Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-24
GENERAL.

IN 1887, 10000 people in England
paid tax on hairpowder,
The Duke of Wollington's plate has
been estimated 70. be worth Sl,500,000.
FEMALE BARRIERS are gaining consid-
cradle custom at Washington. All are
colored, and their entire custom comes
from their own race. They charge five
cents for an ordinary shave, but when
customer wants his head shaved ten
cents is asked.
THE question of moving the capital of
Idaho from Boise to Blackfoot is being
discussed. The latter place is located
in Oneida County, within one mile of
Snake River, and about two from Black
foot River, on the line of the old emil
grant road.
PROF. ROBERT PETER has presented
TO the Kentucky State Historical Society
a plaster cast of the skull of Daniel
Boone and the original mold in which
it was formed. The cast was obtained
by Prof. Peter in 1S45, when the remains
of Boone were inferred in the Frankfort
cemetery.
Miss PARKER, of Granville, Mass, a
maiden with $4,000, became enamored
of John Field, head waiter at an Ottawa
hotel, and offered him her hand and
| fortune, which he accepted. Their hap
piness seemed complete, but he died a
few days ago, and it is said that un-
wonted ease fretted him TO death.
Mr.. FRED WILHELM, on opening
! twenty-three pound watermelon, dis
covered within it another melon weigh
| ing, by actual weight, seven and three
quarter pounds. The rind of the in
terror melon was of an orange color,
and the flesh was of a brighter red than
that of the enclosing one. So says the
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer.
IT is a curious fact, writes a mission
ary from China, that tobacco, sweet
potatoes and Indian corn have all been
introduced from America, and are now
thoroughly domesticated here. As to
the first, so cordially has it been well
coined that nine utof ten adult Chinese
males smoke it. They do not chew.
BowLING GREEN, Ky, has the cham
pion spotted snake. II. b. wilkins killed
it while cutting grass. 1t measured
nine feet seven inches in length by
eighteen inches in circumference. Dis
section revealed twenty-three eggs, two
full-grown and eight half-grown rats,
two young rabbits, four chickens, and
six partridges. The snake was skinned
and stuffed. Four and quarter bushels
of bran were required for the operation.
Col. JAMES YOUNG is the owner of
nine farms in Dauphin County, Penn,
near AIiddletown. There are 1000
acres under his management, 1000
acres of which are contiguous. There
are five miles of drives, twenty-five miles
of fences, and many miles of walled
bitches and drainage, by which acres OF
what was formerly swamp have been
converted into productive fields.
In tree at Mayor Forwood's dwell
ing in Chester, Pa, a sparrow Matched
four pretty birds. While a storm was
raging one evening, and the wind whis-
Ting through every branch Of the trees,
the mother bird carried the little spar
rows from the nest to the corner Of a
window-sill, away from the severe
weather, and then carried the nest down,
put the little ones in it, and rested safely
E from the storm all night. She and her
young were well cared for. If this had
: not been done, the young sparrows
,, would no doubt have been drowned.
"WHAT is the origin of the sign g
for the American dollarP" was the ques
, ton propounded at a London dinner no
long ago. The American Corsyul die
, not know; neither did any one else. Al
! extensive research resulted in this theo
! ry: The American dollar is taken from
0 the Spanish dollar, and the sign is to bt
found, of course, in the associations o
I the Spanish dollar. On the reverse sidt
. | Il, Il I,1 30 r.,
!. the Pillars of Hercules, and round eacl
1 pillar is scroll, with the inscription
4 "PltLS ultra" This device in the cOurs
, of time has degenerated into the sigl
: which stands at present for American
: as well as Spanish dollars-"S." Tn
J, scroll round the pillars represents tn
two serpents sent by Juno to .destro.
Z Hercules in his cradle.
4 THE thoroughly fashionable cir
I (writes a Long Branch correspondent
: as represented at this capital of frivolity
!. looks as if she had stepped out of pic
q ture painted in the last century. Sh
= droops her shoulders, represses her bos
o ON, and humps her back until she is in
4 terestingly shaped like a consumptiv
!. in the stages next preceding death
8 Her shoulder r-blades show like rudiment
/. airy wings through the thin muslin O
t her white dress, and her hair is arrange,
4 with angelic simplicity. Over he
0 shoulders and chest is fichu like tn
o neckerchief familiar in the standar
!, portrait of Martha Washington. He
y skirt is gathered in at the waist, an
i hangs as straight and plain as an old
4 fashioned petticoat to within six inche
4 of the ground. The only suggestion c
d modern earthliness is the glimpse {
Q gay stockings underneath.