Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-03-05
Aronnd the Worl3.

ne NeW Ofk ana ErlP railway have
sent ont a specimen 2Htol56 Ticket,
around the world, with lie usual coupons
attached. We copy the whole, as q
:" Lesson in Geograpfiyr and to show the
shortest and quickest route .arotiid the
worll, with the time from point to point,
as indicated on each coupon. The entire
ticket reads as follows: -+-
From New York around the world:
Time Is Distance $4,000 miles!
New York to Buffalo,
via Erie Railway,
Time II hours-DiStance 4e3 miles:
Buffalo to Chicago,
via Lake Shore & Michigan Southeru
Railways;
Time 81 lioGrs-Distance 53s miles.
Chicago to Omaha,
Time 23 hours-Distabce 400 miles.
Omaha to San Francisco;
via Union, Central and Western PacihS
Railway,
Tine SO hours-Dstance 1850 miles.
San francisco TO Yokohama, (Japan)!
Pacific Mail Steamers;
Time, 2I days Distance AHA miles!
Yokohama to Hong Kong,
Pacific Mail Steamers,
Time G days-Distance i67o miles!
Hong Kong to Calcutta,
via Singapore, Ceylon and Madrasi
Penihsular & Oriental Steamship Co!
Time IA ,lays-Dista-c 5000 miles!
Calcutta to Bombay;
via Allahabad Junction,
Calcutta aud Northern India Railway.
Time dayS-DiStance 1929 miles.
Bombay TO Cairo,
Prnin>nar e Oriental Steamship Co.;
ard Messenger Imperial Steamship Coz
Tinie y dats-DiStante 5000 miles!
Cairo TO Alexandria,
via Suez Canal, or Egyptian Suez Rally,
Time hdUrS-Distance 100 miles.
Alexandria to Marsefles,
Peninsular &c Oriental Steamship Co.;
and Messenger Imperial Steamship Co!
Time davs-Dlstance 1900 miles,
Marseiles to Havre,
~ via Paris and Rouen.
Chenins de fer du Nor ct du Sud.
Time 81 hours-Distance SIS miles
IIavre to New York,
Inman Steamship Line,
Cunard Steamship Line,
Compagnie TransattantiGue S. S. Line
Time daHS-Distance $3.50 miles.
MENcnlEs.-The heart has memories
that can never die; the rough usage of
the world cannot obliterete them. Fee
bic age, trembling ON the brink of the
grave, has them when everything elso
has fled away, and been forgotten. They
are memories of home, early home-the
home where We were born; the garden
al ~ Il. i,
their nests, spring after spring. paying
their rent in songs such as We dream of,
but never hear afterward tire old elm
and swing, where the children used to
play, while the mother sat by the win
dow, her face beafhing out occasionally
throug the mttsIIn curtain; the same old
house, with its pointed gables, quaint
cornices aud antique windows the VAIN
Scotted Chamber where we used 10 dream
OF all that the great, glad world had in
store for us Dear old home, with its
gay dreams, and sunny h6ars. and cloud
less skies, and visions of bliss, and glo-
riouS happiness gone---all gone.
The traveller climbing the mountains
of land not his own, amid all his toll and
chanches, reverts, ever and anon, TO the
tiHle NUcl, II NbutH VI eSHOOiOO11 uO
roamed the fields and hills of his own ma
tive home. u 3D.. TsL
The mariner, rocked by the storms Of
the sea, or resting at some foreign port,
will run. through the long lapse Of Years
back to the house where, with brother
and sister, he frol!ieksd the joyous hours
of youth a&at.
Nett her changes nor time-pether age
nor youth-neither distance nor disease
neither guilt nor passion, can ever blot
from tho heart the memories Of the
spring-time Of life. Those memories will
reproduce, on the verge Of eternity, the
freshness of emotion, Of life and desire.
with which existance on earth began.
Sorrow. sobers us and makes the mind
congenial. n And in sorrow We love our
friends more tenderly, aud the dead be-
come more dear to US. And just as the
stars shine out at night, 50 there are
blessed faces that look at us in our grief,
though before their features were fading
from our recollection: Suffering Let
no man dread it tco much, because II is
good for him 10 make sure Of his being
Immortal. It is not in the bright day.
bur only IN the solemn night, that other
works are To- be seer shining in their
lone distaneeS And n is iu sorrow, thu
night of the soul, that we see farthests