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

He who is the most slow in making q
promise is the most faithful in the perfor-
nance of it.
There are 1877 Lutheran churches, 80
ministers, and 10000 members in the
State of Virginia.
When next Mr. John B. Cough makes
a lecture tour he proposes that it shall
be through Old England.
Girard College has been enlarged so
as to accommodate 900 students, and is
now open to non-residents.
According to the ErGagsliSt more than
$4,000 were added last year to the Pres
byterian Church in the North.
Swinging is said by doctors to be good
exercise for health, but many a poor
wretch has come to his death by it.
The United States utilizes in agricul-
ture 10 per cent. of its area; Great
Britain, 90 per cent, and Holland, 20.
There being no hell, the Plymouth
Church people have decided to let Mr..
Beecher getalOng on One-fourth less salary.
Judge Bancroft Davis has seated him
self in that easy chair of the United
States Court of Claims at Washington.
The legislature of California hal au.
thorized a vote by the people as to whether
they desire to stop Chinese immigration
Rev. Joseph Cook thinks "Thana-
topsis is the earliest American poem
that will be remembered 500 years hence.
The REMEDY.-"W What is the best
remedy" asked a preacher of shrewd
observer, " for an inattentive audience 2''
Give them something to attend to, u
was the significant reply. Hungry
sheep will look up to the rack if there is
hay In it"
The following business in the United
States is seen in the following: Distiller-
les, 1892; rectifers, l, ,13O; brewers, q
757; wholesale dealers, 1904; licensed
saloons, 164,598. On basis of $4,000
900 people there is one legalized saloon
to 28O persons.
As result of the "church debt-rais-
ing" labors of Mr.. Kimball at DR.. Tyng's
Church, in New York, Dr. Tying, a few
nights ago, showed a gold bracelet set
with pearls. He said it was sent to him
with a most touching letter. The letter
stated that the bracelet had been a Christ
mas gift, bought with the heard earnings
of dear husband now dead. "Dear pas
tor, please take the trinket and make the
best use Of it you car" were the words
of direction.
Houses in Paris have been greatly i'm
proved in comfort of late years. Water
is now brought to the upper stories, and
a furnace is often maintained by the land
lord. Flats vary in prices, from 5000 to
$4,000 year; but, while the majority
live in this way, the wealthy still reside
in "hotels," as in days gone by, and build
new ones. Many of these latter, though
plain externally, are exquisite within.
The Paris houses are excellently built,
and made as near fre-prOOf as possible.
The largest bell in the world is in the
temple of Glars, in Kinto, Japan. Un-
like the great bells in Peking and Mos
COW it is whole, and its tone is as perfect
and as sweet as when first suspended.
Where and by whom it was cast is not
known. Chinese and Sanscrit characters
completely cover it but they are not
translatable by japanese scholars. 1t Is
twenty-four feet high, and sixteen inches
thick at the rim. 1t has no clapper, but
Is struck by sort of wooden ba&eTing
ram on the outside.
The editor of the LeMars Sentinel
writes like an experienced man when he
says: off you don't wish to fall in love,
keep away from calico. You can no
more play with the girls without losing
your heart, than you can play at roulette
without losing your money. As Robbins
aptly remarks, the heart-strings of a
woman are like the tendrils of a vine
always feeling about for something to cling
to. The consequence is that before you
have anv idea of Ooinor- Won are OOne like