Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A APUT-UP JoB-Canning tomatoes and
peaches.
A LION four feet high has been shot in
California.
THERE are fifty-nine civilized countries
on the globe.
"FLEA, thou obnoxious insect" is the
latest for "Shoo Fly"
A CARRIAGE wheel grows less tired the
more it works.
New BooK-"Ebenezer divorced" a
sequel to "Ebb Tide"
A NEW word is out. They say burg
lar has 'burgled" so much.
THE favorite song of the Siamese twins
1--WE were boys together"
In Springfield, Mass, the street cars
bear the inscription, "Will you rider"
No MARRIAGE can be solemnized in
| Switzerland without three weeks no.
| tice.
A CALIFORNIAN thinks he has discov-
cred the principle of perpetual motion.
A NEW abomination has appeared in the
ocabulary-"nuptiated for married.
IN South Carolina it is unlawful to al
low minors to pay ten pins or billiards.
THE one species of lion that no one is
afraid of-The dandy-lion.
THREE diamonds in a row have super
seded the solitaire as an engagement ring.
| A KENTUCKY bachelor has courted one
lady steadily, but unsuccessfully for
twenty seven years.
MR.. A. G. ALLEN had the "pint" taken
out of his name by telegraph, which made
"a Gallon" of it.
A WESTERN editor says of a neighbor
with aquiveriDg eye-lid, that he shutters
in the left eye"
A LADY asked a gentleman how old
| he was. He replied, "What you do
in everything" What was his age?-XL.
A MAN who works for living should
marry a woman taller than himself. "The
laborer is worthy of his higher"
GIRLS in olden times didn't behave any
better than they do nowadays. Even the
Old Testament tells how Ruth followed
the Boaz around.
THE woman who never watched her
neighbors is said to be cousin to the
woman who did not know how many
dresses her sister-in-law had.
CLEVELAND has cheerful youth, who
has passion for attending funerals. He
visited dying man recently, and assured
him he should have good send-of if
money could procure it.
A LOWELL girl claims that she won
her husband by stratagem. He fell
in the river, she grabbed him, and when
he came to the surface, he was very
much excited, and proposed marriage.
THEY had concert in Salem, Mass,
recently, in aid of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and to
attend it thirty-seven persons rode at
one time in car drawn by only one
horse.
PET "Mamma, want to make a leetle
bargain with you." Mamma "What is it,
my dear ?" Pet eff you will give me a
paper of sugar-plums every day, won't
tell anybody you take your hair out of a
| drawer"
A SUNDAY-SCHooL teacher, who had
almost become discouraged over the list
lessness of her class, at last felt rewarded
by an interesting look from little girl.
The reward was lost when the little
creature touched bracelet on her arm
and asked, Teacher, are them threaded
on 'lastic ?"
AN analysis by Prof. Chandler, of
Columbia College, sets at rest the story
that there is anything poisonous in the
ingredients or processes used in the
paper, printing, or cumming of postage
stamps.
GEORGE" asked the teacher of a
Sunday-school class, "who, above all
others, shall you wish first to see when
you get to heaven 2" With face bright.
ening up with anticipation, the little fel
low shouted, "Gerliahr'
BANGOR, Me-, is undergoing serious
bombardment from a neighboring ledge
of rock, which is being blasted. Holes
have been knocked through the roofs OF
several buildings, and a rock weighing
fifty pounds dropped down in front of q
lady's parlor window.
THE very poetry of farming must be
reached in cultivating the rose farms OF
Bulgaria They cover hundreds of thou
sands of acres, and the Paris perfumers
reap a rich harvest of fragrance, which
finds its way over the seas, and scatters
itself in every direction.
In the Central District Court at Worces
ter, the other day, a man named
Paradise failed to respond as a witness
and was defaulted, the court remarking
soto U0ce, "that's Paradise lost, +" to which
the clerk answered, as he filled out s
capias eyes, but he'll be Paradise re
gained before night"
A MODEST bachelor says all he should
ask in a wife would be a good temper
sound health, good understanding, agree
able physiogonomy, pretty figure, gooC
connections, domestic habits, resources o
amusement, good spirits, conversations
talents, elegant manners and money.
THERE is a perpendicular ledge, on
hundred and fifty feet high, on the shor
of pond in Maine, from the brink o
which it is difficult to throw stones int
the pond on account of a powerful attrac
ton drawing stones to the base of tn
! ledge.
, An absent-minded man entered Tro
: shoe store the other day, and wanted hi
. boy measured for a pair of shoes. "Bu
!. where's the boy ?" said the dealer
Thunder !" said the man, '1've left tn
boy at home. I'll go and bring him,
and off he started for his house, 81
$ blocks away.
l. WASHINGTON has man who don't pc
: nit himself to be bothered by such littl
i things as getting hurried. He forge
IL that he was going to be married the otht
y day, and didn't call round till evening
r when, being informed of his negligenc,
s he made all possible reparation by imm
b diately undergoing the operation.
q You've MILDLY Ito his uncle, who's new
e seen the sea)-"You want to know VIII
the sea goes back, ehs Well, you 81
= the waves are caused by the little fish,
4 wagging their tails; then they swim ava
. in order to get caught by the fishin
e smacks and then, as they can'tlive wit
,. out water, the sea follows them. TIL
a causes high tide and low tide" Unc
4 marvels at his nephew's knowledge
r. THE San Bernardino (Call GudrdiO
h says: Last week the Frenchman who a
tends the sheep of Peter Filanc, in Sa
Jacinto Valley, dispatched large mou
is tain lion in a somewhat novel manner.
" dog belonging to the shepherd got on'u
IN track of lion, and following him I
ic forced him to find quarters between tv
III large rocks. The dog coming to ba
I'd the shepherd went up and found the liz
IN as above stated. Taking his long sta
e. he boldly went up to the front of the lilo
and drawing back gave powerful thru
J., with the staff, driving the sharp poi
y down the animals throat, killing him
le few minutes.