Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

M1SNL4LANAVuo AxLAAos
A Cuop FOR BREAKFAsT-Hssh.
PHILADELPHIA is trying to discourage
the use of coal oil.
AN English lady has been sued for
breach of promise by farmer.
TEE Lowell Courier asks its exchanges
to quit calling it the I" Low. Cour."
"A large swarm of bees occupy the
steeple of the German Lutheran Church
in Lancaster, Pa.
THE Mutual Life, of Chicago, is con-
Quoted in the interest of its policy holders,
not to enrich stockholders.
A uoTEL-KEEPER in Penn Yam, N Y,
has sued the Board of Excise of the village
for $4,000 damages for refusing him IL
cense.
A CALIFORNIA politician says the path
of rectitude has been travelled SO little in
that State of late years, that it has all run
to grass.
A DRUGGIST has been sued for damages
in Waverly, n. Y, for selling laudannm to
mans wife, and the jury have awarded
damages TO the husband.
THE Washington is great public favo-
rite; the increase of business last year
over the year previous was greater than
I1IaG VI Ob4Ol CASH
THE Rev. A. Folsom, a Methodist cler
gyman in Raymond, N. H., now seventy
seven years old, walked to North Salem,
on recent Sunday, distance of seven
teen miles, and preached three times.
ONE of the largest hotels in Philadel-
phia is owned and managed by woman,
and in one store, among several large ones
owned by women, q business of over $780,
900 year is done.
MRS. BARTON and Mrs. Eldret, two sis
tiers, at Baldwinsville, N. Y, who had al
ways lived near each other, died the same
day recently, at the ages respectively of
ninety-fve and eighty-seven, and we're both
buried at one time and place.
An awkward young man, while rowing
a lady on Irondequoit Bay few days ago
fell overheard She pulled him into the
skiff by the hair, put him ashore, and then
rowed away home, leaving him on the
beach to dry and to lament the results ol
his stupidity.
JOHN KING, known as the first teetc
taller in Great Britain, has reached an ole
age of helplessness and poverty, and tc
alleviate his position all the teetotalers in
| the three kingdoms are to contribute s
penny each for his benefit. He is now il
his 72d year, living with his fourth wife
;. RECENTLY, at an evening service IN on,
of the churches in New Raven, the pastor
observed a man in the back part of tn,
church hitching about in his seat, and
thinking he was suffering from a con
science that would not be quieted, he said
"Does the brother want to speak" TIL
man rising said, "No, sir, the brothe
wants drink of water" and then he walk
ed to the altar and took drink of water
and resumed his seat, after which the SCI
, vices were proceeded with.
"a THERMOMETER should be placed i
, an open space, out of the vicinity of higl
buildings or any object that impedes tn
free circulation of air. 1t should face tn
} north, to be always in the shade, shoul
be twelve inches from every neighborin
object, should be about fifteen ieet froI
i the ground, and should be protecte
against its own radiation TO the sky, an
against the light reflected from neighbol
2 ing objects, or the ground itself" So say
| Signal Officer Singleton, of st. Louis.
! ONE of the Oldest if not the oldel
r church in the Middle States is an old P re:
by yterian pile in Derry Townsh p, Dauphi
: County, Pennsylvania. The scks of th
: pews reach past the top of the sitter
: head; the communion service wa pre-
: ent from the h use of Hanover, and Ii
r small window p2nes are fastened to tt
sash by lead instead OF putty. At al az
! joining church in q Dutch quarter, Ii
/ collection is taken UP in little black ba
e tied at the end of pole, with bells a
3 tached to wake the sleepers.
a THE Worcester Mass.) Spy has the fc
lowing account of one OF its carriers: ''
: novel and most faithful Spy carrier, it a.
p; ars, has been put upon one Of the 10
!, thern routes OF this city, in the person
an intelligent spaniel dog. This snimS
: belon2ing 10 a farmer near Barber's CrOs
u ing, comes to the regularly appointed plat
i near the eros ing every morning befo
s the passing of the Nashua train, and, tal
9 iag the paper in his mouth as it is throw
% out by the cxprt ssman, diligently conve'
it to the residence of his master. II
faithful canine, after receiving his charg
watches the train with much apparent i
terest till it is nearly out of sigh
;, and then, giving significant wag
|. his tsil, darts for home with telegraph
# speed"
u L. MARIA CHILD, in writing upon 1
d alb urdities of female fashions, say
Il "Seven or eight cara ago bonnets we
If hung on the back OF the head, and slipp,
a down on the shoulders, instead of beil
d perched on the forehead and tipping ov
n the nose, as they now are. At tEat iime
e bride in the vicinity of Boston left b
r fathers house soon sitter the marriage Gel
r mony, and rode seven or eight miles il
le winter evening to the dwelling of b
p, husband. She became so silent uring
latter part of the ride that the bridee roc
D. was alsrned, and, there being no house
b, sight, he drove as rapidly as possib
is Arrived at his own door, he lifted corr
t. from the sleigh. Her bridal bonnet b
e afforded 10 protection from the seve
h cold, and her brain was frozen"
s. A GRAVE MIsTAKR-A queer mista
% occurred recently in burial, by family
y Cincinnati, tf young German WON
who had died at a pest-house, under
~ ~ supposition that they were burying III
~ ~ mother, who was supposed to have died
u that institution. The mistake occurred
u, telegraphing death from the pest hot
~ to the Cincinnati Hospital, the palier
IL u number being used instead of her mar
~ ~ The wrong number was given, or taken
. the sending or receiving of the mesa
y and it happened 10 be that of the old la
" " Notice that she had died wss sent to
70 relatives. They, without caring to
s lS pose the body on account of the disc
~ (smsll-poX) had it turned over TO them
al a neat burial case, and Immediately bur
l. il. After the usual season of close mou
ing, they were startled by the announ
Ut ment from the hospital that their mott
ns was in fair way to recover.
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lV Democratic Rule.