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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

"A Colorado saloon-keeper said of a rough
crowd: ~ couldn't get their whisky strong
, uough for them, so, after trying every way, |
1T last made mixture of poison.oak and but
,ernut. That fetched them. l called it the
sheep-herders delight and it was a popular
drink. The first fellow tried it on yelled with
delight; the next one took two drinks, and turn
ID double somersault in the road before the
mouse. A peddler came along, and after be
took several drinks of my 'sheep-herder's delight
he went off and stole his own pack, and hid it
10 the woods"
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Md. S
0oefrg.
L WONDER WHY.
by N. D. BRINE.

by N. D. BRINE.
wonder why this worlds good things
Should fall in such unequal shares;
Why some should taste of all the joys,
And others only feel the cares
wonder why the sunshine bright
Should fall in paths some people tread,
While others shiver in the shade
Of clouds that gather overhead
l wonder why the trees that hang
So full of luscious fruit should grow
Only where some may reach and eat,
While others faint and thirsty go!
Why should sweet flowers bloom for some,
For others only thorns be found
And some grow rich on fruitful earth,
While others till but barren ground?
I wonder why the hearts of some
O'erfow with Joy and happiness,
While others go their lonely way
Unblessed with aught of tenderness !
wonder why the eyes of some
Should ne'er be moistened with tea
While others weep from morn till ~
Their hearts so crushed Wit =
All well; we may not
The why's, Tn5
But this we know-ther,
And watches us through 10. or
Each life its mission here fulfills,
And only He may know the end,
And loving Him, we may be strong,
Tho storm or sunshine He may send.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

"A Missouri woman said she gave railroad
conductor ten dollar bill he said it was a
two: she insisted he persisted she took out
revolver and snapped it, and he gave her the
eight dollars balance, not wishing to have any
dispute with lady.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

The society in Columbus, Ohio, is high
toned, if the following from the Journal is true:
"W-h-y, You old s-a r-d-i-n-e, is that your"
is the way young lady saluted another on our
streets the other day, and the angel in dimity
and high heeed boots thus addressed meekly
and POLITICALLY responded, "You bet."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

A fellow in Texas has just invented q
strengthening plaster which will enable you to
''take up' anything, from four months note
to hogshead of sugar. A few in this market
would meet with ready sale.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

-"Moly," said Joe Kely's ghost TO his wife,
''I'm in purgatory at this present." says he
"And what sort Of place is 2" says -
''Faix," says he, ''it is sort Of halfway ~ Sc
between you and heaven and stand it mighty
aisy after leaving you"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

"A fond father recently wrote SIT generally
takes twenty years of training to eradicate the
word nice from a woman's vocabulary. The
Falls of Niagara, the Psalms of David and the
progress of the human race were all mice to my
eldest till she got married.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24
n Island Panic"
GREAT DEPRESSION IN REAL ESTATE ON THE EASTERN
sHoRE-FINE OLD ESTATES AND PLANTATIONS
FOR soNG-RUINoUsLY Low PRICES
AT RECENT SALES.

Low prices have been realized, for the last year
or two at the forced sales of real estate, general
ly, throughout the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
In Talbot county, one Of the finest counties on
the Shore, containing land naturally very pro-
ductive, improved in many instances, by elegant
Gus sales are reported. The Easton Gazette, in a
recent issue, gives the following:
'Our lands, which for many generations had
gone on gradually appreciating in value have,
since. 1866, when they reached their ra xmum Of
prize, under the initiation of the cul rency, and
'ation of large northern emigration,
. 20 price so low as to evince the
panic. Farms for which in
purchase al 100 per
u moi bring one
id al $50
for $i2 and SIS
.ot loose language but literal
I'm was recently sold in Oxford
,.A less than $50, for which th owner de-
clined overtures of purchase of $l0O. The splen-
did estate of Samuel Dickinson, dec ased upon
the Choptank, sold for about $500 under a
judgment or mortgage for which h. refused a
bona fde offer of $45 0O0 Yafords Neck sold
for little upwards Of $1,000, $50 acres. The
owner would have been almost insulted to have
had less than $4,000 offered for the tract six
years before. The farm Penfeld, Immediately
adjoining Easton, was bid in by the mortgage
at less than $50 or about that. For portion of
this same farm the mortgagor paid $loO and the
whole of it would probably have al that time
brought the same price.
"The Woodstock property within 1t milts OF
Easton, was bought by DR.. Cherbonn ier of Balti-
more, for $2S per acre, or about $ll, 900 for the
whole tract nearly four hundred acres, an
amount which would not rebuild the elegant
mansion and the farm buildings should they be
consumed A farm on the Choptank was recent
ly purchased by Capt. Hardcastle for about $l5,-
900 for FIVE hundred acres hardly the price oil
the fine buildings upon the property. A farm is
now advertised for sale OF 315 acres on Choptank
river, near the last, beautifully situated, having
what is said to be the finest house in Talbot coun
ty upon it, which cost, in 1866, the sum OF $ls,
600, the land having been bought the same year
for $40 per acre, making the total cost to the
owner of $36, 900. This farm is reported to be
Offering at private sale for $l1, 900. Many other
instances of actual sales and proposals for sale,
at these ridiculous low prices. might be given but
it is unnecessary"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

