Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20

Frr $500
He who has nothing to do in this
world but to amuse himself, has got the
hardest Job on hand.
A good book and good woman are
excellent things for those who know
how justly To appreciate their value.
There are men, however. who iudce of
both from the beauty of the covering.
Large quantities of coarse straw wrar-
ping-paper are shipped from New YORK
to Cuba and Europe to be used in tbe
manufacture of cigars. 1t is there sat
urated with tobacco juice and passes
for leaf tobacco.
The average reporter has no object in
misrepresenfing anybody; he is after
news-he may color an interview, he
has to touch it up; in other words,
make it readable, for nine-tenths of the
people interviewed cannot speak the
Queens English correctly.
A Clncinnatian who recently visited
Central Kentucky to see the Blue Grass
region returned disappointed, and de-
jected. He travelled 200 miles and
never saw blade of blue grass. All the
grass to be seen was green-iust the
same old green grass he had seen every
where.
1t is astonishing how much one
without any money can give. A kind
word, helping band-the sympathy
that rejoices with those who rejoice, and
weeps with those who weep. No man
is so poor, no woman is so poor, as not
to be able to contribute largely to the
happiness Of those around them.
The state subsidy of the Roman Cath
olic Church in Belgium is over $500, 600;
the Protestants get Sl5, 900 and the Jews
$500.
The thin, plous man, who is eontin-
ually groaning over the wickedness of
the world, is more troubled with dys-
pepsia than blessed by religion.
SINGULAR PALLIATIVE FOR ToorHAcHE.
"A little horstradish scraped and laid
on the wrist of the side afflicted, will in
many cases, give speedy relief A bet
ter way is to place little scraped horse
radish in the mouth or the tooth, and
Just around the gum. It relieves rheu-
matte pains i'm the gums and face also.
The mouth may afterwards be rinsed
with a little Camphorated water, luke
warm.
Prof Ottoni, the Roman artist, has
on exhibition in London, "Christ Dying
on the Gross" which, by means of false
shadow on the upper eyelid, the face IS
given the look of life or death, according
to the point of view Of the spectator.
Several wears ago a erucifix in q German
gothic church, at Remagen, attracted
GOOD deal of attention from this device,
and the same trick was repeated by Herr
Gabriel Max, in his Head Of Our
Savior"
Some people believe they can think
faster on railroad trains than anywhere
else, the theory being that the rapid
motion quickens the action Of the mind.
Some influence of that kind may have
affected man and woman who met for
the first time while travelling from FL
mira to Philadelphia. They sat in the
same seat, fell into conversation, were
irresistibly attracted toward each other,
and at the end Of seven hours were mar
ried.
LOVE OF CoUNTRY.-Teach your daugh-
G6IS anu yOuT SOllS dlihC3 ACAG " AiOAOAg
next to the love of home, to love their
country. Then, when her need comes,
if come it must, in any struggle her
honor will be as their own, and life itself
will not be too dear to offer for her sake.
Who that remembers battle, husband
or son sacrificed, who that ever saw a |
soldier die, or stood in any silent city of
the country's slain, or in churchyard
where the village heroes rest, can ever
make our country seem again vague or
thing?
A Troy inventor will shortly take
out patent for a cataphone. By means
of wires stretched along backyard fences
and house-tops he conveys, with the aid
of some simple machinery, all eoncate-
nate caterwauls into an air-tight barrel. |
By another simple contrivance the
sound in the barrel can be compressed,
and can be used in quantities for fire
and burglar alarms. The inventor pre-
diets that he will give to the boys some
thing that will make Rome howl in
place of dangerous firecrackers for |