Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

naL1OQauIleS, VINO nave THIS year taken
part in the pilgrimage to Mecca is 1872
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The Michigan Southern railway pays
Mrs. John Wentlautt, of ,Coldwater,
Mich, $3.50 for having killed that lady's
husband.
Mrs. Hannah Graham, of Paw Paw,
Mich, aged IS, has just recovered S., ,246
pension for the loss of son killed in the
late war.
1t is charged that the genuine Kansas
grasshopper N millions Of them have
hatched out at Dundee, Mich, and other
places thereabouts.
The Missouri papers are mourning
that their State gets so little of the vast
tide of immigration which is sweeping
through it and filling up Kansas.
Mrs. Alex. Laroche, of West Bay City,
Mich, has valuable dog. She dropped
a roll of bills containing $50, and the
dog picked it up and took it home-in
his stomach. Only $50 of it is redeem
able.
A pedestrian named Davis is at Des
Moines, Iowa, trying to arrange for
walk across the continent from San
Francisco to New York in eighty days.
This.would be an average of over forty
miles per day.
Eaton Rapids, Mich, claims to be the
banner town in the tenn mperance business.
Out of total population of twenty-five
enrolled as members of the temperance
organization.
A Newton county, Georgia, negro
carried three two hundred pound sacks
a distance of six hundred yards. He
took a sack in each hand, and took the
third sack between his teeth. The same
negro can hold any mule in the county
by the hind legs.
A tramp has been practicing a new
dodge at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He takes
an envelope, and placing in it piece of
folded paper, enters the business houses
asking for a stamp to put on it. He sue
ceeded in getting quite number before
he was arrested,
Mrs. Shelton Allen, of Bogard town.
ship, Daviess county, Ind, was sitting by
the fire nursing her child, when she was
seized with an epileptic fit, and fell for
ward into the fire, burning herself and
child fatally.
Jane Grey Swisshelm has been sus-
pended from the SoTosis for having rash
" wished she was a man. But she was
reinstated, on payment of light fine,
when she explained that she uttered the
wish while trying to climb upon high
stool at a railroad lunch counter.
"A convict from the penitentiary at
Jefersonville, Ind, who was on his way
to Terre Haute, to testify at a trial pend
ing there, jumped from the window of
the car, near Brazil, and escaped. He
was hand-cuffed, and in crossinga cattle
guard, fell, broke his leg, and was recap
tured.
"A Massachusetts, murderer sentenced
to prison for life, remarked toa reporter,
Saturday: 81 suppose people outside
think Pm brute and ready to kill at
anv time, but will be real good in pris-
on and in few years those tender chaps
with a soft spot in their heads will get
me out" He was right about it, too.
"A printer in Wellsville, N. Y, who
has been deaf for many years, was placed
in a highly-heated room last week, to
help him out of case of chills. He was
seized with sharp pains in the head, and
fell down insensible. The whistle of
locomotive woke him next morning, and
he since has been able to hear well, and
speech, which had about left him, has
returned
A DURNED HoG.-In one of our Sun
day schools, lately, says the Whitehall
Nel1s, teacher was instructing a juve-
nile class about the word glutton.
Suppose said she, "a man should
sit down to dinner and eat as much as
four persons-then get up and go to
restaurant and eat lot more-then fill
his pockets with crackers and cheese
and keep eating. What would you call
such person. The boy who can an
swer please hold up his hand"
Upwent the hand of a six-year old boy.
"WeIl, what would you call such
man p asked the teacher.
"a burned hog" Yang out with clear
and itaicised reply.
Fashion kills more women than sor-
row and toll The kitchen maiden is
healthy-her lady has to be nursed as
from the bottle. The fashion-bound wo-
man has no force of character, no moral
will, no energy. She lives without one
noble aim. She accomplishes no worthy
ends, She saves nobody, writes no
books, sets no rich example of virtue and
womanly grace, gives birth to progeny
without genius and those who never be-
come eminent. The biographies of all
our great men and women refer readers
| to strong-minded, healthy, virtuous, lab
oring mothers. Fertile soil produces
vigorous plants.
WATCH THE CHILDREN.-Brood over
them lovingly, but don't interfere with
them unwisely. During the first eight
years of their ives-so important to all
| their after existence-lett them be clean.
| loving, playing little animals. Let them
| eat, play, love and tell the truth. Give
| them plenty of brothers and sisters, and
if these fail to appear, let them have 9TH
er playmates of their own age. Children
should never be taken as a joke, and
never put forward as a show. Every
thing which concerns them is big with
consequences, and should be seriously
considered. The chief business and duty
of each generation is to worthily rear the
next. and the Weightiest charge that can
deYolye upon a human being is the pos
session of a Child-a taet which too few
parents fully realize.
| Look after tine nuJrlIlon Vi Ine IreeS.
Some people say that land which will
raise good corn will grow good fruit trees,
which is all right; but they should add
that, like corn, they require regular and
continuous manuring. There are some
parts of the country where corn Can be
successfully grown for half lifetime
without manure, On these soils We need
not manure fruit trees but in all others
we must, to have good results, This Is
particularly essential where trees are
crown in grass, as both the trees and the
grass require food. Where trees are
grown in grass, we prefer top-dressing in
June or July; but u It has not been done
| then. do it now. Where trees are kept
under clean surface culture, the manure
is of course plowed or narrowed in witk
the crop in the spring of the year. To
know whether trees require manure or
not, ask the leaves. If in July they are
of a dark rich green, nothing need be
done 10 them; but if they have yellow
cast, hunger Is what Il the matter, This,
Of course, Is supposing they are not in
tested by borers, In which case they will
be yellowish in the richest soil.
The last words of the Pope are re-
ported as: "Guard the church ! loved
] SO well and sacredly.