"A Danbury mon says he has read of beg
gars dying with stockings full of silver, but the
only beggars he ever saw had real estate in theirs
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

.-cG, and would cry in spite
I. IIshments practiced by the be
wfG =. uncle, such as shaking the umbrella
swim ing his watch and dancing it on both
knee
People began to look around reproachfully
youn., men shrugged their shoulders and young
ladi~ siggled.
"H lsh hush there's darling" whispered
Mr.. verley.
But still the baby went and walled nd gnash-
ed its gums, for of teeth it had but two. Mr.
Verley began to look around the cal in search
of soIle matrimonial dame of whom he could
seek counsel, but in vain. There were only
three ladies in the car, and they were young,
with round hats and dimpled cheeks.
They don't know anything aboutit," groan-
ed Mr.. Verley, in anguish of spirit.
40. why didn't have common sense enough
to go and get nurse? 1 suppose there is no
danger of the baby bursting its lungs, but I
think if there was such contingency this baby
is in fair way of meeting it. Well, roar away
my young friend, can stand it as long as you
can"
vain UOdSb. dS luLll0 dS Ndlu1 as MT. veTl6y
soon discovered. The baby not only cried, but
it screamed, it kicked, it doubled itself over
more ways than contortionist's widest dreams
could imagine, and became apparently frantic
with passion. The Precipitation broke in huge
drops on Joseph's brow, his face flu she'd and
still the cars thundered on.
"Nhat's to become of me ?" holding on to the
struggling infant by the sash that encircled its
little waist, and watching its purple face with
species of delectation. "I don't wonder that
Harold died. shall die in a week it this goes
on. And it seemed so easy for Barbara Smith
to take care of her little brothers and sisters
If Barbara Smith were only here. And Verley
pulled the baby back into sitting position
with jerk.
"I1l," quoth Mr.. Verley, I'll take the back
ex hess at four o'clock in the morning and 90
straight there. All, you stop crying, you little
hyp l,rite, but it won't do any good I'm not to
be c,lght twice in the same trap"
Be bara Smith was watering her tubes roses in
s""shine, when he arrived with his
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

The child till then? suppose I must take it
hon 9 with me, for l can't very well drown it
orr hrow it under the car wheels"
q" sir!" calculated the astonished stewardess.
ut Mr.. Verley turned on his heels and strobe
out of the depot, scarcely able at first to COM
pre- lend the disaster that had befallen him.
z ls train was at the depot when he returned,
anu the woman awaited him with the sleeping
infa NJ in her arms.
II sleep, eh commenced Mr. Verley.
~ Tell, that's luck"
cy here's the nurse, sir ?" enquired the wo-
mai
.9 he nurse? what nurse?"
q by, I supposed you went away to get a
nus !"
yer once thought ofit~ circulated Joseph
ma. shifting his forehead. "Here, give the
thiI to me, quick, the train is moving.
H lad hardly time to spring on board, as the
loco tive gave an unearthly shrek, while the
WED spit vigorously.
his seat, holding the umbrel-
bard while in the 9TH
md forward
Lex
aea.- we
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-24

