The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-02
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divorce recently.
The latest piece of slang in New York
City is "foddering up"
HAWAII, with only 60, 600 inhabitants, pays
her King $4,000 a year.
A PHILADELPHIA sign reads: ''Teetb
pulled while you wait.'
ONE-rHIRD Of Jay Gould's daily mail 10
composed of begging letters.
PLATT COUNTY, ILL, has no money in the
treasury and is four cents in debt
THERE is strong talk of organizing q
league OF colored base ball players.
COCAINE was $500 an ounce. Now any
body can go crazy on it at IS an ounce.
TEN thousand cattle arc killed in New
York City every week for food purposes.
A BOY in Tennessee has a mouth which he
con open to the extent of nearly six inches.
IT is said that one-third of the children
OF the Mormons in Utah are outspoken inf
dels.
A ST. Louis man estimates that Pull.
man sleeper nets the company $3.50 q
year.
LITTLE'bedpost bells rung by electricity
are now used to awaken heavy sleepers in
Belgium.
As much as fifteen cents each 10 paid for
the Pacific Coast.
ward the nomination of Labor Presider.
tial candidate in 1855.
The Car has decided against compelling
areduction of the sugar production in
order to improve trade.
A PETITION in favor of reviving the tax
upon bachelors in France has been present
cd to the Chamber of Deputies.
JAY GOULD believes, as the result of his
own experience. that ''nen appreciate their
own earnings more than gift"
Doom KNOCKS Of the old. fashioned kind
are once more appearing on the doors of
fashionable New York residences.
PRoGREssIvE iack-straw parties are tax.
Ing the place Of progressive euchre parties
IN fashionable Louisville society.
BOSTON has coined word for the women
who wear birds plumage upon their hats
They are called "birdicidal women"
some ladies' boots shown in Boston
shop-window are 500 pair The buttons
look like diamonds, but arn't, of course.
COUNT MoLTKE invariably begins each
day with visit to his wife's tomb, a
practice he has observed ever since her
death.
FIrTY-oNE emigrants from South Caro-
lima to Arkansas recently gave the fear of
the earthquakes as their reasons for de-
parture.
THE news comes from Paris that Mrs.
Mackay compels her dressmakers to pledge
their words that her dresses shall not be
duplicated.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ministers boycotted the
Governor's Thanksgiving proclamation be-
cause it contained no reference to a Su-
preme Being.
AT the end Of 1877, $50 telephones existed
In the United States, and at the end of 1851
there were 325, SO telephones and 7so tele
phonic exchanges.
A COURT in Athens, Ga, had its atten.
tion absorbed the other day BY a suit
brought by one colored girl against an.
other for ten cents.
AN ample volume of compilations from
DIR. Talmage's sermons and writings will
shortly be issued under the title of ''Shots
at Sunday Targets"
HEN whose head and mouth are de-
scribed as being in striking resemblance of
a snakes is classed among the pos sessions
of Pensacola fla man.
JOHN JACOB AsToR is rated at $50, Goa, 900,
and is probably the richest man in Amer
lea. William Waldorf Astor, the ex-Min-
lister to Italy, is his only son.
THE stomach of several cattle which
died near Whtmore, Ia, were found to be
lined with mud taken in with the filthy
water they were compelled to drink.
Mr.. F. GOODMAN, aged seventy-six and
Mrs. Mary Ireland, aged sixty-eight, of
Pennington, Ia, had to run away from
their childrop in o,dor f, v,;,l
''THE father of the forest'' in Tulare
County, Cal, is the .argest tree in the
State. 1t is 45O feet high and measures l3s
feet around the trunk. 1t is q chestnut.
THE Emperor William and the Empress
Augusta will hereafter confer medals of
distinction upon aged couples who
celebrate their golden or diamond wed.
dings.
The locomotive whistle now wakens the
goblins Of Mammoth Cave. The railroad
has got there, and civilization takes formal
possession Of the largest known hole in the
ground.
The Indian and Colonial Exhibition, Just
closed In London, after having been open
Tor six months and q half, was enormously
successful, its visitors having numbered
$3.50 0749
The fact that . paper devoted to tricy.
cling published in London has over a thous.
and female subscribers indicates that the
sport is extremely popular among women
in England.
NAN Of Springfield, D. T., went to sleep
by the roadside. When he awoke he was
astOnished to find that Q wagon had run
over his leg and broken it. The leg was a
wooden one.
IT is estimated that fully so per cent. OF
the worlds ocean tonnage is now in com.
mission, against scarcely go per cent. a
year ago. The tonnage in dry dock is al.
lowed for In both cases.
DEPOSIT Of pure asphaltum. from fif
teen to twenty feet thick, has been discov.
cred near Thistle Station, in Utah. It Is
said to be worth $40 ton, and the expense
OF mining Ia only forty cents.
NOAH 8. HUNT, the rich and eccentric New
Yorker, who lived utterly alone in the
@idst Of Gotham's millions, ID said to have
left will locked up in . safe, the combine
zion OF which NO living person knows
AWEsTERN man advertised that he would
Tor one dollar mail information that would
make food entirely unnecessary. A citissn
Of Jordan, Canada, ssat his dollar, and by
return NAL got the dirsotiAas: Take I
dose Of poison"
RoswELL BsARDsLEY, who has been post.
master ~ North Lansing, Tompkius Coup-
y, N. Y, since June, 1928, Is the oldss,