The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-08
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The elephant was put upon the coins
o. CCsa" because that animal was called
CGzar in Mauritauria,
A Connecticut woman has given her
son a large comforter made of hair cut
from her own head during ten years.
According to the official statistics,
not a woman over 80 years of age was
married in Philadelphia during the year
of grace 1880.
"Always pay as you CO." said an old
man to his nephew. "But uncle, sup
pose I have nothing to pay with"
''Then don't 90"
Secretary Blaine's face is unchanged
in its expression of force and acuteness,
but his hair and whiskers have whitened
so rapidly during the past Summer that
he looks much older.
a willow tree in Bristol, n, II. meas
ures twenty-five feet eight inches in
circumference, one foot frOm,the ground
and is eighteen feet three inches nine
feet from the ground.
There is a weekly sale in Paris of
toads, which are brought in casks filled
WIth damp moss. One hundred good
LNLLNlo tlLC NOL III nun tplO W 0DLts LtlCSC
are bought for gardens.
The Term Quaker was first applied to
the sect in derision. When George
Fox, the founder, was brought before
the magistrate he told him to quake
before the word of the Lord.
Gone of the first duties of cOmmun-
ity," says Mayor Means, of Cincinnati.
in an Interview, sis to protect its
youth-prOtect the boys first and they
will protect the girls"
A chap in Oregon married four wives
within ten miles of each other, and
wasn't found out until the four happen
ed to meet ut picnic and showed the
same kind of dOllaT-stOre earrings.
A somewhat ancient beau Tehearsing
his conqUests to youth: MY last
flame was a blonde; her name was
Angela. - ''What a memory you have"
says the young fellow.
The "Winter Palace at st. Peters
burg is closed; visitors cannot enter it,
and it will not be occupied for two
years or more. This is because of the
Nihilistio attempts in that part Of the
city.
L. Cornelius, of Pike county, Pa, is
said to have been the largest man in
America. He was six feet high. eight
feet two inches about the waist, arms
above elbows, two feet two inches,
about the wrists one foot two inches,
weight zoo pounds.
A New York letter writer says,
Z" Book reading is giving way to the
newspapers. Everybody reads the
latter, and hence editors are making
great efforts to increase their attractions.
The best writer's have found books less
profitable than newspaper work
At the beginning Of the eighteenth
century the English language was
spoken by less than 5000, 900 people;
at the beginning of the nineteenth by
less than 10000, 900, and now with one
fifth of the century vet before it in
which to spread, it is the mother tongue
of 90,000,OOO
The Southern States possess 4 chicken
syndicate. Six firms virtually control
the poultry market. The combined
capital is $4,000 Their agents receive
five per cent. t0r purchases, not only Of
poultry, but eggs, butter and sausages.
The quarters are at New Orleans,
Savannah, Charleston and three places
in Tennessee.
The total number of cabin pas
sengers taken to Europe during the
past summer by the principal steamship
lines from our Eastern ports was
%, 245, against 19, ,496 in 1880, and this
army of excursiOnists was carried over
the Atlantic without the loss of o single
life. This showing is remarkable and
very creditable to the carrying COM
panies.
Massachusetts pays higher than the
average to male schOOl-teachers, giving
them over S67 for the month; but the
female teachers are cut down to $3.50
The average paid to women in New
Hampshire is S22. SO amonth; in Nevada
it is S6S. The male teachers receive from
an average of $25. 81 in South Carolina to
S8446 in Nevada, and S89.47 in the
District of Columbia. In Maryland the
two sexes have tho same average pay
S43. 40.
It may not be generally known that
rain fattens oysters.
The Somerset Reporter gives an ac-
count of what seems to have been vol
canic action in the bed of Pointer creek,
in Pulaski county, Georgia, which oc-
Cured q few DAYS since. 1t gives the
account of an eyewitness. Looking IN
the direction of the noise, he saw q
solid rock in the bed Of the creek heaV-
ing up with a low, rumbling noise,
with now and then an explosion that
was heard with astOnishment by per-
| sons miles away. The water was thrown
80 feet in the air, and the solid rock
shattered for 40 feet along the creek,
The rock looks as if a llrge quantity OF
powder had been placed under 1t and
| ignited. Huge fragments are displaced
| Just as in the case Of blasting. hun
dreds of people heard the explosion
and wondered what it could mean.
The productive property and income
| of the principal American colleges Is
given in the current number OF
| monthly review. Columbia college has
| the greatest resOUrCes-PrOperty yalned
/ at S4, 763, 600, with an income Of S3l5,-
| 600. Harvard is second, with produc-
/ tive assets of SO, 1G5. .0CJ, with an IN
| come of 1921. 600. John Hopkins uni
versity has $4,000, 900 property, and an
/ income of S180,OOO. Yale has proper
tv TO the amount of $587, 900, with an
income of S136.OOO. Most of these in
situtions have been literally endowed.
One of the greatest of American COL
leres. the University of Michigan,
which instructs nearly 1900 students
for a merely nominal tuition, has re-
ceiyed scarcely any aid from individual
/ bencfactiOns.
Carlo, brindle bulldog belonging
to Ell. Clark, of Norwich, Conn, dis
covered a flre in o stall occupied by
valuable horse. 1t was night, and Car
10 rushed into the stall, pulled the
burning blanket from the horse, took
it into the street, and returning to the
stable attempted to put out the fire IN
the straw with his feet He succeeded
in scratching the straw away from the
already terribly burned beast, and then
with almost human intelligence en-
| deavored to loosen the halter which
held the horse q prisoner. But assist
ance came to him and he was relieved.
Carlo and the horse were badly burned.
1t is claimed by Professor Rantoul
Pic,et. of Geneva, that q discovery OF
his applied to the construction OF the
lake, river and Ocean-going vessels Is
likely to cause q revolution in naval
architecture. The details are given
only in the most general terms. A
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