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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

Miss Ida Greeley lately made her
debut in the department of literature
in the columns of the New York
Graphic. Her first effort was trans
lation from the French of Alfred de
Musset's novelette,, entitled 'The
Blackbird." The little story is so
sprightly and entertaining in our
language that Miss Greeley must
have been highly successful in her
translation. She will appear next In
the columns of the same paper as the
author of story of her own The
Graphic also lately gave Miss Gree
ley's portrait. The picture was not
deemed success, but it was never
theless easily deducible that she is a
fine looking and highly intellectual
lady. That she may win her way to
high place in the literary guild will
be the earnest wish of thousands.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

The Republican party is an honest
party. The masses of the honest,
right-acting, right feeling voters ol
the country belong to it. The men
who fought for the maintenance Of
the government belong to it, Some
of their representatives have turned
out badly, but they have been con-
demned by the men who have sup
ported them and will be replaced by
better men,. Nota single Republican
convention has approved the salary
grab or nominated for any Office a
salary grabber.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
A Case of Consequential DAM
ages,

When father stands on his head
in the corner to please his children
he cannot be too careful. An Astor-
la parent was amusing his little ones
that way last Friday, when the door
bell rang. His wife, who had been
leaning out of the second story win
dow talking servant girl" to the lady
next door, rushed down stairs and
into the parlor, to tell him company
was coming. Papa was resting both
heels at that moment against the
wall, and in the hurry and agitation
of recovering himself, his legs few
about SO thoughtlessly that his boot
struck his wife in the mouth, and
knocked out seven or eight teeth.
She Immediately tainted, and in
falling overthrow the youngest boy
and broke three of his ribs. A large
mastiff in the front yard, hearing the
commotion, naturally attributed it
in his blind, irrational, canine way
to the strangers at the door, upon
whom he at once made violent at
tack, mangling a silk dress in the
most shocking manner, and extract
ing several choice tendons from the
gentleman's legs. The bills for new
stock of teeth and setting the ribs
will probably amount to 5000, but
the total losses cannot be ascertained
until the jury determines how much
it costs for a mastiff to lunch on tend
OnS
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

A REMARKABLE DoG.-Jack Worth
ington, living on Short Branch, is the
owner of very fine shepherd dog
whose sagacity is almost human.
One night last week one of Mr..
Worthington's horses became entang-
led in the halter, and the dog seeing
the situation the horse was in and
not being able to assist him, ran to
the house and scratched upon the
door until the noise awoke his slum-
bering master, who followed the dog
and relieved the suffering brute.
Jack says if it had not beer for
scratching" he would have lost a fine
horse [Greenup Independent.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

From series of very curious ex-
periments just made it appears that
the high notes of a violin string are
accompanied with sufficient concuss-
ion to explode iodide on paper affixed
to it. The sound waves generated
by the explosion of the merest trif9
of nitro-glycerine are also, it is found,
capable of exploding an equal quanti-
ty of iodide of nitrogen at distance
of eight and half feet.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

Should a subscriber to a newspa-
per or periodical, who has paid one
years postage in advance, remove
within the delivery of another office
before the expiration of a year, the
postmaster should give him receipts
the party should then notify the pub
Usher to send his paper to the new
Office, where, upon presentation Of
the receipt, the Postmaster must de-
liver the publication free for the re-
mainder of the term paid for.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
Seeing is Deceiving.

Here is a row of ordinary capital letters and fig
ures
SSSS SSXXXXXXZ ZZZZZZ3333s 3sss s
They such as are made up of two parts of equal
shapes. Look carefully at these and you will per-
ceive that the upper halves of the characters
Uery little smaller than the lower halves : so
little that an ordinary eye will declare them to be of
equsl size. Now turn the page upside down, and,
without any careful looking you will see that this
difference in size is very much exaggerated-th that
the real top half of the letter is very much smaller
than the bottom half. 1t will be seen from this
that there is a tendency in the eye to enlarge the
upper part of any object upon which it looks. We
might draw two circles of unequal size, and so
place them that they should appear equal.-Ionce
Week.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
Mysterious Mathematics.

