Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
GENERAL ITEMS.

Twenty tons of alabaster have been
imported from Italy by Boston organ
firm for use in the manufacture of keys
for pianos and organs.
The Catholic bishops in the United
States are stated to have held $9,000,0 900
property in 1850, which is estimated to
have increased now to Sll0,000,000.
The superintendent of wood pulp
factory claims that in six hours after cut
ting down tree the paper made from
the pulp can be ready for use.
Farm animals should not be allowed
within the reach of tobacco leaves. A
Kentucky farmer recently lost three
valuable COWS, which ate some of the
weed in their hay.
An inventor says: "Our latest lawn
mower eats the grass off like a COW, but
it dosen't cost as much for provender !;
and truth compels US to add, that it
dosen't give as much milk, either"
A Boston woman testified that man
had threatened to take her life, and he
was put under bonds to keep the peace
for six months. Since then she has
married him.
"Advicep' said an old man of much
experience. "Why, 1 never had any
one come to me for advice, who, before
he got through, wasn't willing to give
twice as much as he asked for~
A canal across the state of Michigan is
talked Of As the state law prohibits the
undert king of public improvements of
this character, it will have to be prose-
cuted by the general government if at all.
Mamma, where do people go when
they die?" "My dear, can't tell you
just where" "But don't you know ?"
How can I know, Nellie? Mamma
has never died" "Of course not; but
haven't you studied geography"
81 suppose you miss your husband
very much" he remarked to the charm
ing relict. 'AIiss him2 Of course 1 do ;
he was very useful in attending to the
fire, winding up the clock and turning
out the gas"
1t is stated that vulcanized red rubber
dental plates are injured by tobacco
smoke. They color by degrees like
account for the number of deteriorated
plates, of which smoking owners COM
plain.
Two hundred Waltham watches were
recently sent to the conductors and
engineers of one of the state railroads
of India. They were made upon order
from the British Government, for which
they successfully competed with foreign
manufacturers.
"Piety," remarked an Arkansas
preacher to his congregation the other
day, "does not consist in noise. The
Lord can see you give to the needy just
as easily as he can hear you pray tie
roof off"
Did 1t ever occur to you what the
meaning of "No cards." and "No CAKE"
appended to a marriage announcement
meansP 1t is simply the exclamation of
the editor thrown in, in spiteful way,
to show that he was not remembered.
Ifyour local paper doesn't exactly suit
you don't go to running it down and
abusing the editor, but go to work and
help him him make it better by furnish
ing your local itemizer or the editor-in-
chief with such items of interest as hap
pen to come under your observation.
The Wayne County Journal recently
printed an article headed 'HTalk About
Stoves" There has been a good deal of
talk about stoves in Rome this fall, but
ture and not calculated for public print.
Our folks mix their stove talk up too
much with Calvinism.-Rome Sentinel,
A North Hill lady writes to this office
inquiring if photographers ever go to
heavenP Good land, woman, they nev-
er go anywhere. They don't get
chance. They just sit around and do good
and count their money and subscribe to
charitable enterprises. We don't know
whether any of them "ever go" to heav-
en- or not.
The religious column" in a secular pa
per is usually very unsatisfactory de-
partment to most readers. There is moth
ing the average man thinks less about
and at the same time feels more
"touchy" in regard to, than his religious
belief, though he himself may not be
able to explain what it is. Therefore,
ten men will read the religious column |
(often edited by semi-infdeI in a sec
ular newspaper, and nine of them will |
become more or less offended at what is
there printed.
Here is a warning to men too mean to |
advertise, One of this description want
ed to sell some land, and so he put a
written notice in one of the hotels the |
other day. A man who was enquiring
for a small farm was referred to the writ |
ten notice, when he replied: 'T can't
buy land at fair price of any man who |
does his advertising in this way. He'd
steal the fence, the pump-handle and the
barn-doors before he'd give up posses
sion"
Probably no portion of the human
anatomy is so delicate, sensitive, and at
the same time so capricious in its action
as the human ear. We have known a
woman who could stand up in the garrett,
looking out of a dormer window, and
hear her husband kiss the hired girl |
in the cellar, eight rooms and Two
flights Of stairs away, and the next night |
that very same woman would take her |
baby to church and hold it on her Ian |
while it screamed and howled fifteen |
of the sermon into oblivion
and be astonished when she was told
that the dear child had been CRYING.
Burlington HaaCkeye.
An indignant Englishman writes to
the London Week, to protest against the |
erection of statue to John Stuart Mill |
on the Thames Embankment or any
where else. He desires to know "why |
statue to Mr.. Mill is to be put up in this |
important thoroughbred What service |
did Mr.. Mill render to the country |
which is to be thus commemorated? If |
every man who has endeavored to out
rage the religious sentiments of his
and advocated atheism in
its most debased form is to be thus hon.
ored, why limit the selection to man
whose very autobiography is fatal to any
claims that he might otherwise have
had to ordinary respectP' To which the
New York World says: "This angry pat
riot ought to console himself with the re-
Election that if the statue of Mr.. Mill is
confded to an average British sculptor
OF the period it will serve rather as a
warning than as an inspiration to those
VINO gaze upon it, and, like our own
craven image of Mr.. Seward in Madison
square, will lead the casual passenger to
regard 1t as the handiwork of men who
ioathed the original, and devised it in
the spirit OF those waxen statues of con-
tunsaclous heretics which the Inouisition
Used to carry in procession and burn