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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Marrying an Editor.

Yes, I'm Mrs. Snow, an editors wife.
wen remember the day when Mr.. Snow
asked me to become his wife. I confess
liked Mr.. Snow, and, thinking it would
be "a fine thing to be the wife of an editor,
I said Eyes" as pretty as knew how,
and I became Mrs. Snow. / have seen
ten years of married life, and ind my
husband to be an amiable, good natured
man. He always spends his evenings
at home, and is in that respect model
man but he always brings q pile Of ex-
changes which is only limited by the
length of his arms, and reads while /
patch the knees and elbows of his pam
falcons and coat. After we had Quaker
meeting Of an hours length, I broke the
stiffness by asking:
"Mr. Snow, did you order that coal l
spoke to you sbout?" -'
What did you say, my dearP" he asks,
after minutes silence.
%Did you order that coal I spoke to you
about2" --
Indeed, my dear, am sorry, but I
forgot all about it. 1t shall come
tomorrow"
Another hours silence, which is re-
heved by the baby's crying, and rather
IAAA4S IO4So VI tnAbSOCb uaau0 uO ouOIs
to quiet him. -......
HMy DEAR" says Mr.. Snow, after he
has cried minute or 30, "you had better
give the baby some catnip tea to quiet
him; he troubles me-" - ---. -.
The baby is still. Another hour passes
without a breath of noise. Becoming
tired, I take a lamp and retire for the
night, leaving Mr.. Snow, so engaged with
his papers that he does not see me leave
the room. Toward midnight he comes
to bed, and Just as he has fallen asleep
the baby takes notion to cry again. !
rise as quietly as possible and try 10 still
him. Then another baby begins to
scream at the top of his lungs. There is
no other course but to awake Mr.. Snow,
so say:
"Mr. Snowl Mr.. Snow"
The third time he starts up and cries,
What, Tom, more copy2"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Laughter.

We would rather be poor and merry,
than inherit the wealth of the Indies
with a discontented spirit. A merry heart,
acheerful spirit from which laughter wells
up naturally as bubbles in the springs of
Saratoga, are worth all the money bags,
stock and mortgages in the city. The
man who laughs is a doctor with q diplO-
ma, endorsed by the school of nature
his face does more good in a sick room
than pound of powders or gallon Of
bitter draughts. If things go right, he
laughs because he is pleased; if they go
wrong he laughs because it is cheaper,
and better than crying. People are
always glad to see him, their hands in
stinctively go half way ont to meet his
grasp, while they turn inyoluntariIy from
the clammy touch of the dyEpeptic who
speaks on the groanina key. He laughs
you out of your faults, while you never
seems as if sunshine came into the room
with him, and you never know what a
pleasant world you are living in until he
points out the sunny stFeaks on it's path
way. Who can help loving the whole
sOuled, genial laugher2 Not the bufoon,
nor the man who classes noise with
mirth-but the eheery, contented man Of
sense and mind A good-humored laugh
is the key to all breasts. The truth is
that people like to be laughed at in a
genial sort of way. If you are making
yourself ridiculous, you want to be told
of It in q pleasant manner, not sneered
at. And 1t is astonishing how frankly
the laughing population can talk without
treading on the sensitive toes of their.
neighbors Why viii people put on long
faces, when it is so much easier and more
comfortable to laugh? Tears come to us
unsought and unbidden. The wisest art
in life is to cultivate smiles; and to find
the smiles where others shrink away for
fear of thorns. -la ...is.' 81
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
AsHTABULA, OHIO FRIDAY MAY a. 1878
strength. And then: 0TaIk ab,

