Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-02
GENERAL.

! A SHAKER lady known as "Aunt Dol
w. living at Mount Lebanon, N. Y, Is
one hundred and four years old.
CAsH-GIRLs in New York stores are
paid 81 so week, and some Of them 81
after years Of experience.
SIR JAMES HANNEN, Of the British
bench, has decided that Kansas divorce
is Intellectual to dissolve q marriage con-
tracted by two English subjects domi-
ciled in England.
A NEW YORK correspondent tells an
interesting story about four women who
90 10 dinners and receptions TO talk and
to help the hostess entertain her guests.
The price for their services is S25 an
hour.
SECRETARY SHERMAN's new dwelling
in X Street in Washington has front
of twenty-seven feet and a depth of sew
enty-five feet. II is built of brick, with
rich and elaborate stone finishing, and
will cost about $25,000.
DURING a recent sermon the church
of the Rev. Thomas X. Beecher in Elmi-
ra, N. Y, was connected with Williams
port, Pa, seventy eight miles away, by
telephone, and the words Of the minister
and the music were distinctly heard.
THE Philadelphia School of Design
has just sent out a gown of white Chinese
silk embroidered in pansies, and the
gown has been made up with blue
velvet underdress, and blue buttons
hand-painted with tiny bouquets.
A LATE number of the Woman $
Journal has sensible and slightly saw
age article about women who cry. The
writer has q distaste for the " frivolous
crying" of women. Some ladies rather
pride themselves on their capacity for
shedding tears.
The Empress Eugenie proved herself
10 be very good sailor during her voy-
age to the Cape. She never missed ap-
pearing at table, though for many days
she was the only lady Of the party who
did so. She is said to have endeared
herself to every one on board.
THE women Of Maryland, in old
colonial times, were described by To-
cal chronicler as extremely bashful
at the first view, but after continuance
of time hath brought them acquainted
there, they become discreetly familiar,
and are much more talkative than men. -
LUMBERMEN report that the spruce
trees are dying by hundreds in the Maine
forests. A worm is eating the life out
of the trees. Pine timber near the
streams, it is said, is most a thing of the
past, and it is feared that the Maine
lumber trade will decline greatly within
the next ten years.
Mr.. HUNTINGTON, the artist, recently
painted three-quarter length portraits
of Commodore Garrison and his young
wife. The portraits cost $1,000. Mrs
Garrison is represented as wearing all
her diamonds, including the costly neck.
lace which her husband purchased fol
her while in Europe last summer.
THE boys in the Home for Little
Boys at Pennington, England, are
placed out in various situations wheE
they have reached the age of fourteen
years. They have printing Office Of
their own; tailors', shoemakers' and car.
penters' shops; and they assist in bak.
ing their own bread and washing theil
own linen.
THE use of maize in French "brandy'
distilleries has become so great as tc
ruin the French export trade in brandy
The excellence of French brandy lay in
its origin-it was distilled wine. People
Justly say they prefer cheap American
whisky in its transatlantic. form to very
dear American whisky labelled "Frencl
Brandy"
THE tons of Paris green that have beei
used by New Jersey and Long IslanC
farmers in the destruction of potat,
bugs it is supposed would rid them o
the pest for this season. But the bug
appear in greater numbers than eve
before, and, to make it more serious
have adopted a new plan of attack
They cluster around the vine before i
has shown above the drill, and feed upol
ituntil the seed rots. In uncovering drill
. where the crop has been too lon,
sprouting hundreds of young bugs ar
found clustered around the tende
stalks.
l In the far West, near the Mexican
5 border, the skunk is not satisfied to b
3 let alone, but If, in his nocturnal wan
/ derings, he finds cabin door open an,
! the inmates sleeping on the floor, h,
t has the peculiar habit of biting as man,
noses as he can reach. Six persons hav
been bitten in the vicinity of Nine-Mile
Bottom. One of the victims, a Spanisl
) woman, died with all the symptoms o
, hydrophobia, except that she made NJ
= effort TO bite others. She suffered in
I tensely and called for water, the sigh
. of which would throw her into convul
D sions. A little girl who was bite
. three years ago is i'll every year on tn
recurrence Of the season when the &C
+ cident befell her.