Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-10-01

And now the English girls have
taken to swimming five or six miles
at a stretch. Two of them, Miss Par
ker and Miss Beckwith have had
a seven mile race in the water.
The London Telegraph, says:
"Miss Parker to all accounts is un-
der fifteen, while. Miss Beckwith
has Just completed her fourteenth
year. Miss Parker, it further ap-
pears, weighs above ten stone,' and
we would not be at all surprised to
find that her young rival-if We
may be forgiven such an expression
turns the scale at little under
eleven. Miss Parker's name is, we
learn, Emily, and Miss Beckwith
owes it to her godfathers and god
mothers in her baptism that she is
known as Agness Alice. The one
young lady affects a costume de Peeu
of rose-pink llama, trimed with
white lace, and the other disports
herself in red llama trimed with
white ribbon. So far there is no
possible room for any ungallant
choice or preference, and-if we
may be forgiven so pedantic phrase
-dq,tatis gqtandiS, the only note
worthy feature in the matter is that
a couple of young girls should have
been able to swim so far. Miss Par
ker, it seems, accomplished her sew
en- and half miles in one hour thirty
seven minutes and half; while Miss
Beckwith covered her FIVE miles and
quarter in an hour and nine min
utes-and, by way of showing how
little she was exhausted, performed
several feats with hoop before she
emerged from her native element"
A Too GALLANT CoNDUcToR.-
Conductor BIS always very polite
to the ladies, particularly so proVid-
ed they are young and handsome.
Miss c. was handed on board at
the station as carefully as though
she was "glass-to be handled with
care" An extra seatjwas turned over
on the shady side of the car, and
the conductor took seat by her side
to do the agreeable, having met Miss
Con the train before. Presently,
as matters were going along nicely,
an old man in his shirt-sleeves half
threw himself into the seat in front,
which the conductor had unlocked
and turned over for the benefit of
the parties more Immediately con-
cerned Mr.. b spoke up sharply:
"Go away from here" But the old
man didn't go. Conductor says'still
more sharply, "Go away, or I'll make
YOU" But still no 90, while a
vacant, provoking smile sat upon the
face of the intruder. Whereupon
I Conductor B. grasped the old
farmer by the nape of the neck At
the same time the young lady grasp
ed the arm of the conductor, exclaim-
ling, "PIease don't, Mr. B. This
is my father"
Ever since Conductor B
always asks young ladies if they are
travelling alone.-Harper's Mag.
To RESTORE THE Color OF CARPETS.
"A tablespoonful of ammonia in
one gallon of warm water will often
restore the color of carpets, even if
produced by acid or alkali. If cell
ing has been whitewashed with the
carpet down, and few drops should
fall, this will remove it. Or, after
the carpet is well beaten and brush
ed, scour with ox-gall, which will
not only extract grease but freshen
the colors. Onepint of gall in three
gallons of warm water will do large
carpet. Table and floor oilcloths
may be thus washed. The suds left
from a wash, when ammonia is used,
| even if almost cold, cleans these new
l. Aoor cloths UaI