Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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mines last year, and over SIX hundred
were injured.
THE jury in the Tichborne case re-
ceived one guinea Ia little over $5) per
day for their services.
AN Australian has a false eye, made of
an emerald and a diamond. He considers
his sight priceless
PAT was asked the other day if he un-
derstood French. Yes, yer honor, if
its spoken in Irish. "
A DRY GOODS merchant in New York,
who advertised for book-keeper at 500
per annum, received six hundred applica-
tions for the position.
FORM of oath in San Francisco courts:
"Sommy Swathy tesmy you shagginkase
nowntril shabby truth nothin bntty truth
seppy COB woshy name"
"A FRIEND IN NEED -
"A friend in needs friend indeed "
This really ID great trash
For I've a friend, and he's in need,
And always wanting cash.
A MAN named always Smith has
been arrested for drunkenness in New
Orleans. His parents evidently attempt |
ed to secure a variation of the old familiar
name.
MISS ELLEN L. FLETCHER, of Charles
ton, N. H., having learned the trade, has
of all the young men in town are out of
order in consequence.
SwINDLERs tried to seduce Western
man on railroad train into betting that
he could open a patent paddock which
they carried about. He took the bet and
opened the lock with sledge hammer.
A FIRM in Dubuque received five dol
lar bill the other day, upon which was in
10 no 10 of of of
$40, 900 given to me by my mother. All
spent in dissipation, and this will go to-
night. October %, 1867"
MRS. MUFFIN" said visitor, emily
has your features, but | think she has her
fathers .hair." "Oh, now II see," said
the dear little Emma, cts because have
fathers hair that he has got to wear a
wig"
A DRUNKEN Irishman, on being told
that his Incorporate habits would soon
make his poor wife a widow, was quite
affected, and exclaimed "Och, faith it
I'D make me the wretchedest man in the
wur-rld to live to see Mrs. Coons a wild
der !"
A GENTLEMAN of ripe age was court
ing rich widow. "See, mamma" said
her small son, who was playing, in the
room, this poor Mr.. Bonhomme has
lost all his back hair. Wont you give
him some of yours which you bought to-
day?'
A YOUTHFUL novice in smoking turned
deadly pale and threw his cigar away
go, dear - he said, "there's some'in' in
that cigar that's maxim me sick" 81
know what it is" said his companion,
putting away. "What ?" "Tobacker."
A JAPANESE woman whose lover is
fost1 vic OF p1a1
morning and drives a nail into sacred
tree, vowing that when her lover dies she
will pull it out. She believes that the
god, to save his tree, will strike her lover
dead.
A CALIFORNIA court has granted
divorce to husband on the ground that
he was insane when he married The
Judge has the immediate prospect of an
immense business, and the Pacific Rail
way Company is making provision for an
extraordinary travel westward during the
spring
THERE are four adventurous young
men in Dubuque who are preparing to
make voyage from that city to Cuba in
boat twenty-five feet long by six feet
wide. They propose to go down the
Mississippi to the Gulf, and then keep
along the coast to Florida, whence they
will strike across to the shores of Cuba.
THE inscription on an Ithaca, IN. "
tombstone, composed and chiseled by a
bereaved husband, after lauding to the
skies the virtues of the deceased wife,
concludes with the startling assertion :,
She is in Heaven )" then, in parenthe-
sis, is the saving clause, 81 hope"
A LADY in Des Moines proposed to a
fascinating dry goods clerk. He said,
Ask ma" reversing the natural order of
things to suit the year. "Ma" was a
keen observer, and she saw more fashion
than housekeeping in the young lady.
left disconsolate.
In the Galaxy CIub-room, good story
is told of a College President, who, meet
ing on the cars student whose character
for sobriety was not good, and whose
then appearance evidenced a recent de-
bauch, approached him, and solemnly
and regretfully said, "Been on drunk ?''
So have l." was the immediate reply.
Witty, but severe Madame Boliver
having tried in vain to get pay for some
her, at last sent in her bill in this style
s'Two dozen fancy satin policemen, 200
francs. "What do you mean ? What
"Your cravats for thew take q thief h,,
the throat every morning"
IT is estimated that S75 0OO 600 worth
of fuel is burned YEARLY in The Tinted
States. locomotives consume over eight
million cords of wood annually. and over
800 OOO. 600 worth of saved humber is
yearly emnloved in buildino and in mann.
fsctnyes Four million aeras ~ Of # fores,
Jisannear every vaar before the az t@
supply all these demands.
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AT masquerade pail recently given III
ocotlano, an oIncer OF inland revenue
managed TO OBTAIN admission, disguised
;as one ct the walters, and took a list o
the names OF al who appeared in pow
dered wigs. He has since assessed then
IoI Gouole Tax Ior wearing poWaer Win
OUT Incense, tnere oeing TAX OF nve dol
lars per annum Ior the privilege OF wear