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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-12-26
Personal AdornnRnt.

We are just old-fashioned enough to
believe in making ourselves, and espec-
lally the gentler sex, as beautiful and at
traCtive as possible. loneliness in shape
and color was stamped upon the flowers
! by the Supreme Being, who created
everything good" He gave to the rose
its blush, the lily its whiteness, the fruit
It's sun-tinted side, and the wisdom of so
! dong cannot be questioned. Why, then,
| should not those who are nexttO Him in
! intelligence, and within whose bosom is
implanted taste, and to whose eyes He
gave the power Of discrimination and the
love Of color, not make a free use of his
! gifts to render themselves attractive to
others, and reyel in the luxury of adorn-
ment?
/ Breath is not more natural 10 woman
hood than the aesthetic. 1t is revealed
alike in the savage and civilized; is
| shadOWed forth even from the cradle.
BabyhOOd delights in gaily dressed dolls,
and with advancing years the desire for
! decoration increases. H: d there been
no use for ornamentatiOn, the means
would never have been given. No wo-
man who loves to be aTTayed becoming
ly, viii ever be a "slouCh." The one IS
entirely incompatible with the other.
Flowers are not placed in "frousy" hair,
and the rosebud and the gernium leaf
finds no resting at an Untidy throat. A
bit of color, a ribbon, flashing gem and
golden trinket, assist very much to re-
lieve rarely Over-partial nature; silks
and satins were not woven TO be useless,
and bright tints were not stolen from the
rainbow to be lost to the eye. Giventh the
means they should not be found wanting.
Personal adornment adds much to life.
There is no one who does not love to
look upon the beautiful, particularly in
woman. Even their own sex do, though
at the cost of jealousy. To man, if taste
fully dressed, she is the brightest type OF
Divine Art. The husband admireS it in
the wife; the brother in the sister; the
lover in his mistress, and the eyes Of the
stranger fingers long even upon face
and form that can never be more TO him
than passing vision.
No one can gaze upon a "daudy" dress
ed woman without feelingOf disgust it
is unnatural for him to do so No mat
ter how "plain," art can assist nature and
in great measure tone down and rem
edy the defects. But to this end cost is
not all. Many dress for a merely noIni-
nal sum, and yet are attractive 10 the
eye, fill the heart and taste in more than
money. Be the fabric what it may, let
it be fitting, properly cut, trimmed, and
stylish; don't be afraid Of a ribbon or a
flower, and mankind will look more ten
derly upon you. Girls don't be argued
out Of the love of personal adornment.
One wiser than any, than all Of earth.
gave the means and expected its use.
All arguments to the contrary are sense-
less, and came from bigoted and jaun-
diced minds.
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GrnmbNng.

What luxury it must be, TO some
people, to gTUmblel Rob them Of that
luxury, and life seems barely endurable.
You might as well deprive them of the
MONDAY sun. You might as well oblit-
crate from sight the green and velvety
coat of Nature. They mu8 gTunble.
Grumbling is q constitutional necessity
with them. 1t is a part, and an impOr-
tant part, of their organization. They
grumble as naturally and as inevitably
as they eat and drink. Indeed, they
might, perforCe, dispense for a time with
those interesting table performances; but
total abstinence from grumbling, to a
regular grImbler, Is just as impossible as
total abstinence from water to a fish.
And, goodness knows! life furnishes
sufficient material for fault-fnding. The
least querulous find it difficult at all
times to be amiable amid the peTYerSe-
ness of events, and the COunter-CuTTents
of all little things that should move on
in unity and harmOniOusly. Amid such
a state of things the mOrbidly dissatisfied
may easily revel in the expression of
their discontentment; and to do them
justice, they seldom lose an opportunity.
In domestic life, the conduct Of servants
Is Il Ln6ule5 dtOll6y OF euuleob complaint
The greatest plague in Life" )" as servants
are. called, occasion, too, the grandest
variety Of these little Outbursts of the
grumbling propensity. But, after all, it
is our impression that good employers
make good servants, ana rice Uersa. May
not all grumbhng, therefore, arise as
much from the grumbler's evil habits IS
from the evil characters Of the person or
thing grumbled at! It would be quite as
well for us tocOntemplate, now and then,
this view of the question, and reason ac,
eerdingly.
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One would think crime would have
learned by this time that it is no match
for the shrewd, patient, indefatigable
men whose vocation it is to hunt it down
and bring it to justice. Very rarely now
adays do criminals escape capture and
pMnishment. We refer, of course, to
eyil-doers whose villanies come within
the province of law, and who are pur-
sued and prosecuted in downright ear
nest; for there are rascals encrusted all
over with moral guilt who manage to
evade their just deserts by sailing to
WindWard of the statutes, and Others
whom the Law might reach, but at whose
offences official justice winks, for special
reasons. Burglars, thieves, and forgers,
however, very rarely succeed in baffiiug
the vigilance and skill of our detective
police. Their cunning is but poor de-
fence against the system of intelligent
espionage which is ever active in their
midst; and sooner or later, they almost
inevitably receive the wages of their
misdeeds. If men, inherently prone to
wickedness, were gifted with average re-
heCtiye qualities, they would restrain
their bad propensities from motives of
policy. But the truth is, that moral OBJ
loquy and lack of forecast generally go
together. Rogues are poor reasOners.
Otherwise they would know that from
the Gordon of the detective police, linked
together, as it is by the telegraphiC wires
there is scarcely a chance Of escape for
any prominent criminal.
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whole No. 1922.

