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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12
The Heat Yielded by the Sun.

SINCE there Is every reason to be-
lieve that the suns radiation is equal in
all directions, it follows that, if the sun
were surrounded by great shell of ice,
one inch thick and 1856, 100000 miles in
diameter, its rays would just melt the
whole in the same time.
If, now, we suppose this shell to
shrink in diameter, retaining, however,
the same quantity of ice by increasing
its thickness, it would still be melted ia
the same time. Let the shrinkage con-
tinue until the inner surface touches the
photosphere, and it would constitute
an envelope more than a mile in thick
ness, through which the solar fire would
still thaw out its way in the same two
hours and thirteen minutes; at the rate,
according to Herschel's determinations,
of more than forty feet a minute. Her
schel continues that, if this ice were
formed into rod 45.3 miles in diam
eter, and darted toward the sun with
the velocity of light, its advancing point
would be melted off as fast as it ap-
preached, if by any means the whole of
the solar rays could be concentrated
upon it. Or, to put it differently, if we
could build up a solid column of ice
from the earth TO the sun, two miles and
a quarter in diameter, spanning the in
conceivable abyss of ninety-three mill
lions of miles, and if then the sun should
concentrate his power upon it, it would
dissolve and melt, not in an hour nor a
minute, but in a single second; one
swing Of the pendulum, and it would be
water seven more, and it would be dis
sipated in vapor.
In formulating this last statement we
have, however, employed, not Her.
schel's figures, but those resulting from
later observations, which increase the
solar radiation about twenty-five per
cent, giving fifty feet, and not forty
feet, as the thickness of the ice-crust
which the sun would melt off of his own
surface in minute. An easy calcula-
ton shows that to produce this amount
of heat by combustion would require
the hourly burning of layer of antbra-
cite coal sixteen feet Give meters) tiiak
over the entire surface of the sun-fGtir-
iifths of ton per hour on each square
foot of surface-at least eight times as
much as the most powerful blast fur
mace known to art. 1t is equivalent to
a continuous evolution of more than
seven thousand horse power or every
square foot of the SUMS whole area. AS
Sir William Thompson has shown, the
sun, if it were composed of solid coal
and produced its heat by combustion,
would burn out in less than six thousand
years.-Prof. @. a. Young, in Popular
Science Monthly,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12
Mr.. ROBERT FREEMAN,
StelCard --

The communication which he had in
tended for the steward OF his club had then
gone 10 Grace. Well, what OF Il? Doubt
less 1t was mere business communication.
She weuld laugh, and at once comprehend
ing the mistake would re- mail IL to him with
Yes, but how then explain the chagrin and
CONSERVATION with which Farrell recognized
the mistake, and how account for the pain
full agitation which his face and manner be-
tray as he stands with his hand TO his fore
head debating desperate means for the re-
covery Of the epistle? Evidently there is
something we don't know about, nor vet
even guess, connected with that letter to the
steward. Young men sometimes have queer
secrets and queer cOntidants.
Farrell glances up at the clock. The New
England mail closes in ten minutes. What
ever he does he must do quickly. OF course
Why hadn't he thought OF 1t befOrey He
must go to the Postmaster and tell him his
predicament. No doubt he would return
him the letter at once on its being pointed
out.
Farrell was pointed to where gentleman
sat with a stove-pipe hat on the back of his
head writing at desk. He did not so much
as look up from his work as Farrell stood
over him, and the latter, recognizing that il
was no time for ceremony, began at once.
Il am sorry to inconvenience you, but the
fact is I'ye Just this moment made a rather
awkward mistake in inclosing letter to one
person In an envelope directed to another,
and should like to get the letter back out of
the Connecticut mail"
every sorry, sir" said the Postmaster
without looking up. "Can't do anything
for you. Such mistakes are constantly being
made. II we undertook to rectify them
couldn't attend to anything else,"
"But sir" exclaimed Farrell, 81 am q
respectable person, There is my card.n
"That won't do, sir,' said the Postmas-
ter. "No offense, sir, but II I'd seen you
drop that letter in the box with your own
hand should have no business TO give 1t
back TO you. The law makes the mailing OF
a letter legal evidence Of its receipt, and it
would make q pretty mess If man after
mailing letter coudget It back again. Ex-
ouse me, sir. You see Pm busy. Good
days" and the Postmaster, fitting forward
his chair, dipped his pen in the ink and re-
commenced writing, as obliyiOus Of Farrell
from that moment as II he were I'm Tartary.
That same afternoon, about two hours and
q half afterward, allowing for the difference
In time, the bell rang at the front door of the
residence Of Mr.. Abel Harrison on one Of
the finest streets OF a little city in the ancient
State OF Connecticut. Mr.. Harrison was at
his business. Mrs. Harrison was out shop
ping. Miss Grace Harrison was out Of town
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12
90 y; ! dom! won't TO. Lam ashamed

