Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-02-23

the Rural Neao Yorker says: u take the
barrels off from the stock; then take vine
gar enough to fill the barrels, and heat 1t |
boiling hot pour it into the barrels, and |
let it stand until it stops foaming over at |
the muzzle, letting some run through the
tubes; then take the cleaning rod and rub
the inside of the barrels; then take water,
hot enough to warm the barrels, and rinse
out until the water is perfectly clear; then,
perfectly dry, after which put little sweet
Oil ON bit of cloth, and rub on the bar
rels, both on the inside and outside, and
your gun is clean. The vinegar removes
all stain and smut, and the water and oil
prevent it from rusting, or hurting the gun
in any way"
If we wish to succeed in life we must
learn to take men as they are, and not as
they ought to be; making them better If
we can, but at the same time remembering
their infrmities. We have to deal, not
with the ideal man of dreaming poets, but
with the real men of everyday life, men
precisely like ourselves. This fact of COM
mon aims, ambitions and infrmities ought
to create constant sympathy and forbear-
| ance. While every man has his own bur-
den to bear, he may at the same time in
some way help another to bear his peculiar
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| God has mysteriously linked all men to-
gether by this curious fact of mutual de-
pendence, and this wonderful possibility
of mutual help.
| THE number of bones broken in the
English lunatic asylum has given occasion
for curious scientific inquiry, and it is
now ascertained that the ribs of crazy folk
are more brittle than the ribs of the sane.
DR.. HeardOn instituted an examination of
the bones of twenty patients who died in
the Carmarthen County Asylum. In nine
of these cases "the very framework of the
chest was found to be in an abnormal and
diseased state" In two instances the
breast bone broke in removing it, and gen.
orally the bones were no stronger than
stout cardboard. In one case the surface
bone was so spongy and soft that it was
easily crumbled up between the fingers.
Some of the ribs were easily cut with a
common knife, there being, through the
action of the diseased brain, wasting
away of the phosphates.
IT is stated, on what is claimed to be re-
liable authority, that there is child in
Bristol, now four years of age, that is q
habitual smoker, and, incredible as it may
seem, who has been addicted to the habit
for three years and niae months. WheI
the little fellow was only three months
old he held out his little hands and crie6
for his fathers pipe. The stem of the
pipe was held to its mouth, when it tool
q few whiffs of the smoke and was made
, sick for few minutes. The baby was, as
we learn, afflicted with asthma, which wa
: greatly relieved by the tobacco smoke, an6
, no bad effect from the child's smoking ha
ever been observed, except in the first tria
| as mentioned above, and he has smoked
almost daily ever since. He usually use
a pipe filled with common smoking tobac
co, but will puff away at cigar equal t.
any older inveterate smoker. Resident
of Bristol who has often seen the youthful
smoker "blowing a quiet cloud" voucl
for the truth of this singular story. Gu
western contemporaries frequently print as
a tonishing narratives of precocious children
r but we doubt their ability to trot out any
t thing that will clay over" this scion &
r antiquated Bristol. If they can we sha
0 be pleased to hear it-ProUidence (R. /
Journal.