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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
The Late Miss Nelson.

IT is not too much to say that the an
nouncement of Miss Nelson's death
shocks the whole English dramatic
world. Those who have witnessed her
Incompatible impersonations will deep
ly lament an event which renders a rep
etition of that exquisite pleasure forever
impossible. Those who have never en-
jOyed that pleasure may well lament,
even more deeply, what is to them, in
deed, an irreparable loss. The finest
Shakspearian actress, not only of our
age, but of any age, has made her final
adieux and gone down to darkness and
the worm. The black curtain has fallen
upon long, yet far too short, series of
triumphs which, highly as they were APP
preciated when their heroine was living,
will be far more highly appreciated now
that she is dead.
The Shakspearian fame of Sarah Sid
dons rests solely upon her Lady Mac
beth. The Shakspearian fame of Ade-
laide Nelson rests upon broader, if not
better, foundations; upon Juliet, Viola,
Imogen, Isabella and Rosalind. In this
range of characters she never has had,
and we believe never will have, a rival
near the throne. She is the only woman
who has seemed to have an instructive
and thorough knowledge of Shakspeare's
noblest women. She did not act them;
she WaS them. She threw her whole
soul into these splendid creations, and it
may be said that she re-created them;
for certainly until her day they never
lived and breathed and burned upon the
stage. There have been other Juliets,
Niolas, lmOgens, lsabellas and Rosa
linds but the best of them were poor
and weak compared with hers. Men
tally and physically she was pre-emi-
nently fitted for her task, and her rare
equipment in brain and beauty was sup
plemented by an indomitable energy
worthy of the strongest masculine
nature. She always played up to the
full extent of her powers; always did all
she could dO-and was then dissatihed
because her grandest efforts fell short of
her ideal. The threadbare quotation is
peculiarly applicable in this case
"Take her for all-in-all, we shall never
look upon her like again"
Miss Nelson's sudden death was not
entirely unexpected to her friends. To
one of them she remarked, on her last
visit to st. Louis, that she "was rapidly
wearing out through the tremendous
strain upon her nervous system, and
must leave the stage very soon or risk
complete breakdown" Her physicians
had so advised, and her own sensations
confirm their opinion. The last season
in America taxed her failing strength
beyond its limits, and more than once,
she said, she would gladly have given
up the profits of two weeks engage
ment for single nights rest" That
such a matchless artist should perish in
her prime, leaving no successor, is
nothing less than public calamity
| 81 InlLiS GhrOnicle
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

You see how IL is already rs TO that. IL
was the student who was grounded In
the grammar that took the Latin prize;
h was that slow, steady drudge who
practiced firing every day last winter
that bagged the most game in the
mountains; IL is the clerk who studies
the specially of the house in oll-hours
who is to be promoted. Your brilliant,
happy.go-luoky, hit-or-miss fellow usu-
ally turns out the dead weight of the
family by forty-hve. Don't take any
thing for granted; get to the bottom Of
things. Neither be sham yourself,
nor be fooled by shams. Ready for
you in your early manhood there are
plenty of pleasures waiting for you to
conquer - applause, money. society,
this and that kind of philosophy or
faith. Take nothing on trust; weigh
it, see what il is worth. You will have
rough disappointments, but you will
come to the granite underneath at last.
We have said nothing about your re-
ligion. Your creed matters little
Baptist, Presbyterian, Churchman; for
if you are the sincere, earnest man we
mean, you will come at last, down
through all professions, all experiences,
to the Almighty Good and Order which
underlies them all. You will discover
for yourself that every sincere and
earnest man must build on that or on
the shifting sand. There is no other
choice in life.-N y. Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
PITH AND POINT.

