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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-12-30
sOoiability among Farmers.


We take the following excellent and
most pertinent suggestions from the ad-
dress of Horace Greeley, at the Agri-
cultural Fair in Connersville, Ind, a
few months ago. They are particularly
applicable to country farmers, but may
be read with profit by denizeus of towns:
1 rand among the urgent needs of our
Agriculture a more intimate and broth
erly intercourse among our neighboring
farmers and their families l appre-
hend that we are to-day the least socia-
bic people on earth, and that this
is especially true of our purely agri-
cultural districts. The idle and the
dissipated are gregarious; but our indus
trious, sober, thrifty, farming popula-
ton enjoy too little of each others So
ciety. In the old world, for the most
part, the tillers of the soil live in villa
ges or hamlets, surrounded, at distances
varying from ten rods to three miles, by
the lands they cultivate and sometimes
own. When the days labor is over,
they gather, in good weather, under a
spreading tree, or in some inviting|
grove, and song and story, conversation
and moonlight dance, are the chief so
lace of their privations, their labors and
their cares. But our American farms
are islands, separated by seas of forest
and fencing, and our farmers, their fam
lilies, and labOrers, rarely see those liv-
ing a mile or two away, save when they
pass in the road, or meet on Sunday in
churches, This isolation has many dis
advantages, prominent among which are
the obstacles it interposes TO the adop-
ton of improved processes and happy
suggestions.
AS "iron sharpeneth iron," so the
simple coming together Of neighbors
and friends brightens their intellects |
and aocelerates the process Of thinking. |
The farmer not merely profits by the
narration Of his neighbors experience
and experiments in this or that field
Of production-he gains quite as much
~ the stimulus given to his desire for
Improvement as by the facilities afford |
ed for gratifying that desire. 1t is well
chat he should be enabled to share the
benefits of others observations and
achievements, it is even better that he
should be melted to observe and achieve
for himself.
But more than all else, it is impor-
tant that he should now and then be
lifted out of the dull routine of plow-
ing, illing and reaping-that he should
be reminded that "the life is more than
meat" and that the growing Of grain
and grass the acquisition Of hooks and
herds, are means of living, not the ends
Of life. Especially is it important to
give more social, fraternal, intellec-
tual aspect to our rural economy, in
view Of the needs and cravings Of the
rising generation, who, educated too lit
tle 10, enjoy solitude and their own
thoughts, too much to endure the life
Of oxen, are being untitled by their
very requirements for the rural oxis-
tOnce which satisfied their less intellec.
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soientilo Conclnsiona-


Scientific conclusions, as we'll as theo-
retical hypothesis, have established tho
following positions. We believe they
may be set down as agricultural
truths:
Substances rich in nitrogen increase
the verduro lengthen the straw, and
promote and prolong tho growth of
plants.
Lime generally shoftens the period
Of growth, strengthens the stem, and
hastens the time Of ripening Of both
corn and root crops.
Saline substances, applied alone. and
even comparatively 10 minute quaint
ties, on some soils, produce romarka-
bic effect, on other soils but little
While one substance, applied alone,
produces little or no effect, a mixture
Of two or more may give rise to striking
differences.
Phosphoric acid, lime, and some form
Of organic matter, are essential constit-
uents of such a mixture as shall evcry-
rhere and uader all circumstances pro
duco a marked, beneficial effect on old,
land.
Sulphuric acid has a beneficial effect
on leguminous plants
Common salt adds to the weight Of
grain
Bones tend to fill the ear.
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

To MEND BROKEN CHINA.-For the
purpose of holding together broken
pieces of glass, china, or two pieces, if
not broken, but which you wish to
hold together, the writer says the juice
Of garlic is excellent, being strong,
and, if the operation be performed with
care, leaving little or no mark Quick
lime and the white of an egg mixed TO-
gether and expeditiously used, are also
very good for such purposes.