Church Of the Epiphany, and viii bea
magnificent affair. Invitations have
been sent to many distinguished per
sons, and among them several we'll
known journalists, warm friends of
Col. Browns, who seems to be a IA
vOrite, One Of our papers here de-,
scribes him as a talented young
lawyer and journalist.
Miss Jefiies and her mother and
brother went to Paris early in July,
combining pleasure and business,
visiting the Exposition and ordering
the trousseau, all Of the dresses be-
ing made at Worth's and Pingats.
Another subject that is claiming
the attention Of our young people is
the Roller Skating Rink, Just opened
last week, and promising to be a suct
. cess already. Everyone goes that
can afford it, (the prOprietors reserv-
ing the right to reject all objection
able candidates for admission and
the young ladies declare ao,5, that
would rather go there than to the
theatre.
Quite q serious accident occurred
the day before the opening. A young
daughter of well-known gentleman
of this city, fell, while on the skates,
and injured herself quite badly,
doubts being entertained of her re-
| eovery. The attendance is not di-
mished, however, as the Washing
tonisns are a needless set, and it viii
probably take several affirs Of the
kind to startle them to a sense Of
danger.
John Mccullough, the great actor,
has been giving US a treat for the
last two weeks, and last Saturday
night a number Of prominent officials
and membars Of the press gave him
dinner. Among others present
were General and Secretary Sher-
man. Said a gentleman to me at
the breakfast table next morning.,
Really, they ought to fence in that
precious State Of yOursl' "And
Why" said 7, up in arms at once.
Because if they don't, there won't
be any one left there before long.
You've got the President, the Sec
retary of the Treasury, and a dozen
other big officials, and every other
clerk in the Departments is from
Ohio" '.Ab," IrepIed, 1T is Just as
well there is an Ohio, OF those in
portant cfices could not be tiled.
And the fencing in can be put off,
for there are as many good men left
there as we have here" Dom Piatt
said one day when be saw the streets
deserted, that be couldn't imagine
the reason till he heard that the
I Ohioans had a meeting. That ac-
counted for it.
EDNA p. MASON.
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We Buy of Those That Ad-
VeYtiSe,

The London correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer tells the follow
ing story. The moral viii be obvi-
Gus to those who have any thing to
sell:
In Paris, last summer, I saw a
friend of mine, who had Just come
over, using a pen Of peculiar con
struction, designed with special ref
erence to those uutiGy persons who,
like myself, ink their fingers when
they write. Now my friend is man
whose hands are white as lilies, with
finger nails like rosebuds in tint
noticeable hands, even very remark
able, considering that he is an elder
ly mcn, and who occasionally helps
with the lighter work on his farm IN
Nebraska. Catch him mixing his
fingers.
"Why, where didyou get that nice
pen ?" I asked him, a vista of bliss
full exemption from an uninked mid
die finger opening on my joyous, ex-
pectant mind
"In Omaha, he answered. 'It's
the incest thing. I used to ink my
fingers before I got it,
He did He linked bis fingers
That was enough for me. I got the
name of the merchant from whom he
bought the pen, the price Of 1t, and
inclosing the money, I sent from
Paris to Omaha for thepe
By the last steamer 1t came to me.
The statiOner at Omaha vas out Of
them, but he sent to Sioux City to
the man that advertised them for an
other lot. And now here is where
the laugh comes in. The pens are
an English invention, and tons of
them can be bought in London if
desired. At the stationers next
door I could have got what I had
sent after to Sioux City. But how
could I know that I dealt with
the man that advertised.
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DEATH by DRowNING.-The death of
the drowned man is not that death which
we ESSAY all our lives by our daily sleep; /;
it is not that death which simply consists
in sleeping once for all on the pillow
where one has gone to sleep every night
for fifty years. It is a death joined to a
struggle, to despair, to blasphemy. Man
is not prepared for it by the excessive
enfeebling of his organs. He does not
expire by impcrceptible transitions; tits
not last thread which has parted-but
all his bonds have at once burst asunder.
He dies with his health, with his
strength, his hope, his life-without
friends, without a priest, and in those
immense solitudes Of ocean, Uttering
cries Of agony and despair, which the
whistling Of the wind and the tempest,
the joyful cries of the new and the sea-
gull seem to prevent ascending to heaven,
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ADVERTISING RATES.

