other vehicles with their horses and
drivers, which were used by the mill
tary hospitals. Under the Commune
the company received no less than 3,OOC
orders from the Committee of Public
Safety requisitioning vehicles and
horses; 120 animals were eaten by the
insurgents, and about fifty omnIbuses
broken up for barricades. About 90 oi
the company's men were forced to drive
under the Commune, and are now pris
oners at Versailles.
Mr.. HoRATIo WARD, an American Ions
resident in London, has left a legacy o.
bonds and stocks amounting to $4,000
to the daughters of the late Henry Nor
ris of Philadelphia. The will says
As these ladies are the grand-daugh
ters of the celebrated Robert Morris o
the Revolution, it will not be difficult tt
ascertain their actual residence. 1t viii
doubtless surprise them to get legacy
from a person they never knew ano
perhaps never heard of, therefore Il
seems but proper they should be in
formed that the bequest is made
through compas ion for their misfor
times. and ia return for the kindness
shown me by their fatner when was
boy and it may be as well that Mis-
Amelia Morris should be informed tina
/ it was l who sent some money 10 he
and her younger sister under the nam'
of her fathers friend, a few years ago.
A BAD thing for small tradesmen u
be out of-Temper.