Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

OIL has been struck in boring well in
Jonesboro, Ala.
DAYS of grace on commercial paper
are abolished in California since Janu
ary l.
raised in Los Angeles last year.
WHAT an obstinate creatures mule.
How peculiar, that woman, the pride of
creation, is Muller!
WHEN the enterprising butchers as
sistant sset up on his own hook, did he
find comfortable seatp
THE maple-sugar interest of Vermont
now exceeds in magnitude the wool in
terest, which was for long time SO prom
inent.
AT Cass River Bridge, Mich, there is a
child with thirteen toes on one foot, and
six on the other. Its father has six toes
on both feet.
AN intelligent gravestone-cutter in De-
troit keeps ready-made gravestones with
the name - Smith cut thereon.
TENNESSEE hires out convicts to work
on railroads, which looks like offering a
premium for them to make tracks.
PoPoFF is the unpleasantly suggestive
name of one of the leading physicians of
st. Petersburg.
A COLUMBUS (O.) bootblack, having
amassed competence in his profession,
has purchased hand-organ and retired
to enjoy life.
JOHN JONES, of Keokuk, smoked the
rats from between some false floors, and
burned his house down. He made it hot
for the rats, though.
A YOUNG lady living at Glen Rock,
Neb., born of white parents, and of deli
cate complexion, has, sincereeovery from
sickness of strange nature, turned as
black as any Ethiopian.
A BOSTON manufacturer advertises a
patent shoe that will prevent horses from
ssballing." Spicer says this is not new
idea, as Mrs. s. has used shoe often to
stop the young Spicers' bawling.
Two men recently skated from Sioux
City, Iowa, to Omaha, Neb., a distance
of about 200 miles.
A sTATIsTICIAN has discovered that q
man sentenced for twenty years to a New
York prison has nine chances out of ten
of being pardoned out in five years.
A FARMER in Eagle County, Neb., late
ly cut cottonwood tree, twelve foot
log from which made 108 feet of lumber
Eight years ago he planted the seed from
which that tree sprang.
AT pork auctions in the season of epic
otics it is limited that animals unfit fol
ham were brought to the hammer
which, however, placed them meas1y
within the reach of the poorer classes.
THERE were two astonished families al
Bangor, Maine, on Thanksgiving morn.
ing. The milkman delivered a can OF
pure milk to one and pure water to the
other, by reason of mistake in filling
the cans.
MRS. PART1NeToN has so often seer
the heading Another ministerial crisis
in Spain,' that she has concluded thai
preachers are getting thinned out in thai
country.
AN old lady of Plymouth, Mass, aftel
kindling her fire few mornings since
had hunt for her cat, whose cries coul6
be plainly heard, and at last found hel
shut in the stove oven, rapidly dancing
from one pair of feet to another.
A LATE inspection of the theaters o.
the city of New York, by the Fire Mar
shal, showed that but few of them were
in anything like an unsafe condition, anG
in the cases of those few, orders were
given and carried out for the requisite
fire precautions.
OUR sOng-WTftcTS are improving, q idL(
ballad being entitled, '.Do not Slam th'
Gate, Harry, and still later commenc
ing with the touching words
Take off your boots at the porch, Jim,
For the old man don't sleep very sound"
AT Des Moines, Iowa, new pork
packing building was dedicated with 1
ball. The programme provided for the
sShort Rib" polka, "Clear SIDE" qua
drille, Cumberland Middle" waltz
Mess Pork" UGrsouvsenne, "Long Clear
Lancers, and other favorite figures.
A NEW feature of social entertainment.
this winter will be 'tpound parties" They
derive this name from the circumstance
that each person invited is requested te
furnish pound of pastry, confectionery
fruit, or other edibles for the table. an5
thus an elegant supper is provided. Tht
parties are given at private residences.
A BENEVOLENT st. Louis man secure;
the Christmas benedictions of the news
boys by giving each of them a new cap
The proud and happy recipients rushee