strength. And then: 'Talk about
prayin'l She put up the best one ever
heard south of the 'hiO, and l reckon it
was as solid with Him as heard it as any
that was got of. 1t kinder made things
more hopeful around, and the child
opened her eyes wide, Just as if she
knew the woman was putin IN for her
1t got down into me, though there wasn't
any stakes put up for me at all. When
she went away / said to Emily-that's
wife-that would try nv hand on inst
one prayer, 1t seemed to help things so.
The old woman shook her head, cause
never thought of such thing before.
But l got down and put up every cent
L had-I mean everything could think
OF And when got to the last word,
the amen, it stuck in my throat, but
Emily got away with it. She said it
right out like it was in meetin'."
II guess 1 made misdeal somewhere"
he continued rather mournfully. "The
little one didn't look up any, and she's
been CROWN weaker every day. Emily
said had spilled the whole business. and
crowded the poor woman's PRAYER out.
But l never ment it. Eff I'd known |
was lnterferin', I'd never put up agin her
hand"
There was blast of wind that came
and ratified the window, and kind of a
moan, and then the head of the sick child
and its face turned over in the mothers
lap. Its thin lips met the Wrinkled ones,
and the struggle was over.
The grim-faced, hardy-looking man
bent over the pallet, but there was
good deal of good sense left in him
still. He turned to the reporter, who
had gone to the scene of misery, and
said: "But am not the man. to 90 back
on good prayin', even if I didn't win. I
reckon the hand that the woman put up
will win for somebody else's little one,
eff it don't for ours. For it was the solid
est hand 1 ever see, not 'ceptin' the south
side of the 'hio in old Kintuck."
A pauper child was buried yesterday.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Mechanical and Scientific.

Humming- birds were supposed even
to Buttons day, to live on the nectar of
flowers, but it has now. beer. proved that
they eat insects also. A gentleman in
Jamaica, who kept some, found that tbey
must have insect food.
A Frenchman has analyzed the dust
and debris of the streets of Paris and
Florence, and has found that 35 per cent.
of that collected from the roadway is
iron given off by horses shoes, and that
from 80 to 40 per cent. of that taken from
the side walks is glue. He proposes to
utilize both the iron and the glue.
A new coating for the bottom of iron
ships consists of brown paper attached
by suitable cement. It is the inven-
ton of an English sea Captain, and the
substance he proposes to use is prepar-
alton of papier machie. It is stated that
weeds and barnacles will not adhere to
paper, and that the special cement by
which the paper is in this case secured.
may be applied cold, hardens under
water, is unaffected by comparatively
high temperature, and possesses great te-
nacity. Experiments made with view
to test this method show that q plate
thus protected on one side has been I'M
mersed for six months, with the result
that the protected side was found clean,
while the unprotected metal was cover
ed with rust and shell-fsh.
According to the germ theory, the
communicable diseases, such as small
pox, cholera, yellow fever, measles, scar
let fever, typhus and typhoid fevers and
diphtheria, are developed from particles
of organic matter. which, upon intro
duction into the body, grow as grain
grows, when sown in fertile field. This
analogy to the growth Of grain Is insisted
on by all exponents of the germ theory.
The seed having been planted, as it were,
in the form of a particle of contagium
from without, it multiplies by growth
within the system, and thus occasions
the phenomena belonging to that par
ticular disease of which Il is the germ.
The vitality of these infectious particles
is wonderful. Sir Thomas Watson, in
the Nineteenth Century, mentions the
case of several physicians who helped
unfold mummy at London in the year
1853; they died shortly afterWard of
malignant fever, which was ascribed to
infection from the body of the ancient
EOyDtian. ...- ~. g.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Fidelity.


Never forsakea friend. When enemies
gather around, when sickness falls upon
the heart, when the world is dark and
cherries is the time to try true friend
ship; The heart that has been touched
with true gold will redouble its efforts
when the friend is sad and in trouble.
Adversely tries real friendship, They
who run from the scene Of distress betray
their hypocricy and prove that interest
only moves them. If you have friend
that loves you, who has studied your IN
terest and happiness, be sure to sustain
him In adversely. Let him feel that, his
former kindness is appreciated and that
his love was not thrown away. Real
fidelity may be rare, but It exists in the
human heart. Who has not seen and
felt its power? They only deny its
worth and power who never loved a
friend or labored to make friend happy.
The good and the kind, the afFectionate
and the virtuous see and feel the heavenly
principle. They would sacrifice wealth
and all but honor to promote the happi-
ness Of Others, and in return they would
Feceive the reward Of their love by SYM
pathiAing hearts and doubled favors
when they have been brought low BY
disease or adVerSitY
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
On Skatin'.

