Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
NARROWING TO THE so1E-Pegs.

said, provides for the provident.
VICTOR EMANUEL enjoys the snug little
income of 100000 per annum, in
gold
WHAT two colors are indiscernible? In
visible green and blind-man's buff.
WHAT belongs to yourself, and is used
by everybody more than yourself? Your
name.
A ScoTcH florist in Hamilton, Ont, has
every variety of flower, native to Scot
land, that ever bloomed.
A PHOTOGRAPHER advertises: Babies
taken and finished in ten minutes, which
is rough on the babies.
WHY is horse the most curious feeder
in the worlds Because he eats best when
he has not bit in his mouth.
WHY is young lady just from board
1ng-school like building committee?
Because she is ready to receive propos-
ais.
THERE are said to have been nearly a
hundred thousand dwelling houses unoc-
cupied in Paris all the past winter.
A YOUNG lady went into music shop
and asked the clerk if he had Loving
Eyes" He replied, "I'm told so by the
girls"
IT is thought to be pretty well settled
that the first book printed on this Cont
nent was issued by Combeyer, in Mexico,
in the year 1544.
ACCORDING to Punch, the postal card
system doesn't work as well as was eX-
pected, the postmen not being so prompt
as before, having so many cards to read.
SOME of the patriotic women of Rome
propose to give Garibaldi the pleasure of
viewing his own monument, by erecting
one to him while he is above ground.
In the course of year the United
States Treasury Department and its
branches consume nearly fifty tons of
writing paper, six thousand gross of pens
and one thousand gross of pencils.
A NEW Chinese temple was recently
consecrated in San Francisco with no less
than seventy Gods, two of which are
twenty feet high and correspondingly
large.
A SPRING poet finds safety-valve for
his affiatus thusly:
"Come on, ye frogs and birds,
Mosquitoes, if you please;
This being froze for eight long months
Is worse than killing feas."
AN old bachelor at wedding feast had
the heartlessness to offer the following
toast: &C Marriage-The gate through
which the happy lover leaves his enchant-
ed regions and returns to earth."
A COLLECTION of 275 specimens of
postage-stansps was lately sold in London,
realizing e252 It's Cd. A five-cent Con
federate stamp, unused, and very scarce,
brought So; and two-cent Memphis
stamp the same price. Jz-
THE following curious advertisement
appeared in a New York paper: "Fifty
dollars will be paid to any person who.
will, in short time, convert a shy, low
speaking man into an impertinent, loud
speaker"
SAID a Detroit lady to a gentleman of
that city, s'You are not musician, be-
lieye." NO." said he; 'sif I were the
proprietor of hand organ, set expressly
to play Old Hundred l couldn't get sew
enty-five out of it,
NEARLY fifty years ago writer in the
London Times began leading article
with the phrase, 1--WE thundered forth
the other day." etc. Hence some of the
Times contemporaries called the paper
The Thunderer," and the title still clings
to it.
THE discovery is announced in Hun
gary of an almost entire human skeleton,
together with stone hammer, at depth
which, according to theories of modern
geologists, would prove that man must
have existed long before the mammoth
age"
THE word "ultramontane" was original
ly applied to the Papal Government, Italy
being beyond the mountains" in respect
to the rest of the Continent. Now all
who hold belief in the unbounded
supremacy of the Pope and the union
of church with state are called Ultra
montanes.
A WESTERN New York miss unguard-
edly made the remark in the family circle
recently that "when gentlemen eat warm
maple sugar it gets into their mustaches
and makes them scratchy." Her father
is curious to know how she found it
out.
THE Maine lumbermen predict that five
years hence, at the present rate of de-
struction, the forests of that State will be
wholly cleared of timber. The lumber hIa Der
crop this year is estimated at 700, 100000
feet. Of this amount the Penobscot lum-
bermen cut 225,000,000 and the Kennebec
men over 00,O00,0 900.
THE Count de Grasse was once wound
ed in the knee with a musket-ball The
doctors cut and hacked, and made many
incisions, when, getting out of all pa
tience, the Count asked why they cut him
up so much. "We are seeking" said the
surgeon, ''for the ball." "Why didn't
you mention that before? I have the ball
in my pocket"
In Providence, R. l., no one is eligible
to membership of fire company unless
he possesses good moral character The
department is said to include prominent
church members, active Sunday School
Missionaries, large booksellers, and the
most respectable men in all departments
of business.
In order to get rid of the annoyance of
constant requests on the part of minor
criminals before the Police Court for the
suppression of their names, the Law
renee, Mass, authorities have made an
arrangement by which the name of any
person not charged with a grave offense
will be omitted for dollar, the money to
form fund for the relief of destitute and
deserving persons.
THIS is one of the newest descriptions
of Dolly Warden: ''The starboard
sleeve bore a yellow hop vine in full
leaf, on red ground, with numbers OF
gray birds, badly mutilated by seams, fly.
ing hither and yon in wild dismay at the
approach of green and black hunter A
Calvary Mission infant class was depicted
on the back, the making up of the gar
ment scattering truant children up and
down the sides and on the skirt, while a
country poultry fair and group of Amer
lean hunting dogs, badly demoralized by
the gathers, gave the front remarkable
appearance The left sleeve had on it the
alphabet in five different languages"
THE Marquis of Lorne's brother, Lore
Walter Campbell, who is in business al
New York, was recently introduced to a
young American who had drank wine
enough to be supremely candid, and the
words sLord Walter Campbell caused
him to say, in a loud tone, "that's played
out-these English lords are base counter
feits. I have no objection to meeting Mr.
Campbell, but I don't want anybody t.
pretend ne is lord" Lord Campbell &C
cepted apologies, and remarked that h'
himself would wish to see the credential
of any one pretending to be nobleman
instead of accepting him on trust.
THE railroads in England, according