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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Whole Number 1871
K0u Tonr,s Nav in Ianan.

Brightest among the many bright, !sS@
tivals of japanese life is that WnleA
celebrates the coming Of New year.
Every one makes holyday, all LABOR I
suspended, and the object Of all-hlgn !yI
and low, rich and pOor-is to begin Win
the new year new life, and to bury al
oblivion everything dark, unpleasant
and wretehed connected with the olo.
Generally, the weather is sharp ana
crisp, the sky a cloudless blue, and the
sun, shining on the great Sacred Noun
tain-noW q pure white cOne-and On
the snow-laden trees and houseroo1ss
gives an air of gaiety to everything.
Men, women and children, having PAID
their respects to their neighbOrs and 70
each other-a custom most scrupulOusly
adhered to in every little detail Of en-
quette-and having exchanged gooo
wishes and presents, flock to the temples
to pray for a prosperous future, after
wards to meet in the streets, which ring
with shouting and laughter, and are
ablaze with the colors of every ons's
best clothes. After kites have been
flown, kites spun, battiedore and shuttle
cock played, sweets and wines consumed
during the short hours of winter sun
shine, feasting is commenced within
doors, and carried well on into the sec
ond day Of thenew year. Much Of this
good old fashioned reioieiDgi s disappear
ing, especially in the bis Fns; but If
the visitor can spare y travel
little way inland, to irOm the
big roads and from re foreign
influences obtain, 10 WiA be.vFell repaid
by observing the thoroughly ealtlY and
Joyous spirit which char tefizes the
celebration of the Japane New Year.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Practical Hint to Shonnars.

One hne morning, when FRANKLIN was
busy preparing his newspaper for the
press, a lounger stepped into the store,
and spent an hour or more looking over
the books, and finally taking one in his
hand, asked the shop boy the price.
'1One dollar" was the answer.
Gone dollar" said the loungeT, can't
you take less than that"
''No, indeed, one dollar is the price"
Another hour had nearly passed when
the leunger said:
''Is Mr.. Franklin at home P
''Yes, he is in the printing Office"
The shop boy Immediately informed
Mr.. Franklin that q gentleman was in
the store waiting to see him. franklin
was soon behind the counter, when the
lOunger addressed him thus:
''AIr. Franklin. what is the lowest you
can take for that book p
Gone dollar and quarter" was the
ready answer.
@One dollar and a quarterl Why,
your young man asked me only a dollar
'True, said Mr.. Franklin, ''and I could
have better afforded to have taken a
dollar then than to have been taken out
Of the Office"
The lounger seemed surprised, and
wishing to end the pariey of his own
making, said:
"Come, Mr.. Franklin, tell me what Is.
the lowest you can take for itF'
"A dollar and half"
"a dollar and half Why, you of
cred it yourself for a dollar and a
quarter"
"Yes," said Franklin, "and I had bet
ter have taken that price than a dollar
and half now"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
unhealthr Sohnnl Rnnma

The Medico-Legal Society of New
York has issued a report on School Hy-
gene, which has more than a local in
terest. Some time ago this society
appointed a committee, consisting of
well-knOwn physicians, to investigate
health questions connected with the
public schools, and their report contains
many statements calculated to surprise
the public. The committee find that
during the vacation months there is a
marked decline in the death rate from
scarlet fever, but as soon as the schools
open the disease increases its ravages.
The chairman of the health committee
of the Brooklyn board of education re-
marks that over three thousand children
disappear from the time of entering the
lowest grade and that of promotion to
the next, and assigns the loss to the un-
sanitary condition Of the schools. In
many Of our own schools, more in the
country than in the cities, the want of
ventilation is painfully apparent to any
one entering them from the fresh out
door atmosphere. The class rooms are
frequently crowded with children, many
of whom, either person or clothing, are
not over cleanly the windows are kept
IlODCA W pAChCAA9 q 4ALAAesA4Ny eLAAL q AelA
stove, the exhalation from the children's
persons and the carbon from their
breaths quickly convert the air of the
room into a most subtle poison, and it is
no wonder that delicate children exposed
to such an atmosphere day after day die,
and the teachers. become delicate and
have to resign or YEARLY drag on inca
pable of giving their best energy to their
work.
The question of ventilation is beset
with difficulty, and to obtain absolutely
pure air in crowded room with our
present architectural knowledge appears
almost impossible. But the existence
of these difficulties instead of being
reason for culpable supineness on the
part of school boards, ought to be an
incentive to extra eXertion.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Heart Disease.

