Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-03-08

faithful mother you little know your
power when you say, [ have done
nothing. There is book in which a
fairer record than this is written over
against your name.
NJ Recordon, of Geneva, has invented
machine bywhich blind people can write
at once in characters meant for their blind
brethren, and in ordinary letters legible
with the eyes. A writer in Paris paper
says that he saw it in operation; and a
few phrases which he himself wrote with
it, without any preparatory study, were
deciphered Immediately with surprising
rapidity.
Experiments in driving by electricity
have been made in France. An electro
magnetic is placed beneath the coach
mans seat, from which one wire is car
ried along the reins to the horses bit,
and another to the cropper, so that the
whole length of the spine forms part Of
an electric current. A sudden shock.
which the driver can administer at dis
cretion, will, it is said, arrest the most
furious runaway.
A gentleman writing to the Planter
and Farmer gives the following remedy
for choking cow. 1t will probably act
just as well with other animals, and it
will be well to remember it. He says 1t
has never failed in any instance, and has
been tried by him and others hundreds
Of times. The remedy is to take spoon
full of saltpeter, open the animals mouth,
throw it well back upon the tongue; let
the animal 90, and the obstruction will
either go up Or down in very few
minutes
One man, working on the buffalo range
for merchant of Griffin, Neb., killed
1852 bufaloes during the season. Think
of it-suppose the average weight of the
merchantable portion of the carcass was
only 25O pounds. Now the hunters kill
the buffalo for the hides, not for the
meat; consequently, this one man throws
away over 1888, 900 pounds of as good
meat as man ever ate. What better ar
gument can be adduced for the necessity
of a law to prevent the wholesale slaugh-
ter Of these animals, which are fast be-
ing exterminated.
A penny restaurant in New York
is doing an immense business. The bill
of fare is: Cup of tea or coffee, one
cent; bread and butter, one cent; soup,
one cent; slice of corn beef, one cent; a
baked or boiled potato, one cent; boiled
or fried mush, one cent; oat meal, one
cent; boiled rice, one cent. The expert
ment was tried by a woman who argued
that boys and men with a few cents in
their pockets, often went sway hungry
from restaurants, and that one cents
worth of good food would do a hungry
man great deal of good.
Some medical students in one of the
colleges of Cincinnati, dissecting female
subject few days ago, found what was
called in doctors parlance corset iver." I"
When tight-lacing has been practieed
through several years, permanent dent
or hollow is produced in the liver, which
may be seen very plainly after the woman
is dead, and her liver dissected out. This
kind of liver occurs so frequently in
women that physicians have given it the
name of corset liver" In the subject
mentioned the hollow in the liver was
large enough for the wrist of a grown
man to be laid in it.
The hotter the glue the better it will
keep the two parts glued together, hence
in all large and long joints the glue should
be applied Immediately after boiling,
Glue losses much of It's strength by fire.
quently re-melting, hence, newly made
Glue is preferable to that which has been
reboled. In melting ordinary glue in
the double vessel containing water, it is
well to add salt to the water in the outer
vessel: for it will not boil then until heat
ed somewhat above the ordinary boiling
point, and a large proportion of the heat
is thus retained, instead of passing off by
evaporation, and the glue will be found
more evenly and thoroughly melted.
Speaking of Peruvian railroads a cor,
respondent says Some idea of the
crookedness OF the road from Lima to
the summit of the Andes may be OBJ
tanned when one sees five trains in mo-
ton on the same track and no two going
ing in the same direction. Of tunnels
and curves there is no end. Peru seems
to have wasted her capital in building a
halfdozen roads running from the coast
into the mountains instead Of concentra-
ting her strength into building one road
to the Amazon. The Meiggs contracts
were larger than the Government could
stand, and it may be many years before
any practical good viii come out of the
Peruvian railway system.
ONE WAY TO GET RICH.-Nothing is
more easy than to grow rich, 1t is only
to trust nobody-t9 befriend none-tO
get all you can, and save all you get-to
stint yourself and every body belonging
to you-to be the friend of no man, and
have no man for your friend-to heap in
terest upon interest, cent upon cent-to
be mean, miserable and despised for some
twenty or thirty years-and riches will
come as sure as disease and disappoint-
ment. And when pretty nearly enough
wealth is collected, by disregard of all
the charities of the human heart, and at
the expense of every enjoyment, death
comes to finish the work-the body is
buried in hole, the heirs dance over it,
and the spirit goes-where?
There is a law in Portugal forbidding
widows of above 80 to marry, "because
experience has shown that women of that