Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

CUhhENT IIEMSs
NEW NAME FOR TIGHT BooTs-Corn
cribs
THE rates of the Washington Life are
the same as other good companies.
AUERBAcH is not embarrassed with
richness. We would like to know who is.
WHEN pickpocket pulls at your watch,
tell him plainly that you have no time to
spare. l.
A BARBER, who was sued by young
man for cutting off his moustsche, put in
the plea that he didn't see it
1T will take sixty years to restore to
France the forests ruthlessly wasted in
the military operations of the late war.
THE latest invention in advertising is
that of a Hartford patent medicine man,
who has sheared his dog, and painted on
the animal the name of the universal cure.
THERE are 5000 600 cotton spindles now
in operation in the United States, of which
over 1900, 900 are running ON cloths for
printing, and produce 450,0O0,000 yards
per annum.
THE Rural Neu Yorker estimates the
number of sheep in California at 4,O00, GOO
and the number at the close of 1871 at
100000. The wool clip for the present
year is estimated at %, ,000, 900 pounds.
A BOSTON frog eater recently brought
home a bag full of tree toads under the
supposition that they were frogs, and was
greatly disguised on discovering the fact
after he had disposed of a dozen or so.
PROMPT AND PRAcTICAL.-Revered
stranger good man, can you tell me
the nearest way to the cathedralg" Scotch
cabby-"Jist inside the cab here, sir. y
Punch. -
ALocAL REPORT OF THE PERIOD
Mr. Collins, of Hartford, bought a fero-
cious watchdog. Mr.. Collins came home
late that night. His wife says that his
trowsers can't be mended. The dogs skin
is for sale cheap. Mr.. Collins hopes to be
able to sit down in few weeks"
A MONTH before he died, Charles Dick
ems destroyed all the letters that had been
written him during his life, believing, he
said, that they had been written for him
privately, not for public inspection, and
that after his death he could not becertain
of their privacy being respected.
As Mr.. Edward Merrill, of East Lynn,
Mass, was quietly enjoying a pork-stew,
at his own table, his teeth encountered
some intangible object therein. The OBJ
ject was elected and examined. 1t proved
to be small diamond, -oval-shaped and
handsanna snppnsed to have got into the
salt somehow or other.
A LADY requests the Washington Chron
icle to advertise for "150 young men of all
shapes and sizes, from the tall dandy, with
hair enough on his upper lip to stuff bar
ber's cushion, down to the little bow
legged, freckled- faced, carrot-headed up
start, to form gaping crowd to stand at
the doorways when evening assemblies are
dismissed, to stare at the ladies and make
remarks about their person and dress"
THE kangaroo droop," now "fashiona-
ble," is thus described in New York
letter: To make the thing perfect, a
| glove with three or four buttons is select
| ed, so that the wrist may be as long and
as small as possible. The wrist of the
] left hand, and also that of the right hand,
| if not engaged with an Alpine parasol,
| is brought close to the breast, and
then the hand is permitted to fall palm
downward, as if all muscular action was
lost. This is the present attitude OF loco
motion by the descendants of the kanga-
roo, and it suggests the loveliest help
lessness imaginable, besides proving re-
spectfulness to the deceased progenitors-
THE ROAD TO SUCcEss-Fortune, sue
cess, fame, position, are never gained but
by determinedly, bravely sticking and hv,
ing 20 thing till it is fairly accomplished
In short, you must carry thing through
if YOU want to be anybody or anything.
No matter if it does cost you the pleasure,
the society, the thousand yearly gratIhca-
tions of life. No matter for these. Stick
to the thing and carry it through. BE.
lieve you were made for the matter, and
that no one else can do it. Put forth youI
whole energies. Be awake, electrify your
self. and 90 forth 10 the task. Only once
learn to carry a thing through in all its
completeness and proportion, and you viii
become a hero. You will think better oi
yourself; others will think better of you
The world, in its very heart, admires the
stern. determined doer. 1t sees in him It's
best sight its brightest object, its richest
treasure. Drive right along, then, III
whatever you undertake. Consider your
self amply sufficient for the deed. You'll
be successful.
THE Liberd Christian has the follow
ing anecdote from gentleman who waS
an eyewitness of the circumstances mar
rated: The thermometer often stands fol
days at from 100 to 1T degrees in the Red
Sea. and when the vessel is with the wind
and travelling at about the speed of the air
the lack of any breeze or ventilation
makes life on the steamer almost insup
portable. On this occason four men anC
two women among the passengers were s.
overcome with the heat that the ship
doctor reported that they must die if thu
ship's course was not changed, and breeZ'
created by travelling against the wind
The captain very reluctantly, and in dir
fear of the company's order, yielded to The
cry of humanity, and steamed one hundred
miles back on his course. he thus re
duced the oppressive temperature twenty
degrees, ventilated his ship, and saved thu
| 0f e. Ths
government fined the company (who ex
cused the captain, although not withou
warning not to do it agaiD) a Thousand
pounds for going out of the prescribed
route with Her Majesty's mails.
THE bonded warehouse of Charles Nc
Michen, New York, is said to be the onl,
store of that kind in the city which has
} burglar alarm, and the gong attaches
; thereto can be heard distance of abou
two block on a still night On recen
. Sunday evening this gong was heard b.
: the policeman on that post, ringing furl
ously, and the officer, assuming that burg
s lars were on the premises, sounded tn
f alarm, caused the building to be SUI
4 rounded to prevent the escape of the sur
/ posed burglars, and then FASTENED to tn
barge office at Whitehall for key wit
S which to open the warehouse door. n
: kew could be procured, but authority wa
! given to break open the door, anc at II IN
/ officers went with crowbars and sledg
r hammers. After some moments labor tn
Custom House paddock was broken O
n and the door opened, when it was ascel
tained, to the supreme disgust oil all COZ
s cerned. that the alarm had been sounde
q by cat. which had effected an cntranc'
v and in the course of her peramoulatlon
n had come in contact with one OF the wire