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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
How Pigeons Feed their Young.

Pigeons milk was referred to by
Shakespeare, which shows that in his day
the peculiar manner in which doves
nurse their young was well known
While the Matching process is going on
the esophagus or tube leading from the
mouth to the crop appears to shorten in
both parents. As soon as the little ones
leave the shell the father and mother fly
abroad and pick up grian which distends
the crop. A fluid is secreted in that re-
ceiving organs that softens it, and which
is so nearly Dissolved that the contents
appears like thickened milk. They then
perch on the edge of the nest, open their
bills, and the young helpless doves run
their bills quite down into the crop and
suck up the delicious food. In that way
they are fed several times day till they
become very fat. Under the name CT
soua6s they are sold in the market as
particularly appropriate aliment for lnVa-
lids.
When fully ledged the parents refuse
20 forage any longer for their lndolent
family They even push them from the
I;;@bt;na-stooi if they reside in a dove
nete or from the limb if in their wild
woodland haunts. By little and little
thew try heretofore unused wings, and
finally form a family establishment en-
tirely independent of the old homestead
The parents having been relieved from
their extra labor by weaving their brood
began very soon again de 'ao0o to rear up
another family, and so on for several sue
cessive years. They multiply very rap
idlu
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Popping the Question.

The Chimney Goa7aer has the follow
ing on characteristic popping"
Ydnkee-Jonathan-Sal, der yer love
doughnuts.? ....'.
Sal-Yes, Jonathan. Why?
Jonathan-O, nuthi'n: only consider
me one O. them doughnuts.
Westerr--Loquacious Individual-Hal,
10, old gal, see here! Pve scatterlofiistcr-
Gated all over the cquanimity of this 'ere
country looking for jist such a critter as
you. What say, will yer hitch?
Western Gal-O shucks / calkerlate
so let's us git mp and git.
DmcH-Hans-Ich will haben you, Jo-
hannas, loves you more better than l do
mine lager.
Johannas-Oh, va, Hans, dat is good.
Fench-French Gallant-Oh, NADIA
moiselle, you vile do me very much hon
or to accept re hand?
Mademoiselle-Oh, Monster you make
my face very much rough. Ask Mad
anne Goulezvous?
Matilda, l have five
gold watches, almost as good as new Won
good lot of secondhand clothing and Won
good camel-hair shawl, Which l will give
you if you will be mine bridn.
Matilda-Dear Hammon, cannot re-
rist; but let me see the camelhair shawl
first.
Patrick-Biddy, darling, would
yeeze like new house, a COW, a pig, and
meself in the bargain?
Bridget-Och Paddy, don't be tain
me! 'Tis the praist we're after wanting.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06

Marriage Law in Germany.
Among the antianated laws and {

Among the Anticipated laws and Gus.
toms of some of the smaller German
States which will be abolished on their
annexation to Prussia, not the least GU
rious are those relating to marriage. In
Electoral Hesse TO man was allowed to
marry if under % years of age, and no
woman if under Is. The result of this
severe law was, That while in other coun-
tries girls try to make people believe they
are 'sweet seventeen for many years af
ter they have left school, the Hessian
yourg ladies often declare themselves to
be eighteen years old long before they
have reached that age The Prussian au-
therities, however, will change all that,
the law of Prussia making the minimum
marriageable age eighteen for man and
fourteen for n woman. In Wurtemburg
men are not allowed to marry under 25,
except by special dispensation. A curl
Gus law, said to date from the time of
Visigoths, also exists in that country,
forbiding any woman to marry a man ~
years younger than herself. In the 9TH
er German States similar anomalies occur.
Thus in Saxony the minimum marriage
able age for man is q, and for oman
there is no restriction. In Austria boy
of fourteen may marry girl OF twelve;
while in Baden marriages. where the
bridegroom is under twenty-five, OF the
bride under eighteen, are not allowed un.
less sanctioned by tie police authorities
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Boraz Lake.

