Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-19
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non-completion Of theroads.
1t is one thing to try to behave like
gentleman, and quite another thing
to be gentleman and not need to try.
--Sevefal gentlemen who obtained
free passes by means Of a forged letter
are to travel free of expense to Sing
Sing. yIL.gH 'T-|. H.. T
2There are two classes who do not
bear prosperity--One of them being
those who do not get chance to
bear it.
"A dead father, demented mother
and a starving, idiotic child is the con-
dition to which rum has reduced a FAM
lily in Harlem.
The London Truth exhorts: "Let
bit be remembered that the ordeal of a
wedding is quite as trying to q man as
it is TO a woman" t'e- ~
Precisely one hundred and sixteen
inches OF snow have fallen on the Blue
Mountains, near Weston, Oregon, dur
ing the present winter.
"A Georgia man fred seven shots at
a wild cat, Killed his dog, wounded a
farmer in the leg, and puv one of his
own eyes out. The wild cat escaped
Mr.. Parnell, the Irish agitator, has
a brother living at West Point, Ga, who
is famous fruit grower, and owns an
orchard containing fifty thousand peach
trees.
An ex-official at Randalrs Island
says such things occur as boys setting
| fire to their beds and hanging them
selves, rather than endure the treat
ment they receive from certain Of
icers.
Everything in nature indulges in
amusement. The lightning plays, the
wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the
snow flies, the waves leap and the fields
smile. Even the buds shoot and the
rivers run.
IA woman living near the foot of the
Blue Ridge Mountain, in Georgia, caught
four wild turkeys in a trap recently,
and when she tried to get them out
they attacked her 50 fiercely as to break
one Of her arms.
"A good excuse for a bad act re-
minds us of the English lady who
bought a salamander safe and had it
put in her stateroom so that her valua-
bles would be safer in case the ship
should take fire. IN Y Herald.
Maine has law that relieves the
debt for liquor from payment All such
sales On credit are made at the risk of
the seller Certain parties in Boston
just now, owing to the insolvency of a
few Maine liquor concerns, find them
selves out every dollar of their claims.
"A San Francisco physician of high
repute, desiring To possess the six vol
umes of an expensive medical work, is
accused of trying to get it by theft.
He carried out two of the books and
then two more, but the third at
tempt was seen through a gimlet hole
by clerk, and the doctor was arrested.
-ChicdgO Tribune.
"A Scotch preacher oonfesses that
while apparently preaching without
notes he really is reading from a man
uscript which he sees mentally before
him. He sees even the stops. This
use of the faculty of visual representa-
ton occurs when he has written a SER
mon and read it carefully before going
into the pulpit.
Two singular marriages took place
recently at Grinsville, Pa. MIR. Smith
was a widower, fifty years old. He has
q son twenty-four years old. Mrs. Sny-
der was Il widow, forty-two years old
She has q daughter, twenty-one years
old. Mr.. Smith, the elder, married
Mrs. Snyder's daughter. Mr.. Smith s
son married old Mrs. Snyder.
The daughter of Spotted Tail, a
tall, ungainly young woman of eighteen,
is studying in the Government School
for Indians at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
She has lately married the half-breed
interpreter employed at the barracks,
and when sent to do some scrubbing the
other day her lordly husband interfered
His wife was of royal blood, he re-
marked the daughter of Chief-and
he wanted her to learn only what the
white ladies do,
The world wants more sunshine in
its disposition. For ten thousand of
the aches and pains, and irritations of
men and women, we recommend sun
shine. 1t soothes better than morphine.
1t is the best plaster for wound, Flor
ence Nightingale used it on the Crimean
battle-felds. Take it into all the alleys,
on board all the ships, by all the sick
beds, Not a vial full, not cup full,
but soul full. 1t is good for spleen,
for liver complaint, for neuralgia, for
rheumatism, for failing fortunes, for
melancholy Faith and Works.
This is the way observation-disclosures
in Lafayette, Ind, was taken in and
done for few days ago: A stranger
came in and ordered cup of coffee,
rendering a two-dollar note in payment.
He was handed one-dollar bill and
ninety cents silver in change. The
dollar-bill he put in his pocket and,
placing ten cents with the ninety cents,
said, II don't like to carry loose silver;
just give dollar for that" The clerk
took n dollar out of the drawer, and
showed it toward the man, who, quick
ly placing the loose silver coins which
he still held his hand on with it, said
carelessly, " Better give me two-dol-
lar note for that" BY this time the
clerk was somewhat mixed, and the
other playing the game boldly he very
naturally handed out two dollars with
out thinking, and drew back the dollar
in change and dollar note, the swindler
pocketing the two-dollar bill and walk
ing off. When the clerk came to think
the matter over he found he was out
Just ninety cents on the transaction.