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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
Spiders and Moths in California.

ibid it ever occur to anybody" in
Quires the Stockton Independent: that
California has a decided superhuity Of
spiders, not to mention other disagree
able insects2 Ant they are the most
indefatigable creatures on the face of
the earth. From morning till night,
and from one years end to another,
they go on spinning their intricate webs
in every nook and corner, on every tree,
shrub and leaf, festOOning the fences,
enshrOuding the barns, covering the
houses with their network. Occasion
ally you will see a tree that stands in
some sheltered spot where the spiders
are Undisturbed by the winds or by hui
man intruders, and there you will find
the work of these Omnipresent insects
in its cOmpletest form. 1t would seem
that the fairies had thrown around It an
enchanted gossamer mantle. From top
to bottom it is one intricate network.
The imprisoned, smOthered leaves
seem to be struggling to get out Of the
remOrseless grasp of their lilliputian
captors. After the spiders comes the
California dust, the inevitable dust of
summer lodging thickly in every cob
web, and making the poor, struggling
trees look as though mourning in sack
cloth and ashes for their friends, the
long delaying Tain-drOps, that seem
never to come. The work of the dust
and the spiders gives the California
vegetation in summer an air of unin-
viting desolation. Even the fairest or
chards are thus clothed. We know of
no characteristic of California more
than her superabUndance
of spiders. And what a country for
mothsl The climate that is so condU-
Give to the growth of marvellous fruits,
vegetables, grasses, and cereals, is like
wise favorable to the existence of the
most disagreeable insects. These are
some Of our drawbacks, too seldom
perhaps"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
His Faith.

Riding up on a Woodward avenue
car through the drizzle fault-fnding
citizen found one Of the Congregations
ministers aboard, and he braced around
and began:
"sir, are you nota minister of the
Gospel?"
II am, sill" was the reply.
"And you believe in prayer, do your"
II do, sir"
DO you believe that if all you minis
ters would pray for this confounded
weather to clear up it would do any
good?"
Eyes, sir"
'WelI, then, why don't you begin
praying?"
Because, sir, this is rheumatic
weather, and because, sir, we want to
see the rheumatism get hold of such un-
believers as you are a..,. tie them up in
double bow-knots. That's why, sir"
"'Tis, eh?" growled the man. "Wen,
now, I'll be burned if I don't walk
around all day with an umbrella just to
spite your internal old weather-you
bet 1 will"
And lie leaned back and chuckled
like a man who had struck rich thing
Free Press.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
ITon to Become a Millionaire.

You must be a very able man, as
nearly all the milliOnaires are.
You must devote your life to the get
ting and keeping Of other mems earn
ings.
You must eat the bread Of careful
ness and mustrise up early and lie down
late.
You must care little or nothing about
other mems wants, or sufferings, or
disappOintments.
You must not mind it thatyour great
wealth involves many others in pow
eTty.
You must not give away except for a
material equivalent.
You must not go meandering about
Nature, nor spend your time enjoying
air, earth, sky, or water, for there's no
money in it.
You must never embark in any enter
prise that will build up the place you
live in, but wait until the public spirited
nell have built railroads, etc., then buy
the stock at a discount.
You must never give to the widow or
orphan a thought, or consider that they
have any claims upon your humanity or
charity.
You must make money your god; in
terest your faith, and large possessions
the heaven you cOvet. And, when dy-
ing, leave a few pence to heaven.
You must not distract your thoughts
from the great purpose Of your life with
the charms of art and literature.
You must not let philosophy or re-
ligion engrOss you during the secular
time.
You must not allow your wife and
children to occupy much of your yalu-
able time and thoughts.
You must never permit the fascina-
tons Of friendship to inveigle you into
making loans, however small.
You must abandon all other ambf
tons or purposes, and finally
YOumust be prepared TO sacrifice ease
and all fanciful notions you may have
about tlstes and Iuxuries and enjoy
meHts during most, if not all Of youI
natural life.
If you think the game is worth the
candle-yOu can die rich-sOme Of you
can,-The Critic.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
RRr and Prona.