The above scale Of prices is for ordinary single
column display advertising. Solid Legal, Oficial
AID Tabular advertisements VIII be charged at the
legal rate for space occupied. Rule and Figure
work so per cent. extra.
SPECIAL NOTICES, advertisements in other than
single column measure, and those in prescribed
locati0n, 25 per cent additional.
LOCAL NoTICEs--l0 cents per line for FIRST, and .
cents per line for each additional insertion.
CARDS in Business Dlrectory-One Inch, year
SO: months, 80; months, g. One-half inch
year, IS 90; mos. So; 8 mos. 80.
OBITUARY NOTICES tOthsr than simple announce
ments Of deaths) Tributes Of Respect, Cards Of
Thanks, and announcements by Societies. cents
per line.
Notices Of Marriages, Births and DesthA-when
furnished By proper authOrity-free.
Attachment, Divorce, Administrators and EXeCu-
tors Notices. must be paid for before insertion
as also Foreign and Transient Advertising Eener
allv.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-12-26
BRIC-A-BRAC CHINA

Hiss Clio Jones was twenty-thnee,
And wonderful at repartee
In all her life, her parents say
She never gave herself away
Young T0ngo Yangsle Chang Chaw
From Pekin came 70 study law
A. Harvard university
lie, too, was great at rspartee.
Miss Clio Jones had often said
She knew that she should die unwed,
She never had seen a fellow smart
EaOugh 10 captivate her heart
Young Tongo Yangtse Chang Chaw
Had vowed TO die a bachelor:
There are no clever girls. said he;
81 ue'er viii marry a Chinee."
They met and loved amid the hum
And splendor OF a kitue-drum;
A tawny skin to persons clever
Can make no difference whatever.
"Oh, clio. dc you mind my shade?"
Said ne NY Tongo,' llsped the maid,
you are a asnOw-drop 70 OtheIlo'
All Tongo was a lucky fellow.
Te tell her love ran Clio Jones.
or her mamma she made no bones
Her pa replied that he'd be d.
II sh, should marry q Chinee.
She shrieksd. sobbed. btOrmed and blew,
She Eaved about his lovely queue;
"Oh boil it down q" her IA her said;
"A Chinanan you shall not wed"
Then Clio Jones becsme emphatic;
Her father locked her 10 the attic,
And len a horsewhlp ID the hall,
In hopes that Tongo Chaw would call
Oh, gentle friends. my tale is done.
Poor Clio Jones became a nun,
Aud clever Tongo did not marry
But died instead BY har-kari.
The moral is that Il Is never
3 advisable to be TOO clever;
IfCl:o had not been, you see.
She might have wed with you or ma
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

~ Extra copies Of the News can be found ev-
cry week at George Bowers News Depot, and also
at this office. Price cents.
E9 The entrance to the new Editorial Room Of
the News is on Main street, one door west Of Glas
cock, Quinn s. Co.'S hardware store, by the stair
way lesding to Dr, Russ's Office.
u Correspondence solicited from all parts Of
the county. Send US the facts, in few words, and
we viii put them in shape for publication. The
writer's real name must be given in all cases, as
guaranty of good taith.
The News having much larger circulation in
Highland county thaa any other paper, and among
the best class of readers is the best advertising
medium. Business men will please note this
fact, and act accordingly.
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Arrival and Departure Of
Mails.

