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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28
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REMEMBER that lemons can be kept
sweet and fresh for months by putting
them in clean, tight cask or jar and
covering with cold water. The water
must be changed as often as every other
day, and the cask kept in cool place.
REMEMBER that mirrors should never
be hung where the sun shines directly
upon them. They soon look misty,
grow rough or granulated, and no longer
give back correct picture. The amalgam
or union of tinfoil with mercury, which
is spread on glass to form looking g-glass,
is easily ruined by the direct, continued
exposure to the solar rays.
AN innocent method of destroying
cock-roaches is to place bowl or basin
containing little molasses on the floor
at night. A bit of wood resting one end
on the floor and the other on the edge of
the vessel serves as a bridge to conduct
the insects to the sweet deposit. Once
in the trap its slippery sides prevent re-
treat, and thus cockroaches may be
caught by thousands.
THE majority of country people eat
ing fruit, eat the skin. Their children
eat it in the same manner, and seem
never to have been taught that the skin
of fruit-be it apple, peach, pear, plum,
or grape-should never be eaten, es-
pecially if uncooked. Fruit-skins are so
difficult of digestion that there is
probably not more than one stomach in
hundred capable of performing the
difficult task. The skins are to fruit
what shells are to nuts. hides to animals,
and husks to grain. To oblige or allow a
child to eat his apple or pear unpeeled is
unkind and wrong, for it is no question
of daintiness, but of health.
THERE are three modes of killing
fowls. Some advocate sufocation, clever
men among them. Others cut the
throats. A third party breaks the neck.
1t is said sufocation is the best,
as the bird loses no part of its
but when desth is caused by
this process there is a dark color which
is unpleasant and suggestive. When
the throats are cut the flesh is beautifully
white, hut the meat is dry and suggestive
Of dead sawdust. When the neck is
broken, the dislocation being perfect, if
the fowl is held by the legs, the head
being downward, all the blood runs to the
CT the vertebae, none re-
mains in the body, and the juiciness of
the flesh is retained.
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Bsyard, and Ransom. Business was
then suspended, and the Senate then
paid its tribute of respect to the memory of
Senator Caperton. Appropriate remarks
were made by Messrs. Davis, Wright, Withers,
Edmunds and others, and, as further mark
of respect, the Senate adjourned......In the
House, after much opposition on the part
of the Democrats, it was decided to in
struct the New York Election Invest
igating Committee to investigate the charges
of Mr.. Hewitt against the New York Post
Office. Mr.. Hewitt paid high compliment
to the integrity and usefulness of Post.
master James, and exonerated him from all
suspicion in the matter. Eulogies upon the
4ate Senator Caperton, of West Virginia,
were then pronounced, and, as token OF
respect, the House adjourned.
In the Senate, December %, it was re-
solved to investigate the appointment of
Cronin as Presidential Elector by the
Governor of that State. After the
trau saction of some unimportant bu-
siness, the Senate adjourned until Tues
day next, for want of a quorum. ........
In the House, bills to remove the political
disabilities of Geo. S. Hawkins, of Florida,
and A. c. Myers, of Maryland, were passed.
A resolution directing the Appropriation
Committee to report in the Deficiency Bill
provision to pay the widow of Speaker Kerr,
a sum equal to the pay and mileage of
the Speaker, from the time of his death until
the end of the present Congress was adopted.
The Speaker then announced the following
committees to ascertain and report what are
the privileges, powers and duties of the House
of Representatives in counting the votes
for President and Vice-President: Knott,
Sparks, Tucker, Marsh, Burchard of Illinois,
Seelye, and Monroe. On counting the
electoral vote: Payne, Huuton, Hewitt,
Springer, McCreary, Hoar, and Willard.
Adjourned.
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BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING
Butter your dish well, and strew the
bottom with currants and candied peel;
then place alternate layers of bread and
butter in rather thin slices, and the peel
and currants, until the dish is nearly
full, observing to have currants at the
top; then pour over, slowly and equally,
a custard of sweetened milk and two or
three eggs, favored to taste, and bake in
a moderate oven for about twenty
minutes.
BOILED GoosE.-Dress and SINCE it,
put it into a deep dish, cover it with
boiling milk aud leave it over night. In
the morning wash off the milk, and put
the goose into cold water on the fire;
when boiling hot take it of. wash it in
warm water, and dry with cloth. This
process takes out the oil. Fill the body
with a dressing of bread crumbs
seasoned with pepper, salt, butter and
two chopped onions if relished, and a
little sage. Put the goose into cold
water and boil gently until tender.
Serve with giblet sauce, and with
pickles, or acid jellies.
A USEFUL MILK-PAIL.-Have a pail
of heavy tin with very heavy wire
around the top, SO the pail can't spring
when full of milk: then have a covel
to set on top of the pail, with a fange
about three-fourths of an inch wide tt
project down into the pail to keep the
cover in place: also have it concave one
inch, then have funnel made to put il
the center, three inches at bottom, sever
at top, three and half high; also :
ring under side of funnel and cover ont
inch wide also ring that will just sliI
over the one just mentioned, so that yol
can put Oh linen strainer if you choose
A wire strainer is to be soldered in at tn
bottom of funnel. This makes abou
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28
The Army of Japan.

