The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

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Curr,Ne is actsAily executing his threat
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QUEEN VIcToNA has now thirty living
grandchildren.
The street cars of Pensacola are to be
run by electricity
TaE cotton crop this year In Arkansas
will reach 100, ,0OO bales.
THE Farmers Alliance is said to have
half million members.
Nix. GLADSTONE has a rent-roll and land
income of $40, ,OOO year.
OLD-FAsHIoNED Yule cakes for Christms as
are to be offered b. caterers.
CHURCHILL is now called Rushing Ran
dy" by irreverent Englishmeu.
A DuBuouE girl tried to hang herself Be-.
cause she was called 'Tomboy."
MR.. STURGEON and his enemy, the gout
have gone to the South OF France
HERMAN GoLDINe, Of Beverly, N. j., has
died from the effects Of horuet's sting.
HE photographs Of Mrs. Cleveland are
On active demand in the City Of Mexico.
LORD WoLsELev, as Adjutant General Of
the British army, gets only $is,5Oe . yesr.
The Legislature OF Al bama has elected
. woman for earolling and sugrossing
clerk.
THE Vermont Legislature has passed a
daw prohibiting dancing bears in the
streets.
Cook County, III, ia which is ChicaEo,
has one insane person t. every 800 Of the
population.
Ex-PREsiDESr ARTHUR, it Ia said. was tho
first member Of the New York Thirteen
Club to die.
ALABAMA IL pro spering The increase in
the value Of property in the last four years
IL $35, ,OOO, GOA
BY way OF sharp contrasts in fashion,
we now have black velvet bonnets with
white strings
OYSTER plates are square, and have places
Tor hve bivalves. Enough is considered a.
good as feast.
1T is said that Cape Cod is slowly wash
ing and blowing away, losing some two
feet every year.
1T is estimated that theviolet Cameron
venture IN this country cost young Lord
Lonsdale $4,000
fEA>ur vines IN Kearney County. Kan,
are said to bave yielded thi ty bushels to
the acr, this year.
DEER were never before so numerous in
the mounta;n regions of West Virginia as
they are this fall.
HERE are $4,000 women on the pension
rolls as widows dependent or relatives of
deceased soldiers
DURING the present year there have been
seven entertainments in Boston, which NJ.
gregate 81, ,233 400.
AN elderly New York lady bought q seat
IN street-car from young man BY pay.
ing him one dollar.
The Grand Rapids & rIndiana Railway
Company In planting walnut groves along
its limo in Michigan.
The telegraph reports the case of q bow
who is held in Pennsylvania as security for
the payment Of board bill.
TIE man who dug the grave for three
husbands Of Mrs. Foster, of Green Bay, be-
came her fourth husband this summer.
NAroLEoN at st. Helena predicted that
the Continent would gradually be subju-
gated by the colossal Muscovite power"
MrNNEAPoLrs saw-mills cut 81 ,O0O, 900 feet
Jess Of lumber, 2O,0oO, 900 less Of shingles
and BO0O,O0O less of lath this year than
last.
A CHINEsE woman has become noted In
New Yo1'k merely because she was the first
OF her age and nationality to die in that
city.
A CITIZEN Of Salamanca has . United
States six-dollar bill dated l774. On it's
back are.the words, 1T is death to counter.
felt"
NINE. BoULicour of Paris, has given q
pension fund Of 81 900 OOO " which Is available
aor all VINO have been In her service twenty
years.
THE Territory of Montana wants to be
admitted to the Union OF States, and will
send committee toWsshington to plead
for her.
sSvpu hA~o -.
socialism 10 nothing but monarchy in dis
guise, '" said Henry Ward Bsscher in . re-
cent serRon.
In Tolt precincts King County, W. T.,
Mrs. Millie Templeton WAS elected consta
BILE and her husband was defeated for JUS
tice of the peace.
been picked, , ,oughts Of the youngsters
have been turned toward Christmas with
tender yesrning.
olic papess throughout the world to send
their publications regularly to the press
ONCE OF the Vatican.
Mr.. BRAxDENBERG, of Philadelphia, owns
Che largest dog in America. Koloss is a
Danish hound Of noble ancestry, is nine
feet long and five feet high.
The maasoleum prepared by the Empress
Eugenia, At Farnborough, is now almost
rea ~ for the RECEIPT on OF the bodies of the
9ate Emperor and Prince Imperial.
JOHN SxyBxR, the HOosier whose onlv,re-
lief from the effects of q strange disease Is
in almost continual walking. shaves as he
walks, and takes bis meals on the 90.
Four elephants bslongin to Coles cirous
were sold st New Orleans TOR 81, l50 Three
Hons brought e4l2 sacn. a hippopotamus
went for 81 ,500 and two-horned rhinooI
rous for S4,20a
AVERY amusing incident in connection
with the drama recently in New York,
WAS the misplscement Of one-hslf of Mr.,
Booths moustache and its adherence to the
cheek OF Miss Vadsrs during the perform
lance OF 'Katherine aad Petruchio.n Ths
audience roared.
"A few of the timer class retail shoe
stores are selling q balmoral shoe for
ladies' wear that Is made precisely like
. mans balmorsl. except that it is
higher cut The hsel. sole. vamp,
quarter. stitching and fitting are
identical with the same features of .
fine shoe for gcntlemen's wear. 1t
looks sensible. VIII be very cemforta-
BILE, and must be much more healthfui
Tor street wear.-H00E aQd Shoe Re.