The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-11-14

Two hundred different varieties of
fruit are grown successfully in Georgia.
A biIIposter in an Ohio town covered
the tombstOnes in a graveyard with cir
Gus cuts.
Marriage is becoming fashionable
/ among the Catholic priests of Germany,
the civil law protecting them.
A Fort Wayne Ind.) couple were di-
vOrced in thirty minutes from the time
the petition was filed,
It's better to have a clear conscience
and be threatened than to have bad
one and be fattered.
A woman in Mount Sterling, KY, has
been married six years, has three chill
dren and is now only eighteen years of
age.
An ebony coffin lined with white sat
in, with lot in Pers Ia CbdiSe, was one
of the gifts prOfered to a popular actress
in Paris, recently.
Josie Fowler, Of New Haven, snuis
candles and cores apples with a revolver.
The young men are exceedingly respect
full in their attentions to her.
A kiss recently cost a Beloit (Wis.)
man $500. He was a bachelor, kissed
married woman, and paid that amount
to the husband to settle the affair.
Italy reaps S4O,OOO,OOO per year from
her lotteries. The ticket-hOlders reap
lust half as much and yet lots OF men be-
Heve that lotteries are conducted on the
square.
It is claimed in Germany that the drug
known as Curare is a sure cure for hydro
phobia, as it paralyses the motor nerves,
without affecting the sensitive ones, Gnd
so stops muscular cOnvUlsiOn.
An owl shot near Burlington, Vt, had
a steel trap and two feet of chain belong
ng to a Hinsdale (N. H. man, On its leg.
TIE trap was set five weeks before in the
Hinsdale mans hen-hOuse, and was car
ried about 100 miles by the captive.
Before the Church Of Our Lady of
AtOcha, in which tn King OF Spain was
lately married, a sentinel perpetually
stands on guard. The Virgin Of AtOcha
has long held the rank Of Colonel IN the
Spanish army. Hence the military
honor.
A singular coincidence recently occur
red at Nashville, where a man died on
the fftieth anniversary of his wedding,
and the house in which he was married,
caught fire and was destroyed upon the
same day and within four hours Of the
time of his death.
The men of Dalton, Kentucky, must
have strong constitutions, for the MadI-
sonvilIe Times says that in a fight over |
game of cards the other day one Of them /
was stabbed several times, the two worst |
cuts being one through the lungs and the |
other into the cavity of the stomach, IN
spite &C which the wounded man is rap
idly recovering.
The United States now exports toys to |
Europe. A million dollars worth were
sent in 1877.
Mark Twain once made a prayer, but |
the effect was lost as none Of his hearers |
could see any fun in 1t.
It is suggested that the Charter Oak |.
Life Insurance COmpany's name be |
changed to Slippery Elm.
Matthew was called from the receipt |
of customs in the days Of Jesus, and i'm !
mediately begun talking Of refInding.
1T is said that short dresses will be |
worn in the spring" But whether they T..
are to be shortened at the top or bottom
is not stated.
There will always be more or less ex-
citement in the household that possesses
a cat and back fence, or poor piano
and healthy girl.
A reporter has found a baby thirteen
inches long, and q pound and ten ounces
the other way. 1t will have to be
spanked with a cigar lighter.
A man in Harrisburg, Pa, invited his
friends, recently, to his grand annual
bawlw He has been married eleven
years and has eleven children.
A Kentucky man who went to the
Blacl, Hills writes back to a local paper,
saying: "Oher a premium at your COM
ing fur for the biggest fool in the country,
and q Il try and get there in time"
The following obituary appeared in a
Memphis paper upon man killed by 4
circular saw. "He was an upright Chris
tian, good citizen and an ardent patriot,
but of limited information with regard
to circular saws"
The petrifcation of a body is strange,
but not so much as the turning of dead
body into II second hand bricks. That
is what happened in Brooklyn the other
day with the corpse of a man who had
$50, 900 insurance on his life.
Mr.. Moody in a recent sermon said:
Il am willing to be like the spider and
lgy hold of things above" Why didn't
Mr.. Moody say he wished he had been
the devil so that he could have held