The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-09

1 VI LuC LeOIlSCulluS III i ais lOI many
years was NJ. FormOnt, who lately died.
Look down into the mouth of Mount
Vesuvius and then say there is no lake
Of fire and birthstone, if you can.
Robert Bonner is believed by the Sa-
ratogiaa, Of New York, to be one Of those
men whose wishes are horses.
Lydia Thompson has saved S250,0OO.
% So much, b" remarks the sage Of the Dan
bury Nsl0s, for dressing economically. :"
Whittier wrote to one friend protest
ing against being congratulated on attain
ing old age, which means attaining rheu-
matism.
The New York Herald is impressed
with the thought that too much Of the
corn-product Of this country is eaten from
TASKS
Jamica began quinine planting IN
1860, and now has $4,000 trees, Of which
experienced chemists report most favor
ably.
San Franciscans are petitioning the
Legislature upon the subject of the re-
dUetiOn Of street car fares to five cents
each.
The Central Pacific Railroad Company
have ordered 10000 trees, to be set out
along the line of theirToad the coming
season.
Elnora-Both of your poems are wrong
in metre, and we think that you viii dis
cover that two wrongs don't make one
write-pOetry.
The muskrats imperiIled their reputa-
ton as weather prophets by building their
nests for this winter exceptionally thick
and warm.
Moody and Sankey are referred to by
the Paris Gaulois as 20 the founders Of a
new religion that enjoys a certain vogue
in the United States.
Boston detectives say that Winslow
makes 5isits to Boston, looking after the
means which he has slowed away at OF
near the Hub.
The great cascade Of Trocadero, which
is under construction in Paris, is to cost
S180,000, and viii be finished In time 6oI
tic Exposition next year.
The ,ooIored school-teachers Of Mis-
souri, held a convention in St. Louis re-
Gently. They demand the same educa-
tional facilities that the whites have.
The citizens Of Bombay are creating
a panic in the coal market by using con
cenrated sunshine for cooking purposes.
Theymake Observation-Disclosures
Californians declare that the Chinese
must be compelled to live higher and
dress more extrayagantly, or they viii
certainly ruin white labor in this country.
The Russian General says It would
have been no war at all if it had not been
for the American guns placed in the hands
Of a few battaliOns of Turkish soldiers.
Edward Stokes, who murdered jim
Fisk, has gone back to his fast ways in
New York, and now the people there see
where they made a mistake in not hanging
him.
The current rates of interest at say.
ings banks in San Francisco are seven
and eight per cent for sums of $4,000, |
and nine per cent for sums below that
figure.
Peter Cooper the other day confded to !
a Ha10b-Eye reporter the fact that he
was the dark horse of 188O.-BrZinq-
ton Ha1ob-Eye. All, yes, we see-t6e /
dark cOrse.
John B. Cough states that in thirty |
five years he has delivered 1900 speeches, |
but never faced an audience yet without
feeling shaking Of the knees and a dry
ness Of the lips.
There was recently qua1Tied without
5he use Of powder, at the Barre, Mass, |
granite quarries, a block weighing over
518 tons, being forty feet long, seventeen
nigh and ten thick.
San Francisco bartenders have chunks
Of glass resembling ice which they put
into drinks for intoxicated customers
instead Of the genuine cooling substance.
The motive Is economy.
DR.. Stamataki has discovered another
tomb in the Acropolis of Mycena, max
ing the sixth now found. This does not
ook altogether well for DR.. Schliemann's
5heory Of the five tombs.
The nearest surviving relative of Dan
el Boone, and, as his name implies, the
scion of another famous family, is Crock
ett Boone, now editor of a newspaper in |
Atlanta, Cass county, Tex.
A half-witted fellow bathed in Sacca-
appa, Me, and on coming out Of the
water could not recollect where he had
hidden his clothes. He wandered two
lays naked in the woods. ]
The Detroit Free Press looks on Susan
B. Anthony as the only truly earnest
7oman working for the cause This
,ecause she wears poor clothes, and sends
.er money to run suffrage conventions.
Japan has 1851 postofices, which dis S
ributed last year 24,OOO,OOO letters and :
and 100000 papers. I
'ostal-cards, stamped-wrappers, money
riders and savings banks are all included
4 the system.
Keep to your calling; let no man in
uce you to abandon that which you
ave studied for years, in the vain attempt :
D learn a new trade in a month. Sue
ess springs from industry and per :
everance.
One Of the cOmpensations Of the poor i
ian is that he can never be taken in by t
counterfeit $1,000 bill Still there are G
cry few people who would not like to S
ecupy a position where they would be C
1bJect to that misfortune now and then. ] s