Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-05
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has had mud dredge named for her.
A GOOD man provides for his children
A policy in the Washington Life is one |
way to do it.
THE beautiful shell work of the West |
India Islands is used considerably as gar
niture for ladies' dresses.
WHAT do you expect to see reflected in |
yoor inamorata's eyess Yourself--if she |
is good looking lass.
ONE of those rare coins, the Massachu- |
sets Pine Tree shilling, bearing date of |
1920, has been dug up at Portsmouth, |
Rhode Island.
You've ladies who are learning to skate |
are putting more stuffing in their water |
falls, and making other preparations for |
falling down on the ice.
A GUSHING poet asks in the first line of
a recent effusion, "How many weary pill |
grims lie?" We give it up, but exper-
fence has taught us that there are good
many.
VERY STRANGE.-Life is a contradic-
ton: we send to our butcher for a sweet
bread, and if we want sweet meat we
send to our baker!
FOOTED UP.-Men of business often
complain that their gas account runs
away with lot of money; they don't re-
bill
SIX New York, one Maryland and three
Pennsylvania regiments have signifed
their intention of participating in the in
| auguration ceremonies of President
Grant on the 4th of March next.
DURING the hot weather, Peg said she
had been all over the house, and found
the kitchen everywhere; explaining that
she had visited every room and found it
cool in nary department.
| IRATE parent "Oh yer don't want to
go into business, don't yer? Oh yer
want to be a clerk in the post-orfice, in
deed Why, all your fit for is to stand
outside with your tongue hout for peo-
pie to wet their stamps against %
A GIRL in Indianapolis, who has two
hundred thousand dollars, advertises for
sealed proposals for marriage. The
postmaster has decided to charge her
double price for her box, as it keeps one
clerk half his time filling it up with pink
tinted envelopes, and the whole Office is
scented with musk and bergamot, like
perfumer's shop.
A KANSAS man was "set back" the
other day by couple of squaws enter
ing his house, whom he had forgotten he
had married flew years ago on the
plains. What cheers him up is the fact
that Kansas court has decided that
when white man marries a squaw after
the Indian fashion, the same is legal and
binding upon the husband.
DIR. HALL gives the following "eating
negations": "Never eat when you are not
hungry /; never eat when you are very
tired never eat Just before severe mental
!, or physical effort never eat while in a
passion; never eat when very low-spirited;
, never eat Just before bath; never eat
while greatly worried" Will the good
J doctor please tell us when we can eat?
THE Fat Contributor goes back of g.
Julius Caesar, and digs out the origin of
the practice of parting the hair in the
middle as practiced by male persons at
was first adopted by an angry father, who,
from some show of weakness on the part
of his son, so treated the hair of that
youth in order to disgrace him in the eyes
of his companions. The operation was
a acomplete success, for the boy, unable to
r bear the stigma of looking like a girl,
went straightway and hung himself"
! WALL hangings made of tin foil are a
l new Partisan invention, which has been
made the subject of paper read before
a, the Society of Arts. The metal is in
sheets about sixteen feet long and from
, thirth to forty inches wide. The sheets
are painted and dried at high tempera
, ture, and are then decorated with many
different patterns, such as foliage, flow
: ers, geometrical figures, limitations OF
: choice woods or landscape pictures.
), INoUIsITIvE people sometimes NEE
: with little adventures which make then
Q weak. A fellow who was ''paying atten
q tion" to girl in Andover. Mass, stole W
. to the kitchen where she was at work the
. other morning, thinking to see what kline
q of housekeeper she was. He got inter
y ested as he stood behind door all unob
\ served, watching the fair one at her toll
!, and in the ardency of his observations hi
p obtruded his nose. into Ii crack in The
4 door. She innocently shut that door {
c little, and there was amashed bugle. HI
f now wears it in sling.
i A SHORT time ago Engineer Thornton
il at the instance of the Grand River Trans
e portation Company, made an extensiv,
d survey of the river with view to the
: construction of dams and locks for the
It purpose of increasing the volume o.
water in the stream above Grand Haven
He concluded that the construction o.
/ two dams with locks would be sufficien
to raise the river three feet at Grand Rap
q ids and increase its volume, when at tn,
: lowest, to something over eight feet.
!. is now proposed to construct one dam a
Harris Landing, and another further VI
n the stream, say near the salt well. Th,
o cost of these dams and locks would no
4 exceed $4,000, and an effort will be mad,
4 to obtain assistance from the Nationa
n Government in carrying out the scheme
|. AN important decision, relating to life
8 insurance, was rendered in the Supreme
a Court of New York, General Term, re
Gently. 1t relates to the deception some
/, times resorted to by parties seeking in
= surance, regarding their physical condi
t ton. The case under examination b,
e the court was one brought by an execute
It to compel the payment of a policy by
l. Life Insurance Company, the latter set
e ing up as a defense that the policy holde
n had not told the whole truth. The cour
b held that the statements made by on
e whose life has been insured as to hi
V health are not warrantees, as the state
o ments in procuring insurance in Marin
n and Fire Insurance Companies as to tn
d matter insured. The question wa
" whether there had been fair dealing.
p concealment of the fact that the insure
v had been in the habit of consulting
" physician, was held to be amisrepresents
e tion as to the material fact, and sufficien
a. to vitiate the policy.
a. CABLE SCREW WIRE Doors AND Shoes.
=: word of explanation may not be out of place
Inc caole wire ACTS rs sCIeW, 10 seionS an
firm, and at the same time is elastic an
comfortable. 1t is much preferable to tn
+ old method of pegging, and qaite as sol
g. and elastic as sewed work, but much strong
III er and less liable to rip, and much less e,
at pensive. We have tried the cable scre
II shoe. which has proved all that is elaine
n for it. The increase in this new method {
70 manufacturing boots and shoes is very rapit
- and promises to supersede the wood peg an
), waxed thread.-The Standard, Chicago.
is CALIFORNIA; BIGGEST NUGGET-Ho'
n much we owe to California; Her pr
le cious metals have enriched thousands {
Up our fellow citizens, and have proved th
I'd main stay of America in times of nations
OF pecuniary embarrassment. Her minin
1t, industries have given employment
es myriads of mechanics and laborers. ST
ut is the land of promise to the forum
es seeker. But the Golden State has latel