Potato vines are dangerous nowa-
days, because they are loaded with
slugs. Rome Sentinel
THEY say Chicago girls never find il
hard to elope. They make rope lad
ders out of their shoe-strings ST. Louis
Paper.
The coming campaign promises to be
a hot one. In this city alone thirteen
men have already had their noses singed
by coal oil Philadelphia Chron-
icle.
PEOPLE who sleep late in the morn
ing miss the sight of a beautiful sun
rise. And then, again, those who retire
early cheat themselves out of the sight
of a beautiful midnight moon.-N. o.
Picayune.
WALK through some of the dirty
scums of the great metropolis and YOU
can realize the force of the words, "The
man who enters here leaves soap be-
hind. Whitehall Times.
A MAN named Onion lives in neigh
boring town. There is reason to be-
lieve he is a man of sense.-Rome Sen
hnel Wrong. He is continually get
ting in a stew, and is in bad odor among
his fellows.-B0Sto Commercial Bule-
tin.
AN ostrich recently swallowed fifteen
stones, seven nails, necktie, an envel-
ope. thirteen coins, fourteen beads, two
keys, handkerchief, medal, and a
gold cross, and then it died from an eff
fort to look cross-eyed.- Boston Post.
PEOPLE who find it absolutely impos-
sible to stand it at home when the mer-
curry barely reaches the nineties, find it
cool and invigorating at summer resorts
where it is necessary to put the ther-
mometer in an ice chest to keep it down
to hundred.-ReObitb Constitution.
They were not very dressy little girls,
these two. They belonged to the bare
footed, sun-bonneted class that have good
health and dirty faces But one day the
younger appeared with genteel little
shoes, embroidered stockings, suit of
bunting and a snowy leghorn hat. As
she paraded herself before her play
mate, she completely captured her.
"Why, you look like some rich young
one, was the exclamation of delight;
"but you won't play with me any
MORE" and the tears began to wash a
clean furrow adown her cheeks. "Oh,
yes 1 will. My mother won't care, :"
said little good heart, and she did play
with her. But her mother cared. 1t
took three days and good whipping to
get that new suit clean.-NelO HdUen
Register.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Punctuality,

SOME one defines punctuality to be
Fifteen minutes before the time.n At
any rate, it is not one minute after the
time.
must tell you an anecdote of the
first Marquis of Abercon. He invited
a number of friends to dinner. The
hour for dinner was FIVE, and all those
invited knew it, of course. Well, the
hour arrived, and but one of the guests
had come. Down sat the Marquis and
this one guest to table. The Marquis
was punctual, if only one OF the others
was.
By-and-by another guest dropped in,
and was very much mortified to find
dinner being eaten, And one by one
all the rest came, and were likewise
mortified. But the Marquis had taught
them all good lesson, and l venture
to say that the next time they were in
vited none of them got in to the coffee
only, but were on hand for soup.
General Washington was so very
pUnctual that, on one occasion, some
friends who were expecting him at
certain hour, on finding that he had not
arrived, all concluded that their watches
must have got wrong; and sure enough
they had, for Washington soon came,
and was not a minute late. No doubt
his habits of punctuality helped to make
him the great man that he was.
knew clergyman once throw him.
self into the Mississippi River and
swim eighteen miles down stream to
keep an appointment for afternoon
service. 1 travelled through the Upper
Mississippi region shortly after, and for
hundreds of miles from the place where
he lived, out toward the border, l heard
of his great feat. The border men re-
| spected such a man, and called him
"the minister who made the bigswim."
| Nor is any one too young to begin
| the cultivation of habits of punctuality.
| The boy who is on time at school, on
| time in class, on time when sent on an
errand, and so on, is apt to be the
punctual business or professional man.
The habit of promptness is likely to
cling all through life.
Some persons, on the contrary, go all
| through life in slip-shod, down-at-the-
heel way, and never prosper. They get
to wedding as people are coming off.
They are late at church; don't meet
their notes, 90 to protest, and are in
trouble generally.
Washington's way was the best. The
Marquis of Abercorn was in the right
That Mississippi clergyman did nobly.
And these three are good examples for
our boys and girls to follow. Never be
behind time, and, if you can, be little
ahead of it, and you will never repent
of the habit of punctuality. Golden
/ Dn3Je
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