see II. don't want 10. ] am ashamed
enough Of myself nOw.n
81 insist that you shall SEQ it,D he said.
She looked on M he spread out the con-
tents of the charred envelope that bad been
wet with 30 many tears. II was bill from
Robert Freeman, the steward Of the-Club,
70 Farrell Cambridge, Esq. for sundry bot
Ties of wine and other pOtables and kindred
yanities, with a check In liquidation Of the
same incloscd.
''You see" exclaimed Farrell, "when
was going 10 marry you dropped the club,
and 80 bad no end Of bill 10 pay. You are
such a fearful little tectoialer that when
found / had sent the bill 10 you ! was in a
terrible state Of mind. IL might dish me
entirely. And so ] telegraphed. And when
you didn't seem 10 mind IL and didn't
speak Of IL, ofcourso wasn't going TO speak
Of H. And that's been the matter with you
nll this tlmel God bless my soul You dar-
ling little goosew
Grace had never cried 50 much In her life
AS she did with her face hid in her huband's
coat collar during the next hour or 50, and
was never so utterly happy.-EdWard Bel
tdmg, in Good COmpdny.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12
Our Young Folks.
WHAT THE M0THER-HEN SAD.

CLrcKfTY. clicinB, riuetpy. cluck'
Had over hen such wonderful luck7
Ten little pufhty, nufiity things,
Nesting 80 costly under my wings.
Hfcli0rH hictOry diriiOrU dOet'
Mrs Grimalku gave me q ghOckl
seeinR my TOp-kuDt taking "a drink,
She put out hrr paw a. quick "a d wink.
But Top-knOt ls smart, and T0p-knot is spry,
She gave puss the slip in the glance Of an eye;
Tops n rDHderftH Chicki It's cusy 10 sec
What belle, by and by, my TOp-knot will be.
H'gg' w. pigD'etU, triggic'V, iresl
I've nine other darlings lovely M she;
Floss, Ike puI-Dall. pretty aa silk,
And snow-drop and TrOtty, whittier than milk;
And Puck, who will do me great credit some
day
CTo hear that chick croir is good a. a PLAY;
And speche, and Friskie, and Hussey, and
And Brownie, and Blaoklo noto what do you
thlnkI
was ever a pr0udrr mother than n
We're ever such chickens under the sky7
Lambs, kittens babies and other wee things,
Are pretty, but dear me, tisy hureui Wiugl
-Wids-d tDaAc.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12
I'D CORIlEsPoNnENrs.

A communications for this paper should be accom-.
panied by the name Of the author not necessarily for
publication, but a. M evidence Of good faith on the
part oi the writer Write only on one Side VI the pa
pet Be Bepaiucllarly careful IN giving names aud dates
% nave the letum and figures plain and distinct pror
srnames nre often difficult 10 deCiphor because Of ths
careless manner In which they are written
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12

POVERTY is, except where thers'is an
actual want of food and Taiment, a
thing more imaginary than real The
shame of poyerty-the shame of being
thought pOor-is a great and fatal
weakness, though arising in this eoun-
Try from the fashion of ths. times them
selves.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12

FRIENDS are discovered rather than
made; they are people who are in their
own nature friends; only they don't
know each other; but certain things,
like poetry, music and paintings, are
like the Freemason's sign-they reveal
the initiated to EACH
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12

If all were as willing to be pleasant
and as anxious to please in their own
homes as they are in the company OF
their neighbors they would have tho
happiest homes in the world
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-12

GEORGE SwEANoR, of Montreal,
claims to have discovered a method of
dividing electric light by which it is
adapted to household use. The inventor
asserts he can supply light for domestic
use at one-third the price of gas,
National Republican., 1880-03-02
ASSESSING oFF1cE-uoLpERs.

