The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST

A temperance man says that the most
refreshing Of drinks is iced milk with
vichy.
Imported sashes have wide belts and
small pockets for holding the handker-
chief
Every unOccupied acre OF land in
Noble County, Wis, has been taken up
by an English colony.
At 'pound" party in Washington
last winter, for the benefit Of the poor,
Sir Edward Thornton contributed five
pounds Of silver dollars.
Knob earrings are completely out Of
fashion, and those whose diamonds are
set in this way are having them reset
with short pendants.
An Ohio doctor cured himself Of
smallpox by eating lemons, and de-
clares that it IS a specific for the dis
ease.
The window of New York Underta-
kers' shop is laid out as a burial plot,
with black-rObed dolls grouped about
a monument with handkerchiefs at
their eyes.
Some Of the friends of Cornell Uni
Tersity are claiming that its faculty has
seriously decayed, and are very anx-
ious that President White should re-
turn from Berlin at an early day and
set things to right.
Bears are quite plenty in the noun
tains in Vermont. A party Of three
hunters recently killed three Gan old
one and two cubs) in the west part Of
Bethel, and they did not call it much
Of day for bears either.
William c. Conat, well known as q
scientific writer, has a long letter il the
New York Tribune, that the new rail-
way motor, the hydrogen locomotive,
whose fuel is made from WATER is .
success.
Mahogany and ash are the favOrite
woods for dining-rOOms. Extension
tables are low and Square-cOrnered, and
the handsomest are finished so that
when the table is extended there is no
appearance Of break in the standard.
The Christian Index, Of Atlanta, Ga,
uses type made from the bullets with
which the surface Of the earth for miles
around the city is strewn. It very apt
ly says: "They are still aimed at human
hearts, now not to injure but to blessT
to bring no death, but life"
Iowa is not pleased with the boys
sent from New York by philanthrOpists.
The newspapers declare that 'they
come from the purlieus Of the great
cities, and are impregnated with
vices, and call on the Governor to stop
such immigration.
The Cars new home the Chateau Of
Gatschina, is a paradise for a hunter.
A part Of the wood belonging to it is
consecrated to bear hunting, and is
actually hedged around, the bear be-
ing as much protected as if he were q
fox or a pheasant in England
Yellowstone National Park, in WyO-
ming, is the largest in the world. 1t
contains 2, ,288, 600 acres. Probably the
largest park in Europe is Fontaine-
bleau, France, which comprises Al 900
acres, mostly forest Windsor Park,
England, contains 800 acres.
Though Admiral Farragut was not q
protesting Christian, he never took q
meal without asking God to bless it,
and never undertook any important
enterprise without invoking Divine aid.
But still he said: damn the tOrpe-
doesr' as he went into Mobile Harbor
after the rebel forts.
An exchange says that, according to
the decision Of a Kansas judge, man
and his wife are entitled to be admit
ted to an entertainment on a ticket say
ing ''admit one" This is either
ghastly attempt at joke or a give-away
on the Judiciary, and, for tic life Of
US, we can't tell which it is.
Replying TO the question whether or
not our ancestors were acquainted with
the peculiar physical condition known
to US as somnambulism, Or. Reguard,
of Paris, said in 3 recent lecture that
ono Of the most accurate descriptions Of
somDambulism in existence vas that
IN tbS sleep-walking scene % 'iA8ss''
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