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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
Sacrifices to Fashion.

The other day 1 came upon a new
store in the city. The windows we're
fairly dazzling with color. A stray
sunbeam falling upon them, the shop
front flashed back a rainbow of blue
and green, and red and yellow, indigo
and Yermilion, umber, and black and
white. I paused to gaze. 1t was a
store devoted to the modern fashion Of
adorning ladies' hats, bonnets, and
dresses with birds and butterflies.
ALI the corners of the earth had been
ransaeked to satisfy this new craze.
Whole birds, birds wings, tails, breasts,
were here by the thousand. Butter
flies and humming-b We'd with
each other in wealth of color and
beauty of arrangement. 1t is true
there are lots ot stores in London de-
voted to specimens of "natural histo-
ry," where these things may be pur-
chased; but here is shop full of them,
not as studies or specimens, but as ar
tieles of adornment. Travellers and
others tell me that bird-slaughter, as
a trade, has now reached proportions
which threaten the very extinguishment
of some of the rarest, as well as the gay
est, species. One can understand this
when it is stated on authority that a
German dealer in this city recently re-
ceived a consignment of $4,000 dead
humming- birds, $4,000 aquatic birds of
several varieties, and 100000 pairs of
wings. This is one dealer alone;
while at the same time all the other
traders are increasing their orders to
foreign shippers. There is something
very sad in these figures. Surely, our
women cannot think about the subject,
or they would never promote this sac
rifce Of bird-life for mere freak of
fashion. The rage for feather trim
mings has almost annihilated the rib
bon trade of Coventry. Men, women
and children in that once busy city
are starving because fashion has in
trOduced new style of ornament. So
that to please the latest whim, birds
must die and children must starve.
You may stand son the bridge at Gov
entry" now, and see scores of people
lettering there who, but for the super
sedure of ribbons by feathers would be
busily at work in the locked-up mills.
London Letter.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11

that we are becoming, as people,
anxious for physical culture. ANA
teurs are footing it Just now, ticking
of their miles and boasting of them,
because it is the fashion Of the hour,
Just as they sing Pinafore. As for the
professional walkers, especially the
poor women, who are advertising
themselves In half the towns OF the
country, they are doing it simply to
keep body and soul together. God
help them! Nothing of late years gives
a more pitiful insight into the condi-
ton of the laboring classes than the
rush Of women into every employment
which promises to give them living.
We know of no more miserable or re-
pugnant way for a modest woman to
earn money than that of making her
self q rsree-show for days to multi
tude of gaping and often half-drunken
men, whose sole interest in her lies In
watching the strength and endurance
of her body, while she drags it around
the ring through the foul air OF breaths
laden with tobacco and whisky, in
condition of nervous exhaustion so ex-
treme that death is imminent at any
moment. A week or two ago, as our
readers know, q strong man was driven
mad by the strain, and attempted muir
der, and last Sunday poor girl IN
Newark fell in epileptic fits, and Daaely
escaped with life. If these poor Great
ures are driven to straits so hard to
earn their living, let US pity them and
help them if we choose, but In the
name of common sense let Us not talk
of physical culture in the matter.
It is quite true that our women need
more outdoor exercise. They are, as
a rule, bilious, neuralgia and thin
blooded. But it is not their muscles,
but their nerves and digestion, which
need repair. What they want, there
fore, is fresh air, amusement, interest
in outdoor things, and gentle exercise
not the oVerwork of long, objectless
tramps. Precisely the same rule ap-
plies to American men. Their brains
need rest and recreation quite as much
as their bodies do work. 1t is true they
may gain a good many hints as TO the
uses Of sobrietY, self-control in eating,
fresh air and clean bodies from these
professional trainers. Whisky and to-
bacco-smoke had much to do with the
defeats at Gilmore's Garden. But the
advantage of walking does not lie in
making so many miles an hour, except
to men who mean to earn their living
by it. If the college boys whose souls
are wrung with envy of Roweu would
spend the coming vacation in making
pedestrian tours through the mount
aims, leaving their whisky TASKS at
home, sleeping on the ground, cooking
for themselves, finding new fun and
adventures every day, they would come
back sounder in general health, and
certainly more vigorous in mind and
morals than if they had walked for the
Ashley belt and won it.-M. 2. tribune.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
London.

