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Great Enterprise.

Til Hop Bitters Manufacturing Com
pany is one of Rochester's greatesttbu-
siness enterprises Their Hop Bitters
have reached asale beyond all precedent,
having from their intrinsic value found
their way into almost every household
in the land.-Graphic.
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Sentiment and Sense.

Hasty people drink the nectar of ex-
istence scalding hot.
Pleasure comes through tod and not
by self-indulgence and Incidence.
Often reserve that hides bitter hu-
initiation seems to be haughtiness.
We have little moral faith in those
who have never been imposed upon.
Our own heart, and not other mems
opinions of us, forms our true honor.
A mans good breeding is the best Sc
curity against other peoples i'll man.
hers.
He has mastered all things who has
combined the useful with the agreeable.
There are not good things enough in
life to indemnify us for the neglect of a
single duty.
When the human mind gets down hub
deep into rut of thinking it is hard to
lift it out.
There are few occasions where cere-
mony may not easily be dispensed with,
kindness never.
We believe that Gods power is with
out limit Why should we not believe
the same of His mercy?
To tell falsehood is like the cut of a
saber; for, though the wound may heal,
the scar of it will remain.
As an appliance for the improvement
of our friends habit of scolding pos
sesses no appreciable virtue.
We mount to heaven mostly on the
ruins of cur cherished schemes, finding
our failures were successes.
Do not try to force yourself into the
confidence of others. If they give you
their confidence, never betray it.
OF all the possessions of this life fame
is the noblest; when then the body has
sunk into the dust the great name still
lives.
Pride is like the bountiful acacia that
lifts its head proudly above its neighboT
plants, forgetting that it. too, like them,
has its root in the dirt.
Falsehood, like poison, will generally
be rejected when administered alone
but, when blended with wholesome in
gradients, may be swallowed unper-
ceiYed.
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Falsehood, like poison, will generally
be rejected when administered alone;
but, when blended with wholesome in
gradients, may be swallowed unper-
ceiyed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-25

Pride is like the bountiful acacia that
lifts its head proudly above its neighbor
plants, forgetting that it, too, like them,
has its root in the dirt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-25

We mount to heaven mostly On the
ruins of cur cherished schemes, finding
our failures were successes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-25

Do not try to force yourself into the
confidence of others. If they give you
their confidence, never betray it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-25

OF all the possessions of this life fame
is the noblest; when then the body has
sunk into the dust the great name still
Hvpq
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-25

As an appliance for the improvement
of our friends habit of scolding pos
sesses no appreciable virtue.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-25

Enthusiasm throughout the COuntry-10, 900
CongrdtulatOry Letters.
Third Year of its Present Management, 31st
Year of its Age.
xPublished Weekly. Address
RURAL NEW-YORKER.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
The Result,

The Republican masses will answer
the Chicago Presidential nomination
with an enthusiasm which their sur
prise will only augment. Usually the
nominee of contest in which the con-
spicuous candidates are beaten is some
obscurity, of whom the people know
little or nothing, and whose availability
is largely negative in character. But
in this instance the choice fell upon n
man of National reputation, of recog-
nized qualities of craftsmanship, and of
an unusually ample public training.
Viewing the matter coUlly, and with
the passions of the exciting contest
quelled, candid men will be inclined to
believe that the Convention could hard
ly have taken wiser action.
James'A. Garfield is a man in the
prime of life, physically and intellect
aually vigorous, with all his faculties
in the most wholesome stage of ripe
ness.
His record includes both military and
civic honors. He was u soldier who
served with distinction. He has rep
resented for many years in Congress
the Western Reserve district, which
the resolute spirit of Joshua r. Gid
dings made famous, and which can
boast of people unrivaled on this
continent in the purity of their patriot
ism and the simplicity and integrity of
their political purposes. He is now a
Senator-elect from his State, and has
long been justly considered as the
most accomplished of its conspicuous
men.
General Garfield is "the scholar in
politics. Though self-made he is yet
a athoroughly-educsted man. The tastes
and habits of the student, which he ao-
quired in his career as clergyman and
professor have been preserved in his
public life. The questions that de-
mand his attention he masters; his dis
cussion of them always shows familiari-
ty with their details, and is adorned
with blossoms pluoked in the garden of
belles-lettres. This habitual self-train-
| ing--and very few Americans in politi-
cal stations are his imitators in this re-
spect-is constantly bearing fruit in
manifest development, Year after year
has seen his usefulness becoming great
or aud greater. Each successive ses-
sion of Congress has found him with
broader views, sOunder Judgment and
more formidable powers, IL rs emphat-
ically true of him that he is a strong
man still growing in strength.
He has reputation in literature and
a National fame as am orator No pub
lie speaker ON this continent to-day can
surpass him in lucidity Of statement, in
candor Of tone, in dignity of style, and
in the art of appealing to the sense OF
| Justice and the reason Of his audience,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25