Borax Lake is About one hundred
miles north of San Francisco. Properly
speaking it is pond, being one mile
long and a half mile wide. 1t is situa-
ted on peninsula which juts into Clear
Lake, from which it is separated by a
mountain. 1t is, in brief, a crater OF an
extinct volcano, or at least presenting
that appearance.
Probably 10 white men ever saw Its
like-there being no other of the kind
save in Thibet. Before the discovery OF
Borax Lake, there were but two sources
of supply of borax to meet the demand
of the world-that of Thibet, and that
of firm in Liverpool, who manufactur-
ed the article by chemical process.
Iron coffer-dams, having chambers a.
bout five feet square, are sunk IN the lake
and the water is bailed out of the dams,
the mud in them being pressed by men
stamping on boards that cover it, and the
concrete mass taken ashore and dried in
the sun, the largest borax crystals being
picked up during the operation. Crys-
tails are found from the size of hens egg
to that ofa pea.
At the present time about four thous-
and pounds OF borax is obtained daily !;
ten to fifteen tons will be the daily yield
when the works are completed. The sup
ply may be regarded as illimitable, and
sufficient for the demands of the world.
1t is constantly forming, and soon there
will be no borax in use In the arts and III
medicine save that which the golden
State will furnish.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Six Degrees Of Drunkenness.

There are six kinds of drnnkards and
if you will go into city drinking place
where there is dozen men under the in
fiuence of liquor, you will be sure to find
these six different characters represent
ing different animals.
The first is ape-drunk He leaps, and
sings, and ye1ls, and dances, making all
sorts of grffnaces, and cutting up all sorts
of monkey shines" to excite the laugh
ter of his fellows. Terribly silly is the
drunken clown.
The second is tiger drunk. He breaks
the bottles, breaks the chairs, breaks the
head of his fellow carousers, and is full
OF blood and thunder. His eyes are fired
with vengeance, and his soul raves with
murderous fury. OF this sort are those
who abuse their families.
The third is hog drunk. He rolls in
the dirt on the floor, flobbers and grunts,
and on going into the streets, makes his
bed in the first ditch, or filthy corner he
may happen to fall. He is heavy, dump
ish and sleepy, and cries in a grunting
way for more to drink
The fourth is puppy drunk. He will
weep for kindness, and whine his love,
and hug you in his arms, and kiss you
with his slobberly lips, and proclaim how
much he loves you. You are the best
man he ever saw, and he will lay down
his money or his life for you.
The fifth is owl-drunk He it wise in
his own conceit. No man must differ,
for his word is law. He is true in politics,
and in all matters must be taken as au-
thority. His arm is the strongest. his
voice the sweetest, his horse the fieetest,
his turnips the largest, his town the fl
nest in the state or land.
The sixth and last animal in the men,
agerie is the fox-drunk man. He is Graf
ty and ready to trade horses and cheat
if he can, keen to strike bargain, peer
ing around with low cunning, peeping
through cracks, listening under the caves,
watching for some suspicious thing, sly
as fox, and sneaking as wolf He is
the mcanest drunkard of them all.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Snarling.

The way not to be healthy or happy
is to keep up an incessant snarling. If
you want to grow lean, cadaverous and
unloyely excite yourself continually a.
bout matters you know nothing about.
Accuse other people of wrong doing in
cessantly, and you will find but little
time to see any wrong in yourself We
wish here and now to inform all men of
irritable dispositions, that they will live
longer if they will only keep cool. If
such men want to die we have nothing to
say; snarling will kill about as quick as
anything we know. We have had good
health for the whole period of manhood,
and attribute the most of it to the way
we take things.
Digestion is much better when one has
sense. We like witless people, if they
will only keep in good humor; but an an
CRY blockhead who cannot express him
self in an intelligent way, is pitiful
sight We like fat people, simply be-
cause they take things easy.
Melancholy men, whose noses are al
ways askew, as though they had fallen
upon an unsavory obstacle in their path
are to be stunned. Men whose eyes nev-
er see anything beyond the extremity of
their nasal organs, are the poorest kind
of guides. The best way for people who
do not know things, is to say as little as
possible about the unknown.
You can talk with comfort with folks
who cannot tell any thing; but it is ter
rible to be obliged to stay with dysPep-
tic growler who seems bound to keep
everybody as uneasy as possible.
If thing is mean say it heartily and
at once, but do not go round the world
snarling. Men who are just are char1ta,
able. The way to heaven is lighted and
peaceful.
A soul saved should be cheerful, mercl-
full and glad. Things are not SO bad as
some folks think. The church is better
than its enemies imagine, and the world
is better than cynical Christians.
If YOU will keep your own soul in fel-
Iowship with God, you will think better
of other people. Rejoice always.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Cabbages for the Minister.

