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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
The Coming Girl.

She will vote, will be of some use in
the world, will cook her own food,
will earn her own living, and will not
die an old maid. The coming girl
will not wear the Grecian bend, dance
the German, ignore all possibilities of
knowing how to work, will not en-
deavOr to break the hearts of Unsophis-
ticated young men, will spell correctly,
understand English before she affects
French, will preside with equal grace
at the piano or wash-tub, will spin
more yarn for the house than for the
street, will not despise her plainly
clad mother, her poor relations, or
the hand of an honest worker; will
wear bonnet, speak good, plain un-
lisping English, will darn her own
stockings, will know how to make
doughnuts, and will not read the Led
ger Oftener than she does her Bible.
The coming girl will walk five miles
a day, if need be, to keep her cheeks
in a glow; will mind her health, her
physical development and her mother;
W III duOBL q GOSluulC DOlli 5EllSlDiG anu
conducive to comfort and health will
not cOnfOund hypocrisy with polite
ness; will not place lying to please
above frankness; will have courage TO
cut an UnwelcOme acquaintance will
not think refinement in French dupIic-
ity; and that assumed hospitality
where hate dWells in the heart, is bet-I
ter than condemnation; will not con-
found grace of government with silly
affection; will not regard the end of
her being to have a beau.
The coming girl will not look to
Paris, but to reason, for her fashions /;
will not aim to follow foolish fashion
because milIiners and dress-makers de-
creed it; will not torture her body,
shrivel her soul with puerilities, or
ruin it with wine and pleasure. In
short the coming girl will seek to
glOrify her Maker, and to enjoy men
tally His works. Duty will be her
aim, and life a living reality [Church
Union.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
Miscellaneous.
Josh BiIIingsiana,

Mummy has dun one thing for the
world that nothing else could have
did so well it has developed the
phOOls.
Although mankind worship wealth,
will give them credit for one thing
they seldom mistake it for brains.
Most Ov the great things have been
did by taking the chances. Prudence
has but one eye while fortune has
a thousand.
If a man had 2 stomacks and 2 out
sides, there might be some excuse for
adding 10 thousand dollars more each
year to his pile.
1 don't read emmy body else's poetry
but HOmer's, upon the same principal
that 1 always drink, when it is just as
handy, out Ov a spring instead ov a
outlet.
Treason is one ov them kind ov
stains that wash well.
If a man has got to be poor all his
life, amt sure but it would be some
mummy in his pocket to he ignorant.
Fust class virtue il always anxious
to avoid temptashun.
Yu kant transplant a Yankee sue
cPssfully without taking up good deal
of the siIe with the roots.
1t is easy enuff to git religion, but tn
hold it il what bothers a fellow. A
good grip is better than rubiz-yes
than much fine cotton clothes.
enjoy a good laff. one that rushes
out ov mans soul like the breakin
up ov Sunday School; but a lafr
that comes to the surface as hickups
cum, or backs out ov a man like the
struggles ov a chicken choked with a
chunk of half wet doe, 1 utterly la
ment.
There amt no poetry in poverty, but
emmy number ov feet ov blank verse.
am called a "brOad humOrist,"
and am glad ov it; there is plenty
Ov narrow humorists in the country
without me.
Silence is one ov the negative vir-
tues.
A puppy plays with every pup he
meets, but old dogs have but few asso-
ciates.
There is but few men who have
character enough to lead a life of idle
ness.
True love is speIt the same in ChOc-
taw as in English.
When a man loses his health, then
he fuSt begins TO take good care of if.
This is good inducement, this is!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
Easter.

Easter is a movable feast, being the
first Sunday after the full moon
which happens upon or next after the
twenty-frst day Of March Che vernal
equinox). The period during which
it can occur extends from March 22d
to April 25th-lhirty-five days.
Easter is so called from the Saxon
"Oster," to rise, being the day COM
memorative of Christ's resurrection.
The egg at Easter is an emblem OF
the rising up out of the grave, in the
same manner as the chick, entombed
as it were in the egg, is in due time
brought to life. As an emblem of the
universe, the work of the Supreme
Divinity, the egg had place in the
theology and philosophy of Egyp-
tians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks, and
Romans.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
MARRYING Fun.

