Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-10
There is no grief like the grief which
does not speak.

There is no grief like the grief which
does not speak.
The rats in an Ohio barn rose in their
might and killed the dog that had been
sent in to exterminate them.
A dinner was given in Warrenton, Va,
to twelve old ladies whose aggregate ages
was 800. They danced quadrille and
the minuet.
In 1727 John Mcdonald, a footman,
carried the first umbrella ever seen in
England, and strangely enough, it wasn't
his own.
A recent wedding at Williamsport, Pa,
had gloom cast over it by the discov-
cry that, through some unaccountable
mistake, the bridesmaid had been mar
ried instead of the intended bride.
A High Church Vicar advertises In an
English paper for curate, to whom he
will pay $3.50 a week. By way of in
ducement it is added that the curate can
find eligible lodgings for $3.50 week.
In the town of Wethersfeld, Conn,
stands an English Pearmain apple tree,
nearly eleven feet in circumference one
foot from the ground. 1t yielded fruit
nearly a century before the Revolution,
and is still in good bearing condition
Baptist Pastor Batcheller, of Stafford,
is handy sort of minister. 1t is said
that he has been accustomed to shingle
and repair the church and do all the
sections work, besides attending to his
regular pastoral duties, and is also
Judge of Probate.
A German has invented a clock in
which the winding machinery is Ope-
rated by the alternate expansion and
contraction of glycerine or other suita-
BILE liquid, acting on piston, motion In
either direction serving to wind up the
weight.
A French physician named Bartha-
rand, residing in Algiers, has for thir-
teen years been collecting vital statistics
in that country, and has on his list lsSOO
cases of death at ages exceeding eighty
years, 162 of the persons deceased nav
ing been centenarians.
Death from Joy is rare occurrence
in this sober, cloudy world. A Sheffield
blacksmith, who had been in prison for
two months, returned to his home, and
on seeing his wife and child, was so
oyerpowered that he ruptured his heart
and died before physician could be
summoned.
Vegetable ivory, now so extensively
employed in the manufacture Of but
tons, Is made from hard, fine grained
nut. grown on the Isthmus of Darien.
These nuts, which are about the size of
q hens egg, are sawed into several pieces
from each of which different sized but
tons are turned. The nuts cost 500 per
ton.
An exchange has the following: The
daily newspapers in DeadwoOd, in the
Black Hills, are not much larger than
sheet of foolscap, and are delivered for
SIS a year. Every subscriber is required,
as announced in the prospectus, to down
with the dust Yet, when we ask you
for that mighty dollar you get your
back up! Amt you ashamed OF your
self?"
Mr.. Beecher has realized from his
lecturing tour more than enough to
make up for the recent reduction in his
salary. 1t is not known whether he will
devote any portion of his profits to re-
imburse his former publishers, ]. B.
Ford & Co., whC were driven to bank
ruptcy by his failure to complete his
life of Christ" for which they had ad-
Vaneed him $4,000.
The following from an exchange hits
the nail on the head: Intelligence
means thrift, honesty and rational enjoy
nent. Ignorance means vice, poverty
crime, wretchedness. Money spent IN
educating the people will save ten told
no avDepsa in jsils. almhOuses, and
sr;ninsS courts II is the duty of every
me tn encourage education in every
possible way"
II Is q caution how the editors are skip
ming from public to private life. They
lot All the world as though the civil SER
rice clamps had reached the sanctum.
4 bout seven in ten of our exchanges an
lounce the dropping out of Smith, Jones
IT Brown from the ranks and up pops a
lew head. Why this season Of unrest
brethren? Is it competency on which
,ou are falling back, or your assets
'idney Telegraph.
"A boy of five years was playing
'ailroad" with his sister Of two ana
lalf years. Having her upon g IQ1L
tool, he imagined hlmseH potn suo
engine and conductor. AFTER liill'Atllg
he putting noise of the steam, ne stop
n n1oment after Patterson" and then
His knowledge of towns
vas now exhausted, and at the next
,lsee he cried, Heaven" His little
lister said eagerly, 'Topl 1 des I'll dit
,ut here"