The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-11-25

| find it difficult to make a selection.
The Ohio Educational Monthly, pub
lished at Columbus, if regularly read
Iby the teachers in this county, would
increase their capacity to teach and
improve our schools accordingly. We
believe it would be a wise expendi-
lture for every school district to make
an appropriation for the purpose Of
placing a good educational journal in
the hands Of its teachers.
Religious papers are as numerous as
the sects they represent, and powerful
evangelists when they do not lose
sight of their distinctive religious
character. Every Christian household
ought to take one.
The Daily newspaper is a necessi-
Ety-something in which to olive,
move and have a being"-whereVer
there is a daily mail. But the main
reliance, in the country, is on the
Weekly for news, politics and miscel-
Ianeous reading. In these matters the
country paper cannot always furnish
a supply equal to the demand. If it
does Justice to its local matters it will
have room for only summaries Of
news, at times, though, as a general
thing, the country press gives about
all there is worth knowing, but 1t
isn't spread out like one sheep on
thousand hills. To those who are
able to take another Weekly, there is
no lack of opportunities. The Herald
and Leader Ito mention them in al
phabetical order are well known and
| indispensable. The Tribune is also
slightly known in this country. Here
we want to say that the Ohio State
Journal is one of the best papers in the
! United States Published at the Cap
ital of the State, it is especially valua-
bic to the public men of every town
ship in every county of Ohio
The loc;h, political and religious
wants having been provided for, every
well regulated family Will desire some
periodical of purely literary charac-
ter. Here is a-thance for the exercise
of good cOmmon-sense; for much Of
the culture of the family comes from
the literature of its periodicals. The
existence of such literary papers 50
called, as the Flag Of Our Union,
Chimney Corner, Waverly, etc, etc,
is not to be deplored for of their
readers probably ninc-tenths would
never read anything, if it were not
that they furnish the diluted catnip-
tea sort of literature suited to their
weak powers of mental Digestion
/ While it is expecting too much to
hope that taste for sounder reading
is thus cultivated, it is probably bet
ter that such persons should read even
that kind of stuff than nothing at all.
They have no brains to bespOiled, and
iif they are harmlessIy amused some
thing is accomplished not entirely use
less. The New York Ledger, so wide
Ily distributed, is not ranked 50 low
as papers Of the above named class;
but we would gently hint to the young
ladies and gentlemen who "dote on
the Ledger" that the reading it does
not in the least add to their reputation
as sensible young people.
OF really good literary and family
papers the number is few. AT the
head of the weekties of this class we
place Harper's Weekly. And when
YOU come to the magazines, we believe
1.-The general sense of the American p2O-
Ule has decided that for all purpO5'
of family magazine Hrper's Monthly
lis the best. The Galaxy is younger
member of the literary brood, and has
all the characteristics Of youth: ener
gy, passion, magnetism, independence
and courage. Putuam-Well, the pres
ent Putnam exists on the capital OF
the Putnam of other days. lchabOd!
the glory has departedl PackaFd's
: Monthly is an unpretending periodi
cal, for young men, well worth theII
attention. If those half-grOwn cubs
1 who lounge around hitChing posts anu
, hang over railings with copy of the
, Ledger in their pockets, would reaC
j Packard's, they might make something
:: of themselves. The Atlantic Month
i Iy was the first purely American mag
azfne published; it was new revela
!. ton; the genesis of a higher order 0
d periodical literature. That there i
+ a trained critical taste, and more cul
i ture in America today than in an!
= other country, is measurably owing t.
the influence Of the Atlantic Monthly
: More than to any other magazine
d therefore, the Atlantic has incentive Il
continued excellence.
II When we look over the array of pa
% pers and magazines for children, W
i confess to being up stump. In othe
Il words, it is not easy to pick out an.
q one periodical manifestly better thai
l. the others. The Young Folks and tn
G Riverside in their way are snpert
u For young readers, the little Nursery
IS published in Boston, is a gem. Tn
y Little Corporal, Our Boys and Girls
and a dozen others we might name, ar
Il veterans in the field, with establi5he,
e regulations and armies of readers.
1I We come now, at the last, to tn
n greatest and best of all periodicals, tn
II North American Review. Scholars
K clergymen, editors, lawyers, ever
II thoughtful, educated man, of whateV
a er pursuit or profession, should rea
le this periodical.
-e Now, all tastes are not alike; but
OF we were to set up well-regulate
g family in the line of periodicals fC
II 1870, the inventory of what we woui
n furnish them would run as follows
O. First, (and before even pig and potato
a. the County paper; Hlrper's Weekly
~ Harper's Monthly and the Atlantic
ut for literary matter; the Young Folt
al and (orl the Riverside for the children
II and your favorite Religious Journi
al for the sinner man."
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~ PLUCK AND PLOD.-There can
= M tr.ue businpsS man without pluc