Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
TWISTED hemp cures felons.

ER.-King Roof-us.
DOES it add to persons looks to be in
frame of mind?
W6y is the figure nine like peacock !?
Because It's nothing without its tail
A PARADox-A man who dislikes
poetry is of course a-verse to poem.
A MAsToDoN's tooth, one foot long, was
recently dug up in Tama County, Iowa.
AN inexperienced farmer tried to make
corn beef by giving his own oxen whisky.
ONE of the prizes offered at the Georgia
State Fair was for darning stockings.
FIFTY-NINE wolves and thirteen wild
cats were killed in Green County, Iowa,
during the year ending May 1.
ORDINARY BEGGARs make from two to
three dollars day in New York. Some,
of greater ability, average five and six.
WHEN the Hoosac Tunnel is completed,
the cost to the State of Massachusetts,
will be about $13,00O,0 600.
THE fisheries of Canada employ 81, 900
persons, and $15,000,00O are invested in
the business.
A sNow-wHITE PELICAN, measuring
eight feet between the tips of its wings,
was shot near Jacksonville, ILL.,, a few
days ago.
On steamboats, to St. Paul, Mimi, a
traveller can buy transportation ticket
and eat himself, or pay more and let the
boat eat him.
If mendicant were to ask aims of a
sentry, and the sentry were to present
arms to him, would the former be salts
fed ?
THE chap who gets up queer statistics
has been at it again. He says, "The
combined mouths of the 25, 600 singers at
the Boston Jubilee will form cavity of
736 square feet"
CHEMISTRY asserts that every adult per-
son contains one and three-quarter
pounds of phosphorus. This explains
the universal penehant for match max
ing.
VISITORS to the British Museum are
shown an anvil, very like any other an
vii, which is declared to have once be-
longed to one of the Pharaohs.
THE last iusus nature reported is in
Jersey City, where an eccentric bovine is
growing pair of hind legs, where the
horns of well regulated cattle are sup
posed to vegetate.
Two girls in Marlboro, VT, one day
recently were offered ten dollars apiece if
they would saw ard split cord of hard
four hours and a half
A MAN in chopping a log of wood near
San Francisco, the other day, found i'm
bedded near the center, live frog. The
log was perfectly sound and two feet in
diameter.
THERE are 401 male and 20 female con-
victs in the Prison at Jeffersonville, Mo-,
and in June the whole force of prison
labor will be employed by the South
western Car Works Company.
Mr.. BARNUM is said to be wearing
Grape for the recent death in St. Louis of
colored lady who weighed over nine
hundred pounds-twice as much as the
lamented Daniel Lambert.
AN Italian capitalist has established a
pea-nutery at Sullivan, Ind. The citizens
will celebrate the event in grand mass
meeting, on which occasion fourteen
bushels of peanuts will be barbecued
THE new Government bridge between
Davenport and Rock Island was put to a
severe test recently. A weight of eighty
tons caused the main spans to be de-
pressed only three-quarters of an inch.
A BRAKEMAN on the Connecticut Shore
Line took his lady love to New London,
Ct., the other day, was there married in
the conductors room. and took his wife
home on the train, doing his regular
work.
MERLE's great painting, ola Folle'-
with group of five fgures-which re-
Gently was received at the Goupil Gallery,
has been purchased by a Philadelphia
gentleman for the sum of $4,000.
THE Suez Canal, among its other curl
osities, presents the traveller with the extra
ordinary spectacle of vast flocks of flying
fish, which at times suddenly appear in
the vicinity of the vessel, and as suddenly
disappear.
AN Engllshman who had wandered
about the African diamond mines for sew
eral months, subsisting upon charity,
had streak of luck last March, finding
ing during that month, on a little lot he
had often before abandoned, $275,00O in
gold.
XYLoNITE, which is prepared by the
action of nitric acid on woody fiber, is
made into sheeting or tissue impermea-
BILE to water, which may be used as a sub
stitute for india-rubber in the manufacture
OF all waterproof articles.
A YOUNG MAN living at Elizabeth, N.
j., has been notified that some mining
property belonging to him in Utah, and
long since abandoned as worthless, is
awaiting his disposition, having devel-
oped a value of $2,00O,000.
THE average yield of wheat in different
countries varies remarkably. In Austria
it is IA bushels per acre; in France and
Prussia, II; in Spain, %; while in Britain
the average yield is from % to 80. The
yield of barley in France is 81 bushels
per acre; in Prussia, 25, and in England
from, QS fo IA h11ch
THE laborers on the Government works
at Rock Island, ILL.,, have discovered fos
sill remains which will doubtless prove oi
great value. A deposit of fresh water
shells was found fifty feet above the sur
face of the river, showing that the Missis
sippi had at some time Overfown that ele
waited point The fossil remains of some
prehistoric animal were also found, which
will be forwarded to Cambridge for Agas
siZ.
"WHEN stranger treats me with want
of respect" said poor philosopher, "1
comfort myself with the reflection that il
is not myself that he Sights, but my old
and shabby hat and cloak, which, to say
the truth, have no particular claim tc
alteration. So, if my hat and coat choose
to fret about it, let them; but it is moth
ing to me-"
In Bangor, peripatetic saloons have
been established. The proprietor puts
bottles containing straights and mixed
drinks under the seat of his buggy, and
drives round town. Whenever he stops
the solitary wayfarer gazes up to heaven,
hands over fifteen bents, and retreats wip
ing his mouth on his coat-sleeve.
A TALE OF Woe
clasped her tiny hand in mine;
I clasped her beauteous FORM
vowed to shield her from the wind,
And from the worlds cold storm.
She fixed her beauteous eyes on me,
The tears did wildly flow,
And with her pretty lips she said
''You stupid, let me CO.,
THE "headless rooster" which ha
been on exhibition at various places in tn
South, is not much of novelty after all
Some four years ago, "headless ROSTERS
were exhibited in New York and Bostol
until suppressed by the police, the ex
hibitors being punished under the law fo
the prevention of cruelty to animals
Owing to the peculiar formation of tn
head of chicken, the face and portion