My friend, little Johnnie, sends me the
following aneedete, suitable, he thinks,
to the Winter season !" There amt no
place like Californy for skatin'. First
thing a boy does is to buy skate, and
when he gets bigger, and more money,
he bize other, and girls, too. And when
there is frost everybody takes their
skates and goes and stands around q
ponda waitin' for it to be Ice and git
drownded. Well, once there was ole
man q cryin' like his heart was busted,
and the dockter he come, and he said,
the dockter did, 'Wot is the matter {
Take a pill Then the ole man, he said,
mo, it is lest am ruin man, and the
doekter he said, Take two pills? But
the old feller he shuke his head, sayin'.
at amt that; wot ails me Is blasted hops
and wasted opportunities; and the dok-
ter said, ooh, that's 1t ! Then you must
have xercise; git o pair of skatesto once
Wen the dokter had said that the ole
man he stude up and luked at the dokter
and said, "Awayi you have come to tont
mel Coz it's them skates that has done
it. Wen / was little bot pair, and I've
KEEP them to this day, but not any ice yet;
and I've been igern 1t up and / find if
Ide q put the money out to interest /
wud now be rich naybob, q livin in
Willy at the North Pole, where It is gud
skatin ol the year round. Ayontl" Wen
the ole man had sed so he throde out his
feet rite and left, like skatin, and set
down ker-plump, and pushed his fingers
up thro his hair, wieh made It stand out,
and hollered, 'Ha, hall and nasht his
teeth fEitefe. Then the dokter he bakt
Of the dokter did, and shhked his head,
and said, Take black draftl'"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
So in Advance.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are ten women in the regular
college classes of Colby University in
Maine. a, 81. - 10
- A. Methodist Church in Knoxville,
Tenn, bears the remarkable. name Of
The Parson BrownloW Church"
The Mexican State of Michoacan has
SO4 free schools in operation, and an
order has been issued by the Government
tor the opening of 260 more. -....,
Telephones are to be put into every
grammar school in New Haven to estab-
ish communication with the high-school
building. If they work satisfactory they
will become permanent. Fi .I -
The UniVersalists of this country report
$50 parishes, embracing 41,O29 families,
656 church organizations with 32,947
members, 706 ministers, and a church
property above indebtedness Of S., ,465,.
495. ..>- 5.Iis =I,
Dean Stanley is growing very broad as
a churchman. He lately said in West
minister sermon: @Christ's cross is every
where. 1t belongs to no sect, and the
true Church knows no Turkey, no Russia"
The Republic of Honduras is about to
Introduce the American free-school sys-
tenn. Units Capital, Camayagua, national
college is to be established, and Com
missioner has been sent to this country
to obtain books and teachers.
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 pay the entire expenses Of the State
Government, Executive, Legislative, JU-
dicial, Civil and Military" 80,
The Wesleyan Missionary Society Of
the Dominion of Canada acknowledges
an income for the past year Of $145, ,998.
1t has 493 missionaries, including all
Wesleyan ministers in new parts Of the
Provinces. 1t has thirty-two missionaries
to Indians, seven to French-Canadians,
and four to Japan.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
LAKE SHORE 4 MICHIGAN SOUTH
ERN 4. h.


Special Michigan Express leaves Buffalo at
300 p. m, Erie LILO a. m, Conneaut 2:22
Ashtabula 2:55 a. m, Madison I.32 a m, Paines-
vile 4:gO a. m, Cleveland 5:15 a. m.
Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo at
l2;4j a. H., Erie $50 a. m, Ashtabula 4:5S,
Painesville $40, and arrives at Cleveland at
G:35 a. m.
Conneaut AecommodationIea leaves Conneaut
at 6:O5 a. m, Amboy GIL, Kingsville GIL, Ash
tabuia 6:33, aybroOk 6:fS, Geneva 6:5S, Paines-
Vile IDS, and arrives at Cleveland S:45 a. m.
Toledo Express leaves Buffalo at 6:45 a. M,
Erie lO:0O, Conneaut l0:56, Amboy l1:O2, Kings
Vile li:ll Ashtabula l1:23 a IN, aybroOk 1l:S3
Geneva ll:43, Painesville 1918, and arrives
at Cleveland at l:25 p. m.
Specialf st. Louis Express leaves Buffalo
SOS a. m, Erie 1857, Ashtabula 1902 p. m,
Painesville I2:45, and arrives at Cleveland
l:4O. +---
Pacific Express leaves Buffalo 1890 p. m,
Erie 1852, Ashtabula SIP, Painesville SOL, and
arrives at Cleveland at $50 p. m.
GOING EAST.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland 7:30 a. m,
gainesville 6:3O, Ashtabula SOo, ConneautS;ZS,
Erie 1920 and arrives at Buffalo at LILO p. m.
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves
Cleveland at ll:l5 a. m, Painesville l2S5, Ge-
neva Iii a. m, SaybrOOk l:20.- -Ashtabula l:S2,
Kingsville LA, AmbOy =. COnneaut 202
Erie 3:lo, Buffalo 200 p. m.
Chicago and st. Louis Express leaves Cleve-
land at 2:50 p. M. Painesville 1886, Ashtabula
4:lS, Erie 5;25, and arrives at Buffalo at SOS
p. m.
Conneaut Accommodation leaves Cleveland
at $50 Q. m, Painesville 6:09, Geneva 6:45, Say
brook 6:55, Ashtabula 7:04, Kingsville 7:l5, AM
boy 7:24, and arrives at COnneaut at $50 p. m.
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland
at l0.S0 p. m, Painesville 1l:20 Ashtabula 1900
a. m. Erie I:20 and arrives at Buffalo at 400 a.
eaThe Pacific Express will stop at Girard,
COnneaut, Geneva and WillOughby daily.
The Special N. Y Express on Saturdays, and
Chicago Express on Sundays only, will stop
at allStatiOns for which they may have pas
sengers.
EA-Trains run by Columbus time.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
The Kind Of Religion we Want.

