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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
About PLAYING Cards.

Liable Legendre is considered the
greatest authority in all matters con-
cerning playing cards, and he COM
mences his famous work on them by
asserting his firm conviction that they
are Of Lydian origin, "fOr," says he,
''the Lydians have very ancient ira
dition to the effect that one Of their
kings invented playing cards during
great famine, and that the games they
played with them were so deeply inter
esting they almost forgot their trOu-
bles."
Many differ with the learned Able.
The Lydians may, indeed, have been
acquainted with an ancient game played
by the Athenians with little painted
wooden tablets called ''the goose game" "
because the winning tablet was adorned
with an image Of that sagacious bird,
but they certainly did not play at cards.
The Romans, by the way, called these
tablets tabuJcg 8igiIlatg and they are fire.
Quently found at POmpeii and Hercula-
neum.
Cards, undoubtedly, came to US from
the East together with chessmen.
Count de Geblin says, they are as old as
the time of the Pharaohs, and that,
perpaps, Moses and Aaron played with
them. But, although the figures paint
ed upon them might, indeed, easily be
proved hieroglyphical, yet there is one
very strong objection to the Egyptian
theory in the fact that tiere is no trace
of playing cards visible on any of the
frescoes and paintings Of Egypt or in
any of the innumerable papyri which
are preserved in the various museums.
Our opinion is, that cards and chess
are of Arabian origin, and that cards
were suggested by chess and are Of al
most the same antiquity. There is
every reason to believe that, primitive.
ly, cards were an exact reproduction in
paper of chessmen. This analogy is
easily established by an inspection Of
some of the earliest cards in existence,
those, for instance, Of the fifteenth CEN
tury which are preserved in the Paris
National Library, and in which the
chess knights and castles figure on dis
tinct cards; the ''castles" being called
Gods houses. Both games have the
same aIegorical meaning, as they are
both images Of war.
In the earliest packs there is a card
with figure of death on white horse,
the apparition of which in the game
answered exactly tho same purpose as
check-mate does in chess, and puts an
instant stop to it. Now, these primi-
tive cards consisted of an equal number
of pieces that there are of Chessmen,
and the pack was divided into two col
Ors, red and black, but the games were
in those days limited to two perform
ances, instead Of four or more, as at
present. When the game was in its
earlier stage Of development, We ind
cards corresponding exactly with the
chess hierarchy, to wit, two kings, two
queens, two knaves, (knightsl, two
aces (castlesl, and plain cards, which
represented pawns.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
E1DIeS.

In the cabin Of the steamer st. John,
coming up the Hudson the other even
ing, sat a sad, serious looking man,
who looked as if he might have been a
clerk or bOOk-keeper. The man seem
ed to be caring for a crying baby, and
was doing everything he could to still
its sObs. As the child became restless
in the berth, the gentleman took it in
his arms and carried it to and fro in
the cabin. The sObs of the child irri-
tated rich man, who was trying to
read, until he blurted out loud enough
for the father to hear:
what does he want to disturb the
whole cabin with that d-baby fOr?7
Hush baby, hushl" and then the
man only nestled the baby closer in
his arms without saying word. Then
the baby sObbed again.
"Where is the cOnfOunded mother
that she don t stop its nOise?" cOntin-
ued the prOfane grumbler.
At this, the grief stricken father
came up to the man, and with tears in
his eyes, said: II am sorry to disturb you,
sir, but my dear baby's mother is in
her coffin down in the baggage room.
I'm taking her back to her grandmOth-
er in Albany, where we used to live"
The hard-hearted man buried his
face in shame, but in a moment, wilted
by the terrible rebuke, he was by the
side of the grief stricken father. They
were both tending the baby.-FI0m Eli
PerkiqS'S Nel0 Book.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
III Should Die Tonight.


