Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-18
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took part In the War OF 1872, the MeNi-
can War, and the late civil war.
In Germany man who has been
locomotive engineer for thirty years has
just been retired on a pension, and the
people Of his native town propose Civ
ing him reception.
A Moscow correspondent Of the
Cologne Gazette describes the misery
andsstarvation prevailing in the south
and southeast Of Russia as unknown in
the memory of man. No food Is TO be
got for the horses and cattle for any
money, and the animals are conse-
quently dying everywhere Of starvation
in the Trausural Steppes and the Don
Steppes.
A CONDUCTOR on q Pennsylvania
railroad collected fare from lady
few days since. After he passed on she
remarked to a companion with her: 81
wonder why he charged me this time;
he never has before" The General
Superintendent of the road was seated
in the seat behind her. The conductor
is now taking a vacation, and has plenty
Of time to reflect upon the policy Of
passing lady friends gratis.
ANDREW AIMERs, who was supposed
to be the Oldest printer in Great Britain,
died at Edinburgh two or three weeks
ago. He retired from work only two
years ago, after having been compost
tor for seventy-two years. He was long
in the employment of Mr.. Ballantyne,
the friend of Sir Walter Scott, and as
sisted in setting up the Waverley Nov.
els. He was one of the persons who
kept the secret of the authorship so care
fully.
A CURIOUS car on the Boston and AL.
bany Railroad is provided with various
devices for testing speed, strains,
distractions, resistance, and other mat
ters connected with the running OF
trains. Different pens, attached to in
genious machinery, record the distance
and time, the slips of the driving wheels
on the rails, the exact elevation of the
outside rail at every curve, and many
other points of valuable information in
practical railroading.
JAMES KINGsBURY went into a Provi-
dence gambling room with $4,000 in
his pocket and an overdose of whisky in
his stomach. His drunkenness enabled
the sharpers to get his money quickly.
After taking $1,000 by q pretense of
winning it, they resorted to the more
simple mode of grabbing it by the hand
ful. A characteristic feature of the
case was that one of the gamblers, who
secured 81 800, had, when arrested, lost
all but $500 playing against Boston
faro bank.
AMAsA WILsEY, of Petaluma, CAL,
dreamed last fall that he would die on
/ hn
him, though he affected to attach no i'm
portance to it, and he Joined three life
Insurance societies, so as to leave his
wife provided for in case of his death.
On May he was apparently in perfect
health. A dinner was to have been
given to him in the evening, to celebrate
his escape from fulfllment of the dream.
The party had just gathered, when he
fell from his chair stricken by heart dis
ease, and died in a few minutes.
JOHN and George Bond, brothers, fell
in love with Miss Whitney, the daugh-
ter of their landlady, at Denver. She
cared very little for either, but encour-
aged both, and they became Jealous of
one another. George lost his position
as clerk in a store, and had time to stay
in the house with the girl. John imme-
diately abandoned work, so as to keep
even with his rival They courted Miss
Whitney, she testified, about sixteen
hours day. Then she Tilted them, and
engaged herself to marry Mr.. Smith.
The brothers promptly combined to
whip Mr.. Smith half 10 death, and that
was what made the matter public in
police court.
THE New York State Fish Commits
sioners are advocating the culture of
carp. The experiments at the Govern
ment ponds in Washington have been
very successful, fish that were put in
there three years ago having grown
much larger than in Europe under the
same circumstances. They are an easy
fish to raise. Any kind of pond, no
matter how restricted, can be used.
Providing that the water is not too cold,
carp thrive, no matter how impure it is.
| No natural water has been found too
warm for them. They thrive on plants
| growing in the water, on boiled grain,
or even offal. A pond may be dug in
arabic land and used for three or four
years as a carp pond, after which the
land may be again cultivated. They are
excellent table fish,
AN example of the truth of the phrase.
"the man who hesitates is lost" was
given at Ottawa, Canada, the other day.
A scow broke away from tug Just
above the Chandiere Falls Two men
were on board, and it was evident to the
Mortified observers that only by Jump
ing at once and swimming for the boom
could they be saved. One man imme-
diately sprang into the boiling current,
and by desperate efforts reached the
boom and was hauled up into place of
safety. The other was so terrified at the
dreadful alternatives presented to him
that he hesitated five seconds and then
jumped. Those few seconds cost him
his life. The swift current carried the
struggling man over the falls and he
disappeared forever.
THE number of the Transactions of the
Chronological Society of Great Britain
for March contains photograph Of
curious Hindoo bas-rehef, representing
a group of monkeys engaged in extract
ing a mans tooth. The unfortunate In
dividual is bound, and the tooth is held
In the grasp of very primitive-looking
extracting intrument (resembling some
what the large claw of crustaoean), to
which a small elephant is attached by
means of tackles. The piece of sculp-
ture was found in a ruined temple near
Allahabad, known as the Stupa OF Bhar-
but, and was more than 1900 years old,
the temple having been built about the
year 200 B. @,
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