The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-31

OF LllaG TeSOEG Is LdlkGu Ol.
! A team of sixteen mules, drawing
wagon laden with 10000 pounds of ore
is a common sight in Reno, Nevada.
One of the poorest laundresses in New
York City was once one Of the best per.
formers in Lydia ThompsOn's troupe.
The farmers of York county Pennsyl-
vania are raising saffron, an herb they
sell to the drug stores at remuneratiye
prices.
It is said that the tears Of a woman
will have more effect on a Texas jury than
all the elOquence that a dozen lawyers
can spout.
A young housekeeper, when her at
tentiOn was called to very dusty chair,
remarked: "NobOdy has set down on
that to-day"
Fewer railway and steamboat accidents
| have occurred in the United States last
year than in any previous year since the
introduction Of steam.
What is the difference between a man
struck with amazement and leopard's
tail? One is rooted to the spot and the
other is spotted to the root.
A short time ago a little girl died from
hydrophObia at Macuhgie, Lehigh County,
Pennsylvania. She was bitten by cat
six weeks previously.
In Berkshire County, Massachusetts,
the State detectives are prosecuting man
ufacturers for employing minors and
children more than sixty hours a week.
You can get a very good idea Of " nat
ural selection in its practical workings
by viewing a celery glass after it has once
been around the table. - Burlington
Haa0beye.
An Italian is held in the sum of 81 800
to stand his trial before the Criminal
Court, in Detroit, for biting of the ear
Of young child that he might be re-
venged on its father.
In the Palmer house Chicago, a +" beat
who had been living lavishly there for a
week, was compelled to stand at the
entrance to the dining room while clerk
explained his case to the guests.
A new discovery in teIegraphy is said
to have been made by Belgian officer,
by which communication will be rendered
quite possible f,f all the inhabitants of
besieged town after all the wires are cut. |
A Chicago man has married three
sisters, and all are living He took them
in the order Of their ages, living with each |
about a year, and then obtained divorce.
There are three more sisters left.
Gold fish originally came from China, |
and were first known in England in the /
year 1851, but were not considered curl |
Osity until 1928, when they began to
multiply and become domesticated.
"A Frenchman of distinguished famI-
", prominent in politics, with $4,000 a
year, and a member of the Order of the
Legion of Honor, has twice been expelled
from fashionable clubs for cheating at
cards, which is a mania with him.
The respectable colOred people of
Washington held a meeting the other
night to protest against the indiscrimin-
ate denunciation of their race, brought
about by Outrages committed BY a few
negroes in that city.
PiazI Smith, by observations of the
waves of temperature for the past forty
years, predicts that next winter will be
more than unusually cold, to be followed |
by remarkably warm period, beginning
about the middle of 1879.
It is rumored among the Chinese that, |
in consequence of numerous national
calamities Of late, such as famine, floods
and pestilenoe, the youthful Emperor has
been solicited to change his dynastic title
and thereby aPpease the wrath Of the
gods.
The New York Herald wants to put
an end to clandestine marriages by young
and old by requiring the publication of ,
Danns. The editor thinks that the cere-
nOny antedating marriage rather than
5he repentance which follows should pro.
,eed leisurGY !
Tommy came home from school and
handed to his father the teachers report
IN his progress during the month. "That
S very unsatisfactory, Tom; you've a
,ery small number of good marks. I'm
let at all pleased with it." " 1 told the !
eacher you wouldn't be, but Re Wolldn't
liter it. ."
"San Francisco has a dressmaker who f
pares neither trouble nor expense to ful- /
il her engagements. On a recent occasion &
he had promised dress to a lady in San
lose, in season for a ball, missed the train
" three minutes, and chartered a special I
at an expense Of 800, to take I
he dress to its destination"
Our success in life generally bears a
irect proportion to the exertiOns we
make; and if we aim at nothing we shall i
ertainly achieve nothing. By the re- t
mission of labor and energy it often +
appens that poverty and contempt 7
isaster and defeat, steal march upon T
and honor, and overwhelm US
nth shame.
There is always room for a man Of .
0rce, and he makes room for many.
ociety is a troop of thinkers, and the &
est heads among them take the best f,
laces. A feeble man can see the farms r
nat are fenced and titled, the houses +.
hat are built The strong man sees the :
ossible houses and farms. His eye j
lakes estates as fast as the sun breeds j
Ouds. .