Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-05-03
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tainly; seal skin.
Horseshoes are made in California Of
compressed rawhide.
California exports s1O,OOO,OOO worth
of wood per aunum.
Tennessee's tobacco crop is estimated
at 60,OOO,OO0 pounds.
Coal was never lower in New York
city than it is at present.
There are 500 eonvicts working on
one North Carolina railroad.
The United States now use more pos
tai cards than any other nation.
1t is fact that 243 English persons
went mad from love last year.
Pennsylvania produced over 3O,OOO,-
900 pounds of tobacco last year.
Oranges are 40 cents a hundred
twelve for nickel-in New Orleans.
The capital of Georgia, by big vote
of the people, is to remain where it is.
An Iowa farmer recently: sold sixty
three hogs which averaged 433 pounds.
Of sixty-nine words which make up
the Lords Prayer, only five are not
Saxon.
When q mother goes on a whaling ex-
pedition she rarely fails to get all the
blubbers she wants.
Heavy failures in Montreal have
brought business feeling there into a
ticklish condition.
The Worcester Press man is English
and this may be why he speaks of late
pulpit utterances as henoquence."
The Russian General says it would
have been no war at all if it had not been
for the American guns placed in the hands
Of few battalions of Turkish soldiers.
Peter Cooper the other day confded to
a Haa0k-Eye reporter the fact that he
was the dark horse of 188O.-BurIing-
ton Haaok-Eye. All, yes, we see-t6s
dark cOrse.
A half-witted fellow bathed in Sacea-
Kappa, Me-, and on coming out of the
water could not recoIlect where he had
hidden his clothes. He wandered two
days naked in. the woods.
The nearest surviving relative of Dan
iel Boone, and, as his name implies, the
scion of another famous family, is Crock
EFT Boone, now editor Of a newspaper in
Cass county, Tex.
The Detroit Free Press looks on Susan
B. Anthony as the only truly earnest
woman working for the cause. This
because she wears poor clothes, and sends
ger money to run suffrage conventions.
Keep to your calling; let no man In
duce you to abandon that which you
have studied for years, in the vain attempt
to learn new trade in a month. Sue
cess springs from industry and per-
severance.
The Michigan salt inspectors report
shows the product of the year to be as
follows: Fine salt, 1,590,841 barrels;
packers salt, 2O,858; solar salt, 22,949;
salt, 26.249; total, ], $780,
397 barrels.
The Rev. VIM. Gleeson, in a recent
lecture in San Francisco, on Irelands in
said that there are from 49,
O00, 900 to 2O,0OO,O0O Irishmen on the
globe, and that an army of 250, 900 could
be easily raised to remove British supre-
macy in ireland.
Madame Yoshida, the wife of the Japa-
nese Minister to the United States, speaks
our language so well that she is able to
make her ceremonious calls in Washing
ton unaccompanied by prompter or inter-
prefer. Her little daughter, who Is be-
ginning to talk, speaks EngliIh exclusively
Some one said that the milknan's favor
tie tune should be, "Shan We gather at
he river?" By some misadventure the
sIethodists lost theiF church building
md land in Hoboken, WhereupOn a wicked
Wag remarks, ''They may read their title
clear in heaven, but they can not In Ho-
boken."
Upon a slight increase in the area Of
grass and green crops in England between
1870 and 1874 there was a large increase
in sheep and cattle, but, with continued
slight extension of pasture, root and tOd-
der crops since 1874, there has been a
marked and steady decline in herds and
locks.
The quantity of poison which the
caves of artificial flowers take up IN Their
seems almost incredible.
Careful chemical analysis shows that a
twig of twelve leaves often contains ten
grains. A lady might thus uncOnsciOusly
carry poison enough upon her person to
destroy twenty of the guests.
A letter written by Salmon P. Chase
in 1868, is published, in which he said Of
Vallandigham: "He is a man of whose
one may well be proud. Even
when we have differed most widely,
have always admired his pluck and con-
sistency, and have done full justice to ms
abilities and energies"
There is property in Europe, valued at
s1O,OOO,OO0 to S15,0OO,OOO, which
belonged to the Confederacy at the con-
olusio1 of the rebellion. The admins
tration, it is stated, viii enter into con-
tracts with certain lawyers to secure the
some of which consists of
money in bank The lawyers will get
only half of the amount obtained.
Scene in private box of fashion
lble theater-E Enter servant, consider
IDLY excited: off you please, mistress;
lOur husband has Just had bad tall' ana
he doctor thinks he has sustained serious
niuries. So" Loving wife: "What a
pity l shall have to go home at once
md see to it. Turning to the door
zeeper) Give me return check, quiekf
How TO BUILD A HAPPY HoSIE.-Six
.bings are requisite. Industry must be
he architect; tidiness the uphOlsterer;
I must be warmed by affection lighted
With eheerfulneSs; and industry must bc
he ventilatOr, renewing the atmosphere
md bringing in fresh salubrity day by
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