Young men out of business, says the
Rome Sentinel, are frequently sadly
hampered by pride. Many young men
who go West take more pride than
money, and bring back all the pride,
and no money at all. A young man
that works for his board" no matter
what honest work he does, has no rea-
son for shame. A young man who cuts
the bread Of idleness, no matter how
much money he has, is disgraeed.
Young men starting in life ought to aim
first Of ALTO find a place where they
can earn their bread and butter, with
hoe, ak, spade, wheelbarrow, curry
comb, blacking-brush-nO matter how.
Independence first. The bread and
butter question settled, let the young
man perform his duty so faithfully as
to attract attention, and let him con-
stantly keep his eyes open for q chance
to do better. About half the poor
proud young men, and tWo-thirds the
poor discouraged young men, are al
ways out Of work. The young man
who pockets his pride, and carries an
upper lip as stiff as a cast-iron door
need not starve, and
stands a good chance to become rich.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

Da1rying is rapidly growing rural In
dustry in California. The time was,
says the Bulletin, when it was gener-
ally believed that the climate Of Cali
fornia was not favorable to making
good butter, but it is now known that
no State in the Union can make better
butter, OF keep it good longer than they
can. Wherever alfalfa grows rapidly
the year through, as it does on river
bottoms, the dairy season is practically
perennial. On this clover, or on hay
made from it, COWS keep up a good flow
of milk the year round, and are only
dried up to allow of the necessary rest
and recuperatiOn. Large quantities Of
empty frkins have been shipped from
the East, and all that have been made
by local cOopeTs have been used,
and still the demand for something
to pack butter in is unsatisfactO-
ry. But a few years since Califor-
mia shipped the frkins from the
East, not to pu butter in, but to get
the butter that came in them. 1t now
wants the empty frkins, and will re-
turn the well filed with butter Of a
quality superior to that formerly re-
ceiYed.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

1 was showing my watch to my neph-
Bw who was about six years old. He
pointed to the face Of the dial and said,
"Why, there is another little watchl"
I said, ''That is called the second
hand.' He tossed his head contempt
uousIy, and walked off saying, II
wouldn't own a secondhand watch. "
He had heard Of secondhand watches,
and thought that was one Of them. An
other nephew, named Ward, was play
ing with a Mexican sixpenee, and put
1t up his nose. He attempted to get it
out again, but it worked its way fur
ther in, and gave him great deal Of
pain. He went and complained to his
father, who held him firmly and ex-
traeted the coin with a pair " pinceTs.
The boy was indignant because his nos
tril was lacerated, and ran to his moth
er to tell her of his suffeFings. He said:
Mother, father is getting to be awful
mean" ''Mean, childl What are you
talking about?' Eyes, I say mean.
and I stick to it. He tore my nose all
to pieces, because he was afraid he
would lose that sixpence. wouldn't
be 50 mean for anything"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
The WaIIaehian NabOB.

The Wallachian boyard lives in great
style, and with much display. His
house is large and commodious, and
splendidly furnished. The ceilings are
beautifully painted, He has a host Of
servants and satellites attached to his
mansion-Jwo or three men-coOks, the
same number of cOachmen, Wallets, foot
men and maids III battallions. These,
sometimes to the number Of thirty OF
forty, all inhabit his house and court
yard, and in many cases the wives and
children dwell with them. But the
master is gOOd-natUTed and generous,
and makes no objection to a system
which would exasperate any one else.
He keeps open house, and has a dinner
prepared for any friends who may pre-
sent themselves. 1t is on record that
as many as forty guests have sat down
at table to which none hao been pre-
ViOusly invited. This would test pretty
severely the resources of most estab-
lishment5, but it affects him not. His
cHiSine is Of the most recherche order
in fact, combination of whatever is
most excellent in others. Here you
have the very best of everything, a
mingling Of the Eastern and Western
modes that is most piquant. He has
lived over and over again at the best
hotels in every corner of Europe, and
his taste and experience are perfect.
His horses are magnificent, and his
stables probably contain some English
thOrOughbreds. lie has his own par
ticular carriages and cOachmen, and
his wife hers, quite distinct-a very
arrangement, it may be
whereby much trouble and
are avoided For, in this
woman certainly is in the
fullest enjoyment Of her rights and
and, as is but natural,
seems determined to make the most
of them. She has her own horses and
her own suite of apartments.
and is thorough mistress of her
self all the livelong day. She may
expend a fortune upon her toilette, in
dulge in any amount Of Irritation, and,
if she grow weary of her long-suffering
husband, she is free to wed another
she may fancy so doing.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
Eating PhiIOpena.

