Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
msCELLANEOus ITEMS.

"A favorite lace pin represents rose
geranium leaves in green-tinted gold.
The trouble with the midnight cat
| Is not so much that 1t cannot sing as
that it firmly believes it can.
--"My wife's grand study says
French writer lis TO know what don't
know and to do what can't do"
Scientific men tell us that the earth
is but a crust, and every live man wants
TO belong to the upper crust.-M o.
Piodyune.
"A Southern physician has written a
pamphlet 10 show that, as he believes,
limestone-built cities are healthy, and
have no record of malarial diseases.
"A Spaniard in Spain takes off his
hat and gives a salute when he is enter
ing car, and when he addresses a
friend or a stranger he throws open his
cloak. EHus
Young man, If it's eleven o'clock,
and she goes to the piano and plays q
few bars Of "The Sweet Bye and Bye"
you may consider the seance over for
the night.
---Hariio Gondosiwoiio is the reign
/ ing Prince of Sura Karta in the Island
of Java. See here, you old heather,
what Java name like that for.-ReO-
bub Gate city.
-"When l was young" said Mrs.
Scoldwell to her little girl, II used to
love my dear mamma too well to act as
you do" "And did your mamma"
replied Bertha, quickly, fused to be all
the time telling you what she did when
she was a girlP"
There is no sense in trying to ex-
cuse your faults by saying that they are
! inherited You are responsible, and
no one else, for the evil that is in you.
You might as well excuse yourself for
having woode1 leg by declaring that
II runs in the family.
49," What's in namem All, Will
liam, you didn't know everything. That's
certain. Salt can be bought for n few
cents quart, but call it chloride of
sodium, and the apothecary will mulct
you TO the tune of half a dollar for one
poor scruple. Boston Transcript
"A Paris widow, with a daughter
fifteen years old married a Paris wild
over with daughter twenty years old.
The relations of step-mother and step
daughter were extremely and unprece-
dentedly cordial When they spoke to
each other the former always said, af-
fectionately, "My elder daughters" and
the latter, "My younger mother"
-" Ouida" has recently effervesced
as follows: "The horse is slave; the
most innocent, the most forgiying, the
most useful, and the most generous
slave that earth has ever seen. In tho
vast clamor for liberty that is thunder
ing through the various tribuRes of
Europe at this epoch wish that man
kind would remember the thraldrom of
this nOblest of all serfs."
"A school-bell may not be heard by
the boy in the next lot, while the faint
est sound of the dinner-bell will be read
lily caught by man who is digging po-
tatoes in an adjoining township. .-HeO-
kub Gate city. And we have known
the tone of belle to attract man into
neighboring county once in two
weeks, but after he became in posses
sion of said belle he could not hear
when asked for three dollars and a
half TO go shopping. GoWanda Enter-
prIss.
Speakers should be careful in Civ
ing leading questions, especially to
children. A teacher asked his schools:
with what remarkable weapon did
Samson at one time slay number of
PhilistinesP" For awhile there was no
answer; and the teacher to assist the
children o little, commenced tapping
his jaw with the tip of his finger, at
the same time CRYING, What's thisP
what's thisP" Quick as thought, one
little fellow innocently replied, 1.-The
jaw-bone of an ass, sir"
The repeated failures to find per-
sons guilty Of poisoning by arsenic
doubtless arises from the fact, when
women are the assumed victims of poi
soning by that drug, that the latter had
been In the habitual use of the mineral
poison for the purpose Of improving the
complexion and adding to the rotundity
Of the figure, and by the accumulation
of small doses Of arsenic had led to the
post mOrtem appearances in the stom-
Aoh, which led to the erroneous conclu-
siOns arrived at by chemical experts
Eastern Exchange.
In Paris the pretty ribbon dance
has been introduced for the amusement
of c hildren Mt parties. Eight long rib
bons OF different cOlors are attached to
n ring in the ceiling. Four boys and
four girls, each dressed to match his own
ribbon, hold the ends of these. BY the
movements Of the dance the ribbons are
woven together in dexterous manner.
Then, by another series of pretty mo-
tions, they are separated again. and the
players brought back to position. The
graceful measures are pleasing to the
children and the effect of the bright
colors very picturesque.
Competition is the life of naviga-
ton down ON the st, Johns River in
Florida. They are having a slight
steamboat war in that LEGALITY Just now.
From Jacksonville to Palatka the dis
tance is seventy-live miles and the
regular fare is three dollars. Now you
can go from one place to the other for
twenty-five cents. Enterprise is 1856
miles further up, and that distance can
now be travelled for seveny-five cents.
This is cheap enough travelling to suit
anybody. Two hundred and eleven
miles for one dollar, with meals and
sleeping Accommodations thrown in. 1t is
cheaper down there TO travel all the
time on the steamers than to board
even ut second-class hotels. Detroit
Free Press.