Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-03-08
Whole Number 147O

the cause OF missions for the year to be
over S5OO.OOO.
Millions of butterflies passed through
Falls county, Texas, forming caterpillar
of cloud by day.
The new Methodist hymn-bOok is be-
ing put in type, and will be issued shortly
in seven editions.
IF friend points gun at you, knock
him down. 1t viii be time enough af-
terward to find 9ut whether it is loaded
or not.
Husband" said the wife of a Young
clergyman, read me one Of your sermons.
[ feel dreadfully wakeful tonight and I
wish to sleep"
A teacher in the school-room is all
right-but a teacher out of the school
room is an insuferable bore-Educa-
tiOnaI Monthly.
The Bishop of Winchester said at the
Church Congress that if anyone sent him
religious newspaper he put it at once in
the Waste-paper basket.
"Twiee is he armed who hath his
quarrel just, Shakespeare. And four
times he who gets his blow in fust.-
Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
There is a crusade against dancing in
Baltimore social circles. Many young
ladies who are church members are drop
ping the amusement from their party
engagements.
Jack, said coal merchant, "what
kinl of morning is it?" every cold,
sir. "Did it freeze ?" "Yes, sir,
hard I" Raise the coal dollar ton
Heaven help the poor "
Half pint of dried peas makes two
quarts of good soup. Add a carrot or an
onion, or two or three cloves. Oatmeal
may be added to advantage Beans may
be used In the same way.
aNever hug a girl in a tight-ftting
corset, is the advice of the Elmira
Gazette. It's good advice, too, but it
don't apply to US, for we don't wear
tight-ftting oorsets.-Bridgeport Stan
dard.
There are 1900 infants between the
ages of four and six years in attendance
at the public schools of New York, and
the Medieo Legal Society of that city
enters = vigorous protest against the IN
sane cruelty.
The Sunday-sehool statistics of New
Hampshire show 1887 scholars in the
congregational schools, as many in the
Methodist, s, 8,562in the Free-win Baptist,
1892 In the Close-Communion Baptist,
and 1,091 in the Universalist schools.
In a shop window in London, belong
ing to stufer of birds and animals, Is
exposed a human skull, beautifully
eleansed and bleached, with holes bored
In it to receive cigars, and matches to
light them, as an ornament for some
ones smokng-room.
A correspondent Of the New York
Press says that if any man viii draw
breath quickly and deeply for the space
of three minutes or less, he viii thereby
lose acute sensib1ity to pain, so that he
can endure a minor surgical operation
without Inconvenience
The Druggists Circular gives the
following formula for a shaving soap:
Take white soap, four ounces sperma-
ceti, one-haf ounce olive oil, one half
ounce; melt them together and STIR
until nearly cold; scent with such Oilsas
may be most agreeable.
There were 1,4S1 deaths in Charleston,
S. c., between June and November 9TH,
1877, of which ], ,029 were deaths Of col
ored people and only 452 of whites. Sta
tistics compiled in the city hospitals there,
show that 1858 per eentum of the
deaths in 1876 were of cOlOred people.
In these days of bank failures It is
safest for the farmer to make his depOs-
It's in banks of rich soil and more ma
nure buy improved stock instead of
bank stock, and the only shares he should
indulge in should be to share with his
wife and family the comforts Of a good
home.
Nothing is easier than to mark pOul-
Try by putting a wire rng or sewing a
piece of list round the leg, and this is
capable of development BY enabling those
who wish to do it to mark the different
broOds by using wOrsted or list of diff
ferent eolors.-LondOR Journal Of
Horticulture.
One of the lady patrons of the Shell
tering Arms, a New York charity, has
Just given $4,000 to that institution for
the erection of a new home, to be known
as little May Cottage" 1t is to be me-
mortal to a young daughter who died re-
Gently. The donor has refused to have
her name made public.
What this country yearns for now IS
great forger or defaulter who doesn't
belong to the best society, who isn't emf
nently respectable, over whose conviction
the maudlin tears are not shed-in short,
a sinner who is actually wicked, at least
in spots. We are getting sick of having
to send SO many saints of society to the
Penitentiary,
The Wisconsin Baptists want to adopt
the Methodist circuit system, which Is
applicable to churches IN
sparsely-settled neighbOrhOOds, too pOOrto
support a settled ministry. Among many
of the Baptist churches of that State the
question is between furnishing this sort
of services and closing the meeting
houses altogether.
A man took load of apples to Green
field, Mass, recently, and disposed Of the
first two barrels to lady for $3.50 per
barrel. Afterward, having found that
he could get only three dollars per bar
rel for the rest of his load, he eOnseien-
.iously returned to the lady and paid -
back one dollar, the difference in the
price of her purchase.
In formally providing for an order OF
5eaconesses IN the Protestant Episcopal
Church the late General Convention took
osrac;al care to forbid vow for life.
:, No deaooness or sister," says the new
canon, "shall take any vow Of perpetual
litigation in admission to or connection