Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
ON THE SPoT-Detectives.
HE BEST PAINT FOR FACE-Water

colors.
CoNUNDRUM.-When is a mean man
not mean man? Never.
QUERY FOR SPIRITUALIsTs- low
spirits less than medium sighs?
If domestic infelicity drives men to
sea, they should seek the Pacific Ocean
THE debt of France amounts to about
S125 for each of the population.
JOSH BILLINGS says: ''Thare is a
CRATE deal ov raw bliss in Citing tired"
"GooD bourd for fore dolls a week."
says sign on Russell street, Detroit
AT Fairfield, Conn, carriages are made
entirely of India rubber, excepting the
axles and tires.
THE fortune of Mr.. A. T. Stewart, of
New York, is estimated at between fifty
and sixty millions.
A WESTERN farmer says that he doesn't
want any railroad shares-it's as much as
he can do to run thirty-eight plow-shares.
A YOUTH of ninety-one recently led to
the altar charming bride of one hun
dred and six. 1t is reported that they
were married without the consent of their
parents.
THERE is family of ten persons re-
siding at Cream Ridge, in Salem County,
n. j., whose united weights amount to
2,1S7 pounds, an average of 21S94 pounds
each.
MASSACHUSETTS has now a mile of
completed railroad to every five square
miles of territory, and for each one thou
sand of population.
A BosToN gentleman prizes very highly
two ears of corn which he plucked from
Daniel Webster's field the day the great
statesman was buried.
-Hopeful-"Will breakfast
soon be ready, mamma?" Mamma-'Yes,
my dear" Hopeful-"Well, papa. you
might say grace just now, to save time"
A wELL-KNowN author says that to be
always intending to live a new life, but
never finding time to set about it, is as if q
man should put off eating and drinking
and sleeping from one day to another un
til he is starved and destroyed.
THE youth who stole watch and re-
turned it to the owner, who promised
''no questions asked" is in jail. The
owner was as good as his word, but he
arrested the youth without asking any
questions.
| SCENE-Country Store. Clerk, sympa-
thetically, to lady whose boy drove the
team to "market"-"So, Mrs. Jones, your
husband is dead, poor soul?" "Yes, the
old mans gone-what's the price of this
yer calico?"
| A CONNECTICUT quarryman of thirty
years standing says there had been a
greater number of cold days the past win
ter than for thirty years before, and that
the frost had penetrated the rocks to such
a depth that blasting was rendered diff
cult.
A CEDAR FALLS Qowa) citizen, deter
mined to ascertain whether evaporation
4.
his corn during the night, stuck pegs in
the ends of a lot of ears, and found them
afterwards in the feed-trough of another
mans team.
A YOUNG man applied for a marriage
license in Cambridge, ILL.,, but the clerk
reminded him of two previous applica-
tions. EYES," was the reply, ''the other
girls did not know / wanted to get mar
ried till showed them the document
but this one does"
DISCERNING child (who has heard some
remarks made by papaS''Are you our
new nurse?" "Yes, dear" "Well, then,
I'm one of those boys who can only be
managed by kindness; so you had better
get some sponge-cake and oranges at
once"
A QUEER coincidence is reported from
London. During the past two months, a
man named Preston has, when passing
the New River, rescued two women from
drowning, at the same spot. They were
sisters, and on each occasion he was TAX
ing a short cut homeward after missing a
train.
THE Emperor William of Germany has
ninety-two orders and decorations. If he
should wear them all at one time, their
weight would be fifteen pounds. The
| Eraroic TncarNh of rio
next. He has seventy-nine orders, weigh
ing, in the aggregate, thirteen pounds and
half
An aristocratic lady, after anxious in
quiry as to what would remove paint
from her window-glass, was told that eel
bow-grease" was the best thing known,
whereupon she naively exclaimed: "Oh!
I'm so glad that l have found outl
wonder if they keep it at the apotheca-
rvs"
A MAN stopping at hotel in Richmond,
Va, lately, caused no little trouble by the
reprehensible habit of walking about at
ali hours of the night. Having establish
ed the reputation of first-class somnam-
bulist, he walked off to an early train
with his carpet-bag, as naturally as though
he had been awake, and left his bill un-
paid.
FRANCIS VINCENT, hard-working me-
chanic of Cold Brook, n. Y, for forty
years, struck out of the wilderness with
his family two years ago with less than
81 800, which he invested in real estate
near by New York city. To-day his pur-
chase is worth S500,000. 1t lies adjoin'
ing A. T. Stewards new city on Long
Island.
PROFESSOR HUETER has performed
some remarkable cures by TRANSMISSION, in
iecting the venous blood of a healthy man
into the arteries of an invalid. He
thinks his process less dangerous, and
more uniformly successful than the or
binary method of injecting into the
veins.
A CELEBRATED French preacher, in 9
sermon on the duty of wives, said: 81
see in this congregation a woman who has
been guilty of disobedience TO her hus
band, and in order to point her out will
fling my breviary at her head" He lifted
his book, and every female head instantly
ducked.
JAPANESE auctions are conducted on 6
novel plan, but one which gives rise tC
none of the noise and confusion which
attend such sales in America. Each bid
der writes his name and bid upon sliI
of paper, which heplaces in box. WheI
the bidding is over the box is opened by
the auctioneer, and the goods declared the
property of the highest bidder.
The Norwich Bulletin says, next tC
Massachusetts,, Connecticut has ths larges
deposits in savings banks of any of tn,
New England States. The amount OF
January 1, 1871, was S55, ,297, ,705, and nov
must exceed $50, 200, 600. In the six New
England States, the deposits now ex
ceed $275, 900, 600, and perhaps reach $500,
, O00, 700.
, WRITERS Of mature years may Learn
, some lessons from the earliest efforts o.
, beginners. For example, teacher re
: quested little six-year-old boy to writ
+ a eompo sition on the subject of water
, The following was the result: Water il
, good to drink, to swim in, and to skat'
! on when frozen. When l was a nttl,
baby the nurse used to bathe me every
morning in water. l have been told tina