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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27
ee ~ For the News.
Midnight Musings.

Mr.. EDITOR Sir, will you allow
me q little space, that your readers,
especially the Juveniles, may have the
benefit Of sage (cofee) experience
This evening I accepted an invita-
ton to spend the night with Jolly
friend, and his 'Tbetter half" We
had good cheer in the way of supper,
but unfortunately I drank a cup of
strong coffee, then spoiled d quid of
tobacco, and finished up with peace
full puff of the family pipe. Chatting
till eleven, we retired, expecting sweet
restorative, "balny sleep" To my
surprise, I failed to find her! In
stead, twas trist and strew, pardon q
lisping pen) cramp and kick, roll l'and
ruminates A strange fancy takes pos
session. mast write for the 'News. !"
Arising, I find a match and lamp, and
resolve to pencil my dozeless expe-
rience, for the benefit of mankind in
general, and juvenile Highlanders in
particular.
The moral is PREDATORY, and is this:
Never, my beloved friend, Gf not &C
quainted with stinulants) drink
strong coffee, or puff nocturnal
pipe. To enforce exhortation, look
at consequences of violation. You
will imagine that you can write for
newspaper! In rainbow hallucina-
ton, you soar aloft as the eagle, and
descend gratefully as the dove, whilst
in reality, you only attempt the sub
lime, and come down on the ridicu-
-lous! You imagine that you meet an
old acquaintance by moonlight.
Slightly stimulated, like yourself, he
sets his plume for slice of deceptive
fun. His name is He1drink, Hen
drunk, or Hedrunk, and he is not
positive which. Halls from ''Kain-
tuck" rains polite ''cusses" on a mud
dy turnpike and the Aboitionists,
and Ito give the Devil his due) mimics
right well, the air and accent of
Southern "chivalry" Had deposited
in the Hillsboro Bank, save $4,000,
and is "in search of mules, a good
grass farm and woman"
Of course, you are diverted with
his whimsicalEes-affect '1nnocence
Abroad" answer his questions-re
fuse a little "horn," but swallow his
assumptions. Finally you trade
horses, sell him your farm, and intro
duce him to DR.. L., as:Mr "Skedunk,"
from the renowned city of Hiram
skirim, K. Y. The DR.. adroitly
humors the joke-we separate, each
with gushing propensities, and next
day the whole Of s. s. is singularly
Gglee, with the astounding revelations
of this same Mr.. "Ske. y
Now, Mr.. Ed and readers juvenile,
strange as it may seem, such are some
of the vulgar visions, superinduced by
the use of mild stimulants. What,
then, had been the catastrophe, if
more powerful ones had been used,
vivid imagination may picture, but
my pen not describe. I repeat the
moral. Beware of supping, stufing
and putting. My name to bachelor
brothers, is JOSEPHAW.
March 18th, 1873.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27
TO THE CUCKOO.


Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove
Thou messenger of Spring!
Now heaven repairs thy rural seat, e
And woods thy welcome sing
Soon as the daisy decks the green,
Thy certain voice we hear;
Hast thou astar to guide thy path, Ella
Or mark the rolling year2
Delightful visitant! with thee
I hail the time of flowers,
And hear the sound of music sweet 90
From birds among theaowers. A
The school-boy wandering through the wood
To- pull the pri1nrose gay, & f3g sEf 20
Starts, the new voice of Spring to hear,
And initiates thy lay.
What time the pea puts on the bloom,
Thou fiest thyvoca vale, Efa 4
An annual guest in other lands,
Another Spring to han. i. -
Sweet bfrdi thy bower is ever green, =
Thy sky is ever clear;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
- SO owinter in thy year. = =
Alas, sweet birdl now in nay fate, s
r. Dark, scowling skies I see
Fast gathering round, and fraught with woe,
And wintry years to me.
O, could fly, I'd fly with theel
We'd make, with joyful wing,
Our annual visit Ger the globe,
Companions of the Spring. -IBmce.
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Some of these dividends were made

