Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


A "TDIE-SERvER"- watch.
A MAN IN THE WRITE PLAcE-An ed
itor.
A THING SOMETIMES BROUGHT TO PASS
"A counterfeit note.
THERE are said to be 800 German news
papers in the United States.
JENKs says that brokers Office
must be loansonae place.
A BLUE JAY-Jay Gould-the first of
the season.-Boston Transcript.
THE mosquito, as public singer,
draws well, but never gives satisfaction.
Two thousand farms were taken up in
Washington Territory last year by actual
settlers.
1T is paradox that you increase the
value of a unit ten-fold by adding nothing
to it.
The storm-signal man on top of Mount
Washington holds the "highest Office in
the gift of the nation"
'tWHY is there no cream on this milk,
George" said an under graduate to his
''scout at Cambridge. 'Stir it up, sir
was the reply. 1T sinks to the bottom y
A MAN who sailed around the world and
carried Philadelphia newspaper in his
pocket, said it was the most widely cir
culated journal published in America.
A PARTY of gypsies were in Danbury
recently. The Neaos says: ''These peo-
pie appear to think good deal of their
native land; they carry it around with
them"
MIR. SPEAKER" said member of the
Jamaica Legislature, discussing bill for
the regulation of the timber trade, 81
know these timber merchants to be most
egregious rascals-I was in the timber
line myself twelve years."
A LADY of Boston, seeing among the
religious notices that a certain clergyman
would preach sd. w." said at once that
she would go and hear him, presuming,
as she did, that the subject of the dis.
course was 'Dolly Vardens."
PROGRESSIVE teacher to a pupil of the
period: .Sary Jane Hooker, just take
that chewing gum right out of your
mouth. Little girls who chew gum in
school need never expect to become Pres.
ident of the United States"
A MINISTER made an interminable call
upon lady of his acquaintance. Her
little daughter, who was present, grew
very weary of his conversation, and at
last whispered in an audible key: ''Didn' t
he bring his amen with him, mamma?"
THE Harvard Adyocdte has refused the
publication of humorous poem of two
hundred lines, beginning:
An elephant sat il swallows nest,
Drinking cup of tea;
And watching delicate hen that sang
From the top of neighboring tree.
A BosToN girl being asked if she had
not once been engaged to ga party by the
name of" Jackson, who was at that time
Harvard student, languidly replied, 81
remember the circumstance perfectly, but
am not certain about the name.'
THERE is man in Terre Haute, Ind,
who has attended every circus within
reach ever since he was five years old. He
is now seventy, and has heard the band
begin to play and seen the elephant com,
mence his circumgyratory movements
about one hundred and seventy times.
SOMEBODY wrote repeatedly to General
Schenck, our Minister in London, for his
autograp aph. The General is said to have
written the following reply: "Sir, I has
ten to comply with your request, and take
this method of informing you that you
are an unmitigated nuisance! R. c.
Schenck"
A HONG KONG criminal court recently
condemned culprit to be killed by
wakefulness. The victim was kept awake
constantly for fifteen days, his sufferings
for the last few hours being described as
of the most excruciating character. AT
last he dropped down and his heart
ceased to beat.
CoRPULENT old lady:-1 should-like a
ticket for the train. - Booking clerk (who
thinks he will make a jokee"Yes'm;
cattle train?" Lady-eWell, if you are
specimen of what l shall experience in
the passenger train, give me ticket fol-
the cattle train by all means"
THE Belfast (Me.) Journal says ga
former Sheriff of Waldo County, whom
we see daily in our streets and elsewhere
had writ to serve in the back part of the
county. After diligent inquiry he found
that the defendant had died suddenly
He tossed the paper over the wall of the
cemetery, and made return upon the writ
that he had left the summons at his last
and usual place of abodep"
DURING one of his most severe illnesses
Mazzini was staying in his favorite lodg
ing in the Fulham-road, and was waited
on by the woman who kept the lodgings
She, like all who waited on him, had be-
come warmly attached to him, but he1
awkward cooking. was ill-fitted to his sick
state. Unwilling to pain her by letting
her know this, he used to hide away the
dinner that she might not see that it had
not been eaten.
THE City of Yelled Women in Siam
numbers 5000 inhabitants, all of whom
are of the feminine gender One thou
sand of these belong to ''frst families,
and the remaining 5000 administer te
their aristOcratic wants. In this feminine
municipality female blacksmiths, Jewel
ers, merchants and manufacturers abound
and the jack-of- ll-trades is woman. Tht
walls are guarded by female sentinels
female policemen patrol the streets, anC
once a week, female military, both horse
and foot, perform their evolutions on
large parade ground in the center of the
town.
WHEN the youngest of the girls, eigh
years old, left Japan, her mother placed
in the bottom of her trunk a package
carefully sewed up in cloth, and labeled
For my little daughter-not to be opened
until she shall have arrived in America.
When settled in her Georgetown home
she opened it, and bursting into tears sh,
cried as if her heart would break. Sucl
good mother, to make the gift-one s,
inexpressibly dear to every girl-heart tn
world over. Of course it was doll, in al
ehO op1OhuOl VI OdpduCoC COStuI1C, duu
for the moment, the poor child was ove1
whelmed with home-sickness and long
ings for her mothers face
How MEN LIVE IN THE PINE WOODS =
An Au Sauble correspondent writes: Th
men walk up from sixty to seventy mile
with their packs on their backs, and afte
reaching their destination, commenc
building their "camp" (so-calle0 mad
out of logs and rooted with scoops
Then commences the work; first cuttin
down distractions and clearing roadway
called swamping y; then falling tin
Der, rossing THAT is taking off the bar
from the smaller end of the 1og); the
skidding the logs; then loading on t
sleighs and hauling to the river bank pre-
paratory to being put into the river a
soon as the ice moves away The me
have to get up about four O'Clock in tn
morning, and quit work at dark. The
have to eat pork, beef, venison, potatoes
beans, good bread and butter, tea, appl
sauce, and in fact all that is necessary t
support man doing hard days worl
The wares rim from S30 to S70 ne