Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-28


word amateur, said it was a man what
slipped up and wasn't iawed for it.
A NEW style of hand-ring has a chain
with small gold bird attached, which
holds the handkerchief in its bill.
The College Coordnt says some members
of the Yale class of 1871 lived on $3.50
per year, and others expended $4,000.
A BAKER has invented new kind of
yeast. 1t makes bread so light that
pound of it only weighs twelve ounces.
PHILOSOPHERS tell us not to believe
that the rich are happy. All! But the
question is, are they less unhappy?
A ooTEMPoRARY says of prominent
General that ''his sword was never drawn
but once, and then in rattle"
If your wife does abuse you, you have
the pleasant consciousness that she will
not permit any one else to do so.
THE number of clergymen in the
United States is set down at nmety-one
thousand, and their average salaries at
500 each.
THE young widow who was buried in
grief is now alive and doing we'll twas
only another instance of premature inter-
ment.
A MEDICAL impostor in New York has
been doing thriving business among
poor people by pretending that he was
the city vaccinator.
A MAN in Cincinnati gained bet that
he would produce a one-wheeled carriage
in less than half an hour. He went out
and came back with wheelbarrow.
STATIsTICIANs demonstrate that if Lon
don increases in the same ratio as for the
last twenty-eight years, the city will con-
tain over six millions in the year 1890.
AMATEUR FARMING.-Henry Ward
farm are such that he is anxious for a
moneyed partner, who takes delight in
the literary pursuit of drawing checks.
from ten to twenty thousand distinct
pieces of type. The displacement of a
single one makes an error. Is it strange
that errors occur?
DEATH by starvation is very rare
thing in this country, but almost daily
occurrence, as recorded by the British
press, in some parts of the kingdom, but
especially in England proper.
A READING, Pa, carpenter has made a
bid for fame by carving a complete ''tea
set"-plates, cups and saucers, knifes and
forks, cream mug, sugar bowl, tea pot,
etc.,-out of peach stones.
sEvERY tree is subject to disease" said
speaker in Fruit Growers Conven-
ton. "What ailment can you find on an
oak?" asked the chairman. "a corn, !"
was the triumphant reply.
As it takes 5000 cochineaI insects to
make pound, and as 1,849, ,942 pounds
were brought into this country last year,
100, ,239, 900 must have given up their
lives to color the dresses and cheeks Of
American ladies.
AT dinner party in Paris, given by an
American, each guest found valuable
souvenir under his or her plate The la
dies received rings, boquet holders, lock-
cts, or fans; the gentlemen, cigar cases,
pocket-books, etc.
LADY who has pretty hand is anx.
ious to learn whether people are more
fable than common to "burn their fin.
gers" if they happen to be taper ones.
We cannot say, but we have advised hel
not to let spark get at them.
HEv allurs observed that a whipir
dog is sure to get lickt in fight. No cul
of well reggerlated morals kan resist the
temptation to bite cowardly purp thai
tries to sneak off with his tale between
his legs. The whinin bizness man is Just
so. A good ringing bark in wuth more tc
put greenbax in mans pocket than forty
two years Of whinin. Josh Billings.
A SAN FRANCISCO street-car conductor
just beginning to collect his fares, placed
his hand in the side pocket of his coat tc
draw forth his nippers, when out came
formidable fve-shooter from a miners
hip pocket, accompanied with the excla
nation, Look here, stranger, kim from
the mountains, but yer can't get the droI
on me-"
A NEW FAIRFIELD man has invented
torpedo in the shape of kernel of corn
which is designed for the beguilement O
crows. As soon as that offensive birt
takes hold of it, it explodes and blow
cheap and innocent recreation for tn
crow, and at the same time does ava,
with grievous evil.
A DOCTOR asked the head of famil,
in Ohio if they had been vaccinated. III
answered in the affirmative. He in
quired: "Where did you get the vaccin
virus ?" The father. stated that one O
his little girls had hurt her finger with
pin, and his Oldest daughter had vaccin
ated the rest of the children from tn
sore, and that they were all working"
A GENTLEMAN in London lately, il
making return of his income to the Ia
Commissioners, wrote on the paper
i" For the last three years nv income ha
been somewhat under e150 in future
will be more precarious, as the man i
dead Of whom | borrowed the money"
The Anglo Brazilian Times tells a stor
of an Argentine Second Lieutenant VIII
made a "pronunciamento'' several year
ago in the city of Correntes, but wa
beaten and captured. Atthe court t-martia