From the computations of authori.
ties, it appears that London with all
its suburbs) covers within the fifteen
miles radius of Charing Cross nearly
seven hundred square miles. 1t num-
bers within these boundaries over four
millions of inhabitants. 1t contains
more country-born persons than the
Counties of Devon and Gloucester COM
bined, or 81 per cent. of its entire pop
ulation. Every four minutes a birth
takes place in the metropolis, and every
six minutes a death. Within the circle
already named there are added to the
population 205 persons every day, and
1000 annually. London has 1000
miles of streets, and on an average
twenty-eight miles of new streets are
opened, and 5000 new houses built,
every year. One thousand vessels and
5000 sailors are in its port every day.
Its crime is also in proportion to its
extent. SeVenty-three thousand per-
sons are annually taken into custody
by the police, and one-third of all the
Griae of the country is committed with
in its borders. Thirty-eight thousand
persons are annually committed for
drunkenness by its Magistrates. The
metropolis comprises considerably up
ward of one hundred thousand foreign
ers from every quarter of the globe. 1t
contains more Roman Catholics than
Rome, itself, more Jews than the whole
of Palestine, more Irish than Belfast,
more Scotchmen than Aberdeen, and
more Welshmen than Cardiff. Its beer
shops and gin palaces are so numerous
that their frontages if placed side by
side, would stretch from Charing Cross
to Chichester, a distance of sixty-two
miles. If all the dwellings in London
could thus have their frontages side by
side, they would extend beyond the
City of York. London has enough pau
pers to occupy every house in Bright
on. The society which advocates the
cessation of Sunday labor will be as
tonished to learn that sixty miles of
shops are open every Sunday. With
regard to churches and chapels, the
Bishop of London, examined before a
committee of the House of Lords in the
year 1910, said: eff you proceed a mile
or two eastward of st. Paul's you will
find yourself in the midst of a popula-
ton the most wretched and destitute of
mankind, consistingof artiicers, labor
ers, beggars and thieves, to the amount
of 800, 600 or 100000 souls. Through
out this entire quarter there is notmore
than one church for every 10000 in
habitants; and in two districts there is
but one church for $1,000 SOULS" In
1889, Lord John Russell stated, in Par
lament, that London, with thiItY-four
parishes and population of 1, 40, 900,
had church accommodation for only
101, 900. These and other statistics
furnished led to the Metropolis
Churches Fund" established in 1886,
which has been followed by the Bishop
of London's Fund. 1t is still computed,
however, that at least 1000 new
churches and ehapels are required in
the metropolis.-Cor1aJtiUM Magazine.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
Do OpOssums "PIay 'POssumF'

In order to test this supposed habit
of the opossum, have sought out their
hiding-places in several instances, and
endeav0red to make them "show OFF,
in this manner. In one instance large
male opossum was captured in an ordi-
nary box-trap, set for rabbits. On lift
ing the lid the animal was found to be
curled up into nearly as globular
form as it was possible to assume. Be-
ing disturbed, it slowly raised its head,
opened its mouth widely, but did not
offer to bite, and in this position quiet
ly awaited coming events. After some
five minutes of mutual staring, the
opossum closed its mouth and slowly
restored its head to a more easy posi-
ton, and even closed one eye, as
though the other was all that was
necessary to note what might occur.
On being roughly handled, and given
several pushes with q stick, it opened
its mouth widely and protested against
disturbance by a low, kissing sound,
but did not uncoil its body. If the
animal, at this time, realized all the
circumstances of its being a prisoner, it
certainly did not fear death, for it
made no effort to escape, which the
fear of death would cause it to do, since
it was in no way disabled. After wait
ing an hour, and seeing no sign of
feigning unconsciousness, but, instead,
a provoking indifference, walked off
some distance, where / could see the
trap, which left open, but be myself
unnoticed by the opossum. Fully five
minutes elapsed before saw any move
ment on the part OF the animal, and
then it was very gradual uneoiling Of
the body, a protracted yawn, a stretch
ing of the limbs, and then standing up,
he looked about and very deliberately
walked off. l ran toward him, when
he quickened his pace, but was soon
oYertaken. On seizing him by the tail
he orouched down, partially coiled his
body and spread his Jaws to their ut
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
A Wedding Journey.