On the 1st of September, 1876, the
whole regular military force of the en-
pire of Japan numbered 33, ,752 men and
1,517 horses. This not very imposing
army is divided as follows: Infantry,
90,630; cavalry, 431; artillery, 1884;
engineers, 749; commissariat, 1874; coast
artillery, 81. The imperial body-guard
contains 1871 men and 38S horses, and
is represented by all the branches of the
service. The capital is garrisoned by
1873 men and 6S3 horses. Japan has
gained immeasurably by Capitalization
and the destruction of the feudal system.
Under the ever conflicting rule of the
great and little Daimios, or Princes, each
asserting sort of feudal sovereignty in
his own dOminions, more than 100000
soldiers were kept constantly under arms
and pay, and most of the time engaged
in big or little enterprises of civil war.
These feudal armies are now all dis
banded, and the comparatively small
regular force, armed, organized, and dis
ciplined according to the standard of the
Western nations, is found sufficient to
maintain peace throughout the empire
and enforce the laws.
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A Singular Charity.

1t may be thought a singular purpose
of charity to provide for the marriage
! of poor maids" and one that would ac-
complish but little in field where the
objects would be so numerous; neverthe-
less, the benevolent designs of men have
been turned in that channel, as well as
the statute. By the will of Mr.. Henry
Raine, wealthy London brewer, fund
was established for just such purpose.
Among the notable charitable institu-
tions of London there is none more novel
in inception, or more unique in manage
ment, than Raine's Asylum, established
by him in 1875, for clothing, educating,
and properly training for domestic ser
vice forty young girls, taken from lower
school previously established by him.
On arriving at the age of twenty-five,
any girl who has been educated in the
asylum, and who can produce satisfactory
testimonials of her conduct while in ser
vice, may become candidate for a mar
riage portion of one hundred pounds
sterling, for which six girls are allowed
to draw twice in each year-On the first
of May and the fifth ot'November. The
drawing is in this manner: The Treasurer,
in compliance with the explicit direc-
tions of Mr. Raine, takes halfsheet of
white paper and writes thereon the
words Zone hundred pounds" Next,
he takes as many white sheets as, with
the one written en-, will correspond with
the number of candidates present. Each
of these half sheets is wrapped tightly
round little roller of wood, tied with
narrow green ribbon, the knot of which
is firmly sealed. The rolls are then for
mally deposited in large canister placed
upon small table in the center of the
room. This being done, the candidates,
one at time, advance toward the can !
lister, each drawing therefrom one of the
small rells. When all have drawn, they
proceed to the chairwoman, who cuts
the ribbon which secures each roll, and |
bids the candidates unfold the various
papers. There is no need to ask which |
of them has gained the prize-the
sparkling eyes of the lucky "hundred |
pound girl" reveal the secret more
quickly than it could be spoken by the
lips. The portion drawn in May is given
after wedding on the fifth November,
the November portion being given in
like manner on May day.
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A Maniac's Leap.