DR.. Lewis recommends a mixture Of
quick lime and cheese, in the following
manner:
"Sweet cheese shaved thin and stir
red with boiling hot water, changes into
a tenacious slime, which does not min
gle with the water. Worked with fresh
quantities of hot water and then mixed
upon hot stone, with a proper quanti-
ty Of unslaked lime, into the consis-
tence of a paste, it proves a strong and
durable cement, for wood, stone, earth
en-ware and glass. When thoroughly
dry, after being applied, which it will be
be in two or three days, it is not in the
least acted upon by water"
Cheese, barely heated with quick
lime, as directed by some Of the chem
lists, for uniting cracked glasses is not
near so eficacious.
A composition Of drying oil and white
lead is sometimes used for this purpose,
but is not very good.
The Germans use a cement prepared
In this way Take, by measure, two
arts Of lithargo, one Of unslskod lime,
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LITTLE BENNY AND SANTA
IT'S

LITTLE BENNY AND SAINT
CLAUS.
] had told him, Christmas morning,
is he sat upon my knee,
Holding fast his little stockings,
Stuffed as foil as full could be,
And attentive listening to me,
With q face domure and mild,
That old Santa Claus, who filled them,
Did not love a naughty child.
"But we'll be good, won't we moderl"
And from off my lap he Slid,
Digging deep among the "goodies"
In his crimson stockings bids
While ] turned me 10 the table,
Where tempting goblet stOOdi
Brimming high with dainty egg.nog,
SSeDt me by neighbor good.
But the kitten, there before me,
With his white paw, nothing 10th,
Sat, by way Of entertainment,
Topping of the shining lroth;
And In not The gontest humor
AZ the loss of such treat
I confess, I rather rudoy
Thrust him out into the otreet
Then how Benny's blue eyes kindled
Gathering up the precious store
He had busily been pouring
In his tiny pinofore,
With generous look that 5hamed me,
Sprung he from the carpet bright,
Showing by his mien indignant,
All baby's sense Of right.
"Come back, Harneyw called he, loudly,
AZ he held his apron white
''Hou shall have my caudy wabbiU"
But the door was fastened tight;
So he stood, abnshed and silent,
In the centre Of the floor,
With defeated look alternate
Bent on me and on the door.
Then, as by some sudden Impulse,
Quickly ran he to the FIRE,
And while eagerly his bright eyes
Watched the flames 60 high and higher,
In a brave, clear key he shouted,
Like some lordly little ELF,
"Santa Klaus, come down de chimney,
Make my moder have herselr!"
"l win be a good girl, Benny"
Said /, feeling the reproof;
and straightway recalled poor Harney,
Mewing on the gallery roof
Soon the anger was forgotten,
Laughter chased away the frown,
And they gamboled meath the live oaks,
Till the dusky night came down.
In my dim, fre-lighted chamber,
Harney purred beneath my chair,
And my play-worn boy beside me,
Knelt to say his evening prayer;
"God bess "a der-God bess moder,
G cd bess sisteri"-then a pause,
A nd the sweet young lips devoutly
Mumured, "GOd bess Santa Kuusw
lie is sleeping; brown and silken
Lie the lashes, long and meek,
Like carecsing, cliuging shadows
On his plump aud peachy cheek;
And l bend above him weeping
Thankf ful tears-Oh, Undefled
For Il wOman's crown Of glory,
For the blessing Of a child.
IN. o. Delta.
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gfljstrJlanrOUs
"Tho Mother Of Wators.o -


Lieut.. Haborsham, in his letters from
China to the Philadelphia Ledger. as
serts that the Mississippi River, which
we call the "Father of Waters" is not
to be compared to the Yang-tse- Kiang
River, to which he applies the name Of
"Mother of Waters" In width and
volume of the two streams.
The Mississippi opposite New Or
leans is not quite six hundred yards
wide, with a mean depth of one hund-
red feet, and a mean velocity Of nearly
ono and a half miles per hour. Thus a
body of water one and a half miles long,
six hundred yards wide and one hund-
red feet thick is driven into the Gulf of
Mexico every hour A little more than
one hundred miles from the mouth of
the Yang-tse- Kiang (the Son Of the Seal
is located the city Of Kiang- Yin. The
river here is 900 yards wide has an
average depth of niuety-nine feet, and
and a mean velocity of two miles per
hour. Thus we have, he remarks.
body of water two miles long, nineteen
hundred yards wide, and ninety-nine
feet thick hourly urged into the bosom
of the Yellow Sea. Compare this vol
ume with the first and it will be found
to be almost double. We're the length
of the great Chinese water course only
known, the comparison might be com
plcted; but that cannot be until the in
terror Of China is opened to the world.