Editors Clinton Republican:
Below append curious mathematical calcula-
tion the result of close attention to figures, and
which present for the amusement and instruction
of students and such others may feel disposed to
give it attention. Perform the work indicated and
you will obtain the required result:
Assume number; multiply it by 1I19, add 81 to
the product; multiply this sum by 8; divide by
3d. subtract 81; divide by I2 add BOG; divide by g.
multiply by 3; subtract 1O2; divide by the assumed
number; multiply by 81; add s43; multiply by ST
subtract 26O, and you iCiH hare us for a result.
This is not Iust happen so; but is arrived at by
mathematical reasoning. and altogether different
construction can be gotten up An explanation ii
requested through the columns of the News.
AARON HUNT
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

around ''The Daily Graphic, and set
right whatever may be amiss."
"How about the discharge of bal
| last after noon?"
'1t will be greater than in the
morning. You would besurprised at
the change after noon in the upper
air. The air Immediately begins to
get colder; SO, as this causes conden-
sation, we are compelled to discharge
more ballast"
"What are the effects of rain?"
''A series of effects are produced
which result in an exact balance, so
that the total effect is NIL In the
first place the moisture makes the
balloon heavier; it also condenses the
gas, which thereby loses power; but,
on the other hand, it closes all the
pores of the balloon, and thus puts o
stop to the escape of gas"
cat six o'clock on the evening of
the second day, when you will have
been out twenty-four hours, what will
be the total discharge of ballast?"
'I estimate 800 pounds. But
Professor Wise, who likes to be on
the safe side, estimates 1000 pounds
a day."
'How much ballast will you have
left? What is the total weight of
balloon and all appurtenances?"
'The balloon weighs 5000 pounds;
netting, 700 pounds, car, 25O pounds;
boat, 700 pounds; instruments and
dragrope, 1000 pounds; total, $3.50
pounds. -Four hundred thousand
cubic feet of gas, having carrying
capacity of thirty-fve pounds per
thousand, giving a total carrying
force of $4,000 pounds. Deduct
$3.50 from this, and you have bal
ance of more than 5000 pounds for
passengers and ballast. All our pro-
visions will be so much ballast. All |
the water on board the balloon will
be ballast. Directly we come in sight
of land we can dispose of the boat as
ballast. 1t will be of no further use"
''Then the second night out will be
much the same as the first. y
eyes; but we shall probably have
gained some experiences which will
be of service to us in regard to night
observations"
eff you go off on the 25th of Au-
gust, you won't have any moon"
''No; but we shall have plenty of
things to observe without her"
81 shouldn't wonder if you saw
some fine meteoric displays. You
know the fall is the time when they
mostly occur It would be awkward,
though, if one was to hit the balloon
and burst it"
"Oh, no fear of that! The chances
are too remote to cause the slightest
anxiety. I hope we may see a fine
display. It will be something to re-
lieve the monotony."
"That's true So you expect to
sight land on the second morning
out?"
81 do, most decidedly. Oh, what a
time that will be! How awful Jolly
all of us in the balloon will feel! If
the lower current carries us over, we
shall first see Ireland; but, if we have
to go higher, I think we shall reach
the northern part of Europe-Swed-
en- or Norway perhaps. Then look
out for cable dispatches, my boy! )
You will have enough of them"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

One of the incidents of the demolition
of Washington Market was the fol
lowing speech delivered from the top
of box: II am Mrs. Martha O'Don-
nell, the A No. 1 fat woman of Wash
ington Market. 1 came into this
market weighing 200 pounds, and I
now weigh 345 pounds. I have been
here fifteen years, have paid S18 a
month, and have made 500, 900, and
intend to make. 100000 more. I
have farm of ten acres on Long Isl
and, support husband like gentle
man, and family in luxury, and I
give them fast horses and carriages
with which to enjoy themselves. I
have stood the most intense cold in
winter without a fire and the great
est heat in summer, and have never
taken cold or been overheated."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
Having finished the conquest

