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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
Influence of the Moon on CrOps.

A correspondent of a New York paDer
was planting potatoes in the light of the
moon, or in the increase of the moon
several of his neighbors were present
and discussion arose as to the effect
the moon had on the different crops
Answering its correspondents INQUIRY
the paper said: "There has been ALWAYS
powerful superstition that the moon
exerted a great influence upon the affairs
of mankind but this idea has prevailed
chiefly among those who did not un-
derstand the utter impOssibility that the
moon could exert any such influences.
Formerly the stars were supposed to
assist the moon in these interferences
with mankind and their labors, and to
be able to read the stars was equivalent
to the possession of prophetic powers.
Now the stars have lost their reputation.
and the moon is in a fair way to lose
what title is left of it. Formerly crazv
people were 'mOOnstruck,' but now . 1Ess,;-
we see lunatic derived from luna. the
noon, and really meaning mOonstrur<l
we do not blame the moon for it. The
moon has now fallen so low as to be
supposed by some to influence only the
tWining of beans on the pole, the plant
ing of seeds, the wasting of fat pork IN
the pan, unless it was killed under
growing moon, and the making of soft
soap. To a reasonable person this seems
q small business for the moon to be en-
gagged in, or a very unlikely thing that
the moon can exert such influence.
If any difference occurs it will be from
other causes, such as soil, weather, etc.
Lastly, it is absolutely certain that the
T1nnnrn1u TrfiTTnr1nn on nfr
so very small that it cannot even effect
the weather in the least"
While referring to this subject We ale
reminded of the anecdote of Tim
Harden. member of the Lying Club"
It is hint to pork dealers:
zone day." said he, "when was about
to kill my hogs, a neighbOr came in and
told me that the moon was on the de-
crease, and that the meat would shiveT
up if I killed the pigs then. But l only
laughed at him and went on with the
butchering. When l salted away the
pork, I thought it looked rather light,
and every time l went to look at it the
pieces seemed smaller. But when it
came to cooking the meat the shrinkage
became absolutely appalling. A big
slice shrank up into a mouthful, and a
whole ham or a side wouldn't make
more than an ordinary meal for four
persons. The next year concluded to
butcher my pork when the moon was on
the increase, and did so. Gentlemen,
don't know whether you will believe
me or not, but it is true nevertheless,
but I didn't have that meat salted down
three weeks until it swelled out so that
l had to enlarge my smoke-hOuse to |
double its former size to keep it under
cover. When it was put into the frying !
pan the effect was wonderful. A piece !
two inches square would spread out un-
til it was bigger than a napkin. Fact, |
and can prove it. No, gentlemen, don't |
fool yourselves about the signs of the
moon"
After this story the club solemnly ad- |
iourned.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
AsHTABULA, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1o 1879.
Successful Life.

4 young German came to California,
nearly thirty years ago, determined 10
get rich. He worked hard. He lived as
cheaply as possible. Every dollar that
he earned or saved he invested in real
estate, or loaned at four per cent.
month on good security. The result was
that he became millionaire. Yet when
his income was nearly a million year,
he lived in shabby apartments, and
boarded at the cheapest restaurants.
His one object in life was the accumula-
ton of property. Everybody regarded
him as a cold-blooded, close-fsted, iron
hearted man.
This successful (?) miser brought dis
ease upon him by overwork, and the
doctors prescribed for him a sea voyage,
So he determined to visit his native
land. He went to a celebrated watering
place hoping to be benefited by its baths.
The village where his parents had lived
and were buried was five miles distant
He thought that he would visit their
graves. But being too penurious to hire
a carriage he walked to the graveyard
Finding at the gate that the sexton de-
manded a small fee from visitors, he said
Ghat he would not 90 in. But DassinQ
around to the rear of the inclosure he
climbed over the wall. He looked at the
graves of his parents, let us hope with
some filial feeling, and then tried to 60
out as he had entered. The sexton,
however, was too sharp for him. He
caught him and took him before the
burgomaster. There the millionaire de-
MED that he had been in the graveyard
at all. The sexton stOutly averred that
he had seen him climb the wall. The
fatigue of his long walk, and the excite
ment of his alteration brought on a
paroxysm of heart disease, and he fell
down dead in the burgomaster's office.
Such was the ''last of earth" in the case
of this successful man. He left his
wealth to relatives with whom he had
scarcely any intercourse during his life;
in whom he felt no special interest, and
who, though glad of course to get the
money, cannot have much respect for
the memory of their misery kinsman.
So the eight millions that this man
gathered did not make him happy in
life or death, and he could take none of
tito invest in the spirit world. He is as
poor there as the poorest beggar who
dies in the almshouse.
Now many of our readers will say,
eff was worth eight millions of dollars
I would get more enjoyment out of it,
and make better use of it p Are you
sure that YOU would? The habits that
one must form in acquiring wealth are
not easily broken. There is nothing
that so shrivels a human soul as getting
money for irs own sake.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
EngIish NOKelisfs.
Rose Eytinge the actress, thus gossips
abO1t some noted writer's.

