Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-03-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

CALEB GREEN, of Osseo, Mich, has in
vented a machine to extract shippers
from cheese, and secured a patent on
it.
CHINESE servants don't like Philadel-i
phia, as they are not allowed to pound on
tin boilers Sunday. .fLA5f.
ANY man who buys town lot in Gree
ley, Colorado Territory, must sign the
temperance pledge when he receives the
deed.
A BOY eight years old, at Lowell, Mass,
spelled seven thousand words without q
miss, and he put one hundred to the COM
mittee and they missed fifteen.
FOURTEEN thousand little bells were
made from a church bell in Fort Scott,
Kansas, which were sold for fifty cents
and novelty combined.
THE Council Bluffs NonpareI calls at
tention to the disregard of the law against
wanton slaughter of buffaloes on the plains,
and says that upward of 100, 900 buffalo
hides have been shipped from that city
alone the past winter.
THE people of Concord, N. H., give
an annual concert and levee for the benefit
of Lewis T. Miller, little crippled news
boy, who is trying to work his way
through Dartmouth College, and is now
in his Sophomore year.
A coNvALEscENT smallpox patient in
England has been sentenced to e2O hne or
a months Imprisonment for escaping
from the hospital and making circuit OF
the tap-rooms of the town in an eight
hour "bender."
A SMALLPOX patient got into the jail
at jackson, Tenn, the other day, and the
jailer "lit out" so quickly that he forgot
to lock up his bastile. When he came back
the smallpox man was gone. 80 were
the prisoners.
A HEN has unfortunately been killed in
Boston, which might in time have attain
ed the power of LAYING golden eggs. A
solid nugget of the precious metal was
found in her insides, weighing four pen
nyweights, and in shape very like an egg
An old lady in q town of Worcester
County, Mass, lately refused the gift OF
load of wood from tree struck by
lightning, through fear that some OF the
"fuid" might remain in the wood and
cause disaster to her kitchen stove!
IMPoRTATIoNs of tobacco from China
is the latest novelty in English trade. 1t
is used in some measure as q substitute
for Turkey, which it resembles in appear
ance, though not equal in quality. The
leaf is quite yellow, and is almost void Of
flavor.
AHEARr, not Gin the right place." was
found belonging to a man who recently
died IN the hospital at Cincinnati. 1t had
been beating away for years, comfortably
enough on the right side, when
by all rights it should have been on the
left; but from the slight arrangement, it
suffered little if any arrangement.
DIR. CHARLES PUTNAM, of Boston, dis
courages the popular delusion that the
children Of the poor are the hardest and
most likely to attain to maturity. He
says: "Twenty-eight per cent. of the
children born in Boston die during their
first year, and among the poorer classes
the percentage is over fifty"
THE pew United States Hotel at Sara
toga Springs is going to be "bigger than
all outdoors" The principal part will be
500 feet long by 80 feet deep, with wing
65 feet in length. The kitchen will be
125 feet long, and the dining-room twice
that length. The piazZas of the wing and
front will be over half mile in extent.
THE maddest woman in the United
States of America is one who lives at
jackson, Me. She recently lent her fifty
dollar muff to female acquaintance,
who sported it at a smallpox funeral, and
sent it home with neat little note, stat
ing this fact, and that as she had
sprInkled it with benZine, the owner need
not fear catching the disease"
A Troy On. W dentist, while plying
his avocation around the mouth of lady
customer recently, was seized with emo-
tional insanity, and kissed her. She was
not so far under the influence of ether but
that the shock revived her, and the tooth
carpenter loaned her husband fifty dol
lars on long time the next day, beside
making no charge for his two and half
hours work.
A CINCINNATI man who suspected his
servant girl of using kerosene oil to kin
die the fire with, thought he would try
her one night, so he poured the oil out
and filled the can with water. When he
landed in the dining room next morning
there was no breakfast, and no fire to
cook it withholding but stove full OF
soaked wood and the foolishest looking
girl he ever saw.
CHARLIE REDFIKLD, treasurer of Nc
Vicker's theatre, has a curiosity. 1t is a
bank note on the First National Bank of
Goshen, Ind, of the denomination of $40
on the face and $50 on the back. 1t is
undoubtedly genuine bill. The mistake
must have occurred in printing, and there
are probably number of others printed
in the same sheet, that are floating around
the country. The question is: What's
it's value-$10 or $20.-Chacdgo Times.
THE San Francisco Commercial BulIstn
reports the following as the largest single
bona fide transaction in grain ever make
in California, if not in the United States:
The wheat was all in the city warehouse,
was of uniform, good shipping quality,
and was the property of Scholle Brothers,
having been purchased by them in lots
during the fall at low prices. The sale
J consisted of IL, 900 tons, valued at $5OO,-
900.
THE Willamette Farmer contains a long
description of the dairy farm Of Mr..
Henry Ankeny, near Salem, Oregon. The
farm contains a, 900 acres, on which are
maintained 800 head of cattle, besides
swine. During the past season, the pro-
ducts of 200 cows were made into cheese,
of which there are now on hand, ready
for market, some &c, 900 pounds. The i'm
provements upon the farm are described
at length, and with the land are stated to
be worth seventy thousand dollars.
THE magnitude of the Illinois railroad
system can be understood when it is con-
sidered that now only seoen counties, JAS
per, Crawford, Calhoun, Hardin, Pope,
Massac and Franklin, out of the one hun
dred and two counties in the State, are
not touched by railroads. Even in the
seven counties mentioned, railroads are
already projected, so that it will be but a
short time until every county in the State
will be reached by rail, aggregating a
total of between 1000 and 5000 miles of
road.
"PUT barrel on your own back, you
brutei" shouted an old gentleman with a
flowing white beard and cherry face, as
heartless truckman was lashing pair
of overworked horses that were stagger-
ing through the sloughs in William street.
"Are you one of Bergh's spies?" was the
surly rejoinder. mo, sir, but I'm a
Bergher, snd if you'll come down like a
man Tll thrash you" The cartman took
up the gauntlet, and the old gentleman
was as good as his word; and to the honor
of the policemen be it said, they did not
interfere, but allowed the driver to get his
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