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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13

Our European squadron Admiral
Worden-in which is the Juniats, and on
board of which is our young fri end, 1t
Carl Calkins, has extended its movements
as far as Cronstadt and st. Petersburgh.
The squadron has met with general cor
diality and welco ONE at the several points
touched in Germany, Sweden and Nor
way and Russia. After touching at Ply
mouth ,England,the squadron will re turn
TO Gibraltar and the Mediterranean.
The 1t. Is having very pleasant trip,
that will no doubt add not little to his
stock oi knowledge of the " orld, as well
as marine life.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
Iisr orPatents


Issued from the q, S. Patent Office to ONO In
yentors for the week ending, July 81, 1919, anf
each dated August s, 1870
vile.
Machines for Sockets on Curved EarthenwarC
Pipes-H. Camp, Cuyshoga Falls.
Hot Air Furnace c. Chase, lockland,
Boilers for Registers. Gibson, Cincinnati.
Lubricators- j. Richter and G.. Merkel, Cincln
natl
Calenders-C. Thorpe, Navarro.
Pressure Blowers for Gas Machines. Bean
Cincinnati.
Corn Drills-J. Campbell, Harrison
HarrOws-J. Chamberlain and S. Saple, Mel
more.
Thermometers-G Gano. Cincinnati.
Paper Bag Maehine-J. Hatfield, Cincinnati
Burglar Alarms-Searight, Pettisville.
Snyder, Ashtabula.
Buckies-W. Williamson, Ashtabula.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13

The campaign is not suffered to Ian
gbIsh by Republican stump ers. Hayes
and Eggleston were ct Marietta on Mon
day last-in the afternoon, while Judge
Taft occupied the evening. The
Judges speech. with the exception ia
few Introductory paragraphs concerning
the records of the respective parties
was directed to the currency question
the great issue between them. 1t is said
to have been characterized by force and
thoroughness, and worthy OF the speak
er. Gov. Morton's speeches have tel
ling effect upon the masses, and the jour
nails Of democracy find it necessary to
ward off and soften their sharper points.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-08-13
Cleveland Hotel.

Corner Prospect and Ontario SITS. Cleveland, o.
Centrally located, near new Opera House. Con-
venient to all lines OF street cars. Terms ONLY
TWO DOLLARS A DAYl
4t1SS3 JAMES GULLY, Proprietor
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
Emmett L. Ross & Co., Proprietor

They have no houses or huts, but when
it rains they put up some temporary
shelter of the branches of trees or bark.
He maintains, however, that they never
feel cold, because they always have fires
On board he feels the cold bitterly, and
dislikes the wind. Like all savages he
can make fire by rubbing together two
pieces of wood. He describes the tribe
he has been attached to as very peace
able, and says that he has never seen
one of its number killed by another
member of the Tribe. Battles, however,
sometimes occur between two tribes.
He describes one in which he took
part. A tribe named the Echaus killed
some of the Maccadamas, upon which
the latter retaliated by surprising the
Echaus when asleep one night, and kill
ing large number. Two were speared
by Narcisse himself.
The blacks have no knowledge of any
Superior Being, and no form of religion
of any kind whatever. The dead are
mummy, and exposed to the action of
the sun either in the forks of trees or on
rough scaffold. He describes the
treatment he has received from the tribe
as having been uniformly kind, and he
thinks they would treat any white man
we'll. They are not afraid, he says, of
white men, but of white mems guns.
They are not cannibals, nor does he
think that any of the tribes in that re-
gion are SO. He states that he has heard
that in his tribe there was an old white
man who had lived among them for
many years, and was at last drowned
while out fishing. He does not recollect
having seen this man himself, and is
not sure when his death occurred.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
What an Army OF Toad StOoIs Di