Of all the silly performances adults
ever engaged in, marrying Gin fun"
seems to US least excusable; not be-
cause we would exclude fun from
matrimOny, but because something
less sacred than the obligations i'm
posed upon man and wife should be
selected for ''pure sport" We are
therefore rather inclined to enjoy the
predicameIt ola party of eight, all
highly fashionable people, who, for
lack Of something to pass the time,
were ''married in fun," at White Riv-
or Junction, Vermont, recently. At
ter the four couples were duly pro
nounced man and wife "by the laws
Of the State, and before these witness
es,' it was discovered that the man
who oficiated was really a justice OF
the peace. One Of the principal fools
in the play, a learned Professor, was
to have been married in two weeks
Seven of the party were engaged to
be married, but not to the persons
they married Gin fun" The Justice
who married them has been fined $50
a couple for his prank-he belongs to
another county, and is supposed to
have been animated by petty malice
and it is gravely announced that
the Legislature has been applied to
to unite the terrified couples. These
things do very well in q theatrical
way-in real life they are apt to
make people look very ridiculous.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
PRAYER.

Prayer is a heaven to the ship
wrecked man, an anchor to them that
are sinking in the waves, a staff to
limbs that tOtter, a mine of jewels to
the poor, a healer of diseases, and a
guardian of health. Prayer at once
secures the continuance of our bless
ings, and dissipates the clouds of our
,aIamities. o blessed prayer! thou
art the unwearied conqUe or OF human
wo 8, the firm foundation of humalt
happiness, the source of ever-enduriTg
Joy, the mother of philosophy. The
man who can pray truly; though lana
gushing in EXTREMIST ignOraEeej is
richer than all beside; whilst the
wretch who never bowed the knee,
though proudly seated as monarch Of
all nations, is of all men the most des-
titute.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15

Homes for FriendIess Females.
The following synopsis of a bill in
trOduced into the Ohio House of Rep
rgsentatives, we. clip from the CoIum-
bus CORE pondence Of the Cincinnati
Commercials
"Homes for friendless females is
another subject that has called forth
many petitions, and they are still
coming in. To meet this want Mr..
Belts has introduced "a bill authoriz-
ing County Commissioners, when the
public interest requires it, to provide
homes for friendless females, wherein
they may recieye the benefit of home
influences, be furnished with employ
ment suted to their age and condition
and be instructed in the various
branches Of domestic industry.
"SectiOn 2 of the bill provides
the manner in which the home may
be established.
"SeetiOn 3 provides for the support
of the home, when established. max
ing the Commissioners personally and
officially responsible for the proper
execution Of all trusts created in its
behalf, and also authorizes them to
provide, by taxation, for the funds
necessary for its support, in addition
to its private revenue.
"Section 4 provides for the manage
ment Of the home, vesting powers for
such purpose in a Board Of Trustees !;
providing the mode of appointment,
qualifications, terms of Office, and
manner of removal, and giving to
the Probate Judge and Commission
ers authority in such matters.
Section 3 provides for the guardian
ship, indenture and adoption Of mi
nors intrusted to the care Of the
Home, and generally defines the pow
ers of the Trustees, as to admission to
membership, their government and
discipline, their employment, and
their discharge, and for the manage
ment OF the revenue.
''SectiOn defines the duties of the
Board as to official records and reports,
and provides for the publication Of in
formation relative to the affairs Of the
institution"
This bill was prepared by Mr. Belts,
as local bill for Clinton county, but
at the solicitation of other mem
bers its provisions were made gener-
al. Ii has been prepared with view
to efficiency Of management, giving
to the Trustees almost unlimited pow
ers in matters of government and
discipline, but holding them to strict
accountability for abuses, and for the
judicious expenditure of revenue.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
Hiborough, Highland County Ohio Thursday, April
Contraction of our Currency.