The origin of heart disease is most
frequently traceable to hereditary pre-
disposition, and in many cases it is pro-
duced by conduct which was avoidable.
Gold, dampness, an enfeebled nervous
system cOnduce to heart disease, but in
the majority of cases-taking ali classes
Of society-its acute exhibition is due to
breathing impure air. Confinement in
badly-Yentilated houses, cellar-dwellings,
schools, workshops, and factories, is the
cause Of great portion of the heart
affections so prevalent in this country.
The impure atmosphere of crowded
dwellings seems to have a similar dele
terious action on the chief organ of
circulation to that which it exerts on
the lungs, and thus we find identical
conditions favoring the deYelopement
Of both consumption and arrangement
of the heart. The thorough and efec-
tive ventilation of our rooms and houses,
our courts and alleys, which proves a
preventive in the latter disease, will as
suredly hinder the prevalence of the
former. In some cases disease of the
heart is produced by violent and con-
tinued exertion, such as that of lifting
heavy weights and violent rowing, but
the use of alcoholic stimulants is a far
more frequent producer of cardiac mis-
chief than over-Work, and by its indirect
effects on the muscular structure of the
heart, it predisposes. especially in ad-
vanced life, to fatty degeneration of the
organ itself and of its great blood-yes-
sells.
Tobacco is another potent cause of
heart disease, its effect being to paralVZe
the nerves which control the cardiac
function. Medicists have testified to the
existence of an appalling amount of
heart disease among young men who use
tobacco in its different forms.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Queer Case,

While overhauling file of old papers
published in the early part Of the pres
ent century, / came across a curious le-
gai case, reported in full, and copied from
q Stockholm paper. In brief, the case
was as follows:
The wife of a poor peasant, who
owned a small bit of land close upon the
edge of vast forest, was taken sick
with fever, and died. The husband su-'
periniended all the arrangements for.
the funeral. The body of his dead wife
was exposed to the view of the few
neighbors for a sufficient period, and at
the last moment the peasant secretly re-
moved the corpse, and put in its place a
log of wood, which was buried with due
solemnity.
The neighborhood was infested by IA
venous wolves, and the poor man had
preserved the body of his wife to be
used as a decoy for the wild beasts, upon
which the government had fixed libe-
raj bounty for all destroyed. And the
body was taken into the forest, and there
used as a decoy for the wolves, by which
a large number of them were killed, and
among them were two monstrous ami
mails that had long been a terror to own
crs of sheep and goats in the surround
ing district.
The circumstance came to the know
ledge of the authorities, and they felt
called upon to move inthe matter. The
peasant was prosecuted, and brought be-
fore the court for trial He plead that
he had conversed with his wife upon the
subject when she knew she was dying,
but before hersenses had failed her, and
she had consented to the scheme.
The most eminent jurors Of the realm
became interested. but they could find
no law under which the man could be
convicted of crime. Finally the peasant
was set at liberty, and the bounty for
the wolves he had slain paid to him, but
at the instigation of the king, Gustavus
AdOlphus, to whose attention the subject
was brought, new law was enacted,
making it a criminal offence to desecrate
the dead of the human family in any
such way or r.anner
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Why Knnnn HTarrr-

