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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09
Gems of Thought.

You have only day to spend upon
earth act in such a way that you may
spend it in peace. Peace is the fruit of
love; for to live in peace, it is necessary
to put up with many things.
Some men are like cats. You may
stroke the fur the right way for years,
and hear nothing but purring; but
accidentally tread on the tail, and all
memory of former kindness is oblit-
Grated.
Look not mournfully into the past
it comes not back again. Wisely i'm
prove the present; it is thine; Go forth
to meet the shadowy future without
fear, and with manly heart.
Each drop in the bitter cup is meas,
ured out by the unerring hand Of the
heavenly Physician, who never makes
mistakes, nor ceases to watch his pa
tient for one moment.
God has not left himself without 6
witness in any human heart. Even the
prOfessed atheist, while pretending tC
deny His existence, really fears Hi
power to punish.
Consult duty, not events. We havt
nothing to do but to mind our duty. o
how quiet, as we'll as holy, would oul
lives have been had we learned tha
single lesson To be careful for moth
ing, but to do our duty, and leave al
consequences to God.
Happiness and joy are inevitable con
sequences of virtuous actions, and thest
are the only substantial benefits of life
nl-gotten pleasures are void of that vi
tality which is necessary to make then
lasting.
God renders earth desolate to induc'
you to seek a better country. He strike
away every human prop, and puts fail
ure and vexatiOn into every world!
scheme, that you may turn from idol
unto him.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09

A briek-layor hired boy on this condition: that
! for every day he worked he would pay him 3d.
but for every day he idle he should be hned 3d.
When 800 days we're past, neither Of them was in
debtsd to the other. How many days did he work
| md hn,r many vas he idle2
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09

Doesn't this lovely scene animate
you?' asked Anna Of here lover. mo
said he, nothing but you can Ami
mate me. o say yes, my darling
She did say yes, and his cup Ofani
nation was full.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09

A Dutchman who went to hear
Nilsson, didn't like her because she
was so tall and slim. He wants a
singer who looks like 'fedder bed
nit string tied round der middle" "
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09
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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09
Youths Department.

EB-Original Enigmas, Charades, Problems, ETC.,
are respectfully solicited. The answers must al.
ways accompany them, together with the real name
of the writer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09
I'LL The Great Cause of

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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09
Foreign immigration.

The whole number of immigrants ar
irving in the United States for the year
ending June 80, 1871, was S2I, $50, Of
whom 100, ,42s were males. The nativity
of these immigrants was as follows;
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09
| Total British
su biacts 18Q 9q3l

subjects. .189, ,993
1t will be seen that about one-fourth of
the whole number were Germans, and
that nearly two-thirds were British sub
jects. Nearly $4,000 were immigrants
from the British North American prov
inces.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09

sg-we want fresh supply Of EnigmsI, &C., as
our st,rlr Ia eating low.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-11-09

"Oh say not It is wrong to love
To love, to worship thee
The sea ysarns for the stars above,
The stars look on the sea.
The hot moon woes the scented gale,
The parched flowers in the dew
Their love, their longing does not fail,
And why should mine for your
"Like bird sll spent with wandering,
All weary must I roam,
Until furl my restless wing
In the dear nest at home.
But what we're home without thy face,
iairsst flower OF mine?
Then deign that humble home to grace,
And bless your Valentine"
It was really not so bad-consid
ering that but eighteen short sum
mers had passed over BOb's head
and that for some time back hi
"restIess wing" had been "furled'
in the large dry goods shop arOunt
the corner, which he hoped som
day to adorn as partner. Whethe
the doctor would have admired it .
addressed a to Kitty-"that baby" a
he called hers questionable. Bu
Miss Usher quite glowed as she reaC
It was so poetical, $50 sweet" Th
little confusion of pronouns in tn
first verse escaped her notice alto
gether. She read and re-read, an
then turned to the most prosaic SCI
ond page.
HNot ezactly medicine"-O tbs
funny man! "Much better suited
this season of the year v' Oh yer
much! Dear, dearl What could
mean! But there was no doul
about Mat-it could mean only OF
thing! "Lonelyg' Yes, indeeI
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
Brick Bust-Last Work of the
SCULPTOR LaunitZ
From the New York Evening Post


