Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Illinois has $4,000 teachers and 10000

fr1zz their front halr until they frlZEed 1t
all off,
A little girl in Syracuse, n. Y, died in
convulSions from drinking brandy hand
ed to her by her mother during the night
under the supposition that it was water.
Dean Stanley is growing very broad as
a churchman. He lately said in a West
minister sermon: "Christ's cross is every
where. 1t belongs to no sect, and the
true church knows no Turkey, no Rus
Ea."
Gov. Robinson, of New York, states
that " the money raised by taxation for
| the schools of the State amounts to much
more than double the sum required to
nav the entire expenses of the State
| Goyernment, Executive, legislative, Ju-
dicial, Civil and Military"
The Wesleyan Missionary Society of
the Dominion of Canada acknowledges
an income for the past year of S145,998.
It has 493 missionaries, including all
Wesleyan ministers, in new parts of the
Provinces. 1t has Slirty-two mission
aries to Indians, seven to French-Cana-
dams and four to Japan.
A curious headstone stands in the old
burving-ground at Newport, R. l., which
chronicles the death of a son and daugh-
ter of William and Desire Tripp, "alsc
his wife's arm" amputated Feb. 20, 1776.
| A representation of the severed member
is cut upon the stone.
Two men were disputing about the
pronunciation of the word either r"-one
saving it was eS-ther, the other i-ther-
agreed to refer the matter to the first
person they met, who happened to be an
! frishman, and who confounded them
both by declaring; It's nayther, for it's
syther."
A tooth the size of small ham. and
similar Ia shape, weighing twelve pounds,
was extracted from the jaw of white ele-
phant in Ceylon, while the animal was
under the influence of chloroform. The
dental operation was performed to re-
| heve the beast of great pain caused by
exposure of the nerve owing to the decay
of a portion of the bone. -.
Conversation between an inbuiring
stranger and steamboat pilot: 'aThat
is Black mountain eyes, sir, highest
mountain above Lake George" aAny
legend or story connected with that
mountainP' Lots of 'em. Two lovers
went up that mountain once and never
came back again" 'Indeedl Why,
what became of themP' event down
on the other sidep
The past may be compared to a great,
ever-ascending pyramid, to which each
generation has added layer or stratum,
as it emerges into the light of the pres
ent, may see further than its predecessor.
Education is in every age more difficult
than in the preceding But the reward
increases in exact proportion to the labor;
the higher the pyramid a be assembled,
the wider the prospect to be obtained.
IN the year 1861, I9.I- per cent. of the
population of Ireland spoke Irish, name
", 1,105,536 persons. In the year 1871
this proportion had sunk to ISL Of the
population, amely, to 81, ,875 persons
Thus it appears that the use of the Irish
language is dying out at the rate of
more than 100000 persons in ten years;
a fact made still more obvious by an
other table, showing that during the ten
years in question the proportion Of ages
had changed still more markedly than
the numbers of speakers. The younger
generation are all learning English, and
only the parents retain the use Of their
native tongue. tf
Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts,, in his
annual message, states that the school |
statistics show that many thousand |
children in the State are not availing |
themselves Of the advantages which the !
schools afford. He recommends that |
the Compulsory law and the laws relat-
ing to habitual truants should be thor
oughly enforced by local authorities, so
that every child of school age, whose |
physical constitution will permit, shall |
be required to attend school regularly. |
at a recent dedication of Baptist
church the ceremony of immersion was
performed for the first time in that church |
by well-kpown Baptist minister. When
he entered the water, and while waiting
for the candidate, the minister suggested |
that somebody should sing an appropri-
ate hymn. One of the deacons who
stood near heard the suggestion, and
without thinking struck up the familiar
hymn, Pull for the Shore" The hymn
proved to be so suggestive, 1t is stated,
that neither the minister nor the con-
gregation could refrain from an audible
smile for some time, and the ceremony
had to be postponed until the preacher
could recover his gravity.
President Bascom, of Wisconsin Uni
versity, comes out strongly in favor of the
co-education of the sexes. He says the
young women not only learn more easily
than the young men and hold their own
with them in scholarship, but do this at
less expense to their health, and with
only one-third as many absences from
college duties. His theory is that the
girls have the advantage of being aecus-
toned TO confinement, while their
brothers are less able to endure the tran
sition. DIR. Bascom believes that the
health of the young woman who pursues
industriolsly and prudently a course of
education is far safer than when she
remains in society, indulging without
restraint in its fashionable but enervating
frivolities, r.e
"A Philadelphia advertisement for
sixty men not less than, six. feet high,
to appear in the play of Antony and
Cleopatra" drew multitude to the
theatre. One of the successful ones wore
a glossy black beard that stretched far
down his bosom. Being asked how he
Jared, he replied; Il was selected, but /
make a great sacrifice. I have been six
years growing these whiskers, but I've
got to cut 'em off Them Egyptians wore
no boards, and I'm cast for an Egyptian.
get twenty-five cents night, and have
to pay the first nights money each week
to the door-tender. 1t will cost me forty
cents week to get shaved; but then ri
earn ninety cents week, and that'u paw
in these times"
INTRODUCTION OF THE PoTATo.-.-SiF
Walter proved to be one Of the greatest
to his own country, and,
eventually to the United States, by the.
Introduction of the potato, in the year
1884. The root was first planted on.
Raleigh's estate at Younghall, which was
afterwards sold to the Earl of Cork, and
the person who had the management Of
the estate, mistook the flower or fruit, as.
he called It, for the valuable part, and on
tasting the potato ball pronounced it a
pernicious exotic. Sometime afterwards,
on turning up the earth, it was discovered
that the root had spread largely and in
considerable quantities; and from this
source Great Britain's potato supply
commenced and then gradually the cul-
tivation was extended through North
America. The potato is supposed to
have been native of Mexico.
10 WORTH THE CHARM.-Young men are
mistaken when they think good looks
their principal recommendation to wo-
man. "A woman admires a handsome
man for time, but it needs something