Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-02-03
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The past history OF tbe family Iof Louis
Napoleon and the Sultan OF Turkey is ful
Of interesting and marvellous Incidents
some Of which are probably not GENERALLY
EDCwn' esiaioah tue h.i aus iud sqgisai71o,
| n These two monarcbs, a few years pgp SO
cordially united 10 the struggletg mainiair
the integrity sof the Ottoman Empire, arc
both descendauts of American Indies, ths
one gtandsone and the other % great
grandson. These ladies we're bora in tbt
same neighborhood. on the island of Mar
Unique, one Of the West Indies. They
were Of French origin, and companiops end
intima'e friends in childhood and youth n
They were Josephine de Tascher and Miss
S-----'. % The history of j osephine Is gene
rally known She went TO France and was
married TO NJ de Beaubarnais, by whom
she bad one son; Eugene, aud u daughter,
Hortense, Some time aftet the death Of
Beauharnais, Josephine. was married 10
Napoleon Banaparte, tten King Of dol
land. ard The present Emperor Of France
is her son by this marriage. aE l5idy ad
But now for the romance Of the of Iira
Josephine's bosom friend qnitted The island
of Martinique some time before sae did -
France was attacked and taken by Age.
fine corsairs, and the crew aud passengers
made prisoners, but the corsair ship was 10
turn attacked andpilaged by Tunis pirates,
and Miss s was carriedto Const an tinople,
and offered for sale as o slave. Her ex
traordinary beauty and accomplishments
fopnd herIa purchaser 10 the Sultan him
self, and she soon. became the chief lady
in bis seraglio, aud Sultanness of Turkey,
Mahomud II was her son Abdul Medjid
was he son of Mabomnd, aud the preseu
Sultan. Abdul Az'z Khan, is the grandson
of Mahomud. ttb rdfe 80 euiiad1i-,b 9a
Thus tbe,two sovereigns whorow occu-
py so large a space in the worlds eye, are
descended, from two American creole girls,
who were peymaies in their youth. and as
remarkable for their, beauty and excellent
dispositions as for their varied aud singular
fortunes Both of these women, in the
highest .of their power, remembered the
friends of their yodth. aud provided mua
nifcently for their welfare Many of the
relatives Of the SultanneSs left the island
of Martinique aod settled at Constantine
pie, where their defendants stil reside and
enjoy the favor Of the Sultan. ."
The SultaaUess died in 1911, and the
Empress Josephine in 1915. III q. flsr
The FIRST BABY BY the Rev Mr.,
S. W. B., 10 G. G.. ,cnly daughter. etc.
No cards" Why didn't it say no baby, !?
have one of those interesting animals at
my home. It came when it rained, dark
as pitch, and my umbrella at the store, and
DO ears running. The doctor lived Eve
miles due west, and the nnrse six miles due
east, and when I got. home to the bosom Of
my family the condensed milkmap was at
the next door. 1t is q funny little chip,
that baby, Solferino color, and the length
Of Bologna Sausage. Cross ? guess
not Um, um il commenced chasing me
down the pathway Of life just when muslin,
linen and white flannel were the highest
they had been since Adam built house for
Mrs EYES chickens-Do charged two
! dollars squint, four dollars grnni, aud,
on account of The scarcity of rain 10 the
/ country, take what is LEFT in mans pocket,
no dsrouDt for cash, and send bill for bal
ance, January Ist. A poor little thing is
| that baby speck of nose like wart !;
head as bald as a sqrash, and no place to
hitch waterfall a mouth just suited to
come the gum game aud chew milk, Oh,
crackee. you should hear her sing / have
bumped il. stuffed my for cap down its
throat, giving it the smoothing iron to play
with. bul that little red lump that looks
as if it couldn't mold blood enough TO keep
musquito frcm faihtug, persists in yelling
like thunder. II shows great desire to
swallow its a'ts and the other d,y they
dropped down its throat, and all that pre-.
vented their going clear through was, the
crook of its elbows. 1t stopped its music
aud 1 was happy one and half minutes
It's pleasant thing to have a baby in the
houss-one Of your bellyache kind. gdi
Think of the pleasures Of o. father in
dishabilie, trembling in the midnight hour
with his warm feet upon a 50 iares y ard OF
cold oil cloth. dropping parsgorio, in a tin
spoon hy moonlight somebody humping
on the door, wife OF your bosom shouting
hurry. and the baby yelling ill tue freseo
drops from The ceiling las o nice time TO
think of dsess Goals, pants, ties aBd white
kids Shades of departed cocktails, what
Comioi ~" nav u pietuie iVs au attst ~
plaster. of Paris. Its motbes says the
darlingtis troubled with wind on The stom-
ach-it beats all ibe wind instruments you
ever heard, Il have to get up in, the cold
bile the milk warms--it uses The bottle.
i have q aeradleowiIh q representation of q
miraculous soothing syrup bottle on the
Dashboard / tried tojslop jtso breath ,tbe
other nighl-TitJwss no go; lirocked it SO
hard l missed the stays, aud sent il slap
clear across the room, upsettings jar loi
preserves. IL didn't make any noise then.
oh, no !; Its mother says only " wait nnu
il gets blesched. (it has been gsccipated. }
aud old enough to crawl around aud iced
on pins. Yes. Pm going to ,wsit, WpRl
it be delightful lJohn run for the, doctor
sis has fell into the slop,pail. and is choking
With aspotato skins sis has fell down stairs
sis has sgollpwed The tack banner shows
signs Of the mamps, measles group,
whoopipg cough. smallpox, colie, dysen
terry, cholera infantum. or some other darn
thing to let the doctor take oil the money
laid by for my winters corn beef. and oil
this comes Of shampooiug and curling my
hair, wearing nice clothes, looking hand
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