Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-05-25

Our chins wag mcrily in rect and hall.
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One Of the most skiIlful paragraphists o
our time edits the Go'den 1ge. We give few
specimens from last weeks issue
: The man who stood half an hour in
church ycstibule, and then twenty min
utes IN the aisle, without being offered a
seat, Is decidedly opposed to having
'eod put into the Constitution" at pres
elt. lie thinks it would be better to
try the experiment of putting little
more godllness into the churches first.
DR.. Howe and Henry Il. Blackwell
have returned from San Domingo, aud
are eager for its Immediate annexation,
debts, dal kies, diseases, and ALL To hear
them talk about it one would Suppose
that its immediate annexation would al
ter the average climate Of New England
twenty degrees, aud cover noston Com
mon with orange trees and cure all cases
OF chronic consumption, and throw all
the divorce lawyers out Of business.
From repeated observations, made in
many places and under various circum-
stances, we ar" satisfied that a cart with
all ones household goods upon it, and
the children slowed away among the fix
ingS, and mother holding the looking
glass, and Tom carrying the family cat
iii basket, and the laiher vainly trying
to whistle by the side, while The dog
trots dsconsOlate and ashamed under the
load, is one of the most moving specta.
cles we have ever seen.
The farewell benefit to Miss Nilsson.
at the Academy Of Music, was a brilliant
aud memorable affair. She has become
a popular tavOrite, and though other
singers have surpassed her in many re-
spects, II is safe to say that no other has
touched SO many hearts and won such q
triumph Of personal interest and affec-
ton as the lair and fascinating Swede.
May the waves bear her gently back to
her people, and other countries yield
new tributes to her genius.
Oakley Hall confesses that he Is ruin
ed man. Ringworms have been to much
for him. The thieves promised to make
him Governor if he would sign their
warrants. Which proved his death war
rant. And the poor man, yet young,
looks haggari and woe.begone as last
years hollyhook, or q half drowned dog,
half dead from stones and starvation.
And none is so poor as to do him SER
vice. Pity the sorrows of this poor
young man, and torsake the rings as
soon as you can.
Mr.. Conway thinks the English do not
and cannot appreciate India in a moral
or intellectual sense. They appreciate
India commercially and value its i'm
ports. |; is like the savage chief, who,
wheu asked whether he knew anything
OF an English officer who was missing,
replied, Il ate piece of him." Such
gastronomic knowledge of India Eng
land has. But for any thing like a real
i2ation of the tremendous importance of
how the two hundred millions OF their
fellow subjects in the East shall be dealt
with, one looks in vain among this good
hearted, cultivated, but uncosmopolitan
people.
DIR. Hartwig says that earthquake
shocks are either vertical or undulatory.
n vertical shock, which is felt immedi,
ately about the seat of the focus of the
subterranean islurbance, causes a move,
ment up and down. Like an exploding
mine, 1t frequently jerks movable bodies
high up in the air. Thus during the
great earthquake in Riobama, the bodies
Of many of the inhabitants were thrown
upon the hill of La CGlla, which rises to
the height of several hundred feet at the
other side of the Lican torrent; and du-
ring the earthquake at Chill, in 1887, a
large mast planted 80 feet in the ground
at Fort San Carlos, and propped with
iron bars, was thrown upward SO that
rouud hole remained behind.