Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

nf the Government.
Nearly fourth Of the eight hun
dred and two inmates Of the New Jer-
sey State Prison are idle.
---Carlyle begins to find little
trouble with his memory. Otherwise
his mental faculties are unimpaired.
The suggestion has been made that
In some quarters, and especially in large
cities, women could be adYantageously
/ and properly employed as aids to the
| Superintendent of the Census, in seour-
ing an enumeration Of the inhabitants
and obtaining information relative TO
industrial statistics.
The Penitentiary of Mississippi is
at Jackson, and the keepers have
trained bloodhOunds with which to
hunt escaped prisoners. Recently the
1 bounds got after thewrong person, and
ran hunter up tree, where he re-
manned for more than an hour with the
bowling dogs just comfortably out of
reach. s.
"A servant girl in Philadelphia fell
while carrying tray of dishes down
short flight OF stairs from the dining
room, few days since, and one of the
sharp pieces of the broken china cut a
cash on her forehead, above the left
eye, and another penetrated the throat,
severihg the jugular vein. She died in
a few minutes,
IA thief was complained Of in New
York, and could only be identified by
the singular description of having red
and black hair. The police found a
red-haired man who had had his hair
dyed, but had lately stopped the prac-
tice, and was letting the red supplant
the black. So they arrested him, and
he was the man. ,.
Persons who are constantly saying
that they are free from prejudice are
generally more prejudiced than others,
though they are not aware of the fact.
They are like the old lady who declared
that she was open to conviction, but,
shaking her head, she added that she
would just like to see the man who
could convince her.-M Y Herald.
The Keene, N. H., Sentinel tells of
lady who, having bought some dry
goods very cheaply in that city by rep
resenting that she could get them al
that price at another store, and having
subsequently learned that the latter
store had marked up its goods, sent the
deficiency to the dealer she had patron
lied with an explanation of the facts.
"A caterpillar, which Bridgeport
(Conn.) family has domesticated,
strayed away, but returned after an alb
sence of several days, and, crawling
upon the window-sill, made a mute ap-
peal to be taken in. When taken inside
/ he Immediately sought his old quarters
in the box provided for him, and seemed
to feel that he was once more at home.
Canon Farrar has written a letter
TO Mr.. Joseph Cook, in which he says:
"It seems to me that drunkenness
stands almost alone among human sins
III being absolutely curable and pre-
ventable. The work achieved by Mo
hammed alone is sufficient TO prove
that this source of crime and misery
might be simply eliminated from the
list Of the evils which scourge man
kind" ''
In the pastoral regions of Texas
one thousand head of stock cattle, as
usually found on ranches, will double
their number within three years. This
allows for losses of age, disease and ac-
cident. The net increase is at the rate
of thirty-three and One-third per cent.
per annum. This accounts, in part, for
the fortunes accumulated in a few years
by cattle-raisers. Some of the cattle
men are immensely wealthy.
I -Silas Reeves was killed in Pennsyl-
vania recently by falling tree. Silas
Reeves, or, "Uncle Sile," as he was
known throughout Northern Pennsyl-
vania, was one of the most remarkable
characters in the State He was sew
enty years of age, and for nearly sixty
he had been hunter, trapper and fisher
man, and claimed to have killed thou
sands of bears, panthers, and an un-
known number of deer and small game.
The extraordinary ability and pre-
cocity displayed by the average young
lady in misspelling apparently simple
words is at last likely to be of some use.
A girl who recently sued an escaped
lover for breach of promise was threat
ened by the young man with an expos
ure of her letters in court. The knowl-
edge that in them she had frequently
spoken Of "luv," "harte," and " hapie
dayes" induced her to dismiss the suit.
-"It scarcely seems credible" says
the Boston Herald, "that within the
memory OF men still living in hale and
hearty manhood-say as late as 1920
Summer street residences had spacious
gardens and barns, the COWS of citi-
zens grazed on the Common, each COW
provided with a wooden tag bearing
the owners name, and eminent citizens
rode out in crimson barouches, dressed
in short clothes, lace sleeves, wigs and
cues, and cooked hats Yet such was
the fact.n
"A law in Massachusetts, requiring
that children under fourteen employed
in factories shall have attended school
twenty weeks within the year occasions
some amusing incidents. In a Franklin
County mill the Superintendent asked
q Frenohman just from Canada If his
children had complied with the law,
and was told that they had. Then he
asked, {" Have you certificate to show
itP" "No, sir" Then you must
obtain one from the committee where
your children attended school," 81
was the committee" i" Very well, =
replied the Superintendent, "ther
write a certificate" "But / can't
write, was the answer. "Then will
write one, said the oblging mill over
seer, and it was signed, -. schOo
committee, X, his mark.