davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Horticulture.

RooM-GARDENING has progressed
probably faster than many other
branches of gardening. 1t is not neces-
sary to have the tender things that re-
quire skillful greenhouse treatment.
There are numberless green things
which require little heat and are not
afraid of shade that will grow well in
windows, and in their rugged health are
far preferable to elegant inYalids so
often petted TO so little purpose. Many
kinds of ANIMALS also come well into
play; among other things phlox Drum
mondn, sweet alyssum, collinsia bicolor,
schizanthuses, mignonette and nemo-
phela. Fuchsias, after being exhausted
with blooming, should have the ter
minal shoots of all their branches clip
ped off then set aside for two or three
weeks; giving very little water; then
repot in soil composed of well deeom.
posed leaf mold, mixed with sprinkle
OF good garden soil, few rust nails
and layer of charcoal ut the bottom
of the pot to secure good drainage. In
fow weeks new shoots full of flower
buds viii start off, growing rapidly.
A good way TO keep cut flowers fresh
is to lay them in wet cloths. Take
them out of the vases at night, sprinkle
with cold water, and wrap them in
cloths made very wet with cold water.
The weight of the cloth win not crush
the most delicate flowers, while II keeps
out the air and prevents their falling TO
pieces or opening further. Rose-cut
tings, as well as those of the oleander
| and many other plants, root freely in
bottles OF soft or rain water.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

cheeks until she fairly yelled. He
knockt her down and he stamped on
her shameful. She beloved, she bleat-
ed like a calf, she howled like hound,
she squealed like pig, she shrieked
like a rat, and then he wouldn't let her
up. He ran quarter stretch down the
low grounds of the base, till he got
clean in the bowels of the earth, and
you heard thunder galloping after thun.
der, through the hollows and caves of
perditiOn; and then he fox-chased his
right hand with his left till he got way
out of the treble into the clouds, war
the notes was finer than the pints of
cambric needles, and you couldn't hear
nothin' but the shadders of 'em. And
then he wouldn't let the old pianner 90.
He for'ard two'd, he crost over first
gentleman, he chassade right and left,
back to your places, he all hands'd
aroun', ladies to the right, promenade
all, in and out, here and there, back and
forth, up and down, perpetual motion,
double twisted and turned and tackled
and tangled into forty-eleven thousand
double bow knots.
by jinks it was a mixtery. And then
he wouldn't let the old pianner 90. He
fecht up his right wing, he fecht up his
left wing, he techt up his center, he
feet up his reserves He fired by file,
he fired by platoons, by company, by
regiments, and by brigades lie opened
his cannon-siege guns down thar, Ma
poleons here, twelve Founders yonder-
big guns, little guns, middle-sized guns,
round shot, shells, shrapnels, grape,
canister, mortar, mines and magazines,
every livin' battery and bomb a-goin' at
the same time. The house trembled,
the lights danced, the walls shuk, the
floor come up, the ceilin' come down,
the sky split, the ground rOkt-heavens
and earth, creation, sweet potatoes,
Moses, ninepences, glory, ten-penny
nails, Sampson in a 'simmon tree,
lump, Tompson in a tumbler-cart,
roodle-oodle-oodle oodle-ruddle-udd
uddle-uddle - le-addle-addle-addl
-riddle-iddle-iddle.iddle e-reedle-eedle-
eedle-eedle-p-r-r-r-rlangl Bangl lang
perlangl p-r-r-r-r-rl Bangll!
With that bang! helifted himself bod.
lily into the ar and he come down with
his knees, his ten fingers, his ten toes,
his elbows, and his nose, striking every
solitary key on the pianner at the same
time. The thing busted and went of
into seventeen hundred and fifty-sever
thousand five hundred and forty-two
heme-demi-semi quivers, and | know'd
no mo'.-Jhe quarterly EiOCutioniSt.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

