Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
MOnAn,S Love.

A man, who had struggled with ma
lignant disease, approached that crisis in
its stage on which his life seemed to de-
pend. Sleep, uninterrupted sleep, might
insure his recovery. His anxious wife,
scarcely daring to breathe, was sitting by
his bed; her servants exhausted by con-
slant watching, had all left her. 1t was
midnight; door was left open for air;
she heard, i'll the stiffness of the night, a
window open below stairs, and soon after
approaching footsteps. "A moment more
a man with his face disguised entered
the room. She instantly saw her hus-
bands danger, and anticipating the de
sign of the unwelcome intruder, she
pointed to her husband, and pressing
her finger upon her lips to implore
silence, held out to the robber her purse
and her keys. To her great surprise, he
took neither. Whether he was terrified
or charmed by the courage of her affec-
ton cannot be known. He left the room,
and, without robbing a house sanctified
by such strength of afectiOn-h deDartad
Combat Between a Parrot and Spider.
The correspondent of French paper
relates remarkable contest which he
witnessed in the Isle of Java between a
parrot and gigantic spider. The spider,
whose body was as long as smalfbird's
dropped down upon a young parrot
whose mamma was from home, and
spreading its huge claws over the nest
began sucking its blood. When the
mother returned she naturally went for
the enemy, and seized hold of one ofhis
legs, but whether it be that legs are not
a sensive portion of spiders organization,
or that this particular insect had an
overpowering penchant for the blood of
young parrots, he wouldn't let 90, until
his pain becoming too intense for endu-
rance, he turned on the mother and,
twining all his legs firmly around her
neck, was Just arranging for good long
suck in that quarter, when she gave him
an awful dig in the belly with her beak,
whereupon he fell over, dragging her to
the ground with him. The naturalist
then shot him and released the parrot.
Emma Bailey and Emma Colby are
billed to run a foot race. This will be,
we suppose, what the printers call a two
em dash.
Editors and reporters in Canada are
warned against accepting their salaries
without close scrutiny. Counterfeit five
cent pieces are in circulation.
A down town man who went to church
last Sunday, remarked afterward that he
preferred the organ to the preacher. He
said there seemed to be stop to the Or
gan.
One of the editors of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat has been called to the
pulpit If it isn't nailed down he'll steal
'it.-RocheSter Democrat.
Probably the evenest tempered set of
editors on the continent are to be found
in the Black Hills. They seldom break
over the rules of etiquette further than
to call each other damned liars"
Every adult man has fourteen hun
dred square feet of lungs or, rather, the
mucous membrane lining the air-cells of
his lungs, if spread upon smooth, plane
surface, cover an extent of fourteen hun
dred square feet.
"a generous accumulation of igno-
rance" is the mild way in which a Roch-
ester paper characterizes the author of a
recent article in cotempOrary. The
phrase is curt and expressive, and will
bear repetition.
Are the days of the lamp-ighter num-
bered? Providence, R. l., has 220 street
lamps, scattered over nine miles of street.
One man attends to the entire lighting
in fifteen minutes. It is done by cleo
tricity, at a saving of $40 per lamp per
year, it is reported.