Rose Eytinge the actress, thus gossips
about some noted writers:
'I was delighted with Mr.. Reade. I
met him often at his house at Knight
bridge, where he entertained me. He is
a tall man whose life is given to the
broadest, Open-handed charity. He lives
to do good. Why, the people come to
see him for everything, and out he goes
to right their wrongs, visiting this man,
demonstrating with that, into Offices and
counting-Tooms. To see that justice is
done some poor body, who has been
Wronged in the matter of a shOp-keeper's
oVercharge, he will run all day. Just
now he is bUsily engaged in forcing the
introduction of a safety lamp into the
mines. His study or writing room, he
calls it the garden room, looks out over
Hyde Park. The ceiling is low, the walls
are covered with family portraits and IN
inches stand the entire series of Rogers
statuettes in plaster. On his table,
thanking an elegant Louis Quatorse clock,
stand two unsightly coal oil lamps Of
the kind he is trying to introduce into
the mines. His house is a museum Of
bric-a-brac and curiOsities. I have four
grand plays by him which 1 will act this
winter. As I sat in his room and looked
into his face, framed in white hair from
the chin all round, was as deeply i'm
pressed as when I read his, "ClOister
and Hearth" Indeed, more so. His
apparently intuitive perception Of the
workings of a Woman's mind are so deli
cate and exact. Well, he is a bachelor
and lives at home, but dimes at the club
a good deal. He is a man Of large frame,
and a photograph ne gave me had
written upon it: 'aThis is the picture of
a great man, now, thank Heaven, much
reduced P'-referring to the time when
it was taken, when he was much stOUteT.
I cannot sufficiently express my admira-
ton of the man. He told me that he
intended to continue to write for the
stage entirely, hereafter. Mr.. Cyril
Scrle, my manager, he appointed his
agent in this country to protect his dra-
matte work from piracy.
Wilkie Collins / saw, also, and found
him delightful He is almost an invalid
and suffers a great deal with rheumatic
gOut. He speaks Of the gout with stern
disapprobation, but despite the. pain it
almost continually inhicts upon him, he
talks admirably upon nearly all topics.
Edmund Yates I saw frequently, too.
He spoke in glowing terms of his visit to
America, where he received magnificent
hospitality.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10

END OF A QUARREL.-One day New
foundIand dog and a mastiH had sharp
quarrel over a bone. They were hghI-
inc ON a bridge. and over they went into
the river. The banks were so high that
they were forced to swim some distance
before they came to landing place. It
was very easy for the Newfoundland
he was as much at home in the water as
a seal. But not so for poor Bruce; he
struggled and did his best to swim, but
made little headway. The Newfound-
land dog quickly reached the land, and
then turned to look at his old enemy.
He saw plainly that his strength was
fast failing, and that he was likely to
drwn. So, what did the NOBLE fellow
do but plunge in, seize him gently Dy
She collar, and, keeping his nose above
the water, tow him safely into port ~
was funny to see these dogs look at eaeh
other as they shook their coats. Their
glances said as plainly as words, wen
never quarrel again"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
LAKE SHORE MICHIGAN SOUTH.
KRN r. r.
CONG WEST.

