Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-01-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

MONTREAL. dISbrlOuleS TO,OVU ailludlly
at Christmas among its poor.
A DEED one hundred and thirty years
old was recently presented for record in
Boston.
THERE are but nine families in Gosport,
N H., and the debt of the town is So
534 81
WHY are our sidewalks in winter like
music ? If you do not c sharp you will
B fiat.
To produce quiet sleep, secure policy
of insurance in the Washington Life In
surance Company.
CHARLES BARKER, of Peterborough,
N. H., has raised turkey which weighed
twenty-five pounds, dressed
THE average mean temperature of 1871
at Philadelphia was 1.39 degrees higher
than that of any one of the last AZ years.
A ANEwLYINvENTED photometer proves
that light penetrates 100 fathoms below
the surface of the sea-seventy fathoms
more than hitherto supposed.
:. THE following is an example of first
class modern reporting: A Missouri mu-
sician sat down upon keg of powder
and began to smoke. One button was
left to tell the tale.
CAKI. MARTENS, of Cleveland, died re-
NShbIy Va 1t6ttHW cpt"c'J hi'' 49, "AA'
two children were not expected to recover
The disease was contracted from eating
sausageS.
A YOUNG man named Battle is awaiting
trial for forgery in New York who fell
heir to $780, 600 five years ago, married,
and in so short time, by high living, re-
duced himself to the poverty which led
to his crime.
THE order of Knights of Pythias was
founded in the city of Washington, in
1864. 1t is now 1ourishing in thirty six
States and Canada dispensation has
been sent to Honolulu, and the order now
has 800 lodges with membership 100000.
AFTER the 1st of October, 1872, it will
be unlawful for domestic animals to run
at large in Illinois, This is the provision
of law passed by the Legislature, and
it will require vote of the county to
prevent the operations of the law.
SMITH and Jones were at the menage
rie, and the conversation turned ON Oar
wins theory s'Look at that monkey"
said Smith 'sthink of it's being an unde-
veloped human y 'sHumanp' said Jones,
contemptuously, 'its no more human than
lam"
THE Albany journal says that "Forty
boys, now pupils in the Free Academy,
earn their own livelihood while they are
pursuing their studies. Some of them
rise at four o'clock in the morning, to
carry newspapers. Others are employed
on afternoon papers and in other vOca-
tions."
A GRASS widow of Lafayette promised
to marry lover if he would get her di-
vorce from her lawful and awful hus-
band He did so, after much feeling and
hard swearing but he swore all the
harder when, to his utter astOnishment
and disgust, his fair enslaver welded an
other man.
THE greatest cOnglomeration of errors
ever made in an obituary notice was the
English notice of Daniel Webster, when
he was described at once as the great leXi
cOgrapher, statesman, the author of q
spelling book, and the broken-hearted
brother of the murderer of Dr. Parkman
A CORRESPONDENT says Alexis takes his
breakfast in the palace railway car in this
proportion 'eThree miles of coffee,
mile of milk, three miles of oyster stew
ten miles of buckwheat cakes, twelve
miles of tenderloin, nine miles of han
and eggs, and three miles of sugar, mo
lasses, and napkins"
CHILDREN invent curious etymologies
"Come Gomez said a distracted father
who had endured the children's noise OF
Christmas day. till patience ceased to be
virtue, ''there's no reason why you should
scream and holloa So" "Why, father,
said one of the little fellows, ''don't yol
know this is a hollerddys"
A YOUNG girl in the East Indies was re
Gently held for two days in the embrace
of serpent, which had coiled itsel
around her body and would not permi
the approach of any man. During tha
time she subsisted on milk and plantains
brought by woman, and snake-charm
er finally succeeded in charming her ven
Omous lover away.
HORSE AND Doc FLEsH,-A correspond
ent of the Medical and Surgical Reporter
who had experience during the siege O
Paris, says: "Horse-flesh looks and taste
exactly like beef, and not only with diff
Guilty can be distinguished from it, but
in fact preferable to it. 1t is better, how
ever, the same as cat-meat, to put it i
pickle for thirty six hours. Dog-mea
when properly prepared, resembles mu
ton and even DEER
THE statistics of the Coroner of Ne
York city, for the year just closed, sho
that 1875 infants were found dead in til
stress; that 851 deaths by accident occurre
some of them growing out of riots; thi
129 persons were drowned; that 10S le
the world by suicide-Parls green an
morphine being the favorite modes
exit; and that AZ homicides and infan
icides were committed.
A Mr. WEEKS lives in house at Greer
land, N. Y, which one of his ancestors
that name built in 1888 (233 years ago
and which has remained the family hom
stead ever since. It is a tWO-stOry brio
building, with wall eighteen inches thicl
all the timbers used being massive oal
A serious rent in the east wall is believe
to be trace of the earthquake of 1927,
that of 1775.
A YOUNG gentleman from the rural di
tricts called at the Indiana Executive d
partment, few days ago, and was recei
ed by Governor Baker in person, no Oh
else being in the Office at the time Aft
having been showed through the roor
and the several objects of interest HI
been explained to him, the young visit
prepared to take his leave. He express
himself as much pleased with the visit al
his reception, and as he was about to pa
out of the door astounded the Govern
by the inquiry; What's the fee for
service?"
A GENTLEMAN engaged in furnishi
lCiiOl W baC pun ou tHC ooutLW CStC
frontier of Minnesota, during the rece
cold weather, found family consisti
of widow and several small childre
living in ''sod hut,' that is, hole
the ground, ten or fifteen feet square a
about six feet deep, covered with bru
and layer of sod. They were thir
clad, the children having no shoes. The
was stove, but no fire or wood AT {
other house he found the children wi
out shoes, and two little boys out in t
snow in their bare feet feeding the catt
SIOUX CITY has iail-bird who wor
be treasure to any Sheriff. His name
Dan Donnelly. He is committed on 81
dry charges of incendiarism, but She
Kingsnorth allows him the freedom of
jail and the city. The other day
Sheriff moved from his former resider
to a new one, and engaged Dan to h
him. While Dan was thus engaged,
was met by former acquaintance, w
in very emphatic language, informed b