Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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HOP MERCHANTs-Dancing masters.
THE DISMAL SIDE OF LIFE-Sui-cide.
A NoToRIoUs EAvEsDRoPPER-Rain.
THE children say it's scold weather al
ways when house-cleaning is going on.
THE ladies of Paris, KY, are forming
an anti-speak-evilof-y of-your-neighbor So
ciety.
THERE were 1 1,374 persons punished in
London last year for cruelty to animals.
THE Cleveland Leader mentions an
organ-grinder of that city, as an old vet
eran suicide inducer."
A LADY in Indiana has been granted q
divorce on the plea that her husband had
refused to assist her on washing days.
THREE Arab laborers are working on q
railroad in Massachusetts. They cannot
speak English, but are reported to be ex-
cellent workmen.
A CALIFORNIA jury, in a suicide case
lately, found the following verdict: "We,
the jury, find that the deceased was a
fool" ....
RESEARCHES in Chinese archives show
that the architect who designed and the
engineer who built the Great Wall were
women.
A GIRL only sixteen years of age is
said to have formed the whole plan adopt
ed for supplying Pennington, N. H.,
with water.
A LONG ISLAND poet says of a recently
deceased carpenter:
mo wonder he sawed short lifes span,
For long he was an (n)ailing man."
THERE are 994 cheese factories in
New York, which convert the milk of
On VI Nf
tories in the United States is 1851.
RUSSIA has an army of 1,173,S19 men,
which costs her annually $1S1, 500, 900;
and Germany has 1, 152, 900 soldiers, cost
ing her 500, ,375, 600.
IT is said that during the month of
May last no less than $4,000 bison we're
killed south of the Kansas Pacific Rail-
road, for their hides alone.
A FIGHT lately took place in India be-
tween a native and a hyena, in which the
former fastened his teeth into the nostrils
of the beast and held him until help ar
rived.
THE editor of Vermont paper recently
announced the death of a lady by mis-
take, and her Indignant husband now
threatens to bring suit for damages for
disappointment.
AN old colored man and his wife,
originally from Maryland, who had been
separated, and had not seen each other for
thirty years, recently met and were re-
united in York County, Pa.
THERE are about four hundred species
of minerals known; but the varieties of
these species are almost infinite. For ex-
ample, carbonate of lime exists as chalk,
marble, spar, photographic stone, etc.
"JosH, 1 say, was going down street
the other day, and seed a tree bark. :"
Golly, Sam, / seed it hollow" 81 seed
the same one leave" "Did it take its
trunk with it?" ooh, it left that for
board"
AMONG the best conductors of sound are
iron and glass. Through them sound is
transmitted at the rate of II, 500 feet, or
over three miles, per second. But in air
sound travels only 13 miles per minute, or
1,142 feet per second.
THE captain of Massachusetts, whaler
on recent voyage took from a sperm
whale which he captured in the South Pa
cific, an iron belonging to the ship Cataw-
ba, of Nantucket, lost some twenty years
ago.
A UTICA girl, at the proper hour, pulls
a string which reverses picture, on the
back of which appears in huge characters
the words: "Ten O'Clock is my bedtime"
and her admirers take the gentle hint and
depart.
"HERE, waiter" said a gentleman as he
was about leaving the hotel, "here's dol
lar for you. 1 give it to you because you
have attended to my fire so well. p"
''Thank your honor; may you live long,
and may l have the making of your fires
hereafterl"
CLERGYMAN-"Howm many essential ele-
ments are there in Baptism?" Boy
"Three." Clergyman--''Threer I'm sur
prised. Don't you know there are only
two-the word of God, and water?" Boy
-"Why, there must be baby, and isn't
it an essential element?"
AN English correspondent writes from
Liverpool: II have repeatedly noticed
women steering canal-boats in turn with
their husbands. / have seen from the
railway girls at work in collieries, and
have seen them employed in agricultural
labor"
SCOTLAND has a newspaper which is
printed on the road from Edinburg to
Glasgow, in a wagon belonging to the pa
per, which contains printing machine,
cases of type, and quick compositors.
During the journey, the edition for the
provinces is worked off, with the addition
of the news and kilograms received on the
road.
THE following testimonial is found in
one of the registers in Vermont school,
under the head of Remarks of Visi-
tors ;" GA very good school indeed. A
very Mise school indeed. l has Ben in a
Crate meny schools But don't know that
ever was in so quiet school that re-
member of A man."
A WRITER in Temple Bar says: "It is
impossible for a man of business not to
sympathize with an eminent physician
who informed his future wife that he had
no time for courtship, but that if she
would marry him, and be ready on a GER
tain day, he would be happy to meet her
at the church and make her his bride"
THE Dayton (Ohio) Journal says
"There is a dainty canine in the first
ward that discards meat altogether as an
article of diet, and prefers corn on the ear
to any dish that may be set before him.
He will consume at a single meal half a
dozen ears of corn, and with relish that
would do no discredit to Berkshire six
months old"
JUST as some thieves were making of
with church carpet in Dunellen, n. j..
the other day, they noticed that it was
marked on the under side: Stolen from
the Presbyterian Church in Dunellen.
They incontinently dropped it. The hint
might well be acted on.- Churches would
find it worth while to have all their port
able property SO marked as to insure
identification if stolen.
THE town of Lenox, Mass, claims tC
have been the first to declare her indepen
dence of Great Britain. The origina
declaration, dated July IA, 1774, ant
signed by 110 citizens of the town, is il
the possession of the clerk of the courts
of Berkshire, and it is to be framed anC
hung up in the town hall of Lenox. l
is an agreement not to import or consum,
any British goods or commodities, an,
those who would not sign the agreemen
were to be treated "with all the neglec
they shall justly deserve
PRENTICE MILFORD writes from Lon
don: 'They make you take off you
bonnet at the theater. A woman open
the pew door for YOU at church. I'm