Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-30

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THE tunnel under the Niagara River at
Buffalo, to supply the city with water,
has been completed for 700 feet, and an
extension of 800 feet has been ordered.
The pier will be located in the rapids.
SOME idea of the vastness of St. Paul's
Cathedral, London, is had in the fact that
no fewer than IA, 900 persons were under
its roof on the occasion of the royal
thanksgiving.
A BURLINGTON Qowa) baby is imIfior
talized by the following epitaph:
Beneath this stone our baby lays;
He neither cries nor hollers;
He lived just one-and-twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars
PROBABLY the heaviest contract ever
undertaken by one man is that of Henry
Meiggs with the Peru Government to build
a railway across the Andes for the sum
of $100,O00 900. The highest point to be
crossed is 1000 feet above the water.
THE city of Rome is said to be honey
combed with about nine hundred miles
of subterranean passage ways, cut through
the solid rock, and that these contain the
bodies of from six to seven millions of
human beings entombed there since the
city was built.
A SOUTH CAROLINA gentleman has in
his possession the original sword used by
Thaddeus Sobieski at the great battle of
Warsaw. 1t was brought to this country
by Count Sobieski, in the year 1918, and
sold, with his other effects, in Charleston,
where he died in 1922.
A GENTLEMAN recently married in Chi
cago presented his bride at the wedding
with the original transcript of one of the
first dispatches ever sent over the first
telegraph line from Baltimore to Wash
ington. 1t was the announcement to the
lady's grandmother of her birth, and read,
"Only girl"
'tDo YOU execute this deed without any
fear or compulsion of your husband?"
asked Commissioner of Deeds of a wo-
man whose acknowledgment of deed
he was taking "Fear of my husbandr'
exclaimed the irate lady. "He-compel
mel You're fool!" And she swept
indignantly from the Commissioner
Office
THE Cork correspondent of the Boston
Pilot says that more people are now emil
grating from Ireland than ever before.
Not less than 1000 leave the country eve
ry week. Whole villages are left with
only the old and decrepid in them, and
some of them, such as Limerick, are go
ing to decay.
THE ancient Saxons used to engrave
upon certain square sticks, about foot
in length, the course of the moon for the
whole of the year; such carved sticks they
called al-mon-aght, literally, all-moon-
heed-hence our modern word almanac.
THE house which Davy Crockett built,
and IN which he lived for many years, is
still standing, five miles northeast Of
Rutherford Station, in the northern part
of Gibson County, Tennessee. Some of
the pegs on which the Major suspended
his venison are still to be seen.
On the oath of November, 1871, Mr.. T.
A. Fogg, of Pulaski, Tenn, put IN the
center of a bale of cotton note offering
$50 to the finder on forwarding it. On
the 9th of May he received the note from
and forwarded the $50 to Albert Cham
bers, a workman at the Victoria Mill,
Newton Moor, Chester County, England
ACCORDING to Charles Lyell, who made
a special study of the rocks at the Falls
of Niagara, it has taken 81, 900 years to
cut away the rock for that cataract. But
not even Mr.. Lyell could compute the
ages that must have passed before the
water began to drill canal from Lake
Erie to Lake Ontario. The age of the
world exceeds the widest guess of our
ancestors.
AN English engineer has invented a
torpedo, designed to be elected from a
mortar, and to take its course under water
for any required distance under 1 900
yards. 1t can be discharged at avessel
from fortress, and SO silently will it
move under the waves that the occupants
of the vessel will not be aware of its ap-
proach until they are blown skyward at
the rate of mile minute.
THE schools of Massachusetts produce
some very brilliant citizens A New
Bedford youth, setting out for pilgrim
age to Boston, the Mecca of New Eng-
land devotion, purchased a steamboat
ticket the other day, and quietly seated
himself in ferry boat. After sitting
there an hour and half, and crossing
the harbor several times, he ventured to
inquire how long it would be before the
boat reached Boston. Hewill start again
another day.
A sPINsTER, who can stand the deroga-
tory remarks concerning old MAIDS no
longer, writes to the Cincinnati Times
L am happy to say that / have for many
years belonged to that class of much
reviled women but many of nv most
Intimate friends have been married wo-
men, and from them have I heard more
scandal and detractions, more jealousy
and rivalry, more of the spirit of envy,
hatred and malice, and all uncharitable-
ness, than from any old maid ever knew
or heard Of
A CLEVER old lady, apparently Just ar.
rived on train from the country, en-.
tered one of the refreshment rooms at the
Springfield (Mass) Railroad Station the
other day, and said she had left her para
sol on the settee. A general search com
menced and lasted for some time Final
ly one of the walters asked the old dame
when she left it, to which she answered
after counting up on her fingers, swell
it was just three years ago last Fourth oi
july" There was general roar. muct
to the astonishment of the old lady, who
went away with very puzzled look upor
her countenance.
IT is scarcely competent for decree O
divorce to retroact on the tombstone of
deceased child; but woman in Sar
Francisco recently attempted to give i
that effect. There had been born to he
during her first marriage son, who wa
named after his father The child die,
at an early age. Subsequently she wa
divorced and married another man. There
upon she attempted to have the name o
her first husband erased from the tomt
stone of the child, and the name of nun
Der two substituted rechristenin
the little innocent after his death. Mum
Der one heard of the proceeding, and ha
the woman arrested in time to preven
the desecration.
On the island of Borneo has bee
found certain race of wild creatures
of which kindred varieties have been dis
covered in the Philippine Islands, in Terr
del Fuego, and in South America The
walked unusually almost erect on tW
legs, and in that attitude measure abou
four feet in height. They are dark
wrinkled, and hairy. They construct n
habitations, form no families, scarcely as
sociate together, sleep in caves and trees
feed on snakes and vermin, on ants eggs
and on each other. They cannot b
tanned or forced to any labor, and az