R. R. mails arrive daily except Sunday, at 9.45
q. m. and GA p. m. Depart daily except Sunday,
az $50 a. n. ard l.50 D. m.
n. B. Railroad mails close 80 minutes before
departure OF trains.
Ripley mail, for Newmarket, Sugartree Ridge,
MOurytOwn, New COrwiD, Emerald, &C., arrives
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at p. m. De
parts Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Z a. M.
Eastern mail, for Dallas, RainsbOrO, New Pc
tersburg, Greenfield, Bainbridge, Paint, Sinking
Springs Marshall, North Union, Carmel, &C, ar
rivals Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at p. m.
Departs same days at Z q. 10.
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town, Buford, Sicily, &C., arrives Wednesday and
Friday at 5 p. m. Departs same days at Z a. III.
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LOv9tt's, &c, arrives Tuesday and Friday at H. 80
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Departs Wednesday and Saturday at T-45 3. m
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Mr.. Dimdent's Speech.

Ladies and gentlemen,-I beg pardon
-(laughter.) Mr.. Chairman, ladies
ladies' and gentlemen (cheers) In
returning-in rising to return, ladies and
gentlemen,-in returning my sincere
thanks for the great and distinguished,
though merited-Q Qaughter) lHmerited- =
(Cheers) honor you have-I have just
just conferred daughter and cheers)-
permit me to say that II beg to assure
you, ladies and gentlemen, that nothing
1 can say on the present occasion can
sufficiently express my-yOur sense of
my kindness loud applause and laughter)
will kindle amOst-I can assure yoG,
ladies and gentlemen, this is-this is the
happiest moment Of my Hfe-(renewed
applause)-and in-in returning-ret
ing from the bottom of my heart
(cheers.) 1t is perhaps unnecessary
unnecessary TO say a1lyhiHg-(cries of
ego on" ")-andI trust 1 have said nothing
Il (laughter) on the present
occasion that-but I'll not detain you,
ladies and gentlemen-(''yes, yes, 90 on J
by saying that-having said more than
1 intended to say on the present occasion
(hear, hear)-I can only say that-that,
in returning my siHcere thanks, III
beg most sincerely to thank you. The
speaker, on resuming his seat, was
rewarded with several rounds of
aDDlauSG)
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Correspondence of the News.
Letter from Washington
City.

,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. u, 1878.
ED1roR NEws;-Atlas the glorious
Capital Of the Nation and Paradis,
of the Bohemian, has reused hersel
| from her long summer nap, and the
good ship "Govcrnment, with Cap
tain Hayes son deck," and manned
by a picked crew" of Congressman,
glides out of the harbor of inacticn
in which she has laid at anchor for
the last six months, and we, the
'Iookers-on in Vienna, " watch with
intense interest her short voyage, to
see If it shall be through a pleasant
sea Of peace, or if we shall come to
grief again on the wretched shoal of
an investigating committee.
Once more the festive NJ G. salIies
| forth in his new winter suit and Ulster,
and ornaments the Avenue with him
self and friends. Tie houses bios
som with the familiar sign, "Furn-
ished Rooms" and the willy N. c.
aforesaid registers himself at a big
hotel, stays a day or two, then quiet
Iy creeps away to some pleasant and
Inexpensive Furnished rooms, and
when the busy ofice-seeker calls at
the sbig hotel, the clerk politely in
forms him that the gentleman has
'.just stepped out. He calls again,
(receiving the same answer until he
begins to sadly think of the woman,
who, when travellers inquired where
her husband had gone, replied, "He
went for a cigar" sAnd how long
has he been gomez" Fifteen years,
was the reply.
We are glad to see among the
friends from Ohio, the familiar faces
of Hon. H. L. Dickey, and his bosom
friend, Hon. Mills Gardner. I doubt
if the former is quite so glad to be
here as we are to have him, for with
him it is O clear case of my Hearts
in the Highlands. (No pun meant
at alI.) He stays closely by his desk,
and never misses O vote, and his
friends can rest assured that their
interests will be well looked after, so
long as he has them in hand.
Far away on the other side of the
House may be seen the Hon. Mr..
Gardner, paying strict attention to
business also, his solemn face light
ed now and then with a bright smile
or a hearty laugh, when the irate
Butler comes to the front or some
other member of his sids of the
House, makes a telling remark.
Some Of our national chunks Of
wisdom, as a newspaper friend of
mine styles them, are fortunate
enough to have their families here,
and on the 'First Day" of Congress
a good many members wives could
be seen in the members gallery.
Among others Mrs Speaker Randall
beamed down upon her husband and
his big bouquet. Many lady journal
lists were there, writing up the scenes, I
and prominent among them was Mrs
Mary Shannon, correspondent of the
New Orleans Times.
Tonight, one of the Ohio boys,
Col VIM. Brown, is to lead to the .
altar one of our most charming So
ciety bellies, Miss Henrietta Lynn .
Jeffries, daughter Of General Jeffries. .
The wedding takes place at the
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HOW LoNGi
by LOUISE cHANDIEH MoUIToS.

