Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10
GENERAL.

Maud S, Il Is reported, has purchased
st. Julien for $4,000.
THERE have been twenty.six John
Smiths in the Massachusetts, State
prison since its establishment in 1866.
THERE is a party in Milford, Mass,
who says he can live comfortably and
contentedly on twelve cents q week.
His diet consists of crackers and milk
principally.
So many spurious St. Bernard dogs
are nowadays offered for sale that the
superior in charge of the hospice on
Mount st. Bernard has decreed that
hereafter a register of all dogs born
there or on Mount Simplon shall be
kept, with a minute description of the
animals, and the names of their pur-
chaseTs.
A PHILADELPHIA cigarmaker decid-
ed to become physician, and went to
little further preparation for his chosen
profession than to put up a sign beside
his door. Among his first patients was
a child who had the scarlet fever, but he
pronounced the disease cholera infan-
tum, and caused death by wrong treat
ment. He is under arrest.
THE denizens of New York CITY NAV
now look forward to the prospect Of
peaceful slumbers, undisturbed by the
nightly howls of the feline race. The
Board of Aldermen have passed what
will be known as the scat ordnance
which orders the capture and destruc-
ton Of all the cats at large "in any of
the public street, lanes, alleys, high
ways, parks, or other places within the
corporate limits of the city of New
York"
In Russia the railways are so many
separate thread lines, no network being
formed. Thus two lines are instanced
which run parallel TO each other for
nearly 800 miles and have no connec-
ton. The result is that TO get from one
town to another almost in the same lati-
tude long journey north has to be made,
and then return to the south; the two
sides of the triangle between Tzaritsyn,
on the Volga, and Kharkoff, via Orel,
measuring some 750 miles, while as the
crow flies the distance between the two
towns is not more than 375 miles.
A HUNGARIAN engineer, having de-
termined to put an end to his life, bought
pistol, got very drunk and locked him
self in private room of hotel in the
town. He pressed the muzzle of the
weapon against his left breast and pulled
the trigger. The usual explosion fol.
lowed and the would-be suicide fell to
the ground, where he lay patiently for
several minutes waiting for death. But
he did not die. On the contrary he got
better and better until finally in sheer
despair he sent for doctor to ask why
he had not died. He soon found out the
truth. The bullet with which he had
intended to kill himself was in his watch
pocket. He had shot with powder and
wadding.
BAGGAGE is not pleasant thing to
handle in California. The Contra Costa
Gazette says: A few days ago trunk
was put off the cars at Lathrop, and some
powder sifted out of the bottom on the
platform. A lighted cigar stump was
thrown down, which ignited the pow
der and caused an explosion in the
trunk, which was completely destroyed.
Recently, when overhauling lost bag
gage previous to an annual sale, an old
yalise that had been banged about the
room for months was found to contain
two immense giant powder cartridges
with caps adjusted. Two revolvers
loaded and capped fell out of a roll of
blankets not long after.
ILLINOIS still leads all the other States
in the number of its miles of railroads.
This position Illinois has occupied since
1870, at which time it passed Pennsyl-
yania, which previously had been the
leading railroad State. The railway
mileage of the former State is 1878;
Pennsylvania comes second, with 6,O6S
miles; New York follows close behind,
with COOS miles Ohio is fourth, having
1921 miles; Iowa fifth, with 4, ,779 miles;
and Indiana sixth, with 1886 miles
Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia and Cali
fornia follow in the order named. There
is no State or Territory which is totally
devoid of railroads, though Montana
Territory can boast of but ten miles of
completed road.
AN English naturalist, while preserv-
ing ants and spiders in bottles of alco-
hol, met with touching exhibition that
caused him to forego further expert
ments. He wished TO preserve a large
female spider and twenty-four of her
young ones that he had captured. He
put the mother into bottle of alcohol,
and saw that after a few moments she
folded her legs upon her body and was
at rest. lie then put into the bottle
the young ones, who, of course, mani
tested acute pain. What was his sur
prise to see the mother arouse herself
from her lethargy, dart around, and
gather her young ones to her bosom,
fold her legs over them, again relapse
into insensibility, until at last death
came to her relief, and the limbs no
longer controlled by this maternal in
stinct, released their grasp.