Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-12-08

The largest room in the wor,d--The
room for improvement.
Was Eve high or low church? ? Adam
thought her E0e-angelicaI.
The hand of an expert printer travels
9 miles in setting up $4,000 letters.
They have reservoirs of mud in China
for extingnishiug confagrations.
Democrat, on reading the returns of the
elections said: That beats the Devil
And he told the truth.
UNPRINCIPLED--Whic is the cheaper,
bride or bridegroom? The bride; she
is always gioen a,oay, the bridegroom
sold.
An exchange calls the burial ofex Gov.
Allen, of Louisville, in full confederate
uniform, running the rebellion into the
ground.
AT Erie in his speech the President said:
81 tell you all the powers in hell cannot
turn me fon my purpose" To which
some exchange adds, Doubtless they
dol't want to-"
A gentleman presented a lace-colar to
the object of his alteration, and in joe
ular way said: Do not let any one else
rumple it; 'No, DEAR said the lady,
I'll take it off.
A Washington correspondent says that
Mr.. Morrissey visited, the Capitol few
days since, and on noticing the Speakers
desk, inquired whether that was where
the referee satT
An exchange says savings bank in
Mobile, established by the negroes, col
lapsed the other day in consequence of
the dapositors Withdrawing all the funds
% attend circus.
Subjects for canuudrums being nearly
exhausted, one desperate joker has gone
back to our Fl st parents and inqu;res,
"Why was Eve not afraid ofthe measles I
Because sh>'i Adam"
"Have you any travelling inkstands
asked young lady of a young stationer.
'No ma'am, we have them with feet and
legs, but they are not old enough to trav-
ell yet"
"Mother and infant" receipt ons are in
vogue at New York. Young wives in
vite their acquaintance to see their young
babies. The toilettes of mother, child
and visitors are in the height of fashion.
A Phreoologist had been examining
Queen Victorias head. He said he found
the bump of adhesiveness sadly deficient,
if it existed at all. In justice, however,
to this gentleman, we will state that the
Queens head nnder examination was a
postage stamp.
The manner in which the original cop.
perheads treat the small number of re-
publicans who have Joined them, reminds
one of Lord Dundreary's excellent conun-
drums "Wa-wa-why does dog waggle
his tail /? Because the dog is stronger
than his tail: otherwise the tail would
wa-wa-wagle the dogp
A singular relic of the past was last
week exhumed upon the old Reuben Mott
property, now the residence of the Ga
zette senior. 1t consists Of an old En-
glish nine pound solid shot, was covered
to the thickness of nearly an inch with
oxydized iron and earth was about five
feet from the surface. Query, is how it
came there. The probabilities are that it
was dropped when Norwalk was attacked
under Tyrop. Nor,oaM ca. Gazette.
A copperhead put the following inter-
rogatory to Gen. Logan during one of his
speeches in Indiana
"a few years ago, when you was q
Democrat, the Republicans called you
Dirty-work-Logan; are you doing the
dirty work for them now ?''
ayes, said the Gen. j suppose I am.
for can hardly conceive of anything dirt.
ier than skinning copperheads, but it has
got to be done.
The recent fire at Fredericton, N. B.,
it is said was first detected by New.
foundland dog. The noble brute, with
almost human instinct, tore its say into
the house by means of one of the doors
+ and aroused the family by his barking
and then ran to the stable door, whick
. he cndeavored to open 90 that the horxa
his almost insepasalsle eompanic. mich
escape. There he remained strucelis~
Q though every effort was made 70 entiS
e him away, and whea she IRE went on
lac was found living dead at his Doef