Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


out of 940, ,O00, 600 posted in 1870.
ACCORDING to the official report the
British Museum of London was visited by
427 ,247 persons in 1870.
WHILE California wasp and tarantuls
were fighting, toad swallowed both and
soon after expired in great pain.
THE Washington Life Insurance Com.
pany is increasing more than two thou.
sand dollars per day, above all losses and
expenses.
If you want to eat just such pudding
as your mother made when you were q
boy, you must somehow revive a boys
appetite and palate.
JOSH BILLINGS says: Adversely has the
same effekt on man that severe training
duz on the pugilist-it reduces him tew
his fighting weight.
A TITUsvILLE oil prince ground lame
soldiers hand organ and collected stamps
the other night, realizing $50 for the vet.
eran in short time.
DIR. RUSSELL says the reason why Sun
day Is the hottest day of the week is be.
cause people have nothing else to do but
scrutinize the weather.
How strange that my wife and mother
should oppose life insurance. Death
comesl A husband and father fallsl Then
poverty comes Insure in the Mutual Life,
of Chicago.
The pastor of the Baptist Church in
Cambridge, Mo, baptized two young
ladies the other day, and then married one
ofthem right there in the church, before
she had time to get dry.
al FEAR" said country minister to his
flock, "when l explained to you in my
last charity sermon that philanthrophy
was the love Of our species, you must have
misunderstood me to say specie, which may
account for the smallness of the collec-
ton. You will prove, l hope, by your
present contribution that you are no
longer laboring under the same mistake. !"
A RELIGIOUS paper prints the following
paragraph: at is asked of all newspa-
pers, desiring the spread of truth and the
destruction of error, that they publish this
request and prayer to Almighty Power,
that on the three first Sunday nights in
October, 1871, there shall appear in the
heavens distinct light in the shape of a
great cross" and, furthermore, all coed
people are urged to pray earnestly for this
miraculous sign. .#. Fr.~.E .r
A FEW days since gentleman entered
q Photographic saloon in Boston, and ask
cd the proprietor if it was good day for
taking pictures. The proprietor looked
"Well," remarked the visitor, "look at
me and see if you think you could get a
likeness of me-" The artist this time took
a good square look, and in few moments
studied out the features of his father,
whom he had not seen for many years.
A NEW BRITAIN pastor was bit care
less the other day, in his selections of the
to-be- omitted portions of the good old
hymn, in which occur these lines:
''Shall such n worthless worm asI
Be found at thy right handf'
The next r-au-a VINO omitted, and the ohOiI
commenced singing:
"Prevent It, prevent it by Thy grace"
Those who were not using their hymn
books went home with the impression that
there must have been some mistake.
An English writer has been engaged
in estimating the amount of gold in the
world in bulk. he says it could-melted
in lump-be contained in cellar twenty
four feet square by sixteen feet in depth.
Saws, too, that all the boasted wealth taken
from The gold mines of California and
Australia could be melted and put into an
iron safe nine feet high and nine feet square,
a small lump, indeed, TO cause as much
labor and sacrifice as it has to obtain it
THE Montello, (Wis) Express says
Michael Groulkie was walking through
his corn patch one day recently, and found
large overgrown ear, and supposing it to
be false or smut ear, plucked it and
stripped of the husks, when he found 8
perfect ear of corn, covered with kernels
of the size and shape of human hand
The wrist and palm are almost perfect
with thumb and fingers in their proper
places for a left hand, all of appropriate
length, and all properly adjusted, only
there are six fingers instead of four, and
two of them are grown together
Nor many miles from Boston certain
farmer owned a contrary horse While
driving home with load of hay some
time since. the horse concluded not tC
move any further; whereupon the farmer
pulled out a small quantity of the hay
placed it under the horse and set fire &c
it. The fire had the desired effect, for II
obliged the horse to move. He started for
ward Just enough to clear the flames, and
the entire load, with the wagon, was de-
stroyed, the farmer having as much as he
could do to clear the horse from the
wagon in season to save his life.
THE Anamosa Qowa) Eureka says that
while some men were at work in a GENE
terry near the town, they came upon a pau
of striped snakes and their young. The
| reptiles immediately took refuge in {
stump, and, after time, the old one.
were dispatched, but the young ones hac
unaccountably become non est. Upon ex
animation, however, it was found that thu
| little fellows, twenty in number, and som'
six inches in length, had "scooted" dowI
| a.. 1f hn cnalrac and
upon being dislodged, showed as much &C
tivity as ever. ..
THE inundation of 1771, which swep
AWAY a great part of the old Tyne Bridge
| Newcastle, was long remembered and al
luded to with emphasis as "the flood.
On one occasion Mr.. Adam Thompson
was put into the witness-box at the assizes
The counsel, asking his name, receives
for answer, adam, sir Adam Thomp
son." "Where do you live" "At Para
disc, sir" paradise is a village about
. mile and half west of Newcastle "Ant
how long have you dwelt in Paradise
, continued the barrister. Ever since tn
food" was the reply, made in all simplici
ty, and with no intention to raise laugh
Ii is needless to say thst the judge aske'
for an explanation.
AT Cape May, the other day, ricl
Philadelphian espied a charming giI
struggling all alone in the breakers, an
calamity proposed to learn her to swim
She thankfully accepted the offer, an
!, quite Irritation ensued. Quoth the Phi
adelphian: "Are you staying at the Stoch
ton, Miss" Murphy" with 81
glance upward. Miss Murphy-ahl Yo
are stopping at the-?" Stockton; yei
sir" "Ahi Are your parents with you
mo, sir" "Your brother, possibly
| "No, sir" "Ah. have it; you are her
with your friendsl' ".No. sir" yer
, perceptible smile breaking over her cour
. tenance. Excuse my seeming impert
nence, Miss Murphy, but I am extremel
3 anxious to know in what capacity you al
Y here?" I" I am in the 6dke-house, sir
Philadelphia retired with dignity.