It's estimated length is three thousand
three hundred miles.
Lieut.. Habersham estimates that the
waters of the Yang-tse Kiang carry
along in suspension the remarkable
quantity of about thirty-threc and
third per cent. of sedimCutary matter.
According to this estimate, 1856. 336 F.
cubic feet of mud is hourly transported .
to the sea by this river. 1t seems quite .
but as the earthly matter dis
charged by the Yang -tsc-Kiang colors .
the waters at its mouth, giving to them
the name of the Yellow Sea, besides form /
ing immense flats, the amount must be .
very large. The Yaug-tse- Kiang, how .
ever, bears no better comparison with .
the Amazon, than according to Lieut. .
the Mississippi does to the
Chinese river. The Amazon, which is .
the largest river in the world, is one
thousand seven hundred and sixtv-ninc .
miles in length in direct line or includ-
ing lis windings, nearly four thousand .
miles, while four hundred miles from
.he Atlantic it is more than mile in
width, and has a velocity of three and
half miles per hour, and in mid-curcnt
no bottom is found with twenty fathoms
1r one hundred and twenty feet. This
noted river, with its tributaries, is esti-
mated to afford fifty thousand miles of
lland navigation.
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REASON WHY "BRUDDER DICKSON
LEFT THE CHURCH.-Mr. Dickson, col
orod barber in one Of our New England
towns, was shaving one of his custo-
mers, a respectable citizen, one morn
ing, when a conversation occurred be-
tween them, respecting Mr.. Dickson s
former connection with a cOlored church
in that place.
81 believe you are connected with the
church in Elm street, Mr.. Dickson, " said
the customer,
''No sab, not at all"
"What did you leave their oommu-
nion, Mr.. Dickson? if l may be permit,
ted to ask "
"Why, I tell you, sab, - said Mr.. Dick
son, strapping a concave razor on the
palm of his hand 1t was icst like dis
1 iined dat church in good faif / glib
ten dollars toward the stated preachin
of the gospill, de fust year, and de
church peepil all call me brudder Dick
SON. De second year my business not
good, and / only glib five dollars. Dat
year de church peepill call me Mister
Dickson. De razor hurt you sah?'
"No, razo' goes tolbul well"
"Well, sab, de third year I feel berry
poor-siokness in my family--and /
didn't glib muffin for preaohin' Well,
sab, arter dat dey call me ole niggsr Dicb-
son, and / le6 en-.
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Qd(it AUD YUmOr.

LUDICRoUs MIsCHTEF.-The follow
ing "droll incident is related in the
Knickerbocker, as having occurred to a
lady Of high responsibility in Brooklyn:
The lady had a charming little boy,
very observing, initiative and active
The child had noticed the postman con-
stantly leaving letters and moving off
quick: and he thought it a very nice
thing to become a postmau So he one
day went to his mammals escrutoire,
and took out some twenty-five or thirty
letters, tied them up and sailed forth,
leaving one at every house, and moving
off quick. The lady was rather sur
prised when her next neighbor brought
her an open letter, which she said some
body had left at her door; but what was
her astonishment, when visiting hour
arrived, for another, and another lady
coming in, all bringing open letters, un-
til her ample parlor was completely
crammed You need not doubt that
mirth and fun grew fast and furious, as
each lady entered with the same tale,
and the little pOstman was elated beyond
measure to find what q capital postman
he was but the best of the fun was, that
every lady, one and all, asserted she had
not unfolded or read one word, oh, mol
not they, ladies are far, far above pry-
ing into other ladies letters. The fair
lady to whom the letters were addressed,
is fortunately the mother of a large and
lovely family, and the letters were from
early friends, schoolmates, &c.
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"And Mr. Jones will thrash you fol-
| it, said another boy who was in th,
wood d-house with him. "Why, of
course / didn't mean to and accident.
will happen to the best of folks. said
Sam, looking with a very sorry air on
the broken saw.
