Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-21
General and Personal.

Governor McCreary of Kentucky, has
rejected 1898 applications for pardons
within thirty months.
Mr.. Joseph H. Acklin, of Louisiana, is
the youngest member of congress, being
only twenty-eight years of age.
1t is feared that if George Francis
Train should die, his heirs would try to
break his will on the ground of insanity.
Camilla Urso's violin was seized at
Ithica the other night for debt. She
borrowed fiddle and gave concert all
the same.
Mrs. Gaines has gained another land
claim, this time in the neighborhOod of
Baltimore. She is moving in the direc-
ton of Philadelphia.
In Cincinnati Mile. Roze stopped at
one hotel, Annie Louise Cary at another,
and Clara Louise kellogg at a third.
Yet, even then, they felt crowded.
You can teacha boy that if he plays
the three-and-four domino on a three,
leaving six exposed at the other end, It
counts ten, in about five minutes but II
will take him all day at school to learn
that four units and six units make ten
units.
Mrs. Lydia Mountly Roosevelt died at
New York, aged eighty-six years. She
was the widow of Nicholas J. Roosevelt,
the inventor of the western river steam
boats, and was the first lady to ascend
the Mississippi in one of them, In the
year 1910.
Miss Thompson, the eccentric Scotch
pirI who lately shod her horse with gold,
6os bean sent tn .. British asylum for the
insane. She is the daughter OF 1ormer
civil official in Dumfries, Scotland, and
has succeeded in wasting a fortune
through her crazy pranks.
The telephone is the reverse Of the
telephone; by using it you can, avola
hearing chatterbo-- not 1901 olstahI,
and cats may howl all night on your
ridgepole without you knowing IT, Even
your neighbor's cornet becomes lnnox-
ious, and the hand-organ loses lts sung
"A subscription paper was recently
circulated through the - congregation
with the following very charitable object
in view:
"We, the undersigned, do pledge our
selves to pay the amount subscribed tor
the purpose of paying the organlst and
boy to blow the same"
An exchange has this startling piece
of intelligence: Nothing will be worn
this spring except longitudinal-striped
hose" We presume this attractive,
though somewhat picturesque costume
will not become the rage until the warm
weather sets in.
"A lady who objects to profanity be-
/ IoNL, -rrsol-aI nd
TO know what she ought to say when
clothes line breaks and lets weeks
washing fall into the mud. She ought to
say: BLESSED are the meek for they
shall inherit the cal III" but probably she
will not think OF it.
Our Benny has a little curly-pated
visitor three years old who excited his
great admiration few days ago. After
viewing her pretty face for some minutes,
he said, deliberately:
Carrie, you are little angel and if
you amt an angel, you are a Moses in
the bullrushes, any howP
You constantly hear sentimental
Young ladies warbling at the piano that
there are no birds in last years nest.
And it is strange that no practical, COM
nonsense business man ever comes to
the front to remark that there aren't any
in next years nest, either.
When the Webster mansion at Marsh
ield was destroyed by fire recently, the
entire roof, instead of falling into the
flames, was blown into the air. 1t is
supposed that quantity of powder was
concealed under the roof during the rev.
olutionary war by the soldiers who were
uuartered there,
"A punctual man is rarely poor man,
and never a man of doubtful credit. His
small accounts are frequently settled, and
he never meets with difficulty in raising
money to pay large demands. Small
debts debts neglected ruin credit; and when a
| man has lost that, he will find himself at
the bottom of hill he cannot ascend.
There are four hundred societies in
Paris which give annual balls. Among
| them are the True Friends of Butcher
i ing. the Mirror Of the Virtues, the
| Friends of Prudence, and the Imitators
of the Bees. The choicest of these pub
i lie gatherings are the balls given by the
different dramatic societies.
The body of Mrs Mary Weis, who died
in 1865 at the age Of sixty, and was buried
at Fort Wayne, was recently dlslnterred
and found to be petrifed. The deceased
weighed two hundred pounds when she
died, When the body was exhumed eve
nv portion of 1t was as hard as rock, and
| the features as natural as life.
A little boy was convicted of murder
nv his play-felloWs in q mock trial in
Madison, Indiana, and sentenced to be
| hanged. They put a moose around his
neck, threw the rope over door, and
| hoisted him up. He was fast choking
| to death when a woman stopped the
foolery; but he was so badly injured that
he soon died.
The Chinese play game called tan, in
which small buttons are thrown from q
box. like dice, and the players guess
| whether the number is odd or even.
Wong Ah Lee was caught, in San Fran
cisco using box that had slot to hold
| a button, with a spring so arranged as to
drop or retain it at will. His compan'
ions cut off his cue.
At Otis, Ind, negro woman belong
inc to a troupe of Jubilee singers sang
with so much sweetness and fervor that
| TIE GlltHDnS BfPW PAfAAhnttASe4S LAA tAASti
admiration, They gave her as "a testi
monial of approval of artistic merit anC
humble WORTH" purse of silver dollars
She got drunk with the money, anC
when one of the admiring citizens helped
a constable to arrest her, she fatally
stabbed him with knife.
THE SOCIETY OF LApIEs.-We seek the
society Of the ladies with view to bC
pleased, rather than to be instructed, anC
are more grati6ed by those who vii
talk, than by those that are silent; for i
they talk well, we are doubly delighted
TO receive information from so pleasant {
source; and if they are at times a llttl'
out in their conclusions, it is tatterihg t'
our vanity to set them right.
Mrs. Bell, the wife of one of the bo'
nanza men, is going to Europe to aston
;sb the natives, and has provided hersel
in advance, with wonderful wardrob'
from m m Worth's, and $780, worth Of dia
monds, She appears, from the descrip
tions in the papers, to have worn all the
diamonds but very few of the clothes al