Bid you ever think how strong the
growing plants must be to force their
way up through the earth? Even the
green daisy tips and the tiny blades of
grass, that bow before o breath, have to
exert force in coming through, that, in
proportion to their size, is greater than
you would exert in rising from under a
mound of cobble stones. And think of
toad stools-what soft, tender things
they ara, breaking at touch. Yet. L
can tell you, they're quite mighty in
their way.
Charles Kingsley, the celebrated Eng
lish priest and novelist, was very close
observer of nature. One evening hn
noticed particularly square fiat sto ng
that, should say, was about as loeig
and as broad as the length of three be,
burdock leaves. He thought it would
require quite strong man to lift stone
like that. In the morning he looked
again, and 10 the stone was raised so
that he could see the light under it.
examination, that a crop of toad-stoole
had sprung up under the stone in this
night and raised it up on their little
round shoulders as they cameo
I'm told that Canon Kingsley gives an
accoun. of this in his book called
christmas in the West Indies," but it
was in England that he saw it.
Knowing that he was so close an OBJ
server, shouldn't be one bit surprised
il he went still further and found out
that one secret of the toad-stools being
able to lift the stone was that they
didn't waste time and strength in urging
each other to the work, but each one
did his very best without quarreling
about whose turn it was, or whether
Pink Shoulder or Brown Button was
Sinking his share. But then the toad
stools must have been strong.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
ADVERTISING RATES.
SAYINGS AID DOISGs.

If your girl, or her big brother, comes
along and points pistol at you, and
tells you to walk down to the minister's
and be married, go right along and do
it; the marriage will be bogus. That
las recently been decided by the SUI
preme court of New York.
A BROOKLYN girl was heard to remark
as she was leaving church last Sunday
evening: "There's my foolish father
has gone and given $50 to the heather,
and the new spring hats are out, and I
shall have to buy a cheap one or put up
with straw"
AN ordinary lighthouse where oil is
used, gives an illuminating power equal
to about 200 candles. An electric light
its condensed beams, each of which is
bined light of 800, 900 candles.
A PREoooIoUs boy was asked which
was the greater evil of the two, hurting
said the former. Right, my dear
4" And why is it worse to hurt the feel
ings ?" because you can't tie rag
around them" explained the dear child.
A PROJECT for tunneling the Mersey
has been revived, and apropos thereto
Mr.. Gladstone writes: "Assuredly it
will seem strange to future times that
we should in 1875 have been far adj
vanced in maturing project for tun-
mel under the Straits of Dover, while
we have not yet tunneled under single
river of the many that indent our
Mr.. Gladstone seems to have
forgotten the Thames tunnel.
A BOY of five years old was "playing
railroad" with his sister of two and a
half. Drawing her upon footstool. he
imagined himself both the engine and
The conductor. After Initiating the
putting noise of the steam, he stopped
ind called out "New York." and, in
moment after, "Paterson," and then
6 Philadelphia. His knowledge Of
owns was now exhausted, and the next
,lace he cried "Heaven." His little
lister said eagerly: "Top, 1 DIES I'll
let out here"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
IN NEMORIAN.
indretc Johaso,
By ANNIE soAfERs erIcHR1sr.

The night-amps dimly burn,
the deafn-mofhs ghostly tap Is on the floor,
The gray owl silent nts around the tarn,
And Low winds creep alorg the wild OLD moor,
The cold, pale stars cast through
No 1 ass sSrddipg clouds solemn. gba,tly glow;
And gray bats through tie gloom dart to and fro
Within the darksome dells
The deadly nightshade spreads her poison leaves
And through the s,aci, boushs with solemn swsIii
Wherefore is ali this sadness?
Throughout the golden, fowery summer day
Inc birds and breezes chanted notes OF gisdness-
Paler. yes, fainter grow
The mystic stars-the night il almost spent;
HE palhd morn looks in. and, bowling low,
her teirs are with the morning breezes blent.
with dropping wing each bird
forsets to greet the gravy d.wnins sun,
And weird. unearthy music soft is heard,
As DER Eolian harps the sad winds play.
Afar the matin bell
Rings out dreary, sullen monotone.
wherefore is this? Yestere'ea the witching spell
on joyous beauty DER the glad earth ehone-
Now, in the ailing breeze
The crimson-hesrted fuscha slowly swings,
And In the somber depths of ahuddering trees
The catcrp Hal. weaves her htmy rings.
All ere the suns gold ray
Did hood the Southern hills With ruby wines,
Came flashing DER the teisersphic lines.
Grief spreass her trar-st-eped zones
From broad Ati.ntics siivery sanded shore
Unto Pscihcs coast. The patton mourns-
Patriotic statesman IL no more.
Out from the purple West
Bring howers- q, sorrowinR South, thy rarest
Bring thou. Thy garlands bring, oh North and
East,
wherewith to wreath the noble patriots tomb.
All stills the thrilling voice
That changed all hearts WITH glowing eloquence
IN unbidden gue-t his sable wing did poise
Beside Dor nohlest brave, and bore him hence
To that bright country where
No tears eier fall no darksons tempests rise
Beyond the track of weird Nights dusky car,
Oh Tennessee, thy proudest, brightest star
Ii crowned with bays beneath unfolding skiesi
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
A Beautiful FarIor Ornament.

