The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-15
CURRENT TOPICS,
ns cost Iown sa.oon.ooo a renr.

IS dead.
THERE are more than a million cattle in
Montana.
SWALLOWING raw oysters is said TO cure
influenza.
THE population Of the United States is
now 5L0OJ,0OO.
TIE Astors have just paid Si25 900 to the
tax collector.
THE agitation for Independence runs
high in Canada.
A BIOGRAPHY Of Nine. Ealomine has ap.
peared i'm Berlin.
RrsroRI, the actress, owns up to being
sixty-fve years old.
BISMARCK cultivatss all varieties ofroses
in his garden at Varzin.
THE best news from Europe is that the
cholera pest is sbating.
RAY, the arithmetic man, is said to be
pauper in a mining camp i'm New Mexico.
FRANCE breaths easier since her troops
have occupied Ee Lung,
ONE-HALF of all the telegraph wires in
France are underground.
TIE proper thing to say now is, "Donr
waste your vaporic force"
Rosa BoNHEUR, while engaged in her
paintings wears bifurcated garments.
OSCAR WILDE is worth over 500, 900, and
wears his hair curling over the forehead.
TEE national debt is only twelve times as
large as that of the city Of New York.
Iris stated that Prince HaIvin, pretender
60 the throne Of Egypt, is about to visit
Paris
THE first female stowaway ever landed
at Castle Garden is Annie Schiller, of Ba,
varia.
CHICAGO boasts 61O,823 souls. There is
however, no complaint Of crowded city
limits.
THE making Of counterpanes and pillow
shams out of paper is now one Of the in~
dustries of New Jersey.
A Boston woman has been arrested for
stealing a crazy quilt. An effort will be
made to prove her insane.
WHITE bonnets trimmed with white
plumage, viii form the dressy bonnet par
excellence the lining winter.
IT is said thatw wheat is cheaper in Eng,
land now than it has been before since 1850,
a hundred and four years ago.
TIE rumors Of the coming marriage bes
tween President Arthur and Miss Tillie
Frelinghuyseu are confirmed,
DURING a recent hail storm in village Of
Lombardy tiger broke out Of a menagerie
cage and took refuge in the church.
A PROMINENT poultry raiser says that
5000 hens cared for in the proper manner
will show an annual profit Of S2,OlJ.'
THE frequent occurrence of incendiary
fires in Edgewater, ~ j., has exhausted
the members of the FIRE department.
DR.. CLEIv has so little faith in Or.
Koch's so~called cholera microbes that he
swallowed one without any evil effects.
Or 1864 pictures exhibited in the Royal
Academy this year, 2O3 have been sold at
prices ranging from a guinea to E1,O0O.
THE salmon market is so depressed that
the Oregon newspapers are urging the
packers to reduce the output next year,
AN English firm has begun the manufac-
ture Of casks and barrels of steel. They
are lighter than wood and more durable.
GEORGE CHAsE, aged thirteen years, re.
Gently treed an eight-huudred.p pound bear
near Chico and killed it with his fathers
gun.
BISMARCK draws no salary as sa Prusiau
Minister. I'm his official capacity as Cham
Cellorof the German Empire he receives
S13,50O.
MoDoC engines are to be done away with
on the Erie Railroad. Their great weight
-G5 tous-mashes the rails in a fearful
manner.
THE looms used in New Jersey for the
manufacture of silk are fac-simiIes of those
employed in China and India for the same
purpose.
GEN, W. S. HARSEY, the oldest officer in
the army, is building a new dwelling
house for his own use in the suburbs Of
st. Louis,
Mr.. VALENTINE is suing Puck for 900.
Perhaps the best thing Puck could do would
be to ask Mr.. Valentine to come in about
the 14th of February.
MRS. o. C. CLARK. Of Springfield, Mass,
who has just celebrated her 995h birthday,
recollected hearing the bell toll for the
death Of Washington.
A B0sTON man has cured gout by walk
ing. "Wheu 1 felt am attack coming OF"
he writes, 'I would hasten to the street,
shut my teeth hard, and go it,"
A.BALAAM has been nominated for the
Office of Sheriff Of Tulare County,
Cal. In Massachusetts Jack Cass was de,
feated for a Democratic nomination.
THE Czar's wife. a sister of the Princess
Of Wales, is extremely fond Of fsweIrv.
and possesses the most ancient patterns
and artistic sets that money could secure at
Rome.
In is said that ir,r,sDss ,rr,r,r- ,f,,,..
CIGARS are Do,v ir7ror-s5 fr+o s,,--,-it-