p44YOJO
Some of these dividends were made
before majority of the Congressman
whose names have been mentioned in
connection Herewith received their
shares, and it is probable that they
did not, in all cases, get the entire
back dividends. And there was a
still further loss C) from the fact that
these stocks (in all cases those of the
U. P. road) and bonds could not be
sold for their face. There's Mrs. Gen
eral Dodge, of our own State, who
kindly held the Generals G. NJ while
he served as M. c., and also as Chief
Engineer of the Union Pacific, whose
income must have been something
handsome in those days. She ha6
$25, 1000 of C. M. stock, which doubt
less shared in all the dividends made,
so that the original investment was In
creased in the course of three years,
from S25, 900 to over S375,0OOI It is
not strange under these circumstan-
ces, and others equally creditable to
his financial ability, that Gen. Dodge
was SO anxious to reach Washington
in time to testify before the G. M.
Committee.
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A man who will disinherit his wife
because she marries again, bears hel
the same kind of love that the Turk
bears toward the women of his harem,
and not the love which a free, true
man bears toward q free, true woman.
If he finds happiness in married Life,
what cruel brute that he should
deliberately provide that when he
dies, and his widow, recalling the
happy days of her married life, should
consent to marry again, she shall be
deprived of the fortune which he
leaves her! Such men were married
in body, but never in soul.
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A Striking and BeautifuI Gus

In the whole of Spanish America,
but especially IN the larger towns,
the moment of the Angelus has
strange attraction for the stranger.
AS the usage requires every one TO
halt no matter where he may be, at
the first stroke Of the bell, to inter
rupt his conversation, however i'm
portant, and listen without stirring
until the conclusion of the chime, the
singularity of q whole population sur
prised In moment as it comes and
goes, held in state of petrifaction,
and paralyzed as if by an enchanter,
may be imagined. On every side you
see gestures interrupted, mouths half
opened for the arrested remark, smiles
oddly lingering or passing into an ex-
preston Of prayer. You would fancy
anation of statues. A town in South
America, at the tinkle of the Angelus,
resembles the city in the Arabian
Nights, whose inhabitants were turn
ed into stones. The magician here
is the bellringer. But hardly has
the vibration ceased when universal
murmur arises from these thousands
of oppressed lungs. Hand meets
hand, question seeks answer, conver-
sations resume their course; horses
feel the loosened bride and paw the
ground; dogs bark, babies cry, IA
theirs swear and mothers chatter.
The accidental turns thus given to
conversation are many, and some
times striking.-fF From Searching for
the Quinine Plant in Peru, Lippin-
colts Magazine.
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XylOl.

The medical men have fresh puz-
zle on hand Xylol is new medical
compound, derived from the distilla-
ton of oil of tar, and, according to
the German doctors, it is a specific
for the cure of smallpox; but, accord
ing to a remarkable statement Just
made public by physician in st.
Louis, DR.. Walsh, it is also an agent
for purposes of robbery and murder.
70 mingle it with the feathers of a
pillow, and to lay the head upon that
pillow, is to die, as though by fumes of
charcoal. True, all pillows may be
disused-but then some evil disposed
person might put xylol into the boil
ster, and the sleeper, recovering from
smallpox, might die, ofthe very pois-
on which cured his disorder. The
whole business is complicated, and
xylol will be at discount-hterally q
drug in the market-until such time
as the chemists and the doctors tell
us what is true and what is false con-
cerning it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

The last new thing in medicine is a
substitute for vaccination, descrip-
ton of which is continued in the last
number of the American Practitioner,
but not in terms sufficiently plain to
make it thoroughly understood. The
propagation of the new doctrine, an
eminent Western physician, says that
for thirty-four years he has held to
the plan of pustulation by tartar
emetic as fully as good a preventive
of smallpox as perfect vaccination.
He adds that the fact is familiar to
physicians that there is an almost ex-
act resemblance between tartar emetic
pustules and vaccina, not only at
their full development, but during the
successive stages. He asks the ques-
ton: Why this artificial pustulation
may not be 'just as good a prevent
i've as vaccination, since the same pro-
cess has been gone through with, and
the same molecular changes?" and
suggests that experiments be made in
hospitals to prove this theory.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

Kentucky and Virginia, rich in ev-
erything but people and industry, be-
gin to see. that to encourage immi-
grafton of a desirable kind, the in
ducement of educational facilities
must be given Accordingly, there
is faint whisper of an appeal for
many and good schools, which viii
soon swell into an impatient shout.
Here is chance which ought not to
be neglected for the trial of a new
and more thorough system of educa-
ton than is known in other States.
The sooner such an experiment is
made, the better for this iliterate
country.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

The Bank of England covers five
acres of land, and employs 900
clerks. There are no windows on the
streets. Light is admitted through
the open courts no mob could take
the bank, therefore, without cannon
to batter down the immense walls.
The clock in the center of the bank,
has fifty dials attached to it. Large
cisterns are sunk into the court, and
engines in perfect order, are always
ready in case OF fire. This bank was
Incorporated in 1894. Capital, $780,
100000.
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The G. Nj. Dividends.

