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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-02-12
PRECIOS DE ANUNCIOS.

Hasta seis llneas de impression, RS. fits. pa
sando cts. la Inca. Los suscritores pagaran
cts. Los anuncios por messed amos pubicaran &
precios convencionales.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-02-12
ORGAN0 DEL PARTID0 De Los ESP AtOLBK SIN ONDCIONBS
LiBs de Vapues eSpaldB De Liverpool

Ell vapor Puerto Rico saldrd en-
su tercer viaje de Liverpool para
este puerto, Ponce y Mayaguez,
del principle q mediados del mes
de abril. De mas pormenores i'm
pondran sus consignatarios en- esta1
Latimer Comp I-3,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-02-12
ANO XXXIIId

Este peri6dico pubIica los domingos, microbes y
viernes; cuando las crcunstancias 10 cxigen dan
alcances 8 suplementos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1873-02-12
Consulate Britanico.
MES DE FEBRERO.

La correspondence Sc cierra en- este Consulado
los dias siguientes.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
IfYOu Please.

Boys, do you ever think how much
real courtesy will do for you? Some
of the greatest men were ever eau
tious in this respect. When the
Duke of Wellington was sick, the last
thing he took was little tea. On his
servant handing it to him in saucer,
and asking if he would have it, the
Duke replied, eyes, if you please.
These were his last words. How
much kindness and courtesy are ex-
pressed by them! He who had com
manded great armies, and was long
accustomed to the tone of authority
did not overlook the common courte.
sizes of life. All, how many boys do
What a rude tone of command they
often use to their little brothers and
sisters, and sometimes to theil
mothers. They order so. That il
iIl-bred, and shows, to say the least
a want of thought. In all your home
talk remember, 'if you please" Tc
all who wait upon you or serve, be
ieve that if you please will maxi
you better served than all the othe
words inthe whole dictionary d.
not forget those three little words
if you please
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Composition in the Public
Schools.

Discussing with my wife the great
advantages of conversational powers
and easy compositions as aids to
either sex las well as a great personal
gratifcation) in the journey of life,
she expressed great surprise that they
were not given more attention in t5e
education of youth, and were not
made regular studies in the public
schools of the country. Now, though
she and myself frequently disagreed
about trifes, and come sometimes,
almost to daggers' point, in this mat
ter we seemed to aggree perfectly and
wondered how it was that our Union
School in this place, controlled by
travelled and learned trustees, with q
new and intelligent Superintendent,
should not make these two features
of prominence. 1t would add to the
attractions of the school and increase
the interest of the pupils and the
public.
Two subjects might be given out
at the close of the week, and two
compositions written and read dur
ing the following week; or a short
composition might be written each
day. And then, at least one after
noon in the week should be given to
debating or discussing prominent
topics by those belonging to the
higher or more advanced classes.
This should be imperative on the
part of the teacher, and he should be
umpire, and correct errors OF gram
mar, history, or fact. This, it seems
to me, would be practical education.
Pro BoNo PUBLICo.
Yellow Springs, o.
= -[Xenia Torchlight
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Origin of Familiar Words.

The father of the great orator and
statesman, Richard Brinsley Sheri-
dan, when lessee of old Crow street
theater, Dublin, was the manager"
alluded to in the origin of the word
"quiz."
'The word 'quiz,' to make fun of or
to poke fun at a person, was the
coinage of theatrical manager in
Dublin, who, at drinking party with
his friends on Saturday night, where
the conversation turned upon the
subject of words, offered to bet the
wine that he could then and there
coin a word which would be in the
mouths of all Dublin next day. The
bet being taken and the party dis
persed, the manager called up his
call-boys and runners, gave them
pieces of chalk, and ordered them to
run all over the city, chalking quiz
on every door, shutter and fence they
came to. This was done, and as a
matter of course the new word was
in everybody's mouth the next day
The manager won his bet, and the
word is now in all respectable die
tionaries.
"The slang expression for death,
kicking the bucket had its origin
from one Bolsover, who, in England,
a great while ago, committed suicide
by standing on q bucket till he kicked
the bucket from under him"
''The word bumper, meaning 6
full drink when friends are drinking
is corruption of the toast offered il
French to the Pope when the Cath
olic religion was in the ascendant il
England-'au bon pere.
''To dunn, to press for none,
due, comes from Joe Dunn, famous
bailiff of London, in England, during
the reign of Henry VII He was 81
commonly successful in collecting
money that when a man refused t.
pay, the creditor was asked why h
didn't Dunn him.
'Humbug, is a corruption of tn
Irish words 'uim bog pronounced
oombug, signifying soft copper, o
pewter, or brass, or worthless money
such as was made by James the II.
at the Dublin mint-twenty shilling
of which was worth only two penc
sterling. At first applied to worth
less coin the word became the genera
title of anything false or counterfeit
THE sign viz, signifying to-wit, o
namely, is an abbreviation of 'vidili
Get; but the third letter was no
originally z; it was a mark used il
medicine for a drachm, which Il
writing much resembles z, and il
viz, was simply used as a mark o
sign of abbreviation."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Teachers Department.
Hard Sums-Are Children
Taught Rightly.

