Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-13

WEDDING CARDS in Denver consist OF q
jack of diamonds and the queen OF
hearts, with the contracting parties
names thereon. If the brides mother Is
living the ten of clubs is enclosed.
A NEGRO in Coffee County, Ga, who
bet So. 75 that he could ride roam mule
with pine burr under the saddle, lost
the money He was followed to the tomb
by large and enthusiastic audience.
LOUISVILLE has a new Chief of Police,
and he has awkwardly arrested several
leading citizens whom he found in gam
bling rooms. 1t will take him some
weeks to get acquainted.-Chicdgo paper.
Work on the North Pacific Coast Rail.
road, to run from Saucelito northward
near the ocean shore, will soon be COM
menced by 500 men, and the company
expect to reach the Russian River this
year.
BOARDING HOUSE chicken soup can be
made, it is said, by hanging up hen in
the sun so that her shadow shall fall into
pot of salt water. The only trouble Is,
that on cloudy day the soup is liable to
be weak.
THE champion hunters of Oregon are
J. J. Crawford and David Thomson, OF
Douglas, who in nine days killed foul
panthers, three bears and two lynxes. In
the year they killed sixty-one animals OF
these species.
A LADY called on witty friend, who
was not at home, and finding the piano
dusty. wrote upon it "slattern." The
next day they met, and the lady said, VI
called on you yesterday" eyes, l saw
your card on the piano"
THaRE Is rumor out that the Agricul
tural Colleges which do not conform in
their courses of study to the law of Con
gress which calls them into life, will gel
naandamuses served on them from the
United States Supreme Court.
SOME questions very naturally suggest
themselves to an inquiring mind. An
amateur farmer wonders "why, on all
this fair earth, the ground is bottom side
up, so that it must be turned over with a
plow before corn can be raised?"
OVER 100000 in bonds, mortgages,
etc., stolen from the banking house of
Clarkson & Co, Lancaster, Pa, on the
18th January. have since been found un.
der stairway leading to the basement OF
st. Paul's Reformed Church in that city
Two men who stole ride on Texas
freight train were locked in and switched
off the track at way station, and had to
remain in their close quarters for ninety
six hours without food or water, and al
the end of that time were imprisoned as
vagrants.
A CHUNK of gold, weighing over 24(
pounds, and worth about $50, 600, was
found in the claims of Yo Yen & Co., al
Moore's Flat (Coll These claims are
owned by a Chinese company to whom
they were sold cheap, having, as was sup
posed, been exhausted.
A WEDDING was broken up at Columbu:
City, Iowa, in the following manner
The preacher asked if any one had any
objections; the young lady said: "Yes
l don't want to marry him." The ex
pectant bridegroom folded his broadclotl
and silently stole away.
THE St. Paul Pioneer says Johr
Kegan, of Plainview, rs years of age
bivOuacked in a snow bank for forty nine
hours during the late storm. He wa!
fearfully bruised by pounding himself t.
keep from freezing, but beyond that hi
suffered no serious injury.
THE Cleveland Herald understand
from reliable source that very extensive
stock yards are to he built on the line O
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad. between that city and Paines
vile. to accommodate the largely increas
ing stock business of the road.
A STEAMBOAT landed at Marion Bend
KY, recently, and put two negroes ashOr
who were sick with the smallpox Th
| citizens were afraid to go near them
They were without shelter, food, o
medicine, and of course died neglecte,
and alone. The hogs devoured thei
| bodies.
DETRoIT's chief of police had tele
gram from an interior town saying: Al
rest man with red hair for runnin
away with my wife" Upon walking fou
blocks the chief met no less than Is rec
haired men walking wit. ladies, and
concluded that the eloping couple ceulC
pass through the city in safety.
| SPENCE PETTIs, convicted at Bosto1
of forgery, thinks that the old detective
of Boston were hard to trade with; Ne7
York officers were satisfied with hal
but, in one bargain with the Boston off
GERS, seven or eight years ago, he had t
pay them &C per cent, which he calls tai
ing mean advantage.
WHILE the workmen were engaged
sinking vertical shaft at the Black Di
mond Coal Company's mine in Mour
Diablo, Cal. they came upon frog at
depth of 172 feet 1t was imbedded
solid sandstone, so that the impressio
of its form was perfect upon the roc
around it; but, nevertheless, it was aliv
and lived for twelve hours after its eXtr
cation.
A BRooKFIELD man writes for the be
way TO manage bull. If our Brookfiel
friend has got bull on his premises, an
1 the bull is well, he don't want to manas
it. All he has got do is to get fe
things hastily together. mortgage h
place and steer straight for the west. F
might as we'll try to ward off streak
lightning with a fifty cent pa Mt brush
to manage bull -SprS1nfeM Republican
FReLIcsoME columns of sand, ten fe
through and ten hundred feet high, al
waltzing about Nevada in a manner tn;
is, to say the least, quite May. tt
twenty-five mile desert is their dancir
floor. For the most part, they obserV
the most platonic demeanor towards OF
another. and trip it singly, like spi
ming Shaker spinster.
A CURIOUS suit has been begun in Il
Superior Court at Hartford, Conn, by
man named Conway, to recover So,
for the death of child who died in 1S
from the effects of cold, taken while {
one of the boats of the Hartford and Ne
York Steamboat Company. Conws
claims that there were no accommod
tions in the cabin or elsewhere, and tn
the consequent exposure was the cause
the death of the child