ball and vane, fifteen miles. This must
have been kept suspended in the air by
the ascending currents twenty 10 thirty
minutes. If saturated air at a tenn
perature of thirty degs. at surface as.
cends with velocity of fifty meters per
second, rain 10 the amount of 1.2 milli-
meters per second fall from the first
1900 meters of altitude-equivalen to
0.3 inch per minute, or eighteen inches
per hour. At such rate, If the tornado
could be kept over the same spot for a
short time from any cause, it would be
called a cloud-burst. Athigher attitudes
than 1000 meters, it may be supposed
that the vapor and rain is scattered out
from the center and falls over larger
area. But rain may not only fall from
clouds at this enormous rate, but an inn
mense amount may be kept suspended
in the air by current of about thirty
three feet per second. OF course the
amount of rain kept so suspended in
creases the pressure in the center, and
so much diminishes the force and ener-
gy of the tornado. Our assumed We
locity of fifty meters per second arises
from difference of pressure of less than
fifteen millimeters. Suppose now rain
enough was contained in the cloud to
reduce this difference to five millimeters.
This would require rain to the depth of
1876 millimeters, more than five inches.
The difference of pressure of two milli-
meters yet remaining would give an as
cending current of about thirty-two
meters per second, which is four times
more than is necessary to keep the rain
suspended in the air. II now, for any
reason, the whole system should be sud-
denly broken up, as, for instance, when
the tornado strikes against a mountain
side, and the ascending current by
which the five inches of rain is kept sus-
pended is suddenly cut off, of course the
whole amount would drop to the earth
in a short time.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Fijian Burial Customs.

AT the meeting of the Anthropolcgi-
cal Institute, General Lane Fox presid-
ing, paper by the Rev. Lorimer Fison,
entitled "Notes on Fijian Burial Gus
TOMS" was read. The author observed
that there was no uniformity of funeral
customs in Fiji. The strangling of
widows, however, was everywhere
practiced in order that they might be
buried with their husbands. In some
cases ladies of rank volunteered to offer
themselves for strangulation, but gem
orally it was practiced on the "watina
lalai'' or "little wives.' The opera
tion was, in most cases, performed by
the wifes brother, who is treated sub
sequently with marked respect by the
husbands kinsfolk. In some parts of
the island the death Of the chief was
kept profound secret in order to save
his goods from plunder, in supposed
accordance with a communistic notion
which prevailed in those parts of the
Fiiian group. The idea also existed
among a certain class of the natives
that it was not until decomposition had
made considerable progress that the
body of the dead man was fairly done
with. With many of the tribes not only
the fact of death, but subsequently the
burial-place of their chief, was kept a
profound secret, lest those whom he
had injured during his lifetime should
dig up dishonor and even eat his body.
The general plan of sepulture appeared,
according to Mr.. Fison's description, to
he that of a cave, in which the body
was frequently placed before life was
extinct, but which was not closed up
until the person was supposed to be
dead. In some parts stone collins were
used, and in one particular island a
mausoleum was erected to be subse-
quently covered with clean sea sand.
The author mentioned several customs
which were based on the hypothesis
that the dead mans spirit was ferried
over the river or the sea. Moreover,
nearly all the customs were based on
the assumption that the departed spirit
would return to annoy his old enemies
if means were not taken by securing
his body to prevent it.-London Stand
q Td
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Play Gently, Boys!

WHILE waiting for a lady on whom l
called the other day, to come in, look
ed through a photograph-album which
was lying upon the table.
The face of young lad was so bright
and happy, i looked at it long time.
The eye was large and very clear, the
brow broad and smooth. 1t was lust
one of those faces that 90 with pleas
ant manner and voice with a CHEEKY
ring in it. When the lady came in 1
turned back to it and asked if he were
her son. The quick tears and the
trembling of her lip gave me the sad
answer before she spoke a word.
At length she told me all about it,
and l viii write it for you:
He was a bright and a good boy, al
ways cheerful, pleasant and obedient,
and 50 was very happy himself and
made his parents very happy.
One bright summer day, he, with
some mates, was playing croquet under
the trees, when the first school-bell
rang. The mother was sitting by the
window, and saw them quickly put
away the mallets and hasten to school.
Willie looked up and gave her a smile
and nod as he passed the window. And
she wondered within herself if it were
a mothers love that made him look so
handsome and so noble to her, or if he
were really the iinest-looking boy OF
all. And then she thought of all his
goodness and love, and what blessing
he was now to his parents, and what a
staff and comfort he would be in the
old age that was creeping on them.
She did not see him again until he
came to tea. He did not eat much-in-
deed there is not much to eat in a cOun-
try tea, only bread in some form, but
ter, some little relish, and bit of
cake. He went out after it and lay
down in the hammock under a tree,
and it was nearly dark before he came
in. Then he said
Somehow, feel very tired, and my
head aches. I'll 90 to bed"
" You have played too hard this hot
day, haven't you?'
"I expect so. When l came out Of
school some of the fellows were playing
toss-and-pitch, and little stone one Of
them threw hit my head, and it made
me blind minute; then it didn't hurt
any, but it aches worse and worse"
Inc lnOIneT GNdullnGu Il6 uGdu, Du
could find no bump, so bathed it all
He smiled YEARLY, kissed her, and wen
to sleep. How little, rather how not
at-all, She dreamed it was her darling
boys last-JdSt kiss!
She told his father and he went up
but Willie was asleep, and the father
thought he would be "all right in the
morning." and went out.
About an hour after, the mother wen
up. He was tossing and turning, anC
rocking his head, with a low moan
moan, moan. AS she looked, a sligh
spasm passed over his face. She sen
at once for a physician. Soon the dea
child was in fearful spasms, and befort
midnight he was dead.
The bone back of and nearthe ca
was fractured by that tiny stone.
was told this more than year ago
and last week lady from another tow
told me of two brothers playing snow
ball, and one threw a bit of ice tina
struck the other behind the ear, and h
lived but twelve hours.
So | write in warning to happy, play
full boys, and close as began-Pid
gently.--MrS. Lucy E. Sanford, M N
] Y Observer
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Climate and Complexion.