A beautiful ornament for the sitting
room can be made by covering COM
mon glass tumbler with moss, the latter
fastened in place by sewing cotton
wound round. Then glue dried moss
upon a saucer, into which set the tum-
bier. filling it and the remaining space
in the saucer with loose earth from the
woods. Plant the former With variety
of ferns and the latter with wood vio-
lets. On the edge OF the grass also
plant some of the nameless little ever
green vines which bear red (scarlet)
berries, and whose dark, glossy, ivy
like foliage will trail over the fresh
blue and white of the violet with
beautiful effect. Another good plan is
to Gil rather deep plate with some of
the nameless but beautiful silvery and
light green and delicate pink MOSES,
which are met with in profusion in all
swamps and marshes. This can be bept
fresh and beautiful as long as it is not
neglected to water it profusely once a
day. 1t must, of course, be placed in
the shade, or the moss will blanch and
die. In the center of this clump Of
large azure violets should be placed,
adding some curious lichens and pretty
fungus growth from the barks OF forest
trees. and a few cones, shells and
pebbles.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
Length of Roots.

The nature of the soil has much to
do with the length and NUMBER of roots.
In light, poor soil find roots of June
grass four feet below the surface. Peo-
Die are apt to underestimate the length,
amount and importance of the roots of
the finer grasses, wheat, oats, etc. A
young wheat plant when pulled up only
shows small part of its roots. They
often go down four or six feet or more.
The roots of a two-year-Old peach tree
in light soil were found seven feet four
inches long. In dry, light soil, this
season we pulled up one parsnip three
feet and half long. OF course smaller
roots went down still further. The
noted buffalo grass on the dry western
prairies is described in the agricultural
reports at Washington as having very
short roots but Mr.. Felker, one of our
college graduates, found, where a well
was being dug, that the roots went down
seven feet. The roots grow best where
the best food is to be found. They
grow N greater or less quantity in
every,4.irection. If a root meets with
good food it fiourishes and sends out
numerous branches. Roots do not
"search" for food as vegetable physi-
ologists now understand it. Many of
the smaller roots of trees die every
autumn when the leaves die, and others
grow in spring.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
Washing Days in the Olden Time.

Washing day, now bugbear in every
household, does not seem to have been
much of an institution in the days of
our greatgreat grandmothers, says the
American Grocer. Indeed, we are forced
to the conclusion, notifying as it is,
that they were not very clearly in their
personal habits. Linen and cotton,
popular in England two centuries and a
half ago. Velvets, taffets and rich silks
were, in the middle ages, often worn by
the wealthy without any under-clothing
whatever, while the domestics and the
people of the lower order wore coarse
linen, also without under clothing. The
possession of linen Shirt. even with
the highest mobiles, was a matter of
note, and it was but few wardrobes that
contained them. Under the Tudors,
nightgowns were worn, though they
had not been before, but they were
formed mostly of silk or velvet, so that
no washing was required. Anne Bo-
leyne's night dress was made of black
satin, bound with black taffets, and
edged with velvet of the same color.
One of Queen Elizabeth's night-gowns
was of black velvet, trimmed with silk
lace and lined with fur, and in 1858 her
majesty ordered George Bradyman to
deliver "three score and six shymies,
to furnish as anight-gown." In another
warrant from her majesty in 1872 she
orders the delivery of "twelve yards of
purple velvet, frizzed on the back side
with white or russell silks. )" for night
gown for herself, and also orders the
delivery of fourteen yards of injury
damask for the making of night
gown for the Earl of Leycester." Night
dresses for ladies were of later period.
called night-veils, and in the reign of
Queen Anne it became the fashion for
them to be worn in the day time on the
streets, over the usual dress. A nice
looking overdress they must have been,
particularly if the ladies of Queen
Anne's time were as restless sleepers as
some of their descendants. If anything
were needed to show that the "good
old times never existed. and that the
present is infinitely superior as a time
to live in to the past, it would be that
the reign of the washerwoman has sue
ceeded that of the dyer and scourer.
Cleanliness is said to be next to godli-
ness, but we believe it is the right hand
of godliness, and that godliness seldom
exists without its most important MEM
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
sun SPOTS.
What hey Have to DO ,cih Terrestrial Pho
non,ead.

