Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-10
GENERAL.

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A NEW YORK girl has had one Of her
shapely hands modelled In marble, and
has presented II es a birthday present TO
bar aiiianced husband for a paper
weight.
Tue London Atbeneum, in comment
ing upon some American peculiarites,
says che "tender age at which children
in the United States begin TO live in pub
lie, TO make speeches and act parts is
very curious"
The Portland OTegonidn gives the par
tioulars Of an adventure with panther
at Myrtle Creek, Douglas County. The
hero Of the affair was Gus Byron, prin-
ter boy, only 16 years Of age. He fin
ished the brute in two shots.
The estate of an English miser named
Rhodes was lately wound up. It rea-
lized 100000. The sale Of his effects
in his residence resulted in S29.75. The
property goes 10 two ocharities-th Lon
don Free Hospital and the National Life
boat InstitutiOn.
A sPoRTIvE youth of Olean, N. Y,
pointed a revolver at q young lady's
head, and asked II she would be his for
ever, just for a little Joke, you know,
for he didn't know It was loaded
eyes, she said, dodging her head to
one side, Just in time to save her from
being killed, as a charge Of lead was
lodged in the wall behind her.
THE Central Park Commissioners of
New York City received petition from
George Francis Train, the other day,
asking for permission to put his feet on
the seats in the park. He stated that
the police had denied him that privi-
lege, and he wished TO know what law
prevents him from enjoying that liberty.
The communication was placed on file,
and George is in suspense as to whether
he is q vassal or a peer.
POLICEMAN EGoLF, of PHILADELPHIA,
1t usually accompanied on his rounds by
q big hound. Egolf went into a house
to arrest a man who was whipping his
wife, and was set upon by a number Of
roughs, knocked down, kicked and drag
ged about. Then the dog went into the
hght, and enabled his master to win.
But It was . hard struggle. The officers
skull was fractured and the dog had
three ribs broken. 't. 7'I''
TIE New York correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer gives some alleged
particulars Of the Grant Chaffee we'd
ding. He says that young Ulysses Grant
became engaged to Miss Chaffee at
Saratoga last summer; that Senator
Chnftee gave his daughter $400, 900 in
Government bonds as a wedding gift !;
and that young Grant never was engaged
to Miss Flood, although at one time he
was attentive to her. T
A FEW days ago the neighbors were
drawn to house on West Twenty-sixth
Street, New York, by the most frightful
cries. They found a woman named
Mrs. Hall standing over her youngest
child, who was stripped naked and
stretched upon table. With one hand
the mad mother held the struggling in
FAINT upon the table and with the other
she brandished a carving knife in the
air. She told the frightened people that
she and her whole family were going to
heaven. The child was rescued and the
woman soon after became calmer. She
had been made insane by the recent
death of her husband. ..l.. ii'
The museum of old guns and other
small arms at the Armory in Spring
field, Mass, is probably the fullest and
most curious of any in this country, ex-
cept the one at Washington. First in
the list of old guns is Wheelock rife,
wound up like clock, made by Cots
fed Fleming in 1920. On the lock-plate
Is a battle scene between Turks with
bows and arrows and Europeans with
swords. Another is curious Albanian
smootb-bore hint-lock used even to-day
by the Turkish mountaineers and peas
Rntry. An old Arab hint-lock has o
square piece Of ivory so fitted to the butt
Of the stock that the gun can be bal
aneed in an upright position in the
Arabs tent. One, a matchbox, made
in the fourteenth century, is the Oldest
gun in this country. II is discharged by
lighted tow or fax on the hammer,
drawn to the vent by hand.