II on my grave the summer grass were growing,
Or needless winter winds across It blowing,
Through joyous June, or desOlate December
How long, sweetheart, how long would you re-
member
Howlong, dear love how long?
For brightest eyes would open to the summer
And sweetest smiles would greet the sweet new
comeri
And on young lips grow kisses for the taxing,
When aR the summer buds to bloom are breaking
How long, dear love- how long?-
To the dmland where sad eyed ghosts walk only,
Where lips are cold and waiting hearts are lonely,
] would not call you from your youths warm
blisses
FIJI up your glass and crown it with new klsses-
HOW long, dear love, how long?
Too gay in June you might be to regret me,
And living lips might WOO you 70 forget me;
Bat ah, sweetheart I think you would remember,
When winds were weary IN your Iifes December
80 long, dear love, SO .0nsl
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1t is not gold nor goods, that makes
man really wealthy. The best wealth
is of the heart, an enlightened mind, a
loyal conscience, pure affections. He is
Wealthiest who has the largest stock of
wisdom, virtue and love, whose heart
beats with warm sympathies for his
fellow man-whO finds good in all sea-
sons, all providences, all men. The gen.
erous man who pities the unfortunate
the poor man who orders well his life
the loving man who clings closely to
his family and friends; the studiOus
man who seeks instruction in all things,
are the truly wealthy men.
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With blanched cheeks and weIled
eyes all Christendom yearns to learn the
number Of apples Adam and Eve ate in
the Garden of Eden, and tremblingly
awaits the kOrrect responsive kry. Two
correspondents volunteer solutions -
One thinks that instead of Eve s and
Adam s, also, total l6, that I've S-1=9,
and Adam SILL, total %: the other
correspondent writes: q calculate that
possibly Adam and Eve together ate 80
apples, thus: Adam ate 49, and Eve ate
too 1927. Who makes it more% We do.
List. Adam ate one (SD and Eve ate
one too CSl2), total 1913. GoOd-bye-fE
this is about as many apples as any gar
den can raise.
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"A Dutchman, the other day, reading
an account of a meeting, came to the
words, "the meeting then dissolved" j."
He could not define the meaning of the
latter, so he referred to his dictionary,
and felt satisfied. In few minutes a
friend came in, when Honty said, 'Dey
must have very hot wedder dere in
New York. I ret al agount Of a meet
ing we're all de peoples had melted away"
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Wax has been used for sealing since
the earliest ages. The oldest seals ap-
pear to have been impressed on white
wax. Subsequently yellow wax was
used. At a more recent period, sealing
wax was colored red; and about the
fourteenth century it was colOred green,
and sometimes black.
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Business Directory.

Cards Inserted under this head at the following
rates: For inch space, SO q year: = inchi s. q
year, 4 inch, s. q year.
Twelve lines Of this type make inch.
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POETICAL ENIGyIAS-NO. Z.
/ am composed Of letters.
MY 1st Is in lake, but Lot in rive-.
NV 2d is in row, hut not in never,
NV sd is ia ice. INT not ia rain,
Ny 9Th Is iu Thames, but lot tu sclHc,
Nv 9th is iu view, but not in .0oE-
NV 9Th is in wren, but not iu rUUk,
NY 9TH IS IL oval, brt ROT in round,
NV Sfh Is lu dracLmS, but not in pOGuGs-
Nv 9th fs in church, but nor in pcws.
Ny whole Is q cCrresp0Hdent OF the NEM--
Fairfax, o.. BUD.
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The area Of circle is 7S54 squarc rods. Require
ed The area of the angle Of uCTCuUsCrJCd cd sguarr,
not iuCluded within The circle.
Oak Ridge, o. A. SHOEMAKER.