n0Meln.
In the opinion of many distinguished
scientists there is an intimatic connec-
ton between the connections that occur
in the sun, and which are indicated by
the appearance of spots, and various
terrestrial phenomena of q general ma
ture. The extent of the solar spots
varies from year to year, being greatest
at periods about ten or eleven years
apart. Beginning with a maximum
year, the spots decrease in extent for
about five years, on an average, and
then gradually increase till a second
maximum is reached in about five years
more, after which the decrease begins
again and so on in continual alterna-
ton. This interval of ten or eleven
years is called the "sun-spot cycle"
The researches of Mr.. Medium, the
director of the Meteorological Observa-
tory of Mauritius, indicated q connec-
ton between the cyclones of the Indian
ocean and of the West Indies and the
sun-spots; the one varying with the
other. Prof. Loomis has shown that
there is a striking similarity between
the curves that represent the changes
in the extent of the solar spots and
those which represent respectively the
mean daily range of the magnetic de-
clination, and the number of auroras
observed each year. According to
Poey, the connections of the earth re-
spond to those in the sun, and earth
auakes and volcanic eruption vary in
their frequency with the fluctuations of
the solar spots.
From ninety-three tables of rainfall
for various parts of the world, almost
excluding America, Mr.. Meld-
rum has found that, without exception,
more rain falls in the maxima than in
minima sun-spot years. A late discus
sion of Mr.. @. A. Schott's article on the
IS Rainfall of the United States" in
which the respective rainfalls at one
and seven stations are taken
or comparison, points to the same con-
,Iuaion
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
Gather Up the Fragments.

How many lives are, so to speak,
mere relics of an ended feast, fragments
which may be either left to waste, or
be taken up and made the most of l
For we cannot lie Just when we wish it,
and because we wish it. The fact may
be very unromantic, but it is fact,
that too large dinner or false step
on the stairs kills much more easily
than a great SORROW. Nature compels
us to live on, even with broken hearts,
as with lopped-off members. True, we
are never quite the same again, never
the complete human being; but we
may still be a very respectable, healthy
human being, capable of living out our
three-score years and ten with tolerable
comfort after all.
These fragments" of lives, how
they strew our daily paths on every
side Not house do we enter not a
company do we mix with, but we more
than guess-we know-that these, your
friends, men and women, who go about
the world doing their work and taking
their pleasure therein, all carry about
them a secret burden-of bitter disap-
pointments, vanished hopes, unfulfilled
ambitions, lost lovers. Probably every
one of them, when his or her smiling
face vanishes from the circle, will
change it into another, serious, anxious,
sad-happy if it be only sad, with no
mingling of either bitterness or bad
ness. That complete felicity which the
young believe in, and expect almost as
a matter of certainty to come, never
does come. Soon or late we have to
make up our minds to do without it, to
take up the fra 3ments of our blessings.
thankful that we have what VIC have
and are what we are above all, that we
have our own burden to bear, and not
our neighbours. But, whatever it is,
We must bear it alone and this gather
ing up of fragments, which 1 am so
earnestly advising, is also thing which
must be done alone.-Niss Mutock.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04