The marble statues which decorate
the front of the National Park Bank,
are generally supposed to be the latest
works of that eminent Russo American
artist, the late Mr.. Launitz. But his
last professional effort was not in mar
bic. He was spending the late summer
months, for the benefit Of his health, in
picturesque spot, near the little settle
ment of Sparkill in Rockland county.
The friend who occupied the house was
the proprietor of large mandatory of
brick, in the upper neighborhood OF
Norwood, on the Northern Railroad, of
New Jersey. Being in the factory with
his friend one day, watching with char
acteristic interest the manipulation of
of the material by the machinery, Lau-
nitz suddenly said:
Captain j, tell your man to bring
me some of that clay, and I'll model
your head; and if don't make a regular
bust of it, III get good likeness, any
how"
A tall office stool, a piece of board
with huge pile of the wet clay heaped
upon it, newspaper cap, and few
tools whitfield out of single with a
pen-knife, were the only adjuncts of the
improvsed "studio," in a shady corner
of the brickyard. Three successive
standings completed the sittings" for
the bust. Launitz, while at work, had
been told by the captain that the model
should be made larger in features than
the original, because the clay would
shrink good deal in the process of
baking; but the artist was so very deaf
that he never heard word of the eau,
ton. The model was therefore finished
exactly the size of life, as was attested
by the artists dividers.
"There'' vociferated Launitz, taking
off his paper hat, "therel we are ready
set him square; brick him up; give him
room and let him bake! Captain, there
will be no dross about you when you are
properly burnt. You will come out
purified by fire, and need not fear
another experiment in hotter place
hereafter"
And the sculptor laughed laugh
which las everybody who ever heard
him cachinate will understand), was
'like the neighipg of all Tattersa.rs,"
as Carlyle once described notable
horse.laugh. The bust, when the kiln
was opened, was found "baked to a
turn" The features, in form and color
were those Of a "perfect BRICK" but the
head and face had undergone much
shrinkage.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
Blue Bottle Flies.

Sometimes even very slight knowl.
edge of natural history is of great prac-
teal use, if remembered and applied at
the needful occasion.
A gentleman, making call at the
house of friend, was astonished TO find
the rooms and passages in confusion /;
ana, on inquiring the cause, was an
swered-" Oh, we are very much an.
noyed here; we have an intolerable
nuisance. A rat has come to finish its
existence under the floor of our large
drawingroom. We do not know the
exact place, but we cannot endure the
stencil any longer. So we have rolled
up the carpets, removed the furniture,
and called in the carpenters, who are
just commencing to take up the floor,
until we find the nuisance"
Now don't be too hasty," said the
visitor " You need not pull up more
than one board. ! will show you what
| mean presently and, meanwhile,
shut down the drawingroom windows,
and close the door behind me as soon as
! return"
He then stepped down the front steps
into the garden, walked around the
house to the stables, and, after few
minutes absence, came back to the
drawing-room with both hands tightly
clasped. so as to enclose something be-
tween them. Placing himself in the
center of the drawing.room, he opened
his hand, and out flew two large blue
bottle flies, and buzzed around the
room for second or two. But pres
emily, one Of them alighted on a Ger.
tain plank of the floor, and was almost
Immediately followed by the other in
sect.
Now, them exclaimed the visitor,
take up that board, and III engage
that the dead rat will be foand under.
meath it," The carpenters applied their
tools, raised the board. and at once
found the source of all the unpleasant
smell
Thus, by the ready thought of an OBJ
server Of common things, a troublesome
and expensive operation was almost
entirely prevented, and instead of day
or two being spent in removing the
floor generally and recovering it, the
mere displacement ola single plank en-.
abled the needful business to be accom-
plished in few minutes.-DemoreSt'S
Tolin0 america
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
The Night.BlOwing Lily.

The following pretty legend is related
and devoutly believed in by the inhabi-
tants of the Hartz Mountains, Of the
Night Blowing Lily of Lauenberg:
Beautiful Alice dwelt with her wild
owed mother at the foot Of the Hartz
Mountains. her principal occupation
was that of gathering forest straw-that
is the foliage OF the pino and FIR tribe,
which is very much used in certain parts
OF Germany as a stuffing for beds, &c.
Thus was the maiden occupied when
the Lord Of Lauenberg Castle rode by.
With willy words he extolled her looks,
and swore that she was too pretty to be
hid In q pc asant's cot, and he begged
her to come and dwell in his lordly cas-
tie, where she would have nothing to
do but command, and where all would
obey her. The simple girl was dazzled
by the brilliant prospect, but, true in
her simplicity, flew TO her mother and
4 elated all that had transpired. The
terrified mother wept bitterly over her
darling's communication for well she
knew the character of Lauenberg's dis
solute baron. Hastily packing up her
few household treasures, she carried of
her wondering and sorrowful child 10
the shelter of neighboring convent,
within whose sacred walls she believed
poor Alice might rest in security. Not
long, however, had the simple country
girl been immured in the holy editice
before the enraged noble discovered her
retreat; and, determined to obtain his
prey, assembled his vassals, forced an
entrance into the convent, and Selling
the object of his passion, bore her, half
dead with fear, to his castle. On arriv-
ing at midnight in the garden in front
Of his embattled dwelling he alighted,
with his senseless burden in his arms:
but, as he attempted to enter his castle,
the guardian spirits Of the place snatched
the poor maiden out of his grasp, and,
on the very spot where her feet had
been, sprung up the beautiful lily Of
Lauenberg. The annual appearance of
the lily at midnight is anxiously looked
forward to by the inhabitants OF Hartz;
and many OF them are said to perform
q nightly pilgrimage to see it, returning
to their homes overpowered by its dazz-
ling beauty, and asserting that its splen-
dor is so great that it sheds beams Of
light on the valley below.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
Velocity Of Falling Objects.