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We want a religion that softens the
step, and tunes the voice to melody, and
fills the eve with sunshine, and checks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re-
buke; a religion that is polite, deferential
to superiors, courteous TO interiors, and
considerste to friends a religion that
goes into the family, and keeps the nus
band from being cross when dinner Is
late, and keeps his wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots, and
makes the husband mindful Of the scrap
ef and the door mat; keeps the mother
patient when the baby is cross, and
annuses the children as we1 as instructs
them; cares for the servants besides pay
ing them promptly, projects the honey
moon into the harvest-mOOn, and makes
the happy home like the eastern fg-tree,
bearing in its bosom at once the beauty
Of the tender blossom and the glory Of
the ripened fruit We want religion
that shall interpose between the ruts and
gulies and rocks of the highway OF HE
and the sensitive souls that are travelling
over them.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Noted Mems Recreation.

From William the Conquerer down
wards, the chief delight of British sover-
elgns has been in the hunting field,
though some have varied it with other
more peaceful pursuits. Charles II. for
instance, spent good deal of time IN a
chemical laboratory. Prince Rupert was
devoted to mechanical pursuits, and In
the discovery of mezzotinto conferred
solid benefit on mankind. GodOlphin's
life was divided between the Council
Chamber and the cockpit. 1t is curious
to observe how men who have been
noted for their polish and culture as
writers or con9ersati ationalists have, in their
leisure moments, found strange pleasure
In associating themselves with sordid vul-
gaFity. Prior, one of the most elegant
of our minor poets, constantly spent
whole evenings in chatting with a sol
der and his slattern wife in low public
house in Longacre. Thomas Warton,
the historian of English poetry and
slngularly refined writer, was often to
be found, like Prior, in a. low public
house, joking and being joked. Turner,
the painter, had similar tastes. Leon
ardo de Vinci felt intense pleasure, or
perhaps, an inexplicable facination, in
contemplating filth and garbage. He
would gaze for hours on the Shiny streams
that crawl out of the slums of Florence.
But to turn to less reprehenable amuse-
ments. The Lord Chief Justice Saunders,
whose character has been so admirably
sketched by Roger North, devoted his
leisure time to practicing on an old Vir-
ginal. Milton selected the more dignified
companionship of an organ. Innocent
Ill, probably the greatest man who
ever sat on the throne of st. Peter, re-
heved his graver amusements of playing
nine-pins with the potentates of Europe,
by gossping Familiarity with an old monk
on seat at a fountain in the Vatican.
He would listen for hours to the stories
and pointless anecdotes with which his
humble companion, who had travelled
good deal, RECALLED him. Petavius, one
of the most learned of the Jesuits, when
engaged on one of his principal works,
used, at the end of every two hours, to I
rise rapidly, twirl his chair about for
five minutes. Bacon, Cowley, Sir William
Eemsle, Evelyn, Button and Addison
we're accustomed to interrupt their liter
ary studies by seeking the stimulation
of walk round their garden, and have
all of them recorded their delight in
Adams principal pursuit. Stephenson,
the inventor of the locomotive, when a
child, used to sit in bog modelling clay
engines and constructing miniature wind
mills. Towards the close of his eventful
life, his leisure was amused by his farm
and gardens. 1t was in these occupations
that the great engineer spent the few
years that were left to him after quitting
the career of high-minded industry in
which he won fame for himself, and con
ferred lasting boon to mankind. DR..
johnson, according to Boswell, found
amusementin treasuring scraps Of orange
peel.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Good Advice