No subject was ever more free from
all cOmplexity or doubt than the con-
ditiOn of our currency at the present
time. Congress, as a supposed ueces-
sity, authorized the issue Of notes as
money in excess of the natural volume
of currency, and of course beyond the
power of the Treasury or banks to
convert into specie. This caused sus-
pension and depreciation. All this is
plain and such being the cause of
our difficulties, the remedy is obvious.
Contraction must follow expansion.
There can be no other remedy posi-
bic. The project of accumulating
gold sufficient to form a basis for the
mptiOn-including the obligations
of the Government payable on de-
mand-Of thirteen hundred and nine
ty-fve millions of immediate cash liza
bilities, is preposterous, while the idea
of waiting whole generation, for the
country to grow to it," as is often
cOntended, is absurd. The manufac-
lures and trade of the nation cannot
dAOLA " OO CAAAlGl, anu uGllliGA II uCC-
essary or reasonable. But the diff
Guilty is, our statesmen do not dare to
pronounce the word contraction. The
whole immense speculative interests
of the nation are in hostile array
against any movement in that direc-
ton. The people are heeced of their
hard earnings by the present system
to the extent of some three hundred
millions per annum, and that is too
large an amount of plumber to be
quietly resigned. 1t cannot be re-
peated too often or with too much en-
phasis, that contraction is the only
means by which the currency and the
credit of the nation can restored, and
that contraction will never take place
except by the compulsory action of
COngress.-[Our Monthly Gossip, Lip
pincOtt's Magazine.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
MASCULINE Ett0uette.

1. Gentlemen walking should keep
their hands in their pockets. It shows
their figure to advantage, keeps their
hands warm and out Of other peoples
pockets.
2. In the afternoon congregate in
front of the hotels and saloons. Then
upon ladies passing, set up an equine
cachinnatiOn translated hOrse-Iaugh. }
This will give them an exalted opinion
Of your taste and refinement.
3. Keep the centre of the side walk.
By this means others, in meeting you,
will know which side to pass. When
they attempt it, step in the same direc-
ton with them. This affords an agree
able variety in a promenade.
3. If you see a person on the OppO-
site side of the street you wish to in
terrupt, cry as loud as you can, "HO,
Jones =! OF course Jones will 'Ho :"
and you will show the passers that you
take a great interest in the state Of
Jones.
5. When turning g corner, walk
rapidly, with your eyes in another di-
rectiOn. You may meet somebody,
and give them an opportunity to
study astronomy by daylight.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
Exciting Scene.

The most remarkable event in the
career Of any menagerie occurred in
Forest, Mississippi, last week, during
morning exhibition of 'Reynold's 5
Great Mexican Gymnasium and Me-
nagerie" The huge elephant Her
cules, which had been peevish and
unruly for several days, became fran
tic when rustic foisted on him a
piece of tobacco. The elephant broke
his chain, after some violent struggles,
during which the crowd fed in the
widest haste. The ponderous beast
attacked freight train that was
swiftly approaching, striking it with
such force that he broke a tusk, was
Overset, and instantly killed. The To-
comotive was thrown off the track,
ran into the canvas tent erected be-
side the road, buttcd into the lions
cage, killing the lioness, and freeing
h er mate. The latter took to flight
out of town, soaring the plodding
country folks nigh unto death, upset
ting horses and wagons, smashing
chicken coops into flinders, and other
wise violating rural etiquette. At
last advices twenty mounted horse
men, with guns, and dogs, were in
wary pursuit of the royal quadruped.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
The Chicago Equatorial TeIe'
scope.

Professor Barnard, of Columbia Col
lege, has written an interesting letter
to the College Courant of Yale, de-
scriptive of the great equatorial tele-
scope of the Dearborn University Of
Chicago, of which the Professor says
that, if it is not the largest in existence;
he would not know where to look for
a larger one mounted and in use. In
comparison with the Harvard equatO-
rial, the Chicago instrument has
light as three to two. The clear ilIum-
mating aperture has a diameter of
eighteen and a half inchCs, while that
of Harvard measures fifteen. The
whole diameter of the Chicago ObiecA
tive, mounting include 3, IS twenty
inches. The defining power of this
glass is Unrivaled, as has been salts
factOrily proved by the discovery it
enabled its constructor, Mr.. Clark, 10
make of the companion of Sirius, a
star which was confidently b. Iieved to
exist, but which had eluded the rt-
tractors Of Cambridge and PultOva (of
exactly the same capacity and the re-
Electors of Mr.. Lassell and Lord Rose.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
They Won't Trouble You Long.

