Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-13
GENERAL.

A GERMAN physician asserts that
railway employees are more liable 10 NJ.
lections of the spinal chord than other
men.
A FRENCHMAN who has travelled all
over the world says that the American
people are the most serious he ever en-
countered
Two MEN were recently arrested in
Keyport, N. j., for using profane Ian
guage in the streets, and each was fined
$500 for the offense.
THERE is said TO be an apple tree on
the premises of William Plymire, in
Washington County, Pa, which bears
nine varieties, some of which are now
ripe, while others will not ripen until
late in the fall.
Mrs. HANNAH HALLETT, p. T. Bar
NUNS mother-in-law, lives near Bridge
port, has good health, is deaf in one
ear, can read the finest print without
specs, is a great teller of stories to
children, is cheerful, and ninety-fve
years old.
THE bodies of fully two hundred per-
sons drowned in Cayuga Lake within
forty years have never been recovered.
Various explanatory theories have been
advanced, late one being that the
rocky bottom of the lake has many
cavities in which the remains lodge:
AT weddings among the nobility OF
Samoa the numerous relatives of the
bride are presented with roast pigs,
three hundred having been given on a
recent occasion. In return the relatives
of the bride give mats fringed With
feathers, some of them being valued at
81, 200 each.
A CONCERT was given at Mechanics
Hall, in Boston, lately, remarkable from
the facts that the night was warm and
the seats in the audience room had been
recently vanished. The concert was
interesting, the varnish melted, and the
critic says the audience was "riveted-
literally glued TO their seats"
A CORRESPONDENT telegraphs from
Madrid that " Prince Demidoff, who re-
Gently sold his estate of San Donate, has
just lost at play, in one night, $1,000,-
900. The winners were Messrs.
Beutern, Boblinski and young Count
Schouvaloff The game was baccarat,
and was played at the Yacht Club" ="
For forty years a centenarian ex-
soldier, who recently died in Russian
village, was stone blind. He continued
his business of tailor up TO the day of
his death, threading his needle by
means of his tongue. His sense of touch
was so acute that he could distinguish
the denominations of bank notes with
his fingers.
THE two maps maze by Joliet, CO.
discoverer of the Mississippi, to illus
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been printed. A third map, however,
which is regarded as of earlier date than
the others, has Just been published by
M. Gabriel Gravier, President of the
Norman Geographical Society, and au-
thor of several works dealing with early
American explorations.
INDIGNATION among the passengers
in railroad car is reported because a
lady let her pug dog drink out of the tin
cup attached to the water cooler. She
replied to a remonstrance by assuring
that her dogs lips were cleaner than
those of the tobacco-chewing man who
objected. He retorted that he could
whip any man who would become her
champion, but nobody volunteered.
The Soldiers Daughters Home is an
interesting British charity, twenty-five
years old. More than eight hundred
soldiers daughters have been reared
within its walls, and three hundred and
| fifty have been placed out as school
mistresses and other teachers or in
domestic service. OF the girls admitted
during the lastyear fifteenwere daughters
of soldiers who were killed or who died
during the war in South Africa.
Miss GooDsELL, of New York City,
heroically saved four other ladies from
drowning in the Passaic River the other
evening. Their boat was capsized by a
collision with another, and the occu-
pants of both were thrown into the
water. Two men swan to the shore,
and Miss Goodsell, by personally swim
ming to the shore with Mrs. Olsell,
saved the latter's life. Then she swan
managed to get the remainder ashore,
when all fell exhausted.
AMONG the patients at St. Luke's Hos
pital, New York, is Miss Lucy Osborn,
a young woman who carries on her head
an artificial scalp. 1t has taken six
years to construct this scalp. The ma
terial for building the scalp has been
furnished by 100 volunteers, and IA, 900
different pieces have entered into its
construction. Miss Osborn belongs to
New Bedford, Conn, and lost her nat
ural scalp by the catching of its luxuriant
curls in the revolving shaft of button
factory where she worked. su
In this season of boating and bathing
it is well to remember that, in a late
communication to the French Academy,
Professor Fort declared that he had re-
stored to life child of three years old
by using artificial respiration, without
becoming discouraged, for four hours,
not having begun for three and hall
hours after apparent death. Some time
before, DIR. Fournol, of Billancourt,
resuscitated a person one hour after
heino taken from the water hv the sam,