In some places in the country it is the
custom for people to pay their salary in
produce, pork, cabbages, &C. 1t is poor
way, often a mean way, but this is the
way it is sometimes done. A Methodist
minister writes:
"Coming home faint and weary from
visiting in the country afoot, one cold
November evening, just as frost was set
ting in with severity, Mrs. Dunn said to
me: 'One of the members from Wyan-
dotte class has been here and left thirty
cabbagcs. He said he had agreed to pay
one dollar and fifty cents, and you might
give him credit for so much" "Where
are they?" "He threw them over the
fence and as it is going to freeze hard to-
night, you had better bring them into
the cellar after you hove rested" "Well
| suppose | must; but we don't need so
many cabbages; perhaps / may be able
to sell them to Mr. Wylder." According
ly, weary as l was, picked them out of
the snow, and carried, two at a time, in
to the cellar Mr.. Wylder, who keeps a
provision market down town lived across
the street from us. Next morning call
ed over to see If he wanted to buy or
thought he could sell any cabbages. Who
did you get them from?" said he
"From Mr. Banks" "What did he charge
you for them ?' "Three cents head"
"Well that's astonishing. bought ev-
cry good cabbage he had yesterday; ev-
cry one worth having that could sel,
and paid him only two cents head for
them. Then he had a few poor ones at
the bottom of the wagon, II at l supposed
he would feed to his oxen, for they were
good for nothing else" -
"Well we kept them in the cellar, used
a few of the best, and in the Spring, l
had the pleasure of carrying them out
and throwing them over the fence to the
cows"
That's about the way the printer, who
consents to take hog troughs and bean
poles for subscription is usually treated.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Butler Dislodged.

Gen. Butler has been relieved of the
office of President of the "National Asy-
lum for Disabled Soldiers" The act OF
Congress establishing that institution
provided that no member of Congress
should be a member. Afterwards, when
Butler was elected to Congress, the law
was changed so as to except him, but as
this was done after Congress came to-
gether, the Comptroller of the Treasury
decided recently that Butler became in
copetent to hold said office as soon as
ell, cted, and that the removal of the disa-
bility some time afterwords did not rein
state him on the office That decision
leaves him out in the cold, and will be
pleasing is the Executive, who don't for
get the generals wiping him down at the
last session for misap proprlatlng the
moneys that belonged to the institution.
Probably, however, if Butler wishes to
continue in the office he will manage to
avail himself of some way to do it. The
man who invensed contrabands as COW
er for Democratic interference with slav-
cry and pulled the stings out of the scor-
pions at New Orleans, who put a new In
depreciation upon the word residence, so
as to remove legal objections to his cleo
ton to Congress, will find some judicious
way to the post Of President of the Asy-
INN if he wishes to. 1t is, however,
to see the sparkling joy that
Eliminates the visages of his enemies at
this reverse stroke OF luck They are
for the smallest tavars OF that
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Packing Butter in Summer.

A Vermont butter maker writes to the " Y
Farmers Clob, concerning packing butter to
keep
Pack it in we'll soaked tubs or ferkins (;
put little damp salt at the bottom, and
place it in cool, dry cellar on a bench
of wood Is inches from the cellar bottom
and the same from the wall. Stone or
earthenware does not keep butter well,
as the moisture from the surrounding at
mosphere in warm weather, condenses
on such vessels and soon affects the but
ter. Put no salt on or between the lay
ers. Fill to within half an inch of the
top, and place clean wet cloth over the
butter, and pack the edges down with
knife, and then spread fine wet salt over
the cloth. Having made and dealt in
butter for some time the above mode of
packing and keeping butter will be useful
to many, and cause smile of delight to
the buyer.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Praying for Rain

We heard dozen men complain,
When t'other day it began to rain
Just as before, when it was dry;
Theymourned drought with many q sigh,
And seemed most strangely to forg t
That water generally is wetI
If all mems prayers were heard together,
The world would have the queerest weather.
My mill stands still oh, Lord. give rainP
My grain is down oh, Lord, refrain 7"
My corn is parched I"-''Ah Susan'G bonnet
'DOnt let drop of water on it
"Oh, not to-day, our washing's out"
'Roll up, We clouds 1 go for trout -
''That hen s come off-the brood is drowned -
''Oh, let it pour my boats aground" :"
SO mid the murmurs of the world,
The clouds like banners are unfurled;
The rains descend, the bow is bent,
The sky smiles clear Gods azure tent
Sweet springs and robins sing together.
And rain or shine, It's pleasant weather;
The sewers hopeful seed is flung,
And harvest songs are always sung.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06