TNGLISH PICRLES, CHOW CHOW,
u ONIONS, PICCALILLA, WALNUTS,
For sale at CHEW'S.
Feb.-15.-ts.
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ChanapaSnE
of the following Brands; Lewis Roederer, Carte
Blanch and Dry Sillery, Piper Heidsieck,
Widow Clicquot, G. H. Mumms, all
grades Krug Co., Charles Held
sleek, Sparkling Catawba, &c.
CLARET WINES.
Chateau Bonliac, Langorian, La Rose, st. Ju-
lian, st. Estephes, Haut sauterne, Pau
lilac, BARNARD'S TABLE CLAIR
ET-Own Importation.
ALES, PORTERS
BROWN STOUT,
IN WOOD AND GLASS.
Guinness Stout, Hibbert's do, Darcy do, R.
Younger's Scotch Ale, VIM. Younger's
India Pale, Allsopp's, Bass &
Co., Burton's Ale, Tiv-
oil Berlin Lager,
in glass;
BURROWS MALT EXTRACT,
for Medicinal purposes.
Imported Ginger Ales.
Cantrells Cochrans. Corey Co
B | T T E r S.
Angustura, Boxers,
| Hostetter's, Vermouth,
stoughton's, &C., &c
FOREIGN CORDIALS
Curacao, Marisquino,
Annistett, Chartreuse,
Absynthe, &C., DC.
SARDINES.
Phillips Canard's, J. F. Marchan's Boneless
Rodu Fills Freres, Statu & Kracke,
Kerlor Mushrooms, French
Peas, &C., &c.
OLIV E S.
Queens, Spanish, Crosse & Blackwell,
French.
Pickles, Condiments & Sauces
Mixed Pickles, Gerkins,
Chow-Chow, Piccalilli,
Caulifowers, Onions, &c
| SAUCES, &C., &C.
Lea 4 Perrin's Worcestershire,
Halford's Leicestershire,
Walnut Catsup, Assorted
Jellies, French Mustard
CANNED FRUIT.
PEACHES, PEARS, CORN,
TOMATOES, &C.. &C., &C
Foreign and Domestic Cigars
Consisting in part of the following
Popular Brands, of all sizes:
La Rose de Santiago,
Flor del Fumar,
Partigas, Espanolas,
Figaros, Henry Clay,
La Intimidad, La Carolina,
Cabanas, Ell TelegraphO
Great Western, P. & L.,
Barnard's Brand, Favorita, Big Bugg, &C., &c
May 10.-4t.
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OELL all kinds of GRAIN and COUNTRY
y PRODUCE, and supply Farmers and Mer
PHOsPHATES, GUANO, SALT, MILL FEED,
&C., &C. Dee. 14,'72.-1y.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
The Habit OF Reading.

81 have no time to read" is the
common complaint, and especially of
women, whose occupations are such
as to prevent continuous book peru
sal They seem to think, because
they cannot devote as much attention
to books as they are compelled to de-
vote to their avocations, that they
cannot read anything. But this is
great mistake. 1t isn't the books We
finish at a sitting which always do us
the most good. Those we devour In
the odd moments, half dozen pages
at time, often give us more satisfac-
ton, and are more thoroughly digest
ed than those we make a particular
effort to read. The men who have
made their mark in the world have
generally been men who have in boy
hood formed the habit of reading at
every available moment, whether for
five minutes or five hours.
1t is the habit of reading rather
than the time at our command that
helps us on the road to learning.
Many of the most cultivated persons,
whose names have been famous as
students, have given only two or
three hours a day to their books If
we make use of spare minutes IN the
midst of our work, and read little,
if but a page or paragraph, we shall
find our brains quickened and our
toll lightened by just so much in
creased satisfaction as the book gives
us. Nothing helps along the monot-
onous daily round SO much as fresh
and striking thoughts, to be. consid-
cred while our hands are busy. A
new idea from a new volume is like
oil, which reduces the friction of the
machinery of life. What we remem-
Der from brief glimpses into books
often serves as stimulus to action,
and becomes one of the most precious
deposits in the treasury of our recol'
lection. All knowledge is made up
of small parts, which would seem In
significant in themselves, but which,
taken together, are valuable weapons
for the mind and substantial armol
for the soul. "Read anything con
tinuously," says DIR. johnson, ''and
: you will be learned" The odd min
utes which we are inclined to waste
if carefully availed of for instruction
d will in the long run, make COLDER
: hours and golden days that we shal
; be ever thankful for.-C"Home an
Society;" Scribner's for August.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
Youthful View of Oxen.

