Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

IT cost London 81 ,460,O0U TO take care
of its poor last year.
4 Tsov editor speaks Of another as
sufficiently 1seB posted to edit handbil.
AN artist is not as strong 81 horse,
but he csn draw larger object.
DEATH will stop all income. Provide
for It ty insuring in the Washington Life
Insurance Com csnY, ofNew York.
A LEADING merchant a. Trinidad, in
the West Indies, murdered friend be-
cause he refused an invitation to break
fast
An exchange, wanting to compliment
|" live stock Journal" says it is edited by
man whose heed ;s full Of live stock.
THERE is q school teacher in Massachu-
sets, who, it is said, sometimes, for pun
ishment, ccmpels her scholars to eat grass
hoppers.
COMMENCING at the age of thirty, five
cents day will secure policy of $1,000
in the Mutual Life of Chicago.
If in this world you fail to find anybody
as intelligent as yourself, don't get mad
and think of committing suicide; t-y to
bear it as bravely as you can.
DON'T you take rather too much spirit
for a single ," asked q kind man of
one who was indulging pretty freely. q
beg pardon, sir; have been married
these ten years" was the answer.
IT was a taunt of Mr.. Richard Golden
that there was not man of ordinary or
polite education, as it is called in England,
who being challenged to point out Chicago
upon the map, could be sbte to put down
his finger within thousand miles of the
spot.
VERY UNKIED.-(Scene-A volunteer
review -Infuriated commanding officer
Hi, there, get away, you madman-got
away from the targetl Easy-minded luna
tic-Hold on, guv nor, l amt as mad as
look was here all day yesterday. aud
found 1t much the safest place in the field.
THE pay of the enlisted men of the
United States army has been reduced
Privctes of cavalry, artillery and infantry
receive hereafter S13 instead of SIG, and
the compensation OF non-commissioned
officers is proportionately less than for
merly.
A LADY had a favorite lap dog, which
she called Perchance. "a singular name,
said somebody, for a beautiful pet
madam. Where did you find itf" Oh,
drawled she, it was named from Byron's
dog. You remember where he says, Per
CHANCE my uOS Will AOUL
A DANDY of twenty-six having been
termed an "old bachelor" appealed TO an
elderly gentleman to decide whether he
should be called old or not, giving his age.
"TwentY six" said the elderly gentleman,
" it is owing to howyou take it. Now, for
a man it is young enough; Tor goose II is
rather old"
TEMPERANCE
More of good than we can tell,
More to buy with, more to sells
More of comfort, less of care,
More to eat and more to wear;
Happier homes, with faces brighter,
All our burdens rendered lighter;
Conscience clean and minds much stronger,
Debts much shorter, purses longer;
Hopes that drive away all sorrow,
And something laid up for tomorrow.
A STORY is Told of father in church,
who, when the marriage service came to
the point where the clergyman asks WHO
giVeth this woman to be married to this
man? ?" replied: "Well, sir, am called to
do it, although it do go agin the grain.
wanted her to marry Bill Plowser, who is
worth twice the money o. that ere man.
The answer was not considered regular.
THE Rev. ]. Hyatt Smith, of Brooklyn
has in his possession Testament which
he picked up by the side of dead soldier
boy on the battle field of Gettysburg aftel
the close of the fight. a singular facI
about the book is that only one blood
staid is found upon the pages, and tina
covers these words in Revelations: "AnC
it became as the blood of dead man."
ONE of the importunate juveniles whC
solicit pennies was asked, "Where is you
mother" She answered diffidently, Ssh,
is dead" "Have you no father?" Yes
| sir, but he is sick" "What ails him 2
continued the questioner. HE has got {
sore finger, sir" "Indeed" "Yes, sir.
'sThen why don't he cut it off" "Please
sir, responded the little maid, "he hahn
got any money to buy knife"
BOILING potatoes is apparently one o
the most simple operations of the elemen
tary cookery. Yet at a recent meeting il
London, a gentleman had the courage 4
say that not one girl in seventeen, of
certain parish he knew, could boil q pots
to. Others state that so great is tn
disregard of English housewives just nov
for ell household matters that this Gin
difference is one of the most outward an,
visible signs of the deterioration of tn
English nation"
A COLORADO saloon-keeper said of
rough crowd: 81 couldn't get their whisk,
strong enough for them, so after tryin
every way, / at last made a mixture @
poison oak ard butteruut, 1tfetched EN-
| called it the sheep herders' delight; an
it was popular drink. The first Pike
tried it on yelled with delight; the mex
one took two drinks, and turned a doubl
somerset in the road before the house.
peddler came along, and after he took sew
eral drinks of my sheep herders' delight
he went off and stole his own pack, an
| hid II in the wOodSb "
A PARTY of gentlemen who left Bridge
port, Conn, recently, TO attend the wed
ding of friend, were signally unfortunate
They had nearly reached their destination
when the horse baulked, and could not b
made to advance an inch. The time 70
the ceremony was at hand, and, as the
could not reach the church in season Z
witness it, they concluded to turn abou
and bid the couple goodbye at the Bridge
port depot. But, much to their disgus
the horse banked again when near Bridge
port, and the would be congratulators wer
denied the privilege of seeing the happ
couple.
An application made to one of tn
courts of London, made to compel til
payment of debt in monthly installment
of 60, brought out the fact that the debto
was a barristcr who had only one brief II
a twelvemonth. Whereupon Mr.. Justic
By les gave his opinion that this case wa
not an exceptional one, but that, on tn
contrary, not one in twenty of the barrls
tiers Of England made living in the pre-
fession. The LdU Times accounts for tn
prevailing legal impecuniosity by the by
pothesis that numbers of needy men go L
the bar on speculation, without knowl
edge of law or special gifts cf eloquence.
CAPTAIN HALL takes with him ol
his expedition to the North Pole fla
which has an eventful and peculiar hi;
tory. The flag is a man-ofwar boats ell
sign, about six feet long and three fee
wide. 1t was taken out in Wilkes exped
ton in 1888, and was on the vessel this
went further South than any of her con
panions. In 1850 the colors were presel
ed to the Grinnell expedition, and WEI
taken further North than any other Anne
ican flag had ever before been exhibited
It 1854, when DR.. Kane went out, NJ
7 Griilnell loaned him the flag, and it Wa