Having finished the conquest OF
Khiva, the Russian army, we now
hear, will undertake the subjection OF
the Turcoman tribes, who are the
modern Parthians of the far East.
These nomads now afford the only
considerable obstacle to absolute
Russian dominion in Turkestan, and
their subjugation will practically ex-
tend the territories of the Gar to the
feet of the Himalayas and the Dor
ders of British India. More and
more it becomes evident that the
question of the near future in Euro
pean politics is the Eastern question.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

The Germans evacuated Nancy
early in the morning of Aug. 1. Two
minutes after the rear gaurd marched
out, tircolored flags began to appear
in the principal streets. The dogs
were ornamented with tricolored rib
bons. The day was observed as a
holiday, and the theatre was opened
in the evening for the first time since
the commencement of the war in 18.
70.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

One of Mr. Greeley's sayings is re-
ported to have been that if he had to
start in life again, and the choice was
profered between q classical educa-
ton and his trade as a printer, he
would unhesitatingly prefer the trade.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
Politicians and the Grangers.

An exchange pointedly says:
politicians are reported to be ma
neuvering as skillfully as possible to
capture the Patrons of Husbandry,
but the latter are Wary, and remem-
Der the fate of other organizations
which listened to siren voices. When
charged, as they have been, with be-
ing an association without defined
purposes or objects, and with having
leaders destitute of ability to grasp
aud hold opportunities to increase
their strength and usefulness, these
Patrons ungenerously decline the Of
fers of those who would gladly give
them both policy and leaders. As
the matter stands there seems to be
many Patrons of Husbandry ,and not
a few patrons Of the Patrons"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

There is still sailing from Holland
probably the Oldest ship in the world.
This ocean veteran was built in 1870,
has had checkered existence, and
has done duty in all kinds of weather,
on different waters and under all
kinds of masters. Nine years ago,
she easily rounded the Cape of Good
Hope in sailing from Batavia for Hol-
land, being then 294 years old.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

Esquimaux Joe's wife declined to
go back the Polar regions, and was
left at New London. Both she and
her husband are entirely satisfied
with temperate latitudes, and will
settle as peaceful fisherman and wife
in Massachusetts when the former
gets back.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
Select Miscellany.
tn e FRIENDS BURIAL

tn z FRIENDS BURIAL.
BY JOHN C. WHITTIER.
My thoughts are all in yonder town,
Where, wept by many tears,
To-day my mothers friend lays down
The burden of her years.
True as in life, no poor disguise
OF death with her is seen,
And on her simple casket lies
No wreath of blood and green.
o, not for her the florists art,
The mocking weeds of woe,
But blessings of the voiceless heart,
The love that passeth show!
Yet all about the softening air
Of newborn sweetness tells;
And-the ungathered May-howers wear
The tiDts of ocean shells.
The old, assuring miracle
Is fresh as heretofore;
And earth takes up its parable
OF life from death once more.
Here organ swell and church-ben toll
Methinzs but discord were,
The prayerful silence of the soul
Is best BETTING her.
No sound should break the quietude
Alike of earth and sky
wandering wind of Seabrook wood,
Breathe but half-heard sighI
Sing softly, spring-bird, for her sake,
And thou, not distant sea,
Lapse lightly as if Jesus spake,
And thou vert Galilee! y
For all her quiet life flowed on
As meadow streamlets flow,
Where fresher green reveals alone
The noiseless ways they go.
The plain-robed mourners pass,
From her loved dwelling-place see
With slow feet treading reverently
The graveyard's springing grass.
Make room, o mourning ones, for me,
Where, like the friends Of Paul,
That you no more her face shall see
You sorrow most of all.
Her path shall brighten more and more,
Unto the perfect day;
She cannot fail of peace who bore
Such peace with her away.
sweet, calm face that seemed to wear
The look of sins forgiven!
voice of prayer tbst seemed to bear
Our own needs up to heavenI
How reverent in our midst she stood,
Or knelt in grateful praise!
What grace of Christian womanhood
Was in her household ways!
For still her holy living meant
No duty left undone
The heavenly aud the human blent
Their kindred loves in one.
And if her life small leisure found
In feasting ear and eye,
And pleasure on her daily round,
She passed unpsusing by
Yet with her went a secret sense
Of all things sweet and fair,
And beauty's gracious providence
Refreshed her unaware.
She kept her line of rectitude
With loves unconscious ease;
Her kindly instincts understood
All gentle courtesies.
An inborn charm of graciousness
Made sweet her smile and tone,
And glorihed her farm-whife dress
With beauty not its own.
The dear Lords best interpreters
Are humble human souls;
The Gospel of a life like hers
Is more than books or scrolls.
From screen and creed the light goes out,
The sanity fact survives;
The blessed Master none can doubt
Revealed in holy lives.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
The whale fishery is pradnal]