II I should ole tonight,
ty friends would look upon my quiet face
Before they laid ft IN its resting place,
And deem that death had left it almost fair:
And, laying snow-white flowers sgaiust my
hair,
Would smooth # down with fearful tender
ness,
And dfold my hands with lingering caressi
Poor hands, so empty and so cold tonight.
II IshOuIddIe tonight
Ny friends would ca1l to mind with loving
thought,
Some kindly decd the icy hand had wrought;
Some gentle words the frozen lips had said;
Errands on which tho willing feet had spedi
The memory Of sclashness and pride,
Ny hasty words, would all be laid aside,
And so / should be loved and mournod to-
night.
IfIshould die tonight,
Even hearts cstranged would turn once more
tome,
Recalling other days remorsefully.
The eyes that chilled me with averted glance,
Wouldlook upon me as Of yore perchance,
And soften in the old familiar way,
For who could war with dumb, unconscious
clay7
So 1 might rest, forgiven Of all, tonight.
Oh, friends, pray tonight
Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow,
The way is lonely, let me feel them now.
Think gently Of me; am travel worn,
Ny faltering feet are pierced with many
thorn.
Forgive, oh heart estranged, forgive pleadI
When dreamless rest is mine shall not need
The tenderness for which I long tonight
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
Silver Mining In the Lower Levels,


Those who have never personally in
spected the lower levels of our mines,
says the Virginia City, (NeV. Enter
prise, may obtain some idea Of the de-
gree of heat to be found therein by Wis
iting the Savage Works at the change
of shifts. The men-packed together
as close as they can stand on the cage
are popped up out of the shaft all
steaming hot, for the world like a bunch
Of asparagus just lifted from the pot.
They make their appearance in a cloud
Of steam that pOurs up continuously
from the "depths profound" F" and are
dimly seen until they step forth upon
the floor Of the works. As the men
land and separate, each carries with
him for half a minute his little private
cloud Of YapOr. As this passes off the
man IS seen to be naked from the waist
up, his skin as wet as though he had
just been lifted out Of a pool of water.
The men bring up with them besides
the steam, an amount Of heat that may
be felt by the spectator as they pass.
All this is at the top of the shaft,
where it is considered quite cool; what,
then, must it be hundreds Of feet below
where the men started frOm-dOwn
where tbe water stands I57 degrees
Fahrenheit2 Down there no steam is
seen-it is too hot for it. 1t is only
when the hot, moist air, coming up
from the lower regions, strikes the cool
air toward the top Of the shaft, that it
takes the form Of steam. Down there
where the men come from you must
keep your hands off the pump column
and the pipes, and if you pick up an
iron tool you will at once put it down
without being told to do so. Down
there they handle things with gloves
on, or wrap rags about the drills they
are guiding and iron apparatus they are
moving, and down there, too, you will
learn to keepyour mouth shutafter you
have drawn a few mOuthfuls Of hot air
into your lungs. Perspire? 1t is no
name for it. You are like sponge
that is being squeezed. You are ready
to believe that you have 10, 900, 900 pores
to every square inch Of surface, or as
many more as any authority may NEIL
ton, and that these pores are as big as
the cells Of a honey comb. You go for
ice-water, and it almost seems TO hiss
as it passes down your thrOat-yOu
keep going for it, and thus, in short
time, lind out what becomes Of the tons
and tons of ice that are daily consumed
In The mines.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17

LANDRUM.-In Memphis, Tenn, Sept.
II, Herbert Landrum, local editor of the
Avalanche, the last Of the staff.
"The last of the staff. What a
story is told in these five words !
Young Landrum-we believe he was
little more than a boy-saw his as
sociates fall, one by one, by his side;
but still he stood at his post, as true
as any soldier who ever Joined in a
"forlorn hope" charge upon the enc
mys batteries. He was worthy Of
his editor in-chief, the lamented
Thompson, who, knowing that the
fever was on him, insisted that no
word should be sent his wife, whom
he had hurried to a place of safety,
and faced death alone rather than
risk a life dearer to him than his
own. The courage and devotion
shown by clergymen, the sisters of
religious orders, physicians, and
nurses in the feYer-stricken cities are
above all praise but many an OBJ
scure newspaper man and many an
underpaid telegraph operator have
shown themselves equally courage
Gus and deVOted.-[N. 7. Sun.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
An Absconding SOM Curlpus Ruge

