Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

cold day isn't.
"BELLE METTLE"-A young lady's
temper.
SUNDAY concerts are growing popular
in New York.
ONE of the novelties at the American
Institute in New York is saw with dia-
mond teeth.
By industry, honesty, economy and
perseverance one can make progress even
in a stationery business.
"HAs doctor much practice now Z"
"Oh, yes, / assisted in laying out three of
his patients"
THE latest name for the horse epidemic is
"Hippo OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
gamus."
vote at a city election on the ground that
he was an illegal voter.
A VERY superior quality of beautifully
veined marble is found some fifty miles
from Austin, Texas. The bed is mex
haustIble.
"MEET me at the gate, love-" has been
changed to "Meet me at the CRATE, love"
The cool weather has necessitated the
change.
NEW HAMPSHIRE possesses a natural
SuiiOsity III OHc VI iIs pOHliS III tuO shoPo
of a genuine floating island" ninety-six
feet in circumference.
THE scientific men who are to pass the
winter on Mt. Washington hope to teach
Newfoundland dog to go down the
mountain for their mail and do other er-
rands.
A WELL KNOWN Californian, who made
princely fortune out of the Central
Pacific Railway. has purchased a tiara of
diamonds for his wife, costing 175, 600
francs.
A GIRL says that when she dies she de-
sires to have tobacco planted over her
grave, that the weed nourished by her
dust may be chewed by her bereaved low
ers. There is poetry in the idea.
MIND AND Acknowledgements (poet-
icaD-" Look, Edith; how lovely are
these fleecy cloudlets, dappled over the"
Edith (prosaic)-" Yes. 'Xactly like gravy
when it's getting cold. Isn't it ?"
Couch tells of a stolid man who, when
told that a joke could not be pounded in
to him with sledge hammer, asked if
people ever did pound jokes into other
people with sledge hammers.
The following is the most startling
compositor's " line to fill out column"
we have seen for a month: "Does not
young mothers heart leap 4th with Joy
when she beholds her darling babes list
2thf"
THOSE beautiful little creatures, flying
| squirrels, are now bred in cages by the
itinerant dealers, who display them in
the thoroughfares. The ones bred in
captivity are perfectly tame, allowing
themselves to be handled even by strang-
ers.
THE COMING RACE.-Dr. Blanche Evan
geline:--By the bye, Mr.. Sawyer, are you
engaged tomorrow afternoon ? ] have
rather ticklish operation to perform
an amputation, you know. Mr.. Sawyer:
Il shall be very happy to do it for you.
will you kindly come and administer the
chloroform for meS
AN opening for Nantuckets "anxious
and aimless" " is furnished in this epistle
which the Postmaster there has Just re-
ceived: "P. NJ, Nantucket-Dear sir
| read an advertisement in an exchange
not long since stating that in your city
there was one Thousand 10000 young
Ladys and only one Hundred gentlemen
we are lacking about that quantity
Please send as many as you can spare by
Ex. to Saline Co Kansas Bavaria Sta &
oblige Yours truly Meny Bachelors"
NAUTICAL TERPsICHoRE.-Asa sailor ex-
planning quadrille to his messmates,
thus described the third figure =" You
first heave ahead" said he, "and pass
your adversary's yard arm, regain your
berth on the other tack in the same order,
| take your station with your partner in
line, back and fill, and then fall on your
keel, and bring up with your partner
she then man9uvers ahead, off alongside
of you then make sail in company with
her until nearly astern of the other line,
make stern board, cast her off to shift
for herself, regain your place the best
way you can, and let go your anchor"
In Barbary, pacing horses are held in
such high estimation that the method of
making a spirited trotter shackle like a
boat in a chop sea is reduced to science
To make them rack easily, ring of lead
covered with leather is put around each
hoof a cord from each weight ascends
and is fastened to the saddle, front and
rear next, astrap runs horizontally from
the fore to the hind foot on both sides.
Being rather short, it is impossible to
make a long step. Restraint compels the
animal to practice new gait to progress
at all. AS soon as new gait is estab-
lished of going ahead thus tethered, the
desirable amble is fully and permanently
accomplished.
Mr.. HARVEY YEAMAN, a member of
the Louisville, KY, bar, has presented to
the Public Library of Kentucky file of
the Winchester, Va, Gazette, covering
the period from the I'd of January, 1799,
to the 29th of September, 1902. The
numbers dated December %, 1899, and
January 1, s, and 10, 1900, contain full
account of the death, funeral ceremonies,
and burial of George Washington. The
number of February 2, 1900, gives an ac-
count of the placing of Bonaparte in
command at Paris, and in that of May IS,
1900, are mentioned the surrender of the
French troops in Egypt and the appoint
ment of William Henry Harrison as Gov
ernor of the Northwestern Territory of
the United States.
A CORRESPONDENT of the WoDiGn's
Journal, riding in the cars, gives us the
following odd study in human nature:
ENTER, a man, his wife, and little girl.
The woman, full of energy, and with all
the decision necessary when a journey is
to be managed, drops into the seat her
husband selects, up again like an India
rubber ball, exclaims in high, knowing,
and emphatic terms, We amt settin' the
right way-thats sartin'r Husband
'Oh yesr Wife-'Wall, meow. 1 know
better" (To a stranger)-"Which way
deu yeou say we're goin'?' She is assured
they are sitting properly. Woman
BE? WALL dropping into her seaD
never mind. l only come eout O. the
wrong end O. the depot, that's all; but kin
ride as fast as the cars kin run; forerds or
backerds, an eff eny o. yeou git there
afore deu, you're lucky, that's allr"
In the early part of the present century,
scolding was regarded among a certain
class in England as an art to be improved
by systematic cultivation. A witness
giving evidence before Poor Law Com
mittee many years ago testified that in
one instance within his knowledge, there
was a night school kept by an old woman
for the sole purpose of instrHcting chill
dren, and especially girls. how to scold
with vigor and effect. One pupil would
assume a fictitious character, called