Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-18
JSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 1s, 1872.

man who stamps names on keerds ?" 81
am, SIR" ''Do you keep the keerds toos"
"Yes, SIR" 81 want some" "What
name shall writer" Here the tall indi-
vidual came to posture where his eye
was on level with the paper, and he
added in subdued tones, al want mar
riage keerds" After taking the names
the proprietor asked "How many cards
do you want?" six" ''But, sir, never
strike off less than fifty" 81 don't know
what in thunder l should do with so
many" said the long man, and after some
further remarks he retired, leaving an or
der for /" six keerds."
AT the northern extreme of New York
City, few years ago, the firm which
afterward contracted to do the Hoosac
Tunnel made an experimental hole with
their machinery, forty feet deep, through
solid rock, on an unoccupied lot. The
great hole was afterward used as play
house for the children of the neighbor-
hood, when an enterprising German
thought it might be made available as an
excellent wine cellar, and leased it at q
merely nominal rent of its willing owner.
1t has since become one of the most
famous restaurants in New York, and is
crowded by visitors during the hot sea-
son, attracted thither by the oddity
of the place and its cool refuge from the
| heat.
A MINNESOTA ood-chopper hewed
down tall tree, the other day, and upon
splitting up the trunk with an ak and
wedge found imbedded in the wood, at
the point where the trunk diverged into
branches, a leather bride of antique pat
tern, with bit and buckles attached, and
all in a remarkable state of preservation.
1t has been fully thirty feet from the
ground, and its presence there can only
be accounted for by the supposition that
some passing horseman had used the
crotch of a sapling as rest for his bride,
and, led from the place in pursuit of his
straying horse, had been unable to find it
again, and abandoned the bride to be
carried up and entombed by the slow
growth of the tree. 1t is believed that
the tree must have been fifty years in
hiding its treasure.
SIX nice young men in New Orleans
were nicely sold the other evening by six
saucy girls. One of these beauties wrote
charming little anonymous note to all
six of the young gentlemen, proposing a
meeting at restaurant. Each was to be
dressed in peculiar style, and each was
to be eating a dish of shrimps. On the
appointed evening this little beauty and
the five others, all dressed alike in the
costume indicated in the letters sent to
the young gents, started for the rendez-
vous Great was the gathering, at the
appointed time, of suitors in costume, at
titude and occupation strictly according
to orders. Very intently did each apply
himself, unconscious of the close prox-
unity to others who were similarly en-
ployed, to the demolition of the stated
dish of shrimps, and on the watch for
tAe "woman in white" At last when
five, and finally six ladies, each in the
specified costume, arrived, the astonished
boys concluded, each in his own mind,
that he had been sold, and each simulta-
neously, slowly and sadly got up, paid his
shrimp bill and departed, evidently in no
enviable state of mind, and leaving the
waiter and proprietor in state of utter
bewilderment as to "what was up"