THERE is a great diversity of opinion
as to the reason of the differences OF
complexion to be observed among man
kind. Roughly speaking, the hue of the
skin varies with the latitude, and fairer
races having their homes at distance
from the equator; the darker, within or
near the tropics. This fact would seem
to point to the position of the sun with
reference to those on whom he shines as
the cause. But the question presents
difficulties which this suppositiOn does
not aid us to solve. At the same dis
tance from the equator we find the fair
Englishman, the yellow Mongol and the
copper-colored Indian. To the north of
the white Russian and Finn live the
swarthy Lapp and SamOyed, North of
the Caucasus are dark-skiRned Tartars,
south of it fair-complexioned Circassi-
ans, The aborgines of America vary
less in color than the natives of the Old
World. None of them are as fair as the
Swede, none as black as the negro Of
Congo, and those living in Brazil on the
equator are not the darkest. There are
blacker men in Australia and New
Guinea than in Borneo and Sumatra,
though these islands are on the equator
and those are not. The Shillooks of the
Upper Nile, who live about ten degrees
north latitude, are blacker than the
Monbuttoo who are six degrees farther
south.-Populdr Science Monthly.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
The GeOdetic Union OF Europe and
Africa.

THE important work of connecting
the systems OF triangulation covering
Western Europe and Northern Africa
was consummated in the latter part of
October last. Preparations for it had
been going on for several years under
the direction of Gen. Ibanez and M
Perrier, acting respectively for the gov
ernments of Spain and France.
Four mountain heights were selected
for signaling operations, namely, Null
hacen and Tetica, in Spain (the former
being the highest in that country, and
Fihaoussen and M'Sabiha, between
Oran and the frontier of Morocco. 1t
was decided not to trust alone to solar
signals, but also to employ the electric
light at night, and the event fully justi-
fled this resolve, for the solar signals
totally failed, being seen neither in Spain
nor Algeria. The difficulties of the en-
terprise, then, will be obvious on con-
sideration, for to produce the electric
light with sufficient intensity it was
necessary to have recourse to electro
magnetic apparatus driven by steam en-
gines, and the problem was that of haul
ing up Gramme machines, engines of
six horse power, and various instru-
ments, to SUBMITS of 1000 to 5000
meters height, making roads on these
desert mountains, organizing supplies
of water and fuel, and finally providing
accommodation and sustenance at each
station for twenty to one hundred men
and fifteen or twenty beasts. There
was a military guard attached to each
station lin Algeria especially this was
necessary, and the soldiers worked
in roadmaking, etc. The time open
for operations was short between the
intense heat and the early SHOWS. On
August % all were at their posts
Colonel Barraquer on MNlhacen, Major
Lopez on Tetica, Captain Bassot on
Filhaoussen, and NJ. Perrier onM Sabiha.
But in vain were solar signals sent by
day and electric by night; the vapors
from the mediterranean proved imper-
vious to the beams. Atlength, however,
on September 9, after twenty days
feverish expectation, M. Perrier per-
ceived the electric light of Tetica, visible
sometimes to the naked eye, like round
reddish disk, as bright as Alpha in Arc
turus, which appeared near the horizon.
On the 10th he perceived the French
signals, and n period of definite observa-
ton was entered upon, extending from
September 9 to October 1S. The geo
detic junction of the continents was at
length realized. The numerical results
arrived Mt with regard to those four i'm.
mense triangles of some seventy leagues
length of side are given in a commune
cation by M. Perrier to the French
Academy, and are shown to have salts
factory accuracy.
BY this work the geodetic operations,
in the British Islands, France, Spain,
and Algeria, were united into one grand
system of triangles, reaching from the
Sahara (34' n. L.) to the northernmost
of the Shetland Islands (61o N. L),
giving a meridian arc of 27o, the great
est hitherto measured on the earth
| Scientific american.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