GOING WEST.
Michigan Express leaves Buffalo al p m,
Erie 1885 a. m, COnneaut 2:lb a. m. Ashta-
bula 2-53 a m, Geneva 3:l9 a. m, Paines-
willie sos a. m, Cleveland $50 a. N.
Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo al
l2;f5 a. m, Erie $50 a. m, Ashtabula 4:5s,
PainesVille $40, and arrives at Cleveland at
COnneaut Accommodation leaves Conneaut
atG.0J a. m, AnIbOy 6:ll, Kingsville 6:-i, Ash
tsbuia G:33, SaybrOOk 6;i3, Geneva 6;53, Paines-
vile IDS, and arrives at Cleveland S:45 a. IN.
Toledo Express leaves Buffalo at G:f5 a. m,
Erie l0.15. Conneaut 1886, KingSville II:lI
Ashtabula li:Zi a. IN, SaybroOk ll:S3 Ge-
neVa lI:E. Palnesvige l2iS, and arrives
at Cleveland at RS p. M.
Special st. Louis Express leaves Buffalo
sos a. m, Erie 1887, Ashtabula 1902 p. m,
Painesviiie l2;45, and arrives at Cleveland
l:40.
Pacific Express leaves Buffalo 1880 D. m,
Erie 1852, Ashtabula 5:l2, Painesville 6:0l, and
arrives at Cleveland at T:05 p. m.
GOING EAST.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland T:30 a. IN,
Paines vile es20, Ashtabula Sos COnueaut 9-.1S
Erie lO.30 and arrives at Buffalo at l:l0 p. m.
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves
Cleveland at ll:l5 a. M Painesville l2:35, Ge-
Kingsyille E45, AmbOy -. Conneaut BOP,
Erie $40, Buffalo 200 p. m.
Chicago and st. Louis Express leaves Cicye-
land at 2s50 p. m, Painesville 8:38, Ashtabula
Ais, Erie SIS, and arrives at Buffalo at sos
p. m.
Conneaut Accommodation leaves Cleveland
at $50 p. m, Painesville 600, Geneva 6:45, Say
brook 6:55, Ashtabula 7.04, Kingsville T:lj Am
boy 7:2i, and arrives at Conneaut at 7:30 p. m.
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland
at 1890 .. m, Painesville 1l:20, Ashtabula 1904
a. m, Erie Lao and arrives at Buffalo at 400 a.
m.
sA-T Trains run by Columbus time
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
THE FISHERMEN.

Three hardy toilers over a net,
Are slipping the fish out, one by onei
Unheeded comes the sweet breath of the land
And the silent touch Of the sun
Mad winds grow madder tonight, and shake
With a tempest their boat on the sea,
You cannot awake from their happy dreams
These happier fishers. three.
Three idle old fishermen sit to-day
On bench meath the stOrehouse caves;
One tells OF q bridal, and one OF a wreck
One says, "How the east wind grieveSF'
All. tenderiy tidings go out
To the boats that have hidden their wings,
And tenderer echo comes back
In the songs that the isher-boy sings.
For the fishermen, idle and old,
Have told their last grief in the sun,
And other hands viii quietly do
The little there's LEFT undone.
Three briery graves above beach,
Allure the pitying kiss Of the morn;
For the dead grass there doth miss the greer
That is caught by the conscious corn
Do their tenants answer the underton
Of the sea there, questioning night and day.
Do they take any thought for the laden nets,
Or the buffeting boats in the bayS
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10

Among the hill tribes of the AnglO-In-
dian frontier, cunning is quite as highly
esteemed as personal proves, and there
is ample foundation for the native prov
erb that "it is easier to find snow in
summer than to OutWit a Khyberee."
But even these masters of stratagem Oc-
casionally meet their match, as the fol-
lowing adventure, told in the words of
its hero, an Hindoo trader, sufficiently
shows: "When I started to go from Pesh-
aWur to Herat, I knew that / couldn't
expect to pass the mountains without
meeting a rObber or two, and made my
preparations accordingly. I laid out all
my money in several large diamonds,
which 1 bound around my head in a
soiled rag, made to look like the band
age of wound. Then put on the rag
gedest clothes I could get, and loaded
donkey with loaves of spiced bread, such
as the mountaineers ike, putting good
dose of opium in every Loaf, and away l
went, driving my beast before me. 1t
wasn't long before I fell in with half
dozen 'ghorumsaugs' (brigands), who
never troubled themselves about me.
seeing what a miserable object l looked,
but flew at once upon the bread and de-
voured it all. The opium was not long
of producing its effect, and as soon as
they were fast asleepI took what money
they had, packed all their weapons and
the best of their clothes upon my donkey,
and went on my way. Butt can tell you,
Sahib, 1 took good care never to travel
by that road again"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
Serious Thoughts.