Ranity Far, in a recent issue, says:
The question which we considered last
week, "Why Men Marry" is an interest
ing one; but it must be pronounced in
ferior in interest to the question "Why
Women Marry" in the degree in which
men are in all respects less interesting
than women. The willingness of women
to marry is greater and more patent than
that of men; and, we will add, that it is
a great deal more wonderful. That wo-
men have, to use colloquial phrase, the
worst of it all through life, we entertain
no doubt, and that the matrimonial
state as understood by experience, has,
as a rule, fewer attractions for them than
for men, we also believe to be true. Yet
where there are many men who from
choice .abstain from marrying. and still
more who put off marrying till the last
practicable moment, we doubt If there
are any women worth mentioning who
refuse the married state from option and
deliberation, and not many marry who
postpone marrying till late period Of
life from a repugnance to having hus-
band. That women refuse individual
men, and sometimes go on refusing man
after man, is true enough; but then their
objection is to the man and not to the
condition of life the man proposes; or,
not unfrequently, their refusal arises
from mere skittishness, from a feeling
they may do better, or from a cheerful
conviction that there is plenty of time
TO think about it." As a rule, however,
women who have the chance of marry
ing, marry, and they would marry yet
more promptly than they do were it not
that they are frequently held back from
taking foolish step by wise parents or
dissuading friends. How is this appar-
ent paradox to be explained2 There is
less to induce woman to marry than to
induce men; yet men hesitate to marry
and women jump at marriage. Some
will answer that man is rational and
woman an irrational animal; but over
and above the distinction being too I'M
complimentary to be true, it is one of
those plausible explanations that explain
nothing. Again it is sometimes affirmed
that, in marrying, men sacrifice liberty,
whereas women, in marrying, acquire it.
But this is an epigram easily disposed
Of When men sacrifice what is called
their liberty by marrying, they are
already tired of their liberty, or that
particular form of it which bachelor
hood enjoys, and, were the point thor
oughly examined, We suspect it would
be found that they abandon form of
liberty Of which they are weary for
another form they have not possessed.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
The Unfortunate Man,s Advice

"The Five Silver Donkeys," was rela-
ted to me, says a correspondent, by the
minister of foreign power, at the court
of st. James. A very wealthy man of
the Hebrew faith, finding himself near
his end, called his five sons to his bed
side and presented each with a silver
donkey, equipped with panniers, and
said There was a merchant travelling
from Basira to Bagdad with a cargo of
silk, but as this, however, was not suffi-
cient to fill more than one end of the
panniers, he balanced the burden by
filling the other with stones. As he
was journeying he was OVertaken by a
WayfareT, who fell into conversation with
him, and in the course of it remarked,
what a fool you must be-" every
probably" was the reply, "but in what
particularP' "Why," said the other,
"don't you see that if you we're to dis
tribute your silk equally between the
two panniers and throw away your
stones, you would diminish your ass
burden by one halfP' every true" re-
Joined the other; "I thank you for your
wise counsel; and forthwith the silk
merchant threw his stones out on the
road, and distributed the cargo in equal
portions between the two pannierS. as,
however, they continued their journey,
the merchantremarked "You are very
clever and discerning person, hut how
is it that you are in such evil case?
Your clothes are soiled and threadbare,
and you have scarcely shoe to your
foot" 'The truth is" was the reply
am an unfortunate man." "Are you an
unfortunate man2 Then I will 60 back
and pick up my stones" which he ae-
cordingly did, and placed the silk in
statu quo. 1t happened that when he
arrived at Bagdad he found that the Ca
hph was building a new palace, but was
broughtto standstill for want Of stones.
So the merchant sold his stones for more
than he got for his silk, and returned re-
joicing. Now, my sons, in presenting
you each with silver donkey,L wish to
impress upon you this maxim, ''NeVer
take the advice of an unfortunate man."
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
GOING WFsT.
la.luea HnfIaln

GOING W EsT.
Mich. Express leaves Buffalo at sos p m,
Erie l:O9 a. IN, COuneaut 2i6 a. IN. AsiIta-
buia 2.53 a. iu Geneva isis a. m, paiiieS-
Vile A:J5 a. m. Cleveland $50 a m.
Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo at
1885 a. m, Erie 3:4U a. m, Ashtabu3a 20,
PaInesviile 5:34, and arrives at Cleveland at
6:35 a.
C,onneaut Accommodation leaves GOnneaut
at 6.O5 a. m, Amboy Gil, kingsville 9;2i, Ash
tabula 5.3s, SaybrOOk 6:t3, Geneva 6:53, Haines-
vile 7:25, and arrives at Cleveland SO q. m.
Toledo Express leaves Bufiato at 6:f5 a. m.
Erie 8:50, Conneaut lu:55, kingsvilie ll:ll
Ashtabula les a. N. Say brook lls55 Ge-
neva li:43, gainesville l2:iS. and arrives
ut Cleveland at lis p. m.
Special st. Louis Express leaves Buffalo
& a. m, Erie 1881, Ashtabula 1Zs02 p m.
Palnesyiile i245. and arrives al Clegelsnd
Pacific Express leaves Buffalo LES p. H.,
Erie 3.52, Ashtabula 5:12, Painesvilie sol, and
arrives at Cleveland at 7;05 p m
GOING EAST.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland 7.s0 a. M,
Painesville so, Ashtab bula 5sU3, ConneitHtb:2S,
Erie iOs3o, and arrives at Buffalo AZ l-i0 p. Hl.
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves
neva i:ti q. m. Saybrook I:20. Ashtabula l:32,
Rfnggvllle las AlnbOy -. COnneaut 2.O2.
Erie s:25, Buffalo 200 p. m.
Chicago and st. Louis Express ieaves .5ievt-
land OF 249 D. m, Painesville 3:25, AEhtabula
l.Os, Erie 5.z5 and arrives at Buffalo stT;50
p. m
Conneaut Accommodation leaves Cleveland
NJ $50 D. NJ. Painesyil e 609, Geneva 5;55, Say
brook 655, Ashtabula fil. kingsville l:l3' AM
boy ia, and arrives NJ Conneaut at $50 p. m.
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland
at losSop. m. Painesville 1l=2O, Ashtabula i2:0'
a. m, Erie LIS and arrives at Buffalo-aIS:55 =.
"a Trains run by Columbus time.
,s.A N. S.-FRANKLEN DIVISION
From and after Dec. Ilth, 1873, Passenger
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
TO-DAY AND ro-MoRRow.