"Mr. Jones aeUer makes allowances. "
said the other boy; "I never saw any.
thing like him. That Bill might have
stayed, only he jumped into hens
nest, and broke her eggs. He daren't
tell Of it, but Mr. Jones kept suspect.
ing, and suspeoting, and suspeoting.
and laid everything out Of the way to
Bill, whether Bill was to blame or not.
till Bill couldn't stand it, and tCouldn'L"
"Did he tell Mr.. Jones about the
eggs2" asked Sam.
No, said the boy, che was afraid
to; Mr.. Jones's got such a temper"
81 think he'd better have owned
square up" said Sam.
"I reckon you'll find it better to
preach than to practice" said the bow;
I'D run away before I'd tell him, and
he soon turned on his heel, and left
poor Sam alone with his broken saw.
1t was after supper, and he was not
likely to see Mr.. Jones that night
The shop was shut, and the master had
gone to some town meeting. The next
morning he would get up early, go into
the wOod-house, and see what was done,
for Sam would not hide the saw.
The boy did not feel very comfortable
or happy. He shut up the wood. house,
walked out in the garden, and then
went up to his little chamber under the
caves. lie wished he could tell Mrs.
Jones, but she wasn't sociable, and he
had rather not.
ooh, my God, said Sam, falling on
his knees, "help me to do the thing
that is right" Sam had always said
his prayers, but he had not put his
whole heart into his prayers, as he did
that night. That night he prayed ear
nestly.
l do not know what time it was, but
when Mr.. Jones came into the house,
-he boy heard him. He got up, crept
down stairs, and met Mr.. Jones in the
kitchen.
Sir" said Sam, al broke your saw,
and l thought I'd come and tell you be- .
ore you saw it in the morning"
"What did you get up to tell mo for2"
.skod Mr.. Jones; 81 should think |.
morning would be time enough to tell /
ne Of your carelessness."
Because said Sam, 81 was afraid, /
f [ put it of, 1 might be tempted to .
ie about it. I'm sorry broke it, but
tried to be CAREFUL"
Mr.. Jones looked at the boy from
read to foot, and then stretching out
lis hand, "Thore, Sam, he said hearth
y, give me your hand. I'll trust you,
5am That's right. That's right Go
o bed boy Never fear. I'm glad the
aw broke, 1t shows the mettle's in
ou. Go to bed.
Mr.. Jones was fairly won. Never
'ore better friends, after that, than Sam
nd he. Sam thinks justice has not l.
cen done Mr. Jones. If the boys had
reated him honestly and "abovc- board" |,
e would have been good man to live
'ith 1t was their conduct which sour
d and made him suspicious. l do not
now how that is; only know that Sam
Usher finds in Mr. Jones a kind master
nd faithful friend.-[Child's Paper.
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WHEN TO WEAR INDIA RUBBERs.--
We have noticed that many persons
wear India rubber overshoes in cold,
dry weather, to keep their feet warm
This is an injurious and evil practice.