Any solid object falling from win
dow sixteen feet high will reach the
ground in one second Of time, but in
two seconds it will descend from roof
of sixty-four feet elevation; in three
seconds from steeple of one hundred
and tortyfour feet, and in about four
and a half seconds from the spire of
Trinity Church. From Big Horn, the
highest Of the Rocky Mountains, fifteen
thousand feet, it would, in a perpen-
dicular descent, arrive TO the sea-level
IN thirty.seconds, whilst from Dharala-
girl, one of the Himalaways, twenty
eight thousand (2S,0O0) feet, it would
take forty-one and three-quarter sec
onds. The moons beam distance from
the earth is two hundred and forty
thousand miles; if detached rock
were liberated from the attractive pow
er OF that satellite, and, unimpeded by
other influences, followed the attraction
of the earth by the same law of gravita-
ton which obtains with the earth's
atmosphere, it would reach us, from
that distance in two hours, twenty eight
minutes and nine seconds, its velocity
during the last second of its fall, having
been PSI, 1872 feet or at rate of l94.ll
miles an hour although when leaving
the moon it had taken matters rather
leisurely, travelling, during the first
second, at the rate Of scarcely eleven
miles an hour. Thencetorth, however,
it had accelerated its speed in arithme
tic proportion, moving at the rate of
thirty-three miles an hour in the second
second of fifty.five miles an hour in
the third second; Of seventy-seven
miles an hour in the fourth second. and
so on, until it attained the just men
toned stupendous rate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
In the Woods.
From the New York Evening Post.


The following conversation, or COLO
guy, occurred between cute New y ork
''perforator" in real estate, travelling by
pocket-compass in one Of the very last
sections opened in the Government-land
region beyond Gotham and Alaska. His
interlocutor was woman, standing in
a scanty but airy garment, at the door
of q log shanty, to whom he thus adj
dressed himself:
''Do you like to live here in the woods,
these distant woods, so far away from
any other human habitation 2"
Woods! like to live in the woodsF'
she echoed and repeated; 'bless your
lawful sake, you don't call this woods,
do ye? There are no bears. nor wolves,
nor catamounts, nor mae-Sau,gerS around
here-no within twenty miles! Why,
we've got bedsteads in this cabin; we
don't sleep in hollow logs as we used 10.
The stumps are out of the middle Of the
road, most OF them; and, bless you,
don't you see, we've got some fences?
Look oqer there! We raise our own
good-sized pork we lay our own eggs
we have tame hens and roosters. and
pumpkin pies, and twistel-neck squash.
es, and appetizin' cookin. Woods y
she repeated again-''live in the woods,
indeed ~
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
Chewing Gum.
by THOMAS r. HICKS, NJ. d.

