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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
Importance of a Trade.

Of the fifteen thousand occupants
of the penitentiaries of thirty States,
seventy-seven men out of each hun
dred, more than three-fourths of the
whole number, had not learned q
trade, showing how much of truth
was in the assertion of Franklin,
harsh as it may seem to some The
man who allows his son to grow up
without trade or profession by
which he can honorabIy support
himself in case of misfortune and re-
verses, teaches that son hew to be-
come a thief. More than that has
come true since Franklin's time.
Our country has become greatly
moro crowded, in proportion, the
strife for bread becomes more and
more struggle for life, and in view
of such fact, the parent who does
not provide for his daughter a GER
tain income every year as long as
she lives, or fails to educate her to
some calling By which she could
earn living by her own exertions,
runs q fearful risk of leaving that
daughter to q life of want and desti-
tuition and infamy.-THalPs Journal
of Health.
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he in Earnest.

"I have been very fortunate in world
ly matters; many men have worked
harder and not succeeded half so we'll;
but never could have done what have
done without the habits of punctuality,
order and diligence, without the deter
mination to concentrate myself on one
object at time, no matter how quickly
its successor should come upon it's heels,
which l then formed, [when learning
shorthand.l Ny meaning is simply,
that whatever have tried TO do in life,
have tried with all my heart to do well;
that whatever l have devoted myself to,
I have devoted myself to completely !;
that in great aims and in small have
always been thoroughly in earnest. 1
have never believed it possible that anv
natural or improved ability can claim
immunity from the companionship of
the steady, plain, Woodworking quail
ties, and hope to gain its end. There is
no such thing as such fulfillment on this
earth. Some happy talent and some
fortunate opportunity may form the two
sides of the ladder on which some men
mount, but the rounds of that ladder
must be made of stuff to stand wear and
tear; and there is no substitute for earn
est, thorough-going, dent and sincere
earnestness. Never to put one hand to
anything upon which 1 could throw my
whole self, and never to affect deprecia-
ton of my work, whatever it was, 1 find
have been my golden rules"
These are the words of Charles Dick
ems. The significance of such advice
now to will be apparent to all.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
The New Postal Regulations
Oh Newspapers.

Postmaster General CresweIl has
directed that the new regulations on
newspapers sent by mail shall be
strictly enforced. No name or
memorandum can be made on a
newspaper inside of the wrapper on
which the address is written. 1t is
barely permissible to mark an article
with pen or pencil. More than this
subjects the paper to letter postage
and the violatOr of the law to fine.
No printed card, handbill or adver-
tisement, no written notice, letter OF
slip of any kind whatever, must be
folded in the paper. To do any OF
these things is to violate the law.
Printed slips pasted on the outside,
or folded in papers or periodicals,
soliciting notices, are violations OF
the law. Senders of transient papers
can send bundles of printed matter
by weight on transient postage
charges, but must not send any writ
ten matter in such bundles.
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Hsborough, Highland County Ohio,

afraid of being seen by gentlemen,
yet they are so fond of Mr.. Heron.
He treats them so kindly-just like
a father. He leaves the school this
week, for which I am very sorry.
1 am so thankful l can play the
organ. You have no idea what
good it does, as Mr.. Heron says 1
can sing whole system Of theology
into these girls before they know it.
I play in church at the English ser
vice, and my girls are the choir.
They do sing so sweetly, and love it
SO much. The English people like
my tunes very much, and have sent
for my book to copy some of them.
Ia. N.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

The dangerous Illness of'the Prince
Of Wales, from which he is slowly re-
covering, was caused by bad air from
an imperfect sewer. The death Of his
father, Prince Albert, ten years ago,
resulted from the same cause. The
form Of disease in both cases was
typhoid fever. Public attention in
England has been attracted to these
facts. and the consequence will be
g.eat improvements in the systems
of sewerage and drainage.
We, in this country, would dc
we'll to profit by the same LESSON
There are some tenement houses in
which typhoid fever occurs regular.
ly in the autumn of every year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
The State Church in England

Is bound to go. The Irish dis-estab-
lishment has given an impetus to
the agitation for dis-establishment
in the sister island which cannot
long be resisted, especially as the
proposition involves tho dismissal Of
a horde of lazy ecclesiastical blood
suckers, and the saving of from fif.
teen to twenty millions of dollars q
year to the national treasury. Thus
step by step, England is on the road
to "divine rights" of the people, and
no hedging by Her Majesty's gov
ernment On the Alabama claims will
serve to arrest this revolutionary
movement.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
Interest Example.

