Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-17
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season.
There are in Berkshire County,
Mass, twenty-six persons ninety years
old and upward, 241 over eighty, and
1,54S over seventy.
"A tramp is doing the State of Yer.
mont clad only in shirt and drawers,
and with a Bible under his arm. He
asks for but little to eat, as the world is
coming to an end.so soon.
The body of Ethan Allen was lately
exhumed at Lowville, N. Y, and the
bullet was found with which he was
shot by British ranger while on his
way to join the army at Sacketts Har
Dor in 1918.
"A Massachusetts farmer who took a
good deal of trouble to fix up tobacco
bed in order to have early plants, dis
covered that he had been cultivating
the mullin when about to set out the
plants.
The monument about to be erected
in Mount Auburn Cemetery, near Bos-
ton, over the grave of Charlotte Cush-
man, is an obelisk of Hallowell granite,
and the design is an exact reproduction
in form of Cleopatras Needle.
"A gallant visitor to Atlantic City,
happening to overhear an invalid wom-
an say that she would like to view the
ocean from the lighthouse tower, took
her in his arms and bore her to the
top-two hundred and twenty. eight
steep steps. She weighed one hundred
and seventy-five pounds.
"A San Francisco manufacturer has
received from the interior of the State
an order for pair of boots which, if
the numbers in use ran so high, would
be eighteens in size. They will be
seventeen and three-fourths inches in
length and in width. The man who is
to wear them is small, except as to his
hands and feet.
The floating store on Tillamock
Bay, Oregon, is novelty as we'll as a
convenience. 1t consists of a boat
about 60x20, with a cabin the entire
size, well filed with stock of grocer
les. In this they sail around the bay,
putting in at the settlements, and fur
nishing the people with what they
want in the line of groceries.
The will of Samuel Wright, of
Northampton, Mass, gives $1,000 to
the Town of Shrewsbury, and 81, 900
each to the Towns of Westhampton.
Chesterfield, Goshen, Pelham and
Prescott, all in Massachusetts. The
income of all these funds is to be used
for the benefit of such widows, orphans
and poor persons as may be in need of
aid in the town, but who shall not be
town paupers.
"A Hartford gentleman has nearly
completed a carriage for use on ordi-
nary roads, to be propelled solely by
compressed air. The shafts, of course,
are omitted, but otherwise the carriage
will resemble, in the main, those COM
monty used. The machinery, in very
compact form, is under the rear of the
axle, and the air will be taken into it
from a reservoir in sufficient quantity to
furnish motive power for run of many
miles.
A rather strange suit is now going
on at Harrisburg, Pa, as there are
thirteen theaters as the defendants.
They are all Philadelphia places of
amusement, and have refused to pay
their State tax of $500. If the present
suit is decided in favor of the State,
suit will be commenced to recover
license fees for the past ten years. The
State expects to get about $50, 900 from
these theaters. II the State succeeds,
the State can never expect to be dead
headed into any of their shows.
Says the Coney Island Netos:
"Among the walters at one of the
hotels on the beach are two Polish
Counts, an Austrian diplomat, a bank
rupt brewer, French magician, four
teen Italian tenors from Germany, nine
cornet players, three unappreciated
German tragedians, twenty-three ladies'
hair-dressers, thirteen BARRIERS, and five
elder sons who expect to be heirs to
castles on the Rhine. Such an array of
promiscuous talent has rarely been
combined, but many of them are poor
mathematicians and are consequently
very stupid in giving correct change"
Connecticut tramps have found out
how to escape the law against them in
that State and are visibly increasing in
numbers. They show "visible means
of support" either as umbrella mend
ers, tinkers, or some such trade, and
thus escape the legal penalty. One re-
Gently detained at Norwich as "having
no visible means of support, drew from
his pocket dilapidated- looking wallet,
declaring that he was a fisherman, and
rolled out from a wad of brown paper
four fish-hooks and line. This "vis-
ible means of catching fish, however,
warranted his discharge.
Sanitary officers are regarded by
some Russian peasants as emissaries of
Antichrist. Recently, says the GolOs,
an epidemic of diphtheria broke out in
certain villages of the Stavropol pro-
vince. The medical authorities at once
ordered them to be thoroughly cleaned
and disinfected. But when the health