India rubber shoes are very comfortable
and convenient for covering the feet
during wet and sloppy weather, but
they should never be worn on any 9TH
er occasion; their sole use should be to
keep out the water. They should,
therefore, be put off whenever the
wearer enters the house, and be worn as
little as possible, because they are air
tight, and retain the perspiration of
the feet The air cannot be excluded
from them or any portion of the body,
for any length Of time, without sensi-
bly, affecting the health No habit
tends more to good health than clean
feet, and dry stockings, so as to allow
the free Perspiration of the neither ez-
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MONEY ORDERs.-We are reioiced to
hear that the Postmaster-G General in
tends developing plan in his coming
Report for the forwarding of orders for
small amounts Of money, upon the ba-
sis Of the English system. The amount
Of money which now goes to the Dead
Letter Office, is said to be petween fifty
and sixty millions a year. The failure
of this money to come to hand, doubt
less causes a great deal of unhappiuess
and unjust suspicion. Besides, il is
with no small difficulty that il is return
ed by the Department to its rightful
owners. A system Of Money Orders,
moreover, would almost entirely pre-
vent the plundering Of letters by dis
honest officials, of whom there are al
WAYS more or less about, doing a great
deal Of mischief, and bringing suspicion
upon their honest brethren. If the
Postmaster General succeeds in devel
oping a practicable working plan, the
newspaper press should give him an Ova-
tion. - Sat. Eve. Post
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A CHARAcTER.-Old Bumblebee Csays
an American paper) was the cognomen
of Mr. H., Of Newburyport He gain
ed the title from the fact Of his catch
ing bumblebee one day as he was
Bhingling his barn, and in attempting to
destroy The insect with his hatchet, cut
off the ends Of his thumb and forefnger,
letting the insect SO unhaTmed Other
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YCCATAN-Yucatan is the fourth in
size Of the twenty-one States composing
the Mexican confederacy. 1t comprises
an area, exclusive of the island Of Car
men, now united to it, Of 52,947 square
miles, and contains a population of about
100000. The principal productions are
maize, cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, pep
per, hides, hemp, dye-wood and soap.
The soil is highly productive, growing
two crops in a season, and the corn at
tanning a hight of fifteen or twenty feet.
The foreign trade is not large, and is di-
vided between the United States, Great
Britain, France and Spain. The prin-
cipal ports are Compeachy and Sisal the
latter being the depot ofth trade TO the
capital, Merida, which is a fine, hand
some, well-built and wealthy city, of
about 10000 inhabitants. Yucatan is
chiefly distinguished for its extensive and
wonderful architectural remains, ,surpass-
ing those Of all others on either Of the
observation-disclosures Of America. These
have been but imperfectly described
The eyes of the archaeological world are
being tnrned to these most important
and truly wonderful ruins. 1t is to be
hoped that some enterprise will open up
and describe them, Our own country
man, Stephens, scarcely visited one in
twenty of these interesting ruins, and
those which he did visit it is we'll known
he did not fully describe. A great field
of genius and enterprise lies open in
that out-of-the-way southern peninsula.
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For the News

FOT the News,
Miscellaneous Enigma.
] am comp osed Of 20 letters
My 6 l3 II is the name Of my sister.
My 10 II II l5 10 IL 81 Is one Of the
Jnited States.
My Is q 26 80 is a girls name.
Ny % % "a &c q l6 is the name Of boy.
My 2 4 81 are PestersOme animals
My 20 2 3 are useful when a person
s hungry.
My "a q 8 Q are useful.
Ny 10 IA % is little dogs name.
My % "a is farming tool.
My whole Is a schOol-boOlI. +. A. r.
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THE MUsKRATs--AN OPEN WIN
TER.-The La Crosse Democrat says
Everywhere upon our neighboring
marshes the muskrats are bal lding their
winter houses on comparatively high
ground, or pretty much out Of water.-
By the testimony Of the oldest inhabi-
tants, this fact always foreshadows an
open winter If hard, freezing winter
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Enigmas should be constructed from single
word, or name Of an important place or person,
All Enigmas, Problems, &C., must be accom-
panied with answers, and the sondeF'snamo.
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is at hand, the muskrats build low in
the water, to keep under the ice. if an
open or mild winter approaches, they
keep nearer the surface.
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Southern papers announce that To-
basoo, 10 Mexico, he'd fallen into
The hands of the Liberals, after dght-
ing seven days, with seven men killed
ou both sides
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For the NOws


I bought goods and sold them al gain now
II the cost had beenl per cent less the gain
would have been 10 aud 1922 per cent more
what was the gain per cent?
G. G G., New Vienna, o.
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U-Answer TO Enigma in last weeks paper
isl" Never yield to DiscoumgemenL"
Answer TO Arithmetcsl Problem in same
paper:-96997 Il.
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Noutgs department.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt,
Nothing so hard but search will find Il out.
THerrick.
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A large party Of Indians recently att
tackled Fort Defiance, New Mexico, but
we're repulsed with great loss, ninety Of
the Indians, and four soldiers Of the
Fort being killed The Indians sue
ceeded, however, in securing a large
number Of horses belonging to the Gov
ernment