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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
A Batch of Bon NTots.

Russian America is a nice country.
1t has always been celebrated for its
furs. A well known agriculturaIist as
serts that fir trees may be seen grow
ing there in open plains in the sum-
mer months.
The fisheries too can not be too
highly appreciated indeed, Secretary
Seward made pretty kettle of fish
in buying the territory. There are
some species of fish that we have not
yet mentioned; the SHOWS melt there
in the summer, and the species of
| suckers that will soon manifest their
presence, now that the United States
has its lines around the coast.
The elections returns will always
come in promptly, the inhabitants live
so near to one of the poles.
The climate is delightfully."- mild, for
it is reported that the Governor and
his staff wear-s-nO(w) shoes in tEavers-
ing the territory.
Since tho ratification of the treaty.
stoves have gone up; and it was re-
ported that hard wear generally would
become good property, many polite
ians have had hopes of their cOnscien-
ces, which are noted for hard wear.
1t is thought that a standing army
will have to be maintained there, as
the Russians report Staying among the
natives all the year around. The ar
my will be uniformed in frieze.
Esq. Maux, a Justice of the Peace
in some of the extreme upper coun-
ties, has petitiOned for them to be set
off as a new State to be entitled L. S.
Place of the seal
An investigating committee from
Congress will start Immediately to as
certain if it is the place of the green
seal, as it is reported that water is so
scarce the people find reindeer there.
Notwithstanding but few heated ar
guments among the people, great cool
ness often prevails in this country be-
tween friends, the principal point of
difference being the freezing point.
Travellers represent the past season
in the territory as very gay; the prin-
cipal balls of the season, snow balls,
were a round of enjoyment to the
projectors, and the acknowledged hits
of the season by those who came in
contact with them. The upper prov
inces played their cards well, and 'Old
sledge' is popular.
The great seal of the territory will
be furnished at any 4ime by the in
habitants, who have seals enough of
all sizes for any purpose.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
Wife that Crows.

There is in this city a young mar
ried woman who is very strongly af-
hiCted with mania for Initiating the
growing of the morning cock, while
in a state of somnolence. We are
assured that at the hour appointed
by nature for chanticleer to frighten
away the midnight providers from
yaWning graveyards, the fortunate
husband of the ecrowing wife' on the
the first night of his marriage, was
reused from his slumbers by a most
lusty growing. On opening his eyes
what was his astonishment to behold
his better half seated in the middle of
the connubial couch, Tapping her
wings and growing in a clear voice,
stretching out her neck in the most
approved rooster fashion! Thrice did
she thus "herald in the morn,'' and
then sank back and slept on. In the
morning he spoke to her about it, and
was not more surprised than amused
to learn, that she had been born in the
country, and that a favOrite ''Shang-
hai," which roasted with his feathered
family in the hen coop near the win
dow of the maternal bed-chamber,
frightened her mother by his loud
growing, and thus the child was
"marked." And ever since she has
been wont to wake the echoes of the
coming dawn by initiating eye rOos-
ter" and still each morn she flaps her
wings and crows.
AS the business of the husband re-
quires him to rise very early, he is
rather pleased than otherwise to find
his wife possessed of this additional
accomplishment, which dispenses
with the necessity of having ali alarm
clock, though having heard his grand
mother say that the growing of hen
indicated ill-luck, unless her head
were Immediately cut of, he is in
some doubt, whether, in order to Sc
cure good fortune to his household, he
is not in duty bound to stop his wife's
Growing by severing her musical
throat. We advise him to let his hen
crow on, so long as she does not "peck"
him.
Some persons may question the
truth of this remarkable incident, bnt
we can assure such that it is true in
every particular, and can be vouched
for by responsible parties who have
known the lady from infancy; and
the moral of it is, that ladies who do
not desire "crOwing children" should
not sleep too near the hen-coop.-
Richmond Va. Ex.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
Preservation Of Harness and
Carriages.


