Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-08-16
HERE AND THERE.

The cause of woman suffrage is max.
ing progress in Iowa.
1t is not true that Princeton students
scalp the freshmen they kin.
Do not insult the under man in a fight
by telling him there is plenty of room on
top.
Anna Louise Cary is a sweet singer to
some purpose. She gets $1,000 q month
and expenses.
"Waiterl' ayes, sir" whats thisFp
It's bean soup" i'No matter what It
nowP
An article in one of the New York
magazines asks How does beer work p
1t works mischief, if you take too much
oft.
Omaha has noticed that when her riy-
er is muddy her milk and beer are the
same, and she calls it curious dispense.
ton of Providence.
When Miss Bertha Won Hillern walk
ed in Washington, her agent had to se0uF
the country for thirty miles before he
could get sawdust for her to walk on.
For rich man to make will that will
please all his heirs, is about as difficult
task as for an editor to undertake to
print a paper to please all his readers.
1t makes suffering man awful mad
to be drawn into discussion about Stha
reconciliation of the dollars of our faith
ers," and the necessity of an intercon-
vertible bi-metallic currency"
Junior clerk: 'fWould you kindly per.
NIT me to absent myself tomorrow to
attend my fathers funeral 2" Head Of
firm deep in fgurese) "You may 60,
Hawkins, but pray-do not let this hap
pen again"
Will. Lister, a young man in Cedar
county, Neb., was q while ago living in
clover" engaged to half a dozen young
ladies, and would have been yet II they
hadn't begun inviting each other 70 Be
bridesmaids.
The Pennsylvania salt manufacturing
company turned out over one million
boxes Of concentrated lye last year. Eli
Perkins and Gath either want to hump
up their backs and distinguish them
selves or else go out of the business.
New Orleans owes Mrs Gaines $1,000
600; and she says when she gets her
money she is going to publish q neWspat
per. 1t is strange that she should want
to spend in six months the money she
was nearly whole life time in securing.
Stanley is writing book. This good
news. New books must be written. Too
many people are fooling away their time
in p1oWing, driving street cars, going TO
Congress, ETC., instead of writing books
as they ought to be doing, and keep the
supply from running short.
Twenty-Five years ago a sentimental
man named ROok, who yet lives out on
North Seventh street, New York, named
his infant daughter Lallah, and very
poetical indeed Lallah Rook sounded, II
it isn't spelled exactly right. Ten years
ago that sweet girl married a stove deal
eP from Cincinnati, named Grubb. And
now what does her name sound like?
Vienna papers commenting on Sails
bury's circular to the powers say Austria
and England are agreed regarding Lord
Salisbury's criticism of the treaty Of San
Stefano, and the steps necessary to pro-
tect the interests of both States, and ex-
press the conviction that only by de-
ference of Russia to Lord Salisbury's
views can war between England and
Russia be avoided.
The short walking dress for ladies' is
rapidly coming into use. Aside from
giving its possessor an opportunity 70
show pretty foot without making
show of It, this sensible fashion has two
other advantages. 1t gives ladies the
full use of both hands while Walkngand
enables them to go home with decently
clean underskirts-two comforts that q
good many of them have not enjoyed fol
several years past.
1t always pays to be polite. As the
ste amboat Magenta was descending the
Hudson river last week, being crowded
with passengers, an old gentleman was
unable to find seat. A young man no
ticing this gave the old gentleman hie
chair and went forward. Two minutes
afterward the boiler blew up and the ed
gentleman was killed, while the man
who had given up his seat escaped unr
hurt.
'Tis strange, tbs passing strangel An
American artist could not be found by
the director of the mint to furnish an ae-
ceptable design for the new dollar. And
yet, no sooner does the new dollar make
It's appearance than American counter
feiters produce a bogus coin which u
pronounced much superior in artistic ex-
eeution to the English design. Here Il
food for reflection.