Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

c. w. DfCKERsoN, of Jasper, Mo-, has
a gun seven feet and four inches in length.
A MIsER's first rule in arithmetic is ad-
dition, but his heirs generally begin with
| division.
assault with intent to become in
sane" is the way they put deadly attacks
now.
TIIE Washington Star recently an
nounced that all the little girls in Pbiladel-
phia were having their dolls vaccinated.
WHY is an old pockcthandkerchief like
an old ships Because it has experienced
many hard blow.
| INSURE in the Washington Life lnsur-
ance Company, for the benefit of your
family. No creditor can touch the pro-
| ceeds.
| A New YORK court decides that the
secretary of a company has no right to
open letter addressed to the president.
A VERY precocious London boy is ac-
cused of having commenced as Burglar
at the age of three, and being a scientific
gafroter at ten.
Tile cold is so great in Italy this winter
that there has been skating in Florence
and Naples, for the first time in many
years,
| Our of two thousand and twenty-siN
buildings erected in Boston last year, nine
ty-six were stone. The rest were brick.
GEORGE Z. HARRiNGToN, a Boston let
ter-carrier, has received $34G from his pa
trons in the form Of holiday presents.
AN enterprisins yuhhg lady of Rock
Island, H., has made wager of $1,000
thai she can collect Il million cancelled
postage stamps in four years.
But two genuine Laplanders have ever
landed in this country, and they came in
the ship Boetia from d Baltic port to New
York, last December.
A VERY singular matrimonial case fe-
Gently happened in Essex County, Va. \
gentleman's second wifes two sons mar
ried his third wife's two daughters.
THE other day workman at @ South
Bend (Me.) sugar factory was suddenly
struck dumb. The first intimation his
! fellowworkmen had of the occurrence
was finding him in tears.
A YOUNG man having d late railroad
disaster in his mind, has broken his en-
gagement with a young lady, because she
wears train and is negligent about her
switch.
ACCORDING to a newly published direct
ory of Denver the population of that city
is at present 10,S32, against a, 700 in Jan
uary, 1860. In 1871, 77e buildings were
erected, at cost of 2,3Oi, ,375.
JUNIOR CLERK =" Haw! look here
Fipps; want to be away month OF So"
Senior Clerk-"All right, old fellow.
| Sick, Isuppose?" Junior Clerk-"Hawl
rlo-domestic affliction-some ones so-
J ing to marry me-"
AN Arkansas telegraph operator sent a
dispatch to a Memphis firm, instructing
them as from a responsible bank to pay
, | hrn nTra Il 10 TO-
then going to Memphis he claimei to be
Morgan, and received the money.
Mr. RUsKIN calls upon workiNen to
promise these three things: 81. To do
their own work well, whether it be for
life OF death. 2. To help other people to
do theirs when they can, and seek to
avenge no injury 3. To be sure they can
obey good laws before they seek to alter
, bad ones"
A MILLIONAIRE, who lives on Fifth ave.
/ nue., gave testimonial to chiropodist
which testifies that ''several years ago he
successfully extracted several corns from
my feet without pain, as also members OF
my family, and they have not returned
I since that time.''
THE Name Farmer states that farmer
drove his oxen and sled over tops of small
> pines fifty years ago that now are from
y forty to sixty feet high, and will scale
from 400 to 1000 feet of lumber each
I The profits of these trees have been a.
: good as money at ten per cent. interest.
: A CHAMBERMA1D in Bangor, while shak
n ing rug out of second-story window
lost her balance, turned complete, somer
L sault, and came down to the ground will
If a rush. Astonishing to all who witnessed
the fall, she jumped up, ran into the house
n and resumed her work as if nothing haC
n happened.
THE wife of an Irish gentleman bein!
+ suddenly taken i'll, the husband ordered
a servant to get horse ready to go for
g doctor. By the time, however, that til,
horse was ready, and a note to the doctor
l. written, the lady had recovered, on which
he added the following postscript, anC
l. sent the servant off: 'My wife having
r recovered, you need not come"
~ AT Chelsea, Mass, few days ago,
u boy, six years old, was taken dead drunl
II from the Park Street Primary School. FL,
l. was conveyed home, where his mothe
was found lying on the floor in the sam,
y state, with an infant child beside her.
It LEWIS SPOTTs, of Rochester, Ind, il
d blessed with a convenient nose. TIL,
e other day he was traversing the roof of
+ house, at a fire, when he slipped and fell
ewes and breaking his neck, when he jus
; hooked his proboscis ''over the comb,
t and spoiled a local item which the Spl
}, man was beginning to pencil.
+ AFoND DU LAC, Wis, lady prevailed OF
her husband to leave his loaded revolver Oh
the bedroom table as he was going ava,
to stay all night, as she might be fright
ened by burglars, and need it for her de
t. fense. On his return in the morning, sh,
= informed him that it would not have beer
II bit of use to her as she ''hadn't mattel
in the house to fire it off with"
e ,e A FEW months ago, George Schlegel
ID of POughkeepsie, n. Y, commissioned
n friend, who was about sailing for Europe
q to select him a wife from among TIL
n maidens of Germany He did so, tn
al other day, Miss Emma Meyerhubber, lat
IS IS of Karlsruhe, Prussia, became Mrs
~ Schlegel, of POughkeepsie.
u 81 AN apparatus has been invented for de
IN termining the richness of milk by mean
ut of its transparency. Two polished plate
N of glass are adjusted by mean
N of a screw and the milk is placed betweel
them. The distance of the plates iron
lie each other, when the flame of a stearin
e candle is rendered invisible, is a measur
n of the richness of the milk.
s. s. A MAN. living near Binghampton, n
y Y, went into that town the other day an
a bought rocking-chair and pint o
r whisky He started for home on foe
y ~ after dark. After walking an hour O
two he felt fatigued, sat down in hi
in chair and took drink, threw his hea
~ back and watched the moon for an in
is slant When he was suddenly arouse
by passer-by he discovered that it wa
lie ten O'Clock the next day
ID AN ingenious Yankee was before tn
J. Postmaster-G General the other day with
p postage stamp that had on its adhesiv
ID side a taste of choice candy. One Sol
he had chocolate, another orange, thir
le lemon, and so on through the list G
al al popular sweetmeats. The inventor urge
c, increased sales and waste that woul
come from this improvement. The Pos
"a "a master-General reserved his decision as {
v the advisability of the Government bu,