Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


who knows nothing about fear He
may be fool who knows nothing about
anything.
No man can get rich by hard work
only. 1t must be directed by higher
intelligence than the beast which bears
the burden.
Evil can make promises, but it has
no power TO keep them. Virtue, on
the other. hand, always gives a little
more than is due. D.......
Fortunes are not generally the re-
suit of luck-they are made. Luck is
no more reliable in making fortunes
than lightning is to split rails.
"A countryman attracted considera-
BILE attention at Titusville, Pa, by stop
ping his wagon in the middle of the
streets and engaging in prayer.
1.-The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald ex-
presses the opinion that there is more
| money in the South now than there has
been at any previous time since the
! war.
"A farmer may by hard toll raise the
best crops, but if he has not brains
\ enough TO know how and when to sell,
somebody else will have all the profit Of
/ his labor.
The Cleveland CO., City Council
has voted to erect a bronze or marble
statue to the late Leonard Case, who
left great fund for founding an educa-
tional institution in that city.
1t is not the whitewash on the
fence that keeps it together, but the
| rough posts which no one sees. 1t is
not mans pretense that gives him his
| value, but the motives which are hid
/ den from view.
There is undoubtedly a certain
kind of pleasure in SHINING, but the
after-thought is bitter. Ones experi-
ence in this direction is like that of the
Irishman who said that the first piece
Of meat he ever ate turned out to be
cold potato. -
An English jury having been locked
/ up eight days, the Judge, when dis
charging them, complimented and
thanked them for the great care, atten-
tion and patience which they had given
to the case. The only recompense he
had power to make was the assurance
that he would take care that they were
not called upon to serve again "for
some long time to come"
% There viii be little sympathy felt in
this country over the death of Hoag,
who killed himself at walking match
at Glen's Falls, New York, last week.
Walking matches are the concentrated
essence of unmitigated nonsense, and if
mOte Of those who indulge in these dis
graceful gambling exhibitions were to
| die, the country in general would be
better of. Detroit Free Press.
"A coroner's jury in Manchester,
Eng, has recommended the presence
of reporters at executions. The reason
is said to be not because they wanted
minute descriptions of the scene within
the prison, but because " they were
moved by two thoroughly English feel
ings, the desire that fair play should
be given even to a criminal, and an
| ingrained distrust lest fair play should
not be given if only officers were pres
ent They had an antipathy, an un-
reasoning sentiment, perhaps, against
having men put out of this world hug
/ ger-mugger."
y'--Tit for tat is something which very
few people relish. We can easily ex-
cuse ourselves for cheating a neighbor,
but for him to do the same thing to us
is an act not to be extenuated or con-
/ doned. To have the measure out of
which we sell taken as the measure out
of which to sell to us is very hard to
bear. al have weighed the two pounds
OF butter you sent me this morning."
said an irate customer to dealer in the
aforementioned article, "and am sur
prised to find that it is short weight lust
three ounces. If that is your way of
dealing Imust buy my butter some
where else" The butter merchant
looked up surprised, but, without de-
claring his innocence, replied, Well,
that is very strange, because put the
two pounds Of sugar bought of you in
the scales, and gave you the full weight
in butter" " 10 do as you are done by
and to do as you would like to be done
by seem to be very different things
~ Y. Herald.
AT the last meeting Of the New
York Academy of Medicine DIR. Henry
Nachtel, of Paris, read paper on the
system of night medical service in Eu-
rope which is causing commotion in
professional circles. The Academy so
warmly approved of the paper and the
suggestions made in It that a committee
was appointed to inquire into the feasi-
bility of introducing the system in that
city. The system in Paris is operated
as follows: In each police precinct
physicians are invited to declare if they
agree to submit to the calls which they
may receive during the night. The
pames and addresses of those who make
this declaration will be inscribed on
board posted in the police station. The
person in need of II doctor will apply at
the police station of his or her precinct
andwill select on the board the ply
sician whom he or she may prefer. A
policeman will accompany the person
to the doctors house and the physician
to the patients residence, and, the visit
once made, will take him home again.
On leaving him he will give him check
for ten francs, which will be paid at
sight by the cashier of the prefecture
depolice, According to the means of
the patient, which win be subjected to
a slight investigation, the administra-
tion viii demand the amount of the fec
paid 10 the doctor, or, should the
patient be unable to pay, the admins.
tfation will take care Of the debt
ENeLIsH holders of the old repudi-
Rted Mississippi bonds which bear date
Of 1910 have made proposition to
forego the interest for forty years
amounting TO about Sl9,000000. They