other foragers- brethren. The
dish OF -four and plaster was easily
reached, and the rats ate freely and
hastily Of Il, as II Is their custom 10 do.
IL was rather dry supper, and water
being at hand, as we have said, each rat
turned from the savory dish Of flour and
plaster 10 slake his thirst with the water.
Every body who has had 10 do with
plaster Of Paris will guess at once what
happened. The water drunk first wetted
the plaster in the rats stomachs, and
then, in technical phrase "set" IL; that
is to say, the plaster thus made into q
paste instantly grew hard in each rats
stomach, making cast of all its con-
volutions, a cast as rigid as any of the
Psyohes that Mrs. Benedict had intended
TO make. 1t is not difficult to believe
that even lively rat finds it uncom-
Portable 10 have plaster cast of his
stomach securely deposited in that use
full receptacle for food, and the event
proved that with such cast in exist
ence IL is impossible for rat TO retreat
even across kitchen. The rats de-
cided Mr.. Mallook's question "ls Life
Worth Living?" in the negative without
quitting the table.
The next morning thirteen of them
lay dead in a circle around the water
dish. Mrs. Benedict, when she entered
the kitchen for the purpose of making
her fire, saw them and acted according
ly That isto say, she screamed and
climbed upon a chair. From that
commanding position she studied the
scene, and very soon made out pretty
accurate account to her own mind Of
what had happened. Like a wise wom-
an she kept her secret and made profit
of it. She undertook, for a considera-
ton, to clear the premises of her neigh
bors of the pests, and succeeded. 1t
was not long before the town was as free
of this sort of vermin as if the pied piper
of Hamelin had travelled that way. Then
Mrs. Benedict advertised for agents to
work up the business throughout the
country, selling each the secret for a
fair price. She no longer devotes her
self to the making OF NEUROLOGICAL
deities, having done a much better stroke
of business in making plaster casts of
rats stomachs. She deserves a statue
in plaster with flour in due proportion.
~ T. EUeninq Post.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A COMPANY has been formed at Rock.
port, Tex, for the purpose Of doing a
large business in canning fish.
ACCORDING TO a recent patent, paper
may be rendered non-combustible by
treatment with a solution of silicate Of
soda.
IT is said that the soft bluestone rock
which underlies o Wide part of the prai-
rie region of Texas is fully 600 feet thick
at Sherman.
The longest recorded drought in
America is said TO have occurred in
1862. No rain fell from the 1st of May
to the LIST of September, period of 1913
days.
THE negatives of Muybridge's instan-
taneous photographs of moving animals
are taken during an exposure to the
images of only the 5,000th part of a
second.
BAsING his calculation upon the rate
at which the delta of the Mississippi is
deposited, Prof. Nudge reaches the CON
clusion that man has been on the earth
not less than 100000 years.
RECENT discoveries have shown the
interesting fact that the ancient Chal-
deans and ,Babylonians attributed
changes of the weather to lunar infu-
ence, and kept mp system of regular
observations of the moon for practical
purposes.
AT last a process has been perfected
by which the immense fields of coal dust
about the Pennsylvania mines can be
utilized as fuel. Mr. E. z. Loiseau has
succeeded in combining ninety-one rer
cent. of coal dust with nine per cent. of
pitch in egg-shaped Jumps that burn as
well as coal.
A GRAMNIE machine is being built for
a French establishment which, by the
electric current, will transmit over wires
to a considerable distance normal
power equivalent to that of ten horses,
with a large increase of power under
special conditions.
THE phylloxera was lately discovered
upon a wild vine of Panama, which
grows in forests far removed from local
tiles where tho cultivated grape is found.
This fact seems to confirm the opinion
that the destroyer of so many French
vineyards is of American origin.
AT a recent meeting of the French
Academy the subject Of the flight of in
sects was discussed by M. JOusset de
Bellesme, who stated that birds can, but
insects in general can not alter at will
the angle at which the wing is vibrated
(The muscles of insects are not inserted
in the wing, but in the piece of thorax
which supports them.) Direction of
flight is determined in insects by alter
ing the relative position of the center of
gravity and the axis of sustentation, the
former being most commonly displaced
in some cases by movements of the
abdomen; in others, of the elytra, in
others, of the balancers.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25