That an attempt should be made by the
Democrats in Congress TO prevent, by legis-
lation, Federal office-holders from con-
tributing to campaign funds is not at all
strange, as it is strictly in keeping with the
policy of the party now having control of
both Houses. Were it possible to enforce
such law, they might 90 still further and
legislate against employees of the Govern
ment contributing in aid of church liquida-
tions and for the starving poor in Ireland.
But when measure of this kind is brought
forward, il becomes the duty ofthe Members
of Congress to consider how far such an act
would go toward depriving citizens of the
United States from exercising n right of
which they are, as free people, somewhat
iealous-that of doing with their own what
they deem just and proper. That the as
sessment of oflice-holders is an evil attended
often-times with injury to themselves and
their families there can be no doubt, but
when the Congress of the United
States undertakes to tell q man what
he shall and shall not do with
his earnings it seems rs though nn attempt
was being made to abridge the liberties of
the people and reduce them to q position
little less than that of slavery. An en-
ploye of the Government in this country is,
to our mind, on q par with employees of
corporations and private business houses,
and Congress has no more right to dictate
regarding their contributing to campaign
funds than they have to dictate whether o
man shall buy cotton or woolen garments
for himself and family. The ofice-holder
after earning his money has perfect right
to use it for such purposes as he deems fit,
and any attempt to restrain him is an i'm
suit to his intelligence and judgment. No
campaign eyer was or ever will be run
without money, and if an employe of the
| Government considers it his duty to contrib
ute his mite toward the necessary fund, he
should be allowed to do so without being
menaced by Congress. But if there is any
possibility Of such a law being passed, we
would suggest to Senator BUTLER, who has
the bill in charge, that it be amended so as
to include Members Of Congress for by
such an amendment it might be possible tc
get men who would attend more strictly tc
matters of interest to the people of the
whole country, and less to the introduction
of measures which are merely for political
effect and which make demagogues instead
of statesmen.
National Republican., 1880-03-02
PERSONAL.

Hon. W. HUTcHISs, of New York. is at Wizards.
Hon. JOHN j. PEARSON, of Harrisburg, is booked
at Wizards.
HoN. JOSHUA HILL of Georgia, is stopping at the
Ebbitt House.
II. LIDDELL of England, is sojournng at the
Riggs House.
HON. MILES Ross of New Jersey, is among the
guests at Wizards.
DIR. ]. D. AVER and wife, of New Hampshire, Is
booked at the Ebbitt House.
GENERAL Henry l.. BURNETT, Of New York, is
QuarIered at the Tggs House.
Hon. THOMAS d. KEoGH of North Carolina, Is
registered at the Ebbilt House.
CAPTAIN X. L. OGDEN of San Francisco, is in the
city the guest of Colonel Tichenor, on NJ street.
AMONG the arrivals at the Riggs House yesterday
were X. X. Pealer, Buenos Ayres; T. q. Appleton
Boston and George Place, New York.
+. p. MEIGs and wife, of Maryland; Sterling Muir
ray, Charlottesville, Va; |. L. Jarman, Virginia; H.
Emory Richards Philadelphia A. C. Perkins, New
York; Mrs. Colonel Zerrehee, Boston; d. T. Zerrc.
hee, Boston, and w. g. Taylor, Richmond, regis.
tered at the Metropolitan yesterday,
II. NJ. BENNETT, of Pittsburg E. W. sayers
Pennsylvania; Felix Rdgway, Paris John 0'Brleu
Egan, New York; X. q. CLARK, Philadelphia; Jesse
Wharton, ir., North Carolina; John L. Kemp, New
York; J. NJ. Barry, ]. J. Fitzpatrick Lancaster, Pa
j. +. Porter. Scranton, Pa; h. G.. Hazard, Rhode
Island; T, II, Parks and wife Philadelphia; j. J.
spangler, Pennsylvania; II, p. smith, New York
AlonzO V. Lynch, Boston; George Harman and
wife, Nirginiu; C.. r. Wood and ii. b. Plumb Penn
sylyGnia registered at the Metropolitan yesterday
National Republican., 1880-03-02
SPARKS FROM THE POLITICAL ANVIL.

