The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-11-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

TIE next national prison congress viii
meet at Toronto Ont.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN is worth SIS, OOO, 600
In the Chicago tax list
The proposed exhibition at Brussels in
1883 has been abandoned.
MRS. VICTORIA SCHILLINe, nee Morisini,
has been found-in Europe.
TwENrY-NINE postmasters earned less
than dollar piece last year.
The official census of Prussia shows Q
population of 2S,3lS, ASS persons.
KANSAS CRY has contracted for 5000, 900
ure-proof board Of trade building.
A NEBRASKA court is asked to decide the
question: whats in sausage3"
A MEMORIAL history Of the Jews in Amer
tea is proposed, to be issued in 1892.
Two-PouND nugget Of virgin gold has
been found in Transylvania County, N. c.
The city of Glasgow is to raise q monu-
ment to Burns Highland Mary at Dunoon.
BILL1ARD-CLoTH green seems to have been
generally decided upon as fashionable
color.
CHARLESTON has sent contribution of
clothing and money to the Sabine Pass suf-
Serers
INSURANCE policies on the Thanksgiving
turkey are too near out to be safe invest.
ments.
New YORK has the tobogganing craze.
This will be the chief amusement this
winter.
THE red man is an expensive luxury.
Over s24,OOOOOO was expended upon him
last year.
on Kansas City restaurant beefsteak the
other day.
Five hundred tall ladies to wear rubber
eloaks as an advertisement" are wanted in
New York.
A MARYLAND paper is moved to sympa-
thy for citizen who had 1.-TWO of his legs
cut of by train.''
The strike at the Chicago stockyards is
said to have cost those INDUCED in it no
less than $50 600 day.
The life of a Syracuse lady was saved by
her corset 1t caught bullet on the fly
which was aimed at her heart.
A HOPEFUL old citizen Of Irwin County,
Ca, has just married for the fifth time, the
latest bride being grandmother.
The MASSACHUSETTS Supreme Court has
decided that the BARRIERS of that State
must close their shops on Sunday.
A BILL providing for the application Of
the lash to wife-beaters has been intro
auced into the Alabama Legislature.
A MONUMENT to Ovid, the Latin poet, is
being erected at Constandia. Ovid has
waited long time for this recognition.
RUSSIAN engineer claims to be able to
reduce petroleum to crystals. These, then,
will become the servant girls favorite
findings.
LORD LoNsDALE's and Violet Cameron's
experience in this country tells the rakes
Of Europe that the American sta ye has no
use for such.
As THE statue Of Liberty is now the
property of the United States, New York
does not hold herself responsible for the
lighting Of the torch.
COLONEL T. DoNAU recently brought to
New Orleans from Honduras an opal which
Is said to be the second largest in the world.
It is as big as hens egg.
The inventor of the locomotive cow
catcher is living in Cincinnati compara-
lively poor, having received very small
amount for his invention.
Mr. RorHRr Treat PAINE is building Q
uumber of small dwelling houses in Boston
which he intends to sell at cost to deserving
people of moderate mesns.
A DIsHoNEsTj welry peddler was mobbed
At Ann Arbor, Mich He took refuge in a
hotel, and the fire department was called
out to disperse tho crowd with cold water.
The total official valuation of personal
property for tax purposes in New York
City, is only $2l7 900 900, which is probably
uot more than one-fourth of the actual
value
AN Austrian who calls himself Winklee-
meier is visiting London. He is eight feet
six inches in height, and is one of the tallest
men who have lived since tho days Of the
Anakin.
A rEw worm Is In 'esting the apple crop
about New Brunswick, N. J. IL looks like
. coarse hair, and varies from two to five
inches in length. It lodges in the core and
eats outward.
A 1UsCATINE, IA, man sent his brother a
tombstone as birthday present, recently,
but the ungrateful recipient refused to nav
the express charges, SO the donor had to
send the amount.
IN one respect the next Congress will be
an Improvement on the last-it will con
tain member of the Smith family. His
front nane is Henry and he is the Labor
representative Of the Fourth Wisconsin
district.
Tue Japanese national nag consists OF
the weather signal for high temperature. y
1t Is not certain whether this is intended q,
. threat to all enemies of the mighty
hosts Of Titipu, or expresses the celebrated
Japanese motto, '.lt's a cold day when wt
Aef left"
Mr.. W.ToDD, deputy marshal OF Paola
Ks, wears, probably, the most novel neck
Mic thai ever adorned a shirt front. I. i,
msde Of the skin Of rattlesnake, aad tn,
rattle Is used for . scarf-pin. Thus wher
sout With the boys Toddy always manage.
Ato have q rattling good time
GEORGE White negro, who now resides
.at Bslloek's Bayou, COncordia Parish, La.
tthe other day swore before the federal
grand Jury that he was the father of l6;
children. White Is seventy-four years oi
age and quite intelligent. He insists that
he has kept an accurate account of his chill.
dren and that they number 1876.
"A SILVER dollar weighs very nearly N
ounce, hence any letter not heavier than q
dollar can 80 for . single two-cent stamp.
Five nickels aud ANAL copper cent viii
also give an 0nnce.
A CALL has been made for . Convention
OF the Trades Unions Of the United States
and Cana4a to b held at Columbus, O.,
commencing December 8. The object oi
the meeting 10 the sstahlishment of q
trades congress
TIE nurse Of tie baby Alfonso KIN, Of
Spain, IL famous girl now. When the
eegal youngstsr received his three decora.
kiona frosn tina Kfu1 NJ Portu~al che av.