An exasperated parent thus over
flows into the columns of the Phila-
delphia Bulletin:
In common with thousands of
other parents who desire that their
children shall at least keep up with
the average boy or girl, 1 find my
self obliged to spend my evenings
in teaching school, doing what 1 pay
others to do during the daytime,
and in order that my youngsters
may be able to go to recite at school,
spending my leisure hours, and the
sleepy ones, in trying to fix in their
little brains the names of almost un-
known rivers in some out of the way
portion of the globe, or in trying to
explain the important and eminently
practical fact that 237 II dollars is
1T of 9 times what A paid for his
horse, and the horse cost ! off OF Z Z as
much as his carriage-something, no
doubt, that every child ought, to
know, provided his parents teach it
to him.
We all know that we make Just
such calculations as this fifty times a
day, and never think of coming at a
result in a sensible, directmanner. DIR.
Johnson says school is "house OF
discipline and instruction, place OF
literary education, &c, and that a
scholar is zone who learns of mas
ter" He also says a schoolmaster SIS
one who teaches in school" Now, so
far as my experience goes, the mod
ern schoolmaster or mistress does
none of these things, but merely
listens to the recitations of lessons
taught by parents at home. I have
no hesitation in saying that the
whole system of modern teaching,
including text books, maps, and every
thing else connected with it, is vastly
below and behind what was in
vogue thirty years since, and that,
instead of making us a race of well
educated men and women, it is max
ing candidates for the insane asy
lums, and piling up heap of misery in
very many forms.
lam perfectly willing that teachers
shall be well paid, if they only teach,
and may mention that in my eapeci
ty of trustee of a public school, 1 give
a practical illustration of my faith
but I am opposed to parents being
compelled to teach their children.
AS boy, I was fogged at school
and the memory of the rattan il
pleasant, as bringing back tim'
when boys were boys, and teachers
were teachers. Now we do not hoe
the boys, and very properly, fo1
for those who deserve the foggine
are first the teachers, and perhaps
if parent were made to suffer, nov
and then it would do him good.
NINE P. NJ.
P. S.--My wife says: ''Flog th'
teachers, by all means" or at least
} of / of 269-S93 of 1,93O-2,OOoths o
them.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
The Oldest Man in America
MAYFELD, KY, Aug. 3.

