Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-30
Salmon Jumping.

watched the fish With a race-glass for
some ten minutes before disturbing them,
anxious to discover what Nature was
teaching me. There is very deep pool
at tie point where the waterfall Joins
the lower level of the water. The fish
| came out of this pool into the air with
the velocity of. an arrow; they gave
no warning or notice of their intentions,
bat up they came, and darted out of
the surface of tie water with sudden
rush, like rockets let loose from the dark.
ness Of the night into the space above.
When they first appeared in the air,
ther tails were going with the velocity
of watch-spring just broken, and the
whole body, sparkling as though they
had been enamled, was quivering with
the exertion. They looked as much like
flying fish as ever | saw anything in my
life.
As they assembled their tails stop quiv-
ering, for these tails were machines made
to act on water, and not wings to act on
air. Their course was somewhat traiec-
tory in form, but not so much so as |
expected. Not one single fish, alas did
| see get over; some of them jumped
into tile body of the waterfall, and were
hurled violently back down into the pool
like the pictures we see of soldiers of old
thrown down heailong from the ramparts
of a besieged city. Other fish would put
on more steam, and were in consequence
carried by their own impetus right
through the sheet of water dashing
themselves with the force of cricket
ball froni q catapult against the solid
wall which formed the weir.
These also, poor things, fell back into
bruised noses. While the bigger fish
were making these strenuous efforts to
ascend, their smaller companions were
jumping distances more or less high up
in the falling Water. Many had evident
ly given it up for bad Job, and were
swimming about with their little black
noses projecting out of the white boiling
water, doubtless crying ont, owe can't
get up. Cruel miller to put the wier.
Mr.. Buckiand, do what you can for u.s."
"Wait bit my dear fish, said, 'the
Duke of Northumberland, is kind man
and he is going to make a ladder fer
you; the plans are nearly settled, and
then you shall jump for Joy and not for
pain. In the meantime read this" So l
pinned large piece of paper on the weir
which read thus ''Notice to salmon
and bull trout-no road at present over
this WEIR Go down stream, take the
first turn to the right, and You will find
good travelling up stream, and no jump
ing required.
Frank Bucktand in Land o1d JPatcr,
A funny story is going the rounds in
Paris: 4 lady in the first society was
recently obliged to dismiss her nurse on
account of an excess of firemen and sold
iers too often repeated. After choosing
a successor to this criminal, very pret-
ty girl, the lady, explaining why the first
was sent away, enjoined it on the second
not to do likewise. She admitted that
she shouldn't. 81 can endure great
deal,' said the lady, "but soldiers about
the kitchen l won't endure" After
week or eight days, the lady came one
morning into the kitchen, opened cub
board. and discovered youthful militia
ry character "Oh, ma'am," cried the
Girl, frightened, 81 give you my word
that l never saw that soldier before iii all
my life-he must have been one of the
old ones left over by the other girl ~
Mr.. Alexander T. Stewart will soon
erect block of dwellings, uptown, to
cost 100000 and to be forever the
home of the working-womcn of New
York. 1t is not to be an alms-house, but
a home-more extensive then the Working
women's Home in Elizabetb-st. where
women may find food and shelter at
prices within their reach, and whatever
revenue it may yield us to be employed
in the erection of other like institutions
Mr.. Stewart has also resolved to expend
s.. 600. 900 in the erection of tenement
houses on an approved plan, and to devise
them to q Board of Trustees to be COM
posed Of ene person from every religions
denomination in the city, and to be so
rented as to yield revenue that shall be
applied in the construction of other model
tenement-houses in the city perpetuaIiy.
The higher an ass holds his head the
palmer we can see his ears.
The kink in mans life is often tied
by woman.