In Germany they manage this little
pastime in a very pleasant way. When
a couple meet after eating philOpena
together no advantage is taken Of the
other until one of them prOnOunces the
word ''philOpena." This is the warm
ing that now the sport is to begin. Let
us suppose that a gentleman calls upon
= lady. She invites him to walk il,
and at the same time speaks the tails
manic word. If he accepts the offer to
walk in he is lost, unless she removes
the ban by telling him to go away. If
she asks him to take off his hat, he
must resoIutely keepit on; if to be seat
ed, he must stand; or if at the table she
should hand him any article which he
accepts, she wins the forfeit. During
all this time he endeavors to take her by
surprise, for the acceptance of any offer
from the other wins the game, Both
are constantly exercising their wits to
prevent being canght, and the sport Of
ten goes on all the evening. Perhaps
the gentleman brings little present
and says, knowing that shall lose
my philopena, have brought it along
here it is" If she is caught off her
guard by the smooth speech she lOoses,
for he Immediately claims forfeit. If
neither wins at the first meeting, the
sport is continued to the second, and
it may happen that half a dozen parties
meet at the same time, al anxious to
win of their phiIopena partners, so that
the scene often becomes IUdicrOusly
amusing! It's diamond cut diamond"
in very truth.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

This Is the civilization of Russia,
which the Car would have taught the
Turks: ''If you pay a visit. and leave a
cloak on the seat Of your carriage, that
cloak is gone when you come out. If
you walk out with a dog unclaimed. the
dog vanishes around a street corner.
ShOpkeepers are afraid to place arti-
cIes Of value in their windows. House
holders are liable to have their horses
and carriages stolen if they do not keep
a sufficient number Of stable servants,
and take care to see before going to
bed, that one, at least, Of these menials
is sober. A man who goes out for a
night stroll unarmed, may be set upon
within sight of a drOschky stand and
stripped of every article he wears, in
cluding shirt and small clothes. The
drOschky drivers will not give him a
helping hand; they will rather start of
altogether in a panic, lest they should be
summoned to give evidence. As for
the police, they hurry up afterward,
aud make the despoiled man pay twice
the value Of the things he has lost in
ices for investigation.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
Sensitive.

Most children are sensitive, and it is
wrong to wantonly wound their feelings
by censuring them too harshly for
their faults. Time cures a great
many things; children outgrow infirm-
tiles and faults, and if right principles
Of action are instiIled gently, constant
ly, wisely, the results will ultimately
appear. It is mere cruelty to make the
weak points Of a child a source of teas
ing and ridicule, as is often done in
schools and families. A mental infrm-
ity should be treated as tenderly as a
bodily deformity. A quick temper, an
irritable or timOrOus OF teasing dispo-
sition, requires far more tact and judi
cious management than any mere physi-
cal infrmity. When grown to maturi-
ty, our sensitive children become the
poets, musicians, artists, writer's, lead
ers of their times. Help them, too,
with their tasks, which to many of
them seem hopeless. Definitions are
hard to remember; the geography les
son is difficult to comprehend and won't
stay fixed in their mind; history is dull
and dead; arithmetic hopeless tangle
of figures, and grammar more puzzing
than any possible cOnundrum. The
little folk need help; they need cheer
and encouragement, and who should
be so ready, so willing, so able to give
it as the paFent2
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
He Wrote it Down.