GEORGE PEABoDY's london poor
fund has increased from s2,5OO,0O0 TO
S3,5OO,OOO.
THE Empress of Austria, in addition
to her skill as horsewoman, is said to
handle the foils well and gracefully.
SARA BERNHARDT has deposited in
the London and Westminster Bank $780,
600, the proceeds of her visit to London.
THE Duke of Westminster has an in
come Of nearly $4,000 a day, most Of
his wealth being in real estate in Lon
don.
A LETTER in Queen Ellzabeth's own
handwriting. beautifully clean and clear,
has been sold at Leipsic for three hum
dred marks.
THE best looking horses on the Bois
at Paris are those OF the Countess Mix
holska, Russian lady, who handles the
ribbons in reckless Cossack fashion.
A COMPANY with capital of Sl2, ,OOO,-
600 is TO erect in the gardens of the
Palais Royal, Paris, vast establish
ment in the style of the London Alham-
bra.
TIE Empress of Germany seldom ap-
pears in anything but black, except on
state occasions, it being tenet of her
toilet that after a certain age black Is
the only wear for ladies.
The London Graphic attributes the
scream of a woman partly to vulgar
ity and partly to vanity. 1t says that
no well-bred woman screams, but only
those who morbidly wish to attract at
tention.
AT fruit and flower tent at fash
iOnable London entertainment one beau
tiful young married lady sold a button
hole bOquet for $50. One or two gem
tlemen collected much money by charg-
ing five shillings to point out and name
the professional beauties.
Mrs. LANGTRY is no longer called the
Jersey Lily; society has given her
another pet name 49," The Amber
Witch" She is said to be lovelier than
ever, and is gazed at in public places as
if she were queen or prima donna.
At the Atalanta fete, where she wore a
gown of old-gold satin trimmed with
shaded poppies, one old lady seated her
self opposite the Amber Witch's stall
and deliberately taking out her opera
glasses stared at the famous beauty for
an hour
Mrs. j. W. MACKEY recently gave a
breakfast TO a select number of Ameri-
can friends at her cottage at Trouville,
on the coast of France. On this occa-
sion the costliness of the table service
and decorations reminds one of the
Arabian Nights. Not only gold, silver,
and priceless porcelain were used, but
amber, coral, and precious stones were
pressed into the service. Ices were
served on crystal plates inlaid with un-
cut gems; wines and liqueurs sparkled
in TASKS Of amber, or were contained
in hagons Of gold, cloisonne, and
enamel; while the tiny cups in which
tea and coffee were handed were proba-
bly, each worth a nugget.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

In the list of old houses containing
secret chambers, Boscobel House should
not be forgotten. The old hunting
lodge, which formed so welcome, and,
as the event proved, so secure, ref
uge to Charles H., after the "crown-
ing mercy" at Worcester, contains two
actual hiding-places, and there are in-
dications which point to the former ex-
istence of third. The secret place in
which the King was actually hidden is
situate in the Squire's Bedroom.
There was formerly a sliding panel in
the wainscot, near the fireplace,
which, when opened, gave access to a
closet, the false floor Of which still ad-
mits of one person taking up his
quarters in the hiding place, of course
in a very cramped and uncomfortable
position. This chamber formerly COM
municated with the garden by pos
tern door, which is now blocked up.
The wainscoting covering the movable
panel in the bedroom was, in the
Kings time, covered by tapestry, with
which the room was then hung. The
sliding panel has now been replaced by
a door, for the convenience Of visitors.
This hiding-place has been very well
illustrated in the large edition of Mr..
Harrison Ainsworth's "Boscobel." In
the cheese room sort of loft mt the
top of the house, from which enchant-
ing views of six or seven counties may
be obtained-is a trap-door, beneath
which, tradition says, recusants and
priests were sometimes hidden. The
oriiice is, at present, covered with a
lid, which is so ill-itting that it is ex-
traordinary the place should ever have
been used to hide any one. confess
that had it ever been my unfortunate
lot to occupy these close quarters, l
should have entertained very little hope
of escaping my enemies, even had l
survived the suffocation which must
inevitably have followed after a few
hours occupation. This hiding place
is commonly known as 1.-The Priests
Holen The places of concealment
which 1 have described were frequent
! ly utilized, during the reigns of Eliza
beth and James T., for the concealment
of seminary priests and other recu-
SAINTS. Flannagan's "HistOry of the
Church in England states that the hid
ing-plaoes at Boscobel were, inter
nlUlOs aliOS, contrived by one John
Owen, who was servant to the Father
Garnett who is a prominent character
in Mr.. Ainsworth's "Guy Fawkes. ~
| Notes and Queries.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Magnificent Impudence.

