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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16
Miscellaneous.
Big Boots and Baggy Trowsers.


Our farmers as a general thing care
too little for dress. This is not be-
cause they have less taste than men
of other caIlings, but because they are
more careless. In some country
homes a peculiar system has prevailed
for 50 many years that it seems to
have something of the traditionary
severity of the old Mosaic law. The
master of such a home always buys a
coat with the thought that it shall last
him several years. It never does,
but be buys the next one on the same
principle. He buys his boy a pair OF
boots always two sizes too large
has his pants made 30 long in the legs
that they must always have two rolls
at the bottom, and coat that is per-
fectly ridiculous in its superhuous
bigness. He does all this so that the
boy may not out-grow them-so that
they may last him "next winter too"
In six months the boots are utterly
useless, the pants 60 to the rag box,
and the coat is laid by for rough
work. The next purchase, however,
Il made in the same way, and the boy
is doomed to live for years in a state
of helpless elumsiRess, and it is no
fault Of his parents if he do not be-
come an awkward, clumsy man.
Boots that fit always wear the long
est Coats that are pretty and com
Portable are well taken care of The
influence Of wen-ftting clothes is Of
untold Importance. 1t teaches great
lesson in manliness, and the parent
who puts his boy in ill-ftting gar
ments commits a crime, because he
gives the first lesson in carelessness
and encourages clumsiness and awk-
wardness. The foolish notion that
you will make your boy proud by
dressing him well is a humbug. he
is yO1Er boy, the best to you in the
world, your son for all time, holding
the honors of your family for a life.
1t is as easy to do right in this case
as wrong-then do right.
Teach your children to be tasty in
dress. Let the dress be simple if you
will, but pretty, comfortable, tasty.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16
At what Age to Marry.

Most persons marry when the s'ft
is on" regardless Of considerations Of
physiological and economical pru-
dence. No lady should marry while
she acts like a girl and feels like q
girl. The spirit Of rOllicking gaiety,
and the passion for society and fun,
perceptibly give place to the more so
Der sentiment Of wOmanly dignity
before assuming the responsibilities
Of WifehOOd and motherhood. GirIish
Glove fts7 should be restrained until
the lady has some consciousness Of
the dignity of WOmanhOOd, and until
she feels her higher destinies pressing
down and superceding her girlish
proclivities.
No young man should marry until
he has sOWn his wild oats, feels like
settling down to a sober life, and has
some place Of his own, in which he
can settle down in manly indepen-
denee. But little is required to vim
dictate his manhood in this last respect,
since humble home Is the most nat
ural Of all homes, and the best pOssi-
bic home for any family.
Psychologists tell Us that persons
should not marry till the bodily de-
velOpment is matured and hardened
into solid wOmanhOOd and manhood.
MOralists tell US that marriage should
be chiefly governed by a regard for
the physical and mental welfare Of the
offspring. Practical economists tell
Us that the family relation should not
be incurred until at least an humble
home is secured free from the land
lords exactions.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The demand for cheap shoes has
been so pressing Of late years, says the
Lynn Reporter, that it has induced
the most rigid economy in the manu-
facture. Hardly a scrap of leather is
allowed to go to waste. The wagon
loads Of odds and ends made in cut
ting-the refuse Of the splitting ma
chines-are all worked up again into
the kind Of leather known as Hpan-
cake" This is made by pasting and
pressing together the scraps Of which
we have spoken. This being rolled
and dried, is made to do service in
the cheaper grades of shoes as inner
sole leather, or as cliffs, for heels
So skilfully are these operations per-
formed, that sometimes the substitute
Is, for some purposes, almost as good
as the genuine article. Some firms
do large business in the manufac-
ture of 'spancake," which is accomp-
lished by powerful machinery driven
by steam.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16
NntlonnIDehfs.

Misery loves company, and 80 our
tax payers may find consolation in
reading the following:
We owe now S2,5O8, ,125,16O.
England, with smaller population
and a poorer country, owes s4,OO3,-
.794, 235.
France owes s2,34O,O29,8 $50; her
debt has increased one hundred and
thirty per cent. in thirteen years, and
increases yearly, while the pOpula-
tion remains almost stationary.
Austria owes s1,316,1O3,2O1, and
has increased her debt one hundred
eight per cent. in eighteen years.
Italy owes S1,O71, ,818, $40, and her
debt has increased in six years one
hundred and ffty-eight per cent.
Prussia owes S245, 1885, ,503, and has
lately spent much more than her in
come.
Spain, with less than half our pop
ulation, and not a twentieth part OF
our wealth or productive power, owes
S8l9,887, $50.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