The proprietor Of an Office was yes
terday approached by an embarrassed
and annoyed citizen, who asked:
ut isn't in your line, I know, but can
you tell me who discovered America?'
"Why, Christopher Columbus, of
course, was the answer.
"That's the chap; that's the identical
man." continued the other. ''I've been
trying for more than four hours to re-
member the name, but I couldn't fetch
it. I could get Christopher Cooper, and
Christopher Cumback, and Christopher
Collins, but I couldn't think Of Christie
pher Columbus. I'1 write it down on
the spot, Over on Larned street this
morning I got into political discussion
with an insurance man, and he wrench
ed ME all to pieces just because /
couldn't think Of Christopher Column
bus name when I wanted to. Do you
spell it Co or 'KO?'"-Free Press.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

SIN a certain sense" says a modern
writer, SAL attractive females are more
or less firts." 1t is true there are some
women about as gOOd-lOoking as the
rough side Of a horse-radish CRATER who
read with glasses and eat with pOrce-
lain teeth, and yet dirt. There is an
excuse for them. 1t is business with
them. They are obliged to snap at the
first chance like hungry wolves. But
girls who don't have to jump at chances
Airt because its pretty business. True,
it is pretty, and it is right. It is a very
different thing from being heartless
cOquette. Flirting in the sense we
mean is the only way a girl has to find
out what her beau, possibly her future
husband is like. A man always ap-
proaches a girl dressed in society polite
ness, and it is the girls duty to pierce
this thin coating Of sugar and plum,
and learn what is beneath. She cannot
accomplish this without flirting.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

'By Jupiter! these are lovely nights,
nothing Mars the serenity Of the scene, "
exclaimed Jones the other night as he
Saturn the porch, meath the silvery
rays of the crescent moon, with his
arm around the waist Of his Venus.
But when the old women opened
the window above them, and turned
a pitcher Of water on their devoted
heads, they thought they had en-
cOuntered Neptune. She simply said
to them as they started for the gate:
Here, come back: You cannot comet
over my daughter in that milky way"
Jones retOrted: Uranus off, and I'll be
hanged if I come back till I get ready, y
and his girl took his arm and he started
of with a speed like the messenger
Mercury, who is said to have wings on
his heels, and silence reigned once
more. The old woman says she viii
planet differently next time.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

a swiss colony settled on Cumberland
Mountain, Tennessee, in 1873. This
colony, which consists Of lis families,
making a company of about 700 people,
ourchasedIO, 600 acres Of mountain land
1T one dollar per acre, and now, al
though only four years have elapsed,
each head of a family has a comfortable
lome, surrounded by an orchard and
garden and decorated with a prOfusiOn
Of mountain flowers. There is a large
store that is managed for the colony,
members Of which get goods from it at
wholesale cost; the colony has its own
school, church, doctors, ETC., and the
members their own candidates to gov
ern the districts in which they live.
The colonists already have dairies and
cheese factories in successful operation,
and all their products find ready sale
and command fancy prices. They have
splendid herds of cattle, and their barns
are b1ilt as carefully as their houses.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

Since the beginning Of the war three
large manufactures have been estab-
lished in Russia for the preparation of
condensed forage for the cavalry horses
Of the Russian army. In the estab-
lishment at st. Petersburg there are
five large ovens capable of turning
out &c, 600 pounds in twenty-fOur hours.
The food is composed of Oat meal, pea
-four, rye meal, and ground linsePd, a
small quantity of salt being added.
The constituents are kneaded together
in large wooden trOUghs, the dough be-
ing afterward rolled out in a cake about
as thick as a mans finger, and cut into
biscuits Of three and a half inches in
diameter. These are then dried in the
ovens, and finally strung on wires for
transport.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
A Legend about CoFee.

