Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

uICSS.
AcRoBATs OF EVERY HOUSEHOLD
Pitcher and tumbler.
DENMARK possesses a well-equipped |
army of 1000 men.
THIRTY thousand people sailed from |
Liverpool for the United States in May. |
IT is said there are more divorces
granted in Austria than in any other coun-
try in the world.
THE Colorado desert, across which the
Southern Pacific Railroad will run, is
three hundred feet below the level of the
sea.
THE greatest "pain annihilator" in ex-
istence is said to be boy who has smash
ed 900 windows this year.
A "SoCIETY for the encouragement of
young men desiring to marry" is organiZ-
ing among the young ladies at Rondout,
NY.
THERE are in the lunatic asylums of
Austria one hundred and two persons,
each of whom believes that he is the late
Emperor Maximilian, of Mexico.
THERE are in the United States 63, 900
church edifices, affording accommodations
for twenty-one millions and half of wor-
shippers.
A COPY of the third folio of Shakespeare,
printed in 1864, was sold recently at a
London auction for one hundred and
forty-one pounds, or about seven hun
dred dollars.
SCENE IN CHATHAM STREET, NEW
YoRK.-"How much for these pants?'
az tell you what I'll do-Ill give you two
dollars" Take 'em along"
A GERMAN poet has lately written
touching poem, in which the hero is repre-
sented as devoured by an alligator under
a palm tree on the shore of Lake Erie.
A CONNECTICUT editor says: "Our
early peas came up in two days after they
were planted this year. Anybody's will,
if the hens are allowed to run in the gar
den"
THE old San Francisco round $50 slugs
have become so scarce that the brokers
are selling them as curiosities at $50 each.
The octagonal slugs are more plentiful,
but bring $50 each.
A MARRIED woman lately sat up all
night darning her husbands stockings, be-
cause she read in the newspaper that in
consequence of the wretched condition
of the firemen's hose, much property was
burnt up"
THE ease with which the marriage con-
tract can be consummated in Scotland is
illustrated thus Mr.. A. and Miss B., who
wrote their names in family Bible, and
added that it was Mr.. and Mrs. AS Bible,
were forthwith held to be man and wife.
al WISH you wouldn't give me such
short weight for my money" said Gus
toner to a grocer who had an account
against him of long standing. "And /
wish you would not give me such long
wait for mine," replied the grocer.
STATISTICS have been compiled from
which it appears that during the first four
months of 1872 the amount of money
sought to be raised for new loans, banks
and industrial undertakings brought out
in England, America and on the continent
was about e160, 100000
THE man with the iron jaw lives in
Taunton. He takes thick, heavy flint
glass tumbler and bites large pieces out of
it with perfect ease, and chews them to
powder. He does not swallow them,
however, for fear of having pane in his
stomach.
CHARLEY, what makes your cheeks so
red?" asked his sisters admirer, ofa little
urchin five years old. "Cause / Iput some
of sisters paint on. She puts it on every
day" 1t was an embarrassing disclosure
all round. At least Charlie thought so,
after the visitor was gone.
''NIcE weather for cornw said minis
ter 20 one of his parishioners, the other
day. eyes" said the old farmer, "but bad
for gram and grass" A few days later
they met again ga fine rain we had yes
terday," said the minister; good for grass
and grain" "Yes," was the reply, "but
awful bad for cornm
IT is stated that the State of Texas
would contain the entire population of the
United States without making it any more
thickly settled than Massachusetts, and
would hold the entire population of the
French Empire Tor Republic that now Isl
and leave uninhabited margin of sixty
miles around the boundary of the State
THERE is a hotel in California compos-
ed of ten immense hollow trees, standing
few feet apart. The largest of these is
sixty-five feet around, and is used as bar
and kitchen. For bed chambers there are
nine great hollow trees, whitewashed or
papered, and having doors cut to fit the
shape of the holes. Literature finds a
place in leaning stump dubbed ''the
library"
THE Sandwich Islands are rapidly be-
coming depopulated. In 1928 their pop
ulation was 142, 900. In 1866, this had
dwindled to 63, 900. Forty years more
will suffice for the total extinction of the
Sandwiches. Every race seems to de-
crease except the white, which is increas-
ing at a rate unequaled in history. Sooner
or later the Caucasian will inevitably be
the only type of man on the globe.
THE students of a college in Maine put
the settees in confusion in the chapel of
the institution at prayer-time. When the
professor entered he took in the situation
at glance, and opening the Bible, COM
menced reading at the 23d verse of the
10th chapter of Proverbs: "It is as
sport to fool to do mischief, but a man
of understanding hath wisdom" The
boys saw the joke, and have needed no
such admonitions since that time.
A YOUNG lady writes to learn why we
do not have a department for ANSWERS
to correspondents" The reason is sim
pie. We once announced we would glad
ly receive questions on various topics,
and endeavor to answer them satisfac-
torily. The first inquiry we received
was in relation to little amount we owed
the writer. We think it was eight dol
lars. We borrowed the money and re-
| turned satisfactory answer" but it
put back our business a full year. The
young lady thinks such a department
would be very lively. We found it so.-
| Ddn0uTy NeloS.
MARCUS AURELIUs has been studying
science. He has read in papers that if
an icicle forty-fve miles in diameter
should be moved towards the sun at the
rate of twelve million miles a minute it
could never touch the sun, because it
would be melted as fast as it came. But
he does not believe it. He asserts that if
this icicle we're only long enough to allow
the pushing forward to be kept up for
some time, the continual dropping into
the sun of two or three oceanfuls of water
every minute would gradually cool off
that orb, and so, at last, instead of the
icicle being all melted up, the sun would
be frozen solid. Marcus is certain that
he can prove this if any one will advance
money enough for the necessary expenses.
Hearth and Home.
Nor long since man bet large sum
that he would offer to sell genuine two
franc pieces for one franc each on the