Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
IT has been decided in England that
bicycle is not carriage the owner Of
which shall pay toll
A BANK share Of stock was transfer
red in Providence, II, l., the other day,
which had remained in one name since
1895.
The Island Of Madagascar is nearly
four times as large as England and
Wales. Its largest river is 800 miles
long.
THE universal material sor mems
and boys suits in Scotland is the cele-
brated BannoCkburn cloth" so called
from the factories which now turn il out
in immense quantities on the site Of the
famous battlefield.
PRoF. NoRDENsKJoLD thinks that a
voyage along the northern coast of
| Siberia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean, might be performed by a steam
er especially fitted out, and that the
voyage would occupy only a few
weeks.
Mrs. AUGUSTUS w. BROOKS, of East
Elliott, Me-, has q cat thirteen years
| old, which walks around a room on her
hind legs only, dances, turns somer-
saults, goes through the motions of
holding jewsharp to her mouth with
one paw and playing on it with the
other, kisses her paw TO visitors, and
holds a saucer of milk on her fore legs
while she drinksit.
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Phil
adelphia to a London periodical that
when child he saw in Burlington
County, N. j., a tree, the trunk of
which had divided into two parts, which
rejoined short distance above.
Through the opening created it was
customary to pass ruptured Children, in
the belief that they would thereby be
cured. 1t appears from "White's
Selborne" " that the custom was in vogue
in his parish.
THE report from the Central Park
(New York; Menagerie shows that
among the animals that died during the
year was a Polar bear, which perished
from bronchitis. 1t is indeed a sad
commentary on our climate, says the
Herald, that an animal which could
range the icy wilderness of the Arctic
regions should be brought so far away
from home to our health-giving "
Park only to get bronchitis and die.
This will prevent Russians from coming
to our country, for fear they may catch
cold.
SELECTMAN SHELDON, of Whining
ton, Mass, is reported to be something
Of a bird-charmer. Walking with a
friend the other day he saw three par
tridges feeding on the ground, and said
| TO him: You see those birds; / am
going to charm one of them" Upon
this he steadtastly fixed his eyes upon
one Of the birds, and advanced quietly
toward it. The bird appeared to be
fascinated, and instead of flying away
with its companions, remained on the
ground, steadily returning Mr.. Shell
don's gaze, who advanced silently, laid
his hand uponit, and lifted it up.
A BREWER of Baravian beer had some
accident which made 800 tuns of beer
utterly unfit for use. The brewery
drain was being repaired, and the beer
all ran into the pond In a few hours
the whole surface of the pond was no
ticed swarming with big and little fish.
| They all behaved in the most eccentric
manner. Thousands of them lay quiet-
| ly upon their sides, as if to await their
recovery; others were rapidly swim
ming and turning about in small circles,
while thousands again would remain
stationary, Just holding the tops of their
heads out of the water, as if to snap up
the air. The surface of the water APP
peared quite dark by the number of fish
with which the lake was stocked.
JAY GOULD has surveying party at
work establishing route for his pro-
posed Wyoming and Montana Branch
Of the Union Pacific with spur to the
Hills, one hundred miles of which will
be completed this year. In anticipa-
ton of this event.. the Sidney Stage
Company is preparing to switch its line
upon the Cheyenne route to run from
Deadwood to the end of the track,
which will enable them to reduce the
distance repeatedly during the summer.
The change will be made May /. The
Bismarck Company is preparing to
withdraw from its present northern
route, and establish new route be-
tween Fort Pierre, which is about
seventy-fve miles shorter than the
present one-or two hundred alto
gether and which will give them three
direct eastern connections-via boat To
Yankton, Sioux City and all southern
points, and the Chicago and the North
western and Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul to the east.