Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

for-giving.
A SHORT CUT to the heart is frequently
through the stomach.
WHAT table is Useful, though 1t has no
legs? The multiplication table.
Two English ladies, sojourning at Cats
kill for the summer, walked no less than
eighteen miles in one day recently, for
eSetcise:
"SAL,' said one girl to another, 'rm so
glad hain't got no beau now.no "Why
soq" asked her companion. "0h, 1 can
eat just as many onions as please"
A THIEF was lately caught breaking in
to a song. He had already got through
the first two bars when policeman came
up and hit him with a stave.
A MICROSCOPIC lens was recently made
in London, at a cost of e250, from a
lens is an increase over that of glass in
the proportion of eight to three.
Two carpenters in Newburyport, Mass,
lately had a nail-driving match. One
drove in sixty five nails minute, while
the other drove seventy-five in the same
time, including his thumb-nail.
WE are told In one of the fashion
papers that "tne fashionable color for
SIONtS is d SuuuuCu UuJ VIC
not told where to procure the "subdued
mouse" from which to extract the color.
AN indignant witness exclaimed: ''The
first time that ever did such dishonor-
able act ! would blow out my brains, sir. p"
Every good" said the examining counsel;
land what would you do the second
timer"
THE fact that ladies' hats are airy moth
=, -, +n1 = 4h4 l.,a% Of
Lowell belle, who walked several squares
bareheaded, the other day, unconscious of
the absence of her dear love of bonnet.
A CoUNTRYIAN stopped an express
train on the Kentucky Short Line Road,
by waving his hat. The conductor check
ed up, and was disgusted to see the fellow
deliberately proceed to shoot squirrel
out of a tree.
AN urbane and popular clerk in De-
troit fish store was recently called away
Arkansas. Previous to his departure his
admiIing friends came together and over
came his feelings with a new straw hat.
A KIND lady in New York gave a pair
of pantaloons to poor boy lately. The
next morning the youth returned, and re-
quested her to put watch-pocket in
them, as otherwise they would not be of
much use to him.
AT Fulton, n, Y, recently, several
holes were burned through the sides of a
shed by the concentration of the rays of
the sun by the covers of some new milk
cans which were exposed on bench near
by, each cover acting as q concave re-
tlector.
DICKENS received ever 100000 for
Little Dorritt" But Douglas Jerold
received only e1O for Black-Eyed Su.
san," the most popular drama ever pro-
duced on the English stage, and died leav.
ing his family without sixpence.
A CONNECTICUT woman was prevented
from attending the funeral of her sister
by the non-arrival on time of lace-band-
kerchief from New York. The brutality
of the express company is severely COM
| mented on by the neighbors.
IT is the custom in some countries in
Europe to hoist a white flag upon city
or country prison when there is no Grim.
inal confined within the walls. Such q
flag was raised few weeks since upon
the prison of Swiss canton and at Ok
ford, England.
THE eleven Territories, including
Alaska, as accurately as can at present be
ascertained, contain over one billion and
quarter acres, exceeding by nearly two
hundred thousand square miles the ag
gregate territory of all the admitted State:
of the Union.
| A STREET gymnast of Paris, known a.
| Samson's Iron Jaw, whose speciality wa:
to pick up weights with his teeth anC
throw them over his head, raised a barre
with his teeth, and, in attempting to dis
pose of it in the same way, fell dowr
dead with broken spine.
"WHAT a nuisancer' exclaimed a gen
tleman at a concert, as young fop il
front of him kept talking in loud voice
to lady at his side. did you refer t.
me, sirS" threateningly demanded tn,
fop. "Oh, no; meant the musicians
there, who keep up such a noise will
their instruments that / can't hear you
conversation"
THE curious phenomenon of regelatioi
can be exhibited by placing block of ic,
on netting of fine wire. The ice viii
be melted by the wire, and passing dow
through it will become frozen in a mas
again below the wire A simple wire can
in similar manner, be drawn slowl,
through block of ice, which unites again
behind the wire, finally showing no sigl
of having been cut at all.
In the Geological Gardens of Paris ther
is a monkey that would be priceless
treasure to MIR. Darwin. 1t is stated, OF
creditable authority, that this monkey ha
very charming voice-tenor-whicl
many brilliant tenor of the opera Nigh
envy, the chest notes especially delightin
his hearers, while his falsettO is not disa
greeable OF course, like all geniuses, h
has rivals, and an ambitious monke
near by often tries to vie with him il
gathering laurels to crown his nobl
brow. But the Columbus of operati
monkeys scorns competition, and his ricl
voice quite browns that of his less-favore,
neighbor, whereupon he shows very hu
man pride.
A TRAVELLER, who has lately visited tn
grand pyramids of Cheops, says that
taking one hundred city chLrches, of tn
ordinary width, and arranging them in
hollow square, twenty-five feet on tn
side, you would have scarcely the base
ment of the pyramid. Take another on
hundred, and throw the material in tn
hollow square, and it would not be full
pile on all the bricks and mortar in tn
city of New York, and the structur
would not be so high and solid as thi
great work of man. One layer of brio
was long since removed to Cairo fo
building purposes, and enough remains
supply the demands of century to come
if permitted to use it with perfect fret
dom.
A PAPER has been read before the Lor
don Society of Arts on an improve
method of lighting towns, factories an
dwellings by vegetable or mineral oil:
The system proposed is to distribute tn
oil over the premises in pipes, like watel
from a general reservoir, containing fe'
gallons at the top of the building. Tn
flow is regulated by small cisterns proviC
ed with peculiar kind of tap, regulate
by ball-cock or self-acting float, th
lights being as nearly as possible on
level with the distributing cisterus. Whe
the lamp is lighted, the oil is by the bal
cock movement supplied automatically {
, fast to the wick as it is consumed, and
very perfect combustion is effected.
AT political meeting the speaker an
audience were very much disturbed by
man who constantly called out for Nj
Henry. Whenever new speaker can