Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-05

The uniform telegraphic rate between
France and Germany is now four cents
word.
When learned man, intoxicated with
his reading, takes first stepin the world
it is very often false step. If he takes
counsel only at his books he runs the
risk of never succeeding in his projects.
There is certainly no greater happiness
than to be able to look back on life
usefully employed-to trace our own
progress in existence by such tokens as
excite neither shame nor sorrow.
If man will only start with fixed
and honorable purpose in life, and per-
sistently attempt to carry it out to the
best of his ability, undismayed by failure
or delay, the time may be long in coming,
but it will, when that purpose viii be
achieved.
Men are not corrupted by the exercise
of power, or debased by the habit OF
obedience; but by the exercise of a
power which they believe to be illegitl-
mate, and by obedience to a ruler which
they consider to be usurped and op-
pressive.
He who will do his work Alright will
find that his first lesson is to know him
self, and what is proper for him; and he
who rightly understands himself will
never mistake another mans work for
his own, but will love and improve HIM
self above all other things.
The great charm of conversation con-
sists less in the display of ones own wit
and intelligence than in the power to
draw forth the resources of others. He
who leaves you after a long conversation,
pleased with himself, and the part he has
taken in long discourse, will be your
warmest admirer.
"Jim," inquired a schoolboy of one of
his mates, what's the meaning ofrelicsT
Don't you know? Well, 1 can tell you.
You know the master licked me in school
Yesterday" Eyes" "Well, he wasn't
satisfied with that, but he kept me in
and licked me again. That's what l call
a re-lick."
A learned lawyer was once accused of
having disgraced the bar by taking silEel
from a client, the etiquette of the pro-
fession requiring that his fee should be
in gold. q took silver" he replied, "be-
cause I could not get gold; but / took
eUery fdrtIiing the teII0D had IN the 7cOrld,
and hope you do not call that disgrac-
ing the profession"
The Mayor of Alton, Illinois, was drag
ged into temperance meeting and made
to deliver temperance speech. Hesaid
that, as the executive of the city, he in
tended to see the laws enforced. Then
they tried to persuade him to sign the
pledge, but he refused, saying that he
loved freedom too well to do so.
Ward H. Lamon, as attorney for the
Morant Guano Company, has fled with
Secretary Evarts protest against the ac-
ton of the British authorities in arrest
ing and running off a number of Ameri-
cans from the Morant Keys, in the Ca
ribbean Sea, a territory claimed as ap-
pertaining to the United States. Mr.. La
mon asks the protection OF the Govern
ment of the United States for the Morant
Guano Company, and that the British
Government be required to restore said
island to said citizens, and indemnify
them for the money and damage done.
The young King of Siam abolished the
crouching Of cOurtiers in his palace, but
many of the old mobiles get down and
crawl according to the former fashion.
They are not going to countenance the
youngster in running the country.