Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

A PRUDENT man fOreSeetn the evil, ana
insures his life-in the Washington.
.sCoME here, Jimmie" said little girl,
and look at the moon. Half of it is pushed
into the sky, and half is sticking out"
A WESTERN man dislocated his arm the
other day in putting on clean shirt. He
hadn't tried it for so long a time that he
had entirely lost the "knack" of the
thing.
A CAUTIOUS physician says that people
who count bank-bills should not touch
the finger on the tongue, as is the common
practice, as bills coming from where the
smallpox prevails are liable to be in
fected.
A RESIDENT of Muncie, Ind, advertises
as follows: sWhereas, am now clear of
debt, and too old to contract debts to
worry over, 1 hereby warn all persons not
to trust my family or myself on any ac-
count whatever"
HARVEY DoANE, an inmate of the Au-
burn State Prison, is waiting to be hanged
to order. He was sentenced to death in
1862, under the law, since repealed, which
permitted the Governor to order an exc
cution at his pleasure.
A LITTLE boy was defining the word
Transparent and he said that things
were transparent which permitted the
said the Teacher ssnow Give me- an exam.
ria ..,The cr.oL of 3 door y sa;d the
br;obt little how
VALUE OF FARM PRopUcTs. farm
products for 1870 attained value of So
Al, 100000. New York takes the first
place, and Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Iowa and Missouri come next in
the order given, and the last one produced
over hundred millions.
SEVERAL wears ago a listener yentured
Compliment to Professor A gassiz upon the
extent and variety of his investigations
into the secrets of nature. to which his
ready and modest reply was sMy dear,
sir, re longer live, re more find know
nos'ing"
BROWN BREAD.-A lady says in Western
Rural: make a good brown bread after
this method: take one quart of Indian
meal, one pint rye Hour, small cup OF
molasses, one tablespoonful of salaratus
and one of salt. mix it with hot water
thin enough to pour, and bake three
hours. J"
A NASHUA fisherman, who recently Wis
iteu tue payous vi Winniplseogee III
search ol plGherei, hirea d high.priceo
assistaht " SNOW AiiA ehe Srounus, cut
noies, etc. On the return "Trip. a1ter three
Gays OF paa luck, Ine hlgn-prlceq assist
ant remarked: wal, Mt, didn't
thlnK as now youd ketch many. You
see the Iact is, seined EN- all last 1all.
THE Doylestown (Pa.) Democrat saws:
CDR. Lewis lectured in a neighboring
town on physical culture, being very Sc
we're on wheat bread, meat diet, butter.
etc., and very eulogistic ON oatmeal mush
and unleavened breakfast game. He dis
gusted his fair hostess in the morning,
however, by passing his plate three times
for wellbuttered beefsteak, and utterly
declining to taste the mush she had pre-
pared at SO much trouble
THE pioneer Methodist, Peter Cart.
wright, uttered many odd and witty saw
ings. He was often much annoyed al
one sister, more noisy than pious, who
would get off ON high KEY at every op
portunity. At an animated class-meet
ing one day, she broke out with, eff ]
had one more feather in the wing of my
faith, | could fly away and be with the
Saviour" 'Stick in the feather, O Lord
and let her CO." fervently responded
brother Cartwright.
A con,- e
cows 81 hna, -e,,,opi,ohI IL d,ym"oh H., o"csess
fertile reviewer who told me- that a'ii tbounl nni
over bic oidninht nG I'll 'lu Ia oan e 1nas taou
ticles with a certain sharpness and force
yet for quietly looking at subject al
round and doing Justice to all its belong
ings, he wanted the quiet morning hours
Lancelot Andrews says he is no tru,
scholar who goes out of the house before
twelve o'clock. Similarly, an editor ono,
told me that though his town contribu
utors sent him the brightest papers, he al
ways detected peculiar melloWness anf
Oh ~, =
country
In Scotland thew have narrow ono,
bitches they call sheen drains man man
was riding a donkey one dav across .
sheen pasture and when NJ Donlo.
came to a sheen. ba would nat ~
over If So tba mon rodo b;n, hoo,t oo
short distance and t,,rned hin, oro,,nd on
and put the whin hin to him him Ii, thna;nn aiuono u
course, that the donkey going SO fast
would Jump the drai1, before he knew f
But not so. On they came. Ickety-split
and when the donkey got to the drain be
stopped all of a sudden and the mar
went over Mr.. Jacks head. No soone1
had he touched the ground than he got
up, and, looking Mr. DONKEY STRAIGHT in
the face, he said ssYery, weel pifched
but then how are We going to oct owe
yourself ?"
,os a.a ar.aoI.a r.s lIn.s IN DahAn' AN poo
to bimseif an6 ntho,s anu s.1f fe on.en sa,'
rich Would T sboM nao,,,o - nonr was 4a oni.
Tn b;s dreon, ha snom COW poopru ;d NV W sme,
dollarsMal new hr;rbt ~ ond ao hoa,4;f'1 ~ ntasJ
Inst tbo, o;a,, om, ash. Dahs az! oeau.llu'
ssNow us is yonr Tin t;~o V1u VIZ ora min saying Z
lot ns coo vour u, inu are Ilcn a' ias.
from his &c soot yot, ogd Sneloslty, . % ne Ios
some money for cbartehIe ~ 're pne 10 tp Dr.,
the nvramid was 90 nerfect tbat hu, ,Pses he oou1 %
not hoo 70 G1 h,.oo, oJ peaieo1 tn". ~ c9ui
around it, but found no place where h
could take dollar without spelling tn
heap. So he decided that the pyrami
should not be broken and then awoke
He awoke to know himself, and to Sc
that he would be generous only while CON
paratlvely poor.
A LUDICRoUs accident occurred on
San Francisco horse-railroad recent,
An elderly and yery nortiv Iadv nassay
ger signaied for the car to ston At ~ ace