The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-11-18
WHOLE NO. 1921
JOTTIEGs AND CLIPPINGS.

JOTrINGS AND CLIPPINGS
IT is estimated that Michigan has no.
$40 farms, and produces 18,OOOsO0O
bushels Of wheat per annum.
The personal property Of California Is
valued at Sl18, ,3O4, ,451, and the real es-
tate at SIG, ,273, 1856.
GEORGE TUCKEB, an inmate Of a New
York peniteutiary, has just inherited Sl2,-
900. His sentence VIII expire in 1885.
In 1874 the entire orange crop Of
Florida was represented By 2, 800 half
barrel cases. In 1879 it amounted to
200, 900.
A MAssACHUssEIs boy about as high as
the counter recently came into a book
store and asked for "a book for ten cents
with a murder IN &C. "
DD you ever see 6 bald-headed msn
who didn't have such q beautiful head
Of hair TIL " that fever" or something
or other, took it of2
AmCEEriaRsuitiin Eldndonincidsuially
brought out the opinion Of experts con
ceming the value Of land IN the city, that
one acre was worth 81, 116, 400
EDITOR thorn, Of Notes and Queries,
has retired from the Office Of Assistant
Librarian Of the House Of Lords, at the
age Of seVenty-seYen, On a pension Of g.
$50 year.
TIE Khedive has sent his har5m TO
Smyrna, his wives having shown a ten
dency to elOpe ct Naples He got tired
ct roll-cau Of finding two or three Of the
pretty ones gone.
RALPH WALDO EAnRsON contemplatas
visit to England next year. Hsis ex-
tremely desirOus Of meeting Carlyle,
/ Cardinal Newman and Mr.. Herbert
Spencer.
WHEN we reflect that every woman has
children Of surprising genius, it IS q mat
ter Of serious inquiry where al the or
dinaTy men come from who cross our
path In everyday life.
A GEORGIA young man asked his sweet
heart whether she had ever read Romeo
and Juliet" She replied that she had
read Romeo, but she did not think she
had ever read Juliet
SQUARE umbrellas have been intro
dueed IN Paris; but some one says they
are Just as bad ss the old kind beoguse
they are never round when wanted
Philadelphia Blllstjr.
A New YoRK paper says that q lady
I teacher IN a Philadelphia Sunday-5chOol
has horse-Whipped the Superintendent,
/ Fisher, with an umbrella. for showing
her an uninvited partially
LoN. MOORE, a Greenville man, now
has q convenience In the shape Of a grass-
cutter. ThepeOpls say Lon Moore pur-
chased the lawn mower, as he cOUld get
! along more conveniently with IL
A uABOBIoUs cal0ulatoT oi the London
Statistical Society hascOmputed that the
population Of that city three centuries
from this viii, following the rate Of IN
crease Of the past fifty years, be over
166, 600, 600.
Establishing q newspaper IS ike pour-
ing water into lealzy cask-h you have
got grit enough and water enough TO
keep the vessel full, possibly the slaves
may swell up and become water tight
Cecil C. BGgnGiL
TIE Croton aqueduct is taxed to its
utmost power for supplying the wants Of
the people Of the metropolis. New York
[ daily consumes upwards Of g. 900, 600 Of
gallons Of water, while the capacity Of
| the aqueduet IS put at 95,00O,OOO OF
gallons.
'I DON'T like Newport, says the Sar-
atOga swell, because everything down
there tastes as if it had been caught with
"a hook. And then If a man stops at a
hotel, you know, in Newport, he Is taken
for trampl Now a man doesn't want to
be taken for a tramp, does he?"
An exchange says that young girl
wants the paper to notify the young men
that she IS a worker, and to Illustrate,
she says, that she picked twenty-five
geese IN one day. We didn't know that
/ geese were ripe yet However, that Is
not very heavy picking. When we were
In the army we could &C cut with o sabre
and pick geese enough for q mess IN lye
minutes. PecE's Sun.
TIE Holyoke Mass Gazette says: 1t
IS stated upon excellent authority that I'd
this neighbOrhoOd there Is a lady who
has built a house out Of fund made by
selling rum to her own husband Re IS
a drinking man, and 80 his wife sIuck
the bargain with him that if he would
drink he must agree to buy all his liquor
of her. She thus pOCkated the profit,
instead Of the regular rumsellers.
Mr.. Fred Wilhelm, On opening
twenty-tllree pound watermelon on Sun
day last, discovered within it another
melon weighing, by actual weight, seven
and three quavters pounds. The rlnd
Of the interior melon was Of an grange
color, and the flesh vas Of q brighterred
than that Of the enclosing one. Any Of
his friends anxious to see this freak Of
nature can do so by calling at his room,
where it VIII be on exhibition for few
days. Columbus (Ga. Enquirer,