Mrs. ABE LMooLN.-A correspond
emit, writing from st. Charles, IN the
vicinity of Bellevue Asylum, says you
viii be glad to learn. and this is the first
public intimation of it, that Mrs. LIN
coin is pronounced wei enough 70 l e
Edwards. of Springfield. 1t is not
likely that she will return to Bellevue
place. as there is some feeling mani
tested in the manner of her incarcera-
ton by her friends, who refuse to be-
lieve her insane. A leading lady lawyer
of Chicago has been with her much OF
late, and with the assistance OF her legal
husband, will assist in Mrs. Lincoln's
restoration to the world. She is de-
cidedly better, sleeps and cats we'll, and
shows no tendency to any mania; but
whether the cure is permanent or not not
the test of active life and time Will
prove.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04

SOMEBODY interviewed George Francis
Train, and the latter said DO you
see these hands? See the blood runs
into them. There's health for your Au
comes from vegetable diet. sir. NO
meat for me. / eat nothing but vegeE
ables. Vegetables make muscle, sine".
strength, manhood" Yes, GeoigS S,
said his auditor, laughing, you re [isn ~;
meat is weakening. l always not .Di,a nj
the strong animals live on vtso't tbex
There's the weak lion ana Pa .In a, 10y
sheep, 10 .h on g Vegetables entirely. They"
. :! r. aIways makes me mad to talk to an
infernaI fool" said Train, coloring up,
while he turned on his heel and left in a
huff.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04

AN old-fashioned clergyman named
More was riding on horseback one
stormy day, enveloped in loose cloak
of large proportions and having broad,
scarlet collar. By the action of the
wind the cloak was tossing about in all
directions, when gentleman rode up
on a spirited horse, which SHE'D and al
most threw the rider. "That cloak of
yours would brighten the DEVIL" said
the gentleman. You don't say SO +"
replied Mr.. More ,">why, that's just my
&xndA -
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04
Norfolk POlied Cattle.

The Norfolk red PEELED cattle, valu-
able alike for beef and dairy purposes,
are attracting considerable attention
both in the northern states and in
England, where they have long been
known. An English farmer. of large
experience in the United States as well
as in his native country, writes to the
Country Gentleman that dairymen in
the east, west, north or south will find
that COWS and heifers without horns,
means COWS without abortions, and
MANY sicknesses which cannot be &C.
counted for, because the injuries from
the horns are not seen to do the mis-
chief which results in pain, infiamma-
ton and death. From long observation
he pronounces thorns most decidedly
the greatest curse that can be inflicted
on any mans herd of cattle" In this
opinion We think he is right. If cattle
run wild in forests, or on plains and
prairies subject to the attacks of gangs
of wolves, pauthers and other beasts of
prev. horns would be very useful as q
means of defense. But our domesti-
Gated uuadrupeds are exposed to no
such enemies /; and neither dairy COWS
nor working oxen require horns for any
useful purpose. An OK working before
a cart or wagon eau hold back load in
going down hill better by breeding
than by q yoke pressing on his horns.
We believe in working oxen on the
farm, esrecially to pillow, break up
clover and grass land, but not in horns
nor horn oil
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-09-04

BETTER TAorIos.-A young mechanic
recently got married to the girl of his
choice, and the happy pair went to house.
keeping. After the honeymoon was
over, the young wife discovered that
her hubby's temper WAS none OF the
sweetest, and that attempts to mollify
him by sweet smiles and kisses were
generally fiat failures while his dander
was up; so, like sensible young woman,
she resolved on another plan of action,
and soon had an opportunity to try 1t.
Hubby was rather captious about his
steak, but she made no excuse. It's
tough, " said hubby, sand it's not cooked
half enough !" The young wife smiled,
but made no defense. Then hubby got
fearfully mad he lifted his plate, and
dashed it on the floor, with the remark,
"curse that steakr His wife raised up
her plate, too, and dashed it on the
stove, with the remark, "that's me J
Hubby stared at the plate, at his WIFE,
then at the floor, and said, "why, Eliza.
Won should not mind me. Ii am
little hasty, soon get over it," ana so
he did,