Some Of his addresses upon the cur.
rency question in this State could stand
as models of the popular discussion of
the usually dry details OF abstract prin.
ciples. To the fact that his share in the
proceedings of the Chicago Convention
brought into such strong relief his su-
periority in this field Of intellectual and
aesthetic activity was undoubtedly due
his choice as the candidate of the Re.
publican party for the highest honor in
its gift.
General Garfield is without an atom
of demagogism in his composition. His
force Of character stands as sentinel
against that enemy, and his record is
unmarried by any surrender of conyic-
tion. The writer sat in the gallery of
the House of Representatives on March
6, 1873, and listened to the well-remem-
bered words with which Mr.. Garfield
closed his protest against the repeal of
the Resumption act. The tide was
then setting strongly against sound
finance; sensible men had surrendered
to the heresies of the paper and silver
intiationists; in Congress a1d out ex-
pansion measures were popular, and the
public man who resisted them seemed
to invite political ruin. Under these
circumstances James A. Garfield said:
This is an issue Of such trnnscendent impor-
tanCe that II may render all others obsolete.
II Is struggle Of honor against dishunOr; Of
law against anarchy; struggle in which the
peace and safety OF both employer and en-
ployed, Government and people, may be in
YOved. In such contest / care not into what
party the issue lands me or I'm what company
i finds me; when II comes l shall stand with
n mn uyh f.NN fg.v
tuition and the faith Of the country.
The learning displayed in the ad-
dress which closed with these sentences
was striking, but the bravery and sim
ceritv of this utterance most profound
ly affected the audience. They proved
contagious then and helped greatly to
stimulate the Tagging ardor of the
friends of sound currency; they serve
now to strikingly illustrate the quality
of a moral courage from which no can
did man can withhold his praise.
The nomination of General Garfield
is strong on other than personal
grounds. He is popular in manners
and bearing. He is without personal
enemies among the influential men of
the party He will carry the State of
Ohio in the October election by ma
jority that will exercise no slight effect
upon the prospects Of the November
contest. Manifestly the argument of
availability" was also with his sup
porters at Chicago.
The name of the man Of whom these
things may be said without exagger-
alton the Post and TriJaneplaces at the
head of its columns with unaffected
pleasure. 1t can unreservedly commend
him to the enthusiastic support of its
readers. 1t does not doubt that the
Republican and the Independent vote
of the country will unite to applaud his
nomination, that his election will sure
ly follow, and that his Administration
will be pure, honorable, enlightened
and just.-DetroH Post and Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
Mr.. fairfield as Seen Through German
Spectacles.