A young Iaborer saved from his earnings the sum
Of one dollar per week The first dollar was loaned,
for one week only the interest being at the rate Of
six per cent. per annum. At the end Of the second
week, his capital amounted to two dollars and in
terest up to date. This capital Immediately
placed on interest, the conditions Except to
amount of capitaI, being exactly similar to those
of the first loan. He continued to make weekly
loans of all his capital thus acquired at the rate of
interest above named, for seven years. What was
the amount of the capital at the expiration Of that
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A person who was called into
court for the purpose of proving the
correctness of a doctors bill, was
asked by a lawyer whether "the
doctor did not make several visits
after the patient was out of danger"
"No," replied the witness, 81 con-
slider the patient in danger az long
as the doctor continues his visits"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A correspondent of the New York
World from Charleston, s. c., says he
has conversed with some of the sold
school gentlemen who were wont to
sneeze every time John c. Calhoun
opened his snuf-box," and they would
now be willing to vote for Horace Gree
ley for President. He says truly that
this is great revolution in feeling. We
leave it for the reader to say whether it
is thing to be proud of, that Mr.. Gree
ley has succeeded in recommending
himself to these old nullifers and seces-
sionists.-[O. S. Journal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

1t is said that Peter Hayden, of
Columbus, has sent to California to
secure one hundred and fifty China
men, to work his coal mines in Hook
ing county, in order to obviate the
aggravating difficulties caused by
frequent "strikes'' among his work
men
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A fair.haired, love-sick youth in
Ohio presented his "girl' with a
pair of those new-fangled metallic
garters on Christmas. He thought
they were the latest thing in brace.
lets, and he only discovered his mis-
take upon requesting her to "try
them on" He does not go there
any more.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
The Great Shows.

The New York Herald says thai
latest accounts from the great Plains
and the Rocky Mountains from day
to day still add to the melancholy
list of farmers, hunters, trappers,
miners and travellers lost and frozen
to death in those terrible Western
snow storms, avalanches and drifts
We are glad to hear, however, that
wagon train of supplies bound for
Spotted Tail and his band at their
new reservation, made its journey Of
two hundred miles without the loss
of man, though the brave men Of
this expedition were six weeks on
the journey, cutting in some places
through snow drifts a hundred feet
deep, and though many of the men
were severely frost-bitten and sew
eral dangerously. The SHOWS thro'
which Napoleon's grand army bad
to fight its way in its retreat from
Moscow were mere trifies compared
with these Western drifts hundred
feet deep, and with these binding
Rocky Mountain storms of snow f.
ner than the finest flour, raging for
several days and nights in success
sion without abatement, and with
the thermometer at twenty degrees
below zero.
But what, after all this enormous
snowfall from the Mississippi to the
Rocky Mountains-what will be the
consequences should there be a sud
den and general thaw, with the ad-
dition of heavy spring rains over all
that vast region ? The consequences
will be such floods down the great
Missouri and the Platte, and the
Arkansas and the Rcd River, as will
probably deluge the city of New
Orleans. The authorities and the
citizens of that prosperous city,
therefore, would do we'll to consider
and to prepare for this danger in
time; with the return of June, if not
sooner, they may have more disas-
trous crevasses than the worst in the
memory of "the oldest inhabitant."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

The people of Nebraska have formally
set apart the 10th day of april for tree
planting, under the name of Arbor Day,
The State Board of Agriculture will give
s100 to the agricultural society of the
county in which the greatest number OF
trees shall be planted on that day, and a
s25 farm library to the person properly
planting the greatest number.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

The Jews in Persia are suffering fear
fully in the famine. The Jewish Mess
enger, of New York City, makes the fol-
lowing very appropriate and striking
suggestion: SIN a month all Judaism
will be celebrating Purim, in memory OF
the Persian Jews who were saved from
destruction by Mordecai and Esther. In
what better way can Purim be celebrat-
ed than by contributing substantially to
the relief of modern Persian Jews, who
are suffering from a more terrible enemy
than Haman-famine and pestilence ?"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

SYMMEs CREEK RoUTE.-Our latest in
telligence from Symmes Creek is to the
effect that the subscriptions have reach
ed between sixty and sixty-five thous-
and. The greatest animation continues,
and it is altogether proba BILE that next
week, we will be able to report the en-
tire amount, $4,000, subscribed. The
people in the valley are putting forth gi-
gantic efforts. Most everybody has sub
seribed, but there are a few standing
back, whose names would look better on
the list. Rally, friends, to this great en-
terprise.-[Ironton Register, Feb. %.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