The Grant boom is getting its Second wind"
-Omahd Republican.
We repeat that if the struggle between Grant
and Blaine continues any longer neither will
bo the candidate chosen.-Denuer Tribune
(Rep)
II the Grant boom were to suddenly give
way in tho middle, Ampt, of Ohio, would fall
backward in the Pacific Ocean.-1Hdnta Con.
stit,di0n (Dem.)
If anybody can tell us how General Grant
is forcing himself on the American people
while walking around tho City of Mexico, we
would like to know how it is done.-Ednsds
City journal.
If the Democratic party cannot beat General
Grant says the Clercland Paindedler, it ought
to dsband." 1t would be money in that
party's pocket to disband at once, then.--B
tdlO Adrertiser.
No ono who reads the Springfield Republican
doubts that Grant is the coming man for Presi-
dent. You can always tell by the tone of that
| paper what Is going to happen. Its Tears arc
as good an index as its exultations. .-NOrthGmp-
ton Gazette.
General Grant has a record of which all
Americans are proud. In addition to this he
has drawn the fire of professional slanderers in
| two campaigns. These stand now with empty
guns and with no ammunition at hand-
| Chicago Inter- Ocean.
George William Curtis never had many ad-
mirers in political circles here, whore he has
always been known rs a persistent office beggar
| for his friends and a sore-beaded grumbIer
when those friends were unsuccessful
ley's Washington Dispatch in Journal.
Those newspapers which saw in tho result
at Harrisburg q serious defeat for General
Grant will doubtless see in the result at Utica
his utter overthrow. But the fact remains
| that he won on both occasions; and Pyrrhic
victory is better than defeat.-BHGalo Courier
| (Dcm.)
One Cincinnati paper, which is for Sherman,
gravely says that Grant could not carry Ohio,
aud another Cincinnati paper, also for Sher-
man, doesn't think that Blaine can carry Ohio.
This is the handsome way in which the Ohio
papers clear the field in behalf of an Ohio man.
philadelphia Times.
If the States continue to declare for Grant
by no matter how small a majority, if a
formidable number of States do not declare
for somebody else, or at least declare against
him, no extraordinary provision, but rather
small measure of mathematical capacity will
be poeded to foretell the result.-New York
EueHiHg Post
sThe Grant wave which is rolling on, sweep
ing everything before it, has received such an
impetus by the action Of the Utica Convention
that there will be no checking it until it
lands the distinguished patriot in the seat
which the people have chosen for him iu the
Executive Mansion at tho National Capital
u Troy Wing.
National Republican., 1880-03-02
LIVE AND LEARN.

II has taken more than century for the
people and Congress Of the United States to
learn that the Indians should DO treated
precisely as are all other classes of its popu-
lation. The distinction has retar ded ciyili-
zation, has demoralized and decimated that
people, has fattened contractors and agents,
and now, after all this exper ience it is pro-
posed to abandon the policy Of treating the
Indians as children, and place them on
footing rs citizens. The plan which the
Senate Committee of Indian Affairs has
outlined proposes-frst, the permanent
localizaton of the Indians by allotting
homesteads to them in seyeralty, with u
proyision that the lands 80 allotted shall be
absolutely inalienable during n period of
twenty-five years; second, the extension
over the Indians of the general civil and
criminal laws of the United States, or OF
the respective States and Territories within
whose borders they are located and, third
the continuation OF certain degree of
assistance to them by the G oyernment In
the line of progress toward civilization
until they become self-sustaining by means
Of agricultural and pastoral occupations.
The measure does not contemplate the
transfer of the Indian Bureau to the Wan
Department but will circumscribo the dis
cretonary powers heretofore lodged with
that Department by placing them indi-
yidually under the control OF the Nations
National Republican., 1880-03-02

10 withhold appropriations TO sustain those
routes the Postoffice Department had no al
ternativc but 70 declare their discontinuance.
This had the effect to bring large number
Of Representatives to their senses, aud they
have speedily receded from their starving
out policy aud conclude that it is wisest and
best to provide the ways and means for fur
nishiBg the people of their districts with
mail facilities. A little common sense
would have taught them this in the first
instance
National Republican., 1880-03-02

SINCE the election of delegates to the
Chicago Convention by the Republicans of
Pennsylvania aud New York much has
been said aud written by the opponents of
General GRANT regarding the influence of
the machine" and the action of the "bosses'
in those States, But we are not prepared
to believe that the majorities of those two
great conventions were so lost to honor and
manhood as to express openly their prefer
ences for General GRANT simply at the
dictation of one man. For as yet we have
not lost that confidence in the intelligence
aud good judgment of the Republican
party which hes enabled them TO act and
decide wisely for the interests of the whole
country. The fact is that the necessity for
General GRANTS nomination has been
steadily growing for months, and is now
so strongly intrenehed in the hearts of the
people that by the time Of holding the con-
vention his candidature will be the result
of a demand instead of the work Of any
machine OF the influence of any one-man
power.
National Republican., 1880-03-02


The Philadelphia Press has discovered
that " the central group in Washington
" who are managing the GRANT campaign
against the people, have resorted to new
" weapon OF attack. They have employed
"a corps of mind-readers,' through whom
" they seek to cheek the BLAINE movement
"by sowing distrust among Baine's follow
" ers, and by exciting in them doubt of each
" other" This is sad, and it places the edi-
tor of the Press in the predicament of the
old lady who, when she first heard of spirit
ualism and its wonderful powers of dis
cernment, concluded to remain indoors
entirely and not expose herself TO public
gaze-ior, she said, with them critters
around, clothes amt Of any use at ALL" 1t
is to be sincerely hoped that these "mind-
"readcrs" will not be so cruel as to pursue
the BLAINE editor of the Press, who has
been suspected of want of sincerity in
his professions of devotion. If he isn't
sincere, let it not be exposed by these
GRANT diviners of the secret thoughts aud
motives Of men. Let the deception be con.
| tinued without exposure.
National Republican., 1880-03-02