There is no funeral so sad to follow as
the funeral of your own youth, which We
have been pampering with fond desires
and ambitious hopes, and all the bright
berries that hang in poisonous clusters
over the path of life.
Here are some exaggerated expires
sions: 'I am tired to deathp So you
have said very often, yet you are still
alive and well. "I had not wink of
sleep all uightp' Yet your bedfellow
heard you snore many times. @I would
not do it for the worldp And yet you
have done many things equally bad for
a penny. "We were up to our knees in
mud p You know very well that the
dirt was not over your shoes.
Clean hands in matters of money
among the young certainly ought to be
the indispensable condition of gentle
manliness. No man who bOrrOws anG
does not pay, and does not care whether
he pays or not, is a gentleman, no mat
ter how witty, or gay, or fine he may be.
To speak in good plain English, the man
who dresses himself at another's ex-
pense, not knowing how to pay, nor car
ing whether he pays, is a genteel scOun-
drel. And yet such things are done by
good-natured folk, by kind-hearted peo-
pie, by persons who never probe them
morally u ascertain what their tendency
is, and what they lead to.
Nothing makes a man so in love with
purity as purity. Many man has been
lifted out Of debasing sins against which
he has vainly struggled by coming to
know and love a pure, sweet woman. 1t
is the sight of embodiment goodness
that makes us want to be good. Many a
mother, by the quiet usefulness of her
life, fills her children with desire to be
like her, that makes them in their turn
unselfsh. There are obscure men and
women who hardly in their lives utter a
word of conscious teaching, who by
their example do more to make people
around them gentle, and truthful and
Christ-like than any preacher can do.
1t is not those who talk about goodness,
but those who are good that are the light
of the world.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
Our Enormous Consumption Of Timber.

OuI EuOIuuUub NOuouiu ptAOA VI LAAUUAs
In pleading for the protection and
perpetuation of forests, the Lumbermdn's
Gazette gives some interesting particulars
of the amount of timber consumed every
year in this country. eve have now,"
it says, "about $4,000 miles of railroad
the annual consumption Of sleepers
alone is 100000, or thirty years growth
of 5000 acres. To fence these roads
would require at least 10000 miles Of
fence, which would cost S45 100000 to
build, and take at least Sl5,O00,0OO an
nuaIly to keep in repairs. We have 20,
600 miles of wire, which requires IN its
putting up 100000 trees, while the an
nual repairs must take 100000 more.
The little, insignificant lucifer match
consumes annually in its manufacture
100000 cubic feet Of the finest pine.
The bricks that are annually baked re-
quire 100000 cords of wood, which
would sweep the timber clean from 90,
900 acres. Shoe pegs are quite as impor-
tant an article as matches or bricks, and
to make the required annual supply
consumes 100000 cords of fine timber,
while the manufacture of lasts and boot
trees takes 100000 cords Of maple, beech
and birch, and about the same amount
is required fo- plane stocks and the
handles of teols. The packing boxes
made in the United States in 1874
amounted to $12,OOOOO0 while the tim
Der manufactured into agricultural i'm
plements, wagons, ETC., is more than
SlO0,OOO,0O0. The farm and rural fences
of the country consume an immense
amount of lumber and timber annually,
but as we grow older as a nation, this
consumption may, and probably will, be
reduced by the more general use Of live
fences or hedges. Our consumption Of
timber is not only daily on the increase,
but our expectation Of timber is also
rapidly increasing. Our slaves go by
the million to France annually, walnut,
oak, maple and pine to England, and
spars and docking timber to China and
Japan"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10

versal Lastitude. Pain in the Back. DImness Of
Vision, Premature old age, sad many other dis
eases that lead 10 Insanity and Consumutinn
and Premature grave. Full particulars IN our
pamphlet. which we desire to send free TO ever
one. eaB The Specific Medicine Is sold by nl
druggists at 81 per package, or six packages for
s.. or VIII be sent free BY mail on receipt Of the
the money by addressing, The GRAY HIedt-
cline Go No. 10 Mechanics Blosk Detroit Mich
~ Sold in Ashtabula, and eyerywhere hy ali
Druggists. 1B5O-l60i
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
Express Trs1ns Leave New YORK

Express Trains Leave New York
900 An. Cincinnati and Chicago Day
Express. Drawing Room Coaches 10 Bur
falO and Suspension Bridge.
600 PM, Daily. Fast st. Louis Express,
arriving AT Buffalo 90 A. NJ, connecting
with fast trains to the West, Northwest and
Southwest. Puliman's best Drawing Room
sleeping Coaches to Buffalo.
700 p NJ. Daily. Pacific Express. Sleep
ing Coaches and Hotel Dining Cars through
10 Chicago without change.
200 P. M. Emigrant train for the West,
daily. No. daily, except Sunday
TAfeaI stations
Q9-Ask for Tickets via Erie Railway; for
sale by all principal Offices
JNO. N. ABB0TT, Gen, Pass. Agt..
New York.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
American Life in Paris,


