Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19

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Are not to be won in that way.
The telephone is spreading all over
Europe.
The Delaware peach crop netted ST.
100000
Do not entertain visitors with your
own domestic troubles.
Millions have been lost during the
past six months on sales of imported
sugars.
Getting up early, industry and regular
habits are the best medicine prescribed
for health.
Over $1,000 Monnonites have passed
through Kansas City during the year, en-
route for the West.
The other day man in Union county,
Ore, killed three deer at one shot at
distance of $50 yards.
1t is estimated that holders Of stocks
IN Boston will receive during this month
in dividends $10,OOO,OOO.
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Never write letters to widow. She
always takes down the old box and COM
pares yours with the other mans.
Blue eyes, which many light complex
ioned people imagine they have, are
about the rarest thing in nature.
In Switzerland donkeys have bells on
their necks. In this country it is not
unusual to see them with bellies on their
arms.
The oldest house in New England Is
said to be in Guilford, Conn. 1t was
built in 1859.
Robert Bonner has bought Maud
Macy, a six-year-Old Kentucky trOtter,
for $4,000.
1t some men were measured BY the
size Of their hearts and souls, a gunpateh
would make them suit of clothes, In
cluding an Ulster oVercoat.- Derrick.
1t now appears that Brigham Young
ran his church for all the world as though
it was Chicago savings bank. A great
deal of the prophets true nWardness is
beginning to be exposed
The New York World is not so much
excited over the question of hell as it Is
about the existence of what. is called
"Fiddler's Geeen," which is said to be
ten miles this side of the disputed locality.
A check for $500 recently passed
through one Boston bank and the Clear
ing house, and when it reached the bank
upon which it was drawn it was found
that it was neither signed nor endorsed.
"If you can't keep awake, said par
son W one of his hearers, "When you are
drowsy, why don't you take pinch of
mufff'' II think, was the shrewd re
ply, "the snuff should be put into the
sermon"
A dispatch from Montreal announces
the arrival of a new "Siamesc twins" Gu
riosity. The wife of a French Canadian
laborer in the village of St. Benoit, cOun-
ty of Two Mountains, about thirty miles
west of Montreal, has become the mother
of a pair of children united as were the
Siamese twins, and all are doing well
THE library at Paris is one of the
finest in the world. 1t contains S6,114
volumes on Catholic theology, 1852
volumes on the science OF language,
299. .4O2 volumes on law, 8,483 volumes
m medicine. Al ,836 volumes on French
history. and 155,672 volumes Of poetry.
The works on natural science are not
vet catalogued. During 1876, 1850
French works we're added, and 4,56s
hreign works to the library.
An observing editor thus tells us all
about it: 'The land grab and the sal
ary grab are matters of history. But
the skirt grab is a new wrinkle. When
a lady strikes the sidewalk she drops her.
left shoulder, gracefully swings the up
Der half of her body around towards the
rear, grabs a handful Of skirts, straight
ems up and moves off with calm satisfae-
ton Illuminating her eountenance. There
is nothing wrong about it, but it looks so
funny.
Somebody wrote to the editor of a
country paper to ask how he would
abreak an OK ?" The editor answered
as follows: "If only one OK, a good way
would be to hoist him, by means Of a
lono chain attached to his tail, to the top
of q pole forty feet from the ground.
Then hoist him, by rope tied to his
horns, to another pole. Then descend
on his back five ton pile driver, and, If
that don't break him, let him start a
country newspaper and trust people for
subscription. One of the two ways VIII
do it sure."
The controversy on future punishment
has about ended, and when completely
quieted down will rest just about where
it did at the end of thousands Oh suen
controversies before. An illustration OF
the present and all preceding fights over
the matter is well represented in the old
story of the ground between Father
Hosea Ballou and Rev. Lyman Beecher.
1t covers the whole ground, and is as fol-
lows:
Hosea BallOu and Lyman Beecher met
to compare Calvinism and Uniyersalism.
Both were Bible men, and each came
armed with textual missiles. After seye-
raj apostolic blows from each, shreWdly
parried by the other, DR.. Beecher opened
to the Ninth Psalm, and read Inc
wicked shall be turned into he'll, and all
the nations that forget God. There,
sir, the wicked are in hell get them out
if YOU can" Hosea Ballou, calm as a
summer morning, pointing to the 10th
chapter of Johns Revelation, read:
..Death and he'll delivered up the dead
which were in them" ''There," said
Father Ballou, 'they are out get them
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