A gentleman in the streets of C,
Iowa, lately counted, in fifteen min
utes, seventeen ladies chewing gum.
This habit prevails acknowledgement
ally in the West. Almost every school
girl you meet is chewing, chewing,
chewing.
OF course il will not be pretended
that this habit is either as injurious or
as nasty as that OF chewing tobacco, yet
il is not altogether innocent.
When food is taken saliva is secreted
to aid in nastcating it. When other
substances are chewed, saliva is, at first,
secreted as for food; but the vital in
stincts soon recognizing the nature OF
the substance, ercrete fluid similar to
saliva for the defense of the tissues.
This fluid Thrown out against tobacco,
gum, etc. is really an e.ccrettoa.
The bile occasioned by taking poison
Gus medicines, has, by careful expert
ment and analysis, been found to be
quite different substance from that
secreted by the liver in its healthy &C.
ton. SO the fluid which the saliyary
glands produce during protracted chew
ing Of that which is not food, Is quite
different from healthy saliva. The
waste, however, is probably just as great
as if it were healthy saliva. Those who
habitually chew gum, unduly exercise
the saliva glands, occasioning in them
either ultimate debility, or undue de.
velopment in size. There is also danger
Of permanent depreciation and poison
ing Of the salivary glands.
This constant chewing also Injuries
the teeth. The teeth are no small item
in lady's beauty; and as they 60 to
such rapid decay in America, demanding
so early the dentists care, it is surprising
that ambitious young ladies should so
wantonly destroy them. Boys often
ruin their teeth by cracking nuts ; they
do it to get at the kernel-they have a
motive-but what possible motive can
boys, girls, or women have for chewing,
chewing, chewing, hour after hour, an
insipid lump of gum?
The habit also diverts attention from
duty or study, and is one of the many
familiar modern modes Of killing time.
In short, it is useless, indecent, UNI
healthful practice. Boys and girls, let
it alone.-Uedical Independent.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
Dramatic Censorship i'm Paris.

The Pail Mall Gazette tells good story
about the dramatic censorship Of Paris.
1t seems that there are two censors in
stead of one, as in the olden time, and
that between them the dramatists have
been dreadfully "cut up" Of late. 1t is
said that one of the best-known mem
bers of the fraternity lately received a
manuscript of his, profusely ornamented
with red and blue pencil marks, which
left about as much Of the plot of his
piece intact as would remain of fowl
after its wings and two legs had been
amputated. In dismay he rushed to the
military or ed-pencil department, and
inquired of the gallant and veteran
colonel whom he found there what on
earth he could have written to deserve
all those erasures.
"Written! exclaimed the colonel
red with indignation, why, what dc
you call all those thrusts at the Emper.
or p
''But the Emperor is no longer on the
throne" submitted the author.
The colonel sat speechless; he seemed
to have forgotten that. But just as the
author was making for the door, glad al
having worsted his adversary, the veteran
recovered his senses, and cried out tri
umphantly:
eyes, but he may come back again
Let the corrections stand
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06
The Future Policy Of Central Europe.

Vienna (sept. - Correspondence Of the Eastern
Budget.
The second meeting of the Austrian
and German Emperors is to take place
Pfalsburg on the 9th. The two lmpe-
rial Chancellors will be present, and
also the prime ministers of Hungary
and Cis- Luithania, Counts Andressy and
Hohenworth, who were invited by their
Emperor in order to be presented to the
Emperor of Germany. On this occasion
the understanding arrived at in the con-
ference ut Gastein is TO be finally con.
frmed, it would be too much to say
sanctioned, for, important as the agree
ment is, it is far from being of the ma
ture of an international treaty. treaty
is not contemplated on either side. The
task of the two ministers was merely
to examine whether, and in what man
ner, the personal Impeachment be-
tween the representatives OF the two
dynasties which rule in Central Europe
could be brought into harmony with the
interests Of their respective states, and
taken advantage of Tor the promotion
of peace in Europe. 1t is creditable to
these two statesmen that they perceived
with equal sagacity and zeal the great
advantages which the Austro Hungarian
and German Empires would derive from
concerted policy. The idea which IN
spired the present agreement was the
same as that which originated in the
great political manifestation Of last De-
cember-that, namely, Of determining
the relations between the two empires
exclusively by their national interests
now that their old dynastic policy has
been given up. Both ministers must
have seen that the most pressing and
important interest Of their respective
states is to consolidate themselves at
only consider foreign questions in so far
as it might become mutually necessary
to provide against any contingencies
that might hinder their essentially
peaceful task. The object of the agree
mont was solely defence, and the Gas
tein programme cannot but be received
with sympathy in all quarters where
similar objects are pursued. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, that Italy was the
first to express her concurrence in the
leading idea of the Gastein conferences.
England, on the other hand, who usually
takes the initiative in all steps where
the maintenance of peace is concerned,
has hitherto remained silent. If the
mere fact that the moral union of two
states sutficientto prevent the creation
or the one-sided solution of European
questions is looked upon with disfavor
in some quarters, there are other mat
ters, such as the socialist movement,
whose discussion at Gasten should over
come any feeling of this kind. 10 Rus
STA and France especially, judging by
recent events, any precautions taken
against socialism must be welcome. |
may add here that the report that Prince
Bismark has offered his services to the
Vienna Cabinet as mediator between
Austria and Russia, in cons equence of
the concessions made to the Poles in
Gallicia, is mere conjecture, and has
no foundation in fact.