Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
MASTER or ARTs-A male fiirt.


was hard word to spell before.
MORE people have been killed by light
ming in England this summer than has
ever been known before, in the same
length of time.
first make mad" Yes, and wien some
men would dye, they first get madder.
WHY is a moth f1uttering round candle
like a man getting off a horse? Because
they are both going to light.
A MAN in Chester County, Penn, has
been fined for allowing weeds to grow on
They have sent 2,OOO young black bass
from Saratoga Lake to England They GO
over in large glass tanks.
A ''HoME for destitute animals" has
been erected in Boston by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
THE average cost of building a mile of
railroad is forty-four thousand two hun
dred and twenty-five dollars in this coun.
try.
A DEs MONIES Qowa) barber advertises
for shop boy who is willing to let the
proprietor run the shop at least half
the time.
'Do YOU keep matches?" asked wag
offs country grocer. "Oh, yes, all kinds, y
was the reply "Well, I'll take trotting-
match" said the wag.
WESLEY, Me-, must be pleasant local
ity for forest rambles Thirty eight
bears have been killed in that vicinity in
the last twelve months.
A SPRINGFIELp paper says: "We know
shoes have soles and tongues, and now a
chap in Rhode Island advertises, Shoes
made Hear We don't believe it."
IT is stated that more people have been
executed in France during the last twelve
months than in any year since 1915, when
the episode Of the hundred days be-
tween two restorations sent so many per-
sons to the gallows.
A LITTLE boy was sent to a store for
some eggs; before reaching home he
dropped them. In answer TO his mother,
who asked, Did you break any?" he re-
piled, mo, 1 didn't break any, but the
shells came Off some cf them"
In the San Joaquin Valley, Cal, is a
grain patch thirty-five miles long and
eight miles wide, covering an area of 179, =
200 acres. The average yield is estimat-
ed at sixteen bushels, which will give a
total of 2, ,S67, 200 bushels, or 6,015 tons.
THE travellers in balloon which re
Gently started from Boston say that the
bottom of the ocean, in shoal places, was
distinctly visible to them while passing
over the sea, and the abundant growth of
seaweed caused the vessels to appear as
if sailing in field of grass.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, seeing Dioge-
mes looking attentively at parcel of hu
man bones, asked the philosopher what
he was looking for. "That which can
not find," was the reply; ''the difference
between your fathers bones and those of
his slaves"
A NEW alarm clock belonging to Mrs.
Slifer, of West Philadelphia, sounded at
midnight. The baby screamed, Mrs
Slifer had Mysteries, and her husband fired
six shots out of the window at supposed
burglar, and wounded passer by. When
the police came they found him trying to
drown the disturber of his peace, which
he finally threw into the yard, where it
whizzed all night, while the neighbors
threw things at it, mistaking it for cats.
SOME of the clerks were waiting in the
Treasury Department for the opening of
business. One said to the company
"Who is the shortest man mentioned IN
the Bible?" The old Joe Millers we're all
exhausted. "Nehemiah Qknee- high -miah).
Bildad the Shuhite (shoe -heignD." To all
answers the clerk replied "No." "We
was the reply. "Peterr' they all cried;
''he was a stout, large, athletic man"
Cant help it. He was the shortest man
| 1 ever read of in the Bible. He said he
had neither silver nor gold, and a man is
pretty short when he hasn't any money"
THE following legend relates how Ger
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| bridge without expense to the StPte. The
Grand Duke issued a proclamation that
every beggar who would appear in the
grand plaza at a certain designated time.
| should be provided with new suit OF
clothing free of cost. At the appointed
| hour the beggars of the city assembled,
whereupon the officers caused each ave
nue. of the public square to be closed, and
then compelled the beggars to strip of
their old clothes, and gave to each one.
according to promise, new suit. In the
old clothes thus collected enough money
was found concealed to build beautiful
bridge over the Arno, still called the Beg
| gars' Bridge.
AMONG the feathered creation the eagle
and raven, the swan and parrot, are each
centenarians. An eagle kept in Vienns
died after a confinement of one hundred
and fourteen years, and on an ancient oak
in Selborne, still known as the craven
tree" the same pair of ravens are be
| lieved to have fixed their residence for 8
series of more than ninety years. Swan:
upon the Thames River, about whose age
there can be no mistake, since they are
annually nicked by the Winters Company
under whose keeping they have been fol
five centuries, have been known to sur
vive one hundred and fifty years anG
more. The melody of the dying swan is
entirely NEUROLOGICAL. Upon approach o
death the bird quits the water, sits dowr
upon the bank, lays its head upon the
ground, expands its wings trifle and ex
pires, uttering no sound.
A TERRIBLE scientific revenge was re
Gently taken by young chemist in Ven
ice named Orlando Farnerini. He loved
young lady, but she loved another, who
was a tailor Orlando owed him money
and sent word he would pay it if the tailor
and his betrothed would visit him in HI:
laboratory. The invitation was accepted
and Orlando slyly got them 10 take par
in electrical experiments. He bade then
give him their hands, put one pole of {
Rumkorf apparatus between the girls fin
gers, and the other into the tailor's hand
and then Joined currents. The lovers fel
to the ground in convulsive fits, but Far
nerini only laughed. After trying to dis
engage themselves from the apparatus il
vain, in five minutes they became distort
ed corpses. Farnerini with the utmos
"sang froid" reported the matter to thu
police, and gave himself up.
A LATE number of the Pittsburgh Pos
claims that the enormous supply of lum
Der necessary to the growing wants of tn
market in that section is in danger of be
coming inadequate to the demand. Pitts
burgh alone consumes 00,000, 900 feet pc
annum. At the same time not mucl
more than that quantity has passed dow
the Allegheny this season, one-half o
which has gone to the markets below
, This would leave the Iron City 80. 900, O0
} feet short, which she is compelled to pro
cure from Michigan and Canada, thin
: she is now doing. The Post says that tn
pine of the Allegheny region is nearly al
cut away. Careful! estimates show tha
at the present rate of cutting, five year
, will absorb the greatest portion of tina