The whale fishery is gradually be.
coming of less value and Importance.
Even the Greenland fishing, which
for many years has been quite profit
able, is declining. Whale oil is being
superseded by petroleum, SO that
whalebones are about the only part
of the big fish of the sea for which
there is any special demand.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

A frontier correspondent who saw
Captain Jack after his capture writes
that in his opinion, the Modoc chiefs
appearance would have been vastly
improved if he had been washed be-
fore he was ironed.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

Cannot something be done to pre-
vent young ladies from being insult
ed on our streets at nights?" askas a
Cincinnati paper. There can. Just
have the girls mother tuck her into
her little bed about eight o'clock in
the evening and lock the door on
her.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

The Patrons of Husbandry have
built a large grain warehouse at Blairs-
town, Iowa, and will ship large guam
titles of grain to Chicago this season.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
Youths Department.

sP-Original Enigmas, Charades, Problems, etc.,
are respectfully solicited The answers must always
accompany them, with the real name of the writer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

"What's the date of your hustle 2"
was what an anxious papa asked his
well dressed daughter, after search
ing for the latest copy of his paper.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28
Conundrums.

When is clock on the stairs dangerous? When
it runs down.
Why are your eyes like friends separated by dis
tant climes? They correspond, but never meet.
When does farmer work miracle? When he
turns his horse TO grass.
Why are people who have nothing to be proud Of
but their pedigree like potatoes? Because the only
good thing belonging to them is under ground.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

The venerable John Gage, of Vine
land, New Jersy, Spiritualist, tool
his daily exercise of choppjng woot
on Sunday morning as well as any
other, which so shocked Rev. T. S
Chubbuck, venerable of the Metho
dist persuasion, that the latter in vir
tuous Indignation, had the hoary
headed sinner arrested for breaking
the Sabbath. All Methodism and
Spiritualism in Vineland are now by
the ears.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-28

Answer to Enigma in last weeks News. Wash.
Harvey and Yella Miller.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-01
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
j. G. B. Smith-Bank Notice.
Peixotto Il Sons-Auction Sale.

TIE TEsTIMoNY cF Travellers ALI
travellers who have tested the value OF
Hostetter's Stomach Bittcrs rs an acc!-
mating preparation aud as q means of
avoiding the painful and dangerous dis
orders of tile hcwe!s and tue liver, which
accrue from "a change Of water or un-
wholesome vnpors, refer to it With en-
thuslam ns an unequaled preventive me-
dicine. Wherever The atmospheric con-
ditlons are unfayorable to health aud the
water impure, this powerful tonic is in
dispensable alike to the settler and tile
transient soiourner. There was time
when raw brandy or whiskey was almost
universally used to qualify the waters OF
the Western rivers. and the wells, g.,
OF the low-lyipg districts of the South.
Now, the liquors Of commerce have been
generally discarded by travellers and re-
sidents IN these regions, and Hostettera
Blttcrs substituted in their stead. At
this season, when the sun is near the
zenith and the heat oppressive, two or
three doses of the Bifters daily have
salutary effect On the appetite. the d.
gestion and the spirits. J27t3tl
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-01