Suppose you only have a few mo-
ments every day. One of the hOliest
men 1 ever knew, never read more
than five or ten verses at once. Ev-
cry verse had so broad and many-sid-
ed Specification, that few words
gave him as much mental food as he
could bear at one time.-Throughout
the day they came upon him in all
their various applications and shades
Of meaning, as circumstances placed
him now in one position and now in
another.
The promises in the Bible are NOT
made to one act, but to the continued
habit of prayer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The PRoOF.-Some years ago a
Frenchman, who, like many of bis
countrymen, had won a high rank
among men Of science, yet denied the
God who is the author of all science,
was crossing the Great Sahara in COM
pany with an Arab guide.
He noticed with a sneer that at GER
tain times his guide, whatever obsta-
cles might arise, put them all aside,
and kneeling on the burning sand,
called on his God. Day after day
passed, and the Arab never failed ;
till at last, one evening, the philOsO-
pher, when he arose from his knees,
asked him with q contemptuOus
smile, "HOw do you know there is a
God p The guide fixed his burning
eye on the scoffer for moment in
wonder, and then said sOlemnly,
"How do l know there is a God ?
How did l know that q man and a
camel passed my hut last night in the
darkness2 Was it not by the prints
of his foot in the sand? Even so,
and he pointed to the sun, whose last
rays were fading over the lonely des-
ert, ''that footprint is not of man"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16
Local Rnners.

The Western Rural has half col.
umn article on "Local Newspapers, u
in concluding which it says:
One great reason for endeavoring to
make your home paper a good one is,
that whether well or poorly sustained,
it is taken by strangers as the ipGleg OF
the prosperity Of the section tohere pub
Lisbed. One wishing to go to a new
place naturally looks to the local paper
to give him information concerning
the resources and developments of the
vicinity, and its appearance and con-
tents exercise no small influence in
deciding as to the desirability Of the
location. The influence of a well
conducted paper in attracting attention
and immigration to a town or county,
and consequently, increasing the value
of property, is very great, and is a
sufficient reason why it should receive
support from all enterprising and in
teIligent citizens.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16
Catholic and Protestant Pray


OAlMDAAG anu EEOae8l8Ms ERE4Wu
ing.
There is a difference between Catho-
OliCs and PrOtestants in this matter OF
praying. When a Protestant prays
in public he is apt to hide his face,
and bends low in an awkward, un-
comfortable attitude; and when be
would pray in private he retires to
some secret place, where, If any one
should catch him at it, he would blush
like a guilty thing. 1t is not so with
our Roman Catholic brethren. They
kneel, it is true, but the face is never
hidden; and, as if this were not
enough, they make certain move
ments of the hand, which distinctly
annOunce their purpose to every be-
holder. The same freedom and bold
ness are observable in Catholic chill
dren when they say their nightly
prayers. Your littls Protestant bur
les its face in the bed, and whispers
its prayer to the counterpane; but our
small Catholic brethren and sisters
kneel upright, make the sign Of the
cross, and are not the least ashamed
or disturbed if any one sees them.
Another thing strikes a Protestant
spectator of Catholic wOrship-the
whole congregation, without exeep-
tiOn, observe the etiquette Of the Occa-
sion. When kneeling is in order, all
kneel; when it is etiquette to stand,
all stand; when the prayer-bOok says
bow, every head is low. These two
peculiarities are cause and effect. A
Protestant child often has some reason
to doubt whether saying its prayers
is, after all, "the thing" since it Is
aware that some Of its most valued
friends and relations do not say theirs.
/ II Atlantic Monthly, for April.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The Egyptian Lotus, is a fine
aquatic plant sacred to Osiris and Isis,
and regarded in Egyptian delineations
as slgnifying the creation of the world.
The only place where it is known to
grow spontaneously in this country Is
in a pond in Middlesex county, Conn.
The origin Of the plant in this spot is
not known, but here It fOurishes In
great perfection. The leaves, slightly
resembling those Of the pond lily, are
nearly round and about two feet in di-
ameter. The flower bud is long and
pear shaped, white and slightly resem-
bling the magnolia, when not unfoIded.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

One hundred and fifty people o.
the name of Johns met at Dayton the
other day, to talk over a little matter
of some 500, 100000 to which they
believe themselves entitled as heirs Of
an old Welsh estate. They have also
a milestone quarry in Pennsylvania
to sharpen their anxiety for their IN
heritance, which may be denomlnated
a real Welsh rare-bit. Aneke Jams is
nowhere.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

Sergeant Bates, who is carrying the
national flag through the South, is
feted by the rebels Of every large town
through which he passes. Their
object is to make it appear that they
are thoroughly reconstructed. The
Augusta (GeOrgia) Chronicle shows
the animus Of their policy by pFaising
Bates as "bold vindicator Of South
ern sentiment"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The Council Bluffs NonpareiI relates
the following, which happened in that
vicinity not long ago: can exhOrter
at a revival meeting became rather
indignant because a brother was his
superior IN singing" and said: sBroth-
er -- can sing and pray but by
the blessing Of God, there's one thing
I can beat him in-I can fiddle his
shirt of"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