To the Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journaf
Seeing an extract from the New
port News in your paper concerning
the death of ''Aunt Hannah, colored,
who was one hundred and twenty
two years old, has induced me to
write you the following:
On the farm of DR.. Scott, on the
head waters of Forkydeer River, near
Milan, Gibson County, Tenn, there
lives an old negro named Fortune
Snow, who is in his one hundred and
tscenty, fourth yearI In June, 1872,
I went to. see him, and 1 will tell you
what I saw when I got to the house.
1 met an old, snaggled-tooth, amend
ment gentleman sixty-fve years old,
who told me his "grandpap" was in
the house, who soon came tripping
down the steps as nimble as some
fifteen year old boy. He told me he
was twenty-five years old when the
Revolutionary war began. He be-
longed to Capt. Snow, who served,
during the war, under Gen. Marion;
was born in South Carolina; fought
through the war under his@naster IN
nearly every battle. Yet he never
has received pension from the ''best
government the world ever saw"
He saidwhen he was about 80 years
old he went totally blind and remain
ed SO two years. His hair all came
out, which was as white as wool
Subsequently his eye-sight returned,
and new growth OF hair came out,
which is now about half gray. En-
Joys fine health. On examination
with the ophthalmoscope and oto-
scope, I found his sight and hearing
to be good. He opened his Bible al
the eighth chapter of Revelations, and
read the chapter distinctly without
glasses. Goes hunting, and shoots
birds and squirrels without glasses
Is very religious; believes strongly in
the "Good God" who preserved his
life through the cold war;" Reads
his Bible very constant. Is the faith
er of thirteen children, the oldest O
whom would be over 100 years, /
living-is living with his youngesr
child, who is So years old.
Old Fortune says he was nevel
sick in his life, and never took dos
of medicine from a doctor-never hai
the toothache-nota an unsound tootl
in his mouth-nor any other kind.
He moved from South Carolina tt
Alabama, where he lived So years, thel
came to Tennessee. Capt. Snow, a
his death, gave Mr.. Chapman, hi
son-in-law, $500 to support Old For
tune the balance of his life; and thi
Mr.. Chapman lived on and on TO
forty-seven years, and died, and lei
old 'Nig" still living.
have been precise in giving hi
location, so that anyone who doubt
this can go and see him-hundred
of people visit him, and he is alway
glad to see company, and talks fluent
ly and readily.
He is certainly the last of the Rev
olutionists. He is about five feet 81
inches, weighs about lis pounds
very black, with iron gray hair.
A. A. DAVIDSON, M. D.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Map Drawing.
Yellow Springs,

Prof. Ormsby has secured letters
patent for an ingenious Map Draw
ing Scale, of which the Ohio Educa-
tional Monthly has the following to
say:
Supt. Ormsby, of Xenia, has in
vented Map Drawing Scale, which
we believe to be the best aid to map
drawing that ever has been made. 1t
is a simple combination of scale Of
inches, scale of latitude, and ten
scales of longitude, each based on the
same unit of measure-the inch. The
scales of longitude are to be used IL
determining the distance betwee1
meridians on different parallels o
latitude. These scales are stampec
on a light and neat ruler, admirabl
adapted to school use. The scale i
accompanied with a ''Grnde to Ma
Drawing" which clearly explains ii
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Select Miscellany.
THE OLD MAN IN THE. PALACE
CAR

BIZ JOHN H. YATES. J@f
Well Betsy, this beats everything our eyes have
ever seeni
We're ridin' in palace fit for any king or queen.
We didn't go as fast as this, nor on such cushions
rest,
When we left New England years ago to seek Z
home out West.
We rode through the country, but not as we now
ride i-t8 Us --faltf a.-
You sat within a stage coach, while 1 trudged by
your side;
Instead of ridin' rail, carried one you know,
To pry the old coach from the mire through which
we had to 60.
Let's see; thats fifty years ago, just after were
wed;
Your eyes were then like diamonds bright, your
cheeks1ike roses red.
Now. Betsy, people call us old, and push us off one
side,
Just as they have the old slow coach in which we
used to ride.
TwOnder if young married folks to-day would con-
descend,
To take weddin' tour like ours, with log house
at tle ehut -s /. lrE
Much OF the sentimental love ths' Se's your
aglow
Would die to meet the hardshlps OF niy years aso'
our love 0rs,v stron,er ss we toIled tho food and
c,o,ba. ,,,o-a cosrse
Nome eys- ssv, ma r, tbs courts bupttn, divorce:
Love Iavalad doun the mountains and made low
places high;
Love sang song 10 cheer US Wheh cioucs anu
storms were nigh.
H. ,,,05 .. 90 .,o ,,.o-,a r,,,s -, T., beor the on
t.
-. -, o.,,,., u.-,.oh,,, ,o,r from, sho-e
10 shore F7Tl. Z.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21

On the 18th inst. Plus X, in re-
plying to the address of the President
of the confederate Catholic societies,
spoke as follows: eyes, it is too true.
He'll is unclaimed againstus, but not
withstanding shall conquer. I shall
not conquer through my own virtue,
but that of God, the meditation Of
the most holy Mary, and through you,
who were, are, and will be my Joy and
crown. Let us combat, therefore,
fearlessly the hostile powers, whose
arms can not last long, because they
fight for falsehood and iniquity, while
we fight for truth and justice"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Romance in High Life.

