Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-22
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1Or locomotive.
A ROBIN in Detroit has been taught to
whistle Yankee Doodle.
PHILADELPHIA is to sprinkle her streets
with salted water.
RACES THAT BECOME ExTINCT-Steam-
boat races on the Mississippi.
THE Connecticut Legislature has rule
limiting prayers to forty minutes.
THERE are nine cities in Germany and
two in Italy which possess Lincoln streets.
A PRUDENT man foreseeth the evil and
hideth himself. Insure in the Mutual Life,
of Chicago.
THE reason we don't hear of girls giving
the mitten nowadays they don't learn
to knit.
INSURE your Life in the Washington In
surance Company, of New York, to the
amount of the mortgage on your house.
A TAILOR at Richmond, Va, has prose
cuted a sewing girl for the value of a but
ton he had previously given her.
AN attorney observed to a brother in
court that he thought whiskers very un-
professional "You are right" replied
his friend; "a lawyer cannot be too bare
faced"
ONE of the handsomest cottages in New
port is built upon rock, and has an iron
band which goes entirely across the roof
of the house and fastens it down securely.
A PROVIDENCE merchant saves his UNI
brellas by c1tting small piece out of the
handle, which he carries in his pocket
book ready to prove property at any time.
B, blunder, the people of Worcester,
Mass, have been ordered by the city au-
thorities to renumber their houses with
Roman numerals. The Spy shUdders at
the thought of CCCCXLlX over its own
door.
THE nomenclature of Massachusetts,
towns has improved with time. Dudley's
name in its greener years was Chargog-
gagoggmanchoggagogg. Marlboros had
even more liquid melody in those days,
Ogguionikongquamesut.
BUTTERFLIEs have been found flying at
sea, six hundred miles from land. Their
buoyancy is great, and the muscular effort
of flying must be small, while the wind
drives them forward rapidly over great
distances.
A CANTON, ILL.,, farmer, says: az was
going out past my corn-crib the other
morning when l observed large rat car
rying a full-sized ear of corn in his mouth,
with head erect. At the same time his
tail was wrapped around another, and an
extra large ear, which he was dragging be-
hind him"
THERE were recently thirty-nine in
mates of the Illinois State Penitentiary
who are under eighteen years of age =
thirty-two white and seven colored. Six
We're sentenced for burglary and larceny
fifteen for burglary; nine for larceny; two
for rape; two for assault with intent to
kill; two for forgery; three for robbery.
A RUSSIAN nobleman, who received his
degrees from the Universities of st. Peters.
| burg and Heidelberg, as thorough student
of jurisprudence, and who can read, write
and speak the Russian, German, French
italian, English, Latin, and Greek Ian
| guages, advertises in Hartford for a situa
ton as coachman.
John ROUSE, why wilt thou do so ?
said Thomas Hazard, one of New Bed
ford's substantial Quaker merchants sixty
years ago, to Johnny Rouse, negro in hi!
employ, whom he found before magis
trate, not for the first time, charged will
stealing. "Why wilt thou do so, thou fool
ish man? thou always gets caught" 'sWhl
Massa Hazard" says Johnny, IL don't ge
caught half the time"
BLACK bass have got into the Connect
cut river accidentally. Two ponds, witt
outlets leading to the river at points wide
ly apart, which had been stocked will
black bass at privote cost, were carried
away by flood some two years ago, anC
the fish swept into the Connecticut, wheri
they have quietly domesticated themselves
Last year they Matched large quantity o
young, and this year have reappeared o.
their spawning ground.
On the streets of Norfolk, Va, on a re
cent Sunday, little girl six or seven year
old was seen leading her drunken fathe
homeward. Resisting the efforts of al
other persons TO take him home, he wa
perfectly passive in the hands of his child
After getting her father to the steps, tn
little child threw her arms around hi
neck and kissed him. All who witneSse
the scene and the action were affected
some to tears
A GENTLEMAN whose love of order wa
largely developed had a clerk in his en-
ploy whose habits about the Office wer
any thing but orderly. Nothing under hi
hand had fixed locality, and every thin
was at odds and ends. This carelessnes
brought out reproof frem the employel
who, after general lecture on the subjeC
, of malarrangements. quoted the old pre-
cept, and said, "Sir, you should have
place for every thing" 81 have, sir" II
piled the janior, "a great many places 70
every thing"
TIE Boston Advertiser says: Awealth
, gentleman, seventy-five years old, residin
, in one of our suburban towns, recently o
fered to settle $4,000 on any young lady
: q resident of the town, who would becom
: his wife. He desired, he said, some on
, to ride with him, spend his money, an
> take care of him in his old age. Strang
to say, although the place is noted for th
: beauty and accomplishments OF its lad
: residents, no one could be found willin
to take the chances of even becoming
t rich young widow"
!. THE Bedford Nelcs says: "A Lawrent
|. County man planted tree in front of b
4 house and named it after his wife. Soc
: the tree died, and the wife lived but da
5 or two after. Now you would be surprise
: at the number of men that are plantir
trees in front of their domiciles al
a naming them after their respective, If n
. respected, wiyes-and the sickliest lookiI
4 trees that can be found, too-trees thi
+! with the tenderest care, cannot possib
q live more than two weeks. The WON'T
e see through it, and have resolved not
Il diep
A NOVEL experiment was tried in Ne
. Jersey recently, in the case OF boy w
;. was drowned in Pen Horn Greek whi
" bathing. Two Canadians, seeing m'
:, dragging the creek for the body, a
. preached, and told them they would try
u experiment Accordingly, number
u bottles were filled with quicklime, tight
!, corked, and thrown into the creek.
g about an hour one of the bottles bun
- with great noise, and soon the body 70:
J. - The Canadians could not explain {
~ theory further than by saying that, VIII
!. a bottle floats directly over corpse, 1t W
a a explode, and the tody will rise.
IL For ten years Thomas Day was tail
~ in Boston. Twenty years ago he retir
d from business on account of failing healt
N For two or three years past he has sun.
S, ed much from spells of dizziness, and
le few days since surgeon discovered a
he extracted from his body common-siz
III needle, with double thread four inches
,e length attached. As Mr.. Day had US
is no needle of the kind for twenty years,