Your correspondent (writes the Wen
ma representative of the London GtObe)
was suddenly called to Pesth for few
hours last week. The affair was press
ing, for friend had been rather severe
ly "winged" in duel-a sufficiently
common event in pugnacious Pesth-
and he made for the Staatscahn with all
due speed, and took the next train for
Hungary. This, as is usual in such
cases, was confirmed "parliamen-
taryt' which tore along at twenty miles
an hour. The carriage which he enter
ed contained two ferocious looking
Magyars booted, braided and poma-
tuned. They screwed up their mustaches
to a level with their eyes, glared about
with what-do-you-think-of-thatn
expression, and with many "Teremte-
tes" cursed the unpunctuality of depart
ure, the heat, the time, the place-Yien-
na-every thing; in word, they were
real Magyars and out-and-out Spa
triots." The other occupants of the
compartment were well dressed, good
looking youth--a German-who appear
ed dreadfully sleepy, and aninnocent
looking gentleman of, say sixty, the
pattern OF benign and paternal mildness
"a sort of Magyar Mr.. Pickwick. A
moment later we started. The old gem
tleman addressed several remarks 10 the
young one, who, however, vouchsafed
but scant reply between mighty yawns
and signs of fatigue. In few minutes
the youthful German was snoring hard.
The old gentleman then turned to us
and proved very communicative. Tell
ing us how the youth opposite was his
son, deploring at the same time his
carelessness in money matters. "There
he goes to sleep amongst strangers with
whole pocket full of money; ia that
not carelessP" inquired he, with more
candor than flattery. "Just TO give
him a fright and TO teach him lesson
for the future, shall take il away from
him. Mr.. "PiekwiOkn hereupon
quietly lifted the flap of the youths coat
and took out bulky pOoket-book,
which he placed in his own breast pocket
with a knowing smile. Soon after this
the train stopped at Presburg. The old
gentleman begged us to look after his
son, his sons hand luggage and his own
Overcoat while he was absent, He got
out and returned no more on tho con-
trary, he vanished completely. The
train once more started, and we awoke
the tired Teuton and informed him how
his father had been left behind and how
he had taken the pooket-book with him
"a piece of intelligence which produced
the most starting results. The sleepy
one began to use the most unflial Ian
guage, felt frantically for his pocket
book, and uttered n howl OF rage He
remained unintelligible for some time,
but at last he managed TO gasp out that
he had no father, and had never in his
life seen the old gentleman before that
| night. "There were 5000 tlorins in
the pocket-book, shouted he, wildly,
"the wretch must have seen me take it
out ut the station.n This is one of the
most impudent cases of robbery which
has happened here for some time, for Il
required an amount OF elaboration,
GOODNESS and daring which would have
suiiiced a general to win a great battle.
Needless TO say that the mild old gen
tleman has not since been heard Of.
A STERILE farm is a type of bravery
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
NO

- NOT CLEAR, sharp and ringing,
with an emphasis which could not fail
to arrest attention.
81 don't often hear such negative
as that" remarked one gentleman to
another, as they were passing the play
ground,
1T is not often any one hears it, The
boy who uttered it can say yes too,
quite as emphatically. He IS new
conner here, an orphan, who lives with
his uncle. about two miles of. He
walks in every morning, bringing his
lunch, and walks back at night. He
works enough, too, to pay his board,
and does more towards running his
uncle's farm than the old man does him
self. He is the coarsest-dressed scholar
in the school and the greatest favorite.
Everybody knows just what to expect
of him."
"Quite q character. l should like
to see him. Boys of such sturdy make
up are getting to be scarce, while the
world never had more need of them
than now.n
IAN that is true; and if you wish to
see Ned come this way.n
They moved on a few steps, pausing
by an open gate near which group OF
lads were discussing some exciting
question.
at isn't right, and won't have any
thing to do with it. When l say mo- l
mean it."
"Well, anyway, you needn't speak
so loud and tell everybody about it, :"
was responded impatiently to this dec
laratioD.
"pm willing everybody should hear
what I've got to say about it. l won't
take anything that don't belong to me,
and l won't drink cider anyway"
"Such fuss about little fun! It's
just what we might have expected.
You never go in for fun
al never go in for doing wrong. l
told you no, for to begin with. And
you're the ones to blame if there's been
any fuss
"Ned Dunlap, should like to see
you a minute"
"Yes, sir" And the boy removed
his has as he passed through the gate
and waited to hear what Mr.. Palmer
might say to him.
" Has your uncle any apples to sell?"
mo, sir. He had some, but he has
sold them. I've got two bushels that
were my share tor picking. Should
you like to buy them sirP"
"Yes, if we can agree upon the price.
DO you know just how much they are
worth?"
"Yes, sir"
"All right, then, will call for them,
and you may call at my house for the
pay"
The short interview afforded the
stranger an opportunity to observe Ned
Dunlap closely. The next day call
was made at his uncle's, and although
years elapsed before he knew what a
friend he had gained that day his for
tune was assured. After he had grown
to manhood and accepted lucrative
position, which was not of his seeking,
he asked why it had been offered him.
because knew you could say mo-
if occasion required" answered his
employer. mo was the first word
heard you speak, and you spoke it
with a will. More people, old and
young, are ruined for want of using
that word than from any other cause.
They don't wish to do wrong, but they
hesitate and parley until the tempter has
them fast. The boy or girl who is not
afraid to say mo- is reasonably GER
tain of making an honorable man OF
woman.n
Yes is often sweet and loving
word.
"No" is a strong, brave word, which
has signaled the defeat of many g
scheme for the ruin of some fair young
life. Temperance Banner.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Wanted-An Easy Place.