The Paris Bien Public C relates q curl
Gus adventure which has occurred at
Bellegarde, a frontier town between
France and Switzerland. On train
from Lyons to Geneva arriving there,
two persons were detained by thepolice
as not giving sufficient proofs of their
identity. The first, a man Of a certain
age, was released after a few minutes {;
but the second, a youth Of seventeen,
acknowledged that lie had abscOnded
from his father, a merchant in the
South, with a sum of 4, 900 francs. The
commissary of police telegraphed to
the young mans family, and sent him
to prison, but on the way he escaped
from the gendarm.e. While running
away in the dark lie fell down the bank
Of the RhOne, which has there
height of eighty feet, and would have
been drowned but for a bush which
stopped him, and to which lie clung.
He was again secured, and the father
having telegraphed that it was sum
of e, 600 francs that the son had carried
off, he was questioned as to what he
done with the difference. He then ad-
mitted that when first arrested he had
concealed the 5000 francs in the coat
pocket Of the other traveller who had
been detained with him. The latter
had in the meantime taken another
train for Geneva, and amessange hay
ing been sent to that station, he was,
on his arrival, asked to search the
pocket OF his paletOt, and was not lit
Tie SUI Iprised to find in it the money.
which was then restored.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
A Perfect Woman.

A Wife-seeking, methodical youth,
who has occasionally escorted a young
lady home on Sunday evenings, and
gone in for supper, after performing
both services last Sunday night, sud
denly said to her-''DO you talk in your
sleep2' "Why-no," she answered, in
surprise. DO you walk in your
sleepP" he next inquired. mo, SIR"
He moved his chair an inch closer, and
with increased interest asked-"DO
you snore?" mo-" she hastily re-
piled, looking uneasily at him. At this
reply his eyes fairly sparkled. His lips
eagerly parted, and as he gave his chaig
another hitch, he briskly nGuired-'DO
you throw the cOmbings of your hair in
the basin?" ''What?o she asked, with
a blank face. Herepeated the question
although with increased nervousness.
'No, DON'T" she answered in some
haste. Again his chair went forward,
while his agitation grew so great that
he could scarcely maintain his place
upon it as he asked-'DO you clean the
comb when you have dOne?" "Of
course 1 do" she said, staring at him
with all her might. In an instant he
was on his knees before her with his
hands outstretched. 81 love you," he
passionately cried. 81 give my whole
heart up to you. Love me and I will
be your slave. Love me as I love you,
and I will do everything on earth for
you. Oh, will you take me to be your
lover, your husband, your protector,
your everything?" 1t was a critical
moment for a young woman of her
years, but she was equal to the emer-
gency, as a woman generally is, and &C
cepted him.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
ADVERTIsING RATES.

The above scale Of prices is for ordinary singl,
column display advertising. Solid Legal, Oficis
AID Tabular advertisements will 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
location, 25 per cent additional.
LOCAL NOTIoEs-l6 cents per line for drst, and
cents per line for each additional insertion.
CARDS in Business Directory-One inch, 1 year
SO: months, So; months, g. One-half nch-I
year, s. 90; mos. 50; 3 mos. g.
OBITUARY NOTICES (Other than simple announce
ments Of deaths,) Tributes Of Respect, Cards Of
Thanks and announcements by Societies. cents
per line.
Notices Of Marriages, Births and Deatha-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 gener
a1Iv
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17

n. B. Kneass, an honorarymembe
of the Howard Association, said in
Philadelphia the other day "The
Howard Association of New Orleans
originated in my store with some of
my own clerks. During the prevalence
of the disease-so many years ago
that I can't fix the date-two of the
clerks, whose mother was an old San
Domingo lady, went around hunting
up new cases, and supplied them
with medicines prepared by her, and
gave them their own attention.
These two young men associated
others with themselves in the good
work, holding meetings in my store,
and in time they became an incorpor-
ated body, with a thoroughly system
atized plan of work. Itnow furnish
es money for physicians, nurses and
medicines, and has the city districted,
with two members of the society su-
pervising day and night, the work
done in each district" The assOcia-
ton takes its name from John How
ard, the distinguished English Phi
lanthropist.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
SPECIAL NOTICES.

u Extra copies of the News can be found ev-
cry week at George Bowers News Depot and also
at this Office. Price cents.
E3- The entrance to the new Editorial Room Of
the News is on Main street. one door west Of Glas-
cock, Quinn & Co.'s hardware store, by the stair
way leading to DR., Russ's Office.
Y Correspondence solicited from all parts Of
the county. Send US the facts in few words. and
we win put them in shape for publication. The
writer's real name must be given in all cases, as
guaranty Of good faith.
The News having much larger circulation is
Highland county than 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.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
tFrom the Cincinnati Gazette.
Ohio BANKRUPT Laws.

