The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-07-08
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The New York Commercial calls
Miss Ida Lewis the s'Great American
Life Preserver."
Henry Ward Beecher says it will
never do to "preach cream and prac-
tise skim milk"
Tennyson has a printing Office in his
house, and sends his works to his pub
fishers in type.
The Latin word for woman is muller.
No wonder the sex are SO obstinate.
Thomas Mast, the artist, makes 5000
to $500 a week by his cartoons and
sketches for Harper's Weekly and 9TH
er illustrated periodicals.
Two physicians in Massachusetts
have been sued for malpractice in cut
ting of. the wrong finger of a patient,
and the jury awarded 81 ,4O7 DANA
ges.
An imitator is the poorest variety
of all ''taters."
A Wisconsin couple quarreled about
whether there should be saleratus in
''faPlacks," and applied for divorce.
Austria has 100000 acres of for
ests produced by planting. Their val
ue is estimated at several hundred mil
lions of fOrins.
The NabOb of Bengal, according to
HindOO custom, had all his cooking
done in the bedrooms of his suite du-
ring his visit in Paris. The result is
a set of very filthy apartments in the
Grand Hotel.
Thirty-six men perisbed by the late
fire which broke out in the Gold Hill
mines, near Virginia City, Nevada.
Most of the bodies were recovered.
The disaster was the most extensive
that has ever occurred in the mines on
the coast.
"Papa," said Mr.. Browns youngest
son, the other day, ''can 1 go to the
circus?" ''No, my boy" affectiOnate-
ly replied Mr.. Brown elf you are a
good boy L will take you 10 see your
grandmOther's grave this evening"
The dryness of the Egyptian eli
mate is such that rain scarcely ever
fell in the upper province, and not
more than five or six days a year in
the Delta. But Mehemet Ali having
planted twenty millions of trees in
these districts, the annual average has
now increased to forty days.
The Southern Opinion CPolIard's
Richmond pape) is defunct. The
editor, in his farewell address, says
that ''the distinct Southern principles
upon which the paper was founded
are dead in the hearts Of the people"
The imprisonment in England of
poor fellow for stealing a turnip from
a field, has been followed by the in
careeratiOn for a month of two girls
who picked a shilling's worth Of greens
from pasture.
An elm,. with trunk measuring
seven feet in diameter, two feet from
the ground, and three feet, 60 feet
from the ground, was recently cut
down in Vermont. 1t was about 800
years old, and made 36 cords Of wood.
A New York physician reports a
curious case Of a dog, which had just
died, having fresh blood passed into
the carotid. The dead animal was re-
vived, stood on his feet, wagged his
tail and lived over twelve hours,
when he died again.
A new kind of sponge has been in
vented, made from India-rubber. The
imitation is said to be perfect in ap-
pearance, but softer than real sponge,
and its power of absorption greater.
Great Joy was manifested by the
miners in the White Pine district,
California, over the birth Of the first
native of the region. They made up
a purse of several Thousand dollars, in
silver bars, and gave it to the pioneer
infant.
The West Union Towa) Gazette,
in speaking of the profit OF Iowa farm
ing, quotes the case of Judge Rogers,
who bought 100 acres of land near
that place, broke, farmed, and raised
one crop, and, after keeping it little
over a year, sold it at clear profit of
S2,947.
A colored man in Whitesville,
Georgia, mute from his birth, was
recently converted, and began at once
TO praise God in the usual manner.
He talks SO distinctly that he holds
prayer-meetings through the country
with marked success. Said the
Prophet, "The tongue of the dumb
shall sing"
Senator Brownlow, in replying to
Sprague's denunciatiOns, said that "if
any orator should denOunce General
Burnside in East Tennessee, there
were enough children named after
him, to drive him from the State"
A clearinghouse poet in Philadel-
phia was taken short and threw up
the following:
''The mighty work at last is dons5
So speedily and brisk, Oil
Aud nuw in ten days you can run