Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-31
Iowa,s Prof. Tice is named E.LCo

and lives at Grand junction.
The Vatican has II,01O rooms and ac-
commodations for $4,000 people.
An old wood cut of Tom. Hendricks
was palmed off on several credulous
newspapers as Leo XII
The San Francisco AJTrilg Call is about
to receive press capable of turning off
10000 papers an hour.
A good bony gentleman of 10 pounds
will yield on cremation one and half
pounds of first-class ashes.
The state of Mississippi won't have a
chance to get even with Mr.. Lamar until
1888. And then the silver bill will be
forgotten.
Captain Boynton is aboutto swim from
Toledo to Lisbon, distance of zoo miles;
then he will try to cross the straits of
Gibraltar.
The new pope, according to the pic
lures looks strikingly like the Colorado
giant. We hope the new pope is not a
that is to say, is genuine
Miss Cary disguised the Washington
florist when she told him she never
bought boquets for people to throw at
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The next governor of Illinois will par
don Rande, and, finally, he will become
a penitentiary commissioner, sheriff, q
congressman or something.
The Duke of Wellington said, fifty
years ago: There is no doubt it would
have been more fortunate and better for
the world if the treaty of Adrianople
had not been signed, and if the Turkish
empire had been dissolved"
The most expensive railroad carin the
| world, costing SS5, GOO, has been manu-
factured by the Pullman company, and
has been used in various Tarts of the
country by tourists able to pay for its
luxuries. 1t isa French fiat in miniature.
A contemporary entertains the belief
that hens reason. Perhaps, then, he will
tell us the reason a hen will "set" on
half a dozen ivory eggs until her eyes
bulge out, in the futile attempt to hatch
a brood of chicks out of the base
limitations.
There may be an eternal fitness in all
things, but it is mighty hard for an un-
shackled mind to make out why soap
fat man should have voice as plaintiVe
and full of woe as a camp-meeting ex-
horter.-CincinnGti Breakfast Table. Per-
haps it's because soap deferred has made
his heart sick.
"Do you know" remarked a rather
fast Newark youth the other day to a
suffering friend to whom he was slightly
indebted, "do you know that 1 intend to
marry and settle DOWN. II don't know
anything about il" was the reply, "bu-
but 1 think you had b-b-better stay
single and settle up"
The day of lawlessness is over in
DeadWood, and the streets are as safe at
any hour of the day or night as those of
New York. 1t has school-houses, two
churches, two daily papers and five week
lies. Well-organized fire and police de-
partments, and efficient county and
United States courts.
King Humbert is amazed beyond ex-
preston at the vast extent and illimita-
bic variety of his fathers debts. If
there is man in the kingdom of whom
Victor E. didn't borrow money, that
man was either dead or busted. Hum
bert thinks the old gentleman must
have caught it from Cornelius VANDERBILT. '.
A multitude was collected in San
Francisco street by the sight Of man
and woman fighting on roof. He had
breed her out Of window, and was try
inc to haul her to the ground, The ex>
element rose to a high pitch, when two
men climbed up ladder to rescue the
woman, which they did with great dam
ger and difficulty.
-Matrimony among deaf mutes has
its disadvantages as well as its sweets
at least so thinks the husband IN Latay-
ette, Ind, who, returning home late
found his door locked against him. No
amount of pounding was loud enough to
arouse his sleeping spouse, and he was
forced to smash a window and crawl into
his dwelling.
1.-THE Kiss In the Dark was played
as a farce by amateurs in Mount Sterling,
XIV. pto the point where the young man
kisses the pretty girl. There it was
turned into tragedy. The girls real
lover, jealous Of her stage lover, and dis
cerning that the kissing was genuine and
much relished, shot the offender on the
SDoL. 1H6 hOunu was ITlAtllB1 Dub IL
brought the performance to close.
An expectant bridegroom who ap-
piled for marriage license in Mime
apolis, Mimi, got along very well until
asked the lady's name. Name! name P'
he exclaimed; "there, 1 don't know.
I've heard it, too, but-let me see
Mary-Mary-it's Mary something. I'd
know it in a minute, if | could see il
anywhere" He couldn't "see it any
where" however, and the license was
laid aside until he could go up town and
ask Mary what her other name was.
Among the presents at the wedding
of II. Dieman DuVal, general manager
of the Merchants Dispatch, the Erie and
Pacific and South Shore lines, in Balti.
more, Tuesday, was horseshoe set in
silver, and engraved in gold, the text :
"Iuck to thee and thine" The bride.
while riding not long ago, saw the horse
shoe lying in the road, and declared it a
lucky omen. The groom elect, jumping
from his horse, secured the mementO
and had it decorated as described.
HUMAN sKN.-Gommenly received
uOL1OIlb Hp0Hb g44E +llt444aA ohA4 ea4S D6lllb
one by one dispelled. Not only does it
turn out that every pore may be i'm
permeably closed without much injury
to health, but a pestilent Viennese
physician, one DR.. E. Levy, has proved
that the human skin is absolutely i'm
penetrable to the chemical constituents
of mineral waters. The action of the
most opposite kind of waters must there
fore be- one and the same, and what
benefits there are deriYahle at spas and
bathing places must be from the water
imbibed through the mouth, not through
the pores. This discovery will be very
unpopular at the watering-places.
LII Az KAsE=ARSYard people never
know what to do with their hands, One
of the most common signs of the want
of breeding is a sort Of uncomfortable
consciousness of the hands, an obvious
ignorance of what to do with them, and
a painful awkwardness in their adjust
ment. The hands of gentleman seem
perfectly at home without being occu-
pied, or, if they move, it is spontaneously
and gracefully, The courtiers of oldeu
times made playing with their sword
hilt an accomplishment, and the most
efficient weapon of the Spanish coquette
is her fan. Strength in the fingers is a
sure token of mental aptitude. When
Eutius burnt his hand off before the
eyes of his captor, he gave the most In
dubitable proof we can imagine of forti-
tude.
I'm play where it was necessary to
enter In d great passion, Macready used