Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-07-23
GENERAL.

TIE Indians are reaping a rich mar.
vest in the vicinity of Quient, Wash
ington Ter, by catching fur seals. The
profits of one days work frequently
reaches 500. The skins are worth from
So TO $40 each, according to size and
quality.
A GERMAN-Professo Siemering, of
Berlin.-has received the commission to
execute the equestrian monument to
George Washington, TO be erected in
Philad elphia. American, English,
French, and Italian artists were also
among the competitors.
A rARTY of seventy students and for
mer students of Elmira, IN. W Female
College has started for the Lake Supe-
rior copper district. 1t is the thirtieth
annual scientific and pleasure excursion
made under the auspices of the college.
PATRICK KEARNEY, an Oregon pio-
neer, who in 1862 threw into the sea a
bag of gold, tho hard earnings of many
years, 10 rescue q little girl from drown
ing, is still hard at work in a mine on
the Pacific coast. He says that he does
not regret the loss of the gold.
MANY American farmers have an
idea that they must eat meat three times
day. This is great mistake, espe-
cally in summer, when it would be far
more for their health to eat fruit and
vegetables, and less meat. An English
| laborer, who works as hard as the
American, seldom has meat more than
once day, and often finds himself
without it for days together.
THE Queens baker having received
the first barrel of flour of this years
American wheat crop, has presented a
loaf thereof to her Majesty, and issues
a circular to his customers saying that
of the many wonders of the nineteenth
century, to eat bread which is the re-
suit of an 1880 harvest in May,
1880, is not one of the least marvel
Gus.
A LITTLE girl visiting friends at Melrose
highlands, near Boston, while playing
in the barn, fell from the haymow into
a stall, and impaled herself upon the
horn of COW, the horn passing through
her cheek into her mouth. Luckily the
COW was gentle, and the little sufferer,
who was only five years old, was releas-
ed without further injury.
THE British House of Commons has
only seats enough for about two-thirds
of the members, and part of these are
very undesirable. Ordinarily the atten-
dance is very light, but Gladstone's ad-
ministration has changed that. Amem-
ber recently complained that another
member had two hats and used one OF
them to reserve his seat while absent
from the building.
A WEST POINT correspondent says
that ga civilian who dares to cast look
at girl engaged in conversation with
a cadet is at once rebuked by glance
of the sterner kind, and told in words
not expressed, but understood, that he
, is nothing but contemplate citizen, a
, thousand of whom she can have at her
] feet at beck or nod, but her cadet,
! with halo of prospective military
: glory about his head, is not to be easily
! duplicated"
ICEBERGs in great numbers have been
r encountered during the past three
. months by steamers plying between this
4 country and Europe. These mountains
of the sea greatly increase the dangers
r of crossing the Atlantic, for the officer
r of one steamer remarked that "the
!. ocean seemed alive with them" One
e steamship, the Victoria, recently passed
O safely through channel formed by ice
n bergs towering high on either side.
q This event occurred about $50 miles
o southeast of Cape Race.
l. A FELLOW in Chico, Cal, went up
:, into the Record office to clean out the
l. establishment. About three minutes
II afterward a man was seen in the street
d with a pair of black eyes, bloody
Q nose, and a completely demoralized ap-
+, pearance. A passer-by, attracted by
y his condition, asked him what was the
Ie matter. went up to see if the
ir editor who wrote that piece about me
was up there.n "Well," said the
5 other, % did you see himP" Yes, ,
II said the injured man, " he was in"
% JOHN DUNN, who rules over all thu
et border country that stretches in Soutf
n Africa from the sea to the junction o
r the Tugela and Buffalo Rivers, wishe
r his territory to be called Dunnsland. HI
lr told Sir Garnet WOlseley recently tina
Re the Zulus, of whom there are ten thou
v sand adult males under him, have re
IN turned TO their agricultural pursuits
and that the young men are marrying
st freely and building huts. The guns lei
m among them are gradually coming in
A and no Zulu is allowed to have arms il
ty his possession.
~ ~ THE New York Commercial state
~ ~ that sit is rather a curious fact ths
,f' girls seldom marry men belonging
IN a their fathers profession. There are ez
u, ceptions, of course, but such we believ
>, to bs the general rule. The farmer
j. daughter fancies city life, the city gil
w. a country life, soldiers daughter
- Gen. Sherman's for example-affect
a. a. the Navy, sailors, the Army. You d
~ ~ not often find that minister's daughte
~ Nv marries minister, or DOCTORS dot
n oi tor. Editors daughters, of course, kno'
u better than to marry editors, and hote
keepers daughter generally waits
m. little"
A NEW BEDFORD (Conn.) druggis
VI DIR. Caldwell, met the other day vel
ke dressed man in New York who addresse
Ie- him as Watkins. "You are mist
IN KEN" said the doctor, "My name
70, Caldwell, and I'm from New Bedford.
'ss The man apologized and went off.
aS few minutes more another well -dresse
m, man met the doctor and hailed hi
ad as DIR. Caldwell, of New Bedford, an
'p- said he himself was the nephew of Il
ne President of the Bank of Commerce
nd New Bedford. DR.. Caldwell said
'as was glad to meet him and walked alor
snt with him until they encountered a p
ne liceman, to whom the doctor turned ov
6ty the bank-president' nephew. Toget
me er with the man who first addressed d
VS. doctor, he was sent up to Blac
tty wells Island for six months. The dc
tor had evidently read the papers al
knew a rogue when he saw him.
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