"Wel, the man what shows trained
birds in the Opera House to-nights
goin' to give us free show here in
minute" "Going TO walk that ropePn
asked Tommy.
"No, sir. Big bird goin' to wheel
little bird Gross the street on that rope
in that little cart you see up there.
There's the beauty"
Up from the crowd a long pole ap-
peared, on which little bird was raised
to perch that was underneath and at
tached TO the "cart." Down went the
pole, and soon It was seen again bear
ing a larger bird, which stepped clum-
silly from the pole to the rope. Taking
step or two, the large bird stretched
its neck, and, taking hold of the Cart
with its beak, proceeded to push the
tiny vehicle across the street on the
rope track. Half way across, and the
bird-cOaChman seemed to lose his tenn
per. Surely, something did not go
smoothly, for the bird made a queer
noise--a birds way Of "slopping over"
perhaps-the cart tipped, and then was
seen dangling from the rope wrong side
up. Up came the pole again and took
everything back to the starting point,
and the second trial was successful
The crowd moved away, and in q few
moments Tommy found himself at the
gate of his own home again.
"Why, see here, Tommy Tinglep'
said he to himself, "what are you here
forP You've run away. Forgot all
about ii, thinkin of that bird-show
Guess I'll wait now until tomorrow.
It's most night, and haven't time to
find place to stay, anyway"
A few hours later Tommy Tingle was
in dreamland. He was running away.
He did not know where he would 90, or
how he would get there; nor did he
care much, if he could only find place
where boys are not asked to rock ba-
hies, or to bring in wood and coal, or to
do things" Away he went as fast as
he could run, and the next thing
he really did know he was being
dragged through a crowd by a man
who carried a long pole, and moment
later he was caught on the pole at the
collar of his coat, and raised to a rope
that was stretched across the street.
There he stood on the rope, leaning
against the building.
"Hullol it's YOU, is itP' The voice
came from a sort of wheelbaITow that
rested on the rope before him, and
peering into his face were the saucy
eyes OF a street urchin.
"Do you know what you're up here
forP" asked the urchin.
"No, doR'tr' said Tommy.
you've got to wheel me across the
street."
"Oh, never can do it! I can't walk
a rope.n
master now"
Start, youngsterr' came from the
man with the pole.
"Oh, sir, L can't do itn' sobbed
Tommy.
"Yes, you can do it. Start, say"
And Tommy started. lie walked a
few feet, and then the crowd yelled
and hooted, the band played "When
Johnnie comes marching home,n and
Tommy's tears blinded him so that he
missed his footing, and-there he lay,
wide awake in his warm bed at home.
"Pm glad I'm here. I'm glad that
was just dream. 1 guess I've run
away enough"
And Tommy Tingle turned over for
another William NJ Burr, IN
s. S. Times.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
WOman's Tears.

