Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

How TO RIDE RAPIDLY Down HILL
Get into the stages of consumption.
How TO PRESERVE DATEs-Enter them
in book and take care not to lose it.
In the Kentucky Legislature there are
fifty farmers out of one hundred mem
bers.
In Scotland, recently, prize fight be-
tween a woman and man was broken up
by the police.
A YOUNG man in Syracuse lately eloped
with his stepmother, who is about his
own age
A RESIDENT of Alton, ILL.,, reports hav-
ing seen in China six American clocks |
hung in one room as ornaments.
DURING the past winter ground was
frozen to a greater depth in Virginia City, |
New, thar has ever before been known in |
that locality.
REV. WM Fl. PATToN's ADvIcE.-"To |
each fellow man we say Go thou and
do likewise"-Insure in the Washington.
AN old bachelor who supposed himself
to be woman-proof, Unexpectedly found |
himself caught the other day in the mesh
es of brunette.
In San Francisco the fact has been de-
veloped that number of Chinese mer-
chants have marred white women, and
that the women are generally of Irish
birth
tsLoss of China packet shipn' ex-
claimed liberal-minded old lady, as she
laid down newspaper. l" / should think
SO, when not even iron ones are always
safe |"
A MONTREAL paper expresses a wish
" that all Christians at this juncture
should pray that peace may not be broken
between Great Britain and the United
States"
CHINA sends fourteen young men to the
western countries to be educated. 1t is
estimated that at this rate it will require
about 81 500, 900 years to educate the 300,-
900, 900 people of China.
THERE is letter held for postage in
the Evansville Qllinois) post-otfice bearing
the following inscriptions:
Charles Augustus, the web footed scrub,
Is choppng cord-wood for his grub
In Silver City, Idaho"
A scULLERY maid, at Staing, in Aus
trian Styria, kindled fire in the oven,
went to confession, returned and said her
prayers, and then crept into the heated
oven, where her remains were found after
ward burned to a cinder.
LAST June, a Dubuque farmer refused
to sell keg of nice butter at twenty-five
cents per pound and clung to it until
few days ago, when he sold one-third of
it for soap grease at five cents per pound
the remaining two-thirds having disap
peared by leakage.
A CALF in Oakland, Oregon, owned by
Aaron Harvey, sports a nice little pair
of wings. These wings crop out just
behind the shoulders, are about the size
of turkey wings, and very much resemble
picked turkey wing, but are covered
with hair.
PERKINS will get tight occasionally,
friends. .For years." said he, it was
unaccountable to me, for I never did
drink but mouthful or two and the
cause never did strike me until / meas
ured my mouth and found that it held q
pint
A YOUNG physician in St. Catharines,
Canada, offers to visit the two thousand
families of that place one year, charging
each family only five dollars year. This
arrangement would bring him ten thousand
year, but it would be hard on the other
doctors.
MRS SILAs HARMON, who died recent
1y in Machias, Me-, at the age of forty
five years, was the mother of twenty
children, eleven of whom were at home
at her death She was married when but
a few months past fourteen years of age.
Of the twenty children only the eleven
are living
THE Green Bay (Wis) Post Office Off
elas don't Ike e9 aRsE aRsTea1h ahe deT
cry, expresses their sentiments; ''Price
of three cent stamps, three cents each;
licked and stuck, five cents each; the
clock will answer the question, Has the
mail closed ?''
WHEN Olive Logan lectured in Nash
Vile, the bill-poster stuck one of her lee
ture strips over patent-medicine poster
in such way that this surprising combi-
nation resulted
RHEUMATISM POSITIVELY CURED IN TEN pAYsl
OLIVE LOGAN'S "GIRLS."
SCENE IN A HoRsE-CAR IN BosToN.-
Car stops; smiling young lady enters ;
every seat full. An old man rises at the
other emu. 80, don't rise," said the
lovely girl. 81 can just as well stand"
9 don't care whether you sit or stand,'
he replied, "Pm going to get out"
THE New York Canal Commissioners
report that they have received over 700
communications from all parts of the
world in reference to power on canals ;
many models have been sent, some being
the productions of women some are val
liable, but many are results of ineXperi-
ence, or are visionary
A MAN working on farm near ellison,
ILL.,, was presented by young lady with a
fine plaited-bosom shirt, made with an
open back. He wore it hind side before
for nearly year before he found out how
it worked. On being told of his mistake,
he remarkad that he thought it strange
the young woman should put so much
work on the back
THAT was beautiful idea expressed
by lady on her death-bed in reply to a
remark of her brother, who was taking
leave eff her to return to his distant
meet her again in the land of the living
Brother, trust we shall meet in the
land of the living. We are now in the
land of the dying"
THE cashier of the First National Bank
of Tarrytown, on making up his accounts
at the close of the day, discovered a de.
ficiency of $500, which could not be ac-
counted for, and that a $500 bill, which
was in the drawer when he went to din
ner, was missing. A few days after a
person engaged in clearing out a closet
found the $500 bill partly drawn into a
mouse-hole.
A STORY is told of teacher who was
talking to her scholars regarding the
order of the higher beings 1t was a
very profitable subject, and one in which
the children took an uncommon interest
She told them that the angels came first
in perfection, and when she asked them
who came next. and was readily answered
by one boy, :" Man !'' she felt encouraged
to ask: What comes next to man ~
And here little shaver, who was evident
ly smaTting under a defeat in the pre-
ceeding question, Immediately distanced