A large portion of those who own
harness and carriages, either through
ignorance or carelessness, pay so little
attention to their preservation, that
in a few months they generally look
soiled and old. If proper care is ta-
ken, this may be avoided. The pFin-
ciFal difficulty results from allowing
the mud to remain on for long time,
or from the manner in washing it off,
and we will give a few hints about
keeping harness and carriages in good
order.
Those who have the care of harness
need not be troubled to prevent it
from getting wet, for leather, if in good
condition, is seldom injured by water.
Care should be taken, however, to
hang up the harness, and not allow
it to be thrown into a heap on the
floor, to lie and mould, insted Of dry
ing OFF.
The leather should be kept fairly
oiled, but the harness should first be
taken apart and washed with soft
water, and the oil may be rubbed in
while the leather is moist. care being
taken that the application is thorough
ly made. For this purpose meats foot
oil is considered the best. If the har-
ness also needs blackiEg, a little lamp
black should be added to the oil, and
the rubbing should be continued until
a white cloth may be used in wiping
off the harness without being sOiled.
Leather varnish should never be used
on harness. In cleaning the plating,
rotten stone or whiting may be used,
but generally an occasional rubbing
off with a wooden cloth will be ali
that is necessary.
The first thing to remember in
cleaning a carriage is that the mud
which may accumulate is not to be Ia
ken off by rubbing if it is dry, (and
it should never be allowed to become
so if it is possible to prevent it, soak
it well and let it get soft, so that ~
throwing on water it will run of.
After the carriage has been thus thor
oughly rinsed of, and the corners
cleaned out, the work may be finished
with a pail of clean cold water and a
good sponge; if the sponge is not
clean it will be likely to scratch the
paint. After washing, a piece Of cham
Ois skin should be used to rub all the
paint and polished work until it is
thoroughly dry. 1t is hardly neeessa-
ry to say that no one who cares at all
for nice looking carriage will ever
leave dirt in the corners.
There need be no fear Of washing
carriage too often if washed every
time it is run out, and dried we'll with
a chamOis skin, there will generally
be less trouble about the cracking Of
paint. But the care of a carriage does
not end with the washing. A suita-
BILE room to keep it in is always a very
important consideration. A coach
house that is not properly ventilated,
or in a damp place, where steam Of
any kind passes through it, will, in Il
short time, furnish the opportunity
for destroying the best painted car
riage ever made; in these cases it is
too common to attribute the fault to
the painter.-[American Stock jour
nal
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
China.

Mr.. Caleb Cushing, who is perhaps
the best authority in the United States
on Chinese affairs, tells us that China
contains single provinces, each Of
which--in population, wealth, civil
ization, education, and all else that
gives power to a State-is superior to
England, France, Prussia, or any 9TH
er of the powers of Europe; that the
empire has 2OO,O0O,OOO inhabitants,
(mOre than all Europe cOmbined) !;
that this inconceivably vast pOpula-
tiOn is governed by the strongest,
brightest intellects of the land, upon
a system which was old thousands of
years before the oldest Governments
of Europe began to exist; that educa-
ton is universal, even more general
than with us, there being absolutely
no class of people that can not read
and write; that the great body of Chi
nese are intelligent, industrious, apt
to learn anything and everything, fru-
gal, pre-enlinentIy patriotic, and more
profoundly attached, perhaps, than the
people of any other nation in the
world to their own laws and institu-
tions; that China was great nation
ages before what we call the ancient
nations of Greece and Rome had been
founded, and has remained a great ma
ton, while its earliest eOtempOraries,
Egypt and Assyria, are only known im-
perfectly in the most ancient of the
earliest records of our race f; that ROths-
childs, AstOrs and Stewarts among the
milliOnaires of Europe and Amer
lea, are but pigmies in wealth com
pared to some Of the great capitalists
of China.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
Prompt Reply.

