The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
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y "weight for the wagon" as the fat
e lady said.
The joy of the dumb is always un-
: speakable.
n American sewing machines are COM
}. mon in Egypt.
!. Some of the lakes of Switzerland are
: over 1000 feet deep.
q Railroad ties from stone are to be
made at Ogden City.
, The prettier the foot and ankle, the
easier it gets up stares.
A young lady whose sleep was bro
ken, has had it mended.
Sensible men show their sense by say
ing much in few words
A mans vanity is fair measure of
his want of understanding.
Undoubtedly genuine spiritual mani
festations-delirium tremens.
A Stockton (Cal.) paper tells of a lot
} of sheep herded by three foxes.
Dirty paper currency is largely re-
, sponsible for the spread of disease.
! There are undoubtedly over two mil
, lion Germans in the United States.
, Harvard College has an annual in
come of nearly million of dollars.
Over six thousand million pins are
used in the United States each year.
A seven foot vein of coal has been dis
covered in Poweshiek county, Iowa.
Preparations have begun for the Ex-
position to be held at Madrid in 1873.
1t is curious how little we feel the bur-
dens we put on the shoulders of others. !
This country imports Sl5, 200, 900 worth
of spool cotton yearly from Great Brit
ain.
A compass has four points, that's GER
tain; but pair of compasses has only
two.
The average depth of the Atlantic is
three miles; that of the Pacific four !
miles.
The British Museum expends over fif- .
ty thousand dollars annually for books
alone.
The increasing severity of the Winters /
in Canada, is a fact of considerable re- /
mark.
They send people to Jail in Newark,
N. J., for selling "prize candy" in the
streets.
There are nearly three Thousand nun
neries now fourishing in the dominions
of Spain.
"Music," says Auerbach, "washes
away from the soul the dust of every
day life."
An Irishman's defense for marrying
six wives, was that he was trying to get
good one.
Over two hundred thousand people
arrive in and quit London by rail every |
day in the week.
1t is estimated that there are still $780, !
600 red men inhabiting the Indian ter
ritory of the West.
The Chinese picture of ambition is a
mandarin trying to catch a comet, by |
putting salt on its tail!
An English physician declares that he
has six paralytic patients, made so sole
ly by smoking tobacco.
On an average in each year seven in
ventors bother the patent Office with ma
chimes on perpetual motion.
Whaleships are gradually abandoning
the business. In the last three years
one hundred have given up.
Naturalists claim that some of the
trees of the tropics show unmistakably |
an age of five thousand years.
They tell of a railway in Kentucky !
whereon the locomotives are assisted up
steep grades by yoke of oxen.
A ConnecticuE school-boy's compost
ton On the horse, says he is "an animal
which has a leg at each corner"
The Chinese shoemakers were the on
ly citizens of North Adams, Mass, who
} celebrated Wasbington;s birthday.
The capital invested in silk manufac-
lures in this country is S25, 900, 900. The
annual product sells for S3O,OOO,OOO.
Nearly two thousand people, men,
women and girls, are employed in the
paper collar factories of Massachusetts,.
A project contemplating a cheap ex-
cursion trip round the world is being
talked of, TO start from Boston next
: summer.
London, with a population of $751;
: 900, has 123,s49 paupers, or about one
psuper to every twenty-six of the in
habitants.
1t is difficult to believe that thous-
ands of people in India perish annually
from the bites of poisonous snakes, but
it is a fact.
The Indians declare that they have
never known such severe weather, and
5 so much snow upon the plains within
S their memory.
Speaking of the danger of catching
smallpox by handling greenbscks, a
h country editor congratulates himself
S that he's safe enough.
g Since ladies have taken to wearing
G newspapers for bustles, publishers COM
- plain that their fair subscribers are more
in "arrears" than ever.
American watches are now generally
admitted to be fully equal to any i'm
> ported, and superior to nine-tenths of
those that are brought from Europe.
One million dollars was staked upon
, horse flesh in the United States last
{ wear. There were one thousand four
q hundred and seventy trotting horses.
As 1 approve of youth that has
/ something of the old man in him, so 1
o am no less pleased with an old man that
has something of the youth.-[Cicero.
A deaf and dumb person being asked
= to give his idea of forgiveness, took a
e pencil and wrote, "It is the sweetness
q which flowers yield when tread upon"
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