lSan francisco Chronicle -
The following letter of December 2,
concerning a recent thrilling scene wit
messed by the writer, has been received
at the Chronicle Office from Isaac d.
Small, of the San Bruno Ranch: 1 was a
witness, yesterday, of one of the most
daring attempts to commit suicide which,
perhaps, has ever been seen, and it occurs
to me that an account of it will not be
uninteresting to the many readers of
your journal, for it certainly will illus
trate in a marked degree the suicidal
mania which seems to be at present rag
ing in this State. As was proceeding
along the sea-coast yesterday, when near
Spanish Town, my attention was at
tracted to young man who was walking
quickly along the cliffs, which here over
hang and jut out into the sea, and who
was looking about as if he had lost
something. My suspicious were aroused
by his unusual behavior and presence in
that lonely spot, and / followed him. He
held in his hand something which, even
at the. distance that separated US, l
could make out to be a rope, and he soon
made his way to a small, low promonto-
nv. about which the turf was beating in
wild fury. Around this neck of land the
water was quite deep. Selecting spot
where a large stone, weighing perhaps
one hundred and fifty pounds, lodged,
Just ready to topple into the water, he
deliberately tied one end of his cord to
the piece of rock, and the other end
around his body. 1 stood not far away,
riveted to the spot by the sight of these
preparations, and the meaning of which
/ now OWNED. Before l had time to
utter a cry, he had already pushed the
stone over the precipice, and, of course,
utterly unable to stop its fall, was dragged
into the sea. By good fortune, however,
the stone slipped out of the moose which
bound it to his body, and /, recovering
my presence of mind, was enabled to
rescue him by dint of great exertions.
asked him why he had made this at
tempt upon his life, and he replied,
q" For fun" His name, he told me, was
Alfred Simon Smith; but upon my re-
marking upon the improbability of any
one of the name of Smith having such
an absurd combination of Christian
names, he laughed loudly, like a real
maniac, and said his name was not
Smith at all, but Hutchinson. His place
of residence, occupation, or anything
else about himself, he refused to give, and
he looked so wild and demon-like that l
was afraid to deJain him. He struck
out across the hills in a northeasterly
direction, and followed him until, in
the growing darkness, lost sight of him.
He is evidently lunatic at large, and
should be lodged in the institution at
Stockton or of Nappa without delay.
He was well dressed, being attired in a
dark blue suit of superfne cloth, stiff
black hat, white collar and shirt; with
a black necktie. His complexion was sal
low, more or less sun-burnt; eyes small
and hazel-brown, and hair straight and
brown. He was tall and well formed,
but rather thin. This person, 1 think,
ought to be arrested, for he is evidently
bent on suicide, and is dangerous to be
at large
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no doubt that the instinct which inclines
so many to it, and some of them are
grave divines, is remnant of the original
wild nature of man. Another "sport."
to which the young men of the neigh
borhood sometimes admitted the elder
boys, was the autumnal squirrel-hunt.
The young men formed themselves into
two parties equal in number, and fixed
a day for the shooting. The party which
on that day brought down the greatest
number of squirrels was declared the
victor and the contest ended with some
sort of activity in the evening.
have not mentioned other sports and
games of the boys of that day, that is to
say, of seventy or eighty years since
such as wrestling, running, leaping, base
ball, and the like, for in these there was
nothing to distinguish them from the
same pastimes at the present day
William Cullen Bryant, 81. Nicholas TOR
December.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28

The Boston Daily Advertiser mentions
can organ specially constructed by the
Mason & Hamlin Organ Company for the
celebrated DR.. Franz List is now on ex-
hibition at their warerooms. The instru-
ment is to be used in the Liszt concerts
in Europe. 1t is constructed in many
respects on an entirely new principle,
and is in all respects truly wonderful
instrument. Its quality of tone and
power are simply surprising" 1t is GER
tainly great compliment to these Ameri-
can makers that the great European
musicians send for their organs.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28
THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The Letters at school.