Mrs. F. Noys, of Amesbury, recent
" killed a Brahma rooster which had
thirteen nickel cents and two two
cent pieces, and other indigestible ar
ticles in his crop. He was the wealth
lest rooster in town, but having left
no will, his property goes to the heir
at law.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

LAWYERs.-In the whole United
States there are 1926 lawyers. OF
these, 1850 have retired, and 1850
occupy judicial positions, leaving 31,-
$50 in actual practice. These earn an
average OfabOut 81, 900, or 500, ,972, 900.
The State of Ohio tOlerates 1850 men,
bers of the legal fraternity, ranking
third in the extent of her bar. New
York, with 6,2O5, is first in the list,
and Pennsylvania, with 1898, is sec
Or,d
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

An urchin not quite three years
old, said to his sister, while munching
a piece of ginger bread: Isis, take
half of dis cake to keep to afternoon,
when I get cross" This is nearly as
good as the story of the child who
beloved from the top of the stairs :
'Ma, Hannah won't pacify me!7
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

RATHER HEAVY.-A few nights
since, a party of young gentlemen in
st. Joseph, serenaded a young lady.
At the close Of their musical perform
ance a card was dropped from win
dow by the young lady, upon which
was written the following: "COmpli-
ments Of the young ladies to Yankee
RObinsOn's menagerie. The monkeys
perform admirably"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The influence Of the press is rapid
ly increasing in pagan lands. A mis-
sionaFy at KolopOOr, India, writes
that in 1866 he circulated 461O vol
umes of the publications of the Amer
can Tract Society. He says that the
number of HindOO readers shows a re-
markabIe increase from year to year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

Henry Ward Beecher says: "Life
would be a perfect flea hunt if a man
were obliged to hunt down all the inu-
endoes, inveraclties, insinuatiOns and
suspicious which are uttered against
him"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16
Youths Department.

Iorigiua Problems Puzzles, &C., solicited. The rea
name Of the author and the answer to each must &C
company ell eontributions.l
Enigmas.
l.
7 an composed Of n letters.
Ny is domestic animal.
Ny 6 is an article Of dress.
Ny 10 3 is en- irregular verb.
Nv 10 II IS . Wild animal.
NV Z 5 is on adverh.
Ny whole is the pauie Of.AtORntn TenaeEsse.
HillsbOrO, o. MAURICE.
lam composed Of 10 letters.
My62447l is a vessel.
NY 10 is planet. ....
Nv B 10 10 is girls name.
Ms q 10 lisa digit.
NY whole is the name Of the lady that signs her
name Pap's pet. SIS.
--r-., ..---.. 3, ..
am composed Of Is letters.
NY 4 u Is a county in Viryinia. t.r .
NV II IA I5 is a species of the genus DfWs.
NV 10 rs s a II is a musical instrument.
NV IL $3.50 II are in demand during winter.
MyB II Is s Is an elevation.
Mys II II lB is a comfy in Pennsylvania.
MylO5T IL IS IL are friEhtful beiugs.
Ny whole is 8 'heayy' body that moves slowly
Waverly, o. FIDES.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The rates of freigAt ffom Omaha TO Chey-
enne are stated by the Omaha Herald as
follows; First class, s. 80 per hundred;
second class, 50 70; third class, IS IS, lum-
Der In lots Of 5000 and over, S3Oi live
stock, per ear, $I25; gFaia and mill stun
in lots Of rs, 900 pounds and over, 81 so
per hundred. Passenger fare, 94I so.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

KIopstock engraved on hegrave oil
his wife two sheaves of wheat, thrown,
as it were, carelessly together, with
the words, "we shall ripen in heav-
en-"
To which he might have added,
UOr be threshed elsewhere.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

Paper boats, for racing purposes,
seem to be growing in favor, and may
soon supercede those made Of wood.
Messrs. Waters & Son, Of Troy, are
now building a six-Osred boat for the
Harvard University Club. Its weight
will be only about one hundred
pounds, fully one half less than the
lightest wooden boat ever constructed,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

A gentleman was chiding his son for
staying out late of nights, or rather early
of next morning, and said: "Why, when 1
was Of your age, my father would not al
low me to 60 out Of the house after dark. I"
"Then you had gay old father, you had, +"
sneered the young profigate. Whersupon
the father very rRshly vocifeFated: al had
a coufounded sight better one than you
have, you young rascal!"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