One of the most significant incidents
in the life of William Hewitt, the aged
Quaker poet and editor, who died a
week or two since, is that of his we'd
ding journey. More than fifty years
ago, he married a pretty little Quaker
girl, and after the ceremony, the young
couple, healthy, sweet-tempered and
happy, set off to make a tour of En-
gland on foot.
They climbed the hills, fshed in the
streams, loitered along hawthorne
lanes. They learned to know each
other, face to face with nature. The
charm and sunshine of that summer
must have thrown its benignant light
down the long pathway to the grave
which they trod together.
How many American girls would
choose to make such a wedding Jour-
neyP How many of them could do it
if they did chooseP Native American
women, two generations ago, had
strong muscles, strong nerves and
sound digestive organs.
The amount of manual work and
mental strain endured by our pioneer
mothers tires modern woman to read
of. How many of the present race of
girls in cities are free from neuralgia,
back-ache and gastric troublesP One
of the leading physicians in the coun-
try declared lately that, in his enor-
nous practice, hehad never known but
two thoroughly healthy girls.
Now what is the cause of this sudden
and terrible declension in vitalityP Our
climate, no doubt, is at the bottom of
the evil. It assuredly promotes all
nervous diseases.
Next to that is the strained, feverish
life which our girls lead in school and
in society. An English girl is kept in
the nursery until her schooling is over.
An American, too often, has her firta-
tons, balls and beaux, at thirteen. By
the time she is ready to take her place
as woman, she is 6lGSe, and exhausted
in mind and body. The use of ano-
dynes, chloral, etc., to restore her
"a tone, I" is becoming frightfully COM
mon.
The plump, healthy Quaker girl, who
wandered on foot over England on her
wedding journey, had led simple,
quiet home life. She knew as little of
anodynes as of balls Youths Com
DG71iOzz.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
Remedies Worm TrTing.


The Paris correspondent of the Bos-
ton Courier, referring to his recovery
from a dangerous illness, says: men,
ton this illness that l may tell you how
easily was cured. Twas bent double.
1 could not breathe. My physician
ordered me to take fat-iron and heat
it as hot as I could bear; put double
fold of flannel on the painful part and
move the iron to and fro on the flannel.
1 was cured by enchantment. My doc
tor told me that some time since pro-
fessor in one of our colleges, after
suffering some days with neuralgia in
the head, which he himself had tried to
cure, sent for the former, who pre-
scribed hot fat-iron. The next time
the doctor saw the professor the latter
exclaimed with mock anger: " l really
shall not pay you any fee! what! l had
no sooner applied the heated iron to
my head than instantly all pain van
ished! That is as simple as good-day;
surely you cannot expect fee for itI''
My physician was summoned recently
to the bedside of q woman who had
neuralgia in both sides, and so violent
-ly, she alarmed the whole neighbor-
hood by the screams which her intoler-
able anguish wrung from her. She
was taken from her bed and borne near
the fire. In such severe cases heated
iron is not energetic enough. He has
an iron rod fastened in an ivory handle.
He heats this rod to white heat (which
causes less pain than red heat) and ap-
plies it very slightly to the seat of pain,
first in longitudinal, then In latitudinal
lines. The application is so light that
no trace is left but red lines on the
epidermis, which are soon effaced. In
twenty minutes the woman walked
back to bed and the third day after
ward quilted it entirely freed from
neuralgia. This instrument is not to
be intrusted to awkward hands. Three
weeks ago one of our brilliant artists
was invited to shoot by the owner of a
chateau in whose grounds there are
wild fowl In abundance. He woke, the
morning after arrival at this gentle
mans house, with sciatics in his right
thigh. The nearest doctor was sent
for. "I can do nothing which will
give you immediate relief" The artist
IS a patient of my physician. He told
the doctor what to do. The latter de-
clined taking the responsibility of any
such violent treatment. "But I as
sumo all responsibility" The doctor
applied an iron rod heated to white
heat, but so awkwardly that the artist
has scars the size of five-franc piece
on his thigh. He was nevertheless
cured, and enjoyed a weeks sport
without one other twitch of pain.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
Real Estate Agency.

