Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03

The Blue Danube is no bluer than the
Turks.
The question of future punishment
at present seems to stand about Z to 8.
One thousand polygamous marriages
took place in Utah in 1877.
The Baltimore Charley Ross, like the
rest, has faded away in the mists of hum
buggery.
Stanley does not carry his elephant gun
with him in Paris, which is another
illustration of his bravery.
James Gordon Bennett is proposing to
the Londoners that they help him start
out a new Arctic expedition.
Rev. DR.. Scudder's church, in Brook
lyn, has scud out from under its debt of
$4,000. Kimball setting the ball rolling.
The conductor of the private affairs
of the Rothschilds in Paris for many
years was NJ. Formont, who lately died.
Look down into the mouth of Mount
Vesuvius and then say there is no lake
of fire and birthstone, if you can.
Robert Bonner is believed by the iSa-
ratogiian, of New York, to be one of those
men whose wishes are horses.
Lydia Thompson has saved S25O,OOO.
'' So much, remarks the sage of the Dan
bury Neacs, for dressing economically"
Whittier wrote to one friend protest
ing against being congratulated on attain
ing old age, which means attaining rheu-
matism.
The New York Herald is impressed
with the thought that too much of the
corn-product of this country is eaten from
TASKS
The muskrats imperilled their reputa-
ton as weather prophets by building their
nests for this winter exceptionally thick
and warm.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
have ordered 100000 trees, to be set out
along the line of their road the coming
season.
San Franciscans are petitioning the
Legislature upon the subject of the re-
duction of street car fares to five cents
each.
Boston detectives say that Winslow
makes lsits to Boston, looking after the
means which he has slowed away at or
near the Hub.
Elnora-Both of your poems are wrong
in metre, and we think that you will dis
cover that two wrongs don't make one
write poetry.
Moody and Sankey are referred to by
the Paris Gaulois as " the founders of a
new religion that enjoys a certain vogue
in the United States"
The great cascade Of Trocadero, which
is under construction in Paris, is to cost
| $18O,OOO, and will be finished in time fOr
the Exposition next year.
Mary Oemmer saws she is getting sick
of fashionable rudeness in dress, and wants
to know who is to save the blush of femi-
nine modesty unless woman herself.
The colored schOol-teachers of Mis-
souri, held convention in St. Louis re-
Gently. They demand the same educa-
tional facilities that the whites have.
Californians declare that the Chinese
must be compelled to live higher and
dress more extravagantly, or they will
certainly ruin white labor in this country.
The citizens of Bombay are creating
panic in the coal market by using con-
centrated sunshine for cooking purposes.
They Observation-Disclosures
Edward Stokes, who murdered Jim
Fisk, has gone back to his fast ways in
New York, and now the people there see
where they made a mistake in not hanging
him.
The current rates of interest at saw
ings banks in San Francisco are seven
and eight per cent for sums of $4,000,
and nine per cent for sums below that
figure.
John B. Cough states that in thirty
five years he has delivered Z 1900 speeches, !
but never faced an audience yet without
feeling shaking of the knees and dry
ness of the lips.
There was recently quarried without |
the use of powder, at the Barre, Mass,
granite quarries, block weighing over
618 tons, being forty feet long, seventeen
high and ten thick.
San Francisco bartenders have chunks
Of glass resembling ice which they put |
into drinks for intoxicated customers
instead of the genuine cooling substance.
The motive is economy.
DIR. Stamataki has discovered another
tomb in the Acropolis of Mycene, max
ing the sixth now found. This does not
look altogether well for DR.. SchIemann's
theory of the FIVE tombs.
The decline in real estate is not con-
fined to this country. A property bought |
near Berlin five years ago for villa sites
at the price of 1850, 900 marks was sold
the other day for 258,77O marks.
Japan has 1851 pOstofices, which dis
tributed last year "a 100000 letters and
postal-eards and 100000 papers,
Postal-cards, stamped-wrappers, money
orders and savings banks are all included
in the system.
One Of the compensations of the poor
man is that he can never be taken in by
a counterfeit 81 900 bill. Still there are
very few people who would not like to
occupy position where they would be
subject to that misfortune now and then.
At the Jewish Charity Fair, in Phil
adelphia, instead of rafting for cakes,
slippers and smoking-caps, they take
chances for 1000 in Government bonds,
a 5000 piano, $3.50 horse, a trip-ticket
to Paris, and other such useful things.