Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

produce a machine to tell a woman's
age.
To make money painter must
work very hard, and then die. A
picture sold by the late W. M. Hunt
for $500 has lately been resold for
$1,000.
The Prince of Wales is member
of almost every secret society in En-
gland, and can grip friends hand out
of joint in over nine hundred and sixty
different ways.
"A young Bostonian announced that
he was going to Leadville to engage in
hydraulic mining Yes" remarked a
friend, "you are going to seek the bub-
BILE reputation at the canyons mouth"
-" Leola" writes from Columbus,
Miss; ITO me there is not more
touching sight than that Of an old
couple. The slow, feeble steps, the
dim eye, the quiet, peaceful ways, call
for the greatest sympathy and defer
ence.n.
Miss Anne H. Brewster writes from
Rome that an English visitor to her
house asked; "Have you any ugly
women in the United StatesP For sure
ly only beautiful ones come to Europe
from your country" This story has
been told before.
-Pedestrianism sinks lower and low
er The man at the front in a Lead
vile fOotrace was dragged; at Hart
ford, the score of leader was set back
mile at time, and at Boston one con-
testant kicked another 50 severely as to
compel his retirement.
If you could only persuade your
worst enemy to sit down by your side
and dispassionately tell you just what
he thinks of you and why he thinks 80,
it would do you more good than all the
flattering and unmeaning praises Of q
thousand friends.-N y. Herald
From the London Times: "It may
be impossible to protect women against
every excessive strain that can be put
upon her working powers. It's at least
possible to protect her against doing
too much of such idiot-making work as
factory work in excess can hardly fail
to be-"
Every position in life has its cheer
full side. No man can go so far down
hill that the sun won't shine on some
part of the valley for at least an hour
in the day Think of the poor organ
grinder and take heart. "Ah," he said
to himself as he turned the awful crank
of that unmelodious instrument and
heard the pennies drop on the sidewalk,
elf hadn't studied music when l was
young 1 might now be a common beg
gar. "-EGchdnge.
Proverbs in New York NetOS: " An
swer not fool according to his folly"
but with due regard to his size and
temper. &" A man who beareth false
witness bends meath a grievous bur
den. A Just man falleth seven times"
and Justly curses his mean neighbor for
not sprinkling ashes on the pTecariOus
sidewalk. "The scorner is an abomi-
nation to men, and deservedly snubbed
by women. wicked man hardeneth
his face" which enables him to travel
on his cheek.
The citizens of San Francisco now
say that "the seals and sea lions must
gor' The latter are charged with hav-
ing used their legal immunity from
being killed at Seal Rock as a cover for
entering the Golden Gate and fearless
, ly fishing and sporting about the Oak
land wharf, where the city anglers drop
their lines with greatly-diminished
luck. A law is already in force against
the Chinese fishermen, and the Legisla-
, ture has been asked to repeal the law
protecting seals.
=. Prof Cunning, while lecturing on
D Darwinism to an Ohio audience, gave a
e history of the mole and the bat. "These
4. animals" he said, so diverse in traits
+. and structure, sprang from the same
1 ancestor. Some members of this ances-
e tral species fell into habit of climbing
e and springing. Generation after gem
e Grafton followed, and the sky-seeking
s propensity was at interest. The senses
| were growing quick. The bones of the
+ foot were growing long and slender. A
I fold of the skin was expanding and tax
b ing on the functions of u wing. At last
S the animal was IA bat"
The Segwin (Tex) Times furnishes
! another short chapter for the next book
on the reasoning power of dumb beasts,
or rather animals of the lowing, if not
of the lower, order: A COW browses in
the neighborhoOd of the Presbyterian
I church, and whenever the gate is left
. open during the services she makes her
entry into the beautiful lot around the
church, where the young grass is grow
ing vigorously. But, profitiAg by the
experience of few beatings at the
lands of certain good deacon who
closes up the church and gate after
service, she has learned that the doxol.
ogy and the rising of the congregation
are but the preludes to her punishment,
and hence, at that particular time, she
beats hasty retreat.
Mrs. Parker, of Glastonbury, writ
ing TO the WomGrl's Journal under the
signature of Julia E. Smith, says;
when these pet cows were first sold
little thoughtI should live to be brought
to that sign-post six times, besides be-
ing obliged to attend two other auctions,
one the sale of nearly all our meadow
land, worth two thousand dollars, for a
tax of fifty dollars, and the other bank
stock in the city of Hartford.
II is said that Mr., Parker will in future
be obliged to pay the taxes on my
property, and that shall be relieved
from such exciting auctions, but it does
not at all relieve my feelings, for pre-
fer to fight on my own hook. and let
the injustice fall upon one who for the
past six years has borne things hardly
bearable,"