Rev. Rowland Hill used to ride to
and from church in carriage. This
gave offence te one of his members at
least, who went so far as to hand in
among the notices one requesting "the
prayers of this congregation for the
pastor, who, yielding to pride, is in
the habit of riding in his carriage,
not content, like his Divine Master, to
ride upon an ass" 1t was not till Mr..
H. had read the paper, and observed
the sensation created, that he noticed
it's import; then laying it down, he
said, sit is true, brethren, 1 ride in
my carriage, but if the author of this
notice will appear at the door at the
conclusion of the services, saddled and
bridled, I will do my best to ride him
home"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
Poetry.
AHYMN OF PEACE.



CTo the music of Keller's "American Hymn.') .
Or. Holmes has written the following hymn for tn
Peace Jubilee in Boston:
Angel Of Peace, thou hast wandered too longi
Spread thy white wings to the sunshine Of love
Come while our voices are blended in song
Fly 10 our ark like the storm-beaten dOvel
Fly to our ark on the wings Of the dove,-
Speed DER the far-sOunding billOws Of song,
Crowned with thine olive-lsaf garland Of love-
Angel Of Peace, thou hast waited too lOngl
Brothers we meet, on this altar of thine
Minging the gifts we have gathered for thee.
Sweet with the Odors Of myrtle and pine,
Breeze Of the prairie and breath Of the sea-
Meadow and mountain and forest and sea-
Sweet is the fragrance Of myrtle and pine,
. SWeeter the incense we offer to thee,
Brothers once more round this altar of thine
Angels Of Bethlehem, answer the strainI
Har1I a new birth song is ailiBg the sky
Loud as the storm-wind that tumbles the uain,
Bid the full breath of the organ reply
Let the loud tempest Of voices reply
Roll its leng surge like the earth-shaking main
Swell the vast song till It mounts to the sky
Angels Of Bethlshem, echo the strain
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
AnOther Forward NOV ement

1t has been arranged by the mana
gers Of Ohio Democracy to introduce
into the State Convention for Governor
the name of General VIM. S. ROsecrans,
and the delegations are being fixed up
to bring about his nomination. This
will be in the line of recent Democrat
ic precedent. Those they have abused
the most shamefully they use whenev.
er permitted, to accomplish their own
purposes Dayton Journal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

BED BUGs.-If any of your readers
need a sure remedy for bed bugs, they
can have mine, and cleanse the house
of this troublesome vermin, with little
little expense. They have only to
wash with salt and water, filing the
cracks where they frequent with salt,
and you may look in vain for them.
Salt seems inimical to bed bugs, and
they will not trail through it. think
it preferable to all ointment, and the
buyer requires no certificate as to its
OenuinenPSS,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

CURRANT WINE.-Take five pounds of
currants, four pounds of sugar, and five
quarts of water; mash the currants, add
the water, let it stand for three days, stir
it often during the time, then drain through
the sieve, squeeze the pulp through a
cloth, add the sugar, stir until it dissolves,
put in a cask, when fermentation is over,
fasten tight, keep all winter, in the spring
bottle after a second fermentation.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
Another Cure for Mad Dog
Bites,


A Maryland man asserts from eX-
perience that eIecampane is a sure
remedy against hydrOphUbia. He
says:
Immediately after being bitten,
take one half ounce of the root Of the
plant-the green root is preferable,
but the dried will answer and may be
found in our drug stores, and was used
by me-slice or brui5e, put into pint
of fresh milk, boil down to a half pint,
strain, and when cold, drink, fasting
for at least six hours afterwaTd. The
next morning, fasting, repeat the dose,
using two ounces of the root. On the
third morning take another dose, pre-
pared as the last, and this will be suf-
ficient. It is recommended that af-
ter each dose nothing be eaten for at
least six hours"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

DRIED FRUIT CUsTARD.-Boil, till per-
fectly soft, a cup of dried peaches or ap-
pies, (the former makes the incest GUS
tard.) Take six eggs, half a pound of
butter and the same of sugar. Beat the
volks and sugar together till light, and
froth the whites; melt the butter, and rub
the fruit through colander, till it is a
smooth, soft mass. Mix all together and
flavor with essence of lemon. Have ready
a nice puff paste, and pour on the custard
and bake. This quantity will make two
MES
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

