Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-11-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
WHALING GRoUNDs-Schoolho houses.
GUILT FRAMEs-Prison windows.
THE BEST CosMETIC-Soap and water.
PASSING THE TME-Going by clock.
VELocIPEDE riding is becoming fash
ionable in Louisville.
THERE are more than SO, 900 Scandinav-
ians in New York.
THERE are more than 100 railway sta
tions in London.
A MARYLANDER has sued woman for
backing out" from marrying him.
SEALsKrN will be used more than ever
this winter for trimming overcoats.
A DETROIT policeman has an eleven
year old cat which weighs thirty pounds.
Six water-spouts appeared on Lake
Erie a few days ago, and lasted half an
hour.
A MAN in Springfield, O., has construct
ed musical clock which plays eight
different tunes.
Two WEALTHY planters of Porto Rico
have manumitted eight hundred of their
slaves.
A YOUNG lady up town New York; re-
Gently paid $3.50 for having single dress
made.
WHY are ripe potatoes in the ground
like thieves? Because they ought to be
taken up.
WHAT ancient implement of war does
petulant lover most resemble? a cross
bow.
In Phillips County, Kansas, at a late
election, they used scooped-out pumpkin
for ballot-box
WASHINGTON is overrun with grave.
stone manufacturers, desirous of contract
ing to supply the national cemeteries.
AN exchange announces, ON the death
of lady, that she '1ived fifty years with
her husband, and died in confident hope
of better life"
THE alumni of Harvard challenge the
present class to test of proficiency in
oaral exercises-meaning thereby boat.
race.
IN the foyer of the Academy of Music
"What singular bass voice B. hasp'
"Do you call that bass voice? 1t is SIM
ply neglected cold"
THE enormous consumption of tea may
be imagined when it is known that Great
Britain consumes upwards of 30, 900 tons
per annum-equal to about four pounds
to each person.
"How DOES that look, ehG" said big
listed Wall street man to friend, hold
ing up- one of his brawny hands. "That," /"
said the friend, ''looks as though you'd
gone short on SOAP"
THE gentleman so often spoken of in
novels, who riveted people with his gaze,
has obtained employment in boiler man
ufactory, with extra pay, on account of
mis- peculiar faculty.
A LITTLE common wax rubbed on the
soles of ones dancing shoes makes ones
feet glide smoothly over the heaviest car
pet. Almost all our best dancers invaria-
bly, carry with them to parties small
pieces of beeswax.
Our experience in journalism teaches
us that there is nothing in this world that
will so disgust and sicken the general
reader as to learn, after wading through
the particulars of an awful accident, that
there is a probability of the victims re-
covery.
A DANBURY mans horror, at the pros
pect of being crushed to death by team
of frightened horses, was terribly intensi-
fled by the reflection that che was stand
ing on the very verge of eternity without
dollar in his pocket"
SEVERAL young ladies in town have
formed an anti-tobacco society, and amuse
themselves by inducing their gentlemen
friends to sign a pledge not to use the
weed, which they do unanimously, and
smoke as much as ever. So all parties
are pleased, and the reform line still moves
| forward unbroken.-Erchange.
A BARBER in Titusville, while cutting
hi, &c I. &c
shears against some hard substance,
which proved to be milestone. The
old farmer said he chad missed that whet
stone ever since haying-time last July, and
had looked all over ten-acre lot for it
but now remembered sticking it up ovel
his ear"
| A sTRoNG-MINDED woman in Detroi
made the following gentle reply to a poll
tician who had called at her house to ge
her husband to go to the polls and vote
"No sir, he can't GO! He's washing now
and he's got to iron tomorrow, and if h,
wasn't doing anything, he couldn't go.
run this ere house, / do, and if any on,
votes it'll be this same Mary Jane ! ="
SOMEBODY says the hog is Peabod,
among animals alongside of a hen
Throw ahandful of corn in a ten-acre 10
I
dab at it. The last hen on the spot ma,
not secure more than two kernels, bu
nothing in the hens appearance will in
dicate that. 1t will step around with q
much precision and gratitude as any il
the flock, and wear the most pensive smil
you ever saw. A hen will not eat every
thing it sees, but it will try to, and ther
isn't one of them on the face of this cart
but that can tell you the taste of every
thing it has seen within the radius of
half mile of the house.
THE multiplication or copying of draw
ings, by means of electricity, has beel
still further improved by an invention
which greatly simplifies the process. j
is Swiss device, and is designed to d
away with the fatigue and difficulty eA
perienced by craftsmen in the puncturin
of holes through a drawing for the pul
pose of obtaining an outline, and aftel
: ward transferring the outline by siftin
plumbago or other powder through tn
small holes. To accomplish the desire
result, the induction coil is now employed
A table covered with tin foil is connecte
, with the negative pole, and on it may b
, placed as many sheets of paper as tn
spark will pass through. The positiv
pole, consisting of metal bar, insulate
with gutta percha, serves as pencil 10
copying the tracings. The metal point c
the pencil being moved about on tn
contour and outline of the engraving
electric sparks spring across every time
connection is made. and puncture fin
holes through the paper.
THE Moabite expedition, according
a report recently read before the BIRTHS
Association, discovered on the borders @
the desert east southeast from Heshbor
the ruins of a magnificent palace in a
excellent state of preservation. A quat
rangular wall of freestone, 515 feet o
each side, incloses a brick palace. O
the other side of the only entrance is a
architectural front of carved work Is
feet long and II feet high. This ornt
, mental front displays animals, bird