The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A dramatic novelty in New Haven
is play in which negroes chalk up to
take white parts.
An irrigating ditch five miles long,
costing 81, 200, has lust been finished
by an Italian ranch,A -1ear SutrO, Neva-
da.
Nineteen times within the nst-hun-
dred years the Russian forces have cross
cd the Danube with hostile intent, with
out including the present crossing.
Turkish baths were introduced into
England, and thence into the United
States, by a traveller and political writer,
David Urquhart, who died recently at
Nice.
Paris has erected q fine hospital IL
the northeast Of France, for the, treat
ment Of scrofulOus children. It is in
the form Of a horseshoe, the open part
facing the sea.
Several circuses this year pay no
wages to ordinary laborers. Work is so
scarce that men are willing to engage
for their board alone, the privilege Of
travel being also an incentive.
-Yirginians claim that since the
whipping post was reestablished most
Of the iails have been emptied, petty
crimes have almost ceased, and vagrants
are seen no more in the streets.
"A boy who fell into the Mohawk
river clung to O pail of milk that he was
carrying, and seemed astonished when,
on being rescued, ho saw that tho milk
vas mixed with water.
Major Walter Shirley of Pinowood,
near Southampton, England, has been
fined E. and costs for cruelty to cat
belonging to Miss Hill, a neighbOr.
The animals tail was found nailed to a
fence, and the bench thought it was cut
off while the creature was alive.
London Is, on the whole, the health
lest capital in the world, its average an
nUal mortality not exceeding twenty-four
per 900, but In some districts the nor
tality varies from forty to sixty per l.
600, the increase being the result of
filth, foul air, aud crowding. The pop
ulation increases at the rate Of 10000 a
year.
The Bank Of England has in its
vaults upward of one hundred million
Of its cancelled notes. Eighteen thous-
and boxes are required to contain them.
Their original value was S., 900, 900, 900.
Boxes nre made in London direct
from the paper pulp. -Four machines,
with the drying stoves, produce 600
boxes or covers in en- hour without the
employment of skilled labor.
Lizzie Peck was walking on the
beach OF BullOck's Point, r. L, when
the fire from her companions cigar COM
municated to her light clothing, and sho
was fatally burned.
"A German correspondent states that
Herr Ehrbar, the well-known piano
maker at Vienna, has invented a mechan-
ism rendering it possible to prolong the
sound Of each note at the will Of the
player.
"A log which Lumberman CaTricO,
near AlbinR, Oregon, had launched from
the top of a bluff into shute, made to
shoot logs into the river below, leaped
the barrier, plunged down the bluffs
side, and struck Carrico's house at the
foot. His wife was sitting in her room,
and his baby was in the cradle. The
log crashed through the side of the
house and knocked the cradle into
splinters, throwing the baby across the
room. The frightened lumberman
found wife and child unhurt.
The keeper of a candy and ice cream
store in San Francisco discharged o
waiter for fondling the keepers cat in
business hours, and paid him at the rate
of $50 a month, instead of $40, as pre-
viously agreed. The waiter carried his
case into a Justices court, pleading tLst
he was not particularly fond Of cats, but
that he consoled the one in question be-
cause the employer had Just chopped off
the heads of two Of her progeny. He
recovered his rightfuI wages, but the
Justice decided that he was lawfully dis
charged.