ENRY FASSETT, of Ashtabula, Ohio,
IL who has had many years experience in
the business, will give special and prompt
at tentiOn to selling and renting Real Estate
III all parts of the County.
100 Acres of Land In ShemeId-The
A. B. Shaw farm-good buildings, fruit and
living water-abOut miles from Ashtabula.
Terms of payment made easy. Enquire of
owner on premises, or at this agency.
About 2S Acres of Land adjoining
the farm formerly owned by Allen Prindle,
in SaybrOOk- For sale at bargain In
quire of U. Atwater, or at this agency.
ID acres of excellent land comfortable
buildings and good supply of fruit. and liv-
ing water. North East from North Kings
vile.
50 acres in Plymouth, at a great bargain
Inquire of this agency or of S. G. Strickland,
son premises.
SO acres on North Ridge, East of Ashtabula
Good buildings, fruit and water.
100 acres ofland in Saybrook, belonging to
Mrs. Kate II. Bowman. A most excellent
farm, and price low and payments easy.
No charge where a sale is not affected.
For iSale-The H. E. Parson farm in Ply
mouth, some III acres, good buildings and
The Prentice farm, IO1 acres, about miles
Outh on road to Jefferson. A good home.
40 acres, north part of the Samuel Strong
farm, on Prospect Street. Sold in parcels to
suit purchasers.
Two lots on Centre St., next west ofSmith's
BlOck-alley IN rear. OeSlFdDle lOT Dusln6SS
purposes.
Good frame dwelling house, corner of Fas-
sett avenue and Superior street, large lot.
Price to suit the times.
Two story frame dwelling house near De-
pot. on Station street, with lot So feet front
and rs feet deep, VIII be sold low.
The Hills property, good house large lot,
corner OF. Station and Depot streets.
A good new two story dwelling house, nne-
Iy finished, near Phoenix FOundry-Wtll be
sold for less than the cost Of the improve
ments.
The Dubois house and lot-a desirable res
idence, on Franklin Street,-a rare oppOrtu-
nifty to get good home for a small sum.
Also house and lOt-a convenient resi-
dence for one doing business at the HarbOr.
Lots in different parts of the village for
sale on the most liberal terms.
Wdnted-Farms and other real estate for
sale, at this agency.
The R. F. Moore house and lot on West
street. House near and convenient. Good
barn. .I1S acres of the very best Of land for
garden and fruit. The owner is doing busi-
ness in another town and will give great
Almost desirable residence on Center street
near Main Ar unusual opportunity to pro-
cure q home for business man.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Excellent Doughnuts.-One cup o
molasses, one cup Of sour milk or but
termilk, two eggs, two tablespoonfuls
of melted butter or cream, and one
scant teaspoonful of soda.
To renovate black grenadine, take
strong cold coffee, strain it, and wiring
the grenadine out of it quite tight, aft
er which shake out and fold up. Then
iron it with moderately hot iron over
a piece of any old black material.
-Sponges.-If a sponge, after having
been used a week,'is then put away to
thoroughly dry, and another used for
an equal time, the soft, fabby and
worn-out sponge RECEIVERS its texture.
Sponges treated in this way outlast
three ordinary sponges,
Potato Solp.-Pare and soak in
water two hours ten good-sized pota-
toes; boil till soft enough to strain
through colander; while hot add a
quarter pound of butter; boil three
pints of milk, and turn by degrees upon
The potatoes, stirring it perfectly
smooth; add one large onion, chopped
very fine, q few blades Of mace or
parsley; boil fifteen minutes; split and
toast six crackers, and put into soup.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
Outdoor Exercise for Men and Women.

At the present time there are proba-
bly, twenty men and more than double
that number of women footing it
around sawdust rings in different parts
of the country. Every village has its
walking club. College boys meet you
with the preciseg gait Of an ostrich, their
elbows out jerking along from the hips
down; pretty girls no longer skim
with light elastic tread the daisied
plain, but set down their boots scien-
ahcally on the bricks heel and toe,
geod Tor so many miles an hour.
Al this, we are told, is physical
culture. Perhaps it is. ANY transient
Whim which viii drag young people
out OF turnace-heated houses into the
open air must benefit them pbysicaIIv
70 a certain degree. A young lad or
girl however, who would take the
same amount Of exercise while LOOKING
for stones, beetles, or weeds, or whiIe
playing game, would reap double the
advantage from It, as every tyro in
physiology knows. The brain must be
interested and amused while the limbs
are at work, or the nerves suffer Just in
proportion as the muscles are strength.
ened. We need not fatter ourselves
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11

