Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-03
ALL SORTS.

oARAH WINNEMUCCA Will take up
her abode hereafter at Vancouver,
Washington Ter, where she will be
pensioned at 5000 per annum, with
quarters and ratiOns, for good conduct
as scout in the Bannock war.
YOUNG authors should not be dis
heartened in view Of the facts that
Thackeray was not known as an au-
thor until he was nearly forty; Scott
was fOrty-three when ''Waverly" aD-
peared; Defoe was fifty-eight before he
wrote his first novel; and other not
ables were equally tardy in gaining
celebrity.
SOME painters while at work on the
outside of a Methodist Episcopal
Church at Bladensburg, Md, recently
discovered holes in the weather-board-
ing and many bees passing in and out.
Some Of the boarding was removed,
and between the joists was found a
solid mass of honey twelve feet in
length, sixteen inches wide and four
inches thick.
A NEW YORK society belle who has
a strawberry-mark on the under side of
her arm near the shoulder, offers one
Of the hospital surgeons $1,000 if he
will remove it and graft the skin of
healthy white person upon it. She
says If she got married her husband
wouldn't like the looks of it, and then,
too, she is kept from wearing the low
necked and short-sleeved party Gus
tune.
PRINCE BISMARCK has the true smok-
er's real affection for his pipe. He had
a special pet pipe, the bowl of which
fell to pieces the other day. He showed
so much sorrow over this destruction of
his old friend that his family carefully
collected the fragments and sent them
to Berlin to be put together. The
work was skillfully executed, and the
Prince is again enjoying the silent and
soothing companiOnship Of his favorite.
Miss HATTIE Z. FARNswoRTH, who
has been Postmaster at GrOton, Mass,
for thirteen years, has resigned, and
the official examiner bears this testi-
mOny to her fidelity: From expert
ence | can safely say in our 36, 900 post
offices we have few Postmasters who
can compare with the one at Groton,
Mass, and in her retiring from the
office the Post-ofiice Department loses
one whose place it will be difficult to
fill"
INITIAToRY steps are being taken to
establish a circle of observing stations
around the North Polar region, all to
be connected by telegraph. The pro-
posed points for stations are at Uper-
navik in West Greenland; at the mouth
of the Lena in Russia; Switzbergen,
Holland; on the new Siberian Islands;
Novaya Zemlya; Point Barrow in
Alaska; at some point on the Arctic
coast of Canada, and possibly at other
intermediate points.
THE following is from fashion arti.
Gle in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "a
friend OF mine held a wad Of something
in one hand, and it was not so large but
that she could close her fingers over it.
l asked her what it was. "A new pair
of stockings she said. 'Stockingsp
| echoed, incredulously. She showed
them, and stockings they surely were,
but of such gossamer texture that they
were Of next to no bulk or weight at all.
They were rather bright scarlet in col
or-too bright, remarked 'Oh, they
look so now the young lady said, but
they won't be when they are on. See
that and she stretched one over her
plump, white arm; the skin fairly
shows through, and makes the stocking
a very light pink. So the color, when
worn, depends considerably on whether
the wearer is a blonde or a brunette
That's fact-sure enough. On ne
gro woman, 1 guess they would be a
reddish brown"
THE Zurcher Tdq5laH gives an ae-
count of the new machine-made butter
which now appears every morning in
the market at Zurich, and which before
long, as its manufacturers anticipate,
will attain a wider renown and sale.
The "Centrifugen-FafeI-b "a
oddly-sounding expression
is prepared in Cham, on the Lake of
lug, by the well-known Anglo-Swiss
Milk Company, whose tins are, prob
ably, to be seen in every village in
western and central Europe. The but
ter is prepared from the early morning
milk, Immediately after the milking,
by means of the American centrifugal
and is at once dispatched BY
rail to the market and hotels at Zurich,
30 that the freshest possible butter is in
the hands (and mouths) of the con-
Sumers many miles away a few hours
after the milking. As the whole work
is done by machinery, the Cham butter
may claim high rank, on account of its
purity as well as its freshness.