Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A FAST LIFE"-Married life.
A MATTER OF CoURsE-Racing.


SPRING GGOoDs-Baby,jumper
DOLLY WARDEN hash has become
standard dish in metropolitan boarding
houses.
A GERMAN writer defines woman as
something between flower and an
angel"
IT is thought that Siam may yet be-
come civilized; the king has already
learned to swear and wears shirt.
A CHAP in st. Louis, says: "'Taint no
after the darned thing tuck mad dog bit
me-"
A LITTLE Rock, Ark, justice advertis-
ed to perform the marriage "rite"-and
do it right-for twenty-five cents-widow
ers ten cents.
THE salary of the Canadian Viceroy is
$50, GOO a year, with two or three rent
free palatial residences, and the Office is
usually held for five years.
A FASHION article in an exchange de-
scribes the suit of an Indian boy five
years old. 1t consists of a garter tied
around the left leg.
FOR the first seventeen weeks of the
year New England manufacturers have
shipped to places outside of New En-
gland, 4s5, 926 cases of boots and shoes.
A MISSOURI farmer attempted to smoke
out rabbit, and burned up half mile of
fence and over hundred apple trees. He
caught the rabbit
The largest firm name on record is that
belonging to a job printing office in Terre
Haute, Ind, which is run by Allen,
Smith, Henderson, Seaman English, Carr,
Clinton & Co.
4, Ioo L,o, d.
the past winter, says that libraries there
afford facilities for the examination of
authorities far greater than can be found
in any other city in America.
THE Goodyear rubber patent expired
on the 9th of May, this time without the
possibility of renewal.
A BLIND woman in Iowa has learned to
thread a cambria needle with her teeth
and tongue. Is there anything in the world
that woman's tongue cannot door
undo?
STONE implements of human manufac-
ture have recently been found in San
Mateo County, CAL, imbedded in rock Of
formation far anterior to the period usu-
ally assigned as the time of the origin of
man.
AN exchange says: "Don't borrow a
newspaper; nearly all the prevailing cpl
denies are spread in this way. If you
don't want the smallpox take your paper
direct from the publisher
HARVEY D. WINDSOR, young man of
Detroit, has been informed that mining
property in Utah owned by him for five
years has developed great richness, and
that its estimated value is 100000
For the three months ending March 81,
aarry yolf
6O5 tons of rails, and only "a, 715 tons
were sent from that country to the whole
world beside, in the same period.
SINCE the introduction of coal-oil re-
fineries along the Schuylkill and Della
ware, the original fine flavor of the shad
caught in these rivers has been materially
injured, partaking of the rather unpal-
afable taste of kerosene
THE amount of capital invested in
menagerie property in the United States,
Including animals and the apparatus and
material requisite to their ansportation
and exhibition, is estimated at over two
millions of dollars
A sPoRTIvE hunter of Detroit, who
kept flask of whisky with him on a
shooting trip, struck a race course in the
suburbs on his return, and walked around
all night, wondering why he didn't get to
town.
THERE are 215 cadets at the Naval
Academy, 80 Of whom were appointed by
the President, four are naval apprentices,
three Japanese students, one is from the
District of Columbia, and 1859 from the
various States.
A FUNERAL occurred in San Francisco
recently, which was conducted according
to the ritual of a sect of spiritualists. The
collin was pure white, and all the atten-
dants were dressed in white robes The
ceremonies were conducted by the mother
OF the deceased
A STORM on Lake Winnebago recently
drove mass of ice twenty five miles long,
twelve miles wide, and three feet thick,
ashore with such force that trees two feet
thick were uprooted and large rocks were
carried rods into the lake. In MANY
places the ice was piled up forty feet
high.
A TERRA-CoTTA vase has been recently
brought to light from the bottom of the
Seine. 1t contained several small coins
OF Philippe lie Bel holding scepter in
his right hand, and feur-ze-zis in his left
The reverse is cross which divides the
inscription, and Is surrounded by .feur-
de-hs.
THE King of Dahomy is reported to
have received the Italian scientific COM
mission, seated on his throne, his body
profusely decorated with the blue, green
and gold labels which had been carefully
peeled from the medicine bottles brought
by Europeans to his country.
AN elderly schoolmistress is mentioned,
in the recent report of a Church of En-,
gland School Inspector, who, when he
proposed to her that the children should
sing, shook her cane in the faces of the
young folks, and said, CHOW, you little
wretches, sing God is merciful,' will
your"
A PROMINENT citizen of Indianapolis
was buried on May 1. The preacher Sc
lected the following text. from II Samuel,
vii, 10, as being appropriate both to the
burial and moving day: "I will appoint
place for my people, and will plant them,
that they may dwell in a place of their
own, and move no more''
THE first coal ever mined in the
United States was dug near Richmond
Va. Bituminous coal was mined there
as early as 100, and in 1775 was exten
sively used in the vicinity. During tht
revolution Richmond foundry employed
this coal in making shot and shell for ths
AT recent examination of one of tn,
schools in Washington, the question wa
put to class of small boys: "Why il
the Connecticut River SO called ?" whel
bright little fellow held up his hand
DO you know, James ?" eyes, ma'am
because it connects Vermont and New
Hampshire, and cuts through Massachu
setts p' was the triumphant reply.
A FRENCH paper, commenting on tn
national subscription for the payment O
the debt of Germany, notices among 9th
er things that General Trochu has cor
tributed his plan; Jules Favre his tears
Jules Simon his portfolio Glais Bizoi
his head Louis Blanc one of his books
N. Arago hurrah Victor Hugo his cap
Dufaure his resignation and Ferry
Washington dispatch.
THE civil engineers of the Pacific Raj
roads state that the rains and the humid
ty of the plains have increased during th
extension of railroads and telegraph
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