A little boy in the Bishop Scott
Grammar School at Portland, Ore
gon, has gotten off the following
luminous view of "Oxen." His ''com-
position" is given Uer6dtina ct Htera-
tim:
Oxen is a very slow animal. They
are very good to break up ground.
I would rather have horses if they
did not have the collie which they say
is wind collected in q bunch which
makes it dangeresser to keep horses
than oxen. If there were no horses
people would have to wheal their
wood on a wheal-barrow. 1t would
take them too or three days to wheal
a cord mile. Cows are useful to-
1 heard some people say that if they
had to be O cow or OK they would
sooner be a COW, but ! think when il
come to be MIXED on a cold winter
morning 1 think they would sooner
be oxen, for oxen don't have to raise
calves. If 1 had to be an OK or COW
I would be a hefer but if I could not
be a heffer and had to be both
would be aox.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
THE RUFF.

This has taken so strong and per
manent hold on the popular fancy
that itappears on everything, in every
width, and in every form of plating.
1t is called the Marie Stuart, Catha-
rine de Medici, Elizabeth, and other
historic titles but we fancy that
Sarah Maria and Anna Eliza would
serve quite as well, so far as any
positive likeness to the ruffs of those
renowned ladies is concerned. When
the ruffs first came, they were thickly
plated, and sewed to the edge of the
neck. Now they are less full and
frequently formed from the trimming
which outlines the rest, only following
the neck across the back. They are
cut from the same stuff as the dress,
lined with the same or lined with
color; or they are made entirely Of
colored silk, and used in place Of
bright neckties, or of velvet, lined
with black or colors. They are plated
in close box plaits, side plaits, double
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
To the Teachers of Highland
County.

Some one has asked, 'What has become
of the Teachers Department." Things
that are naturally weak and wanting in vi
tality, are generally quite easily crushed,
though life may not be entirely extinct.
Through press of work in anothervocation
on our part, and the press of political mat
ter in the paper during the fall campaign,
this Department has fallen back. As the
political excitement has now passed away,
and its demands upon the columns of the
paper are not so great, we will resume our
editorial task We are once more at school
work, surrounded by score or so of young
hopefuls," and will occasionally occupy
leisure hour in trying to keep up the Teach
ers' Department
And now, fellow-teachers, by receiving
your occasional help, we may be able to
move on a while longer, unless the snow
gets too deep. We wish to remind Bro.
-, of his promise made during the
meeting of the Institute, and we know some
of our lady-teachers can WELD spicy pen,
and they are cordially invited to assist. Let
US rally for a short campaign at least. There
are several topics of interest to teachers
and the public, that we would like to have
you discuss through this Department.
Friends, we ask once more, shall We not
have your active aid and cooperation, in
maintaining this column, which the pub
Usher of the News has kindly set apart for
our special use and benefit? Let US have
prompt and general response to our appeal.
led. 7. ID.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
As Others See Us.

ALondon writer thus records his
impression of the ways of living in
America: He says we are the larg-
est meat eaters in the world; that our
meat, if baked, is invariably burnt,
and if boiled is always reduced to
rags. That to have pork in perfec-
ton one must go to that paradise Of
pigs-Cincinnati. Tomatoes are eat
en- at every meal with almost evero-
thing, and that our fruits must be seer
to be appreciated. "Why," he sums
up, "they actually feed the pigs or
peaches and strawberries, they are
SO plentiful. just think of that"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
Teachers Department.
Examination Of Teachers,