The official announcement of the
bet1othal of the Grand Duchess Maria
Alexandrovna, only daughter of the
Gar of Russia, to the Duke of Edin-
burg, second son of Queen Victoria,
has brought out another episode in
the life of the Grand Duchess, which
is now the chief subject of gossip in
st. Petersburg. Itappears that about
two years ago the Gar conceived the
idea of marrying his daughter to the
Duke of Edinburgh, and as a prelim-
mary step. sent for young English
Professor in the University of st.
Petersburg, named Swayne, to teach
her English. The Duchess immedi-
ately fell in love with her teacher, and
informed him of it. For several
months he taught her English and
she taught him love, but one day the
Gar told her he should shortly take
her to German watering place to
make the acquaintance of her intended.
She informed him that would be un-
necessary, as she had already given
her heart and hand to Mr.. Swayne
Thereupon she was sent to her apart
ments, and Prof Swayne was sum-
moned and informed by the Gar
that he had better leave Russia i'm
mediately, which he did. The young
Duchess was inconsolable for long
time, and swore to her parents she
would never marry the Duke of
Edinburgh. When she was taken to
Germany she refused to meet her
intended, and during her recent so
journ with her mother in Italy, she
heaped continual sights upon his
head. Her repugnance, however, was
finally overcome, and now, instead Of
becoming plain Mrs. Swayne, she
will soon be Duchess of Edinburgh
How much comfort the Duke may
derive from the alliance is another
consideration.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
THE SECRET DRAWER.
Several Children Who Now
Wish They Had Treated
Their Mother Better.
Saws the Milwaukee News:

Says the M1lWauhee NEWS
A gentleman residing on the South
Side, and for many years a resident
of Milwaukee, is in daily expectation
of the arrival of an aunt, on a short
visit, the history of whose latter
years surpasses anything in fiction.
She was born and reared in New
England, and has lived there all her
lifetime, being now past sixty years
of age. She married early in life to
Captain Knight, a seafaring man, and
bore him sons and daughters, sever
al of whom are living, married, and
comfortably settled. About sixteen
years ago her husband sailed on his
final voyage to Cuba, and no word
from him, his vessel or crew, has
ever been received since. The ship
undoubtedly foundered and carried
down all on board. Mrs. Knight
struggled on few years, reared her
children, who remained at home at
the time of her misfortune, and in
doing so, exhausted the last remnant
of property left by her husband, and
finally broke down in health under
the accumulated weight of years,
misfortune and poverty. Her young
est son, just married, furnished her
for a short time, and then refused to
shelter her longer. Her other chill
dren each in turn declined to burden
themselves with "mother's support"
or to do anything toward procuring
her home. She finally came on the
town as pauper, and was knocked
off to the lowest bidder for her sup
port, and was for several years a
poor old broken-hearted creature, un-
able to do more than knit stockingsand
assist in tending children. Previous
to becoming SO utterly destitute, she
had sold off her furniture piece at a
time to keep the wolf from the
door," and, among other articles,
sold her husbands old secretary to q
townsman and acquaintance. He
used it few years, and then knocked
it to pieces as rubbish. In doing
this he found a secret drawer and a
paid-upinsurance of Captain Knights
life for ten thousand dollars in the
Etna Life Insurance Company, OF
Hartford, Conn. Being an honest
man, and knowing Mrs. Knights 10
cation and destitution, he hunted her
up, took her to Hartford, and she &C
tually procured the payment OF the
entire sum. The officers of the COM
pany informed her that her husband
paid one-hundred dollars as advance
premium just before saiing,' and that
they had long been waiting for the
presentation of the policy for pay
ment. Her graceless children were
not long in hearing of mothers"
good fortune, and have been vieing
with each other ever since in kind
attentions to the old lady, and press
ing her to come and live with them,
and make their houses her home, ETC.,
etc. She has sense enough, how
ever, to take such professions for
what they are worth, and has re-
solved to maintain her independence
to the end of her days. The name
of Mrs. Knights nephew is known
to all old settlers in the Eighth Ward
and is at the service of any one who
doubts this statement.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21

