Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A RfNGDovE-A bride.

The population OF Russia is 81 ,5OO, OOU
souls.
A ''RINe" that is popular with the ladies
The dress" circle.
AN artist painted cannon so natural,
ly that it went of at a very good
price.
In Scotland young woman has sue.
ceeded her father as Inspector of the
Poor.
A CORRESPONDENT wants to know the
best way to dry ice before packing it.
Spread it in the sun.
A DOG is counted mad when he won't
take something to drink, and man when
he takes too much.
The casl value of farms in Massachu-
setts has decreased $1,000, 900 in the last
ten years.
THE Russian telegraph lines are sup
| ported across the steppes on brick pillars,
no wood being available.
A CANAL lock keeper in England has
been instrumental in saving seventeen per-
sons from drowning.
| SAN FRANCISCO lawyers charge fee of
| $500 in perjury cases, 5000 for manslaugh-
ter, and $400 for plain burglary.
NRw HAMPSHIRE was first called
"Laconia" An attempt was once made
to change the name of Massachusetts, to
"Oceana"
THE Baltimore papers complain that
their streets are lighted SO poorly that
even the policemen get lost on their
BEATS
THE business of manufacturing safes
has grown up in the United States from a
matter of a few thousands in 1S49, to So
600, 600 in 1870
THE other day Boston youth applied
at the Registrars office for ''recipe" to
get married. He received a certificate,
and departed rejoicing.
THE British Government has applied
for particular information in regard to the
American system of educating the deaf
and dumb.
AvoLUNTEER at Wimbledon, shooting
for the Queens prize the other day, made
the remarkable score of five consecutive
bulls eyes in five shots at two hundred
yards.
INCLUDING Sundays Russia has 1853 hol-
Idays, leaving only 202 working days in
the year. The average compensation of
workingmen is sixty-five cents for the
working days.
JOHN BIDwELL, eX-Congressman from
California, has $4,000 grape vines, and
proposes to keep on planting until he has
a vineyard of 2,o00 acres, of variety for
the production of raisins.
A YOUTHFUL Connecticut lover who sang
and played before his young lady's house
for two mortal hours the other nirh. ,-os
electrified after short n"~ ..a.e by a cordial
Thank you gracefully pronounced by
~ other fellow" who appeared at the
window.
TYING line, on the end of which is a
fish-hook, to a large rocket, hilehing the
| hook to mans hat and then getting him
to fire off the rocket, is the latest form of
practical joking in Troy, n. Y. 1t works
to the intense astonishment of the victim,
and the intense amusement OF the jokers.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune has ''notlced lately that the cab
bage butterfly (Pierts Tap8) has an invet-
crate enemy in bird that closely resem-
bles the king bird. They perch on the
garden fence, and the moment butterfly
is seen, rush is made, and IL is soon dis
| posed Of"
THE London MIR Journal says: "In
England, the system of associated dairies
steadily gains ground, and butter facto-
ries on this principle are being opened.
The quality also of the butter is steadily
improving, and bids fair to rival that pro-
duced in Holstein and Mechlenburg,
which now stands first in that market"
FROM an abstract of the census returns
of 1870, we have some interesting facts
concerning un-strokes. The number of
fatal cases that year was 397. Geograph-
lcally the belt of central States was the
most fatal region. From this it will be
seen that cases of sun-stroke are compar-
| - +L hon,
sections of the country.
A STEAM street car has been running
successfully in New Orleans for three
menths. The engine is double cylinder,
| five inches in diameter and seven-incb
stroke. The attached tank contains 800
gallons of water. The car travels nine
miles, and simple valve proves as effect
i've as the ordinary street car brake.
There is no escape of steam and no noise.
The inventors name is E. Lamm.
In the great contest on the Saratoga
race-course between LOngfellow and
| Harry Bassett it appears that the race was
won by one of the most singular acci-
dents that ever occurred on a race-course.
In the midst of the course Longfellow
was seen to falter somewhat. yet reached
the goal but little behind the successful
horse in the fastest known race. Exami-
nation showed that the shoe-plate of
Longfellow had broken in half, and curv'
| ing up during the race, had buried itself
in his foot.
HAY FEVER" so called, has not gen.
orally been recognized by physicians as q
separate disease, but recent writer on
the subject seems to have established its
| individual identity. "Autumnal catarrh'
is the scientific term given to the disease
| No cure has been found for it but it has
been observed that there are many places
where the disease is not contracted, and
where it disappears from those suffering
with it in a few days. Most of the
White Mountain and the Adirondack re
gions are free from it, nor is it known il
Germany and France.
ONCE on a time, at the funeral Of
a wife, the undertaken arranged for the
husband and motherin-law to ride in the
same carriage. "Must l." said the
roken-hearted man" must l ride with
that awful woman - 81 think you will
have to-" answered the undertaken. "Oh
MIR. Undertaken, how can ride with thai
dreadful woman ~ at will disturb
every carriage of the procession to make
a change" said the man of business
land you must ride here" "Well, if
must, | must" said the stricken man
3" but to ride with her destroys all my
pleasure on this occasion"
THERE seems to be no idea of cessation
in the rebuilding of Chicago. In the
month of June 1877 permits were issued
and during the month of July this mum
Der was increased to 142 Already there
have been 10 permits issued in August
which is pretty good starter. The tota
number of permits issued by the Boarc
since February 81, the time when the or
dinance went into effect, is as follows: Ii
February, A; March, 1879; April, 206; May
120; June 1877; July 142; August 1, 10
Total 779. OF this number nearly 20t
are either stone or marble fronts, Will,
the Others, with but few exceptions, ar,
built of brick-Chieago Times, august 3.
PROF. TYNDALL argues against tn,
commonly taught notion that man requires
absolutely pure air and water. Chemi
cally pure affair that is without trace
of ammonia, carbOnic acid, or water-is
he says, not to be found, and the on,
thing certain about it is, that if it wer,
no one could live in it. Neither is pur,