Children grow up-nothing on earth
grows so fast as children. 1t was but
yesterday, and that lad. was playing
with toys, a buoyant boy. He is a
man, and gone now. There is no
more childhood for him or for US
Life has claimed him. When a be-
ginning is made it is like raveling a
stocking; stitch by stitch gives way
till all'i gone. The house has not a
child in it-there is no more noise in
the hall-boys rushing peIl-mell it
is very orderly now. There are no
more skates, sleds, balls or strings
left scattered about. Things are neat
enough now. There is no delay for
sleepy folks there is no longer any
task, before you lie down, of looking
after anybody and tucking up the
bed clothes. There are no disputes to
settle, nobody to get off to school, no
complaint, no opportunities for impos-
sible things, no rips to mend, no fin
gers to tie up, no faces to be washed,
or collars to be arranged. There was
never such peace in the house 1t
would sound like music to have some
feet to clatter down the front stairs
Oh for some children's noise What
used to all US, that we were hushing
their loud laugh, checking their moi
sy frOlic, and reprOving their slam
ming and banging the door
We wish our neighbors would only
lend US an urchin or two to make a
little noise in these premises. A home
without children! 1t is like a lantern
and no candle a garden and no flow
ers; a brook and no water gurgling
and gushing through its channel.
We want to be tried, to be vexed,
to be run over; to hear children at
work with all varieties. During the
secular days this is enough remarked.
But it is the Sabbath that puts our
home to proof. That is the Christian
family day. The intervals of public
worship are spaces of peace. The
family seems made up that day. The
children are at home, and you can lay
your hands upon their heads. They
seem to recognize the greater and
lesser love-tO God and to friends
The house is peaceful, but not still.
There is a low .melodious thrill of
children in it. But the Sabbath comes
too still now. There is a silence that
aches in the ear. There is too much
room at the table, too much at the
hearth. The bedrooms are a world
too orderly, There is too much leis-
ure and too little care. Alas what
moan these things Is somebody
growing old? Are these signs and
tokens? Is life waning p III. W.
Beecber.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
Hillside Bantisnl.

We find the following in a recent
number of the Ripley (Ohio) Bee:
A few days since, Rev. Granville
Moody, in company with two of the
class-leaders of the Methodist EpiscO-
pal Chuch, of our place, were paying
a pastoral visit among the members of
his Church living in the country, and
while ascending a hill, about one mile
and a half from town, they met a
gentleman, his lady, and two children
descending. After passing the COM
pliments of the day, Rev. Moody, as
is his custom, began to inquire of
them concerning their spiritual well
fare, and then and there preached Ie-
sus and his righteousness to them,
and urged upon them the necessity of
giving their hearts to the Savior. He
then proposed to offer up a prayer,
and kneeling down, the blessing of
God was invoked upon that little as
sembly. Upon rising from their
knees, both the gentleman and his
wife expressed a desire to live Chris
tian lives. Why then put the matter
off? There was no good reason why
they should not, and they sipnifed
their assent to do both. A little brook
was near, and the music of its clear
water could be distinctly heard purl-
ing among the rocks, and the thought
was suggested to Rev. DR.. Moody,
here is the water, the minister and
the elders of the Chuch, why not be
baptized at once? He proposed to
administer the sacred ordinance, and
the parties willingly and gladly ac-
cepting, he led them down to the
brook side, and kneeling down on a
little grassy plat, in Gods first tenn
pie, and with the leaves of the trees
bowed in silence as spectators of the
strange scene, he dipped up the water
in his hands, and, pouring it upon
their heads, baptized them in the
name of the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost. After that, the necessity
of consecrating the children to God
was impressed upon the parents. The
usual questions as to whether they
would endeavor to train up their chill
dren in the fear and admonition of the
Lord, and to do their duty as Chris
ton parents, were then pronounced,
and the oldest was baptized. The
other, an infant, had not yet been
named, but being requeated TO give it
one, the little fellow was religiously
and patriOtically given unto God by
baptism as "Ulysis Grant" Prayer
was again offered, and each one felt
that God was there, and that to bless.
Doubtless this is the first instance of
the kind that is on record since the
days of Philip and the Eunuch.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
English Emigration.