SUBSCRIPTIONS for the Herald Irish Fund
will be received and duly accounted for at
the counting-room of The NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN.
National Republican., 1880-03-02

THE New York Graphic, always full of
humane suggestions, proposes toabolish the
barbarous method of hanging criminals by
the neck. It wants TO feed them on dyna-
mite for few days, aud then make them
chew caps
National Republican., 1880-03-02

THE Democrats have now discovered that
the best way to squelch such stalwurt
statesmen as CoNKLING and CoNGER is to
treat them with cold, silent contempt
This polar wave may soon be expected to
pass over both ends of the Capitol and OBJ
viate the use of ice in the water coolers.
National Republican., 1880-03-02

THE Washington correspondent OF the
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says: "Thero is n
growing feeling here that Mr.. TILDEN is,
after ALL the most available candidate -
that is, for the Democracy. Mr.. TILDEN
has thought so for n long time.
National Republican., 1880-03-02

THERE is more work for Senator VooR-
HE'S as an investigator. A Chattanooga
correspondent announces that within few
months the exodus from East Tennessee,
North Carolina and North Georgia to the
West has been unprecedented. 1t is esti-
mated that within the past four weeks 1000
colored emgrants have passed through Chat
tanooga, nearly all of whom have crossed
the Mississippi at Memphis, The emigrants
for the most part consist of sble-bodied
farmers, such as any State can lily afford 10
lose.
National Republican., 1880-03-02

FEBRUARY had five Sundays. It's first
and last day was Sunday. 1t is said that
there will not be another such February
within the next four hundred years.
National Republican., 1880-03-02
nSSys sALEoF FISH VIVA RvEs AND STALLS
~ IN THE CITIES OF WASHINGTON AND
GEORGErOWN.
ESeISEEn DEPARTMENT,

WAsHINGroS ID. G., February ., iss0
Notice Is hereby given that THURSDAY,
March II. 1880 the Fish whnrves and Fish stalls in
the cities of Washington and Georgetown, ID. c, Will
be sold at public auction Tor the term Of year,
from March I. 1880, follows:
At O'Clock M, and upon the premises, six (0)
fish stalls In the Georgetown Markethouse u the
highest bidder Terms-CaSh In advance. Also at
tho snne time and upon the premises, tho George
town fish wharf ut the foot OF Poo street to the
highest bidder. Terms-Cash In advance. The pur-
chaser to keep the wharf repair during his term Of
lease Also, Rt u'cock p nj. on the same day. on ID
street. between seventh and Ninth streets northwest
IN trout of the fish stalls OF the (Centre) Washington
Market all of the rights and privileges granted or al
lowed by the laws ofthe corporation OF Washington
TO established warves docks for the landing clean
lug ana sale Of fish; and no wharf dock shall be
deemed eligible unless situated ut somo point on the
north side of the Potomac river, between Eleventh
street east aud Fourteenth street west to the highest
bidder Terms 500 TO be paid day of sale and the
residue TO be paid Within five days from the day of
sale. By order of the Board OF Commissioners of d. g.
WILLIAM J. TWINING,
Major of Engineers, U. 8. A.,
Engineer Commissioner, d. g.
National Republican., 1880-03-02

THE Interior Department may lose the
Indian Bureau, and the War Department
may find it.
National Republican., 1880-03-02
,lTy@wArEn RENTS.

All water takers are hereby notified that the bills
for water rent for lsS0 be bad by parties calling
for the same at the Once OF the Water Department
on and after tho ls Of March, bills VIII be sent
out, and that " the bills not paid within thirty
days from that date the water will be cut on aud the
charge Of e2 addition Will DO added TO the bill rs re-
quired by law. THOS g. cox,
M wafp
National Republican., 1880-03-02

ALL the politicians in the country, with
MCCLURE, CURTIS and SCHURz to boot, can
not stop the inevitable
National Republican., 1880-03-02

general laws as is t.ie case with other eiti-
gems. The five tribes of the Indian Ter
riiory are exempted from the operations
of this new measure.
National Republican., 1880-03-02

HAssENBAcH says GRANT will be nomi-
mated and elected This is highly proba-
BILE