Tne Letters AT SCHOOL.
One day the letters went to school,
And tried to learn each other;
They got so mixed twas really hard
To pick out one from 'tother.
A went in first, and 2 went last;
The rest all were between them
K, L and NJ, and N, o. P
l wish you could have seen themi
BIC, D, E and J, X, L,
Soon jostled well their betters;
@, z, s, TT grieve to say
Were very naughty letters.
OF course ere long, they came to words
What else could be expected?
Till E made D, ], c and T
Decidedly detected.
Now, through it all, the Consonants
Were rudest and uncouthest,
While all the pretty Vowel girls
Were certainly the smoothest.
And simple U kept far from Q,
With face demure and moral,
81 Because" she said, we are, we two,
So apt to start quarrel"
But spiteful P said, " Pooh for u"
Which made her feel quite bitter,
And, calling o, L, E to help,
He really tried to hit her.
Cried A, "Now E and C, come herei
II both will aid a minute,
Good P will join in making peace,
Or else the mischiefs in it,
And smiling E, the ready sprite,
Said, Yes, and count me double"
This done, sweet peace shone Ger the scene,
And gone was all the troubled
Meanwhile, when and P made up,
The Constants looked about them,
And kissed the Vowels, for, you see,
They couldn't do without them.
M NJ d., in 81. NicnoIas for December
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Farm Products of the United States.

Iowa produces the largest spring wheat
crop of any State, the production of the
United States being 112 549, ,533 bushels,
and that of Iowa 2S,708, ,312 bushels,
while Wisconsin ranks next, with a.
375, ,485 bushels. Ohio raises the most
winter wheat-27, ,025, ,739 of the 1885,
1876, 1913 bushels produced in the United
States. Pennsylvania supplies one-ffth
of the rye produced in this country, or
3,577, ,641 bushels cut of 6,918,785. Il
linois grows a larger quantity of corn
than any other State, 119, ,921 1896 of the
0O,944, 249 bushels the country pro-
duces. Illinois also takes the lead in the
oat crop, growing 1873, ,5S1 out of a
total of 282, ,107, 159 bushels. California.
produces the largest barley crop or s.
7S3, 400 out of total of 29,761, ,3O5
bushels. New York is the largest culti-
vator of buckwheat, raising 3,904, ,03O of
a total of 9,S21,721 bushels. Mississippi
takes the lead among the cotton grow
ing states. Ohio produces more than
half the fax of the United States.
Kentucky growsmore than half the hemp
crop of our country. California pro-
duces nine-tenths of our native silk
cocoons. Ohio contributes one-ffth of
all the wool produced in the United
States, or twice as much as Pennsyl-
vania, which furnishes the next-largest
figures in that line.
New York furnishes more than two
thirds of the hog crop of the country.
South Carolina supplies nearly half the
rice produced in the country. Georgia
is next, or 100000 pounds ahead OF
Louisiana. Nearly all the rice comes
from these three States. Of the 272,.
734, ,241 pounds of tobacco produced in
this country, 105,SO5,S2 pounds are
grown in Kentucky. Virginia comes
next with S,OS6, ,S54 pounds. Louisiana
contributes nearly all the sugar and mo
lasses from cane, and Vermont nearly
one-third of the sugar from maple. OhiC
and Indiana (the latter most) produc'
each one-eighth of sorghum molasses
New York grows one-ffth of the who'll
potato crop. North Carolina produce
more sweet potatoes than any othe
State,
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A NEW YORK paper says that an ex-
haustless reservoir of pure cold water
underlies the whole or a greater part of
Manhattan Island, and only at a depth
varying from thirty to sixty feet, and
that two hundred and fifty "driven
wells" as they are called, recently sunk
in various parts of the city, are yielding
copious streams.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28

PIMPLEs on the face, rough skin, chapped
hands, saltrheum, and all cutaneous affec-
tions cured, the skin made soft and smooth
by the use of Juniper Tar Soap. That made
by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, is the
only kind that can be relied on, as there are
many limitations, made from common tar,
which are worthless.
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4MOufhs for a Dollar!