As msol7ents,untiI another Nation
al Bankrupt Law shall be enacted,
VII have only the State laws for
their relief, we state in condensed
form the provisions Of the laws Of
Ohio:
Any person may. assign his assets
for the benefit Of creditors, which
must be made a matter of record.
If a majority Of creditors duly
elect a Trustee, the court viii ap-
point him, if it approve.
Assignments in trust, contemplab-
ing insolvency, to prefer any credit
Of, viii inure to the benefit of all
CT editors, and transfers to defraud
creditors will be void. Any. creditor
cCutesting such transfer must give
public notice; other creditors can
become parties to the suit, and
tb ,se shall have preference if proper
ty so transferred shall be recovered.
Inventory and appraisement Ofas-
sc IS to be made within thirty days.
Real estate rot in Ohio need not be
appraised, but any sale must be sub
jest to approval by the court.
Assignment shall not include prop
erty exempted by law from ezecu-
GGn, unless exemption is waived
nor property Of wife. Appraisers to
set off the exempt homestead and
other exempt property.
Debtor may be examined under
oath, and court may issue necessary
orders to prevent fraudulent transfer
OF payment.
Claims must be verified within six
months; assignees shall settle the
essate under sanction Of the court.
Tlxes and wages of the preceding
six months, not exceeding 500, to
be. preferred claims.
Dividends to creditors to be made
under orders of the court. Commits
iol Of assignees 6 per cent. on first
$1,000; 4 per cent. on all above that
~ to $4,000; 2 per cent on all above
that. Fees Of Court are regulated
bv law and are about the same as IN
sc ttling the estates of the dead
Probate Courts shall appoint Com
Of InsOIvents, to whom
any person arrested for debt, or for
Of any debt, may make an
assignment. On complying with all
conditions, the Commissioners shall
give him a certificate, which shall
protect him from arrest for debt, or
for payment of any fine for which
he has been imprisoned as much as
sizty days.
The homestead exemption is one
thousand dollars, or its equivalent IN
other property.
The Ohio law is good enough for
the limits of Ohio; it gives no re
lease from debts in other States.
Tne debtor can be released by sur
his property, save that
which is exempt from execution.
The debtor cannot prefer creditors,
nor transfer property with view to
in solyency. Nor does this law eat
up all the assets in fees.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17

Virtually, the Democrats are sur
rendering to the Greenbackers, and
the latter promise everywhere to be
the more formidable enemy Of the
Republican party. Originally indie
pendent of parties, they have drain
ed the Democracy until it oonfesses
that its only hope lies in its ability
to make terms with them; and
though their drain upon the Repub-
lican organization is lighter, itserves
to suggest misgivingsas to the prob
able result in constituencies whose
partisan complexion IN ordinary
times does not admit a dOubt.-[N.
Y. Times.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17

The Potter committee are in doubt
whether it Will pay to invest ten
thousand dollars in a document
which is alleged to be the original
Sherman-Anderson letter. They
have been sold so many times in
their hunt for this supposed letter,
that they are beginning to be eau
tiOus, Meantime they have a fine
field for investigation opened before
them in the barrel of dispatches
from Oregon recently published.
Strangely enough they have as yet
manifested no interest in this very
important development Of fraud
T Hartford COurant.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17
Arrival and Departure OF
Mails.

