The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-05-05
NEWS BREVITIES.

The original estimate of the archi-
tects Of the suspension bridge between
New York and Brooklyn was S3,0O0,
GOO. The amount spent thus far is S12,-
100000.
. Col. E. 4. L. Roberts, it is reported.
will build and endow a scientific and
mechanical college at TitusVille, Pa,
the building Of which viii cost about
| $1,000
The New York obelisk weighs 219+
tons. The obelisk set up in London
weighs 19j tons. The New York
needle is SO feet inches high-that of
London 65 feet 6 inches
Opposite the Southampton docks,
/ England, in the Canute road, is the
| Canute Hotel which bears the inscrip-
ton: Near this spot, A. D. 1923,
Canute reproved his cOurtiers." "
The Congregational nuns in Mon
treal, who are extensive property own
ers there, are about to erect a block of
stores in Notre Dame street, 800 feet
front by 120 feet deep, to cost 81, ,OOO,-
| 600.
DR.. Wild, Of Canada, predicts fifty
/ three years of war after 1882, and an
nOunces the millennium to begin in
1885. This is a wild assertion, sure
enough, and those interested will pre-
pare for 1885.
Rome has inaugurated its first horse
railroad, connecting upper and lower
Rome for three sOIdi. The drivers are
furnished with penny tin trumpets,
which they blow with all the gustO of
a yOungster in his first pair Of breeches.
About 1900. 900 has been spent on
the Mississippi river, aside from the
ietties, since the formation of the
government, out of S7O,OO0,OOO appro-
priated for the rivers and harbOrs of
the country.
A Boston restaurant keeper received
an order from the deceased Mr.. Har-
rington, through a medium, for an old
fashioned pumpkin pie. The medium
ate the pie while under the control of
the delighted spirit.
An electric headlight for locomo-
tives viii soon be tried on the CleTe-
land and Pittsburgh railroad. The
power will be furnished by a small en-
gine placed behind the smoke-stack
and furnished with steam from the
main boiler.
According to the last census, Berlin,
Germany, contained 1903 improved
house-lots, 25, 154 dwelling houses, and
1,484 other inhabited buildings. It
contained 2j6 40 household, 1,lO6,347
inhabitants, and 6,677 absentees. Its
domiciled population, therefore, was
1,113,O24
The most humorous bit of Boycott
ting" yet heard Of is in the case Of IN
undertaken in the county of Down, who
has been .'Boyeotted," " every man in
the neighbOrhoOd having entered into
a solemn engagement not to ride in the
blaggard's hearse.
The Brooklyn Police Commissioners
are making an effort to enforce the Sun
day liquor laws, but have issued an or
der that the policeman shall not enter
saloons and drink Intoxicating liquors
for the purpose of obtaining evidence !
against the dealers.
Miss Evans Of barley House, Derby, |
lately died at the ace Of 81. She was |
the owner Of BoscobeI, near Wolver- |
hampton, where the Penderels, who |
sheltered Charles H., lived, and by her |
order q strong iron fence was put |
round King Charles oak.
At Walkerville, NJ. T, recently, four |
teen sticks Of giant powder exploded, /
and the inhabitants, thinking that /
GabriePs trump was sounding, fell on 1
their knees and began a confession of |
their guilty lives. 1t is said that some
racy Developments were made.
In Boston when the pool bill became
q law, the booksellers avoided its techni-
calities in q very simple way. Instead
of selling the horses as in the ordinary
pool way, the auctioneer would have a
collection Of plain photographs of the
horses, and would sell them. After the /
race the winning photograph would
take the pool money, and all went on
as usual.