He was a venerable and agricultural
looking man, attired in the latest New
Jersey fashion, and he stood on a
street corner near Washington Market.
Holding up his left hand, and gazing
refectively upon three pieces of string
tied around an equal number of fingers,
he soliloquized: "That's TO remind
me-get a spool of cotton; t'other
means don't forget the calico. But,
what in thunder's this one forP All,
by gum! that's don't get drunk again"
~ y. Commercial Advertiser.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
More than eight years ago the citv

More than eight years ago the oitv
authorities of London offered a nriIs
for any invention which would enable
them to get rid of snow in the streets.
Seventeen schemes were submitted.
The successful apparatus was at once
erected, and has been in operation ev-
cry year since. 1t consists simply of
an inclined plate Of iron, fixed below a
man-hole leading to the main sewer.
Under this plate are arranged gas
burners. The snow carted from the
adjoining thoroughfares is shoveled
down the nlan-hole grating, falls on the
heated plate, is reduced to water and
passes away down the sewer. The
consumption Of gas is very moderate,
and the cost is said to be much less
than that incurred by carting away the
snow on the old system. The appara-
tus, says the Engineer, has proved ex-
tremely successful, and the invention
deserves to be widely adopted.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11

Amber Pudding.-Two pounds of
raw apples, three ounces of sugar, one
gill of cold water, a teaspoonful of
lemon juice, yelks and whites of four
eggs, six ounces of flour, two ounces of
butter, half teaspoonful of yeast pow
der, pinch of salt; firstputtwo ounces
of the sugar in a small saucepan, with
half a gill of water; place in the apples,
pared and cored; squeeze over them
the lemon juice; put the flour in basin
with two ounces of butter; rub the but
ter carefully in the -four; then add the
yeast-powder, salt and remaining half
gill of water; place the whole on a
board and knead lightly together; roll
the dough a third Of an inch in thick
ness; wet the edges of small pie-dish
with cold water, and line the edges
with some of the dough; wet the dough
with water or milk; the dough on the
board roll thin, and with small cutter
cut rounds out of the dough and place
them on the edge of the pie-dish, upon
the dough already covering the edge.
When the apples, which have been put
in the saucepan with the sugar, water
and lemon juice, have become soft, rub
them through wire sieve; then drop
into the sauce, one at time, the yelks
of four eggs; mix the eggs and the
apples together without beating the
yelks, and pour them into the pie-dish,
in the hollow formed by the dough
cakes; place the dish in the oven for
ten minutes.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-07-11
Flowers, Beautiful Flowers !
Plants and Vegetables!

have the best stock of Green House and Bed
ding Plants I have ever before had, whether con-
sidered as to variety, quantity, or quality. Ny
stock Of Fuchsias and Geraniums is very large
and Of great variety, and especially hne plants.
OF Foliage and Basket Plants, / have an excel
lent stock to select from. embracing Begonias.
ColiuE, Achyranthus, Centaureas DUSTY Miller
in variety. Ny Pansies, Verbenas, HeliotrOpe,
Cuphes, PLEAS, SalVias, Ivies, Roses, LycOpo-
diumE, FeTeTfeW, Cinarsrla, Petuias, Double
and sIngle) Bulbous Plants, such as Dahlias,
GladiOlns, Caucea, Calladium, TubeFOses-all Of
them verY fine. 1 can furnish Fruit and Orna-
mental Trees. Hedge Plants, Blooming and FO-
liage Shrubs, Strawberry Plants in variety, Rasp-
berry Plants, Asparagus and Pie-Plant Roots, all
kinds Of Vegetable Plants in their season, and
many kinds Of Annual Blooming Plants-all Of
which offer at prices considerably below those
given in the numerous catalogues I am con-
stantly receiving.
1 shall be prepared to furnish Cut Flowers
and Floral BIN blems at short notice and on sat
isfactOrY terms also early and seasOrable Vege-
tables and Small Fruits in small or large guam
titles.
Flower Pots OF four sizes, ~, 8, 81 and
inch at 20c, 30c 40c and SOC per dozen.
Correspondence solicited, and cordial and
earnest invitation given to all, in want Of any
thing in ny lsne to see my stock and get my
prices before purchasing.
Ny Green House and grounds are on Main
street, Ashtabula, near the franklin Division Of
the L. 5. & N. s. R. R.