AN ELEPHANTS TRUNK.-One has been
apt to consider Nasmyth's steam hammer,
which can with one blow exert force of
two tons, and with another break nut
without injuring the kernel, as triumph
of human ingenuity, and so it is; but how
insignificant when placed in comparison
with the trunk of an elephant; for not
only can the latter strike blow of a ton
or so, and break an egg or a nut, but it
can pick up pin from the floor, or pull
down a tree /; project water with the
force of twenty man power forcing
pump, or uncork and drink a bottle of
soda-water without spilIing 4 drop.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
The Coduette's Glove,

All little glove! ah little glove!
How many hearts thou'st brokenl
How many times thou'st talked of love
When not word was spokenl
what faithless signals thou hast made!
Whal cruel kindness grantedl
What buds of promise caused to fade!
>, What seeds of sorrow plansedi
HOW strong thy unsuspected strength,
Thou might of magician,
Leading, as thou hast ever lead,
From pleasure to perdition
How oft thOu'st lured poor mortals on
BY some concealed attraction
How oft, too, like fair Circes wand.
Thy touch has caused distractioni
How many are thy charming crimes,
Thy guilty destinations,
Thy virgin virtues, modest signs,
Mere mocking machinat;oHs!
Most dangerous when most demure,
Most wicked when most winning,
Thou mak'st thy trusting lover doubt
If such sin can be SHINING.
Thy victim keeps thee next his heart,
Long after thou'st deceived him,
And fondles in his breast the dart
Tint of his joy bereaved him.
He'll lowering stand twixt love and hate
His dear tormentor nursing;
Will curse thee for his cruel fate,
Yet kiss thee cen while cursiEg.
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REMARkABLE DISCOVERIES IN PoMpE1.

REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES IN PoMPEII.
New discoveries are reported from
Pompeii A house has been uncovered,
which, to judge from the splendor of its
interior, and It's almost perfect furniture,
must have belonged to very wealthy
proprietor. The dining room is paved
with mosaic. The completely served ta-
ble is covered with petrifed remnants of
dishes and around it are found three di-
vans, or table-beds, of bronze, richly a
dorned with gold and silver, upon which
reposed several skeletons. A great many
precious jewels were found near them.
On the table stood, among other orna-
ments, very beautifully worked statue
of Bacchus in silver, with eyes of enam-
ell, collar of jewels, and precious arm
lots
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
SELECT POETRY.
God Will Conquer.

God will conquer-doubt it not
In the shadow of a thought:
All the plans of men may fail,
Blown as dry leaves on the gale;
But the lightest word of His
Rooted like mountain is.
Self is half of human might
He works but for Love and Right
He from all eternity
Lives, the Truth that maketh free;
And the hope unlit in Him
Is phantom'taper dim.
God Tin conquer-but beware
What his conquest leaves our share;
We shall win whate'er we seek
Blood, if we retengs would wreak;
Ashes, if we would fight for dust
Earth, for every earthly trust.
Dead souls cannot wage His war;
Lukewarm zeal he doth abhor;
Hosts that hate their brother man
Fall uucounted from his plan;
Plots to work unrighteous bale
Crush their plotters while they fail.
In the army of the Lord,
Point against thyself thy sword,
Rather than let one thought be
Traitorous to Liberty.
Self-pronounced is else thy curse,
Kissed throughout the universe.
God will conquer-when or how,
Well it is we know not now,
Der our crushed hopes it may be
He must ripe TO victory;
Ours to choose beneath his feet,
Or beside him in his seat
God will conquer-thcreis land
Peace shall cheer with breathings bland
There's a land where truth shall reign,
Justice. pure of every stain;
Best of sun and dew and Showers
Is that happy country ours?
Some new soil his reign may bless,
Yet uncuIsed with barrenness,
Sin, adopted and baptized,
Shall not there he recognized
States, strike deep your ploughshares, for
God will conquer in This war.
God will conquer-take his side.
And to certain triumph rideI
BayOnets and swords may fail;
Better than coat of mail
Is a soul to him allied =
He will cOnquer-take his sidei
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06
Three Things a Woman Can't do.

