Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-10-11

A mans own good breeding is the best
security against other peoples IL
manners.
Religion and medicine are not re
sponsible for the faults and mistakes of
their doctors.
1t is with cur good intentions as with
our days; tomorrow is but too often the
hash of to-day.
Well may every act and every silent
thought, deep-hidden though it be, tend
to the great hereafter.
'oToo late" and "no more" are the
mournful sisters, children of sire Whose
age they never console.
Wild flowers are the al lphabet of
angels-whereby they write on hills and
ields mysterious truths.
Many goodly leg is lost in battle
thousands of brave fellows walk proudly
into war and hop out of it.
A sudden elevation in life, like mount
ing into rarer atmosphere, swells US
out, and often perniciously.
True beauty is but virtue made visible
in outward grace. Beauty and vice are
disjoined by nature herself
Show naughty man that you do not
look up to him, and he will not feel that
he can look down upon you.
In the conception of Mahomet's para
disc, there is no distinction between q
perfect woman and an angel.
If you have heart of rock, let it be
the rock of Horeb that gushed when
stricken by the prophets rod.
The first institution vouchsafed to our
race was the Sabbath; the next, mar
riage. So give your first thought to
heaven, the next to your wife.
The world goes ever on. 1t is strange
how soon, when a great man dies, his
place is filled; and so completely that
he seems no longer wanted.
The perfume of thousand roses soon
DIES; but the pain caused by one of their
thorns remains long after. A saddened
remembrance in the midst of mirth is
like that thorn among the roses.
Chestnut trees are known to have
lived nine hundred years. Lime trees
have attained six hundred years, in
France; and birches are supposed to be
equally durable.
There is an oak tree near Raleigh,
North Carolina, which, at the suns me-
ridian, covers with shade a space of
nine thousand feet. 1t would afford
shelter for four thousand five hundred
men.
An Ohio paper publishes the follow
ing item: "a deaf man, named Taft, was
run down by passenger train, and
killed, on Wednesday morning, half a
mile north of Greenwich Station, near
Cleveland. He was injured in a similar
way about year ago."
1t should be borne in mind that
every farmer who will take the trouble
to keep up tasteful appearance about
his house, not only performs a good
work for his own family, but stimulates
his neighbors to initiate him. Nothing
is more contagious than the desire for
gardening when once it gets footing.
"A few drops of hartshorn put into
little water will clean a hair-brush better
than any thing else, and does the brush
no harm. If very dirty, rub a little soap
on the brush. After cleaning rinse in
clear water and hang the brush up by
the window to dry. Do not let the
bristles rest on any hard substance while
wet. 1t is better to tie string round
the handle and hang up.
This is boys composition on girls,
but he evidently had mans head on
his young shoulders. What he learned
by shreWd observation others have
learned by experience. He says: "Girls
is the only folks that has their own way
every time. Girls is of several thousand
kind, and sometimes one girl can be like
several thousand other girls if she wants
to do anything. This is all 1 know about
girls, and father says the less know
about them the better of am"
The illustrated papers in England
are scarcely behind the dailies in the
of their special coTespon-
dents. The illustrated London NelGs had
OF board the tug that brought home
Needle an artist who had
shipped as coal-trimmer, there being
no other means of accompanying the
vessel. As soon as the tug arrived off
Mr.. Wells, the coal-trimmer,
got boat and went ashore with his
precious sketches, and was entered j.,
the ships log as deserter.
STRICT INTERPRETATToN.-"JOhn 1 am
going to church, and if it should rain, 1
wish you to come with the umbrella for
me however, you need not come unless
It should rain downright"
The gentleman went. 1t did rain
but John had gone to the other end Of
The town to see Mary. His master came
back with drenehed garments, and alook
Of implacable anger.
"John," said he, 'why didn't you bring
he umbrella?
Because, sir" replied John, at rained
'Ia'sttng."
A QUAKER's ADVICE TO MoNEY-HUN-
TIERS. "A prudent and well-disposed
member of the Society of Friends once
gave the following friendly advice:
"John," said he, 81 hear thou art going
% be married"
.Yes," replied John, II am"
"Well," replied the man of drab, 81
have one little piece of advice to give
NEE, and that is, never marry q woman
worth more than thou art. When /
married my wife, I was worth five shil- !
ings, and she was worth sixty-two and
whenever any difference has occurred
between us since, she has always thrown
lp the odd shillings."
4 PRooF or SANTTY.-In a court room |
II North Mississippi, man was on trial |
or larceny. His sanity was doubted by |
ome, and the District Attorney thought |
t best to prove it, and put the following |
question to one of his leading witnesses: |
DO you think the prisoner can distin- |
,uish between right and wrong; can tell |
he difference between good and bad% |
Witness: ~ think he can, sir; for |
aw him take drink of whisky, and he |
aid it was good whisky; and from the |
circumstance 1 should infer that he |
.ould tell the difference between good |
nd bad"
The bar enjoyed a hearty laugh over
he novelty of the answer, in which the |
Judge freely participated, and the proof
vas accepted.
How Bar-ROOm Liquors are Made.
There may be seen daily on Chestnut
treet, says the Philadelphia Bulletin,
nan dressed in faultless apparel, with a
reat diamond on his breast, vainly
to out-glitter the magnih-
ent solitaire on his finger. In Ger
nan university he learned chemistry
nd not even Liebig knew it better iils
business is the mixing and adulteratlhs
f LIQUORS. Give him dozen CASKS OF
aodarizad alcohol. and the next day