The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-06-16
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inherit 6,OOO,OOO each.
Queen victoria's private fortune Il
more than csc, 900.
DR.. Mary Walker claims to have had
twelve offers of marriage.
Salvini Is studying industriously pre-.
paratory to another American tour.
John A. Kasson is tho next politician
who will engage In literary pursuits.
The Misses Grecn, OF Atlanta, aro
collecting negro songs and setting them
to music. t..,..,.'I.' afif.. I7.r
Georgia has voted $500 for portrait
Of John Milledge, her revolutionary
Governor.
John Ruskin says that very few books
worth reading have been written during
this century. .fa .e5. .4HsT
Sam Jones converted Sam Small. an
Atlanta editor, and brags about It
wherever he goes.
When Minister Cox retired from the
Sultan's presence he walked backward
and bowed three times. "''f ..''''7
w. s. Gilbert says the burglar is not
altogether bad, for he gives employ.
mcut w hOst VI iOcASuitHS duu ue.
tectives.
Lawyers In tho building In Philadel-
phia where Sam Randall's 8 Office is COM
plain bitterly of the thunderous tramp
Of ofIiceseekers. - i-..'.s
The duke of Edinburgh Is very fair
fiddler, but very poor farmer, having
lost $1,000 year on his fancy farm al
Eoet v,o11 v,arE nm Vvh;oh hn ovrootn.l n,
mako $40, 900 year, but now Is COM
pelled to sell. .r.a e.
Atty. Gen. Garland's summer home,
"Hominy Hill," Is q sequestered nook
In the dense forests near the banks of
the Arkansas river. The house is q log
cabin containing only ono room and
scarcely any furniture.
Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, appointed
minister to Liberia, used to live in
Pittsburg. He went there Q poor boy,
and worked rs hotel porter, devoting
all his spare moments to study, and
finally prepared himself for college.
Stcinbcrger, the South Pacific adven-
turer, Is pressing claim for $3.50, 900
against England. He was elected from
tho Samoan Islands by England, and
wants the United States to take up his
case. a- u'.
Hugh Blayncy, a Dublin wine mer-
chant who has Just died at the age of
80, was in tho habit of boasting that he
had worn the same coat for sixty years.
He had only been once in Phoenix park
in his life, and had never travelled in q
railway train. ~E
Richard Grant White adds another
name 10 the list of men who make lit
erary regulations, but fail to scrapc to-
getLer any great amount OF this worlds
goods. His son has just been appoint
ed administrator of the estate, which is
valued ut only about $1,000. 81.
An Indian headstone. about the size
Of large water pitcher. and similar in
shape, except that the top is oval, was
found in the Housatonic River lately by
q resident of Brookfield. Conn. On the
oval shape part are wrought two dis.
tinct hieroglyphics. On the sides Of
the stone are also curious carvings.
Experts pronounce it one of the finest
specimens Of Indian headstones in the
country.
a number of dogs were recently
dosed with morphine until they became
insensible. the object being to deter
mine what drug would act most rapidly
as an antidote. 1t was found that hy-
podermic injections of theme neutral
izcd the narcotic almost instantly, nj.
though it was employed only after the
heart had ceased to beat. Caffeine had
u considerable anti-narcotic power, but
was not equal to the principle derived
from tea.
1t will surprise many people to learn
that the finest opera house In ell Amer
ca is one in Santiago, Chilli It is built
on the European plan, with four bal.
comics, three OF which are divided off
into boxes. and are upholstered in the
most luxurious manner. The best opera
companies Of the world visit Santiago.
A traveller recently attended perform
ance In this charming opera house, and
found 5000 people present. As tho
tickets sold at e5 apiece 1t will be seen
that the performance was paying one.
The boxes were crowded with elegantly
dressed ladies, many of them loaded
with diamonds. The gentlemen all
wore evening dress.
Senator Palmer, of Detroit, Mich,
has been prowling about the'old home.
stead ut Ashford, Conn, where he was
born, and has shipped thence . large
number Of old household relics, with
which he will fill . log cabin which he
has built on his grounds at home. The
astonished rural expressman told tho
sender that 1.-The hull lot amt worth
the express cost, stranger. Small
trees OF every available kind on the
old place are to be taken up and trans.
planted about the log cabin, also
huckleberry and blackberry bushes;
and, to- complete the miniature Now
England which he proposes to lay out
around his Michigan cabin, the mil
lionaire Senator even thinksof shipping
Q carload OF genuine New England
rocks from the old farm to the smooth
and stoneless West. - h't" "..7
Probably the most fortunate men
identified with the turf have been tho
Dwyer brothers, of New York. In 1876
they started by winning el7, $50. Since
then their winnings have been enor-
nous. During the year 1880 their win
nings amounted to e77. .902. In 1881
e84, l46 was placed on the right side Of
their ledger. The year following they
won @74.S40. and In 1883 they slrpass-
ed all records by winning clear total
OF SlS8, 900. Their luck was not 90
good in 1884, ~ only $50, 900 was cred
tied to them. This year their winnings
will pass the &lO0, 900 mark. and. hav-
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