IFrom the Burlington QOwa) Hawkeye.l
The dividends made on Credit Mo
bilier stock made honest () Congress.
mems investments of their little ST.
900 piles double up with amazing ra-
pidity. Of course, members who
pocketed these dividends, never sus-
picioned for moment that there was
anything wrong about it-oh no
Here's the way the k'soaOn dividends
were made, and the resulting accu-
mutations on each share of 81, 900:
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There is evidently some outcome
in the boy in Professor Hailman's
school who wrote the composition on
''The Pin," subject chosen by his
teacher. Knowing the boys aversion
to literary efforts, his teacher exacted
but two sentences. After considera-
BILE effort the little hero produced the
following: 'rPins are very useful.
They have saved the lives of a great
many men, women and children-in
fact, whole families" In reply to his
astonished teacheras to the emanner in
which the lives were saved through the
instrumentaity of pins, the boy inno-
Gently remarked: 'FWhy, by not swal-
lowing them.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

The experience of some Western farmers
this winter in burning corn is claimed to
have settled its cheapness as fuel, and it is
thought will lead to itsadoption toa great
extent for that purpose. Six acres will an
nually yield enough corn for fuel fora fam
lily for year, and the cost of raising it is
less than would be the cost of coal or wood
for the same time at present rates.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

The man who produces the largest
yield to area cultivated, with the least
expense, and increases the fertility OF
his soil, is the most scientific farmer,
however ignorant he may be Of the
fact.-[Rural Southland.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

The New York Mail says, the law just
passed in Kansas, giving mothers control of
their children, is a capital measure, and
should be imitatedin other States. Children
have had control of their mothers so long it
is time for change. We believe in rota-
ton in the domestic Offices
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

BEEFsTEAK.-Take a round
steak and make a dressing.
Lay On the meat and sew up
the edges. Put this in a
dripping-pan with a little t..
water, plenty of butter, a lit
tie salt and pepper. Turn
the meat and bake both sides.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

In England 9O0OO0OOO pounds of
paper are made every year by $4,000
men in $50 paper mills; 10000 per
sons make this over into books, news
papers and the like matters; $4,000
book-binders bind these for preserva-
ton. Literary composition Of every
sort requires 100000 gross of pens
each week.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

Bridehood is of the briefest duration 1t
begins when the woman arrays herself in
the wedding garments, and ends when the
officiating clergyman pronounces them man
and wife. From that momentshe is entitled
to the designation of wife, and to continue
to speak of her as bride is as execrable
taste as to continue to designate her by hsr
maiden name.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

KEEP BUsY.-The ruin of most men
dates from some vacant hour. Occu-
patton is the armor of the soul. There
is sati1ical poem in which the devil
is represented as fishing fer men, and
fitting his bait TO the taste and bust
ness of his prey; but the idler, he
said, gave him no trouble, as he bit
the naked hook.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

The grossest instance of humbug
we have met with for long time is
that of an individual who adyertises
for sale Siberian bloodhound which
he calls "a l." when every one poss-
essing the ordinary rudiments of an
English education oughtto know that
the beast is Z 9.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

'1s Pat Flanagan on board this
ship" roared Nelson, during the lun
in the firing at the battle of the Nile.
'I'm here, my lord" said Erin's son,
showing himself on deck "Then,
said the gallant Nelson, looking satisf-
ed, '1et the battle proceed" That story
is Pats.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

ly the only love which is worth giving
is that which comes as unfettered and
untaught Qhadalmost said unsought),
as the free sunlight from heaven"
"And that love, Margaret"
She laughed again; but something
in the eager, snxious pleading Of his
face, made her answer him without
further prewlrication:
"That love" she said, softly, 'T
have always given you" -
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

Two Detroit sisters ran away and
got married the other night. When
they returned to pacify their papa,
they found the old gentleman in such
a state of hilarity at the removal of
the burden of their milliners' bills,
that the newly made ehusbands became
painfully sad.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-27

An Iowa Falls woman put a couple
of dozen eggs into her bed SO they
shouldn't freeze while she was absent
four or five days, and on her return
late at night bounced into bed and
bounced out again.
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Il is Heller.


