Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-11-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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A WINGED calf was on exhibition at
the Oregon State Fair.
How TO keep your head clear-Shave
every hair off.
THEY distribute advertisements on toy
balloons in New York.
IT is fortunate that the steam engines
haven't lost their horsepower.
A NEW and very fashionable shade of
color is known as neuter.
SEALS are called "ocean hounds" from
the way they chase the salmon.
SAILORS are not necessarily making
plum-duff when they are stemming the
currents.
THE Boston Globe wants State and
County Fairs to establish prizes for fish
culture.
MONKEY fur is the last furore in furrin'
parts, and New York is expected to ape
the fashion this winter.
AN eloping couple in Kentucky were
obliged to ride ninety miles on horseback
before they could get married.
WE have over billion and a quarter
acres of land in the States and Territories
yet unsurveyed.
AMUD dredge has been named "Lucca"
because its owner wanted TO do "Lucca"-
rative business.
IT is considered that guest who asked
at a Louisville hotel to have his coffee
weak was innocent.
A BAR of pig iron, stamped with the
date 1779, was found near the site of an
old charcoal furnace, Bethlehem, Pa
THE difference between October and
November is that while with October
leaves fall, with November the fall leaves.
AN enterprising Yankee has opened an
Institution in Boston for turning left
handed people into rIght-handers.
MAN proposes-woman opposes, says
cynical bachelor, who probably never
proposed in his life.
A COOK advertises for situation, and
adds: "No objection to dressing chill
dren." Horrible.
CINCINNATI wanted to compliment its
dear citizen, Richard Smith, by naming
street after him. 1t spells the name
thus: "Dyxmith."
THE Japanese are said to be consider
ing the feasibility of adopting new Ian
guage, and to be wavering in a choice be-
tween English and German.
OUT in the western counties of Kansas
squashes are of such enormous size that
after taking the ''meat" out of them they
are considered very serviceable for coal
bins.
THE one soul that now finds consola-
ton in the mucilaginous malady of the
horse is Boston lad, who gloats over it
because his rich rival cannot now take the
contested girl to ride.
A NEW ENGLAND farmer having sow
who would not own her pigs, put dog
in the pen. Madame instantly went for
a trntr nd or tnA hnr
family in the most affectionate manner.
AN instance of throwing ones self
about was witnessed few evenings ago
at a party, in the case of young lady
who, when asked to sing, first tossed her
head and then pitched her voice.
CRED" said a farmer to his son, "I
hear that you and your wife quarrel and
wrangle every day." "Whoever told you
wife have not spoken to one another for
| over a month"
JOHN NJ GORDON, of Virginia, lived an
entire winter on forty five cents day, in
order that he might be enabled to spend
a dollar night for one hundred and nine
nights for a reserved seat in the National
Theater at Washington.
An Eastern man wrote to the editor of
the West Point Meas for information, and
asked what kind of houses people live in
in Nebraska. He was informed that the
houses were all built out of doors, and sc
low between the joints that the chimneys
stuck through the roofs. How the prairie
winds sharpen a man
THE misery of being called upon sud-
denly to make a speech was got over by a
mathematician, who delivered himself in
this fashion Gentlemen, a morbid de-
sire for originality prevents me from say
ing, This is the proudest moment of my
life,' and it does not occur to me to say
anything else"
WHEN an animal is killed or hurt by
the cars on. the Kansas Pacific the section
boss fills out blank form describing the
locality of the accident, etc. One of the
questions in the form is, "What disposi-
ton was made of the animal?" The an
swer returned to this query in the case of
Texas steer run over the other day was,
disposition mild and gentle"
Poor old Brooks, of Boston, labored
under two great natural defects, the one
being his inability to pronounce the let
ter V, and the other "pecuniary reten-
tiveness,' vulgularly known as parsimo-
ny. "What queer pronunciation your
uncle has," observed some one to q
nephew of Briggs. "Ah, yes," replied
the gracsless youth. ''It is impossible to
get a V out of him."
THE good citizens of CRANKY, Mass,
are frugal people. Recently, day was
set for counting the teams crossing the
new bridge over the Connecticut, be-
tween CRANKY and Helyoke, with a view
of assessing the cost on the teams, but the
, cunning CRANKY people didn't have any
business on the Holyoke side of the river
that day. Not CRANKY team crossed
the bridge, and Holyoke was played upon
in way it despised.
IT is a popular fallacy that promissory
notes written or signed in pencil will moi
stand good in law, and case has just
been dismissed by one of the New Yorf
: courts grounded on that belief, the deci
sion given being that note in pencil is
legally as binding as one in ink. "Story
on Promissory Notes. declares that 6
"promissory note must either be in ink o.
pencil; that is to say, the signature of the
promisor must be so; the body of the mott
may be printed"
, DON'T GIVE LIQUOR To A CHILD.-Ont
, of the first literary men in the United
States said to a writer, after speaking
on the subject of temperance: There Ii
one thing which, as you visit differen
, places, l wish you to do everywhere: tina
( Is, to entreat every motner never 70 CIV
: a drop of strong drink to child. ! hsv'
had to fight as for my life, and all M
: days, to keep from dying drunkard, be
v cause was fed with spirits when child
e acquired taste for it. My brother
e poer fellow, died drunkard. l woulC
' not have a child of mine take drop of i
!. for anything. Warn every mother
wherever you go, never to give drop t.
/ a child"
il A NOVEL custom has been introduce,
It in some fashionable houses. When
visitor calls and finds the family out, h
It is requested to write his name in hand
It some visiting book. Not bad idea
d Visiting cards are seldom preserved
IS though some ladies do paste them il
e books, and in after years they are locke
r, over with much interest. They are use
.e full, too. 1t is not easy 10 remember tn
4, names of all one friends, when a "party
or racnntion is intended and the caro-