Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

| ALWAYS BEHIND-HAND-The wrist
| AN EXTINCT RACE-Child-like chill
dren.
A GOOD INvEsTMENT-A policy in the
Washington Life.
THE BEST MARRIAGE GIFT-A policy
in the Washington Life.
THE BEST PoLIcY-The Washington
Life Insurance Policy.
THE deposits in the Massachusetts saw
ings banks amount to $4,000 per day.
FIFTY-Two salt-cellars were presented
to recent bride in Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND allows her Legislators
dollar day, and four cents mileage.
MEssRs BAREFOOT AND SHOEMAKER
happened to get on the same jury in Penn
sylvania.
OUT of fifty-five cases of smallpox in
Montreal, only four of the patients had
ever been vacclnated.
! WHY are young ladies bad GRAMMAR
ans? Because you seldom find one who
can decline matrimony.
A BosToN man has culled from the
newspapers forty three parodies of 1.-THE
Heathen Chinee."
A FEW days ago, in London, Carolina
| Portman, aged fifty-seven, died through
swallowing her teeth while asleep.
PRAYERS were offered ON recent Sun
day in all the churches at Sheffield, En-
gland, for the prevention of war between
England and the United States.
If ever the citizens of Londonderry fail
to present the Governor of New Hamp-
shire with peck of potatoes on New
Years Day, their town charter will be for
feited.
A YOUNG man in Cleveland sent a
young lady bottle of "I-love you" per-
fume, and the label convicted him in a
court of justice of breach of promise.
A DETROIT man beat his wife brut ally,
the other day, and was locked up for it,
whereupon the injured woman sold the
family cook-stove to pay his fine and get
| him out.
In condemning late dinner hours, Good
Health says that within four hundred years
the dinner hour has gradually moved
through twelve hours of the day-from
nine a. m. to nine p. m.
| A STUDENT, who has been afflicted with
sermon one hour and half long,
grumblingly says that these Professors
study so much about eternity that they
have no conception of time"
A FEMALE Fon- -du-Laccer got married
barefoot, the other day, for luck. So she
pretended, but the fact was that they
couldn't get any boots in the village big
ger than mems sixteens. Chicago Post.
IT is estimated that a snow-storm in
| New York city gives temporary employ
ment to over 5000 men and boys. The
aggregate sum paid in one day for re-
moving snow from tho sidewalks is
$4,000
A. GENTLEMAN in Cleveland has been
making experiments in extinguishing the
flames of petroleum, and has found that
sand and aqua ammonia thrown ON the
flames will quickly extinguish them.
A BRANCH OF American industry has
been developed at Augusta, Me. You
first find out where your room mates pa
rents live, then telegraph them that he
the body ON receipt of fifteen dollars.
"MoLLY shut the door; it's getting
awful cold in here r' was the remark Of
an Albany husband, as he hung his coat
on hitching-post and prepared to retire
on the curbstone, under the impression
that he had arrived at home.
Mrs. G. Fl. HUTCHINSON, who prevent
ed burglars from carrying off hundreds
of dollars from bank at Trenton, n. j.,
recently, by giving timely alarm, has
received silver tea service, worth
81 200, from the bank, as an evidence of
its gratitude.
AMONG the latest freaks is that of a
Rock Island young lady, who appeared at
an evening party in that city with her
dress founced with copies of the Argus
newspaper, her waist being spanned with
the title-head of the paper.
A Boston liquor dealer, on being ar
rested by virtuous constable, offered
twenty dollars if the officer wouldn't
search the woodpile The official, stern
in his integrity, refused, and had to cord
up seven cords of wood, after unpiling it.
He is sorry he didn't take the twenty
dollars.
A YOUNG lady in Indianapolis, whose
married sisters funeral took place few
days ago, excused herself from attending
the solemn obsequies by saying that her
own wedding was to take place in the
evening, and it would incapac1tate her
for the OCCASION; besides, she had no time
, to spare.
; A CORRESPONDENT divides brides into
two classes, the serious and the smiling.
The first enters with a queenly step, and
: seems to say, Don't look at me. Don't
) you see I'm married, and that those days
3 are over?" The other comes up smiling,
as much as to say, GIVE landed him. Is
! LII not SOOu 1un
A MAMMOTH cake, three and half feet
in diameter, and weighing 1856 pounds,
: has just been made in Newark for glass
wedding soon to take place in New York
There entered into the composition of
the cake, $50 eggs, % pounds of butter,
and other ingredients in proportion.
, THE Louisville Ledger makes an unkind
!, cut at its neighbor, the C0urier-.Jou1nGI
hvy cfatI hat l.
great ice-gorge, published by the latter
was originally intended for likeness OF
the Grand Duke. The cut failing in eek
preston" p" it was used for the ice-gorge
and answered the purpose very well.
AN Englishman has invented a new
method of lighting houses with coal oil
q being simply to have an oil-tank at the
- top of the house, with pipes to convey
8 the ''non-explosive" to all the lamps
about the building. 1t is suggested tina
> one effect of this plan will be to reduc,
/ the number of widows and orphans, a.
= the whole family would go together il
case of an explosion.
5 A sToREKEEPER at Quincy, Mich, hav
Y ing pup that habItually upset the pain
. cans in the rear end of the store, rubbed
the dogs nose in the spilled paint as re
I I minder that he must not do so again
e Recently the animal again spilled tn
y y paint, and observing that his master wa
u engaged in waiting on a customer, tn
= = docile pup rubbed his own nose in tn
mixture and ran bowling out the bacl
L L way.
i THoUGH omitting to join the Washing
q tonians, Mr.. Abrams, of the Sixth Ward
s slept in chair Saturday night, with on
4 foot in dish of pancake batter o.
l. awaking and confronting the spectacle il
N the morning, the startled wretch shoute
" to his wife "Sary Jane, there is a rat i
at sne pdCteT, anu ulun uISCOVer tne gu