The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

night was partially broken up by a
drunken horseman who rOde through
the house.-Laredo (1cr.) Times.
Arizona has but ten counties. and
Pima is the oldest ono of them all. It
was settled by Europeans, and its carly
history makes up the annals of Ari-
zona for moro than 100 years.
The Fish Commission at Washing
ton has giant octopus. which meas
ures five feet across Its body. 1t was
captured in the Atlantic one hundred
miles northeast of Cape Henry, by tho
Fish Commissioners steamer Albatross.
AT the present moment, so says an
English paper. fortune-telling is one of
the most tlourishing systems of i'm
posture in that country, and there is
scarcely town or village without its
resident or visiting cheat of this de.
scription.
There are living in Clcarfield
County, Pennsylvania, q man and his
two sons who arc married to three
sisters, and the old man is married to
the youngest sister. Some of the chill
drcn don't know their uncles from
their grandfather. baltimore Ameri-
cGn.
A lady named Augustine Ahumada
has died in Santiago, Chill, at the age
of one hundred and fifteen years. and
Mt Talca Mrs. Juana Gatica has died,
aged one hundred and thirty years.
Tho latter leaves two sons, one eighty
eight and the other ninety-five years of
aye.
-Englishmcn from Britain and the
no1onsao
America rapidly. and taking up govern
ment lands In large tracts along the
river In Plata and other localities, and
engaging In raising cattle, mining, etc.,
while thcre are very few Americans in
the whole country.
1T isn't always best to be entirely
satisfied with every thing. "Mother,"
said q young lady, recently, show came
you to marry such a very plain. unpre-
tentious man as fathcrP" IF had
known that his daughter would ever
have asked such question presume
should have hesitated.' 'sfhen YOU
are not satisfied" ..Not entirely. I'd
most wish that our daughters had been
all sons. Hartford Post.
-Onco month the members of tho
New York Beefsteak Club. with loos.
cned Wristbands and collars, gather
around long table and cast lots for
the prize beefsteak-a double porter
house, weighing nsver less than two
and half nor moro than three pounds.
Then. with interested and often with
envious eyes, they watch the lucky
winner as he tackles it. II he eats it
to the bone they rejoice. because he
is an honor to the club; but if he fails
they rejoice also. for he must then
order u basket of wine for their benefit.
M Y. Mail.
"A Trenton IN. J.) man lie the
owner of a colonial copper penny.
coined in 1856, and which lie claims is
the only known specimen of the kind
in existence. On one side is rude
figure Of an eagle which looks. how
ever. moro like representation of the
tabled griilin species. Around this
nondcscript bird are the words "E
Pluribus Unum." On the reverse is u
figure of n Goddess OF Liberty holding
in ono hand the scales Of justice aud in
the other q liberty pole. from which
hangs flag; around this is inscribed
'Immunis Columbia.
AN elephant attached to u circus,
which had just concluded an engage
ment in San Francisco. "cut up some
high old Shines the other day while
being conveyed across the bay. After
smashing door the animal turned its
attention to a deck hand, whom it
knocked into the hold of the vessel.
The bar-rOom was next visited. and
after mixing drinks, bottles. furniture,
etc., breaking the log and several ribs
of an assistant keeper. and slightly in
juring another, the infuriated beast
was chained. Twelve hundred dollars
will about cover tho damage done.-
San Francisco Chronicle.
--Zenas Caldwell was the first man
in Now England who received collegi-
ate education with u view to entering
the Methodist ministry. He went to
Bowdoin College. and his com mate at
one time was Franklin Pierce. Mr..
Caldwell was q great mathematician.
and 1t is related Of him that he solved
q problem in algebra which Franklin
Pierce could not do to save his life.
But Pierce became President of the
United States and Caldwell didn't.
This is not good story to tell to
schoolboys, perhaps. s.-Lewiston (Me.)
Journal.
James B. Kclly, Pittsburgh rie-
chanic, has fallen heir to q German
estate and title Of nobility by the dc,tl.
of his uncle, the late Duke OF Gus
come, of the former French provilee
of Lorraine. Tho estate was given by
Napoleon Bonaparts to his grand unc.e
Albert Mcmahon. one of his soldie,s
When the Province OF Lorraine pas. es,
ufterward into the German power -ho
estate was not otconfiscated. Old McSia-
hon died in 1870. leaving the estate
and title to his son Albert, and the j1t.
tor died In July last. Search for as
heirs has Just been successful. -R A,-