Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
GENERAL.


A LEADING New England journal SAYS
that section has room for 100000 inn
migrants.
THE King of Slams full name is Phra-
bat Somdetch Phra Paramendo Maha
Chutahlongkorn Klow.
A NEGRO in Harris County, Georgia,
pulls the plow while one son holds the
handles and another drops the cotton
seed.
A MAINE lady asked drug clerk for
ga bottle of endurable ink She evi-
IDENTIFY knew what she wanted if she
didn't know its fashionable name.
SPENCE PETTIs, the forger, who
hanged himself in Concord (Mass)
prison, was not only a college graduate,
but claimed to be of a high English
family, and lawyers are now investigat-
ing to find if he was heir to large En-
glish property.
EDWIN BOoTH's birthplace, a brick
house in the English style, at Havre-de-
Grace, Md, has been bought by Mr..
Kyle, of Baltimore. A large tree, in the
boughs of which young Edwin sat while
reading and declaiming, still stands in
front of the house.
WHILE people were pouring into
Music Hall, in Boston, to hear what
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll had to say
against the Bible, a worthy citizen sta
toned men at the entrance with five
hundred New Testaments in hand, to be
given to the audience for use in verify
ing Mr.. Ingersoll's references.
1T is the ambition of Professor
Nordenskjold to make the Arctic Sea
useful for commercial purposes. The
season of navigation is short, to be sure,
in that frigid region, but he believes it
to be sufficient for the transportation of
merchandise of great value to the north
ern parts of the Russian Empire.
A RARE sight was seen in San An
tonic, Tex, on San Jacinto Day. Of
the veterans of Analhuac, Velasco and
Goliad who assembled, every one had
white hair - two hundred and fifty
snowy heads around one table. The
Alamo was visited by hundreds, who
/ thought of Davy Crockett as they read
over the doorway: Thermoplyn had
her messenger of defeat, the Alamo had
none"
THERE was recently found in True
| kee, New, an egg the shell of which
/ had been pierced by kernel of barley.
| Half the kernel was inside the shell and
had sprouted, and bright green blade
of barley four inches long was growing
from the barleycOrn. On breaking a
small piece from the side of the shell,
diminutive fibrous roots of the barley
stock were found extending into the
white of the egg.
THE Cars bedroom in the Winter
Palace, it is said, communicates by a
subterranean gallery with the Fortress
of SITS. Peter and Paul, so that in case
of need, he may reach the fortress in a
few minutes and be in perfect safety.
The room of Emperor Paul 1. was pro-
| vided with n similar secret passage, but
he was not quick enough for his assas-
| sins, who murdered him on the thresh-
old of the passage.
A GIRL at EusOn, Dakota, was very
| disconsolate over the loss of a lover,
| but was uncertain whether she really
wished to commit suicide. In order to
test the question, she let herself down
| into stream with rope, so that she
could either let go and drown, or hold
fast and save herself. She found that
immersion in the water did not make
her desire to live, and she discarded the
rope. But her suicide was prevented,
after all, by boatmen.
THE Memphis (Tenn.) appeal devotes
its leading article to " the Internal mos
quito" closing its invective thus: "The
ant is industrious the bee is sllillful and
useful to man; the flea has been taught
amusing tricks; spiders have been made
the pets and relieved the tedium of soil.
tary prisoners; but the internal mosqui-
to was never known to perform meri-
torious act; all his energies are devoted
to making an unmitigated nuisance of
himself, and be has been eminently sue
cessful.n
The implication of the account of the
Exodus that the golden earrings of the
Israelites were both numerous and
large, so much so as to amount together
to an object as great as molten calf,
has seemed surprising, if not incredible.
But in late years the tombs of Egypt
have proved to be rich in earrings OF
gold, and not infrequently ornamented
with pearls. Representations Of ancient
life on their walls exhibit the rings in
use; and one of the mural pictures at
Thebes depicts women comparing the
golden decorations of their ears.