ST. NICHoLEs for January, with its CHEEKY
greeting on the cover, its exquisitely beauti.
full frontispiece, the wonderful variety in its
pages, and its
FUN FOR THE NEW YEAR,
Will charm everybody both young and old.
Among the more notable papers will be
found Letter to Young Naturalist" by
William Hewitt, the poet, and "The Stars
for January" by Prof. Proctor, the astron-
omer.
ST. NICHOLAS FOR JANUARY
Will also contain paper by Horace E. Scud-
der, "Great Grsndfather's Books and Pic
turcs," with facsimile reproductions from
the "New England Primer " and Webster's
old "Spelling- Book" "Budge's Visit to the
Centennial" by the author of "Helen's
Babies" and "The Modern and Medieval
Ballad of Mary Jane," with silhouette draw
ings by Hopkins, will be found amusing and
entertaining. Besides
"HIs OWN MASTER"
By Trowbridge, there are shorter Stories
and Poems, Rhymes and Nonsense Verses,
Historical Sketches, Fairy Tale, Comical
Pictures, Pages for Very Little Folks, ETC.,
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Send one dollar for trial subscription,
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MERCHANTS GARGLING OIL. This
very useful article is now receiving the
very highest concentrations from the
press, and multitudes of witnesses who
have tested its efficacy. 1t is considered
as one of the very best remedies, and in
its refined, purified state it is regarded
as one of the most powerful liniments for
the removal of rheumatism, neuralgia,
and the suferings arising from sprained
joints, bruises, etc.-AyEper &C. W. Times,
Feb. 25 1897
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A Universal Remedy.

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" for
Coughs, Colds, and Bronchial Affections
stand first in public favor and confidence;
this result has been acquired by test of
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FARM AND FIRESIDE.

FARMERS DIsEAsEs.-In view of the
intelligence of the farming class and of
their families, we trust that a quite lit
eral quotation of the opinions of forty
six physicians may be of some service as
text and as preventive. The cues.
ton given out was. What causes tend
to injure the health of farmers and their
families ?"
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Crime in Tennessee.

On December IS, L. S. Hill, an old and
highly respected citizen living four mile:
north of Shelby Depot, Tenn, was shot and
killed by " "Golly" Bond, under the follow.
ing circumstances:
Bond had been paying attention to Mr..
Hill's daughter, and visited Mr.. Hill one
hour before the shooting. After some con-
versation, he went of, saying that he would
return in an hour. Bond went to his own
house, procured double-barreled shotgun,
returned to Mr.. Hill's, and shot Hill through
the door of his own house, firing five pistol
balls through his body, after he fell from
the first shot. After seeing that his vic
tim was down and dead, he seized
the young lady, actually dragging
her over the dead body of her father and
carried her by force before the neighboring
minister and demanded to be married to
her. The girl refused, when Bond threat
ened to kill her. The minister's wife called
Bonds attention TO the approach of the
posse in pursuit of him. At this time some
neighbors rode up to the minister's house,
when the young lady was taken from her
captor and locked up in room, secure from
any possibility of his carrying out his threat
to kill her.
Bond had been riding all the night
previous, and had SO jaded his horse that he
required another on which to make his es-
cape. This he accomplished by deliberately
shooting one of the horsemen, so wounding
him that he fell from his horse, which he
and rode to the residence of Mr..
Parsons, a few miles distant, and made
forcible exchange for fine gray animal, on
which he was last seen riding westward
toward the Mississippi River, making good
his escape so far from all pursuers.
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AT our request Cragin & Co., Philadel-
phia, Pa, have promised to send any of our
readers gratis ION receipt of 15c. to pay
postage) a sample of Dobbins' Electric
Soap to try. Send at once.
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SINCE our last issue we have heard of sew
eral persons who have used Durang's Rheu-
matte Remedy for rheumatism; and all pro-
nounee it success. 1t comes to our market
highly recomr ended; and as it is the only
reliable remedy now in use, it will have a
large sale. 1t is taken internally. Price,
$1.00; six bottles, $500.