Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A MAN who don't know anything will
tell it the first time he gets a chance.
A THIEF running away is scamp, but
the policeman's chase after him is
scamper.
THE British iron product is about s.
500, 900 tons a year, and the American
about 100000.
Mrs. AYREs, of Birmingham, England.
has been fined 800 for giving a bad SER
want girl a good character"
THE young widow who was buried in
grief is now alive and doing well. 1t is
only another instance of premature inter-
ment.
THE st. Adams (Vt.) Messenger thinks
"sky blue is pretty color for ceilings,
but not so tasty for country milk at eight
cents quart"
OF a little more than nine hundred ex-
hibitors IN the department of painting
and drawing in the French Exhibition,
1876 are females.
CoUNTRYMAN at the menagerie-" See
here, now, them amt Zebers don't you
see they're all marked alike? They've
been fools enough to paint 'em all to one
pattern"
AN old lady who inquired for "the dol
lar warden hat" went away sorrowing
when the clerk told her that they were
just out, but he had plenty of six dollar
vardens."
THERE is a reverend gentleman in
Minnesota who spends his Sundays in
prophesying that the world will not out
last the present summer, and yet he has
sown 100 acres of wheat.
"IKE," said Mrs. Partington, "How
do astronomers measure the distance to
the sun >" "Why," replied young hope
full, "they guesses a quarter of the dis
tance, and multiplies by four" Mrs. p.
faintedl
THE amount of gold produced in the
Pacific States and Territories in 1871
reached SSO,OOO,0O0. The amount of
farm produce grown in the State of Penn
sylvania in 1870 was worth nearly $1S4,
100000.
AN Irishman went to Bangor and
bought horse for two dollars and half.
When he had dragged him home, neigh
Dor said: "Arrah now, Pat Why
didn't you give another half dollar and
git a good one ?"
AN august Senator, who is getting lit
tie bald, was the other day asked by his
heir, ''Papa, reyou still growing?" ''No,
dear; what makes you think so?" "Be-
SduoC tuC up VI NOuI ACdu 10
through your hair"
A MAN who was delivering public ad-
dress in Massachusetts,, the other evening,
stepped over the edge of the platform,
and, striking on his feet, calmly contin-
ued: "To come down to the level of my
audience"
THE Boston Times says: The blind
streetbeggar ought not to stop to exam
inc by gas-light the scrip given him, if he
wishes to be successful in convincing the
charitable of his total blindness. The op-
Grafton was witnessed last evening
A MAN incarcerated in the Tombs has
been figuring in chalk on the walls of his
cell: "In New York City the spires of 342
churches, worth S4, 130, 900, point heav-
onward. I'm here for stealing loaf of
bread for my starving child"
A NEw-FAsHIoNED ring is made of a
wide band of gold, reaching nearly to the
first joint of the finger, and is studded
with alternate lengthwise rows of tur-
auoise and pearls, or small emeralds and
diamonds.
SOME of Detroit's practical missionaries
lately visited sick and widowed neigh
Dor, shingled her house, planked her side
walk, picketed her fence, painted one
room and papered two, and split and
piled load OF slab-wood.
"SEE thereI" exclaimed a returned Irish
soldier to a gaping crowd, as he exhibited
with some pride hat with bullet-hole
in it. Look at that hole, will you? You
see if it had been a low-crowned hat
should have been killed outrightw
A STORY is told of father in church
who, when the marriage service came to
the point where the clergyman asks, "WhC
giveth this woman to be married to this
MANI" replied: "Well, sir, am called
to do it, although it do go agin the grain
l wanted her to marry Bill Plowser, who
is worth twice the money O. that ere
man."
A MAN in Middletown, N. Y, has in
vented a rifle with which he has been as
tonishing the natives. 1t is said to have
hurled a bullet through target composed
of forty-two inches of solid pine, eigh
inches of hemlock, eighteen inches o.
oak and nineteen inches more of pine
a goodly impediment surely. "a leaC
bullet melts before leaving the barrel will
the intense heat caused by the friction
and ball of composition has to be used
which, if unimpeded, can be sent tovertwC
miles"
AT its recent session in Philadelphia
the American Medical Association adopt
ed resolutions recommending that all bot
ties containing poison should not only b,
labeled poison" but be roughed on tn,
side so as to indicate their poisonous con
tents to the sense of touch, and also b,
labeled with the most ready and efficien
antidote. A resolution was also adopted
that members of the Association should
discourage the use of alcohol for stimuli
in their remedies.
A LITERARY treasure has been discov
cred in the library at Lambeth palace
copy of the second volume of the cele
brated Mazarin Bible, containing thu
whole of the New Testament. This i.
the earliest printed edition of the Holy
Scriptures. 1t is in Latin, and is suppos
ed to have been printed by Guttenburl
and Faust, at Metz, between the year.
1850 and 1856, and is probably the frs
book printed with movable types. 1t il
entitled the ''Mazarin Edition." becaus'
it was discovered by M. de Bure in thu
cardinals library.
REMARKABLE SURGERY.-Hattie Thorn
as, of Naugatuck, Conn, was caught il
some machinery about a year ago, an(
the scalp was torn entirely off her heaC
from the nap of her neck to her eyebrows
Her physician, finding that she was likely
to rally from the first effects of the acci
dent, began transplanting pieces of Skin
from her arm to her head. The expert
ment proving successful, number o
Miss Thomas friends volunteered to fur
nish whatever new material was needed
and sixty. four pieces of "seed-skin,
many of them as large as half-dollar
were put on from time to time, which
now cover her head as perfectly as tn,
original skin, while the lady's health i.
entirely restored.
THERE are over 100000 affiliated Ma
sons in the United States, as will be seer
) by the following Grand Lodge reports TO
1871: Alabama, 1885; Arkansas, 1924
District of Columbia, 2, ,420; California
9,52S; Colorado, S54; Delaware, 967; Flor
ida, 1,71O; Georgia, 10, 0,4S9; Idaho 2S3
Illinois, 36, $50; Indiana, 1888; Iowa
12,54S; Kansas, 3,7Sl; Kentucky, go, BPS
Louisiana, 7,131; Maine, 14,926; Michi
gan, 22,172; Mississippi, 11,0O4; Mime
sofa, 4,5SS; Missouri, IS, 493; Montana
541; New Jersey, s,343; Nebraska, 1,056
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