There are three things a woman can't
do. First, she can't sharpen lead PEN
Gil. Give her one and see. Mark how
jaggedly she hacks away every particle
OF wood from round the lead, leaving an
unsupported spike of the latter, which
breaks Immediately when you try to use
it. You can almost forgive the male
creature his compassionate contempt as,
chucking her under the chin, he twitch-
es it from her awkward little paw, and
rounds and tapers it in the most ravish-
ing manner for durable use. / wish to
hear no more on that point, because when
l once make up my mind, "all the kings
men" can't change it.
Well, then, Secondly: A woman can't
do up bundle. She takes whole news
paper to wrap up paper of pins and
coil of rope to tie it, and it will come un-
done at that. When l go shopping
which is sometimes my hard lot to do
/ look on with the fascinating gaze of a
bird in the neighborhood of a magnetic
serpent, to watch clerks do up bundles.
How the paper falls into just the right
crease; how deity they turn it over,
and tuck it under and tie it up, and then
throw it down upon the counter as if they
had done the most commonplace thing
in the world, instead of deed which
might-and faith does-task the ingenu-
ity of "angels p 1t is perfectly aston
ishing.
Thirdly-1 may allude to the fact that
a woman cannot carry an umbrella; or
rather to the very peculiar manner in
which they perform that duty; but 1
won't. | scorn to turn traitor to sex
who, whatever may be their faults, are
always loyal to each other. So l shall
not say as l might otherwise have said,
that when they unfurl the parachute al
luded to, they put it right down over
their noses-take the middle of the side
walk, raking off mems hats and women's
bonnets as they go, and walking right
into the breakfast of some unfortunate
wight, with that disregard of the conse-
quent gasp which to be understood must
be felt, as the offender cocks up cne cor
ner OF the parachute and looks deiantly
at the victim who has the effrontery to
come into the world and hazard the whale
bone and handle of her ''umberill p' "
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06

We don't know whether it is to fright
en- congressman or simply as matter of
news; but it is certain there are alarming
reports of sickness at Washington. The
whole city is filthy as pig-sty, and as
the authorities take no sanitary precau-
tions whatever, it is fast becoming worse.
Typhoyd fever, as an epidemic, is already
alarmingly prevalent; in one short block
thirty cases were reported recently in one
day, and DR.. Page, examiner in the pat
ent office, has had four children sick with
it, and one of them is dead. And this is
only a speciman case. The city is now
overrun with fever, and cholera is conf
dentially expected
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Printers.

Printers are unlike other classes of
men. Their vocation imparts to them
an intelligence that does not result from
any other business. Dealing with Ian
guage exclusively, in its combination Of
letters, words sentences and paragraphs,
they are constantly brought into commu-
nication with thoughts, and their work.
ing, and thus insensibly become imbued
with the ideas of those minds whose Gre
alton they helped to embody into those
forms that give them to the world. They
literally get grammar at their fhger-end
while picking up the types that form
sentences that are grammatical. Spell
ing comes to them as naturally as breath
ING, for they fall into correct photography
from force of habit. s. ..r. ....,
The characteristics of printers are not
so favorable to personal thrift as those of
other professions. They partake of the
nature of artists in some degree, and are
generally liable to fault, thoughtless of
the future and frequently improvident for
the present flush when in good situu-
and dead broke when on tramp. They
may be said to be the working Bohemi-
ans of the world of operatives.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-06

APPLIED REL1GloN.-It is a shallow
and unworthy view of religion that would
so etherializc and spiritualize it, as to
dissever it from interference with a
mans secular trade, his political activity
or his very amusements. Plow, and
keel, and anvil, and plane, and augur,
the childs go-cart, and the grand-sire's
rocking chair, are to move under the ken
of the Judge above, under the shadow
of the elder Brothers redeeming cross,
and i'll the beaming splendors of the Re-
deemer's riven tomb. And thus the i'm
material, the infinite and the eternal, take
hold on the feelings of sense and time
the everyday assiduities of common life
the worry and the repose of the nur-
sery, the kitchen, the quarterback, the
shop and the highway.-Dr. Williams.