APPLE CREAM.-Take quart of stewed
apples strained through a sieve; sweeten,
add cinnamon to taste; while the apples
are boiling hot, add a lump of butter the
size of a walnut, and the yolks of three
eggs, beat all well together, then beat the
white of the eggs to a stiff frOth, put the
white in a kettle of boiling water and
scaId, skim out and lay on the apple; lay
Jelly on the white of the egg. This is an
excellent dish to set off a table.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
Answer to Sheep Problem in News of June
10th

We will distinguish the men BY A and B. If gives
to A, then has less and A more than he had at
first, they then equal, their difference first
must have been plus equals 2 and by the second
condition, if gives TO b, then has less and l
than he had at first; and the difference between
their numbers at that time is / plus equals more
than it first but by the first condition we fOuHd
that the difference between their numbers at first was
2: hence the difference now is plus equals 4; and
if BIS Is twice AS and has only more than A.
then twice A'5-Ouce rs which is once AS equals
but now has l less than he had at first hence 4
plus equals 5, AS number at rst and piss equals
Z, BIS number at first. VINE.
Answer to Problem in last weeks News: TBS.
Answer TO Enigma in last weeks Ncws s. L. Rod
key aud Sale Storcr.
Answer to Puzzle in last weeks Nows: Maryland.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

No matter how wealthy you may be-nO
matter what his expectations as your heir
the knowledge of some form of labor, or
some profession, can do your child no
harm, and may be his salvation in the
day of calamity. At any rate it will oc-
cupy his thought and time at that perilOUs
period in life, when the young man is
passing out from under the control of par
ents, and thinks it is time for him to take
the helm of his own ship:
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
BOrax i'm Household Economy.

For LAUNDRY.-One large handful of
borax powder to ten gallons of boiling wa
ter, will make linen most beautifully
white, and save at least one half in SOAP
1t improves the appearance Of the tex
lures. An extra quantity is used for laces,
cambrics, etc.
A strong solution is necessary for cam
brics, or any goods required very stiff. It
does not in the least impair the fabric.
For TOILET-It sOftens the hardest wa
ter, and should be kept on the toilet table.
1t will clean the hair when in strong so
luton, better than any other wash. 1t
sOftens the hair, and makes the scalp
clean.
For DENTIFRICE.-Two ounces prepared
chalk, half ounce borax powder, quarter
ounce cassia powder, half ounce of orris
root pulyerized.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
wedding Rings in England.

Although a ring is absolutely necessary
in a Church of England marriage, it may
be of any metal, and of any size. Some
years since ring of brass was used at
Worcester at a wedding before the regis
trar, who was threatened with proceedings
for not compelling gold one to be em-
ployed. A story is told of the wedding of
two paupers, who came to the church and
requested to be married with the church
key, as the parochial authorities had not
furnished them with a ring. The clerk,
feeling some delicacy about using the key,
fetched an old curtain ring from his own
house, and with that article the marriage
was celebrated. The church key was used
in lieu Of a wedding ring at a church near
Colchester early in the present century;
and that was not solitary instance with
in the past one hundred years in this
country. The Duke of Hamilton was
married at May Fair with a bed-curtain
ring. "Notes and Queries" for October,
1860, relates that ring of leather, cut
transversely from finger of the BRIDE
grOom's glove, was used as a substitute
for the wedding ring on one occasion. a
clergyman unjustifably stopped a we'd
ding in India because the bridegroom Of
fered diamond ring instead of one gen.
orally in use. In Ireland the use of gold
ring is superstitiously required.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
PicIkIRh Cherries.