There is a big political breeze
raised In Kansas. A committee ap-
pointed by the Legislature to inves-
tigate charges of corruption and
bribery, report that large sums of
money were used in the election of
Pomeroy to the U. S. Senate, by ex.
Governor Carney and Perry Fuller.
Others are also implicated, includ-
ing the President of the Kansas
Pacific railroad,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

The New York Herald striketh Gin
cinnati this way: "Cincinnati is blub-
bering because the Grand Duke has
suubbed her. Dry your tears, humble
Queen of the West. You will enjoy the
great Missouri Liberal Republican Pas
sive Observation-Disclosures Ma
tional Convention in your lap on the
coming May Day, and then you know,
you will be "Queen of May"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

Tie sore-heads who called Conven-
ton to meet in Cincinnati on the 18th of
May, to organize to defeat Grant, have
concluded to wait until the 10th of June
after the Republican Convention at
Philadelphia. We rather guess that the
next sore-head adjournment will be an
indefinite one.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

One of the most encouraging signs in
France is the enthusiasm with which
the people are subscribing money to has
ten the relief of their country from the
debt imposed by the Germans. In Nan
ey, place of less than fifty thousand
people, the sum of Sl3O, 900 was raised in
less than a week, while other cities have
done almost as nobly.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A smart young woman in Lynn
fastened together the taps and soles
of twenty cases of ladies' boots inside
of ten hours, the other day, on a
wager. She handled eight pieces OF
leather per minute for nine hours
and three quarters, and earned $500.
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$I9,O2I,42S 81

only. The indirect claims include losses
sustained by the sale of ia, 900 tons to
foreign owners figures estimated at
$4,000, 900; and, finally, the consequent
tial damages, by the prolongation Of
the war, owing to the moral and other
aid extended by England to the Confed-
crates during its continuance.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A minister once prayed: 80 Lord,
we thank Thee for the goodly num-
Der here tonight, and that thou also
art here, Notwithstanding the incle-
mency of the weather ~
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

The New Jerusalem Messenger claims
that the Swedenborgian Church is evan
gelical, inasmuch as it holds, without
mental reservation, to the supreme di-
vinity of Christ and salvation through
him to the inspiration of the Scrip
lures the doctrine of the resurrection,
and the dependence of future happiness
or misery upon conduct in this life.
They believe also in baptism and the
Lords supper, and in purity of heart
and life as necessary to an entrance into
heaven.
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any more.

The following knoty question
claims the attention of one or all of
our legal debating societies: "If a
man has tiger by the tail, which
would be the best for his personal
safety, to hold on or let go?'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

"Doctor, what do you think is the
cause of this frequent rush of blood
to my head?" "Oh! it is nothing but
an effort of nature. Nature, you
know, abhors a vacuum!n
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
Exercises for Articulation.

In the Richmond Normal School,
recently, the lesson in elocution was
upon "articulation," and various ex-
amples of difficult enunciation were
cited and practised. At the close of
the exercises the principal called for
such examples to be handed in as
the pupils might know or be able to
find. The following are some of the
results of the investigation, and
furnish q very good collection for
practice -
Amidst the mists and codest frosts,
With barest wrists and stoutest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
"Of all the saws I ever saw saw,
| never saw a saw saw as this saw
saws"
"Up the high hill he heaves a
huge round stone"
"Crazy CraycrOft caught crate of cricked crabs,
crate of crickled crabs crazy Craycroft caught.
If crazy Craycroft caught crate Of cricked crabs
Where's the crate of crickled crabs crazy Craycrof
I caught?"
"Thou wreath'd'st and muzzl'd'st
the far-fetch'd OK, and imprison DIST
him in the volcanic Mexican noun
tain of Pop'o-ca.-a-pet-l in Co-to
pax-i."
"Peter Piper picked a peck of
picked peppers a peck of picked
peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter
Piper picked a peck of picked pep
pers, where's the peck of picked
peppersiPeter Piper picked?"
Whsn twister twisting. would twist him twist,
For twisting twist, three twists he will twist,
But if one Of the twists untwist from the twist,
The twist untwisting, untwist7 the twist.
"Robert Rowley rolled a round roll
round q round roll Robert Rowley
rolled round. Where rolled the
round roll Robert Rowley rolled
round ?"
"Theophilus Thistle, the successful
thistle sitter, in sitting a sieveful of
thistles, thrust three Thousand this
ties through the thick of his thumb"
"Peter Prangle, the prickly pear
picker, picked three pecks of prick
ly prangley pears from the prangIey
pear trees on the pleasant prairies."
"Villey Vite and wife vent on
voyage to Vest Windsor and Vest
Vindham Won wilson Wednesday,"
"Bandy-leggod Borachio Mustachio
Whiskerifuscious, the bald but brave
Bombardino of Bagdad, helped Alb
ormilique Bluebeard, Bashaw of
Balemandeb, to beat down an abom-
Unable Bundle of Bashaw."
''l Esau kissing Kate;
The fact is I'll three saw
] saw Esau, he saw me,
And she saw 1 saw Esau'
Repeat ten times, rapidly, "she
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