Mr. EDIToR:-I 1 am kept in doors by
foul weather, the News is at hand, and my
eyes fall on the Teachers Department.
where / see communication from some
one who takes upon himself the honcred
name of ANDREW Jackson" Very errone-
ously it may be, infer that he is a good
scholar for teaching in common schools, but
pufed up with conceit in regard to his at
tainments, and deficient in experience, lack
ing some essential quality outside of scholar
ship.
This writer really thinks that candidate
for the privilege of teaching ought not to
be examined in ''Theory and Practice"
Before reproducing some of the questions
which he condemns as not being worth q
''row of pins" I wish to say that our com
mon schools are the star-like glories of our
common c'untry. They haVesaFed as from
thesmiserable condition of triumphant re-
bellion. We have now clear knowledge
from experience, of their very great value
Our Legislature is right in going on from
improvement to improvement in perfecting
our system. In future. teachers must be
well taught, and thorough examinations are
Indispensable.
Let us see if we can make something out
of these questions that are pronounced to
be mot worth row of pins"
would you advise pupil to study hard
Just before eating hearty meal, or after
wards?' Before eating. A full stomach
and hard brain work are incompatible.
"What kind of parents find most fault
with teaching?" The ignorant and vulgar
those who know least about it. r.---
''If pupil studies three hours on a prob
lem and then fails, is he benefited" Ger
tainly he is. The brain grows by effort, as
the muscles by exercise.
''Should a teacher receive niger wages
than common laborer?" That depends
in some cases very doubtful.
No man is fit to teach in common schools,
though his scholarship may beall-suf6cient,
unless he has just ideas in regard 70 the
theory and practice of teaching Yet SAN
drew Jackson" (honored be the name) is
not ashamed to ask, 'Is 1t fair to examine
IN that 6rGnchi' A. D. G.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
Life i'm Texas.

Family ties appear to be very strong
in Texas. The Sheriff of Lampassas
county wanted man named Dixon,
who was charged with riding other
peoples horses. Dixon was tarrying
at the house of his fatherin-law
Sutton. Nobody had anything against
Sutton, but everybody knew that
Dixon was a thief and desperado.-
The Sheriff got together a posse
and with a warrant went to Sutton's
house. The party told their business
to Dixon and requested that he sur
render himself in a gentlemanly man
ner. Sutton Immediately rose anG
commenced firing on the visitors
Dixon followed suit. Both men were
brought down dead after a short
struggle. This class of citizens sci
1om allow themselves to be taken
alive in Texas. They much prefer &c
die on their native heaths, and save
legal expense. If such economy runs
through the whole population, Texa,
will become q very rich State, but thu
lawyers will be starved out.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30

The bear of the Arctic regions does
not hug like other bears, but bites
at his opponent; and he declines tc
eat his captive till life is quite extinct
Like a cat he plays with his victim.
Amongst the Esquimaux of Green
land he plays strange pranks, often
creeping upon the hunter while busy
fencing seal, and tapping him OF
the shoulder with his powerful paw
Then it is the unfortunate mans cut
to ''feign dead" so that when Brownie
retreats few PAGES to enjoy thu
prospect of his intended meal, thu
gun can be got ready before he re
turns again to the attack.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-30
The Meanest Man.

It turns out, after all, that the
meanest man is not the man we re-
ferred to. the other day, who split up
his first wife's tombstone. Burrows
is even meaner than he. Burrows
was an inveterate tobacco chewer,
but as his wife detested the practice,
and made home tempestuous and
stormy for him when he indulged in
the habit there, he always chewed
when away during the day, and de-
clared to his wife that he had stop
ped permanently.
But one evening, upon entering
the front door and drawing out his
handkerchief, he accidentally pulled
out his paper of tobacco, and with
out noticing it left it lying on the
floor. When Burrows sat down to
tea, his wife walked in with the to-
bacco in her hand, and looking Bur
rows firmly in the eye, said:
"Do you know who that belongs
to?"
With great presence of mind Bur
rows turned scowling to his Oldest
boy and said:
Immortal Mars! Is it possible
that you have begun to chew tobac
CO, you young reprobate? Where'd
you get that nasty stuff? What dc
you mean by such conduct, yor
young villain? Haven't I told YOU
often enough to let tobacco alone
Come here to me, or I'll tear the jack
ct off of you
And as he spoke, the stern fathe.
made a grab at the boy and dragged
him out in the entry, where he chas
tised him with a cane. Then Bur
rows threw the tobacco over the fence
where he went out and got it in thC
morning and enjoyed it during th'
day.
''1Ierciful Noses" he exclaimed
when he told us about it, "what woulC
I have done if my children had al
been girls? 1t makes an old father
heart glad when he feels he has {
boy he can depend on in such emer
gencies."