Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-08
So in Advance
WHOLE NUMBER 9I0
Odds and Ends


The death Of asprinter is thus describ.
ed in an English paper Geo. Wood
cock, theI*set has aprefessiaB,n lathe type of
honesty, thel Of, ,aH;I > and although the
es-of death has put a.ASto, his existence,
every S of his life was withohta al aar ,
=. You y like plenty of nice things, don't
you Johnny? How many cakes did you
have at the pastrycook's, yesterday ?,'
isFISe ;sfirst a sponge cake, then an al
.mond cake, then . current cake, then a
sweet cake, and then aa.stoma-cake.o
A well known lawyer in Boston had a
horse that always stopped and refused to
cross a anill-dafne.. bridge leading out the
city. No whipping, no urging, weuld
carry him over without stopping. So he
advertised him 'ss To be sold for no other
reason hDas the oseaaes. ,caasts 10 90 oatt of
toscn." -o' .7-a aa 1f.'se li,ll is7ifa7 1aa -,
A celebrated pork contractor for the
Federal army presented himself short
time back at sculptor's atelier at Rome,
and stated his intention of sending
durable memento ofhimself to adorn his
native place in America. With an am
liable candor he explained to the artist
that he had begun life as q poor boy
selling matches, and by lucky speeula-
tions hadhis present gigantic greatness.
7s1 Now,fhe cdntiiiued,l l"Iv,e lseena NUM-
ment in this city as suits my views toa
nicety.o0 N kinttfof column with little
figgers irunnina up all round it, and a chap
at the top" ''Traj Column" suggests
the artest.s Po'raps. it may be; an 4 wish
you sste serlln me jest sich another, aaiwor-
kin olt5 the whole 9, my ,biOgraff, begin
ming at, the 0ttomI with q boy a ,sellin'
matches, and then Keep on winding it up
till it ends with me IN IN an easy attitopd
at the lIQlsiear 9r', istif b9fa,niis, a. ffs5t5
A modern Philosopherhas ppr0priated mans
full extreme as follows =
Seven years in ehildhood's sport & play. /
Seven wears in school from day to day. IA
Seven years at a trade or college Life. 21
Seven years to find place, and wife. %
Seven years to pleasures follies given. 35
Seven years, 70 business hardly driven. AZ
Seven years for some, a Wild goose cha'e.49
Seven years for wealth, d bootless race. s56
Seven years for boarding for your heir. SO
Seven years IN weakness spent &c care.7O
81 Then die and g5oE-you' should know
Thefen 91s aeil1 eGl,e :1oda yniaEia aioo1f
While England is already provided
With the Snyder rifle, Prussia with the
needle gun, and France with the Chase
pot rife, Austria is arming It's troops as
rapidly as possible With new breseh
loadtr, the invention Of a certain Herr
Werii,ll. IT 9fsfsaid to be simple in con-
sffuetion,I will fire twenty rounds a min
ute, and will penetrate five-iReh deal
board at i 200 yards. "a 1t islvery Tight,
costs only about sl0siii uri'money, and
has shbremarkable capabiiity for rough
usage. The barreb and baclspieceD being
of one piece steel end supported by
long stock, there is nothing9to break=--
Herr Werndl, who has refused allfofeign
contracts, asks nothing for his patentabut
offers to makes200, 900 rifles a year,
80 The Milwaukee, Sentinel publishes the
extract from a Democratic pa
per in the westernapart of " iseonsin :iia
: Glory ito God in the Highest !irsin spite
of Rump tyranny, Abolition malice, John
soii timidity, and the fanatieal and bigot-
ed ;, JEFF. Davis once more breathes the air
of freedom THAT is to say, as free as it can
be. in; q Rump .despotism,) and walks
among his fellows, ''the noblest Roman
of them all. > n Long life and happy years
to the brayest man, OF our country and
age. ,.F3 .slr.. ~ .i-rr-.i; on ioa bisa9
{ Some forty years ago, there resided in
one lot the eastern towns OF Vermont, an
old Scotchman, notorious for his irreli-
gion, but espeeiallyi1for disregard of the
truth. Being taken dangerously I'LL, In
his alarm he sent forthwith Tor. the, minis
ter who was also q Scotchman,l and who
knew the old man we'll. AS soon as he
saw the sick man, he gaccostcd Kim with,
"Weel, Mr.. Med. ye're very sick, but do
ye think that f she Lord should spare you
at this time, ye would afterward tell the
truth = srsA Aye, parson Ca said the old
man, "and more toe" s5f,1 7sd.o s[a as1si
The following characteristics anecdote
of this same old Scotch divine, is related
In; Vermont to this day.. On a certain
Sabbath, Mr., G, had reached about the
middle of his sermon, when there arose
some stir in the congregation, OCCASION
ed by the r val of a somewhat noted
twelve miles away in neighboring town
and who, owing to the bad state of the
roads, were thus late to the Kirk. The
old gentleman paused until all was still,
and then instead OF proceeding with his
sermon, remarked, "Een as DR. A. has
come, we'll inst turn back and begin a.
gain" Al d sure enough he did COM
at the beg n ling, and the eongre-
cation were obliy q Ito listen, with what
grace they might, to repetition of the
first half of the discourse Sermons IN
those days were some more tksn fifteen
or even thirty minutes in lengsh, and this
therefore dt tailTed e.them so slate, that
night had set in before DR.. "A. and his
wife could reach home. sa9lsg,ls2 Ist SIS
81 fi>Go- 7---T-- y Ili4ibJ oi-.
FLOORING A FoP.-It does nowv and
that seoffers who seek amuse-
ment by poking sly fun at the members
of the Institute of France, come off sec