Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-28


willing to face death at any time.
Over twohundred and fifty thousand
American stoves are now distributed
Jver Great Britain and Ireland. They
are considered excellent in every way.
When Sheridan was asked at an am
ateur play which performer he liked
best, he replied; SThe prompter; for l
saw less and heard more of him than any
one elseP
Many public men consider them
| selves the pillars of the State, who are
more properly the caterpillars of the
State, reaching their high positions only
by crawling.
An old bachelor would like mucb to
know what kind of a broom the Young
lady in the last new novel used when she
classic brow.
AS frightened darkey, chased by
an infuriated bull, neared the boundaries
| of the field, he enthusiastically exclaim-
ed, "Millions for de fence, but not one
cent for de brute"
"A married acquaintance says his wife
won't let him belong to a club, because,
she says, it would take him out of an
evening when he ought to stay at home
and make club to her.
"A Frenchman thinks the English
language Is very tough. "Dare is look
out," he says, which is to put out your
head and see; and look out. which is to
haul In your head and not for to see-iust
contrarie."
In country graveyard, in New Jer-
sey, there Is plain stone erected over
the grave of beautiful young lady, with
only this inscription upon it: "Julia
Adams, died of thin shoes, April II, 1889,
aged Is years"
He appeared to be almost gone. Roll
ing his eyes towards the partner of his
bosom, he gasped: "Bury me meath the
weeping willow, and plant a simple
white rose above my head" "Oh, its
10 use," she snapped out, "Your nose
would scorch the rootsp He got well.
"A cockney conducted two ladies to
the observatory, to see an eclipse of the
moon. They were too late; the eclipse
was over, and the ladies were disappOint-
ed. "Oh," exclaimed our hero, don't
fret. know the astronomer very well
he is very polite man, and am sure he
viii begin again"
The first money coined in the
United States was turned out in 1892.
The machinery used, as well as the ma
terial, was imported from England.
Copper was scarce, but copper cents were
the first specimens made, and two years
later silver was coined, and the next
year gold eagles followed.
Among wheat growing States Iowa
stands first, Minnesota second, Illinois
third and Wisconsin fourth. Ohio raises
the most winter wheat and Illinois the
most corn and oats. Pennsylvania
raises the most rye-one-fifth of the
whole crop, and California the most
barley.
"A young man at church fair, when
urged by one of the SISTERS" to take
chance" in drawing for pound-cake,
said he turned over a new leaf on the
first of the year, but he wouldn't mind
chipDing in dollar. and plaving game
OF seven-up Ior the pot" The sister
didn't urge" him any more after that.
How women can manage to sit bolt |
upright and not change a position, look
ing neither to the right nor left, during a
sermon in church, passes the understand |
ing. A man will sit on the picket fence |
all the afternoon to see base ball match,
but put him in church pew for three |
quarters of an hour and he will Wobble |
all over the seat.
The Detroit Free Press believes that |
the man who can invent smooth pave |
ment which will not rot or pulverize, can |
become a millionaire in a few years.
And while he is inventing the pavement !
let US suggest, for the benefit of those |
who have not signed the Murphy pledge.
that he puts some sort of an attachment |
to it that will prevent it from fying up
and hitting a man on the back of the
head.
"A healthy tramp, about "a years old,
but looking to be not more THAI. 40, was
in st. Peter, Mimi, recently, who has
been on the tramp for thirty years, during
which time he has been in almost every
inhabited part of the world. He is rep.
resented to have been of a respectable
German family, the son of a surgeon-in-
chief of a German army, and to have
left home when partly demented because
his family would not permit him to mar
ry peasant girl.
A story is told in the Revue MedicaLe
de Est of patient who lost his life by
deceiving his doctor. The man was suf-
fering from lead-poisoning. The Ply
sician, oddly named Prof Forget, pre-
scribed strychnia pills which produced |
no effect. The dose was increased sue
cessiyely to two, three, five, and six pills,
without any result. Finally the doctor
ordered the patient to take FIVE pills In
his presence. The man did so, and died
within two hours. After his death all
the pills previously prescribed were
found secreted behind his bed.
GIRLS AND UNDERSTANDING. - Young
girls, who have more EiFaGity than un-
derstanding, will often make a spFightly
figure in conversation. But this agree
able talent for entertaining others is fre-
nuently dangerous to themselves; nor is
Il bv ar1y means to be desired or epceur-
aoed yery early in life. Conversation
Should be the result of education, not the
Drecatrsor of it. It is a golden fruit when
suffered to grow on the tree of knoWl-
edge: but, if precipitated by forced and
means, it will in the end be-
come vapid, in proportion as it is arti-
fetal.
-GiEs, if you want to encourage
young men, get an album. It's the first
thing a bashful young man grabs for
when he enters strange house where
there are girls, We've seen them lOok !
through one until they knew every pic
tu=e by heart from page one to General
Grant in the back part. It's wonderful
what interest bashful young man will
take in young girls grandmother and
uncle at the first visit, but it
always occurs. Get 'em, girls, It's the
best thing in the world to occupy young
fellows hands, and it's a sure cure for
bashfulness.
The Chinese are often compelled to
make their dwellings in large boats in
The rivers. An officer in the navy saws
he observed one of these, who kept
ducks for a living, practice an odd piece
Of ingenuity. In the daytime the ducks
we're permitted to float about, but in the
nighttime they were carefully collected.
rhe man, when the night set in, gave a
whistle, when the ducks always few to- a
ward him with violent speed, SO that
hey were invariably gathered in min I
1te. How do you suppose he had edu- S
,ated his flock so effectually2 He always i
beat the last duck.
"A gentleman from North Lexington,