r. R. mails arrive daily except Sunday, at To- is
a. IN. and $50 p. IN. Depart daily except Sunday,
at 6.25 a.. m. and 2.30 p. m.
n. B. Railroad malls close 30 minutes before
departure of trains.
Ripley mail, Tor Newmarket, Sugartree Ridge
MOurytOwn, New COrwin, Emerald, &C., arrives
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at p. m. De-
parts Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Z a. m.
Eastern mail, for Dallas, RsinsbOrO, New Pc
tersburg, Greenfeld, Balnbridge, Paint, Sinking
Springs, Marshall, North Union, Carmel, &C, ar
rivals Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at z D. III.
Departs same days at a. m.
Fayetteville mail, for Nevin, PricetOwn, Hollow
town, Buford, Sicily, &C., arrives Wednesday and
Friday at p. m. Departs same days at a. m.
Belfast mail, for Berryville, Belfast, May Hin,
LOvetts, &c, arrives Tuesday and Friday at 80
q. m. Departs same days at 1880 p. m.
Sabina mail, for Samantha, Highland, Memphis,
Sabina, &C, arrives Tuesday aud Friday at p. n.
Departs Wednesday and Saturday at 7.45 q. m.
j NJ. BARRERE, P. NJ
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-17

She was a Boston girl She was
visiting her Whitehall cousin. While
walking outse7eral butterflies passed
her.
sob, dear me, what charming little
birds, they are perfectly exquisite.
"They are not birds, my dear, re-
Piled her country cousin, "they are
butterflies.
30, you don't say so? Then
tb Sc are the dear little creatures that
fl from flower to flower and gather
tie sweet yellow butter that we use?
They are too lovely for anything. -
Whitehall Times.
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ht-Ieartednegs Of Iapanese ChLIdren

Light -Heartedness Of Japanese Children
One of the first lessons presented
to a foreign teacher in Japan is
the reason Of the great apparent
happiness and light-heartedness Of
Japan children. One may walk for
hours through the streets of Toxic,
and scarcely eyer hear a child's cry of
distress. Four principal causes of this
superiority Of the children of Japan
over those of other nations have been
suggested by an English lady resident
there. They are worthy of the atten-
ton Of the teachers at home. l. The
style of clothing, loose and yet warm,
is far more comfortable than the dress
Of our children. 2. japanese children
are much more out in the open air and
sunshine. 3. The absence of furniture,
and therefore, the absence Of repeated
ly-given instructions mot to touch"
The thick, soft mating, forming at
once the carpet and beds of all Japan
ese houses, and the raised Intel, on to
which the child may Chamber as it
grows strong, constitute the very beau
ideal Of an infants playground. 4.
Children are much petted, without
being capriciOusly thwarted.
a child is not cuffed one moment
and INDUCED the next. To these four
suggestive reasons the writer would
add a fifth, which is, that japanese
character is so constituted as to bring
the elders into strong sympathy with
the little ones. 1t has been well said
that Japan is a paradise of babies"
for you may see old and young playing
together at battle-dOor and shuttle
cock in the streets; while on holidays
the national amusement of men, wo-
men and children is flying huge paper
kites. Puppet shows and masque-
rades also have their YOtaries i'll thOus-
ands, from among both sexes auG all
aces.
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Gen. Garfield on Newspa-
peFS,

pSTSu
General Garfeld's idea of a good
newspaper as given in an address be-
fore the Ohio editors: 'The first
and most important duty of the
journalist is to furnish the news; but
not every occurrence is worthy of
the name. I know that the seller of
news, like other merchants, must
try to furnish the wares which his
customers want but if he wishes to
be an educator of society, he must
seek to furnish the record of such
events as will instruct the commun-
ity, provoke thought, and awake the
better aspirations ofmen. It is one
of the most hopeful signs of our
journalism that the papers which
have achieved the most permanent
success are those that have estab-
Ished a good reputation Tor trust
worthiness and accuracy in their
statements of fact. I can name a
few papers that are taken by men of
both political parties solely on ac-
count of the great variety and accu-
racy of their news. I venture the
assertion that if a record could be
kept of those portions of our papers
which are most sought for by read
ers, it would be found that the teIe-
graphic dispatches and the items Of
neighborhoOd news are read by
twice the number who read the edi-
torial comments. If half the inteli
gence and culture which is now ex-
pended upon the editorial page were
applied to the careful observation of
current events, it would add i'm
mensely to the value of newspapers.