Better to wear a calico dress without trim
ming, if it be paid for, than toowe thesshop-
keeper for the most elegant silk, cut and
trimmed in the most bewitching manner.
Better to live in log cabin all your own
than brown stone mansion belonging to
somebody else.
Better walk forever than run into debt
for horse and carriage.
Better sit by the plain pine table, for
which you paid three dollars ten years ago,
than send home a new extension black wal
nut top, and promise to pay for it next
week.
Better to use old cane seated chairs, and
faded two-ply carpet, than tremble at the
bills sent home from the upholsterers for the
most elegant parlor set ever made.
Better to meet your business acquaintan-
ces with a free, ''don't owe you cent" smile,
than to dodge around the corner to escape a
dun
Better pay the street organ-grinder two
cents for music, if you must have it, than
owe for grand piano.
Better gaze upon the bare walls than
pictures unpaid for.
Better to eat thin soup from earthen-
ware, if You owe your butchernothing, than
to dine of lamb and roast beef, and know
that it does not belong to you
Better let your wifehav a fit of mysteries
than to run in debt for nice new furniture,
or clothes, or jewelry, or any other thing
that women wish for. A fit of mysteries.
properly managed, is often of more real
benefit to woman than anything you could
buy. It is better to treat them in this way.
"when she begins to cry for something
she ought to know she cannot have, try to
reason with her a little"
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Problem

A man bought coat, harness, sleigh, buggy and
pony, for all of which he paid s199.ss rs. The
harness cost 7-S times as much as the coat, the
sleigh AZ times as much the harness, the buggy
times as much as the sleigh, and the pony times
as much as the buggy. What is the separate price
of each? An answer is requested.
High-Point, Iowa. j. w. HARTMAN.
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Whole No. 1922.

for more ingenuity and versatility.
The art Of government and discipline
are exceedingly dependent upon cir
cumstances. 1t is neither quiclness
nor slowness of action on the teach
er's part; neither severity nor lenien-
cy; love nor anger, physical power,
nor spiritual, that in itself secures
success,b but any oran Of these, accord
ing to the necessity of the case.-
70. Ed Monthly.
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Ny first is in HiIsboro, but not in Greenfield,
My second is in Belfast, but not in New Boston,
My third is in Berryville, but not in Samantha,
Ny fourth is in Sinking Springs, but not in Falls
vile,
My fifth is in New Petersburg, but not in Rains
borough,
My sixth is in Centerield, but not in Fairfax,
My seventh is in Sugar Tree Ridge, but not in
Danville,
My eighth is in New Market, but not in Leesburg
Ny ninth is in Taylorsville, but not in Pricetown
My tenth is in Lynchburg but not in Fairview,
My eleventh is in Marshall, but not in Sicily,
My twelftl is in Yazoo, but not in Red,
My thirteenth is in indianapolis, but not in Col
umbUs,
Ny fourteenth is in Blanchester but not in Chilli
cOthe,
Ny fifteenth is in Baltimore, but not in Chicago,
My whole is the name of an interesting periodi-
cal. FRANK NJ. ADAMS.
Belfast, o.
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The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill changing the weight ofcloverseed
from 81 to so pounds; of oats, from
33 to,S2 pounds; of corn IN the ear,
after the 1st of January, 68 pounds;
of potatoes, from so to IS pounds,and
of dried apples, from to 20 pounds.
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Concealed Girls.

l. Jane, can you hem mamma an apron?
2. He announced the appointment.
3. She sent that tie to me.
4. Sad, entered the house.
5. bought jewel last week.
6. Let us take walk at every opportunity.
I. 1 gave Sam yam.
s. He gave the Hussar hat.
9. Do ransack the press.
10. Dad died last night.
II. The dog follows US and barks.
1g. He looked SO sober that thought he was mao
10. France sold herself for naught
Il. Tom did answer when he was called.
Hillsboro, o. WHO?
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THE WORDS OF THE SEA

BIZ T. G. A.
The sea has many things to say,
And says them as we wish them said:
4 To the boy pausing in his play,
1t cries, 'sBe quick, fetch line and lead"
To the wan lover it displays
Its moon-path DER the tersEhite,
And in each breaking crest It says,
"Hope on, share in your delight"
To the worn man whose restless soul
Has found no haven on life's sea,
1t whispers, mot is this our goal:
We rest but in eternity"
To the proud child of fostering ease,
Whose chariot rolls beside its shore,
A voice invites to ride the seas,
And manhood learn unlearned before.
To the sad watcher by the tomb,
Whose heart has fled from him to heaven,
Its phosphor finger pastth gloom
Points to promise faith has given.
To death it shouts, "Arise and live!'
In organ tones forevermore,
Wave after wave, one countless hive,
Falls, breaks and thunders on the shore. I.
[''Old and New" for March.
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An sold citizen" wishes to inform
the public that there's no use trying
to break those iron coal hole covers
by sitting down on 'em. He knows.
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Youths Department.

II Original Enigmas, harades, Problems, ETC.,
are respectfully solicited The answer must always
accompany them, with the real name of the writer.