Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-14
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like politicians in office? Because they
are always forgetting everything.
THREE skirts instead of two, worn one
above the other, is to be the fashion for
street costumes the coming season.
A BALTIMORE girl has broken her en-
gagement because her lover couldn't af-
ford to give her diamond pledge of |
betrothal
A NEW YORK woman, in 1870, took |
out seventeen patents, and, according to |
the records, most of them were sold be- |
fore they were issued.
AN Independence Qowa) damsel having
offended gentleman at the late leap year
party, he has sen. his big sister to de-
mand an apology
A CONNECTICUT lady, ninety three years
old, knitted over one hundred pairs of
stockings last year, besides refusing an
offer of marriage.
VINO is wise? He that learns from
every one: Who is powerfuls. He that
governs his passions. Who is rich? He
that is content.
A CITIZEN of Newport, r. l., is report
ed to have left the bulk of his property,
estimated at $4,000, to the worthy poor
of that city.
MIDDLING-sIzED boy, writing a cOmpo-
sition on Extremes" remarked that 1--WE |
should endeavor to avoid extremes, es-
pecially those of wasps and bees"
ADVICE TO HUsBANDs.-Settle as much
money upon yeur wife as YOU can, for her
second husband, poor fellow! may not
have sixpence.-Judy
KEEP your store of smiles and your
Kind Thoughts for home; give to the world
only those which are to spare, and, thus,
you will always have some to spare.
CANADA editor says he has "a keen
rapier to prick all fools and knaves." His
friends, If they are prudent, will take it
from him. He might commit suicide.
Tony, little Italian, who peddles pop
corn and fruit in a basket at Eureka, Cal,
was once prosperous merchant of Sacra-
mento, worth $4,000 or $50, 900.
Mrs. CATHARINE EDWARDS was recent
~ buried at Dubuque, Iowa, robed in
habit made for that purpose thirty-siX
years ago, and inferred in a lot purchased
by her twentysix years since.
A PHYSICIAN in New Hampshire has
used the same horse for twenty-six con
secutive years. The animal shows what
sir and exercise will do for health and
length of days.
LANCASTER, Mass, contains in its poor
house an old woman, known as "Aunt
Gates" who distinctly remembers seeing
her father take down his gun to fight the
red-coats at Bunker HILL
A DANBURY Mantalini, who played
suicide with laudanum, etc., to test the
affection OF his spouse, was quietly
Tesuscitated by the lady's running a
cambria needle into one of his lower
limbs
COLONEL W is a finelooking
man." said Jenkins. eyes" said Nog-
gins !" l was taken for him once" e You!
why you are as ugly as stump fence" F."
:. can't help that; aoas taken for him.
endorsed his note, and was taken for
him by the sheriff.
j.. A WOMAN raised to the third power of
wldowhood has the photographs of her
three departed lords in group, with
vignette of herself in the centre, and un-
derneath is the prescription, ''T The Lord
will PROVIDE
AN erudite Connecticut farmer has
seen somewhere a saying that I" straws
show which way the wind blows" Being
skeptical, he made practical test of its
truth by placing bundle of straw on
the top of his barn, and is firmly con-
yinced that the adage is a deluslon
SoME young scamps have, it appears,
been in the habit of cumming the slide at
the Post Office in St. John, N B., thereby
causing the letters to remain where they
can be easily picked out and appropriated
IT they contain valuables, or returned if
they are of no use to the boys.
1T was Sunday in Grass Valley, Cali
fornla. Joe Bonvirt went out for walk
on Dead Mans Flat, instead of staying
at home and reading While he was out
he picked up nugget of gold, which
was worth $3.50. Sabbath breakers are
not to take Joe for an example.
TUE Saoramop+o (Co1 GronI Tu,D -,
their report on the County JAIL say: awe
would recommend the removal of the
jailor, P. MCGOWAN, for taking prisoners
out and strolling around the city with
them in the dead hours of midnight, leav-
ing the control of the jail to one of the
prisoners"
THE Rondout IN. " Freeman records
the recent marriage of a couple, each sew
enty-nine years old, in townsville, Della
ware County, who have loved each other
from childhood but have been separated
by malign fate, and have not even met,
until recently, for many years.
A FASHION reporter describes some of
the toilets at a recent party at Cheyenne
''The belle of the evening was Miss W.
She was dressed faultlessly in linsey-
woolsey of the palest shade of cafe an lait,
cut en- train, and trimmed with Chicago
relics. Miss Fl. wore polonaise made of
blue jeans, postillioned in the back, cut
gss-a-cts with a de t1op bias, and gored in
the most sanguinary manner"
THE words which Walter Scott puts in
the mouth of Jeanie Deans, in her mem
orable address to the Queen, are as true
as they are beautiful: ''When the hour OF
trouble comes-and seldom may it visit
your ladyship-and when the hour OF
death comes to high and low-lang and
lot h 1aJ Ixv1
ma what we have done for oursels, but
what we have done for others that we
think on most pleasantly"
A WORTHY Baptist, of Boston, anxious
to help a denominational school, agreed
to leave it 800, 900 at his death, if the in
stitution would pay him the interest on
100000, at six per cent, up to that event.
The shrewdness of it lies in the fact that
he could get his life insured for that
amount for 1000 or $4,000, leaving him
very comfortable income besides! That
is, for nice annual revenue of, say,
$4,000, he would let any college insure
his life for 100000.
How TO QUIT THE. USE OF TOBACCO.
The man who would free himself from
the bondage of tobacco using, must make
up his mind that he has hard struggle
to pass through, call all will l-power to his
aid, and resolve to quit at once and for
ever. This leaving off by degrees seldom
succeeds. 1t is better to make the battle
short, sharp and decisive A thorough
course OF bathing, to eliminate the tobac-
co from the system, will make the strug-
gle much less severe, and prove the great
est aid that can be given.-HearM and
-Home
Mrs. FAIRS interviewer writes, Feb
ruary II Since the welcome intelligence
of new trial being granted, Mrs Fail
has wonderfully improved in appearance
Her cheeks have gained something OF
color. The expression of utter abandon
]nent which she wore on the occasion of hel
suit with Dr. Trask has disappeared and a
Fright, ~ hopeful light @ now beams in he1