Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
'HE TIES OF BUs1NEss.-Adver.tise.

THE TIES OF BUsINEss.-Adver-tis
WHEN a wife reigns, it seems natural
that she should storm too. She generally
does.
MEXICAN newspapers are discussing the
annexation of Mexico to the United States.
DIVIDENDS are paid in cash in the
Washington Life Insurance Company of
New York.
The day to pick your wife is Choose
day. "Wednesday is the day to be mar
ried on, of course.
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
paid in cash in the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Chicago.
BOSTON used last year 49,, ,435 barrels of
ale, and 5S,065 barrels of lager beer, which
cost the retailers about $3,000,000.
A MAN up in Portsmouth, N. H, named
his two children Ebenezer and Flora, and
always spoke of them as "Eb" and FLO"
ALI RIA PAsHA. Governor General of
Sultan of Turkey a jeweled snuff. box of
the estimated value of $12, 500.
THE boy who wished that he was foun-
tain so that he always might be playing,
didn't reflect that a fountain doesn't play
unless it works well.
A YOUNG man in a Down East Camp
meeting asked the prayers of the assembly
because he could not sit down to a meal
without eating three times as much as he
ought"
containing 10000 cubic feet of timber, re-
Rouse's Point, n. Y, and entered Lake
Champlain.
A RURALIsT chewing on large purple
egg plant and plaintively remarking,
"Ihey don't raise as juicy melons as they
did before the war;" was a recent Titus
vile spectacle.
AN unknown Philadelphian, of COM
mendable generosity and unparalleled
modesty, has given 100000 for the pro-
jected Presbyterian Hospital at West
Philadelphia, and earnestly requested that
his name shall not he revealed.
Don't bother editors when they are
busy. Quilp stepped into the imperial
sanctum this morning to ask what he'd
better write about. "Write about"
growled the disgusted chief: 81 think
you had better right about face!" and he
did.
THE Messrs. John Taylor & Sons, of
England, are said to be the greatest min
ing firm in the world, the largest employ
ers of labor in that department, having
mines in every quarter of the globe. In
Great Britain alone, the number of men
employed by them is $4,000.
A CURIOUS typographical bull is pointed
out in the new addition of Pope's works,
published by Murray, in London:
Behold, four kings, in majesty revered;
With hoary 1Chisky and forky beard"
Thn Rapn
Lock-" and "whisky" should of course
be whiskers."
THE Chicago Republican adopts this
method of introducing its list of marriage
licenses: "The Clerk of the County
Court wore a diamond pin in his shirt
front and sardonyx smile on his brow
as he slung out dispensations to throw
tea-kettles at each other, to the following
couples yesterday"
FROM statistics for the year ending Nov.
1, 1870, it appears that there were 112 $50
births registered in London during that
period. Of these children Al, ,444 were op-
Grated upon by the public vaccinators-
36,0S8 under one year of age, and 1856
over one year. The number successfully
vaccinated was 40, ,842, leaving 602 failures,
or rather less than IL per cent. For vac
cination purposes London is divided into
five districts, with an aggregate of 134
vaccinators.
A CANADIAN sailor is experiencing the
woe of having an impulsive woman as a
wife, and she the woe of being impulsive.
He came home from sea the other day,
bringing but $15. She thought he should
have brought more; and from mild re-
monstrances and gentle upbraidings they
rapidly grew angry, finally coming to
- - a,,I ttr,r
forever" 1t turned out that the man had
placed $40 in the savings bank, but felt
called upon to defend himself first against
the angry words of his wife and her base.
less charges before explaining what he had
done with the money.
THE Heather Chinee knows a thing OF
two about the duties and discipline ol
public conveyances, the introduction oi
which among us would be regarded with
more favor than some others of his peculi
arities. At Hankow, not long ago, com
plants of extortionate charges by boat
men, induced mandarin to disguise him
self as cody, and take passage on small
ferryboat. He was stopped in midstream
and compelled to pay a heavy overcharge
and on arriving at the other side, at onct
ordered the arrest and decapitation of the
waterman. If that sort of treatment wa
tried on the Niagara Fails hackmep, o.
indeed on the same class elsewhere, ther'
would be hope Of a salutary reform IL
their habits.
A PERSON walking into the counting
room of the late Mr.. c., wealthy anC
and shrewd merchant, inquired of th'
clerk the rent of a store which his EN-
ployer wished to let. The inquirer being
satisfied with the terms, said he would hir'
the store; but the clerk, knowing that hi
had recently failed for a large amount
declined closing the bargain until he saw
Mr.. G. who was then absent from the city
and desired the gentleman to call again
Upon Mr.. C.'s return the clerk informed
him of what had been related. "Hov
much did he fail for?" asked hr. G
About e1O,O0O," was the reply. "Ant
how much did he pay?" "Only 10 pc
cent, sir" Let him have the store, Sam
let him have the store-he's got none.
enough"
Don't Eat Too Much.