Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19

to them.
The people of Iowa spend $5,OOO,OOO
a year on school taxes.
The Shah of Persia is planning a new
tour of Europe, for the study Of Euro
pean customs.
Mr.. Moody is 40 years of age, and
Mr.. Sankey is 81. The two have worked
together successfully for seven years.
The revision of the Authorized Version
of the New Testament has been carried
to the 23d chapter of Acts.
An Irish sailor once visited a city,
where he said they "copperbottomed the
tops of their houses with sheet lead"
An eminent philologist, when asked
what "MopUs oPERANDI" meant, replied
that it was Latin for how the old thing
works.
A little boy went to his father cry
ing the other day, and told him that he
had kicked bee that had splinter in
its tail.
Philosophy is a good thing. PhiIoso-
ply gives man cheek enough to pay one
cent for a newspaper and five cents for
poor cigar.
A man in Tennessee offers a reward of
FIVE cents for the return of his wife who
eloped with another man and S. for
runaway dog.
The English Baptists are about to send
nilsson to the region watered by the
Congo River, recently explored by Henry
N. Stanley.
The aggregate value Of the cattle,
hogs, and sheep received at the Chicago
Union Stock Yards for the year 1877
totals S99,O0O,OOO.
Children are quick to perceive the
standard of integrity held by those around
them, and catch the prevailing tone of
moral feeling.
Emma Bailey and Emma Colby were
billed to run foot race in Virginia City
on Christmas Day. This is, we suppose,
what the printers call twO-em dash.
The champion corn-shucker this time
is from Dodge county, Neb., 1900 bush
els; time thirty-three days, and his name
is William Dale.
The French DR.. TOchamer says that
the little black specks on apples and
oranges are clusters of fungi, and that
they produce WhOOping cough.
In 1859 there were 1000 miles of
railway in Italy on Jan. l, 1877, 5000
miles of rail were in operation. The
total cost of these railways was S478,-
436,26O.
A young girl in a theatre in London
gets $500 week for diving from a perch
ninety feet down toward nat, She
drops head first, turns on the way, and
strikes on her back,
Beggars should not be chOOsers.-
Laird (condescendingly)-"Do Doyou think
you could carry home a hare, Sandy ?"
Sandy" Well Laird, I dinna doot but
a could if had a pair o rabbits tae
balance it wi.
The cold world little realizes the sense
of desolation that shuts down on man
who thinks he has been handed too much
change by his grocer, when he dOdges
around the corner and finds it right to a
cent.
Satin is now the rage. It went out
of fashion in England twenty-eight years
ago, when Mrs. Manning, a celebrated
murderess, at one time lady's maid to the
late Duchess of Sutherland, was hung In
black-satin dress.
Irascible old Conductor, why
didn't YOU wake me up, as l asked you ?
Here 1 am miles beyond my station ?
Copductor-"I did try, but all l could
Get out of you was, 'all right, Maria
9 get the children their breakfast, and I'll
be down in q minute"
We don't want Moore township girl
for lung-tester. At a singing-schOol up
there the other night young man was
Dragging about the strength Of his lungs,
and invited a girl in the company to hit
him in the breast. She said she was left
handed had been washing that day and
was tired, and didn't feel very active, but
at his urgent request she let go at him.
When his friends went to pick him up he
said he thought he would die easier lying
down. He had lost all recollection OF
having any lungs, but the young woman n
consoied him by admitting that she didn't
hit him as hard as she might have done,
because she rather liked him.-EGs:On
Free Press.