Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-01
GENERAL.

MAGNOLIA, N. G., isa fragrant place.
A resident there has 2S4 900 tuberoses
In bloom.
THE eastern part Of Central Africa Is
b be explored and Italian interests
maintained there.
THE Chang family are the Smiths Of
China, and I'll almost half the space in
the Celestial city directories.
1T Is estimated that one Of the fallen
stalagmites in the Luray Cave Of Yir-
ginia was forty centuries In forming.
GEORGE TUCKER, an inmate Of Au-
burn IN. ~ Prison, has just inherited
$4,000. His sentence will expire In
1885.
A COLONY Of 5000 German Men
nonites from Southern Russia is 10 settle
In Delaware, where 5000 acres Of land
have been bought for Il.
THREE men we're about TO cut water
melon in a saloon at Athens, Ca, when
II exploded with a loud noise, sending
fragments flying all over the room. One
man had an eye destroyed by the eX-
plosion.
A NEWPORT woman at q prayer meet
ing turned to her husband and whis-
pered: "Father is very sick, and we
must 60 home" Though they had left
him we'll, it was only by the most active
exertions that he was kept from dying
Of cholera morbus.
IN cutting down a large willow tree
in the old town cemetery at Newburgh,
N. Y, a few days ago, marble foot
stone was found imbedded in the trunk
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The tree in growing had picked up the
toot-stOne and drawn it from the earth.
WHEN Gambetta delivers a speech he
pronounces two hundred and thirty TO
two hundred and forty words a minute.
An ordinary speaker pronounces only
about one hundred and eighty words in
the same time. Lord Macaulay used TO
pronounce three hundred and thirty
words in a minute.
A MULE belonging 10 n. F. johnson,
Of Cecil County, Maryland, lost his
tongue the other day in a rather novel
way. He was hitched to q rail on which
straw was hauled from the threshing
machine. 1t was necessary 10 hold
tight rein upon him, and the snafile bit
being well-wOrn, cut his tongue in two
as neatly as a surgeons knife.
MARIE MAsCAL took walk in New
Orleans with a rival of the man whom
she was soon to marry, in order to tell
him that he must cease his attentions.
Her afiianced husband saw them to-
gether, and, refusing to hear her ex-
PLANTATION, peremptorily broke his en-
gagement. She therefore desired to
die, and tried to throw herself before a
locomotive, but she slipped on some
wet grass, and only lost a leg. Her
lover is now convinced of her loyalty,
and will marry her.
A BLIND beggar was in the habit of
frequenting the POnt des Sts. Peres,
France, where he used to station him
self with clarinet and a very intelli-
gent poodle. Contributions poured
freely into the little wooden bowl which
the dog held in his mouth. One dav
the blind man, who had reached an adj
vanced age, was not to be seen. He
had fallen i'll. His companion, how
ever, continued to frequent the accus-
toned spot, and the passers by, to
whom he was familiar, understood that
his master was unwell and, touched by
his fidelity, dropped their pence into his
bowl in increased numbers. The beg
gar went the way of all flesh, an event
which the willy poodle carefully kept TO
himself until he also became an absentee
from the Pont des SITS. Peres. The poor
animal was found lying dead in a cellar
near his former masters abode, a sum
of 10000 francs in bonds of the Orleans
Railway being discovered under the lit
ter on which he was stretched.