Old Time Is the droIlest OF Hagz,
And puzzles the word with his rules;
He gave an to-day to the wise,
Tomorrow he promised the fools.
Al first he made noaght but to-day,
With its JOYS. It successes and sorrow:
-icn TO keep ON good terms with the world,
lie promised he'd make q tO-mJrr0E.
Iae IDLE rejniced at tsse news,
Put their hands IN their pockets and sept,
believing the promise Of Tine
Would be most religiOusiy kept
They never conceived that the rogue
Had promised tomorrow in fun
So quietly went to decay,
Lowing all to-d2y's work to be done
last they woke Up but to find
tomorrow was really rayth,
md thought what they'd do, when too late,
If they had the Linls TO do with
Tney prayed Old Time 70 rrturn,
Twas merely the wasting OF breath,
For they fOuad. as he langned and few on,
That tomorrow was nothing but death.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
LEE pA9s TaAT ARE No MoRh.


AAdhhAD A46tG-
Tears idle tears. know not what they mean,
Te-B from the depths Of some divine despair,
Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes,
In hooking on the happy autumn fields
And thinking Of the days that are no more
Fresh IS q first beam glittering on a sail
That krings our friends up from the under world
saa Is the last, which reddens over one
That sinks with al we love below the verge;
90 sad, 50 fresh, the days that are no more
All, sad and strange, as in dark summer d 'rnA
The earliest pipe Of halEawakened birds
To dying ears. when unto dying eyes
TIE easement slowly grows giimmering square
So sad. 80 strange. the days thai are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death,
Aud sweet Is those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others: deep as love
Deep as frst love, and wild with all regret;
On, death In hfsi the days that are no more.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Getting Rid Of Rats.

A correspondent gives one or two vaI-
liable hints for Kidding premises Of rats
One very good plan, he says, is to nail q
red herring on the wall Of the ware
house or place infested, about eighteen
inches from the floor; on this, little to
one side, beneath the fish, place a brick
or piece Of wood near the wall At an
equal distance on the other side set an
ordinary steel man trap, not baited. The
rats, in Jumping off from the brick to get
the herring, alter q few attempts, arc
sure to fall down in the trap This IS
good permanent plan, as it IS somewhat
above their comprehension. II rats
have undermined the foundation walls
which they do sometimes to such an eX-
tent as to endanger the building. it is Of
no use to try 70 stop them out by tam
periug their burrows with broken glass
bottles, for they work diligently to
make new ones. A better way is to put
a shovelful Of dry sand over each hole.
The rats soon come up tt
in doing so let half y
buFrow, whis'
not either
by re-
--I-<
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

There is an almanac issued annually,
in December, by the Chinese board of
astronomy, and bestowed by special
act of imperial grace on the Coreans,
Lewchewans, Annamites, and other trib-
utaries. 1t contains, says Prof. Harring-
ton, section intended to be practical
guide in the common affairs of life. The
poorer classes watch this part of the
almanac, and marry, bury, and do other
things only when it advises, and the
better-educated people, it is thought, do
not start on journey or enter Office ex-
cept on favorable days.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
.IEWELERS

TT7NDER & HA IRIS viii do all kinds OF
Repairing nt Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
at Ia Main street, in room with Carlisle &
Tyler. l455-ly
GEO. ~, DICKINSON, JeWeler; Repair
Ing Oi ai kinds Of Watches, Clocks and
Jeweiry; Store in Ashtabula House Block,
Ashtabula Ohio.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
CABINET WARE.

