Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-03-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

CU hhfINI 1IEMSs
AT church fair in Brooklyn, N. Y, a
man paid $118 for pen wiper.
THE seven paupers on the Marshall
County, Iowa, poor farm last year cost
the county $7,5s7.
A LITTLE girl at Dubuque amended the
Lords prayer by asking for her daily gin
gerbread.
A MAN named Faust has sued the city
of Cleveland for So, 900 for catching the
smallpox.
A FLOCK of 200 quails were found frozen
to death in Delaware county, Iowa, just
after a heavy snow storm.
A YOUNG Irish girl at Jacksonville, ILL.,,
has hair that reaches to the floor, and has
refused $100 for it.
GRANDPA. Childers, of Cass County,
Iowa, aged 63, recently married sweet
lump of girl of only fifteen summers.
THE Governor of Iowa has appointed
Mrs. E. NJ. Wright, of Des Moines, mat
ron of the Soldiers Orphan Home at
Cedar Falls.
A. NJ SIMPSON picked up piece of
gold in Wyman's Ravine, Butte County,
CAL, weighing 80 ounces.
GLENwooD, Iowa, has a sensation in
the shape of human skeleton found by
a wood-chopper on cutting down hollow
tree.
THE trustees of Vassar College have in
terdicted the wearing of collars and cuffs
by the fair convicts confined in that vol
untary penitentiary.
AN INVOICE of Wisconsin tobacco of
the crop of 1872 sold in New York City
recently for twelve cents per pound,
which shows it to be of superior quail
ity.
A PETITION has been sent to Congress
asking that body to offer $4,000 reward
to the person who finds sure cure for
smallpox.
A PHILADELPHIA boy has shown the
world the value of picking up small things.
He has stolen over 800 door-mats since
November.
THE recent accident on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad has called forth general
condemnation of the practice of mixing
passenger coaches with oil cars.
MIsCHIEvoUs boys in Fredericktown,
MO-, daub the front-door knobs with tar
on Sunday evenings for the benefit of the
beaux calling upon their sisters.
Rev. SILAs WHITE, of Page county,
Iowa, was arrested for using obscene Ian
guage in prayer at a revival meeting,
and was fined $5 and costs.
BAsswooD shoes, followed and fash
ioned from the primitive tree, are much
worn by Eastern mechanics at their shop
work. They are imported from Michi-
gan.
NINETY-sIx of the doctors of Montreal
signed paper designed to ''undeceive the
public mind of the mischievous error that
| alcoholic liquors are beneficial"
THE Boston Adgertiser says there are
2,768 places in Boston where intoxicating
liquors are sold in defiance of the pro
hibitory laws of that State.
| THE Iowa Press excursion this year
will be to Niagara Falls, by way of Chi
cago and Detroit. The Association meets
at Cedar Rapids on the 10th of June.
THE people of New York will vote
next November, whether Judges shall
hereafter be appointed by the Governor
or elected according to the present system
FISHING upon Green Bay is said to
have been better the past winter than fol
many winters previous. The catch was
very large, and the quality of fish caught
very fine.
A BOY at Jackson Salich, named Clan
cey, who is only 13 years of age, recently
dead-headed it to California and bacl
again. That boy will be newspaper
man some day.
Mrs. JANE BOLTON, of Rowe, Mass, 9:
last May, braids seven palm-leaf hats fol
her usual days work, besides doing some
chores about the house. She learned tht
art when about 10 years old.
AN inmate of the Hartford Conn In
sane Asylum has just been discovered tt
be woman, after having passed her
self off as man for many years befor,
she became afflicted with mania.
THE Louisville Cou7Ser-Jou17,az says
can English naturalist tells us there ar,
"a distinct species of f1eas. The las
time we slept in Cincinnati hotel WI
could have sworn there were 81, ,000."
PETITIONS are circulating in California
asking Congress to appoint commission
to examine and report on the practica
} bility of turning the Colorado River init
the Colorado desert.
THE Boston Herald says that BOstol
has more bar-rooms than Chicago, fac
which attests the efficiency of the pre-
: hibitory liquor law and the industry an
,, incorruptibility of the State constabu
: larry.
; CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, has a hog tha
! hibernated for thirty six days beneatl
five feet of snow, and came out all righ
with the exception of being frozen lii
{ tie about the hams and somewhat thin i
|, flesh.
ALBANY is excited over the discover
. of a skeleton in the garret above the pos
office. The room has not been opene
: for seventeen years, and how the skeleto
, got there is mystery which no one ca
solve.
: Rio JANEIRo mail advices say the RAJ
, ages of the yellow fever are carrying o
hundred persons daily. Very fe
, Americans are taken with the diseas'
, it being confined mostly to the Portuges
and Italians.
Q The newspapers down East have di
l covered family in Oldtown, Maine,
> which there are fourteen children, all boy
s the Oldest of whom are but seven yea
!. of age. There are four sets of twins an
y two of tripiets.
e THIS is the way they keep up the ba
> ance of power in Kentucky: "To IL
: wife of James Bradley, of Fayette Cour
d ty, son-Jeff Davis. To the wife {
J; :; Robert Ritchie, of Fayette County, SO
n u. S. Grant"
b AMONG the curiosities of Paris paw
= shop is an umbrella which has been
pledge for forty seven years, the origin,
ID mortgagor Or his descendants havin
l. " regularly pah the interest on the loa
~ during that time