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

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"Can marine animals talk?" Ger
tainly; seal skin.
Horseshoes are made in California of
compressed rawhide.
California exports S1O,OOO,OOO worth
ofswood per aunum.
Tennessee's tobacco crop is estimated
at 6O,OOO,OOO pounds.
Coal was never lower in New York
city than it is at present
There are 500 conyicts working on
one North Carolina railroad.
The United States now use more pos
tai cards than any other nation.
It Is a fact that 243 English persons
went mad from love last year.
Pennsylvania produced over 3O,OOO,-
600 pounds Of tobacco last year.
Oranges are 40 cents a hundred
twelve for a nickel-in New Orleans.
The capital of Georgia, by a big vooa
Of the people, Is to remain where it is.
An Iowa farmer recently: sold sixty
three hogs which averaged 433 pounds
Of sixty-nine words which make up
the Lords Prayer, only five are not
Saxon.
When a mother goes on a whaling ex-
peditiOn she rarely fails to get all the
blubbers she wants.
Heavy failures in Montreal have
brought business feeling there into
ticklish condition.
The Worcester Press man is English
and this may be why he speaks Of late
pulpit utterances as " heIoquence."
There is no place where the people are
more go-ahead and buisness-like than in
New York. There it Is about as follows
What, dead ?-Where's his will?"
Horace GreeIey's family inherited from
the good man over $4,000 in promises
to pay, which the signers show no incli-
nation to meet.
Mr. John Bright, the English orator,
has Hebrew blood in his veins; one of
his ancestors, a Quaker, married hand
some Hebrew lady.
The first Government ship has started
for Paris, with a cargo of exhibits for the
worlds fair. Another will start the first
week in February.
Julia A. Moore says she looks about
her and " often has to smile to see so
many poor people putting on style; all of
which is " more truth than poetry"
"LiquOr started It, liquor kept it up,
and liquor ends it, said Thorp, who was
hung at Auburn. Here's a whole tenn
perance sermon in eleVn words.
The publisher of arweekly newspaper
in Illinois prints in each number a chap
ter Of the Bible, and upon being ridiculed
for it by its contemporaries remarks edi-
torily: We publish nothing but what
Is news to our readers
A writer says that when a swimmer
gets the cramps he should turn his toes
toward the knee. Another good way is
to turn your toes toward the middle of
the pond, and paw for the nearest dry
land.
Look here: IF you put S. every day |
for fifty years into a non-burstible, inter
est-paying savings-bank, at the end of
that time you may ask the cashier for a
little balance of $475,2O3. Let US all
do it.
At the Jewish Charity Fair, in Phil
adelphia, instead of rafting for cakes,
slippers and smoking-caps, they take
chances for $4,000 in Government bonds, |
a 5000 piano, a $3.50 horse, a trip-ticket |
to Paris, and other such useful things.
The authorities of Memphis, Tenn,
.hOught the number of marriages was
alling of, and reduced the charges for
license to fifty cents. A local paper says
hat the inducement has been sufficient, !
md the number of marriages has largely
under the reduced fee.
There may be no such word as fail in
he bright lexicon of youth, but when a
7Oung man, wandering home at a. m,
ries to put out a street-lamp by stepping
IN it with his feet, he very soon learns
here are some things that even youth
ant do.
About 1000 live geese, chickens and
iucks, the keeping of which is forbidden
~ city ordinance, we're captured, the
,ther day. by the police in cellars, base
nents, bedrooms, stores and the yards
nd areas Of houses In the thickly.settled
art Of New York City, all owned by
aboring people.
4 Natchez newspaper, describing the
hanges in the course of the Mississippi
River, says that St. Joseph and Rodney
lave been left inland; Yicksburg is left
n a lake; Delta vii soon be washed
way; a cutoff has been made at Grand
ruff, and by another season Port Glib
on and Claiborn County viii have no
lnding.
Scene in a private box of fashion
bic theater- Enter servant, consider
bly, excited: 'If you please, mistress,
our husband has just had bad fall, and
he doctor thinks he has sustained serious
ljuries, So" Loving wife: "What a
ity 1 shall have to 90 home at once
nd see to it. (Turning to the door
eeper) Give me a return check, quick p
There is property in Europe, valued at
100000 to $15,OOO,O0O, which
elonged to the Confederacy at the con-
lusiOn Of the rebellion. The admins ]
ration, it is stated, will enter into con
,acts with certain lawyers to secure the
ropeTty, some of which consists Of
honey in bank The lawyers will get ]
My half Of the amount obtained.
The quantity of poison which the
aves Of artificial flowers take up in their
seems almost incredible. S
areful chemical analysis shows that
Wig Of twelve leaves often contains ten
rains. A lady might thus unconsciously t
'rry poison enough upon her person to
9stroy twenty Of the guests. a
THE heaviest court in tbe limited &