What is called the American colony
in Paris, says correspondent of the
Baltimore american, consists of about
from the south. A great many of them
might be regarded almost as permanent
residents. A goodly number of them
are people of limited means, who find
that they can live so much cheaper here
than in an American city, they have
concluded to stay. One of these re-
marked to me the other day, 81 can live
better in Paris on $1,000 per aEnum than
could in New York on S6,000." He
then proceeded to detail the difference.
In New York he would be regarded as
nobody unless he owned or rented a
brown-stone house from 81 900 to $4,000
per annum. Here he could obtain a
suite of elegant apartments, in a fash
ionable neighborhood, at from $500 to
1000 per annum, and make as good an
appearance as any one else III his sphere.
In New York he would have to pay $40
per week for coachman, whilst here he
could engage landau, with fine pair
of horses, and a liveried fOOtman thrown
in, to be always at the reasonable call of
his family, at from $12 to SIS per week.
Then he said he could clothe himself
and family at one-haf the expense, and
much better, than he could in New
York; that servant hire was not half
the cost and the service better; that
there were always amusements here at
moderate cost, and cab at call 10 take
him and family home at all hours of
the night for two francs; whilst in New
York such luxury would cost S.. Then
there was little or none of the troubles
of housekeeping in Paris, as n family
can be fed cheaper than it can feed itself
if satisfied with French living. But, he
remarked an American can never feel
contented or comfortable in Paris until
he goes to housekeeping and orders his
food, and prescribes the mode of cook
ing it. A Frenehman loves the table
d'hote, but it is all abOmination to an
American. As soon as they get under
their own roofs they all fall back to the
American mode of living, and luxuriate
in grIddle cakes, mullins, hot rolls and
bucE.wheat cakes, all of which a PaEisian
would regard as poison. They exercise
the horrible French patties, roast and
stuff their chickens instead of brOiling
or frying them, serve up their salad
without oil, and let those that love oil,
oil it; they eat their peas and beans and
potatoes with their meat, and mix things
generally just as they did at home.
They know exactly what they are eating,
and no longer shut their eyes and
swallow whatever is given them, with
out knowing very often whether it is
fish, flesh or fowl When cn American
gets under his own roof he is always
happy in Paris, and the ladies especially
become attached to it, In short, he
maintained that an income of $4,000
per annum would enable man to keep
his family in as good a position in polite
society as could be done at cost of
$4,000 in New York there were GER
tain expenses necessary to position there
not required here, and that a fine show
ing can be made off a limited purse.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
DRUGGISTS.
MARTIN NEWIItsI

TARTIN NEW8EIRIEY, liruggisl aud
Apothecary, and General Dealer in Drugs,
Medicines. Wines and Liqn0rs h5r iifedleli
purposes, Fancy and Toilet GoOds Main
street, corner OF Centre, Ashtabulai o.
CHARLES g. SWIFT, Ashtsbula, Ohio,
Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Groceries,
Perfumery and Fancy Articles. superior
Teas, Coffee, Spices, Flavoring Extraetsi Pa
tent Medicines OF ev fry description, falhts,
DIVES Varnishes. .BrU shes, Fancy Soaps, Hair
oils &C. ali Of which viii be sold at the low
. set prices. Presoriptl ions prepared with suit
abe tare. I EH XIX losj.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS

p. r. GOOD, Wholesale and Recall Dealer
in all kinds of Coal, and Lumber. Sewer
Pipe of all sizes. Office and yard at Center
street railroad crossing, AshtRbula. Halls
shingles a speciality. Pine lumber. shingles,
lath, Of all kinds, in any quantity, at the
lowest prices, and delivered on cars or any
where In Ashtabula. Orders left at the
store of. 3. Grossly &Sons, VIII receive
prompt attention.. 1926
J.SBMs BL EEH, Agent for the Liverpool,
Lond0 & Globe Insurance Co. Cash Assets
over SlJO00000 Gold In the u. S. So 800, 900.
StocF Iolders also personally liable ll2l3
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
RE HALLWAY.

ERIE BAIL WAY.
Abstrdct oI Time Table adopted June 9, 1873
DULLAlAN'S best Drawing-room
Il and Sleeping Coaches, combining all
modern improY eInents, are running through
without change from Rochester Buffalo, SuS-
pension Bridge, Niagara Fails Cincinnati aud
Chicago to New York, making direct cOnnec-
tiOn with all lines Of foreign and cOastwise
steamers and also with Sound steamers ana
railway lines for Boston and New England
cities. Hotel Dining Cars from Chicago to
Xnrlr
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
MANUFACTURERS.

CUIJRF TTANUFjG co., Manufacturers
OF Lath, Siding, MO1ldings, Cheese Boxes,
&c. Planning Matching, and ScrOWl Saving
done on short notice. Shop on Main street,
opposite South Park, Ashtabula, Ohio.