Take cherries (ox hearts are the best,)
leave on the stems; for ten pounds of
fruit take six pounds of sugar, five pints
of best vinegar, use cloves, cinnamon,
mace; put the spice and sugar in the vim
egar, boil and skim; put the fruit in jars,
strain the vinegar over them hot, repeat
this three times; fasten tight and set away
for use.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

A gentleman was chiding his son
for staying out late at night and
said
"Why, when was of your ago, my
father would not allow me to 90 out
of the house after dark"
"Then you had a deuce of ia ther,
you had, said the young profigate.
Whereupon the father very rash "
vOciferated: oI had a confounded
sight better one than you have, you
young rascalp
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24
HOusekeeper's Corner.
THE PERPLEXED HOUsEKRBPRR'S
SOLILOQUY.


By MRS. 2. D. GAGE.
wish I had a dozen pairs
OF hands this very minute
I'D soon pit aH these things to rights
The very deuce. is in it.
Here's big washing to be done,
One pair Of hands to do It.;
Sheets, shirts, stockings, coats and pants
How will ever get through it7
Dinner to get for six or more,
No loaf left DER from Sunday;
And baby as cross as he can live
He's always on Monday.
And there's the cream, it's getting sour
And must forthwith be ehurnings
Aud here's Bob wants a button on
Which way shall be turningi
'Tis sms the meat vas IN the pot,
Thelbread was.worked for baking,
The clothes we're taken from the boil
Oh dearl the baby's waking
Hush, baby there, husb-sh-shl
I wish he'd sleep little,
Till could run and got some wood,
To hurry up the kettle.
deari o dsarI If p comes home,
And nnds Things IN this DOtneEs
He'll jubt begin to tell meall
About his tidy mOtherI
How nice her kitchen used to be,
Her dinner always ready,
Exactly when the nOon-bell rang-
Hush, hush, dear little Freddy
And then will come some hasty word
Right out before I'm thinking
They say that hasty words from wives
Set sober men to drinking.
Now isn't it great idea,
That meR should take to shining,
Because weary, hall-siek wife
Can't always smile so Winningl
When was young, used TO earn
Ny living without trouble;
Had clothes and pocket money, too,
And hours Of leisure double. .-
I never dreamed of such fate,
When I, a lass, was oourtsd-
Wife, mother, nurse, seamstress, ,Iaundress, cook,
housekseper, ehambermaid, dairy woman, and scrub
generally, doing the work Of six,
For tho sake Of being supported
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

Little fires in gardens and orchards,
at early twilight, burning ten or fifteen
minutes, will attract and consume
swarms of moths, beetles, bugs and
curcuIios, and thus save the crop of
fruit. Light wood obtained and split
beforehand, enough for the whole sea-
son, or flat-bottomed tin lamps, like
those of the campaign torches will
be equal to money at a hundred per
cent. in every mans pocket who owns
either garden or Orchard.-[Treat.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

Two Western journals are quarrel
ing, and the editor of one, speaking of
the editor of the other, says: "He
thinks we often get into water too
deep for US. Possibly, but he will
never run the same risk, as he never
uses any water internally or external
ly. He had better do so while he can,
for by and by he will go where there
is none"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

"I suppose, said a quack, while
feeling the pulse of a man who had
reluctantly submitted to solicit his ad-
vice-"I suppose you think me a bit
of a humbug?" "Sir," graveIy re-
piled the sick man, 81 was not aware
until now that you could read a mans
thoughts by feeling his pulse"
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"Dar are," said sable orator, "two
roads thro' dis world. De one am a
broad and a narrow road dat leads to
perdition, and de udder am a narrow
and broad road dat leads to shure
destruction" "If dat am de case" 5"
said a sable hearer, "dis culIud, indi-
yidual takes to de woods"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-06-24

CHOw-CHow.-Take one large head Of
white cabbage, take three green peppers,
take about ten green tomatoes, large table
spoonful of mustard, dessert-spOOnful of
salt; chop all fine and mix we'll together,
with enough vinegar to wet through.
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The nearest approach to utility yet made
in the velOcipede business is that of an in
ventor at Lansinghurg, New York, who
has arranged a rOcking-chair seat to the
three-wheeled vehicle. The weight of the
rider in the ace of rocking prOpels the
machine at a speed of ten miles an hour,