ToHN D8oB6, Manufscturer OF and Deal
er 1E Furniture Of the best descriptions, al
every variety; also, General UnderLaR
and Manufacturer Of COfins to order: ain
street, north Of South Public Square. Ash
tsbuia, Ohio 4yl
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
FoUNDRIEs.

pr D zslST1 IRON WOR Ks co., ,MaasfiTs
of Etoves, PioWB and Columns, Window
caps au.f sllIG, MIL Castings, Kettles, Sinks,
l1ulE Ohio. 1881
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

Telegraph Stations.
Passenger fare at the rate of cents per
mile 10 way stations counted in even hall
dimes.
L.S.S & N. M.S.-YOUNGSTO RR
From and after Dec. 18th, IST9, Passen-
ger Trains will run as follows
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
John GUY and Gen. Cass.

In years gone by there dWelt in Wash
ingtOn John Guy, a character in his way,
in connection with whom Col Forney
tells the following anecdote:
Guy kept the National Hotel in Wash
ington, and among his guests was Gen.
Cass, then Senator from Michigan. Guy
dressed like Cass, and though not as
portly, his face, including the wart, was
strangely similar. One day a western
friend of the house came in after a long
ride, dusty and tired, and, walking up to
the Office, encountered Gen. Cass, who
was quietly standing there. Mistaking
him for Guy, he slapped him on the
shoulder, and exclaimed, "Well, old fell
low, here l ami The last time I hung
my hat up in your shanty one of your
clerks sent me to the fourth story but
now that have got hold Of you, insist
upon a lower room"
The general, a most dignifed person.
age, taken abaek by this startling salute,
cody replied; You have committed a
mistake, sir. I am not Mr.. Guy; 1 am
Gen. Cass, of Michigan, and angrily
turned away. The western man was
shocked at the unconscious outrage he
had committed but before he had re-
covered from his modification Gen. Cass
who had passed around the office, con-
fronteC him again, when, a second time
mis-. 'nE him for Guy, he faced him
and s..lf "Here you are at last have
just mode devil of a mistake; l met
old Is,s. took him for you, and I'm
afruiU tI.. PNhigander has gone off
'a1d.' WE 'sen. Cass would have said
" We asined, if the real Guy
e''c -Aed and rescued the in
Sm-the twice assailed
hla -.
An rs -
atin bsA ~
herself. N
bli of WI
while AZ
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run inA
valley, W.
b I'd in COZ
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also to be-
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delicatel
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
PH0TOGRAPHERS.

BEAW ESLsE q MOORB, Photography
eFs and Dealers In Pictures, Engrayings,
Chromos, &c., having q large supply Of
MoHldingE Of various descriptions, are pre-
pared 70 frame anything in the Picture line
st short notice ana in the best style,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

DIS. WsHUMPHRE KY Magnetic Healer.
Ashtahuia, o. Residence on Lake Shore.
Oh. e. z. KING Physician and Surgeon;
Office over Gee q Roger. / have COM
pfete set OF Dr. Hadfield's Equaiizsrs, with
The exclusive right 81 Ashtabuia county.
Pnyeieians are resp stfgily invited TO call
sud examine the in '1l elts. once hours
EOm 20 q n. TO =. Hetesisesief south ul
So Peters chuFrt8.- JE9
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

Express TFaiua Leave New YORK
300 Am. Cincinnati and Chicago Day
Express. Drawing Room Coaches TO Buff
falO and Suspension Bridge.
600 PM. Daily. Fast st. Louis Express
arriving Al Buffalo 00 A M, connecting
with fast trains 10 the West, Northwest and
Southwest Pulimans best Drawing Room
Sleeping Coaches to Buffalo.
700 r. n Daily. Pacific Express Sleep
ing Coaches and Hotel Dining Cars through
to Chicago without change.
ZOO A.. M. EmlgFapt train for the West,
Daily. No. daily, except Sunday
&MeaI stations.
a4-Ask for Tickets via Erie Railway; for
sale by all principal offices.
JN0. ". ABBOTT, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
New York