Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-15


II now takes si4 in Turkish money
70 pay for staying over night at a Turk
iah hotel.
The summit Of Mt. Hamilton, peak
Of trap rock in Santa Clara County,
Cal, towering 4, ,25O feet above the level
Of the sea, has been selected az the gite
Of the Lick Observatory.
The new colony Of the Cumberland
plateau In Tennessee, in which Thomas
Hughes Is interested with a company Of
English and American philanthrOpi5ts,
has been named appropriately Rugby.
The road 10 the town will be finished
soon, and formal opening is TO take
place. A lawn-tennis court has already
been established.
THERE Is a legend 10 the effect that
"Forty.rod Whisky " received its name
because the drinker could 5tagger that
distance from the place where he drank,
before his drink overcame him. This
was some time ago, however, and great
modern improvements have been made
in whisky since then. A man In New
York took drink at a bar and instantly
dropped dead. This, as far as execu-
ton is concerned, is far ahead Of the old
style Of liquor.
The art Of dressing in the common
est materials, and yet looking superior
to other women, is studied by fashions
bic Parisians. Fourteen ladies recently
entered into competition, and the prize
was awarded TO a dress made Of that
coarse sacking used for packing pur-
poses, trimmed somewhat incongru-
Ously with Valenciennes lace and floral
embroidery on a gold ground, parasol
and shoes to match. The experiment,
however, was decidedly expensive, for
though the dress itself cost a mere
nothing, the lace was worth $500, the
handle Of the parasol cost Sl2O and the
embroidery S1GO, not to speak Of the
shoes.
Mr.. GEo. W. MORRIS, the conductor
on the indianapolis and st. Louis road,
who met with horrible death the other
day, was conversing with a newspaper
man a short time since and remarked
he had travelled over $4,000 miles since
entering the service of the indianapolis
and St. Louis, and had been in several
accidents, but had never yet been in
jured. As the engine whistled for the
next station, Mr.. Morris arose, and re-
marked thoughtfully: "In our business
it comes sooner or later to us all, and
can't say how soon 1 may be victim. -
He told the truth. 1t seems but ques-
tion of time with train men. "It comes
sooner or later to all"
ONCE more it was supposed not to be
loaded. A son of Mr.. Wells, of River
head, on Long Island, fifteen years old,
pointed pistol at his brother, who was
two years his senior, and pulled the
trigger, "as he had often done before -
He pulled it once too often, the charge
with which the pistol really was loaded
exploded, and the elder boy fell dead.
1t is reported that the weapon had been
a familiar plaything about the house,
because emo one suspected that it was
loaded" That the mere absence of sus-
picion sufficed and that nobody took
pains to be certain that it was not loaded
would seem to be incredible folly, were
not such cases common.
A PLAINLY dressed little lady from
San Francisco recently appeared at a
California watering place and was snub-
bed by all the ladies. She sent home
for her best dresses and all her dia-
monds. After her trunks arrived she
went to breakfast in a magnificent
morning dress made by Worth, and pro-
fusely ornamented with diamonds, and
her two little children were dressed in
the height of fashion. Every body
| seemed anxious to make amends for
past sights, but she was extremely dis
tant to one and all. She cut them in
this way for a week, then packed up her
nine Saratoga trunks and sent them
home, and resumed her plain and COM
Portable vacation clothes.