The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-12-26
Varieties.

Varieties.
The Boston Transcript says that q
lady Of more wealth than culture ap-l
piled at a bookstore in that city for
Dickens novel, "David COpperhead."
There were four hundred tickets to
the London farewell dinner to Dick
ems, and four thousand applications
for them.
Eleven million francs were received
for admission to the French Exhibi-
ton, over five millions of which were
profit.
Madame Stuart, lately deceased at
Toledo, one hundred and eleven years
old, was a famous ballet dancer in the
reign Of Marie Antoinette.
There are l., 800 public journals in
the world, and America publishes 81
600 of them.
There was a collection of 1900
newspapers at the Paris ExpO5ition.-l
The number of daily journals in the
world is about y, 800, and their total
circulation is twelve million sheets
daily.
H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, |
during 1866, sold $73, 5000, 600 of dry
gOOds-the largest years business of
any wholesale house in the world.
A down east paper, in putting off a
certain soap, says it is the "best ever
used for cleaning a dirty mans face.
We have tried it, and therefore ought
to know"
An exchange wants to know if,
when young women blush and weep,
they can be said to raise a hue and cry.
A man who has a wife or sweet
heart named Lie, is not to be believed
in anything, for he's always telling
Lie about everything.
FORGIvENEss.-A blind girl, on be-
ing asked to give the definition of for
giveness, replied: "It is the fragrance
which flowers yield when they are
tTamplcd upon"
HI'H teach you TO play pitch and
toss! I'li fog you for an hour, will. >"
"Father," instantly replied the incor-
| Irigible, as he balanced a penny on his
thumb and finger, "I'll toss you to
make it two hours or nothing"
Four lines more beautiful than these,
says an Eastern paper, are rarely writ
! ten:
! "a solemn murmur in the soul
| Tells or the world to be,
/ As travellers hear the bilIows roll,
! Before they reach the sea-"
A servant girl writing a letter asked
her master if the next month had
come in yet. He laughed. "Well," "
said she, ''what mean is, has the last
month gone out yet ?''
The real champions of the ring
mothers with daughters to marry.
Much ado about nOthing-the part
| ing Of young ladies.
A stitch that doesn't save time-a
stitch in the side.
The lap of luxury-A cat enjoying
her milk.
The harness of Iife-tho traces of
time.
a rare mind-Mind your own bust
ness.
The New Haven School Board has
voted to introduce drawing into the
schools, where practicable, and require
teachers to possess a knowledge Of its
rudiments.
Charles Dickens addressed the boys
at the Scholarship, Boston. The sum
of his address was expressed in this
sentence: "BOys, just do all the good
you can, and don't make any fuss
about it."
John G.. SAKE has a lecture this
season, on "POetry and POetS,' in
which he. ranks Bryant as first, Hal
leck second, and LOngfellOw third,
among our American bards.
Miss Susan TrestOn has recently OBJ
tanned a judgment against the ely of
Kenosha, Wis, for the sum of 81, 900,
for damages received by her when
eight years old, in consequence of an
imperfection of one of the sidewalks.
Miss TrestOn is now a young lady.
At Quincy, ILL.,, is a German, with
a curious blood mark. 1t is a perfect
deer, about the size of a silver dollar,
and on his right cheek. The form and
outline of the deer are as perfect as
could be drawn by an artist, and
shows a deer in the act Of leaping.-
1t is of a bright red color.
Charles Dickens does not use any
scenic auxiliaries in his readings, but
he has a peculiar arrangement of
lights, and carries with him his own
gas-fittings. He has his own plan OF
lighting the platform on which he
reads, and in the United Kingdom, a
gas-fitter always travels in his suite for
the purpose of fixing these lights.
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