Spurgeon sententiOusly expresses a
number of thoughts worth remember
ing in the following appropriate sen
tences, which he publishes as advice
gratis" ........-.,
Nobody ismore like an honest man than
thorough rogue. ''5
When you see a man with a great deal
of religion displayed in his shop window,
you may depend upon it that he keeps
a very small stock within.
Donot choose your friend by his looks;
handsome shoes often pinch the feet.
Do not be fond of compliments; re-
member 9. Thank you, pussy, and thank
you, pussy" killed the cat. b, .se
Don't believe the man who talks the
most; for mewing cats are seldom good
mousers.- i----' 90
By no means put yourself IN another
persons power. If you put your thumb
between two grinders they are very apt
to bite. -
q y-Drink nothing without seeing it, sign
nothing without, and make sure that it
means no more than it says. -. ...r l...f
Don't go to law unless you have nothing
to lose, lawyers houses are built on fools
heads.
Put no dependence on the label of a
bag, and count money after your own
kind. . a.-
If in any business never wade into
water when you cannot see the bottom.
See the sack open before you buy what
is in it; for he who trades in the dark
asks to be cheated. t 80
Keep clear of a man who does not
value his own character.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
Success In Breeding Fine StOek.


It is folly for a man to think Of BE-
coming q successful breeder of live stock
unless he takes pride in the business
and likes the stock he Is raising. To be
successful he must become enamoured
with the business. He must feel nearly
the same interest in his stock that ne
does in the members of his family. lie
must always have kind word for them,
and feel lively interest in their COM
fort. and well being. He must provide
for their wants, pet them, culhvHte an
acousintance with them. He must be
ambitious to excel In raising the very
best specimens, and hence must procure
the choicest animals as breeders. He
must have his business "on the brain"
give 1t his chief attention, study how to
excel init, post himself In regard to It.
by ticking the best papers devoted to it.
II he will do this his future as o breeder
is bright and promising.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24
The Best Wealth.

The great struggle with civilized men
in this world is for wealth. This is cali
ed the prime good, the one thing need
ftll. the great desideratum Of lie. So
men toll for it-deceive, cheat defraud
for it. Give time, strength, and too often
good health for 1t. The truth Is the es-
innate put upon wealth is too high. It's
value, sgood is soverrated. 1t is not the
great good, not the pearl of great price.
It is not the best thing man can have.
1t does not confer peace of mind, nor
purity of heart, heartfelt happiness nor
contentment, nor home JOY, nor social
nor any kind Of solid anu
enduring enioyments. Wealthy homes
are often no happier than those OF the
poor and comfortable liyers. f9versy Is
necessaries and comforts of life is quite
as apt to confer real peace as great
wealth.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-24

/ The OLD WORLD AND THE NEW.-Alex-
andria is so little of an Eastern city that
it is difficult sometimes to believe that 1t
Is one of the capitals of a MahOmedan
country and one of the chief cities of the
Ottoman Empire. As one walks round
the great square PHd notices the broad
pavements, the frequent gas-lamps, the
lofty houses, the spacious shops, the
crowd of carriages, the Frank costumes,
one feels quite Western. But you turn a
corner and straightway stumble against
q camel with his noiseless tread, and q
man In blue gown offers to sell you
sherbet in the name of Allah; and you
see narrow little opening In the wall
andmen going in and out with their shoes
in their hand, and you pass In and see
q broad space covered with mating,
where people are PROSTATE In prayer, and
up above is little minaret, where an old
man in white cotton quayers out the IN
yitation, and tells you there Is no God
but Allah, and that prayer is better than
sleep. As you. go on you see money
changers in the street. letter-Writers
doing the correspondence of a dozen,
cross legged schoolmasters teaching their
children to recite the FatWah, the chap
ter of the Koran that all must know as
we know the Lords Prayer; you turn
into police court and listen to long
robed Cadi administering justice to half
8 dozen screaming men and women; and
then suddenly you come upon big ware
houses full of goods, stores piled with
cotton, steam presses turning out hun
dreds of bales per day, great market
Ehefe English, italian, and Greek are
almost the only languages you hear, and
q port crowded with shipping OF every
nation. ---,.....1 else .a