England has long tried to divert
the stream Of emigration from our
shores to Australia and New Zealand.
A good many persons were induced
to 90 to the islands by the assistance
offered them, and the gold excitement
for time greatly stimulated removal
in that direction, but the rush is now
over in a good degree. First, those
who have suffered from the inequali-
ties Of an aristOcratic Government are
desirous of being citizens of free
country, and not mere colonists sec
ond, Australia is much further off
than the United States; third, while
Australasia has some attractions, they
are more than outweighed by serious
drawbacks. New Zealand is cursed
by war with the natives, is volcan-
ic, and hence is liable to earthquakes,
while in Australia the land system is
so bad that it is not easy for new set
tiers to obtain fee simple titles to real
property. Mutton, it is true, is cheap,
but it is not profitable to the raisers.
The carcases are boiled down in ma
ny cases to save the fat, while horses
are slaughtered by thousands to avoid
the expense of keeping. The country
abounds in snakes, and suffers from
inundations through the rapid rise of
rivers, which in dry seasons are little
more than brooks. The extremes Of
heat are also greater than in the warm
est parts of the United States. On
Christmas day, which is about mid
summer in the Southern Hemisphere,
the mercury stood at 110 degrees in
Melbourne. In short, our country is
not destined to lose its supply of i'm
migrants through Australasian com
petition.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15

The female principal of young
lady's seminary in London cures the
innumerable cases of "falling in love"
that occur among her pupils with close
confinement and doses of senna tea.
She says the tea never fails. Some
times the girl gives in after a few
doses, but usually it takes two or three
days, and in one case she was a whole
week in effecting cure. For Il school
girls "calf love, 4" she declares there is
nothing like SIENNA tea.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15

Discoursing of fieas, Josh Billings
says: "They bite wus than the mus
keetoze, for they bite on a run; one
flee will 90 aul over a mans suburbs
in 2 minits, and leave him as freckled
as the meazles. 1 don't suppose there
is ever killed, on an average, during
any one year, more than Is fees in
the whole of the United States of
Amerika, unless there is a casualty of
some kind-Once and a while thare is
dog gifts drowned sudden, and then
thare is a few fees lost"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15

"Two Forty" senas correct answers to EnigmaS in
News Of April Ist His answer to Stock Problem in
same paper is right except the number Of Cattle He
says ten head but the number purchased was only fee
"H P A, :" of Portsmouth, o., also answers the
Stock Problem correctly, we'll as the Enigmas in
same paper and the Apple problem.
en- H" of Paint tp. your answer to the Stock Prob
lem is correct % head of Sheep at so cents amount to
S4s instead Of Sal, you have it. We give the cor
Isot answer in another place. We have not the
Herring Problem, to which you refer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15
A PalindrOme.

EpITaR NEws:-In one ofyour papers several weeks
since saw an article in regard to sentences that read
r'forward and backward the same " either dreamed
of or saw Latin quotation that has not only that pc
cuarity about it, but another also The hrSt letters
Of each word make the first word the second lrtters
of each word make the second word, &C. send the
sentence for publication cannot give the translation
The sentence referred to is Sdtor Gspo tens opera
rotrs Please send me the correct translation.
Bainhridge, o. fokEL'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15

The population of Cuba numbers
764,50O whites and $685. negroes
and muIattoes. Three-fourths of the
whites live in the Western Depart
ment of the island, which has thus far
been pretty free from the revolutionary
troubles,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-04-15

The Southern papers are denOun-
cling Longstreet as smuggler and we
know not what else. He was a very
honorable gentleman, fit for the COM
paniOnship and confidence Of the
Immaculate Lee, before he returned
to his allegiance to the Union with
out the usual Southern mental reser-
walton.