Mr.. George StrOdell, of Hunting
don, Ind, aged sixty-six, is the father
Of thirty-three children; and a local
sheet intimates that looming events"
continue to "cast their shadows be-
fOreO
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

vhv Is your nose in the middle of your facet Be.
cause Il ia the scsntsr. ..#.g
why is oofes Ike an axe With dull sdgey Because
/ a has 20 be ground before It Is used.
| when Is young mans arm like the GospeR When
/ Il makstb glad the waist places.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

81 hope, my little daughter" j." I said
one morning, "that you will be able
to control your little temper to-day" ."
Yes, mamma; and 1 hope you will
be able to control your big temper"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The little son of a Pittsfeld clergy
man, seeing his mother making bis
cult on Sunday for supper, asked her
If it wasn't wicked to work on Sun
day? Being answered in the afirma-
tive the three-year old rejoined, coon
catch It when you get to Heaven !'l
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

Mrs. Mary s. Frazier, wife Of Asbury
Frazier, died at her residence in Leb-
anon, on Monday last, aged seventy
years. She was born in Waynesville
in the year 1898. It is believed that
she was the first white female child
born in what is now Warren county.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

A Boston teacher who, in a fit Of
vexatiOn, called her pupils set Of
young addeFs, on being reprOved for
her language, apOlogized by saying
she was speaking to those just COM
mencing arithmetic.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

A Paris Iandlady requested a Christ
mas party on the third floor to cease
dancing, as a man below them was
dying. The guests acquiesced. Re
turning an hour later, "My dear
children" she exclaimed, with the
most benevolent smile, ''you may be-
gin again; he is dead"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

RESUMPTION OF THE DEATH PEN.
ALTY.--The Grand Council of the
Canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland,
has re-established the penalty of death,
which was abolished twenty years
ago.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

committee rooms to good advantage.
In this respect Mr, Clarke has been
signally fortunate. He seems to have
a natural aptitude for public business,
and has shown capacity for the
work that has, come tos hls hands that
has surprised his most intimate
friends. He has been Is close student
of the legislation of Congress, for the
last four years. The speeches he has
delivered on various subjects have in
variably been listened to with respect,
and have been highly commended by
the leading newspapers of the cOun-
try. More important than all is the
fact, that he has entered with the ut
most fervor into the Congressional
plan of reconstruction, and is thor
oughly eonversant with all the bear
ings of that great question, upon the
final decision of which rests the future
destiny Of the nation.
All the various phases Of public
sentiment in the South have been ar
it were daguerreotyped on the minds
of the public men who have lived in
Washington during the last three
years. Not only the general outlines
Of the case and the general progress
of events, but the minutest details Of
the great civil contest between the
rebel and loyal plans of reconstruc-
ton have been indelibly impressed on
their minds. It is clear to any un-
prejudieed mind that so valuable an
experience should not be lightly
thrown away; and that no new man
coming to the next session of Con-
gress would be able to act with the
same knowledge Of affairs, the same
discretion, and the same sagacity as
would a member who has been here
through the whole contest, and made
himself familiar with all its details.
1t is confidently hoped that the Union
men of the 9th District, in selecting
their candidate for the 41st Congress,
will see and feel the necessity of re-
tanning men Of experiencein Congress,
and that Mr.. Clarke may be renomi-
mated to the position he now so worth
lily fills.
There is still another reason for re-
turning Mr.. Clarke and one which
in my Judgment will commend itself
to the favorable consideration of eve
ry Union man; that is, that he is in
full political sympathy with, and an
intimate personal friend of General
Ulysses S. Grant, who has already
been nominated in the hearts Of the
people as our next standard bearer in
the campaign, and who will, without
doubt, be our next President.
In conclusion let me say that while
there are many men in the 9Th Dis
trict of undoubted ability, patriotism
and moral worth, who would faithful
ly represent the Union-lOving people
of the District, 1 am clearly of the opin-
ion that at this crisis of our Nations
history, when the work Of reconstruc-
tion begun by the 39th Congress, and
gloriously carried forward by the 4Oth
is yet incomplete, the best interests Of
the country, of the State of Ohio, and
of the 9th District, call for the renom-
ination of Hon. R. W. Clarke. B.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

A person was boasting that he
sprung from a high family. eyes"
said bystander, 81 have seen some
of the same family so high that their
feet could not touch the ground"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The man who cannot ''fnd words
enough to express his gratitude" is
advised to purchase a copy Of Webs
ter's Dictionary.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

johnson ought to be good tailor, since
he is good at nothing else; but he made q
ridiculous failure when he attempted TO
take the measure Of Grant.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-16

The Hon. James J. Babcock, a
Democratic orator of Conn, is report
ed to have closed brilliant speech in
New Hampshire with the following
burst of eloquence: elf you choose to
marry blacks you may do so, but as
for myself, when I marry, I shall
marry one Of aly oaon ser."