Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


sets.
UNDERTAKERs' jokes are apt TO be
grave.
CAN ship with two owners be called
partnership.
WHEN is charity like bee 4? When it
begins to hum.
WHAT roof covers the most noisy ton
ant The roof of the mouth.
WHY is love like a Scotch plaid Be
cause it is all stuff, and often crossed.
THE first street railroad in Florida will
shortly be opened at Cedar Keys.
MEMS great enemy is the wine glass;
women's is the looking glass.
SOME of the largest steamships burn
800 tons of coal crossing the Atlantic
Ocean.
WILLOW for the making of baskets
is imported into this country from Ger
many.
THERE are no less than 5000 canoes in
the museum of Florence, all relics from
Pompeii.
A GEORGIA woman, twenty-five years
| married, is the mother of twenty living
children.
A HoRsEY MAN, hearing mention made
| of the "Latin Races" wished to know
where they were held.
"LET's investigate" is what they say
now, instead of the more vulgar "Come
and take drink"
THE Union Pacific Express brought to
Omaha nearly five tons of silver bullion
few days ago.
Nor in the knowledge of things with
| out, but in the perfection of the soul with
| in, lies the true empire of man.
A DISPUTE as to what was trumps was
settled in Virginia by one gentleman
turning up a spade, and violently shifting
his opponent Herewith.
A LAFAYETTE Qnd } lady played it fine
at circus recently exhibited in that city.
She pretended to faint and got nine glasses
of lemonade free.
ACCORDING to Archdeacon Fuller, of
| Toronto, it costs the people of China
| $400, 900, 600 year to support their religi-
ious institutions.
THE ignorance of the French peasantry
is said to be unparalleled in the civilized
world. Not one in a hundred can read
or write.
THE first locomotive used in England,
nearly forty years ago, now stands on a
pedestal at the Darlington railway sta
sion.
| Ex-MAYoR SMITH, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who recently died worth over a million
dollars, began life as a milk-man when
Brooklyn was mere village.
WHAT positive proof is there that King
| David and his son Solomon were tailors /?
"And Solomon mended the breaches
which David his father had made"
THE Catskill On. W Mountain House
stands 5000 feet above the Hudson, and
from the front balcony view extending
/ Oh t1aa =, ho1
on clear day.
NEWLY married daughter "How long
does the honeymoon last, mamma ?"
Practical parent "Until you ask your
husband for money, my dear"
A NEW ORLEANS editor says he
counted one hundred and seventy
along bayeu." GA strong allegation"
says an incredulous brother.
Two acres of forest land on a noun
tain side near Elkton, Mo-, recently sunk
to the depth of the tree tops, leaving
walls as vertical as the sides of house.
THE st. Petersburg Golos says that the
personal expenses of the Grand Duke
Alexis, during his travels in the United
States, amounted to upward of $500, 900.
No MAN is so poor that he has not
friends whose happiness is linked with
his fate, and whose hearts will be wrung
with anguish at his punishment or his
suffering.
A MARRIED woman lately applied to
her lawyer to procure a divorce. "On
what grounds, madam ?" asked the law
yer. "On the ground that can now do
great deal BETTER" was the reply.
ONE hundred thousand men were en-
| ployed for twenty years in building the
great pyramid at Ghizeh, and ten years
had been previously spent in quarrying
the stones and transporting them to the
| place.
AN irate Western editor lately wrote to
a contributor If you don't stop send
| ing me such abominable poetry, I'll print
piece of it some day, with your name
appended in full, and send copy to
your girl"
In Newburyport, Mass, there are twin
brothers, one of whom is lame in his right
foot and squints with his right eye, the
other being lame in his left foot and
squirting with his left eye. They are
very appropriately designated as ''rights
and lefts."
A WOMAN applied to a magistrate for a
warrant against neighbor, saying: "She
called me a thief, your Honor. Can't /
make her prove its" "Perhaps you can,"
quietly replied the magistrate, "but if l
were you, wouldn't"
THAT Danbury (Ct.) Nescs fellow says:
''The majority of women care but little
about suffrage. If the backs to car seats
could only be followed out so as to ad-
init of their bustles tapping over, the bal
lot might go to thunder for all they care"
Mr. j. j. MILLER, an American civil
engineer, has just been appointed by the
Governor General of India to the posi-
tion of Chief Engineer of State Railways
in Central India, with rank as a Lieuten-
ant Colonel of Royal Engineers of twen-
ty-eight years service.
ONE pound of gold may be drawn into
a wire that would extend around the
globe. So one good deed may be felt
through all eternity. Though done in the
first flush of youth, it may gladden. the
last of long life, and form the brightest
and most glorious spot on it.
HERE is an illustration of practical hu-
manity which is credit to the women of
Maine: Last fall the stock on an Oxford
County farm could not be sold, and rather
than see them starve, the owner, who was
a lady sixty years of age, went to work
in mill in Lewiston and paid for their
keeping.
OUR DUMB ANIMALS says a balky
horse can be started every time by dash
ing water in his face. If that will not
answer just wait about forty eight hours,
until he gets hungry. Then place your
self ten feet ahead of him with peck OF
oats. If he will not move for that, you
may give him up as incorrigble.
A BOSTON bride, whose groom remon-
strated with her at the wedding for in
dulging in rather indiscriminate bestowal
of her last maiden kisses on number of
her male friends, remarked with natural
naviete that the gentlemen in question had
! been in the habit of kissing her ell her
life, and she didn't see why they should
stop now.
JACOB SCHROEDER, farmer living near
Galesburg, Mich, while digging well
on his farm, found at the bottom of the
well, fifty feet from the surface, trunk
of a tree, pieces of which the diggers cut
off with their spades and brought to
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