SToP this scientific business where it
is, and don't let it go any further. 1t is
robbing life of all that is worth living
for. Only a short time ago one of these
scientific iuskins analysed tear that
had trickled down upon the cheek of
lady who wanted a new dress, and he
found it to contain phosphate of lime,
chloride of sodium and water. Ever
since reading that analysis we have lost
faith in tears, and no matter what per-
son is believing about, we can only look
at the tears rs they flow over beauty's
check and think of the phosphote Of
lime, chloride of sodium and water. The
Internal analysis has knocked all the
poetry out of tears for us, and we feel
as though we wanted our money back.
If the scientist will refund what he has
taken from us he can have his old analy-
sis. We would like to throw him in a
corner and jump on him. He has rob
bed us. Oh give us back them other
days, when tears were tears and not
chloride of sodium and other nauseating
drugs.-Nel0 York World.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Our Young Folks.
LOST

PAPA has lost his babyl
Where has his baby gomez
A ship went sailing seward;
Has she been smugglcd On2 y
Papa has lost his babyl
Whore can his baby boz
Perhaps some wind has caught her
And whiskCd her up tree, -
Papa has lost his baby,
His babys pretty laugh,
And all that broken prHttle,
He understood but half.
What has become of baby2
Docs anybody know
What cruel thing induced her
To leave her papa so2
why, she's become lady,
A lady very grand,
With all the airs and graces
OF any in the land
She don't care any longer
10 sit in papa's lap;
Why, she has walked fortnight,
And met with no mishap.
She don't want any riding,
To-day, on papas knee;
To sec her tcigu Importance,
You'd think her some grandee.
So papa's lost his baby
He feels IL every hour;
But then you know it's certain
The bud must grow flower.
That's what's become of baby,
OF papas baby dear;
She's grown to be lady,
And IT'S very, very queer.
Rev. ". ". HduoCdB, Jr., IN N. Y. Indepcn'
gUt.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Weak But Strong.


I WILL tell you a true story for the
children TO hear, and leave each one to
enforce its lesson in his or her own way.
The bit of girl of whom told you in
my last letter is not one of the goOdy-
good - children, but perfect bunch of
mischief who needs constant watching.
She had taken fancy TO play with the
key of her fathers desk, often taking it
out for the purpose. One day he told
her never to take it out again, fearing
it might be lost. Some few days after
he was lying half asleep on the sofa,
the little daughter playing beside him
the sudden stiffness of the room reused
him TO the fact that she had disappeared,
and seeing the door 10 the next room
where the desk stood was open, he stole
softly towards it TO see what the child
was doing. There she stood just in
front of the coveted key, both tiny
hands clasped behind her back, and
leaning forward on her tiptoes she
kissed it gently. The father crept un-
seen to his sofa, and in a moment she
came and stood beside him, both hands
still folded behind her, and said, My
dinn't touch the key cause papa told
her not to-" Surely If tiny creature
like this could put temptation behind
her, we grown-up folks ought to have
strength enough to set better example
than we do.-Cor. Boston Transcript.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
China as a War Power.

THERE seems to be great unrest in
China. That Power is dissatisfied with
the encroachments made upon her ter
ritory and threatened to be made upon
it in the future, more especially by
Russia. China is preparing to resist
these aggressons. That nation has
great possibilities as a military lower.
She could easily raise large armies.
Her people despise death. They can
live more cheaply than any other peo-
pie. Their land is fertile and highly
cultivated. On the other hand, the
people do no not seem to have the mil
itary instincts. They are not fighters
for its own sake. They do not love
glory. 1t will take years to discipline
large armies and thoroughly arm them
with approved weapons and to aecus-
tom them to their use. But they are
people that can be disciplined, and the
nations who have to come in contact
with them in Asia should take note of
the fact that Chin a might be trans
formed into a gre at military power,
Whether this transf ormation will take
place, and when it will take place, re.
mains to be seen.-M Y, Graphic.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

GERMAN TRIFLE.-Put one quart of
Strawberries, or any other fresh fruit,
in the bottom Of glass dish sugar the
fruit, cover it.with layer of macaroons,
pour over It custard made with one
quart of milk and the yolks of seven
eggs, well beaten sweeten TO your taste /;
when cold place on the top the eggs,
beaten 10 a stiff froth, with a little
sugar.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

As freight train on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad was passing through
a tunnel in Jessamine County, Kentucky,
rock weighing about five thousand
pounds fell on car loaded with oak
staves, and crushed through the slaves
to the bottom of the car.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

The Breakwater Oel.) Light has
this mention of some odd pets-a pair
of wild geese; "They were taken when
Young and trained to the very highest
pitch for deooys. They can be put into
a wheat-feld, or on a marsh or pond
which wild geese use, and by their Pc
culiar 'honking' they will soon draw
around them large focks, many Of which
may be killed from blinds which have
been previously built. They are very
tame, having been handled as pets, and
they have no disposition to fly away OF
TO stray off,