81 am afraid" said a lady to hel
husband, "that I am going to have
a stiff neck" "Not at all improbable
my dear,' replied her spouse, 81
haveseeu strong symptoms of it ever
since we were married."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A young gentleman who had just
married a little beauty said: "She
would have been taller, but she is
made of such precious materials that
nature couldn't afford it."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A temperance editor, in drawing
attention to an article against ardent
spirits in one of his papers, says {:
"FOr the Effects Of Intemperance
see our inside"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

IMPORTANT, II TRUE THE Portsmouth
Tribune saith: "The Ground Hog mat
ter has been leading subject for all the
newspapers the past week. He did or
he didn't, is the wise conclusion arrived
nk y
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

"Dear me-" exclaimed Stigglns,
"that new surgeon gave Squantum's
boy a new lip from the child's own
cheek. What painful operation it
must have been!" 1--WE had pair
of lips taken from my cheek more
than once" replied Mrs. Stiggins,
sand it wasn't a painful operation
at ALL"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

"Row did you learn that grace.
full attitude?" asked a gentleman of
a fellow leaning in a maudlin way
against a post. "Pve been practis-
ing at the glass, twas the reply.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

AS Judge was delivering his
decision in q case the other day, he
was interrupted by the vociferous
braying of a donkey under one OF
the windows of the courtroom.
"What is that?" testify asked the
judge, whereupon the lawyer against
whom he was deciding the case
arose and remarked, at is merely
the echo of the court, your honor"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

An excellent mother, in writing
10 one of her sons on the birth of
his eldest child, says: "Give him
an education, that his life may be
useful teach him religion, that his
death may be happy"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
The Alabama Claims

The following is summary of the
claims against Great Britain for losses
by the Confederate cruisers, which were
filed by the American Commissioners to
the Geneva Conference under the Wash
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

Why Is n crow like secret concIave? Because il
IL a caw-cuss.
Why should artists take smallpox? Because its
sketchiny.
Why are engaged ladies like old boots: Because
they are ne good without their fellows.
Why srs bad sidewalks like music ? Because, i
you don't sharp, you'll fiat.
Arms have they, yet toll not-chairs.
Hands have they, yet steal notebooks.
Legs have they, yet walk not-tables.
Teeth have they, yet chew not-combs.
Lips have they, yot kiss not-pitchers.
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LEGAL NOTICE.

homas s. Patton, Pl'f, ] In Court of Common
Wesley Z. Cole, Def't. ty, Ohio. '''-1 ''DH
NNyESLEY L. COLE, Of the State of Arkansas,
w will take notice, that Thomas s. Patton
did, the let day of November ISL file his petit
tiOn in the Court Of Common Pleas within and for
the county Of Highland, State of Ohio, against
said Wesley L. Cole, ,,settng forth that said Defend
ant gave his Promissory note, payable to said Plain
tin or order, for S2tI 66i0O, upon which PlaintiK
claims Judgment for said of S24I 66- 100, with
interest from the 3lst day Of January, =. d. 1871
against Defendant. And that on the list day Of
November 1871. said Plaintiff caused TO be issued
of the Clerk Office Of said Court, an Order Of
Attachment in the above action tor said snm.
And the said Wesley L. Cole is notified that he
is required to appear and answer said Petition on
or before the 9th day of April, 1879.
THOMAS :. PATTON,
By GEO. L. GARDNER, his Atty.
FaI,79,rGurrsfae25 "a
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A celebrated author says that no
letter is ever commenced without
the first page being an apology.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

1t is said that cork screws have
sunk more than cork-jackets have
ever saved.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14

A widower was recently rejected
by damsel who did't want a
"Warmed over" man.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-14
Youths Department.

rB-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, 1872-03-14
Solution to Mensuration Problem of jan
uary Is.

The square root of One-third of the area of the
floor equals 10 feet, which is the width of the crib
Consequently the length is times TO- thatis 30 IT,
and the area of the door (SOO) divided into 5000,
contents of tine crib, equals 10 feet, the height.
Answer-Length 80 feet, height 10 feet, width ID
feet
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Answer to Enigma in the News of March Z: John
BarklOy.
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n political aspirant, after an election
eering harangue, met his particular friend
with, "Well, my dear sir, did you hear
my last speech?" 81 hope So" was the
reply.