james A. Garfield Is a self-made man
IN the fullest sense Of the word. In
Europe the most ridiculous, or rather
childish, notions prevail to-day relative
20 the American self-made man. The
Europeans firmly believe that the self
made man Of America is dragging
like the chick in the egg-shell AL the
indubitable aud indisputable tokens and
evidences oi his low birth or " humble
origin With and after him. They COM
pars him 10 the upstart In their own
country, who, although he forced him
self up 0y perseverance and intelli-
genee iniO high positions, always APP
pnars 10 the aIisiocratic world in q ridic-
ulous light because Of his lack Of re-
-oierohe and refined manner, and because
he never will be able 20 divest himself
entirely OF the outward marks and char
aeteristies Of the plebeian stock from
which he spiang. But the American
Belf-made man has cast of all marks
and labels Of his former trade. Whcth,
ne began his career as a iarmer-boy be.
hind the plOw, or q woOd-choppcr with
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
Outdoor Accomplishments.

IT is great pity that the whirligig of
fashion doesn't bring into more general
favor the flower-garden work of ladies
in the good old days of our grandmoth-
ers. 1t is such healthful, pretty and
fitting work for the girls, so rich in its
Sewards, and so stimulating in its rival
ries, that we can't understand how nor
NAL young women, who can command
their time and a patch of ground, can be
content to either do withOat the flowers,
or leave their care to "the man." Flow
er-culture ought to rank as real ac-
complishment, and might furnish a
pleasing and profitable vocation to many
women who are now stitching their lives
away at starvation wages with needle.
A fashion for producing the finest flow
ers would at least make an agreeable
variation to the mania for dabbling in
cart, " or doing fancy work, that is just
now spelling so much raw material and
making hypocrites and invalids of the
girls. They don't like it half so well as
they pretend to, most of them, and at
the best it is only another device for
cooping up our already over-confne6
American women.
Flower culture likewise affords pleas
ant relief from the house-work tread
mill. 1t is pretty much all the diversion
that many farmers wives know, and
they are wise to give much thought to
it. The taste, skill and industry of the
| daughters of the family can hardly be
put to a better use for the coming month
than in devising floral and vinal adorn-
ments for the home. If the porches
and verandas are not already provided
with vines, don't leave them bare an
other summer. How much finer than
any artificial adornment is the living
beauty of the woodbine's graceful
growth, and the brilliant colors of its
foliage in autumn! While you are watt
ing for this, plant and train morning
glories, honey-suckles, mountain-fringe,
or some of the pretty annual climbers.
A village or country home is shamefully
blind to is privileges that does not have
a vine-curtained porch in which to sit,
with its outstanding invitations to the
humming-birds, wrens, bumble-bees and
butterflies.
Then there is the arrangement of
flower-baskets to look after. For fifteen
to twenty cents each very serviceable
wire baskets can now be had; and a
half-dozen of them filed with expensive
vines and plants will 60 a great ways
toward rendering the door-yard and
house attractive. Or exercise your
skill in putting frames around old
tlower-pots--if you won't make them
too 90 rustic; !" we have seen concocted
and patched-up monstrosities that would
scare any timid flower within sight out
of blooming. The iower-beds deserve
separate preachment; but we can't
stop without renewing our word in favor
of clump of roses-not a struggling
bush here and there, but generous
bed that shall fill the whole air with
fragrance, and furnish the garden and
house with a succession of summer
beauty. Rose culture as an outdoor
avOcation for girls is at least worthy to
divide the time with croquet or "dress
parade" What do you think about itp
-Egchange.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25

PETER GRUB sold his share in an iron
mine at Cornwall, Pa, reserving the
right to enter the premises forever and
take therefrom sufficient ore for the
supply of one furnace. That was al
most hundred years ago, when iron
ore was smelted in a somewhat crude
fashion, and the average yield of a
furnace was 1000 tons year. That
was about the amount taken by Mr..
Grub annually during his lifetime. But
the process has been vastly improved
since then, and now furnace turns out
as much in a single month. The ques-
ton arose, of course, whether the heirs
of Grub were entitled to as much ore as
would supply an eighteenth or a nine
teenth century furnace. A lawsuit has
been in the courts for twenty-four years,
employing some of the ablest lawyers
in the State. The Supreme Court has
just decided, on appeal, that ore can be
taken in sufficiently to supply furnace
of the present time.