Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-29
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mother.
aWnAr are you doing ~ said father
to his son, who was tinkering an old
watch, Improving my time, sir.
DEATH is the great persuader, and
works more successfully than all the other
agents of the Washington Life.
advertises different rates of admission for
"grown" people and "adults."
RECENTLY. published statistics show
1887 LIQUOR saloons in Chicago, 900 of
which had no license. Of this number
the West Division possessed ,076.
A JURY was recently impaneled in
Reading, Pa, the ages of whose members
were as follows 10, so, 76, 81, 81, II, 72,
76, 70, 90, S3, %. The average age was so
years.
COMMISSIONER DELANo has decided
that farmer selling his produce from his
own wagon, without any regular business
stand, is not liable to pay tax as pro-
duce dealer.
A LADY at Bronson, Mich, has been
soaking her hair with Porter's Cough
Medicine for the last ten months, mistak-
ing it for somebody's Hair Restorative.
1t served the purpose just as well.
'sWHY, Sarah, you look good enough
to eat," said loving husband to his wife
one morning at breakfast. swell, / am
eating as fast as I can, amt II" was the
ready reply.
ALEXIS has in his possession a quaint,
old dagger with this inscription in Finn
ish: "Whoever finds anything before it
is lost, or buys anything before it is for
sale, shall die before he is sick"
EXPERIMENTS often repeated have
shown that plant may be raised in a
fiower-pot from seed, and receive no
nourishment but pure water, yet shall far
exceed in weight all the soil in which it
grew,
A WELSH farmer, residing near Utica,
while being run away with by pair of
frightened horses, shouted 81 leave my
wife $40, 900; no time to make will"
He is still alive, but badly bruised.
GREAsING HORSES FEET.-A Canada
correspondent says the effect of greas-
ing the hoofs of horses to make them
shine, is to cause them to almost cease
growing, and become hard and brittle. He
condemns the practice.
Mr.. JOHN MCPHILLIPs blacksmith of
Montgomery, Miss, committed suicide
the other day by placing the stock of a
loaded gun in the fire, taking the muszle
in his mouth, and blowing the fire with
the bellows until the gun went off.
THE Ottawa Qowa) Courier says: GA
post naos'tem examination proved that the
heart of the late ex-senator Grimes was
one mass of disease, which, if it had
been detected by his physicians, had been
for months beyond the reach of human
skill"
An eccentric German shoemaker at In
dianapolis, who subscribed for all the
papers published in his city and the
leading Journals of New York and Gin
cinnati, and who scarcely ever left his
work bench, died a few days ago, having
accumulated fortune of $50,00o
EXPERIMENTS in Germany have deter
mined the weight of roots per acre of
several of the farm crops Ordinary Stub
BILE, with the roots In the first ten inches of
soil, were separated from the earth and
dried. The pounds of red clover roots
per acre were $3.50, rye 3,4OO, and wheat,
2,4OO pounds. This of course remains in
the SOIL as fertilizer.
A PRIVATE letter from Fort Benton
Montana, states that during the latter
part of December the thermometer
marked fifty-nine degrees below zero
that buffalo, antelope, cattle and horses
were frozen to death in large numbers.
On January 18th, when the letter was
written, the weather had moderated to
twenty degrees above zero.
The Country Gentleman saws: con
windy plains, an advantage is found from
thick planting, in the shelter afforded by
the denser mass of growth. But in more
sheltered localities where the owner has
plenty of room, and desiring to raiss
other crops between the trees, thirty five
or forty feet between them may be adopt
ed with propriety."
"TEN gallons Of kerosene, three pounds
of potash, one ounce OF strychnine
mixed with soft water" 1t was accord
ing to this cheerful, not to say convivia
formula, that quantity of whisky
seized last week in Newton, Mass, was
compounded, the recipe also having been
found in the possession of the unfortu
nate dealer. If you want gin" ado
Quaaltum sittfcit of oil of juniper The
mystery is that men who drink this da
bolical fluid do not drop down stone dead
at onoe.-Neao York Tribune.
IT is generally thought that American
orators can make longer speeches thar
anybody else; but it would seem that oul
English cousins can do something in thi:
way, when they take notion TO- Sil
John Duke Coleridge, Attorney General
who defends the Tichborne suit, occupied
four and half hours q day for thirtee1
days in presenting the case to the Jury
and had not concluded then. Sir john
speech is said to have been as good as i
is long-a tribute that cannot be paid tt
all lengthy orations
In these days of sensation writing how
much of what is published can newspa
per readers believe Last week the New
York World published vivid and thrill
ing account of the execution of beauti
full girl in Newfoundland. The story wa.
well told and with remarkable attention
to details. 1t now turns out that the cir
has not even been tried, and, of course
the Worlds glowing description of he
conduct on the gallows was gross fabri
cation. We must confess, however, tina
the Worlds correspondent told big lii
while he was about it, and told it we'll
Buffalo Com. Advertiser.
TREATMENT OF FELoNs.-C. M. H
Fabius, In N. Y. in Ge,mdaatoaon Telegraph
says = A felon is easily known by sharl
pain near the bone. Fill pint tin cul
One-fourth full of wood ashes, then I'll
the cup up with warm water and place i
on the stove. Hold the finger or th
affected part in the cup until the pain
removed. The contents of the cup mus
be kept as hot as the hand can bear. I
the pain returns repeat the process. Ii
the more advanced stages poultic
made of slippery elm, faxseed, or eve
bread and milk, is good but the bes
thing to draw felon to head is to ar
ply salve made of the yolk of an eg
thickened with wheat flour.
THE Rev. Nathaniel MIKE, minister G
Crossmichael (1739-81), talked to his pee
pie from the pulpit with amusing fanlil
arlty. Expounding passage in Exodus
he nrnoQp6pd fh1c II,