Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-10-18


Dean Stanley is growing very broad as
a chur imam. He lately said in a West
minister sermon: Christ cross is every
where. It belongs to no sect, and the
true church knows no Turkey, no Rus
aaT
Gov. Robinson, of New York, states
that the money raised by taxation for
the schools of the State amounts to much
more than double the sum required TO
pay the entire expenses of the State
Government, Executive, Legislative, Ju-
dicial, Civil and Military"
The Wesleyan Missionary Society +
the Dominion of Canada Acknowledges
an income for the past year of Sl45, ,99S.
II has 4o3 missionaries, including all
WESLEYAN ministers, in new parts of the
Province. It has thirty-tWo mission
aries to Indians. seven to Erench-Cana
dams and four TO Japan
A Sshoplifter" was arrested the othei
day in Paris, who bore under his arm 2
yerv innocent looking box, seemingly
done up in paper and tied with a cord
but this box had a false bottom, openine
and closing with a spring. Its owner
would set it down on two OF three small
articles while pretending to examine
something else, and when he tOCi- MP the
box again the articles that had EeeT un-
it we're iLsi1e II.
An elderly gentleman, say about sew
enty winters, was taking his noon cup
of coffee at Mrs. HarringtOn's q few days
since, when a much younger friend sug-
gested that coffee drinking was very in
furious. "Is that sO?" inquired the vet
eran; "well, now, you sit down and tell
me about it, not that ! am much inter
ested on my own account, but / should
like to tell my father, who is about ninety
years of age, and who persists in drink
ing coffee. ."-BOStOn JoagI1Gl.
Major ingalls, says that there are in the
Indian Territory from 10000 or $4,000
Indians, of whom 81, 600 are embraced in
five tribes, and 1900 are called wild
Indians. The 5000 support themselves
BY agriculture their government allow
ance is expended for school houses and
the maintenance of local administra
ton. 1000 are recommunicantsin in church
es. He reports also that the Christian
Indians are sending native preachers
among the Sioux and Arrapahoes.
The Department OF Public instruction
received educational reports from the
Commissioner of Education of Japan,
which are of more interest as excellent
specimens of printing and binding than
Otherwise, being in the japanese tongue.
A translation accompanying the dOcu-
ments states that, since the present Min
lister of Education, Prof. j. G. MoWery,
formerly Of Boston, Mass, assumed charge
of the Department, about ten years ago,
over 10000 elementary schools are at
tended by over $4,000 pupils. The
school population of the Empire, now
taken for the first time. is 100000.
It is, I believe, Addison, who remarks,
thatif all the thoughts which pass through
mems minds were to be made public, the
difference which seems to exist between
the thinking of the wise and the unwise
would be a good deal reduced; seeing
that it is a difference which does not
consist in their not having the same weak
thoughts in common, but merely in the
prudence through which the wise sup
press the foolish ones. I still possess
notes of the cOgitations of those solitary
evenings, ample enough to show that
they were extraordinary combinations
of the false and the true; but I at the
same time hold them sufficiently in
memory to remember that scarce, if at
all, distinguished between what was false
and true In them at the time. The liter
ature Of almost every people has a cor
responding early stage, in which fresh
thinking IS mingled with little conceits,
and in which the taste is usually false,
but the feeling true.-Hllgh Miller.