Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-24
GENERAL.


NEW YORK threatens q revival Of
spelling bees.
ONLY three wooden shanties now
stand on the site Of the little hamlet
where jefferson was born, near Char
lottesville, Va.
THE Canadian Minister of Agriculture
Is said TO have submitted a scheme to
the English Government to aid Irish
people to emigrate to the Northwest.
THE newest design for scarf-pins is a
gold candlestick in which is set minia-
ture candle, having for its wick dia-
mond of size and brilliancy to suit the
taste and purse of the purchaser.
A MAGNIFICENT white oak stands in
the Quaker burying ground in Salem,
N. j. II is more than 200 years old,
and is remarkable for its amplitude of
shade. In one direction its branches
have a spread of 1l2 feet.
JACOB Francisco, with some friends,
unearthed fourteen copperhead snakes
near Carrollton, Ky, and was bitten by
one of them. His body swelled TO an
enormous size, and, although kept dosed
with medicines, he suffered much until
his death.
The new street coaches in Philadel-
phia are pronounced a great success.
They 90 full all the while, are more
comfortable than cars or stages, each
passenger is sure of a seat, and the
routes are so varied that, by transfers,
any part of the city may be readily
reached. Those now in use hold eight
persons, and are drawn by one horse.
Additional ones are to be of double size,
for two horses.
SMITHLAND CHAMBER, the father of
a family living in Barren County, Ky,
weighs only 1870 pounds, and his wife
weighs only 1l2 pounds. But they have a
six-year-old daughter that weighs 230
pounds, who is about as tall as other
girls of her age, but measures eighty
four inches around the waist. A son
died when about five years old, weigh
ing 200 pounds, and some younger
members of the family are growing fat
rapidly.
A GERMAN fashion now being rapidly
adopted by Americans is that of be-
Erothal parties. They are given by the
parents of the bridegroom-elect, who,
with his fiancee, dressed in bridal attire,
receives the guests; congratulations are
In order, and the whole formality of a
wedding is gone through, except the
clergyman's share of it, which comes a
few months later, when he is introduced
into the scene.
THE power of imagination was re-
Gently shown in the case of woman in
the New Haven General Hospital, who
had been in the habit of taking NOR
phine in the form of sleeping drops"
She was given morphine for the first
few times, and then water in bottle
labeled "sleeping drops" She at first
complained that thus was too strong, so
it was reduced, and she took it nearly a
month, sleeping well when she took it
and not at all when it was withheld.
The grounds of the Duke of Devon
shire, at Chatsworth, in England, are
nine miles in circuit, including hill and
dale and fine prospect. They were laid
out by Loudon and Paxton, and are Gel
ebrated for their trees, shrubs, rock work,
deer and water-works, only surpassed
by those of Versailles. The conservatory
is unrivaled in Europe; it covers nearly
an acre, measures 800 by 145 feet, Is 60
feet high, has 10000 square feet of glass,
and carriage road through it.
EVEN the wealthy Hindoos can not
find good domestic servants. One of
them writes: "The good servants are
gone who used to know how to hold
your umbEella over your head, pour the
water over your hands after meals, and
exaggerate your resources before your
friends. This fine class of men has dis
appeared, and a degenerate species of
epidemic-stricken, unframed young bar
barians has taken their place. They
plumber you when sent to the bazaar;
they steal your clothes, your rice; and
they are so greedy that they lick off the
very sirup from the surface of your
sweetmeats."