Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-08
GENERAL.

FORTY years ago q woman deposited
$40 in the Middletown, VT, savings
bank, and now eight children receive.
$98.96 each as the product Of that we'll
laid nest-egg.
THE car Of Juggernaut was not
drawn through the streets this year, on
account, the natives say, Of the negli-
gence of government officials, and the
omission defers its next appearance for
twelve years.
THE mints of France belong to pri-
vate corporations, but coin money un-
der the supervision Of the national au-
thorities Any one possessing silver or
gold can have it coined. The five-franc
piece in silver is the only standard ma
tional silver money, the other pieces
being mere bullion for market conven-
ience.
In Deaf Mutes' Convention at Bos-
ton there was pantomimic row over
the charge of their President that solicit
ing agents had kept back 40 per cent.
of Sl,5O0 collected for the proposed
home. The scene was strange one
400 persons earnestly and eXcitedly ges-
ticulating at each other without an audi
BILE word.
THE famous dry-goods establishment
of the Louvre, Paris, is heavy loser by
shoplifters, who conduct their opera
| tions with such skill as to generally defy
detection. A fortnight ago, however,
| twenty-six articles were found in posses
sion of young woman who proved to
be the keeper of a small dry-goods store.
AN eccentric Englishman, long a resi-
dent of Paris, has just committed sui
eide, after having devoted twenty years
to strange mama. Every six months
he had a coffin made for himself. Each
was too long, too short, or uncomforta-
BILE in some way, until the last proved
perfect. Having no further object in
life, he killed himself.
In some foreign countries certain
bridges and monuments, if not conse-
Grated to suicide, are largely used for
that purpose; and similar setting apart
is evidently sought by some people for
| Niagara Falls. Mr.. Knapp, of Utica,
who both shot himself and plunged over
the Falls, took needless precautions, for
he could not have survived the plunge
alone.
GAS the American" says the Rev.
David Swing Of Chicago, "can out-chew
and out-spit and out-talk the rest of the
world, so can he out-swear the residue
of humanity. Sitting behind two gentle
men for day, as our train glded along
from st. Paul toward Chicago, the words
'by God came back to me 700 times,
when bedtime made me quit counting"
AN old English miser named Rhodes,
who began making money as rubbish
/ gatherer, and lived and died in squalor,
has bequeathed 100000 between the
Royal Free Hospital, London, and the
National Lifeboat Institution, leaving
his relations penniless. The will stands,
but the Charities have given the five
next of kin S5,250.
DALYE-LAMA, the earthly god OF
Thibet, lately became seriously i'll. The
priest applied to the Emperor for the
,appointment of a new divinity. The
candidate has TO present himself to the
dying Dalye-Lama, who transmits to
him his divine soul, whichhas thus been
passed down from the founder of the
Thibet religion, Dzon-Epa. The yearly
income of the deity of Thibet is said to
be over 81 100000. He occupies pal
ace, in which are more than hundred
golden idols.
A NOVEL election bet is reported as
having been made by Hartford political
opponents. The loser is to black boots
at designated corner for two hours on
given day, the proceeds of his work to
90 to the orphan asylum. The agree
ment also provides that all moneys col
lected shall be given to the asylum; that
no change shall in any case be given to
the party paying for the shine; and that
the one who does the work shall provide
himself with a bottle of dressing with
which to black ladies' boots.