Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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A HIGH NoTE-One for thousand dol.
lars.
THE BEST PLACE IN WINTER Be
tween two fires"
THE Indians of Nebraska are allowed
to ride free on all freight trains.
Two BALLOTS taken out of Detroit
ballot-box had each five-dollar green
back folded inside.
A DANBURY mother thinks it is awful
to see her children dye before her eyes,
which they do every Sunday morning.
WASHINGTON knocks Euclid on geome-
try, having more public round and tri-
angular squares than any other city.
THE diamonds of Africa, according to
Agassiz, were carried into their present
position by icebergs.
CALIFORNIA papers think they will see
the day when that State will raise enough
cotton to supply the whole world.
"Do YOU call this trunk?" growled
| detected porter. at only needs light
ming rod to be mistaken for boarding
house.
1.-THE prisoner has very smooth
countenance." "Yes. He was ironed
before he was brought in. That accounts
for it"
A JAUNDIcED friend says oxen have
not been so generally substituted for
horses that the practice has reached his
boarding house.
"Is THAT marbles" said gentleman,
pointing to the bust of Kentucky's great
statesman, mo, sir; that's Clay" quietly
replied the dealer.
A WOMAN in Rutherfordton, N c., has
been fined by the mayor of that ilk, for
the dreadful offense of calling the mar
shal 'Old pewter buttons"
WHAT is the difference between sofa
and it's fair occupants? About the differ
ence between an ottoman and knot-o'
women.
A LITTLE school girl in North Carolina
lately encountered black bear, and saved
her life by throwing him her dinner
basket.
A YOUNG man who went west a few
months ago, has sent only one letter
home. 1t came the other dav 1t said:
'Send 1ne wig" And his fond parents
don't know whether he is scalped or mar
ried
OLD HORSEPOWER was talking very big
about being entirely self educated man.
Sneerwell, who overheard him, said,
''Ah, l understand-you were at the
school where every man was his own
toot-er."
''PLEAsE tell me what the time is?" ask.
ed a little boy of an apothecary, who was
much troubled by such inquiries. Why,
told you the time but moment ago."
snapped the apothecary. eyes, sir"
said the boy, "but this is for another
woman"
A KANSAS man was "set back" the
other day by couple of squaws enter
ipo hic bOrca uboo, ha had fOrrOtfpr ba
had married few years ago on the
plains. What cheers him up is the fact
that Kansas court has decided that
when white man marries a squaw after
the Indian fashion, the same is legal and
binding upon the husband.
THE wood of the hedge plant known as
the Usage orange (oaGc,urG Guranttcd) if
boiled in water, yields handsome yellow
extract. which is used in Texas as dye.
From it a large percentage of tannin is
obtained. The seeds of the fruit also
yields a valuable oil, abundant, bland and
limpid, resembling olive oil, and burning
with steady flame in an ordinary lard
oil lamp.
ALFRED TENNYsoN has performed q
feat by which he will secure the admira-
ton and gratitude of considerable Sec
tion of the fair sex. In describing
uOoC, uC Ado up
turned snub within the range of poetical
expression. Hitherto this nasal organ
has not been more delicately described
than as "celestially Inclined" but now the
Laureate in the last published of his
"Idyls of the King" denotes it thus:
Lightly was her slender nose
Tip-tilted like the petal of flower"
''Tip-tilted' will henceforth take aprom-
inent place in our language, and will
come aptly to the aid of those who wish
to describe a certain nasal formation
without offense to the wearer.
THE New Hampshire Gazette has pub
lished fac sinaile. of its first number,
printed October 7, 1856, by Daniel Fowle,
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
"Where," as the printers notice says,
"this Paper may be had at One Dollar
per Annum, or an Equivalent in Bills of
Credit, computing Dollar this Year at
Four Pounds Old Tenor" The printers
salutatory, quaint and antiquated, seems
to give one Whit of almost antediluvi-
an air, as this extract will show: Fond
ness of News may be carried to an ex-
treme; but every Lover of Mankind must
feel strong Desire to know what passes
in the World, as well as within his own
private Sphere; and particularly to be ac-
quainted with the Affairs of his own Ma
ton and Country-Especially at such
time as this, when the British Nation is
engaged in just and necessary War
with powerful Enemy, the French"
etc.