The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE King Of Belgium pays Stanley $4,000
THERE iss . great religious revival in
Canada.
THE cholera epidemic in Buenos Ayres IL
on the decline.
THE lord mayors dinner in London thia
year cost $9,OM.
New YoRK bride, few days ago, had
cen bridesmaids.
The holiday trade is immense and shows
aplentitude Of cash.
IT cost New York City $4,000 to convict
Alderman McQuade.
IT looks ss if Washington and Montana
might be admitted as States.
LANGTRY intends endowing o home for
&ndigent respectable women.
MIR. JONES, of Waterloo, Kan, has named
his thirteenth son Chestnut Jones.
ENGLISH professional beauties are not at
6acting much attention at present.
SECRETARY LAMAR thinks Lowell the best
master Of pure English now living.
AMERICA is exporting plum-pudding to
England in considerable quantities.
THE trouble between the Knights Of La
bor and Trades Unions is increasing.
Sr. PAUL has invested this year in new
buildings 0,65S692 That looks healthy.
A CONGRESSIONAL funeral nowadays
costa the Government from 5000 to $751;
coo.
The trip from Deadwood, Oak, to New
York can now be made in three days and .
half.
1uE Sultan Of Turkey, like the Car Of
Russia, Is in constant dread of assassins-
ton.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Is a clever
pianist, and often plays at charity con-
certs.
TIE u. y. Grand Jury in st. Louis found
seventy-two indictments for election
frauds.
CONGRESSMAN Hoaa, Of West Virginia,
Is the youngest member Of the next Nation
nj House.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND persons are en-
ployed in making clothing in New York
and vicinity.
THE Indian prisoners occupy 127 tents
upon the ramparts Of old Fort Marion, st.
Augustine, Fla
THE advance in the price Of pig iron is
being followed by advances in various lines
Of manufacture.
In South Carolina there is NO divorce
law, and the marriage relation can only be
severed by death.
IONA COUNTY (Mich.) boasts Of boy
only eighteen years old who Is six feet
eleven inches tall.
JAY GOULD has rented pew in DR.. John
r. Paxton's church, on Forty-second street,
New York, for 81 800 year.
Or seventy-three important towns in Col
orado, twelve are above 5000 feet and ten
above TO- 600 feet above sea level.
A SINGLE sale Of wheat was recently
made in Tshoma County, Cal, the money
payment involved being 5000.
Ex SENATOR THURMAN Is seventy two
years old, worth $4,000, and frankly sd-
nits that he would like to be President.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL has received from
Queen Victoria grant Of $500 in recogni-
sion Of her services to workingwomen.
MRs. CLEVELAND promises to favor the
reform movement which asks ladies' to
remove their hats on entering theater.
DAKOTA wants women and Is getting them
pretty fast. Statistics show that the birth
proportion 10 about three girls to one boy.
TEE Russian Minister at Washington IL
allowed S25,000 year by his Government
The married men Of Holly, Mich, are to
play Q match game Of bsse ball with the
women Of that town who want to get mar
ried.
MoRI than fifty colored men hold clerk
ships in the departments at Washington
at salaries ranging from 81 900 to 81, 100 per
annum.
SENATOR MORRILL,, Of Vermont, seventy
ak years old, is the oldest man in the Sem
ate. Payne, Of Ohio, is seven months
younger.
The peppermint, spearmint, tansy and
wormwood oil crops Of st. Joseph and
Case County, Mich, amount this season to
5000 pounds.
A ,x.r,r o.. n.n -nu< ,.o, su.,.. l.. ~
York by the Government in favor Of an
importer who had paid excess of duty to
that extent.
To enable the judge to pass on the charge
against John Dillon without recourse to
jury they went back to q statute as old as
Edward III.
IT 10 stated that Krupp has an order
from Russia for a large number Of forty.
three-ton guns to be delivered next spring
st Sebastopol.
A HABIr Of chewing tea leaves brought ON
attacks resembling delirium tremens in q
girl whose case is reported in London
medical journal.
A DOCUMENT has been presented to the
King Of Sweden containing 1904 sigma
lures to petition for the suppression Of
obscene literature.
A BATH containing twenty grains sui
phate Of copper per litre of water will pre-.
serve ropes used for scaholding purposes
from rot and from animal parasites. Soak
them we'll
MEXICAN ladies wear imported Parisian
hats. No Lady wears o bonnet to church,
the proper headgear being the swillana, Q
ANAL mantilla, which Is singulsrly becom.
ing to all women.
THR Plonk family in Lincolnton, N. c., Is
long-lived. Joseph is now ninety-eight
years old his sister, Mrs. Tethrow, is 100
years; and Mrs. Weaver, another sister, is
1O9 years Of age.
The correct pronunciation Of theuname
Of the distinguished Hungarian painter,
Nihaly, or Michael Munkacsy, is as il It
woro spelt Moon-kat-chee, the accent being
On tho first syllable.
The Prohibition leader in the South Car
olina Legislature is named A Boozer, not
withstsnding he is q member of q body
which probably has the only authority in |
his State TO change names.
Mrs. FLORENCE BoULANaER, who lives ON |
the north shore Of the st. Lawrence river,
has beston the record. Two years ago she
bore twins, last year triplets, and now she |
Aas given birth to full quartet.
NATURAL gas conducted from its source
IN NcKean County, Pa, TO Buffalo, in an
eightinch pipe, travelled at the speed Of
ninety miles an hour.
NAooIn MIToHELLs real estate has
doubled itself In value the past ten years,
and the popular actross is said TO be worth