HOTEL ARR1vALs, July JVheeI,r
House-R FL Hand, Augusta; r II De.
Treville, Charleston; Lieut. K Hyer, u
s a; r Toomhs. Ga; j r Joy, y G; HC
Moses. Newberry;J j L Settle, Baltimore;
G T Mason, Jr, NJ J Ryteenburg, Sum
ter.
ColumIia HoteI-B l. Goulding, Ga; ]
J johnson, 1owndesviIle; s G Gilbert,
G P Gardner, p q Webb. Mrs w II
Lemon, Charleston; l. s Aithof, Balti.
more; L II " Barrett and child, Miss
S Hartman, Richmond; J D Gardner,
Jr, Wilmington; DR. John T Darby. S c.;
J II Stelling, G & G r Il; G " Thames,
Wilmington; J r Ivey, Augusta.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-01

Those using Nat,ans' Crystal Disco.
very fer the hair assure us that it Ger.
tainly does all and really more than is
claimed for it. 1t is an extraordinary
preparation of its kind, and should be
tried by all. For sale by druggists
everywhere. For sale by G. 81. Mot.
A1i3
A promising young student of human
nature IN New Orleans amuses himself
with stuffed rat, which, from his place
OF concenlment, he draws across the
sidewalk when people are passing. VIC.
men shrek when they sec the rat, and
men violently attack it with sticks and
umbrellas.
\ report of an old-fasliioncd sermon.
says: just at this point, he stopped
speaking il few momcuts, wiped his fore.
head. turning back his wristbands, rau
his iinS,is through his hair, spit and
rabbcd his bco. III IT, drank Little VA.
ter commenced on a .ow,r .c, und rlu..
c.c,.vG az follows
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-01

NERVOUS DEBILITY DEPRESSED, IR.
EIrADLE STATE OF MIND; WEAK, NERVOUS,
EXHAUSTED FEELING; NO ENERGY OR AM
NATION; CONFUSED HEAD, WEAK MEMORY,
OFTEN WITH DED1LITATISa. INVOLUNTARY
DISCHARGES. The consequence Of ex-
cesses. mental oyerwork or indiscretions.
This NERVOUS DEBILITY finds soyEKE1GS
CURE in Humphreys HOMEOPATHIC SpE
C1FIc, No. rs. It tones up the system,
arrests discharges, dispels the mental
gloom aud dependency, and rejuvenates
the entire system; it is perfectly harmless
and Always efficient. Price S5 for pack
age Of five boxes and large 81 vial OF
powder, which is important in nd serious
cases; or 81 per single box. Sold by ALL
Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of
price. Address HUMPunEYs' SPECIFIC
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE CoMPANY, No.
562 broadway, NJ For sale by 9 E1GEn
X MoGREGoR. Columbia. s. c. Ap14 frly
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-01
W1NSsBoEo, july 80. 1873.

WINNSBOEO, July %, 1910.
Mn. EDITOR: Iu an editorial notice in
your issue of this morning, announcing
certain legal proceedings in the United
States Court, before Judge Bryan, ap-
pears the following paragraph
ION the petition Of Samuel ". Mob
ley, creditor, Wm. r. Robertson, debtor,
WAS ordered to show cause, in Green
vile. on the 18th Of August, why he
should not be adjudgel bankrupt"
Please inform your readers that the
above named gym. II. Robertson" is
not VIM. +. Robertson. Esq. of Winus-
boro, South Carolina. FAIRFIELD.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-01

4 RELIC OF TIE PAsr.-It has already
been mentioned that Bishop. Howe had
been put IN possession Of q communion
service which belonged to st. Bartho-
lomew's Parish almost century ago.
This service, which is in wonderful
state Of preservation, is now on exhibit
bition at Mr.. 1ayaen's store, on King
street. 1t consists OF IL 1a9on, two
large goblets and three salvers, all of
solid silver and having the following in
scrlption: "The gift of James Skirving,
ESQ, for the use Of st. Bartholomew =
Parish. South Carolina, 1893" Upon
each piece is engraved the letters II. II.
5. " surrounded by rays. The service is
niads Of solid silver. and probably cost
about $500 at the time it was purchased.
Charleston Ne,cs.