REV., HENRY WARD BEECHER some
time since received letter from young
man, who recommended himself very
highly as being honest, and closed with
the request, sect me an easy situation,
that honesty may be rewarded" To
which Mr.. Beecher replied! "Don't be
an editor, if you would be 'easy.' Do
not try the law Avoid school keeping.
Keep out of the pulpit. Let alone all
ships, stores, shops, and merchandise.
Abhor politics. Keep away from law
yers. Don't practice medicine. BE not
a farmer nor a mechanic; neither sol
dier nor a sailor. Don't study. Don't
think. Don't work. None of them are
easy. o, my honest friend, you are in a
very hard world l know of but one
real easy place in it. That is the
grave"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
Mons Dress.

The New York Graphic takes up this
line OF discussion; "Man's apparel,
as we'll as womRn's, is open to improve
ment. His regular everyday attire Is
not free, unfettered working dress. 1t
is too stiff There is too much starch
and pasteboard for comfort or free play of
limb. Any dress impeding the work
ing Of any part Of the body is directly
unhealthful, The proof that mans
dress Is 10 some extent a shackle is the
fact and custom that II there's anything
10 do demanding muscular exercise, he
must pull off not only his coat but his
collar, cravat and sometimes shirt, Our
pedestrians, our base ball players, our
polo players, our yachtsmen on duty,
all in order to do their best are obliged
10 strip themselves of portions Of their
conventional attire. II this be neces-
sary for the fullest muscular exertion OF
few hours, why is Il not equally neoes-
sary for any hourP How much weak
ness and disease may be indirectly de-
yeloped by clogs TO physical exertion, by
undue pressure and bandaging, by
cramped feet and necks, by everything
that fetters motion and respirationPn
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

MARK TWAIN says the only introduce
tion to literary audience that he ever
had that seemed to him the right word
in the right place "a real inspiration
was as follows; Ladies' and gentle
men, shall not waste any unnecessary
time in the introduction. don't know
anything about this man; at least, | only
know two things about him-One is that
he has never been in the penitentiary,
and the other is l can't see why"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

"A wealthy farmer living near Daven-
port, Iowa, bought what he hesupposed was
a tax title to valuable piece of city
property, in 1875, and has since paid
the taxes thereon, only to find now that
the tax title is worthless, and that he
has been paying another mans taxes
five years without any legal claim to re-
imbursement.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

A LARGE number Of black ants being
driven from a sugar bowl, soon returned.
To try their ingenuity the housekeeper
suspended the bowl by a string from the
ceiling. The ants tried 10 reach IL by
standing on each others back, but the
pyramid fell down as fast as il was
raised. Soon aflerward she saw them
descending the string and dropping
down upon the Jumps Of sugar.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

INSTRUCTOR TO PUPIL-Miss Wright,
write rite right, right on this piece OF
paper.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

WHILE a woman in Farmersville, n.
Y, was assisting her son to hold q
sheep he was shearing the animal sud
denly kicked, struck the shears and
drove them into the unfortunate wom-
ans neck, severing the iugular vein,
causing speedy death.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

QUICKSILVER may be readily frozen
by placing a small quantity of It along
with anhydrous ether in the decanter
used for freezing water of a Carries
freezing machine, and exhausting in the
usual manner.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

A STERILE farm is type of bravery
II will die rather than yield,