There is legend about COffee-a le-
gend in which a pious Mussulman is
the hero. The Mussulman used to get
sleepy during his devotions, and so he
prayed to Mohammed, who came to his
aid. Mohammed sent him for advice to
a gOatherd, who took a hint from his
goats. He observed that when these
animals ate the berries of q particular
tree they got frisky and excited
bounded about all the night, in fact.
The MUssulman took this hint, ate the
coffee berries, slept less, and no doubt
prayed better. That was the legend.
That coffee, however, was sold in the
streets Of Cairo toward the end Of the
sixteenth century is not matter of
legend, but history. In fact, it was not
only sold, but it was forbidden to be
sold. An Arabian historian recOunts
that in the year 1888 a cafe was attacked
by the authorities, and the customers
who were found on the spot hurried off
to prison, from which they were not
liberated till they had each received
seventeen strokes with a stick, for the
encouragement of Othersl And, in fact,
this raid served the purpose so excel
lently that five and twenty years after
ward the town of Cairo could boast of
more than 1900 shops where coffee
might be bought.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18
AGlME OF HEARTS.


Morton Levyllian looked into his
companion s face and. wondered if she
really possessed heartl Or was she
Only-as had been said--a creature Of
intellect, one who required not, and
wished not, the most precious Of all
life's blessings Rather a difficult
question: and her beautiful, queenly
coUntenanCe, with its lustrous brown
/ eyes and delicately cliseled features,
did not serve to satisfy his doubts.
He was accustomed to be a favOrite
with the gentIer sex. Wealthy, intel
lectUal, and handsome, he was very nat
urally appreciated by maneUvering
mammas and marriageable daughters.
Clara Vane was unlike the women with
whom he had been thrown in contact.
Although among, she was not Of them,
and her indifference hurt him much
more than he cared to confess, even to
himself. So this evening, as they wan
de1ed together through the brilliantly
Illuminated rooms of a fashionable de-
votee, he asked carelessly, albeit his
eyes rested searchingly upon her face:
''AIiss Vane, do you believe in lOve?"
Shelaughed-and, although her dusky
cheek crimsOned a little, displayed not
the slightest discomposure as she an.
sWered:
''NO-at least not as you DO"
That sentence implied a certain
amount of something that the gentle
man scarcely liked. How should she
know whether their beliefs were SINH
lar2
"IndeedI' he commented somewhat
drily. "Would it be impertinent in
me to inquire what your belief really
isP"
Size bit her lip.
''Imake no pretensions to understand
ing any ones ideas upon this or any
other subject better than they them
selves do. L only know that my own
opinion Of love is very different from
the latter-day sentiment which is now
dignified by the name"
He smiled provokingly.
$50 is mine. We agree thus far, at
any rate. Perhaps, were we to compare
notes the similarity would exist still
further"
scarcely probable" she answered,
calmly. ''But it is not an interesting
topic, and as it is of no consequence
whether we consider it in the same light
or no, I propose we discuss some other
subject"
OF course after that the conversation
was changed.
''COnfoUnd It'll what's the use?" he
murmured, sadly, that night-Or rather
that morning-after returning home
''BLRTe 1 am, fairly bewitched after a
woman who, if report speaks truly, =
not capable Of feeling particle of af-
lection for any man, and who has de-
mOnstrated beyond peradventure her
utter indifference to me. In love with
an icebergI That's what's the matter!
But I swear 1 won't make a fool Of
myself any longerI She can go her
way, and I'll go minel"
Whether this resolution would have
been kept or no, is a question that must
forever remain unsettled, as tAe next
day Miss Vane had left town-gone,
10 one knew where; to remain, none
knew how long.
But we, being wiser than the majori-
ty of folks, may follow her away from
the crowded metropolis to a beautiful
country seat, down in Kent, where, dis
gusted alike with the world and her
self, she had soughtrefuge for the sum
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-07-18

A gentleman who came down from
Lexington recently was asked how
times were in that section. He said:
About all I have heard of lately is a
joke on an editor, who, going away, left
his paper in charge Of a minister. Dur
ing the minister's stay in the sanctum,
the following letter came from a noun
tain subscriber: "YOu know very well
paid my subscription to your paper
the last time I was in Lexington. If l
get any more such letters as IreceiYed
from you last week I will come down
and maui HI out Of you'll" The min
lister answered: 81 have been trying
to maui that thing out Of the editor for
ten years past, and if you really will
ONE down and maui it out Of him,
then, my dear sir, I have twenty mem
.bers of my church 1 will also get you tr
operate on"