Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19

method you VIII get your bread baked
in the forenoon.
About one couple in sixteen married
in Vermont are divorced.
They say that Macon, Ga, is lighting
its streets by locomotive headlights.
The yearly compensation of cheese in
England is about ten pounds to each in
habitant.
One way to keepy your husband at home
is to make it pleasant for him when he is
there.
An onion weighing four pounds seven
ounces was raised on Amelia Island, near
Fernandina, Fla.
A popular clergyman in Philadelphia
delivered lecture on "Fools." The
tickets to it read: Lecture on Fools,
Admit one" There was large audi
ence.
The publisher of weekly paper in
Iowa failed to get his bundle of paper on
time, and he purchased 500 yards of
bleached factory as a substitute. His
subscribers cOttoned to it right away.
"Stop sending me the jernel, emmy
more ass you dident notis the bigg hogg
me husband buchered sunday and it don't
fit my pantry shelves ennyhow." The
hush-no, the "hogg" weighed 387.-
Port Chester Journal.
Typhoid fever is now regarded by our
best physicians as a filth fever, and in
many cases the immediate cause is to be
found in the access of filth to the well or
spring from which the water is obtained
for domestic purposes Western Farm
Journal
In three pens, three hogs, each nearly
full grown, and about equal in weight
and thriftiness, were fed four months as
follows: One pen soaked corn; one pen,
cooked corn-meal; one pen, dry corn.
At the close of the experiment, those
fed on dry corn had made the most
weight.-Producer.
The professor was addressing the au-
dience on the subject of mollusks. He
said an oyster laid one million two
hundred thousand eggs. WhenP
asked startled searcher after truth, on a
front seat. "About seventeen minutes
past 3 o. m" returned the ANNOYED pro-
fessor.
If you dream of Patagonian with
with the chills and fever, paying assid-
uous court to rheumatic lion with a
point polonaise draped gracefully oyer a
pointaiguilie tunic, cut bias in a dark night,
it is sign that you'd better wake up, for
you are dreaming like threeply jackass.
Peoria has eight distilleries, which
manufactured So, ,937, ,167 worth of high
wines in 1877. The money value of the
-four manufactured in Peoria during the
year was s87O,528. The revenue col
lections for the district were $6,592,098.
A clergyman in MadisonviIle, KY, was
annoyed, while preaching, by giggling
Cirls. He reproved them sharply, and
aid that they were "outrageously
wicked" That offended the girls parents,
and about half the members of the
church have withdrawn.
1t is calculated that the Cerro de Pasco
silver mines in Peru, which Meiggs was
tunneling when he died, have yielded in
past ages $500, 900, 600 in sill and that
an equal amount will become Immediately
accessible when the present works are
finished.
The italian Parliament has voted in
favor of compulsory education, and all
children up to the age of nine years must
hereafter attend the public schools, unless
it can be shown that they are receiving
an equivalent education at home or in
private schools or are in feeble health.
A widow in New York, whose husband
was killed by a premature blast a short
time since, was day or two since found
dead in her chair in her room, with her
babe lying on the bed almost frozen and
nearly dead from starvation. An autopsy
disclosed that the woman died of heart
disease.
A New York paper says very peculiar,
not to say absurd, style of walking is
adopted by gentlemen who escort young
ladies on the fashionable thoroughfares.
Instead of walking beside them they keep
foot or two in advance and face about
every minute like a captain about to give
an order to his company.
Juries in Illinois murder trials decide
whether the convicted prisoners shall be
imprisoned for life or hanged. In Shaw
neetoEn a jury stood three for hanging
and nine for imprisonment: They pulled
straws to settle the question, and pp a
verdict thus obtained, man was SEN
fenced to death; but when the facts came
out new trial was granted.
From 1870 to 1874 the profits to the
Government from public lotteries in
Austria amounted to nearly $35, 100000.
The prizes won by tieket-holders in the
same period amounted to S16,5O0,0OO.
In Italy the net receipts of the Govern
ment from lotteries in three years reached
S40,5OO,0O0, while the sum won by the
people was S2O,5OO,OOO.