Tie Grand Duke Alexis, rumor
said, was sent forth on his travels by
his Imperial father in order that the
love he had conceived for the daugh.
ter of a tutor of the Gar might be
forgotten in absence, new thoughts
and new scenes. But the Grand
Dukes love resisted such treatment
and when he reached Russia again was
as warm as ever. And it is to bt
rewarded, for he has given permission
to contract amorganatic marriage will
Mile. Jouvoski, his old love.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
A Useful Hint.

When you wish to know what the
weather is to be, go out and select
the smallest cloud seen. Keep your
eye upon it, and if it decreases, 1t
shows state of air which will be
sure to be followed by fine weather;
if it increases in size, take your great
coat with you, if you are going from
home, for falling weather is near.
The reason is this: When the air
becomes charged with electricity,
you will see every cloud attracting
all lesser ones toward it until it
gathers into shower, and, on the
contrary, when the fluid is passing
off, or difusing.. itself, then the large
clouds will be seen breaking into
pieces and dissolving.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Joseph Arch Coming to See
America-He Promises to
"Drain the LabOring Serfs
out of England"


10 Arch, the English laborer, in a
speech at Newburg on the 18th, said
that f'if his life was spared until Au-
gust he should visit the States of
America" But it is no holiday ex-
cursion that he contemplates. He
further said, if he found there home
for the agricultural laborers of Eng
land he should tell them so, but if he
found that farmers in, America were
men who wanted both sides of the
bargain, and that the crows were as
black there as here, he should advise
them to stay in England. , If he
found America WIS the true home
for the workingman, where the son
of the poor man could sit down by
the children of the rich, write on the
same slate, and read out of the same
book, and where they could have full
electoral power, he would stand on
her shores until he had drained the
laboring serfs out of England, in or
der that he might settle in the fruit
full field of America, with its ninety
millions of acres yet untitled. And
he would do this until the farmers
of England were made to bite the
dust, if they refused to treat their
laborers like men. He hoped before
this time twelve months to make the
farmers of this country know the
worth of man. Although he was
ofhumble birth, and had only been
an agricultural laborer himself, he
had English blood, and an English
heart, and humane feelings; and he
would not see six hundred thousand
tillers of the soil in a state of slavery,
and Knocked by being told they were
free. He would traverse America
from one end to the other, if he lost
his life, in trying to raise the Eng
ish laborer, and would die gladly il
he could bring him into a state OF
| freedom.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
A Brief Love Story.

A marvellous thing is this love of
woman, as is shown in little St.
Louis romance. A Mr.. Hennessey
loved Charity Prince many years ago,
when both were young, and Charity
Prince loved him. But Charity S
charming sister Carrie came between
them, and he was estranged from his
first love and married Carrie. For
fifty long years the married pair
lived together, and in the eyes Of the
world were a happy married pair.
Not long ago Carrie died, and Mr..
Hennessey yearned for his first love,
who had yearned for him continually
during all that long half century. A
few days ago they we're married, and
hebride went for Joy a whole day.
He was 80 and she was rs.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21

The Courier Journal furnishes the
following "answer to correspondence
A youthful correspondent desires to
know how we would like to sail with
Professor Wise on his balloon voyage
to Europe. If you will go, my dear
boy, and climb the least of the many
piles Of twenty-dollar gold pieces
that it would require to hire US tc
undertake such voyage, you vii
find that its summit is wrapped il
perpetual snow.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-21
Problem.

A and are travelling towards st. Louis by the
same road and at the same rate, A being ahead
50 miles from Chicago A Overtakes and passes q
flock of geese, moving at the rate of IL miles pei
hour, and 2 hours afterwards he meets coming
from St. Louis at the rate of 81 miles per hour
B overiakes and passes the geese when IS miles
from Chicago, and 40 minutes after meeting c, hi
arrives at a mile post which says, ''31 miles tt
Chicago"
At what rate do A and travel, and what is thei
| distance apart?