The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-06-02
NEWS BREVTTTES.

1r. G.. G. Coffin has figured out that
New Hampshire produces bread enough
o feed her population twenty-eight
/ days, Massachusetts furnishes enough
Tor one day, and Rhode Island did not
raise grain enough to give all her PeO-
! pie breakfast.
Nearly all of Ireland's ], 1,74O, ,291 acres
/ of bog and marsh belong to the great
Allen bog,which spreads over the central
| portion Of the great limestone plain Of
| Ireland, and occupies large portion Of
| the counties Of ResCOmmOn, Galway,
/ Westmeath, Kings and Queens cOun-
/ ties, and Kildare. This vast bog fOrma-
tion varies in depth from twenty-five to
forty feet, and is full Of stagnant water.
The President has granted Private
James Quinn certificate Of merit for
/ SchWatka and scout 'sCapt. Jack in
1876 on the Big Horn and Yellowstone
| expeditions, and displayed great person
al bravery under fire, and while en-
gagged in digging and building breast
works. He also took part, with twenty
five men, in the charge upon an Indian
village. He has participated in six def
mite engagements, and is now engaged
in the service as a corporal
The souvenirs Of his trip to India
brought home by the Prince Of Wales
have now borne fruit in an English pas
sion for articles of East India make.
! The carpets of MirzapOre and Agra,
the iewelry of Delhi, !Cuttack, and Tri-
chinOpOly, engraved rapousse brass
| work Of Benares are coming into Lon
don at q pace which fairly alarms
househOlders of moderate means. A
| consignment of the Benares brass-Ware
also reached New York some weeks ago,
and viii soon be offered at auction
there.
One Of the most remarkable circum-
stances connected with the anti-JeWish
agitation in Germany is that the Ger
man students are among its most zeal
! Gus supporters. A meeting of students
was held recently in Berlin for the pur-
pose Of extending the movement, and
it was attended by deputatiOns from
half q dozen universities, including
some of the most important in the
country. 1t is said that the anti-JeW-
ish petition submitted to Prince Bis
mark has been signed by no fewer than
1,4O0 Berlin students and 1,O22 in
Leipsic.
The tbreadbare cOnundrum, when
is a cent not a cent?' was practically an
swered in Baltimore q few days since,
at an auction sale of rare and curious
coins. A United States cent Of 1898
proved to be worth, to somebody, S28,
and three others of the same date, but
mutilated, aggregated S16.25. Half
dollars, of various dates, from 1875 to
1852, sold at from $3.50 to S1.2O each.
Dimes of 1896 brought 81 and $3.50.
One dollar was paid for an uncirculated
half-cent of 1910, while half-cents of
| 1894 to 1911 brought prices ranging
from So cents to 20 cents. An 1904 cent
was eagerly taken at S11.75.
Two LeadvilIe miners were working
I a shaft near Chalk rancho, when they
were surprised by an avalanche, and
one of them, q man named Wilson, was
buried at the bottom of the shaft. His
companion, who was at the surface,
narrowly escaped, and at once set y
work eXhuming Wilson; but when he
had dug ten feet through the snow, he
despaired and made his way to Lead
vile. On Friday a party Of four men
started out to get Wilson'S body, belieY-
ing him to have been dead some time.
TheywOrked the greater part of Saturday
when they finally came on the supposed
dead man, frozen stiff, but still retain
ing a faint spark of life, which they
succeeded in tanning back into a con
dition which inspired them with q hope
Of completely restoring him 70 health.
They returned with the helpless man to