Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

HoNEY-BEEs in Cuba swarm three times
a year.
THE ToPER's FAvoRITE BIRD-Swd-
low.
A CoRPoRAL OF MANY STRIPEs-Cor-
poral punishment.
A FARMER has no right to pull the ears
of his corn. 1t is unkind.
SOMETHING that always comes to
pass.-The express train.
NEW HAMPSHIRE consumes the least
tobacco of any OF the States.
THE Paris hotels charge the sameprice
for keeping canary birds as servants
You've ladies with new solitaire dia-
mond rings never refuse to play the piano.
EVEN in time of peace death is the pen
atty for desertion from the Italian army.
THERE were only fourteen fires in
Charleston, S. c., for the year ending
April 81, 1872.
OLE BULL has drawn $50, 900 worth of
notes out of his violin during the lasttwo
years.
THE premium list of the Georgia State
Fair numbers 1,023 prizes, aggregating
500, 900.
THE "Aaron cup,"a California flower,
measures two feet eight inches from the
base to the tip.
WHY is a hot griddle-cake like a cater
pillarP Because it is the grub that makes
the butterfly.
A NEW verb to express the sudden ac-
cess of heat in the atmosphere has been
invented-"It vesuviates.n
A WATERFORD, VT, girl certainly
knows how to say "No." She has just
refused the twenty-fifth offer of mar
rfage.
1T has been proposed to have an hour
each week set apart for Christians
throughout the world to unite in prayer.
1T is said, but we don't kn05o that it is
true, that the prize for gymnastics at
late fair was awarded to one of the cheeses
exhibited.
| A SCIENTIFIC gentleman informed the
world that the film of soap bubble,
about to burst, Is three-fourths OF one
millionth of an inch thick.
THE United States have 5000 telegraph
stations, u.s. 900 miles of line, over 1000
operators, and transmit over II, SOC, 600
messages annually.
THE Crown Princess Victoria of Prus-
sia. daughter of Queen Victoria, has Of
fered a prize of sS, 600 for the best essay
of advancing the material interests OF
working women.
THE great question is, What shall we
do with the north pole when we find it ?
There are now four expeditions hunting
for it among the icebergs, and 1t Will
scarcely escape all its pursuers.
Every person arrested, convicted and
sent to the penitentiary in the United
States costs on an average, 81, ,2O0-whlle
every boy educated at the expense of the
State costs only about $400.
THERE is one coach-driver in the en-
ploy of the Catskill Mountain House,
who boasts that he has never missed
| trip nor lost train-a fact which indl-
Gates faithfulness, punctuallty and good
health.
THE learned Prof. Parsons had great
horror ot the east wind and Tom Sherl-
dan Is said to have once kept him pris-
oner in the house for fortnight by fixing
the weathercock in that direction
A FIELD GLASS, lost in Prickly Pear
Valley, Col, last winter, was found few
weeks ago, and the trees, vegetation, and
small stream, near which the glass laid,
are indelibly photographed on the glass;
| es.
THERE were imported at New York
last year one hundred and two cargoes OF
bananas, eighty-seyen cargoes OF plneap-
pies, and two hundred and twenty-five
cargoes of cocoanuts.
| 1T has been found in New York that
the present fashion of building with
white marble, or painting iron buildings
white, is very injurious to the sight,
from the strong reflection radiated by the
white.
A BALLOT cast against levying a tax for
completing the High School in Fond du
Lac, Wis, declared the voter did not
"want no skole by dam site," and an
other asserted that there was too much
skule now" And yet Fond du Lac Will
have more ''skole"
A CYNIC suggests that the marrying
deceased wife's sister implies either that
the husband has treated his first wife
very kindly or cruelty If kindly the Sis
ter wishes to experience the same treat
ment; if cruelty, to avenge it.
CHINESE physicians in San Francisco
use medicines that one would naturally
prefer to take in homeopathic doses.
Hundreds Of packages containing dried
lizards and venomous serpents are I'M
ported from China ard consigned to
Chinese doctors, who use them In their
practice.
IT is said that in q leading bank in
Stockholm all the clerkships have for
some years past been satisfactorily filled
by females That is no more than might
have been expected, as every one who
has ever entrusted secret to women
knows they make irst-rate tellers.
SOME of the Greenfield, (Mass.) farmers
market their butter in Boston put up In
one pound tin boxes. These are packed
in ice, and arrive at the hub as fresh and
nice as they leave the dairy. 1t is the
gilt-edged butter that receives this treat
ment, and it brings seventy-ive cents or
more per pound.
A LAZY little four-year old in Bath,
Maine, said the other evening, while bus
ily employed at the tea table-from which
the whole family had decamped for the
purpose of witnessing beautiful rain
bow-''if God will let that rainbow stay
there till / get Done supper will look at
it"
THERE is a curious freak of nature near
Cayuga Lake. 1t is an oak and pine tree
growing together, so closely connected as
to present the appearance of one tree, and
in fact they might be so called, for at the
root no division line can be seen, and the
bark has nearly the appearance of that of
pine.
MR.. JAMES BROOKS, in his recent book
of travels, thus describes a japanese
theater: 81 went to the theater the
other night in Kanagawa-a big in
stitution with no seats, but with rails
to lean on. We all squat. The
natives leave their penny and two penny
| straw shoes at the door, near the tin box,
and take tickets for them, as we take
tickets for our hats or coats. 1t was
very funny sight to see four or five hun
dred shoes ticketed with wooden straps
attached to them, the straps written over
in Japanese characters"
The best authorities estimate the en-
tire worlds wool product for 1871 at l.
$40 OOO, 600 pounds. OF this enormous
quantity, Europe produced about S27,-
600 600 pounds; Asia, 10000, eco; Aus
trslia, 175, 900, coo; the United States,
| 122, 500, 600, and South Africa, 1000, 900.
Great Britain presents the largest market
for wool in the world, her own annual
production being estimated at 10000, 900
pounds, while her consumption is some